It’s Been 500 Years as an Extra, and the Original Story Still Hasn’t Begun - Chapter 38

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500 Years as Just an Extra,

The Original Story Still Won’t Begin

Episode 038

Noid began to confess the whole story in an anguished voice.

Even calling renowned doctors and using good medicine showed no improvement. In the midst of this, an unidentified man approached, claiming he could cure his younger sister’s illness.

“Completely fooled, how stupid of me.”

Baron Gavin slightly furrowed his brow as if he had noticed something.

“The illness wasn’t actually cured, was it? He probably said you needed to take special medicine regularly for it to be effective. If you didn’t receive periodic treatment, the symptoms would actually get worse.”

“How, how did you know…?”

“It’s a despicable method. Your younger sister wasn’t sick. She was poisoned.”

“What? What do you mean by that!”

Baron Gavin didn’t even glance at Noid. He clicked his tongue briefly and turned his head to Termion.

“Your Highness, I will take responsibility for this case and uncover those behind it. Should I also handle this stupid and pitiful fool as I see fit?”

“Do as you please. However, I’m curious about what this method entails.”

“It’s simple. They poison one family member with a special poison to make it look like an illness.”

After that, they continue giving medicine mixed with other poisons under the guise of treatment. This alleviates the existing symptoms, but new symptoms develop, making it impossible to stop the medicine.

After hearing the explanation, Termion glanced sideways at the iron bars. He deliberately asked Baron Gavin in a clear voice.

“Then the more medicine they take, the more their body deteriorates?”

“That’s right. Even if they stop the medicine and detoxify, they’ll be half-ruined.”

“…How could this be.”

Noid trembled all over while leaning against the iron bars.

In his own way, he had betrayed his lord with a heavy heart to save his only younger sister, but in reality, he was slowly killing even that sister.

“You said Lord Warren, right?”

Ailesia, who had been listening until then, approached the iron bars. She bent her knees slightly to meet Noid’s gaze directly.

“Is your younger sister’s life that precious to you?”

“How can you say such a thing? She’s my only family.”

…Is this guy crazy? What did he do right to raise his voice? I was trying to be nice, but it seems that won’t work.

‘I was thinking of sparing his innocent younger sister, but he’s completely clueless?’

Ailesia straightened her knees again and looked down at Noid with cold eyes.

“Your younger sister’s life is precious, but the Grand Duchess’s life doesn’t matter because she’s a stranger?”

“Don’t talk nonsense! What do you know!”

“Then what do you know to have made things this bad?”

“My, my younger sister just became an adult! At the prime of her youth, she could do nothing but just lie there! How could she be compared to the Grand Duchess who has everything…!”

Yes, this is how it should be. If he had a normal way of thinking in his head, he wouldn’t have done such a thing.

This man fundamentally doesn’t realize what he did wrong at all.

Repentance? He probably thinks he’s the most pitiful person in the world.

Ailesia roughly vented the anger that had risen to the top of her head.

“Our Elly is only five years old! It hasn’t even been a year since she lost her parents in an accident!”

Bang!

Her expression as she struck the iron bars with her staff was filled with cold fury. Even Baron Gavin and Kubera broke out in cold sweat at her intensity.

‘…I didn’t know she would get this angry.’

Termion was also quite surprised by Ailesia’s behavior. He had long known that she cherished Elenora, but this time he felt something strangely unsettling.

“Prime of youth? If you put it that way, Elly hasn’t even bloomed yet. That young child was kidnapped and miraculously returned less than a month ago, so what’s this about?”

“That, that’s…!”

“Why, because they won’t kill Elenora, so don’t worry?”

Noid flinched and closed his mouth, having been hit right on target. Seeing this, Ailesia pulled up one corner of her mouth in a sneer.

“If it were me, I would have grabbed onto Termion’s trouser leg and cried. Begging him to please help, to save my family. Whatever kind of poison it is, couldn’t the Retis family solve that one thing? The Grand Duchess Dowager could step in, or they could contact the temple?”

“For someone ordinary like me, a knight, what-“

“Did you even ask? As a knight, don’t you have that much faith in your lord? So the only thing you could do was try to sell out a child?”

Ailesia’s voice pierced Noid’s ears like a cold blade. However, the person feeling bitter after hearing her words was actually Termion.

‘…Is this the current state of the Retis Grand Duchy?’

If he had truly received the loyalty of his knights, this wouldn’t have happened.

The loyalty of Baron Gavin and Kubera was, honestly speaking, closer to the affection one has for a grandson or nephew. Rather than a lord they believe in and follow as retainers, he was more like someone they needed to protect and care for.

He was only a Grand Duke in title; he hadn’t yet been recognized as the head of the massive family called Retis. This fact was painfully stabbing at a corner of Termion’s heart.

“Termion? Can I treat this person’s younger sister?”

“Pardon?”

Perhaps because he heard such an unexpected statement, the thoughts filling his head disappeared as if washed away.

Termion, who had suddenly come to his senses, looked straight at Ailesia’s face. Somehow he seemed to understand her intention.

“…Let’s do that. We can treat her and drag her to the Grand Duke’s castle. I’ll make sure he feels to the bone exactly what it means to have family taken hostage.”

“That’s exactly what I mean.”

Ailesia winked with a satisfied expression. Baron Gavin, who had been watching this, seemed to realize something and hurriedly asked Termion.

“Are you serious, Your Highness?”

“I’m serious. This man is no longer a knight. Make him taste hell so much that he’ll want to die.”

“…How could there be any question? Lord Dayford, you know what you have to do, right?”

“Of course. I’ll straighten out the other fellows’ attitudes as well.”

Normally this would have been something to hush up, but Termion intended to use this situation to his advantage.

What would happen if Kubera subtly spread word while telling them to keep quiet? That he had shown mercy even to the knight who betrayed him, giving him a chance for redemption.

The knights would come to know that their lord had such firm resolve and a broad heart, and from then on, they wouldn’t be easily swayed by outside temptations and threats.

It was a golden opportunity to not only prevent future betrayals but also draw out loyalty to the family.

‘…Did she calculate all this in that brief moment?’

Ailesia had quietly stepped back and was wearing a faint smile. Baron Gavin quietly bowed his head to her with respect.

“We learned nothing from the assassin himself.”

“They don’t seem to be ordinary fellows, Your Highness.”

The three people who had returned to their lodging were putting their heads together in Termion’s room. The expressions of Termion and Kubera as they exchanged words were full of unease.

The assassin that Ailesia had bound with magic knew almost nothing. Unlike the man named Ruben who had died from the pendant’s explosion, he didn’t use dark magic either.

‘That strange smell wasn’t there.’

The assassins they had faced so far gave off an acrid burning smell whenever they used dark magic. Since no one else said anything about it, it seemed only she could sense it.

In the original story, the dark red energy unique to dark magic was called ‘demonic energy.’ In any case, even that demonic energy was certainly a type of magical power.

Magical power that gave off a smell – this was news to her as well.

“That assassin probably has no connection to dark magic.”

“Do you have evidence?”

Termion and Kubera had already heard the general story. Kubera in particular was quite eager, saying he needed to look up materials immediately.

“You know that dark red energy that appears when using dark magic? I’ve decided to call it ‘demonic energy’ for now.”

“It did have a different aura compared to ordinary magical power.”

“Those who use demonic energy give off a peculiar smell. If I had to compare it, it’s similar to the smell of burning rotten leather.”

“I didn’t sense it at all. How was it for Lord Dayford?”

“The same, Your Highness. I also didn’t smell anything like that at all.”

“How strange.”

Termion didn’t doubt Ailesia’s words at all. He was just a bit puzzled that it was a smell only she could distinguish.

“I don’t know the principle, but the fact that Teacher can distinguish dark mages is very encouraging. At least we won’t be caught off guard.”

“At minimum, Elly’s safety will be guaranteed.”

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