An Extra Who Wants To Escape The Obsessive Male Lead - Chapter 91.1
Chapter 91.1
“Come in.”
I eventually led Diello into the room.
He wouldn’t have come in if I had told him not to. But I didn’t want to bring chaos to Argenta, which was on the verge of war. However, just because I let him into the room didn’t mean that my anger and questions were all resolved.
Click.
Knowing that, Diello, who had opened the door and entered, couldn’t easily approach me. I opened my mouth, keeping my distance from him.
“I heard the story of when Venia came from Rick.”
I spoke in as neutral a tone as possible since I wanted to exclude emotions and only know the truth. However, Diello forgot even to breathe as he listened to my words.
Seeing him like that, I continued speaking.
“But I want to hear from Diello as well. Why did you do that?”
‘…Why did you hide her?’
I looked straight into his blue eyes.
“Tell me everything, without hiding or lying.”
At my words, he nodded.
“…I will. I’ll answer everything honestly from now on, no matter what you ask.”
Only after hearing his answer did I ask.
“I heard that the real Ferro came right after I first went to the Alors Duchy. Why didn’t you tell me that Ferro came?”
Diello opened his mouth cautiously at my words.
“I thought it was dangerous.”
What he was saying was exactly what I knew. Venia had a suspicious water ability and was trying to kill me. That was why he said he was worried that she would contact Duke Alors with her water ability.
“And above all.”
However, his words didn’t end there.
“I wasn’t confident.”
At those words, my gaze went to his eyes involuntarily. His pupils, which were shaking like ripples in a lake, were telling the truth.
“If I had revealed that Ferro had come and you had confronted that woman, I would have had to pretend not to love you.”
His voice was trembling slightly.
“I wasn’t confident in that.”
Confident in pretending not to love you.
“….”
At his words, which seemed to be coming closer, I tried hard to breathe evenly.
‘Don’t be shaken.’
“Every month, you have to go to Duke Alors. I was afraid of that, Krua.”
He continued, looking down at my hand.
“If we had shared our plan with the real Ferro as originally planned, and if she had pretended to cooperate and contacted Duke Alors without us knowing…”
There was too much water in the world to avoid every possibility.
Diello narrowed his brow as he said so.
“I have to send you to the slaughterhouse without knowing anything, so I can’t help it.”
Diello slowly closed his eyes and opened them. Pale blue light shone through his trembling eyelashes.
“I was afraid that something might happen to you.”
This was… the right thing to say.
Venia had considered my life cheap enough to say that she would kill me when she first came, and she seemed to think of me as an eyesore. She wouldn’t have ignored simple ways to kill me.
“And lastly, I had a question.”
Diello uttered.
“What question?”
He smiled wryly at my reply.
“…Ferro is supposed to be our fate, so why is my fate not you but that woman?”
At his voice, which sounded a little cold, I opened my mouth slightly.
“I can’t give my heart to anyone but you.”
I wondered how he could say that… because I couldn’t accept it.
He murmured softly and continued.
“I told you at the meeting. I fell in love with you in the water.”
He took a few steps closer to me, to the most intimate space in the bedroom, near the bed that I had to pass over a little to reach.
“It was true, Krua.”
My eyes widened at his words.
“The day you led the knights to Fourth Zone.”
If it was Fourth Zone, he was talking about when I saved Redias.
“The sea… it was the first time I’d ever seen it so dazzling.”
It was the first time that the scent of the sea, which had felt so harsh, felt sweet, he said.
“I couldn’t take my eyes off you, Krua.”
From that day, until now.
As he said so, I couldn’t turn my head away from Diello either. He was clenching his fists so tightly that he didn’t even realize his fingernails were digging into his flesh.
“From that day on, I became someone who couldn’t awaken no matter who became Ferro. Still, you want safety, you want me to awaken as Ferro.”
Thump.
The sound of his footsteps as he approached echoed loudly in the bedroom.
“I thought I had to find the conditions to become Ferro. So, I thought I had to make you, the only one who could awaken me, become the Ferro.”
I was speechless at his words.
It must have been a difficult plan to accept, even in Argenta—to find out the conditions to become Ferro and make the person you want to be Ferro? I understand why Venia called Diello crazy. However, the people must have known about this ridiculous plan and yet followed Diello.
Why?
The moment the question arose, Diello asked.
“If I had revealed that Ferro had come immediately, what do you think you would have said?”
Well, of course…
“…I would have said, ‘Since the real Ferro has come, it’s time to fulfill the contract’.”
At my words, Diello smiled faintly as if in pain.
“I was afraid of those words.”
He closed his eyes.
“I was afraid that you would order me to love someone else, not you, for my sake.”
He exhaled briefly and continued speaking quickly. His emotions seemed to be pouring out in his rapid breathing.
“I was afraid of his pure kindness and concern for me. I would rather you had become Ferro. That’s why I asked them to find a way.”
His eyes, which were slightly open, were sunk darkly.
They were like deep pools.
“…What if you fail?”
What would happen to Argenta if he failed?
Although I could feel his burning anxiety, I had to ask. After all, the people of Argenta must have thought about it. Although they must have opposed it, Diello wouldn’t have given up on the people of Argenta.
After a moment of silence, his and my eyes met. He slowly opened his mouth.
“Then, I would have given up on Ferro’s awakening.”
“…What?”
The words blurted out unconsciously.
My eyes widened. Regardless, he seemed more composed than I expected, as if he had been thinking about this issue for a long time.
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