An Extra Who Wants To Escape The Obsessive Male Lead - Chapter 99.2
Chapter 99.2
“I’m not going.”
The child, who had flinched at my words, tried to raise his head before he buried his face in his knees again.
“Get out of here. I can’t put out the fire.”
The young Diello, who had spoken like that, added.
“…If they know it’s not me, they’ll save you from the outside as well.”
At those words, I was momentarily speechless. The young Diello had already given up hope that the adults would save him.
“…Are you going to stay here like this?”
But still, shouldn’t he try to get out? Being burned to death would be more painful than he could imagine. Even just touching the heat was this hot.
“Yeah. I’m going to stay here.”
Still, the young Diello’s voice, which sounded calm, was filled with deep despair. It wasn’t a voice that a child should have.
“You might die.”
To my words, the child answered without hesitation.
“Father wants that, too.”
“….”
As I looked at the young Diello, my younger self overlapped with his huddled figure.
I didn’t know why I was here.
—Crackle!
But there was no time to think about it. The fire, which had spread to the ceiling, began to shake the chandelier precariously.
I looked around anxiously. He must have gotten out of this situation somehow. He must have awakened. Nevertheless, the young Diello now didn’t even flinch, even though the chandelier above his head was about to fall.
If this went on, he’d die.
Someone had to help him.
With that thought in mind, I unconsciously placed my hand on the young Diello’s shoulder.
“You can’t stay like this.”
—Shake, shake.
However, the child, shaking his head, seemed to be already buried in deep despair.
‘Don’t give up.’
“As far as I know, you’re Argenta. Right?”
At my words, Diello flinched.
“I’m an Argenta who couldn’t handle fire.”
He must have heard that countless times.
I hugged him.
“Even if you couldn’t handle it until now, at least let’s try it once.”
He wouldn’t believe it if I told him that he would be able to handle flames as the strongest lord later. That was why I couldn’t help but pat the child.
“You’re going to die anyway. You have to do something and die, right?”
He could do it.
‘You, Diello Argenta.’
I swallowed the last words, but Diello shook his head.
“No. Anyway…”
How could I save Diello in despair?
“Think of this as your last chance, and trust me. It’s better than dying without trying anything.”
The child tried to raise his head. But perhaps because of the flames, he couldn’t easily raise his head.
“It’s okay if you don’t look at me. If you’re afraid of fire, close your eyes. And instead of the flames, feel the heat…”
I thought of the time he taught me how to handle water in the pool. He told me to feel the flow of the water, so what should I feel for fire?
“This is heat. The heat created by the fire that you can control.”
So it was the heat that you could eliminate, that you could control.
At my words, the young Diello stopped.
“Let’s try it just once, because it doesn’t matter.”
I held the child tightly.
“It’s okay if you fail. Your father… I don’t know what he would have said if you failed, but I’ll say it.”
‘I’ll be by your side even if you fail.’
As I whispered to the child in my arms, Diello’s trembling gradually subsided.
“Take a deep breath.”
I thought to myself as I held him.
I thought I knew how he awakened. For whatever coincidence, I was with him. Perhaps it was because of Krua’s wish. From the moment I saw the original story, from the moment I read about Diello in the original story, I trembled with fear in the fire…
Perhaps it was my destiny to possess Krua.
Because at that moment, I wished for his happiness.
The moment I realized that clearly—
—Crackle.
—I heard a sound like a thin membrane breaking inside me.
“It’s okay if I fail?”
As the young Diello asked, I nodded.
“Yeah, it’s okay. I won’t say anything to you.”
How could I? I had no idea how painful it must have been for Diello, who had been so traumatized by fire that he couldn’t even look at it, to eventually hold flames in his hands and manipulate them. That was why I held the child tightly.
“….”
The determined child finally reached out his small hand, but the flames remained the same. The heat, the momentum.
Just as I thought nothing had changed.
—Whoosh.
The flames around him momentarily stopped moving as if time had stopped.
“This is…!”
I heard the voices of people outside, flustered. At first, the flames, which had stopped as if time had stopped, gradually subsided as if bowing their heads to him. Even I felt the wondrous magic, and Diello raised his head in my arms.
The familiar heat, the magic, flowed out of him.
It was the moment when the young Diello awakened as a lord.
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