TITLE: I was only an EXTRA but the Villain and Male Lead tries to pursue ME?!
WRITTEN BY: B_A_DG_R
COVER ILLUSTRATION BY: B_A_DG_R
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CHAPTER 35
"Finally! The exam is done!"
I said as soon as I got out of the room where we took our exams.
It was quite easy to be honest, I didn't study much but I think I got most things right even though I had a hard time concentrating on my studies after someone left a black blazer uniform on me.
When I woke up like a week ago, it feels warmer and I realized that there was actually a blazer on my back like a blanket. After that, I can't focus that much on anything as I tried thinking who it might be.
I wonder who put it? It must be someone I know. I can't just randomly ask people to know if they are the ones who put it on me, right?
"Delie!!"
"Ahh! Don't surprise me like that!"
Kayle suddenly teleported on my side which made me jump in surprise.
"Yes...hey! I heard that your club is dressing up with different costumes, how cool is that?!"
Kayle's eyes sparkle which made him feel like he is the one who will wear those.
Again, there are two unbuttoned buttons in his uniform even his red necktie and blazer are loose.
"Delie, you're a pervert! You are looking at my chest!"
Kayle quickly covers his chest.
"Is it my fault you that you prefer to wear it like that? If you don't like people staring at your chest then stop unbuttoning it"
Jeez.
"Wait but if it's you...I don't mind letting you see more"
He looks at the side blushing and tries unbuttoning more.
"Stop"
I stop his hands using mine and look down trying to hide my embarassment at the several students looking at us.
This is so embarassing!
"Which reminds me! Kayle, stand still"
I pat his back, shoulders and the length of his blazer to examine it.
"What are you doing?"
His face is a bit flushed while I'm busy inspecting his blazer.
"As I thought, it's not you"
I sighed disappointedly.
The owner of the blazer has wider build especially in the shoulder area, also his height seems to be more than 180 cm. Kayle is just about 170 cm so he is not him.
"Who?"
"Nothing, just a person who put on a blazer uniform in my back when I was sleeping"
I told Kayle as was still thinking.
"Who.did.put.the.blazer.on.you?"
There's a force in the words coming out from his mouth. It also looks like he became angry.
"Look, I'm sorry I examined you without permissio-"
"Not that, it's the person who put the blazer on y-"
"There you are!"
Kayle's sentence was cut off when he heard a familiar voice.
"Valerie?!"
Me and Kayle said at the same time as soon as we saw Valerie heading our way.
"Ahhh! She's here, next time Delie!"
Kayle screams like a girl at first before teleporting away.
"Come back here!"
Valerie shouted at Kayle who just stick out his tongue to her.
"Valerie, why are you chasing Kayle?"
I asked Valerie who looks like she's panting from all the running. It seems like she run all the way here from their room.
"That guy! You see, we were trying to do a fortune telling booth as our section's contribution to the Fair but he didn't want to help us so he teleported away, I figured out that he will go to you when I read his thoughts that he wants to see you"
Valerie told me without a pause. It's the first time I see her so stress, dealing with Kayle seems a challenge to her.
"I see..."
"If you'll excuse me, I need to find him again and make him do all the rest of the work!"
Good luck then, Valerie.
The first day of the Academy Fair...
We took our place in changing our costumes. I changed into a knight costume since it was the one I got from the lottery. Derrick on the other hand got a dog costume with small red ribbon on the chest with only his face being visible.
Both of us are assigned to assist the Special club the whole week of the Academy Fair. Derrick seems willing even without guessing from his gloomy eyes since he is the right-hand man of the male lead and you know what? His costume matches what the heroine describes him.
...
We finally head to the Special club where my classmates from the EXTRA club gave us a thumbs up and they keep saying their condolences on us.
As soon as we knock and introduce ourselves, they introduced us to each of the students there. They are the most elite students with elite gifts.
Just when it was the male lead's turn to be introduced, I can't help but look in his way.
"The Honourable Eros Uy Apollo, the son of Viscount Uy Apollo..."
He gave me a small wink while his chin is resting on his hand which made me want to puke.
No, no! I must keep my face neutral as much as possible!
Ack! Even Derrick noticed my uneasiness. I can now see the male lead trying to hold his laughter when I tried making my face neutral.
Darn it.
"He is..."
The teacher was about to introduce him, the villain. But the villain just gave us a quick frown so the teacher didn't say anything anymore.
"Nevermind, now why don't you two introduce yourselves?"
He coughs before telling us to introduce ourselves. I can see the villain peeking at me and immediately remove his gaze to me as soon as our eyes met.
What a weirdo. Now, to introduce myself.
I can still feel the male lead staring at me hard. Argh!
"Good day, I'm Delie La Eclaus...the eldest daughter and second child of the La Eclaus family"
I unconsciously do a curtsy like I usually do when wearing a dress so I look like an idiot doing one while I'm in a knight uniform, it's too late when I noticed after I realized that I'm not holding a skirt by the side.
The male lead is trying to hold his laughter again while everyone else looks bewildered. The villain keeps his face neutral but I can see a bit of his body shaking and his cheeks is a bit puff.
Is he holding his laughter too?
"I'm...D-Derrick...Ki Kirchstar"
He is stuttering and pausing. He did come from a fallen barony so he is too shy to introduce himself.
But it looks like no one cares about us anyway so it's cool.
So the First Years Special club's contribution to the Fair is by making a fundraising event for the commoners so they are permitted to go outside and give the donations in the last day of the Fair, they need to be watched by some faculties though.
The villain didn't do anything and left the room as soon as the students begind to prepare. They all look relieved when he left and begins starts chattering loudly after being quiet when the villain was still inside the room.
These people are too much, atleast show him that you all care a bit.
"Could someone get more tape from the storage?"
"I'll do it!"
I volunteered even raising one of my hand when they ask that.
"Thank you, could you please get three boxes?"
He told me before continuing his work.
I need to get a star for my grades. The more we help, the more they give us star stickers that they will attach to our clothes. For now, I only have two after I helped someone from sorting some colors and cutting some papers they needed.
"I'll help her"
The man I don't want to interact today put his hand on my shoulders and volunteers to help me.
"No...I think I can carry all of it"
I remove his hand from his shoulder. I'm wearing black gloves so his disguise is wearing off.
"But it's three boxes!"
"I'm a lot stronger than you thought"
I tried smiling but I'm seriously annoyed right now.
"Just take him with you, we really need some tapes now"
Eros smiled after the one requesting for tapes told me that.
"Fine...let's go!"
We are now walking towards the storage room which is near the Special club, thank goodness.
"So?? How did you do in the exam?"
He starts to randomly asked me several questions while we are walking side by side. I tried walking faster so that he will not be on my side anymore but he keeps following my pace.
"It's alright"
I answered him short and quick.
"Is it easy? I think I aced all the exam!"
He keeps bragging about his exams.
Of course he aced all of the exams since he is the male lead who is always first place followed by the villain on second place. When Cordelia enters the Academy, she instantly became number one because she is so smart and the heroine.
"Good for you then!"
I replied to him again shortly and quickly.
"Ohhh! By the way being a knight suits you!"
He grins looking at my costume.
"Thank you"
"Is your hair a wig? Or did you cut it?"
"It's a wig"
No more, please!
We finally entered the storage room. There's no one inside so I need to hurry up and find the tapes.
"The purple gem in your cape is the same color as my eyes!"
Argh, stop.
"I just like purple that's all!"
Yeah, I really like purple so don't think I like purple just because it is the color of his eyes.
"Found it!"
I saw boxes that are labeled 'Tapes' on it.
"Do you have a crush on Cain...?"
I almost drop the box I am carrying right now.
"Out of all the questions earlier, this is the one you reacted so much"
This time, he gave me a serious look.
"Because that question is different from your previous questions!"
He stepped forward to me.
"That's good, but shouldn't you talk to me respectfully?"
Here we go again.
I rolled my eyes and sigh before I bow my head.
"I apologize, Your Highness...I didn't want to expose your identity"
"But if it's the two of us, we can share this secret together"
He gave me a wink and I almost gave him a disgusted look but I manage to keep my face neutral.
"Just please don't bother me anymore, Your Highness"
I pass through him carrying one box. This is a lot heavier than I thought.
"Is that how the way you talk to someone who lend their blazer on you?"
I stopped walking away from him and face him wearing a surprised look.
"You...? You're the one?"
"Me, myself and I"
He smirked.
"Nah, you are just bluffing!"
"Do you want me to tell you how you look like when you are sleeping or how you snore-"
"Enough, I believe you!"
Stop reminding me that I snore when I'm sleeping!
"Good!"
He smiled.
"Listen, can I ask why Your Highness follows me around? I mean...why do you keep talking to me? I'm just a daughter of a count family and I don't have a unique power! You also won't benefit anything from me"
I know you snake of a male lead! You only talk to people who benefits you! In short, you are two-faced. It was not said in the novel but I know you approached Cordelia first since you need something from her but you ended up falling for Cordelia in the end.
"I just want to know you, that's all!"
This guy is also a great actor but I know you want something from me. Before even falling for Cordelia, you were described in the book as a flirty and sadistic male lead who is like an empty puppet of his father. You look like someone who has many emotions but in reality you don't really know what you want in your life.
"If you say so, thank you for the blazer...do you want me to give it back to you?"
So you won't any excuses that I owe you.
"No, no...I'm filthy rich so I don't need the blazer since I can buy a thousand of those in a single order"
He brags to me.
"Sure...sure, we need to get back soon"
I told him walking hurriedly away from him.
I also need to avoid him at all cost. Associating yourself with the crown prince only brings misfortune. Not only that, what if Daphne knew that the crown prince has been approaching me? Not that she knows Eros is the crown prince yet.
"Wait for me! Say say..."
He keeps talking to me again while I kept ignoring him and giving him short replies.
I can feel a lot of eyes staring me at a far distance, little did I know that those were the jealous fangirls of Eros Uy Apollo.
After walking with the male lead, I requested the adviser of the Special club to have a short break and he agreed.
I glance at the male lead who is now flirting with other girls to sneak away from him.
I can finally explore the whole fair!! Yipee!
There's so many different booths I can buy food from. This is paradise! I need to find Arthur's booth first since he said that they are serving some chocolate desserts there.
"It's so hot..."
The sun is really pouring all the heat today. I'm even wearing hot clothes, I feel sorry for the knights who need to wear this in a very sunny day like now.
I want to take this off for a moment but Miss Audrey told us that she will be checking around the Academy for us and she can easily see us using her Magnifying gift from far away so there's no escape.
Should I go to the Academy Riverside Park to feel the nature? Yesss, it is also better to eat there with these foods.
I sat on a small bench with the foods I bought on my side.
Should I start with some hotdog? Hehehe.
"You! You're the girl who Eros keeps following right?"
I was about to bite the hotdog on a stick when a bunch of girls stands infront of me.
"Who the heck are of you?"
My voice hints an irritated tone. I don't want people disturbing my eating oasis, it's been a while since I eat alone with lots of food
"We are the admirers of Eros Uy Apollo!"
The one with the middle who looks like their leader brags to me confidently.
"Nice, could you please move out of the way? You are all blocking the beautiful view of the river"
I told them shooing them with my hand.
"What! We just asked you if you are the girl who our Eros keeps following?"
"No"
I told them.
"Liar! We know you are her!"
"If you already know that I am, why bother asking me?"
I remember now! They are also the girls who bullied Cordelia when that flirty male lead keeps following her. Cordelia didn't mind them and just cries in secret.
They were extras like me who were only named as Fangirl 1, 2, 3 and so on...
But I'm not like her. I don't want to talk to these girls especially now that I'm starving to death.
"We-"
"Bye"
I took all my food and walk away from them.
"We are still talking to you! How dare you ignore us!"
"Listen, if someone doesn't want to talk to you...then stop"
I glared at them like how my mother glares at me. They flinched for a bit and gulp.
Imitating my mother's creepy face really helps!
"Y-you think we are scared of you?!"
The leader used a gift which made her shoot lasers from her fingers to my back while I'm walking away from them.
"What? It didn't work?"
They look so shock when they saw that the laser hit me but it doesn't have any effect.
"Hey! Why don't you all just stop?! If I didn't negate it and someone who doesn't have the same gift as me might get seriously hurt!"
I'm mad right now. They shouldn't just recklessly use their gifts on someone! They don't know, maybe it might cause a fatal injury on others!
"Why would we stop if you won't stop bothering Eros!"
What? I'm the one bothering him? Did you had your eyes cleaned?
I breathe in and out deeply before I slap my hand on my forehead.
"Do you want me to real talk all of you? Stop following a man who wouldn't reciprocate your feelings! Also, don't some of you have fiances already? Instead of bullying someone who he wants to talk to, why don't you all just focus on studying or try clean methods to make him like you! Oh...after all, no matter what you all do he will not like anyone of you if you keep doing things like this, because of this...he will never give you his affections back!"
I might sound mean but it is the reality. You all will eventually be humiliated according to the novel after Eros said the same things as me in the novel. I'm saying these all to you now before he said it to you later to make you realize that what you are doing is not right.
"...What? Just who do you think you are! We...we...just...you're so mean!!"
They all began crying at what I said, even the middle one crouched down and cover her eyes.
I'm weak to crying girls so I put down the bag of foods on the ground for a moment to go to her. Those words were a bit mean, right?
"Don't cr-"
I was about to pat her head when she pushed me towards the river together with the other girls who helped her.
The f*ck?!
I'm going to fall on the river!
I can see them smirking at me while I fall down on the river.
Sh*ttttt!! I don't know how to swim!
I was now on the water and desperately trying to swim back to the ground but since I don't know how to swim, I failed.
Am I going to die here? Right now? Maybe it's good enough...I might go back to my world with my real family and...
Suddenly, flashbacks from my family here, Sara and my friends came flashing to my mind.
Do I really want to go back? I would love to...but I want to be here for a little while more...
As I close my eyes finally accepting my death by drowning. I can see someone swimming my way with big hands pulling my smaller ones with him.
Who...?