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 36
~3rd Person POV~
It was a bright sunny morning, most all students from the Bogdan Academy are busy preparing for the first day of the Academy Fair.
Everyone is joyfully preparing their booths, many imperial knights are assigned guard and to look for any suspicious person coming in and out of the academy.
The whole fair is the only opportunity of the poor nobles and commoners to come inside the academy but the students themselves cannot go outside unless they have a permission letter like the Special club.
The Special club is the club which the villain, Cain El Blanc is sorted. He is now heading to the their respective room. As usual a lot of people avoids him, not having any eye contact with him or sometimes made him feel like he doesn't even exist.
When he was getting near the door, he heard his classmates laughing like there's no tomorrow but they immediately stop when they saw Cain enter the room.
Cain went to furthest seat and lay his head flat on the desk with his arms supporting his face to take a nap.
Not a minute after he close his eyes, he heard the door open and he peek to see who went in. He was a bit surprised to see the familiar girl with light brown hair and light brown eyes.
Their adviser was introducing them and telling them that the two students who entered are assigned to help their club. Cain verified to himself that she was really the girl and what a coincidence it is that she was with the crown prince's right hand man and loyal dog.
When it was time to introduce Cain, he unconsciously gave them a glare without him realizing it since he is used to making that kind of expression.
Even if Cain did glare at them, Delie looks back at him and noticed that he has been staring at her which made Cain immediately look away.
(...Did she realize that I'm the one who put the blazer on the library?...probably not! ...Why am I staring at her in the first place anyway?)
Cain thought to himself. The two were told by the Special club's adviser to introduce themselves so they did. Delie introduced herself while doing a curtsy which made Cain confused since she's not wearing a dress but Cain can't help laughing after he saw her looking shocked and realizing what she did.
Cain looks away trying to hold himself from laughing which made him look like a pufferfish.
(Stop Cain! You're embarrassing yourself!)
Cain tries so hard in stopping his laughter.
When they had finished introducing themselves, they start helping the other students in preparing but Cain just continued his nap on his desk.
He did spend some seconds looking at the light brown hair and light brown-eyed girl. He doesn't get why she looks so happy getting a bunch of small stars from them and even grins like someone who steals candy from a baby.
He then got a feeling of hunger, after all he didn't have any breakfast since he woke up late so he decided to go outside since no one feels like he wants him to help them so he left the room in silence.
After he shut the door, he heard his classmates chattering and laughing.
(Those bastards...they really don't want me there, don't they?)
Cain is looking around the campus with the booths and stalls surrounding the academy. He was thinking of what to get until he smelled a chocolate fragrant near.
It was the booth of the third year's cooking club. He went there and saw that the booth only has chocolates on the menu that was written on a chalkboard. It even has a restaurant in the back but since Cain will only buy a take-out then he should only approach the booth.
He waited on a line patiently where a lot of people didn't notice his tall frame on their backs. There are also a few outsiders here and there for now but he knows that there will be more in the upcoming days.
Many people kept bumping into him too, if he didn't went to get food he didn't have to deal bumping into a bunch of different people.
He ignored it of course since his only focus is buying a chocolate treat. He didn't really mind people carelessly bumping into him except to the person who sneaked infront of the line.
"What's the big idea? We were here first!"
A female student shouted at a fellow male student. They both have blue neckties meaning they are second years and a year older than Cain.
"No, I reserved this spot earlier so I have the right to be here!"
The male student ignored the female student and still tries to sneak in the line. Now, all of the people in the line started complaining that he should wait in line too since it is his fault for going out of the line to buy something else.
"Everyone...please calm down"
The male student who is in charge of the stall has a hard time trying to calm them down.
Cain just sighed like he didn't care but when he saw the unruly male student being aggressive to the one in-charge of the booth, Cain becomes annoyed.
"Please calm down..."
"Didn't I told you to reserve this spot for me?"
"But...but we don't do reservations here, only in the restaura-"
"You bastard! You wasted my time!"
He begins to punch the student in-charge which made the chocolate desserts that are displayed infront to fell on the ground.
Cain's mouth was slightly open and his eyes are getting darker.
"Hey"
Cain taps his index finger on the unruly second year's back. The unruly male student looks up at him annoyed with gritted teeth.
Cain is a lot taller despite being the younger student. He is tall for his age.
"What do you want?!"
"Shut up..."
"What?"
"I said shut up...you're noisy"
Cain repeated what he said but the male student just gave him a smugged face.
"A first year? So you're younger than me? You should respect your senior--gahh!"
Cain grabs his face using his right hand and remove it instantly after whispering something. The unruly student became quiet since his mouth is now closed and he doesn't have any control in his body because of Cain's gift. He was also placed on the last line like he became Cain's puppet.
"Mmmpfff!!"
He was trying to shout but he can't.
"Buy what you want already"
Cain told the female student who just nodded after looking at the closed mouth student.
After her, Cain bought a few chocolate cupcakes before snapping his fingers and returning the unruly male student back to normal.
"You...! How dare you do that to me!"
The male student floated a huge garbage can to hit Cain but it reflected back to him without looking back which made him bathe in trash. A lot of people laughed at him when they see his body full of garbage.
Cain stops walking and gave him a scary glare.
That is when the male student realized who he was.
"...Messy...B-b-black hair...and ocean like blue e-e-yes...you...no way!!! Ahhhh! The young master El Blanc!!!"
The student screamed and run like the wind. The other people also realized who he was and are now scared making eye contact with him.
"Oh no! He is the young master El Blanc!"
"I wonder, we didn't offend him right?!"
"I thought he looks handsome at first but I didn't know he was him! The one with black magic gift!"
Everyone begins whispering and shaking in fear but Cain just ignored them and took a bite of the cupcake he bought.
(Is my hair really that messy?)
Cain wonders to himself touching his long left fringe unproportion to his right fringe.
While he was walking near the Riverside Park of the academy. He heard a bunch of girls talking to a familiar girl.
He saw her again together with Eros's fangirls.
(Is she being harassed? Does that bastard Angeal even know about his lover being harassed?)
Cain thought to himself but he didn't care and just continued walking.
"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!"
When Cain heard that, it caught his attention and looks back at her again.
She saw the fangirls of that annoying cousin of his crying so the girl tries to comfort them but she was pushed by them on the river.
(Damn!)
He wants to go to her but what's the point of saving her? And again, why does he need to save her? They are not even friends and he doesn't need one anyway but...
Cain horribly remembers how many the time his mother tried to drown him for skipping classes and but unlike him, the girl doesn't know how to swim.
(Mother...please! I'm sorry, I won't do it anymore! I promise I will not skip any more classes!)
(That's what you get for skipping class! You'll stay there for an hour and reflect on what you did! You need to be better than my bastard brother's son!)
(Mother!!)
The young Cain struggles to swim back and keeps calling out his mother who just crosses her arm.
(You know how to swim so you don't have to worry getting drowned, besides it is not that deep)
Cain's mother smirked and gave him a disappointed look. The color of his mother's silver hair and purple eyes is very similar to the emperor and the crown prince so that's why he remembers his abusive mother whenever he sees the crown prince without his disguise.
Even their smirk is the same.
(Mother! Mother! Don't leave!)
Cain continues to call for his mother who just walks away to leave him.
After that, Cain became sick and his mother never visited him even though he keeps calling for her not even his own father too cares about his well-being.
The only time his mother visited him back then was when she needed to see if he can already stand up and go back to studying.
(What a disappointment...you should learn how to be stronger or else you won't beat that nephew of mine and his bastard father)
His mother commented before walking out of his room only after ten minutes of seeing him.
(...I hate myself...)
Cain said to himself in his mind as he begins to run towards the river.
"Look what you did Nigella! What should we do?!"
The girls are starting to get paranoid when they saw that Delie is not swimming back. It was suppoed to be a prank only but they admit that they did took it too far.
"Don't ask me! I don't know how to swim too!"
They start blaming each other and stops when they heard someone jump on the river beside them.
"Who...?"
Cain swam deep until he saw Delie and took her hand to his. Her eyes are already closed so Cain hurriedly swims back with Delie in his arms unconscious. They are both wet because of the water.
Cain gave the worried girls a scary expression and asked.
"Do you want me to throw you all in the river at the same time or do you want to keep staring?"
"Ahhhhh!!"
They all scream and run as fast as they can away from him.
Cain tries to wake her up by tapping her wet cheeks, thankfully she opens her eyes slowly and looks up in the sky.
"Am I in heaven...?"
She muttered with half-opened eyes.
"Can you see me?"
Cain asked her which made her eyes shift to his face.
Delie's face darkens like she saw a ghost when she realized who it was and instantly shut her eyes back.
"Nevermind, I think I'm in hell"
Cain was frowned from her words so he dropped her head in the ground by removing his hand that was supporting her head.
"Ouch!"
Delie exclaimed touching the back of her head that hit the ground.
"I think you're fine now"
Cain told her shaking his wet hair.
"Are you the one who saved me? Well obviously since you're the first one I saw hahaha"
Delie laughs by herself which made Cain to feel creeped out by her action.
"I think your head has a problem..."
Cain whispered.
"Thank you so much for saving me again for the second time!"
Delie stands up and bows her head to the villain.
"I just don't like bullying, that's all"
"Awww, my wig is gone! Miss Audrey will kill me!! And....ahhhh!!"
Cain almost jump in surprise when she screams suddenly.
"What?"
"My stars!! My stars are gone!"
Delie looks like she's in despair which made Cain think she is nuts.
(What a weirdo)
He thought to himself.
"My food...too..."
Delie was now slowly heading to the place where she left her bag of food and saw that it was already ruined and was obviously stepped on. It was probably the time when they all run away from Cain.
"Those girls will pay for this!!"
Delie's fist shakes looking very angry and gritting her teeth.
"Oh yeah, remember revenge is bad!"
She looks at Cain and taught him that revenge is bad.
"Aren't you suppose to say that to yourself?"
Cain sighed.
"Don't mind that, hehehe"
Delie smirks and laughs maniacally by herself.
Cain was bewildered by how this girl can change expressions at a very short time. Cain wants to applaud her for that.
"I need to dry my clothes, what about you?"
Cain asked Delie who followed him.
"Why are you following me?"
Cain asked.
"I need to dry my clothes too, let's go back to the room together!"
~Delie's POV~
Those fangirls will really pay for this!
But I didn't expect the villain to save me. I am really indebted to him now...I mean he really isn't as cruel as the book describe him.
I'm now walking behind him as we head back to the room. I was deep in thought, thinking how to prank those girls back when the villain told me something.
"You should tell your boyfriend that his fangirls are trying to harass you, dating someone like him is hard"
My what now?
"Boyfriend? What boyfriend?"
Since when did that male lead became my boyfriend?!
"Isn't Angea- Eros your boyfriend? I see him following you around all the time"
What the heck is he talking about?!
I want to puke right now! Blerrggghh!!
"No, no way"
"Really?"
"Yes"
I gave him a serious look for him to know that I'm being serious.
Does he really think that I'm in a relationship with him?!
"I see...then are you not afraid of dying? Since those girls might kill you next time if he still continues to follow you"
"Of course I'm afraid, I thought I'm going to die earlier! But it depends on what kind of death...if I were to die, I should be happy and have no regrets..."
I told the villain whose back is facing me. He didn't say anything at my words.
"What about you?"
I asked him.
"I'd rather wish not to be born"
He told me in a quiet tone.
"Don't say that! It's not your fault you were born, we are just born in a cruel world...that's all"
"Is that so?"
There's a hint of interest in his voice.
"Yes! A-a-achoo!"
I sneezed instantly so I didn't have time to cover my nose and mouth.
"Urkk..."
He sounds disgusted at me after I sneezed and sniff.
"We need to go back immediately or you might catch a cold now that you fell into the cold river and almost froze in the librar-"
He didn't finish his sentence and looks shock like me after we realize what he had said.
"Wait, you! What did you say?"
"I didn't say anything"
"You did! You're the one who put the blazer on me, didn't you?"
So that male lead lied to me! I'll make sure to reprimand him next tie and tell how his fangirls almost drown me to death.
"No, I'm not"
"Yes you are"
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes!"
"No--...you know what? Fine, this won't end if I keep saying no"
"Thank you again, I'll give it back to y-"
"No need, I have plenty of those"
"What am I going to do with the blaz-"
I bumped into his back since I didn't realized that he had stopped walking because we are already infront of the room.
"Lady La Eclaus! Do you know how much we need to-- What happened to your wig? And why are you wet?"
I was the first one to enter and open the door. I was already being lectured by the adviser for the overtime break as soon as he saw me.
"It's a long story...you see, I decided to swim in the river but my wig--"
I don't what reason am I saying right now.
"It flew off, besides she's with me"
The villain enters next and is now behind me. The adviser's face turns pale after the villain spoke.
"Is that so...? I guess you are excused, here's another five stars for bonus! We need your assistance too"
He quickly gave me the stars and went out.
...Okay?
"Ahhhh..."
I looked at the villain who just shrugged his shoulder.
"Just keep it"
The villain told me before leaving me to head back to his desk and asked his classmate to dry us.
"Thank you..."
I smiled.
My savior!!
...
"Why am I here again?"
The villain asked me after I dragged him out after the first day of the event to explore the booths.
Our clothes are now dry because a classmate of his used his gift to dry our clothes.
"Just think of this as my thanks for saving me a lot of times! I'll treat you some games!"
I pointed at the arcade booths.
"So--? Wait! Don't leave!"
I was about to ask him what games he wants to play first before I saw him leaving.
"Why do I need to play some childish games?"
He is obviously annoyed but I just laughed.
"Don't say it's childish, it requires very keen and intellectual thinking for you to analyze it"
"I'm leaving"
"Wait! I'll treat you to chocolate after!"
I pulled his arms.
"Fine...for chocolate"
Hehehe. Chocolate is really your weakness!
"Just watch and see how I will win!"
My eyes are sparkling like stars right now. I didn't retrieve my wig but I'm still required to wear my costume until the end of the day even though I'm already done assisting the Special club.
"Bingo!!"
I shouted as I finished playing Bingo with some students. Hehehe! The villain is right by my side covering his ears.
Then we headed to the card games where I tricked my enemy into thinking that I don't have the joker.
"I won!"
I grinned after I put down the last pair of cards. Again, the villain is just following me around.
"If you look at dartboard...you'll see that it is taller than me so when you focus on the target, you should aim two or three inches higher to...BULLSEYE!"
I luckily hit the bullseye target in the dartboard and got the price of a angry black cat with blue eyes plushy.
"Look, it looks exactly like you! Hahaha!"
I laughed comparing the cat to the villain.
He didn't say anything but I can see his brows meeting together.
"Don't be like that, say anything!"
I was supposed to tap my index finger in his arm but he removed it in the exact time so I accidentally tap it in his waist instead.
"!"
He flinched.
"Oh? You have a tickle?! Hahaha!"
"Stop laughing"
He looks embarassed trying to hide his face.
"I'm really leaving now!"
"Mmm~! Those chocolate truffles look so delicious, should I buy some?"
I looked at a booth with chocolates truffles in it.
"This is the last time...before I leave"
He sighed surrending himself from the chocolates.
"Could I get two boxes of chocolate truffles?"
"Sure, thank you!"
The female student gave me two boxes of chocolate truffles. I went to the villain who was sitting on a bench staring far away at a side.
"Here"
I handed him one box and sit beside him.
"...Thanks"
He opens the box and immediately ate one truffle.
"No! You shouldn't eat it like that! Watch me"
I took a chocolate truffle with a small stick and told him to eat the crunchy part first on the sides then the middle before devouring it whole to feel the real taste.
"What a useless advice..."
I heard him whisper.
Ouch.
He seems like a casual guy, I don't see any villain traits in him. Compared to him, my brother and Kayle acts more like a villain to be honest.
Why did he even became a villain? Is it really just because of Cordelia?!
But then again, he IS the reason why I'm going to die in the future.
"What should I do to the person who will be the cause of death in my future?"
I thought of that without knowing that I had said it out loud.
"Then find a way to prevent that future from occurring"
He replied to me.
It seems like he thinks that I'm asking him since I asked that question out loud.
"You see...he is like a character in the novel who was written to be like that, what if that person was destined to do that?"
I asked him again.
"As long as that person can still not turn to be that character then why not do it before he became one?"
OMG! He's right! Why didn't I think of that?!
He doesn't know that he is the person that will be the cause of my death in the future though.
"I need to go back"
The villain stood up and pat his clothes.
"Me too"
I also stood up after I shove the last remaining three truffles right in my mouth.
"Are you following me again?"
The villain asked me when he noticed that I'm walking right behind his back about only three meters distance from him.
"No, my dorm is in the same direction..."
Which is true.
I'm still thinking of a way to prevent him from becoming the villain and I shouldn't call him that now since he is still not the villain here yet.
I know!
I need to be his friend! The reason why he thinks Cordelia is his world is because he thinks that she is the only person who cares for him.
I need to befriend him and after we became friends, I'll also help him make more friends!
...and he won't become the villain and many peole won't die including me!
I might even help him with Cordelia if he wants to.
But what can I call him? It's a bit awkward to call him young Master El Blanc!
Hmm...
How about...?
"Cain!"
I called out his name which made him stop and look behind my way a bit surprise.
"What did you say?"
"Cain! Would you like to become my friend?