The Extra Will Now Leave The Stage - Chapter 33 – Slow Revelation of Truth (1)

Chapter 33 – Slow Revelation of Truth (1)

Translator: Lioness

Karus disliked Alice’s attitude of distancing away when he showed just a tad of interest in her.

He wanted to know what he did so wrong to be pushed far like this, but recalling back, Alice was like that from the start.

‘That’s why I want to be closer to her.’

Karus licked his lips, looking down at Alice, who was hiding in Lawrence’s arms. Lawrence noticed his stare and hugged her tighter. He knew it was unsightly, but it didn’t matter, they’d leave this place anyway.

Lawrence checked her face as Karus walked away, casting his gaze at Alice.

“Are you okay?”

“I am fine now.”

“What the hell is going on? What did Karus do to you?”

“No, not him.”

“It was not Karus?”

“Yes.”

After that, she shut her mouth, and couldn’t continue her words. With this action, he squeezed her shoulders tightly.

“Go to your room and wait.”

“Room, I want to talk to my father…”

“I’ll do it, you wait.”

Firmly saying that he had decided to somehow strike up a deal with the Marquis so he could take Alice away.

He wants to see her bright smile which he encountered back at the bakery shop. But it was different now.

‘I should have noticed from the moment she said she wanted to leave this empire.’

He listened to the words she wanted to leave the empire but didn’t wonder why. But she was a Nakran anyway, she needs to marry another family if she were to go back.

‘I can’t fall deeply in love with her.”

Lawrence shoved Alice into her room and gave Plein a sharp look.

“Do not let anyone in, even the Marquess of Hamilton.”

“Yes.”

“If necessary, you can call in the knights waiting outside the Marquis House.”

“I will keep this in mind, Your Excellency.”

Benedict, who had been quietly listening to his orders, slightly drew his sword. When Lawrence’s eyes moved at the murmur, Benedict whispered without even looking.

“What are you doing?”

“I have to negotiate with the Marquis.”

“We can just run away, why?”

“Because we can’t create an international riot.”

It didn’t matter if he takes her away quietly from Erha Empire because when they arrives at Nakran Empire, he could just say he did it because he loves her.

However, if Lawrence forcibly took Alice in a situation where the Marquis was already blocking him, it would be heard that the Duke of Nakran Empire had taken the daughter of Erha Empire recklessly.

If this goes wrong, it’d be a war.

Alice’s real identity is the Imperial Princess but if he says that she was an imperial princess, it was just as the same as saying Marquis Hamilton kidnapped and raised the Princess of Nakran.

‘If that happens, I will have to go to war with the Marquis as well as the Erha Empire.’

In a situation where the crown prince’s position was not yet firm, he could not even start a war. Because his position was unstable, and he was looking for the long-lost princess.

If the princess died, he’d have to find a similar appearance as hers. Fortunately, however, the princess was alive and all he had to do was take her safely to the empire.

Lawrence left Plein and Benedict behind him expressionlessly turned around,

“What is your Master hiding?”

He ignored Benedict’s words behind him and walked toward the marquis’s office. If he wasn’t there, Lawrence would break into his bedroom.

Lawrence’s expression as he walked without hesitation was terrifying, so all the servants of the marquis walked away from him. Ignoring their movements, Lawrence found the Marquis. When he finally reached the Marquis’s office, Lawrence gestured to the knight standing in front of him.

“Open it.”

“Your Excellency, the Marquis said he did not want to meet anyone.”

“I am going to marry the daughter of the Marquis. Hence, I am not merely ‘anyone’.”

Lawrence was forcing the knight, who couldn’t refute his statement. As a mere knight, he doesn’t know how he’d be punished if he dares go against the word of a Duke from a neighboring Empire.

“Open it.”

With his words that sounded the knight would regret if he ever let Lawrence repeat it for the third time, he hurriedly opened the door for him.

“The duke has no manners. Isn’t it funny how he talks about courtesy to someone who wants to steal someone else’s daughter?”

“No, it’s nothing compared to someone who took someone else’s daughter and raised it as his own.”

Lawrence’s words flowed through the unlocked door. When the knights who were listening looked shocked, the marquis hurriedly gave orders.

“Close the door!”

The office door closed behind him as Lawrence entered. Silence hung over the space where only the Marquis and Lawrence were left. Despite the coldness in Lawrence’s eyes, the Marquis did not lose and glared at him.

He couldn’t let go of someone who discovered his hidden secret.

‘What should I do? Should I lock them up and not let them go?’

It was Lawrence’s words that brutally shattered the Marquis’s assumptions that he could do anything, despite his formidable background as a duke of the Nakran Empire.

“I can hear your neglection from here.”

“That is none of the Duke’s business.”

“It doesn’t matter.”

“It’s our family business!”

“Miss Alice is the princess of the Nakran Empire.”

“… What?”

Hamilton’s mind turned white. Even his face turned pale as he recalled the words of the person who entrusted Alice.

‘Is that why they told me not to enter the Nakran Empire?’

“I don’t believe you!”

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe, it’s the truth regardless.”

Lawrence gave a ferocious laugh as if he knew the Marquis would be like this. He straightened his back and sat in his chair. The Marquis flinched at his imposing attitude.

“You know the necklace around her neck?”

“Isn’t that what Alice always wore?”

“No, that necklace of hers, Her Majesty, who passed away, gave it to the princess herself. There is a spell on her that makes it impossible for anyone else to remove the necklace from her neck.”

The secret of the hidden necklace was revealed in Lawrence’s mouth. It was a fact that Alice, who wore the necklace herself, did not know. Lawrence was unbeknownst to this treasure of the imperial palace had the Crown Prince not mentioned it.

“Yes, but magic like that can’t prove that my daughter is the princess!”

“There is a special device attached to that necklace.”

Lawrence calmly continued his words to the Marquis, who was staring blankly at him.

“When it meets the Crown Prince’s ring, it emits a bright light. If the wearer of that necklace is of imperial lineage.”

The Marquis could not open his mouth because the man who entrusted Alice to him echoed in his ears.

‘So, Alice is the princess, and the person who entrusted her to me was the kidnapper, and I fell for the kidnapper…’

“Do you want to cause trouble between the empires, Marquis?”

“… What do you want?”

The Marquis had no choice but to raise his hands against Lawrence. No matter how rich he may have been, he was only a marquis. He could not cause a dispute with the Nakran Empire.

‘If that happens, I’ll die.’

The Erha Empire did not yet have the strength to stand against the Nakran Empire. If the problem escalates, the imperial family will try to eliminate the aftermath by killing the marquis. He couldn’t die like this.

“I hope you don’t interfere so I can take the princess back quietly.”

“….”

The Marquis could not answer. She was his daughter, no matter how forced he was. She was not brought up with affection from the beginning. She tried to do the bare minimum, but at some point, his heart began to bother Alice, who did not come out of her room.

The marquise’s mind slowly tilted as he tried to get her out of her room. He became more concerned and interested in Alice because she deserved to be loved.

“If you take her, won’t she be in danger in Nakran Empire?”

Since he was also a nobleman, he was not ignorant of the situation in the Nakran Empire. He knew how hard the new Empress of the Nakran Empire was trying to put her son on the throne.

That effort has turned into an obsession, and blood was blowing among the nobles. Under these circumstances, it flashed through his mind that Alice might be in danger if she went to the Nakran Empire.

The Nakran Empire was a place where women can inherit the throne. She was the second heir to the throne once Alice went there hence if there were any problems with the crown prince now, she could become emperor.

‘Should I send Alice to a place like that?’

He just couldn’t.

Since Alice still did not know the truth, he concluded that she could live contentedly as the daughter of the marquis in the Erha Empire, and he shut her mouth firmly.

“Are you not going to send her back?”

“I cannot risk my daughter.”

“Then I can’t. I have no choice but to go find the emperor of this empire.”

At Lawrence’s last words, the Marquis Hamilton stopped his movements.

(TL: This story started off with a light one… but it escalated this much. I think I need to prepare tissues.)