The Extra Decided to be Fake

Edited

Episode 85

The reason the vassels clamored for Lilian’s succession was because of marriage.

Each of them had a candidate in mind as Lilian’s prospective husband, and depending on whom she married, the future of the vassels would change. Naturally, Lilian was also aware of this.

“Are they still insisting on marrying me off to a heir?”

“They’re not insisting only on an heir anymore. But the first candidate they propose is indeed from Maynard.”

Because that’s the most suitable option, it goes without saying.

Until now, Cedric, being still young enough, could reject the succession issue whenever the vassels brought it up. Cedric was the sturdiest person Lilian knew.

However, a while ago, Cedric had an accident while riding, and with a slight injury to his leg, there seemed to be no way to prevent the vassels from clamoring for the succession issue.

“Is your leg alright?”

“I’m really fine. I just got a little hurt then, nothing serious.”

“That’s a relief, but you should be careful.”

As Lilian remembered Cedric still limping a bit, she let out a light sigh.

Cedric, feeling a little awkward, cleared his throat and asked, “So, what do you want to do? If you don’t want it, I’ll do something about it.”

“No, I’ve come this far. If the vassels are clamoring so loudly and I can’t stop them… I guess I have to go along with it to some extent.”

“Are you going to get married then?”

“That’s not it, but…”

Lilian’s gaze fell on the documents in front of her. It was a compilation of the contents of the husbands candidates proposed by the vassels.

“Let’s at least meet them for now, and for a while, the vassels won’t be making too much noise.”

In fact, considering that most nobles, unless there was a special reason, arranged engagements before they became adults, Lilian’s case was quite unusual. Cedric also had no fiancée until he met Agnes and got married, but that was because he had planned to become a knight and go to the battlefield when he was young, so he hadn’t voluntarily made a fiancée.

It was such an uncommon case, and it also meant that Cedric wholeheartedly supported Lilian’s intentions.

So Lilian also had to take some responsibility for this issue.

“Of course, I have no intention of actually getting married.”

She hadn’t expected to stay here and not be able to take revenge on Swan until she became an adult. So she hadn’t thought about these issues either, but as time passed, heavy issues like succession and marriage suddenly came up in front of her.

However, Lilian still thought that this place was not her place. Thinking of Swan still made her chest feel tight. She couldn’t shake off the feeling of living in someone else’s shoes. If she took it off, there would be nothing inside.

‘So, succeeding or getting married… it’s not an option.’

It was something Swan should naturally do, and she didn’t want to deceive Maynard to that extent.

But meeting people to calm down the vassels’ clamor for a moment would be okay.

‘Now it’s really time to end this.’

So, the person Lilian chose was Count Asher Fitzroy.

Under the history of graduating at the top of a private boarding school was written his characteristic.

[A devout believer]

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To seek revenge on Swan, what should I do?

This was a question that Lillian had been pondering for a long time.

‘Would it be enough to just kill everyone who was involved?’

But how could I find out who was involved? Someone might have slipped away unnoticed.

Cedric wasn’t a murderer, and naturally, Lillian couldn’t let him commit murder. Especially if so many people died in the temple, someone would notice. So, there needed to be a change in the method of revenge.

‘The temple will target me again.’

The methods of the temple were very cunning. They were also patient. If Agnes had urged the Viscount of Napier to abandon her when she was young, the temple had been targeting Agnes since then, not letting her go until she died.

‘Moreover, there’s still seven years until Odile’s appearance.”

They never gave up tracking down the “Daughters of the Moon,” even if it took years. Lillian couldn’t understand the reason for this relentless pursuit, but it wasn’t her business to find out the reason anyway.

What mattered was that the tragedy that happened to Agnes, and the tragedy that happened to Swan, would happen to Lillian until she died.

‘I’ll either be caught by the temple or die.’

In that case, isn’t there a way to just destroy the temple altogether?

The temple in the capital is the central temple. It was certain that this place was where the tragedy happened to Agnes. So even if we couldn’t destroy the entire denomination, if we destroyed this place, it would still be enough.

That way, we could break the chain of tragedies and exact enough revenge on Swan.

‘To do that… I’ll have to go into the temple eventually.’

Just as you have to look into the abyss to destroy it, Lillian thought so too.

So, Lillian chose a candidate labeled as a “devout believer” to use as an excuse to go to the temple.

‘Honestly, I thought Damian would contact me again at least once.’l

Damian had disappeared since Lillian left and was now completely out of sight.

Where on earth did he go? Since Lillian had spared him to use him, his disappearance was quite disappointing. If he had been there, it would have been much easier to access the temple.

And, this encounter wouldn’t have happened either.

In reality, Fitzroy, the Count of Asher whom I met, was a more polished man than I had thought. A very flamboyant man with curly dirty blond hair, a very impressive appearance.

To be honest, it was surprising that he looked more like the second son of a wealthy merchant family rather than a count, but Lillian knew a young man with fiery red hair who, despite his fierce appearance at first glance, played very well with children. People cannot be judged by appearances alone.

And as Lillian expected, Asher seemed polite and decent. Since Damian’s incident, Lillian had developed a habit of not easily judging people. So, everything was fine up to this point.

But there was a separate problem.

“Do you see the statue of the deity over there, my lady? It’s a statue made to imitate a famous scene from Genesis! Isn’t it beautiful?”

“…I suppose so.”

Asher was overly devout.

The person who had calmly sat and conversed during the carriage ride suddenly lit up upon arriving at the temple, wandering around with shining eyes. It was a sight that Lillian found hard to get used to.

‘Who… made the documents?’

Sir Isaac? Or Sir Cosmo?

Whoever it was, they had to sign the documents. What should have been written there was not a devout believer, but a religious fanatic. If Fitzroy, the Earl, found out he had divine powers, would he go mad and collapse?

As Lillian had these thoughts, she walked into the temple.

At that moment, she saw a group of men in knightly attire marching along the corridor in formation.

Since it was her first time in the temple, she couldn’t recognize their attire, but the swords at their waists and their disciplined demeanor said something.

‘They’re knights.’

Fortunately or unfortunately, there was no red-haired person among them. Lillian unconsciously searched for red hair, then frowned and stopped.

‘Stop it. Forget about Theo.”’

She had come all the way to Boswick Duchy to never see him again, so why couldn’t she forget about that kid?

Lillian tightly closed her eyes, and somewhere, she heard a voice calling her.

“Lillian?”