There Are Too Many Second Male Leads!

Affinity +1 (4)

Posted by Freya, Released on February 8, 2024

By the time I got ready for bed, I was wearing a silk slip dress. It was a red dress with straps on the shoulders, but perhaps because she had been running so much, one strap had completely fallen off.

‘Angel deserved to be embarrassed.’

No, that’s not important. I placed the loose straps on my shoulders and tightly rolled up the dress. The thin legs were clearly visible under the moonlight. Once my legs were a little free, I started running again, spreading my legs as wide as possible.

“Wow! Oh! Ugh!”

I started running, stepping on the neatly trimmed wild grass. In some places, my feet fell off with a crunching sound, and in other places, my bare legs were scratched by tree branches. My legs were extremely heavy, as if they were already carrying 10kg weights. I clenched my lower lip to fight off the pain.

[Time limit 02:58]

[Time limit 02:57]

[Time limit 02:56]

Puck!

“Ahh!”

With only two minutes left, I was so impatient that I lost my footing. Although we were almost there, it felt like there was still 100m left. I jumped up as time was running out without mercy.

‘I can’t fail from the first mission!’

For this to happen, I would tenaciously collect compensation! For me, who has been fighting the disease for so long, this is just pain. I ran without slowing down, suppressing the pain that radiated from my legs every time I ran.

[Time limit 00:32]

[Time limit 00:31]

[Time limit 00:30]

‘I’m almost here! I’m almost here!’

By the time I got close to the fence, I was already covered in sweat.

[Time limit 00:01]

[Time limit 00:00]

Beep!

“Hehe, hehe…”

At the same time I heard the warning sound indicating that the time limit was over, my hand touched the fence. Before checking whether the mission was successful, I bent down and took a breath that had reached the tip of my chin.

‘Is it a success? Is it a failure?’

When I finally looked up to see if I had succeeded, I literally stopped breathing.

“Kya… town!”

I almost fell backwards when I saw the man in front of me who suddenly appeared. His face, which had been covering my mouth for a long time, was obscured by the darkness and I couldn’t see it well. At that time, the clouds blocking the bright moonlight slowly cleared. My eyes widened when I saw the face revealed under the moonlight.

“Shh.”

The man’s turquoise bangs fluttered under the moonlight. His soft bangs were blowing in the wind, exposing his face. Green eyes looked down at me. The gently shining green eyes were reminiscent of a brilliant emerald jewel. I was mesmerized by his mysterious eyes and did not move my body for a moment, as if I had been suffocated. The corners of his mouth turned up ironically as he looked at me.

“You like it that much? Enough to shout out loud?”

“Who…!”

“Even though you lost your memory, I guess I’m glad to see you, Ella.”

Ella? Was that a nickname?

Tiring!

After being momentarily distracted by the man who suddenly appeared, the system activated once more in front of me.

‘That’s right, mission result!’

When I came to my senses and stared into space, a hologram appeared as always. The hologram appeared near the man’s right cheek. The man’s gaze followed the direction my eyes were taking. The man tilted his head as if puzzled, looked to his right, and then looked at me repeatedly.

“Did you ask something?”

I didn’t care about the man’s gaze as I was more concerned about whether the mission was successful or not than the man I was meeting for the first time.

[Mission success! Pick a golden key!]

“Wow!”

I succeded! I smiled brightly, feeling happy inside. I had long ago forgotten that the man in front of me was watching him intently. At the same time as announcing the success of the mission, three keys called ‘Golden Keys’ flashed and emerged. The golden key floating in the air slowly rotated in place as if asking one to choose one of them.

‘It’s the first mission, so the first key!’

Without hesitation, I reached for the first key and the screen immediately changed.

[First Golden Key: Agility +5]

Agility? What? Did I need something like this to find the male lead? As if to answer my questions, a strange system window popped up.

[You have no luck with the draw. Something like this would be useless in finding the male lead. Tsk tsk.]

‘Then why did you put it in as a reward in the first place!’

While I was confused by the reward that the system did not approve of, the screen changed again.

[Roella Clemend

Strength: 5

Agility: 15 (+5)

Stamina: 10

Horsepower: 10

Charisma: 2]

…huh?

* * *

“Wow!”

The moment Kai saw Roella’s smile as bright as the full moon in the dusky dawn light, he felt as if time had stopped for a moment. Has Roella ever made an expression like this? She was an honest and bold person who was unusual for an aristocratic lady, so she was someone he kept close to him for a long time. She used to fight a lot when she was young, but as she grew up, her fighting naturally decreased, perhaps thanks to Kai’s smirking. Roella’s personality remained the same as it was in her childhood. She was still cruel to her servants, and she often looked down on other ladies in the social circle. Not only did she treat her only siblings, Evan and Louise, worse than others, she also behaved rudely even towards her father, the head of a prestigious family second only to the Emperor.

Kai found Roella, who was able to follow her emotions as she pleases, amusing. To him who was antipathetic to the world, Roella was the only one who could relieve his old feelings. However…

‘Roella is smiling with a face like that…’

It was a smile as transparent and neat as dewdrops in a quiet dawn. Although she has smiled at Kai’s mischievous jokes, she has never smiled so innocently as she did. At least she wasn’t the Roella that Kai knew.

The cool night breeze passed by the two people. Roella’s long, curly blonde hair fluttered in the wind. Kai stared at her bright red eyes that seemed to be filled with blood.

Whilick.

Her thick, curly hair covered her shoulders and fell behind her. Roella’s feminine lines from her collarbone to her shoulders caught Kai’s attention. A neck with beads of sweat, white and slender shoulder lines, and the skin below…

“…!”

Only then did Kai realize that Roella was wearing a sexy one-piece dress that was no different from her underwear, and he hurriedly turned his head. The face of Kai, the world’s most sly serpent who never panicked, became furious as if it were on fire. Fortunately, Roella didn’t seem to notice Kai’s condition.

Roella stared at something floating in the air for a while, mesmerized. All of a sudden, her expression turned into a frown.

* * *

[The average ability level for a normal person is 50~70! The maximum is 100! It’s up to you to raise it higher than this!]

[You’ve been lying down for a year, so your abilities have declined, so pay attention!]

“Does this make sense?!”

The man was startled by the sound of her voice breaking and took a step back. I glared at the system with angry eyes as if I was going to kill it.

[You can see the abilities by calling ‘Roella’! It will be easy to complete the mission if your abilities are good, so try to work hard in the future!]

I needed to find the male lead too! I needed to increase my likeability and performance!

In addition to the mission, it wanted me to raise my abilities?! Wasn’t this too much work?!

[Keep in mind that everything is connected as one! Now, focus on performance!]

The system, which only made excuses until the very end, was just kicked out and disappeared. As soon as the system disappeared, my legs felt completely relieved. This was because the pain in my ankle came late.

Beetle-

Widely!

I almost collapsed, but the turquoise-colored man caught me. Thanks to that, I didn’t fall forward, so I held on to his strong arm and looked up at him. Only then did I realize that I had become a princess who shouted into the air in front of a man she had never met. I smiled shyly and pushed him away.

“Ah, thank you.”

His brow furrowed at my thanks.

“Are you hurt?”

I was a little intimidated by the somewhat nervous tone of voice. I hesitantly pushed his arm away and tried to keep my distance.

“Where?”

The man held me almost as if he knew me. The man who held my shoulder tightly straightened me up as I lost my balance and led me towards a tree a few steps away.

‘Why isn’t my likeability rating rising?’

I half-leaned against him and headed towards the tree. I glanced at his face the whole time I was walking with a limp, but no matter how long I waited, no number appeared above the man’s head. I thought it was because of this man that the system led me here… A man who not only has turquoise hair, soft features, and deep green eyes like jewels, but also calls me by a nickname. I wasn’t sure, but there’s no way this guy wasn’t a candidate.

‘If you look at the fact that the compensation was properly paid, it is probably not a system error.’

He led me under the majestic tree. The wooden pole was a thick tree, almost two or three times the size of my body. He took out his handkerchief and spread it on the grass. The man carefully sat me down, then took off the jacket he was wearing and threw it on me.

“…?”

I lifted the jacket off his head and looked up at him.

“Put it on. Because a princess shouldn’t wander around like that. Even if it’s in the backyard of your mansion.”

I couldn’t see his expression clearly because he had his back against the moonlight, but his voice was quite gentle and thoughtful. I was already sweating and feeling chilly, so I smiled and draped his jacket over my shoulder.

“Thank you!”

When I said thank you, he flinched again.

‘Does he hate hearing thank you?’

Without any time to think further, he got down on one knee and sat in front of me. Without hesitation, his hand lifted my skirt halfway up.

“Wow… Ugh!”

This time his hands were faster. Before I could scream, his big hand covered my mouth.

“If you make a fuss now, you and I will both die.”

“Umm! Own!”

What was he doing now? This guy was a candidate for male lead! Damn the system! Now that I thought about it, was there a law that says there couldn’t be a pervert among the male lead candidates?!

I opened my eyes and jerked his hand away.

“Well, I’m a princess!”

I crouched down as much as I could and screamed as if this was going to be a threat. I tighten the jacket he gave me, and the skirt he had pulled up also came down to my ankles.

“And this is, wow, our house! What is it! Home invasion!”

Wow, now that I thought about it, why was this person in my backyard at night? The more I thought about it, the more suspicious it was.

“Well, I’m going to report you to the police for trespassing!”

“Ha? The police?”

‘Oops. Are there no police here?’

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

The man’s expression immediately distorted. His expression, distorted in the dark, no longer gave a gentle impression. I wiggled my sore feet and turned my body halfway away from him.

“Che, Duke of Chase Clemend! You know? I am his daughter! When he gets angry, the whole house shakes and the Aurors…!”

“Ella.”

My mouth immediately closed as he mumbled that word in a low voice. He was kneeling on one knee and raised his head in front of me.

“Are you scared of me?”

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