I’m an Extra, but the Gods Are Obsessed With Me

"Ugh! If you're gonna kill him, you shouldn't have written such an unhappy background!"

I furiously pressed the home button to turn off the novel page.

But after some time I was still restless, so I went into the e-book purchase list and went back into the novel page I had just read.

[ Are you sure you want to delete the file? ]

Without hesitation, I confirmed the deletion.

[ The Duke's Youngest Daughter is an Archmage! ]

The novel was recommended to me by a friend who came to Taegi-ro.

The story is about a female protagonist who is an archmage from a thousand years ago, and is reincarnated into a family of dukes famous for their swordsmanship.

While I was taking a peek at a preview of the first volume, I fell in love with a character, so I paid for all 12 books without hesitation.

I was anticipating for the time when my favorite character and the female lead would become friends...

but unexpectedly, he died.

'Now that I think about it, it's too absurd.'

Ansharie Serentia.

At first, he was portrayed as a villain, committing evil acts to the male lead, but he was a character with a cliché background: 'he was actually a good person!'.

Born into a family that opposes the heroine, they often clash with each other. However, it was all because he was brainwashed by his father, who was the real villain.

So, of course, I assumed that the heroine would save him and they would become friends.

"I can't even count the number of people Ishtar saved."

Perhaps, it was to show the female lead's power. She helped a lot of people, from the male lead to the extras who only appear once in the novel. She rescued everyone who needed help.

In all 12 volumes of the story, the female lead was portrayed helping someone.

But Ansharie died in vain.

Because of his father's rebellion.

"Seriously, if you were going to kill him in Volume 10, why all that in Volume 2?"

The more I thought about it, the more pissed off I get, so I permanently deleted the novel.

The novel was buried in my heart as the biggest abomination in my life.

- - - - -

'Then do you want to change it yourself?'

Shockingly, I became the sister of the villain of [ The Duke's Youngest Daughter is an Archmage! ].

Tiamia Serentia.

The eldest daughter of the villainous family, Marquis Serentia, who was an extra that was only mentioned very briefly in the original novel.

'By the time the heroine and Tiamia meet, she was already dead.'

She was also sent to death by her father, Marquis Serentia.

"Lady Tiamia, are you okay?"

I was too immersed in my thoughts and stood still, until a soft voice snapped me out of it.

It was Cain, the general manager, who watched me with a sharp gaze, in contrary to his kind impression.

'The right arm of the villainous Marquis Serentia.'

So masterful at acting and pretending that he even deceived the heroine Ishtar, he is the Marquis' most trusted henchman and is also the one who caused Ansharie and Tiamia's death.

To put it bluntly, Cain only encouraged him, while the Marquis did all the evil deeds.

Anyways,

after organizing my thoughts, I turned to the next page on the grimoire and answered,

"I'm reading."

"If there is something that you don't know, please do not hesitate to ask."

"Okay."

At first glance, he looks like a kind teacher, but it was very easy for me to guess his ulterior motives.

It must be to test Tiamia.

It wasn't meant to check how well she understood the grimoire, but to determine whether she was still perfectly under the control of the mind magic.

That's right.

The Marquis brainwashed his two children with mind magic.

To make puppets that would obey his absolute orders.

By recalling Ansharie's misfortune in the original novel, I immediately knew what the Marquis was up to.

'Until the future is eventually destroyed.'

Marquis Serentia, who appeared as the villain in the original novel, is superficially a magician who produces royal magicians.

But in reality, he used his wife and eldest child as sacrifices for black magic to increase his mana circle in order to brainwash his second child, the heir.

'Well, except for the garbage Marquis, everyone else, to him, was just a scapegoat to satisfy his inferiority complex.'

The mana circle is a ring made of mana that is created from our hearts and it is the standard for differentiating the power level of magicians.

Perhaps it was because the female lead was an archmage in her previous life, there were a lot of magic-related chapters in the novel, but I remembered this information accurately because I read this part carefully.

Usually, the 1st to 3rd circles comprise of apprentice magicians.

From the 4th circle onwards, the individual is regarded as an official magician recognized by the Magic Tower.

And, from the 7th circle onwards, the individual is named an archmage, who is regarded as a really big achievement to be recorded in historical books.

'A Marquis without talent is limited to the 4th circle. But Cain appeared and offered him a way to increase his mana circle in exchange for a favor.'

Black magic forcibly increases his mana circle by absorbing another magician's soul.

When the Empire's first 7th circle magician appeared, the Marquis sacrificed his wife, who had just given birth to Ansharie, to increase his mana circle.

'In the first place, he took an apprentice magician who fell from nobility as his wife.'

It was to bring a sacrifice that met strict conditions into the family - one that would not arouse suspicion from others.

After numerous experiments, in hiding, by using the wealth and power of the Marquis family, he finally assured success in the process, and he absorbed his wife's soul.

After that, when Ishtar succeeded in incantation-less magic, which had disappeared since the ancient times, the Marquis impatiently used black magic again.

Tiamia, who resembled the Marquis, was the second sacrifice.

'If I stay like this, I will die.'

I woke up in Tiamia's body a week ago.

On the first day, it was very difficult to adapt to how my reality changed.

It felt very unrealistic.

Only after meeting the Marquis and Cain, and dreaming about Tiamia's memories in the same night did I finally accept what happened.

'I was acting nonsensically that wasn't like Tiamia at all, but fortunately they seemed to think the delirium was a side effect of the mind magic.

On the second day, I made a plan and guessed at what point in the original novel I am in.

I had to act like Tiamia, based on her memories.

The Marquis sometimes doubts the effectiveness of his mind magic, but he never would have guessed that his brainwashed daughter was secretly plotting an escape plan.

'There is definitely a chance of escape.'

I planted a strong purpose in my heart.

'I will save my dearest Ansharie that the author killed with my own hands!'

- - - - -

Cain is by my side all day. He watches over me, and then gives me homework before leaving.

If I was the original Tiamia, I would have completed my homework and simply gone to sleep. But I got out of bed and continued planning my escape.

As I sat down at my desk, a tuft of brown fur appeared on my lap.

"Kkiing!"

It had black fur around its eyes like a panda.

Stripes on the tail.

Small and round ears.

I have never met face-to-face with this creature before, but I am familiar with it because I often see it on videos and photos.

It was a raccoon.

"Kkii. Kking."

I wonder what kind of raccoon it was, but Cain said that it was a familiar I summoned.

The strange thing is that this raccoon did not appear in Tiamia's memories or even in the original novel.

'It's understandable that Tiamia was only mentioned once in the novel when the Marquis used forbidden black magic.'

But it just doesn't sit right that it doesn't even appear in Tiamia's memories.

But it's not that I feel uncomfortable or repulsive, so I'm not that wary of it.

"Kkiing?"

Aside from that, it was so adorable that I had to keep petting it over and over.

"You cutie!"

I hugged the raccoon and looked up.

'My heart is healed.'

After taking a short break in that state, I took out my diary.

'Ansharie is nowhere to be seen, and according to Tiamia's memories, it seems that he is being imprisoned in the basement.'

'Except for Cain, the servants don't seem to have anything to do with the mind magic. But when I do something strange, it is reported to Cain and the Marquis.'

I organized and wrote down information that I noticed as a daily routine.

'Didn't you say that the basement is a sanatorium?'

It was a place seen through the memories of Tiamia and often described in Ansharie's unhappy childhood in the novel.

To avoid suspicion from other nobles or servants, Tiamia's room is just a normal western-styled room. But in truth, the whole room is filled with mind magic.

A bluff was created, that Ansharie suffered from a rare disease that shortens his lifespan when exposed to sunlight, in order to keep him in the basement with no windows. So the Marquis created a brainwashing chamber disguised as a room to protect Ansharie.

It's a ridiculous lie, but the people in this world, where science isn't well developed, were all easily deceived.

What's even more absurd is that the Marquis created an impression that he was a very caring parent.

In order to save his son who had a rare disease, he found a doctor or a priest for treatment. There were rumors that a famous doctor in the suburbs of the empire knew about the disease and he was hired by the Marquis for a large sum.

Of course, it was all just a façade.

The Marquis meticulously left the parlor door wide open for the servants to hear when he asked about the disease, and he fooled them all with a planned act.

The doctor checks Ansharie's condition once a week, after Ansharie took the medicine the Marquis made, at a place that was not normally exposed to sunlight.

He also urged people to reduce contact with Ansharie as much as possible as the disease could be contagious.

Such words were deliberately added so that the servants wouldn't go to the basement.

'Besides, they claimed I could have been infected too, so I have to go to the infirmary once a week for treatment.'

If the Marquis talked about how the disease was contagious, he can naturally trap Tiamia in the basement. That was probably what he aimed for.

- to be continued -