The Main Heroine Likes the Extra

2 – Riel Ignis

Alan Ludwig is the son of the knight commander who serves Duke Ignis.

At the same time, he is also the same age as Riel, the second daughter of the duke, so he has been friends with her since childhood.

Well, even so, because Riel is such a quiet person, it was mostly Alan talking alone and Riel listening.

Alan was always by Riel’s side, and that continued for over ten years.

So it’s hard to understand from the outside, but Riel was quite dependent on Alan, and she eventually accepts his heart later in the novel and they bond.

For a main heroine, the pace of the relationship is slow, but what can I do, it’s that kind of character.

Yeah, it must have been something like that…

I was frozen again by the verbal abuse that just came out of Riel’s mouth.

What on earth is such a terrible guy all fussing about?

Looking at the context or whatever, this is definitely the right thing to talk about Alan.

No, well…

To be honest, as someone whose fiance was taken away, I somewhat agree with ‘terrible bastard’.

It’s true that the main heroine and Alan’s childhood friend Riel is the subject of those words…

Perhaps I heard wrong?

“Every time I follow you around like a stalker, and whenever someone tries to do something, they always show up and interrupt me, which is really annoying.”

You didn’t hear that wrong.

Even his voice is filled with resentment.

“You don’t even notice? Even if I tell you to shut up, you’re still smiling as if you’ve misunderstood…”

No, wait a minute.

How many things do you really have?

The gossip about Alan continued to the point of lamenting inwardly.

“Is that your original personality?”

“Huh?”

Riel, who was gossiping about Alan at my question, stopped for a moment and looked back at me.

Her round eyes looked oddly cute.

“Because I usually live very quietly, I wanted to be a quiet person”

“Ah…”

Well, it’s a lie to say that he usually looked like that, but since he came out with a quiet personality in the original work, it’s true that I thought he was a quiet personality.

It was the complete opposite of what I saw in front of my eyes.

Riel’s face turned red.

“Come to think of it…?”

She said that as if she didn’t even notice.

“It might be because… I have a kind of habit of getting nervous when I’m conscious of other people.”

“Nervous?”

“Should I say it’s a feeling of choking? I can’t speak properly and I feel like my body shrinks.”

Ah, I’ve heard that among people who are shy, the symptoms are severe.

But I don’t think it was that much…

“Especially, that guy Alan is getting worse”

“Ah”

“Anyway, he’s a guy who chokes me out just by being there, but he’s dragging around a lot of people and not letting them off, so he’s really the worst?”

Well… Maybe it’s my problem that I can’t properly express in words…

Adding that, Riel looked up at the sky.

No, it seems to have already been properly expressed and transcended the question of what.

What kind of stench does Alan emit that only Riel can smell?

Thinking so, I gave her gaze to Riel, and she looked at me again and continued her words.

“But does it make sense to keep smiling and sticking around even when people openly ignore or stare at you?”

…

I have a little guess.

In the original story, Riel doesn’t speak a single word except for her incantations to use her magic until later in the novel.

The main character, Alan, keeps talking to her and pays attention to her.

Because I like it, because I care about it.

“You’re saying things like ‘Don’t worry, I’ve always been Riel’s knight’… When did I appoint you as a knight?”

…This is actually a line spoken by Alan in the original story.

Alan spoke these words as if to comfort Riel, who was jealous while glaring at him when he was chatting with the other sub-heroes.

Wait a minute… I was staring at you?

So that’s it, isn’t it?

Annoyed person (Alan) dragged a lot of noisy people (sub-heroes) and glared at them to get annoyed…

In the eyes of the readers, the person he loves (Alan) brought other women (sub-heroes) and chatted with them, so he was jealous and glared at them. Is this?

“But isn’t it amazing? I can talk with Kyo-san without being nervous.”

“Huh?”

“I had a vague feeling from the first time I saw it, but after coming here and talking about it, I was convinced.”

Riel smiled brightly.

A very bright smile that has never been described in the original work, and has never been seen here.

Looking at it, the heat rose in her face involuntarily, and she lowered her head slightly.

“Kyou-san, I have a favor”

“What…What is it?”

Leel Ignis said with an even brighter smile.

“Be my friend”

Riel Ignis was born as the second daughter of Duke Ignis.

She grew up without any deficiency under her father who was strict but caring for herself, her mother who was caring, and her sister who took care of herself very much.

She was the type to get very nervous in front of people.

Even her family was no exception to that, so she had no choice but to communicate with them to the extent of just looking at them or expressing them with her body.

At some point, her family seemed to have gotten used to it and accepted Riel, thinking of her as a shy child.

However, Riel loved her family very much, and her family also loved her very much.

Still, being able to communicate with her family’s love to some extent, Riel was having a happy childhood.

Then one day, she had her calamity befall Riel.

Alan Ludwig.

A boy who is the son of the leader of the knights who protect the ducal family and strives to become a knight following his father when he grows up.

He was always a bright and positive boy who was loved by the people around him.

But to Riel, Alan was literally his nemesis.

Just seeing Alan in front of him made him gasp and freeze.

It was as if someone had blocked their nose and mouth and gripped their limbs so that they could not move.

“Hello, my name is Alan!”

Seeing Alan shaking her hand with a bright smile on her face, Riel slashed Alan’s hand with her barely able-to-move body and left the place as if to run away.

The next day, Alan came again.

Receiving that eerie feeling again, Riel screamed inwardly.

“I heard everything from the Duke, don’t worry!”

“It’s okay! I’ll protect you!”

In a situation where Alan couldn’t say anything, the story was going on as he pleased.

I wanted to shout out to him to stop right now and disappear from my presence, but my voice didn’t come out.

The feeling of something like a towel coming right into your mouth and blocking it.

The adults around me are just looking at me with happy faces.

No matter how much he glared at him and cut his hand away, Alan responded with ‘Riel is very shy’.

Such a situation continued for several months, and Riel, exhausted, decided to take an action that was completely ignored.

I ignored Alan’s approach and anything he said, and when he tried to put his hand on his body (like his hand or shoulder), he thumped away.

However, Alan did not give up and continued to pursue Riel.

Riel was afraid of it, and it was terrible.

One day, her exclusive maid Phyllis, who is two years older than herself and has been helping her since childhood, saw Riel’s ideal.

“Are you uncomfortable with Mr. Alan?”

The person who finally understood her feelings appeared.

Glad at that, Riel nodded her head broadly.

Phyllis looked at her Riel, smiled and asked her to leave it to herself.

After that day, Phyllis followed Riel and stopped Alan when he approached.

When Alan came looking for Riel, she sent Alan back with an appropriate reason.

For several months, Riel was able to spend a peaceful time.

But she didn’t have long periods of calm.

One day, Phyllis suddenly disappeared from the mansion, and another maid named Ilia took the place of the exclusive maid.

‘Where did Phyllis go?’

I wanted to ask that, but because of her sudden change of maid, Riel had no choice but to sit still.

And as soon as Phyllis disappeared, he came.

“Long time no see Riel!”

“……”

Alan, whom I hadn’t seen in a long time, was still annoyed, and looking at him made me feel bad.

Riel ignored Alan and turned her head away.

Ignore it. I will completely ignore it.

With that in mind, Riel decided to fill her head with other thoughts.

“Yes, that’s right! The maid who threatened you has been kicked out of the duchy!”

Riel’s spirits were lifted.

Now, what is this bastard talking about?

Such questions filled her head.

Riel looked at Alan with her quivering eyes.

He was smiling brightly as if he had accomplished it.

“I told my father because I thought it was strange that he kept blocking me from seeing you.”

Ah

“You seem to have a bad reputation among the other maids, and I thought you had something to hide.”

It was you

It felt like something had broken inside Riel.

“You can rest assured, I will always protect you”

Seeing Riel’s trembling eyes, Alan must have misunderstood something. She came over to give Riel a hug.

Riel slapped Alan hard on the cheek and ran away.

Apparently, Phyllis was suspicious of Riel for preventing her from contacting other people.

In fact, there have been several cases where the exclusive attendant made the owner dependent on him.

But Riel could say that the Phillies were never like that.

It can’t be helped that she has a bad reputation among maids.

In fact, not only Phyllis, but the exclusive maid of a certain person becomes an object of jealousy among general maids.

Exclusive maids are mostly exempted from work other than the surroundings of a specific person, and their rank is higher than that of regular maids, and their wages are higher.

Of course, the difficulty of the job will change depending on who the owner is, but if the owner is as calm as Riel, the difficulty of the job will drop dramatically.

Apparently, before she was fired, Phyllis had admitted to her duke and other members of her family that Riel was uncomfortable with Alan.

However, Phyllis’ words were ignored as if everyone took them as excuses.

Because Alan was loved by the people around her, the people of this mansion.

Riel hated Alan even more.

After Riel hit Alan, Alan didn’t actively approach Riel.

But it didn’t change that she always followed Riel, and Riel ignored her even more thoroughly than before.

After many years, Riel entered the Grand Seine Academy.

She left the Ignis estate and Riel, who ended up living in the academy’s dormitory, was followed by her exclusive maid Ilia.

And Alan followed suit.

Alan applied to Grand Seine Academy, saying he would protect Riel, and he was able to enter with high grades in practical skills.

She was about to sigh at the thought of Alan following her all the way to the academy, but Riel held it in.

Now even the sighs coming out because of him were a waste.

As if it was natural, Alan was in the same class as Riel, and Alan’s seat was in front of Riel.

Alan, who was popular in the Ignis estate, was also popular at the academy, and there were always girls beside him.

Riel felt a fire burn inside her at the sound of Alan’s voice chattering loudly with her girls in the seat in front of her.

A boy entered Riel’s eyes as she turned her head to the side.

It was a boy with dark hair and glasses, in contrast to the silver-haired Alan.

Kyou Wentos.

He must have been the son of Count Wentos on the outskirts of the kingdom.

And the blue-haired girl talking to him is Liliana Edwin.

The third daughter of Baron Edwin.

The eyes of the dark-haired boy looking at the blue-haired girl seemed so full of affection.

The blue-haired girl also accepts his words with a smile.

The two looked really good together.

Riel couldn’t take her eyes off her boy for a while.

One day, two months after entering school.

Riel, who was still ignoring Alan, who was noisy around her, naturally turned her attention to the black-haired boy.

He was just leaving the classroom with his lover.

The eyes followed him and saw him go up the stairs.

There is only a rooftop on this upper floor, so it must be a rooftop. Thinking so, Riel knelt down on her desk.

And a few minutes later, when she was about to start her afternoon class, Riel opened her eyes.

Looking around her, she sees her classmates returning to their seats.

But the black-haired boy was nowhere to be seen.

Even though his lover was sitting in his seat in the classroom, only him was invisible.

She thought something was wrong, so Riel got up from her seat and headed for the rooftop. She

She seemed to hear an unpleasant voice calling her from behind, but she ignored it.