Becoming an Extra in a Trash Game

Chapter 4

Our Young Master has changed.

He doesn’t kick me with his feet every morning anymore.

He doesn’t throw wine glasses or make me follow him with rabbit steps, calling me a rabbit person.

Most of all, he sometimes gives me snacks or even touches my ears.

It’s really true.

No matter how much the young master hit me, it didn’t hurt, but pretending to be in pain was so difficult.

I couldn’t lie, so I couldn’t send letters to my family, but now I will.

I’ll tell them I’m doing well here. That the Young Master treats me well too.

I am a proud warrior of the Prairie Rabbit race!

* * *

She’s fallen, she’s fallen. What’s wrong with this maid?

I stood up, leaving Luna who was dozing off, chewing on something as if dreaming, sitting by the window where the sunlight shone well.

How much of a mess has my special bonus made, since I opened my eyes here, no one approached me directly except Luna…

How surprised I was when suddenly a butler with a stylish Kaiser beard called me young master and spoke to me.

[Alkaido Heyman – Iron-blooded Butler]

Representative Traits: [Loyalty (A)] [Composure (B)]

Hidden Traits: [Negotiation (C)] [Obsessive-Compulsive (A)]

Unlike Adelian, who doesn’t even appear in the original work and only appears in flashbacks in the game, this is a familiar name.

Alkaido, in the original work, was the family’s agent waiting for Gadia with the family seal instead of Adelian.

In the game, he was an NPC I used to maintain the Kruger family’s financial power on behalf of Gadia, who had no talent other than ice magic.

I trusted only that loyalty trait and used him, only to be backstabbed…

Perhaps because of recalling painful memories, I slightly frowned, and he cleared his throat and spoke once more.

“The head of the family is calling for you, Young Master.”

“I’m not deaf. You only need to say it once, Alkaido.”

Now’s the chance!

To appear as an excellent scoundrel, I didn’t miss the opportunity and deliberately bumped his shoulder as I went out.

Then I confidently went straight down the left corridor!

Anyway, I’ve walked around this castle’s map countless times while playing the game, so this direction should be correct.

“This way, Young Master.”

…It was definitely this way when I played the game.

Well, it’s different from the game where everything was clearly visible just by pressing the map. Even if someone else came, they wouldn’t have found it right away.

By the way, even though it was well-made, it wasn’t a full 3D game, and since it was released as an indie game, walking through this castle in reality feels somewhat new.

More splendid, bigger, and farther…!

As I follow Alkaido for a while, I can see maids and servants in the distance flinching and turning away as they make eye contact with me.

‘No, what has this Adelian been doing? Surely he hasn’t killed people, right?’

…No matter how much that Rachel, she wouldn’t have made such a person my special bonus, right? …Right?

This is all karma, karma… It’s too late for me to repent now.

Anyway, what I’m going to do from now on is clearly out of the ordinary, so it’s better to maintain this image.

“The head of the family said only you should enter, young master, so I’ll take my leave.”

At Alkaido’s words, I whistled for no reason and pushed an expensive-looking porcelain with my finger, making it fall.

“Then Alkaido has nothing to do. Clean this up and go back.”

It’s absolutely not because you backstabbed me, I’m just being a scoundrel now. You know?

I smiled at Alkaido, who slightly bowed his head without changing his expression, and then entered through the door he opened.

“Hello, Father.”

Father always loved only my younger brother for the reason that he was a son. That child who was born after killing mother. Father made my brother, who had no talent, his successor and loved him because he was a man. The only child that cold snake-like man chose.

Just as Gadia said over and over in the original work I read once, the man with platinum blonde hair and blue eyes looked very cold. Like a person without blood or tears.

‘But I know.’

How much that person loves Gadia.

“You’re still ill-mannered, Adelian. You’ll soon have to take over as the acting head of the family.”

“You should just keep doing that, Father. Why bother?”

Maybe because of the floating feeling, the word ‘Father’ comes out smoothly like a theater line. I sat on the office sofa and looked up at him.

“Do as I say when I tell you to take over.”

“Then I’ll take over, but don’t interfere with whatever I do with it.”

The sharply drawn eyebrows twitch. If it was the real Adelian instead of me, would he have been scolded now?

But who cares? Anyway, knowing that Adelian would inherit the ring, live as he wants, and then get his throat cut by Gadia, I had nothing to fear.

Besides, I already know why you’re trying to pass on the ring in the original work.

Financial power was equivalent to a country, military, and political power that fell short of that.

To offset that, you want to protect your daughter by passing on the head of the family position and plotting something.

Enough to hand over a golden poisoned cup to the butler in the original work, and to your son in the game.

He handed over the Kruger ring engraved with 12 patterns, and instead of answering that I understood, I snatched the ring from his hand.

“And don’t hide the fire essence too much. If sister finds out, she might misunderstand that you’re trying to burn yourself to death?”

I’m not saying this because I like you, it’s telling you to try to fix Gadia’s personality, Father.

[Caiman Origin Kruger – Coordinator of All Wealth]

Representative Traits: [Financial Power (SSS)] [Dignity (S)] [Calculating (A)] [Scheming (A)]

Hidden Traits: [Storm (B)] [Deception (B)]

I closed the door with a glimpse of Father’s traits.

* * *

The ring shrinks to fit when I put it on my ring finger.

I’d like to put it in a subspace, but I have to wear it to use blood magic.

Now no one in this castle will defy me no matter what I do.

There was no big succession ceremony or party, but regardless of the inside story, the succession of the family head just took place.

If it were another family, I would have to take over the duties as the head of the family, look at documents, and study how to lead the family in the future.

But I’m a praiseworthy sacrifice just for staying alive until the great work is done~

“Now the real start begins, that’s it.”

What both I and Rachel, who sent me here, want in this terrible game is just one thing.

A perfect happy ending.

A harem ending!

Just wait, Kane. I’ll lay out a flower bed for you and escape. I’ll even fix the main party’s temper.

“Young, young master, what will I do if you abandon me and go…”

“What are you talking about? You were sleeping just fine.”

I pushed away Luna, who had somehow found me and was whimpering beside me, and went down to the basement where Kane was locked up.

From the flashbacks I saw while playing the game, I remember that when Adelian bought him at the auction, he cast a spell of subordination to make him outwardly obedient and then used him.

If I did that now, I’d be on Cain’s revenge list, so I just brought him, but he’s in a terrible state.

Seeing the wounds that have increased in the meantime, it seems he resisted quite a bit here too.

“Can you relax your eyes a bit? If you could kill people with your eyes, I’d have been burned to death already, but you’re human, right?”

Even though I knew that eyes alone couldn’t do anything unless he was a basilisk hybrid, I spoke to him, pretending to be okay despite the chilling gaze that made my knees weak.

“You perverted bastard. I’m a man.”

“I know, you crazy bastard! What are you thinking?”

I like women normally! It’s not that my favorite female character is your future wife.

Don’t misunderstand this otaku’s heart trying to push you towards a harem ending despite that!

“There seems to be some misunderstanding, but I didn’t buy you for that kind of thing.”

I tried to calm down and brought a chair to sit in front of Kane, who was sprawled on the stone floor with his limbs tied.

It’s annoying, right? I know. But I absolutely must not be looked down upon by you.

The maximum work that Adelian’s talentless, incompetent body and an ordinary game otaku can do is bluffing and fraud.

You’re caught well, by me.

“I know well what you want, Kane Raynare. The last survivor.”

For a moment, Kane’s eyes widened and he crawled towards me, struggling.

“My name. How did you know?”

“I told you, Kane, you can’t kill me with your eyes. And that’s not what you should be asking. Not how I knew, but what I want from you.”

I leaned forward slightly while sitting on the chair and spoke lowly to him who had crawled to my feet.

“I know who your enemies are, Kane. Let’s make a deal. I’ll help you kill them, so you help me.”

“A deal?”

“Yes, a deal. I’ll make you strong, so when you become the best, be loyal to me after everything is over.”

To Kane’s face that was frowning as if it was nonsense, I added:

“Ah, of course, with your personality, I won’t expect real loyalty, so just on the surface? You get the opportunity to become stronger with support, and I can have the title of the best.”

At the whispered words saying we could write a divine contract if he wanted, Kane’s shoulders trembled.

Divine punishment for those who break the contract.

“I don’t understand. I don’t even know what traits I have yet because it’s before my birthday, and you’re telling me to believe your words?”

“Why do you think I know your full name? How do you think I know your past, your wishes, your enemies? Knowing all that, why do you think I couldn’t see your potential?”

No matter how much I grovel to that distrustful person and say I want to help you out of goodwill, he won’t even listen with half an ear.

Sincerity communicates. This kind of thing doesn’t work with that guy. How can he trust when everyone he trusted betrayed him and he even underwent human experiments?

It’s much better to go with the idea that I’m mysterious and have something, that guy knows something, and there’s something to gain if we make a deal.

Not trust and sincerity, but deal and use.

Not bosom buddies, but business partners. That’s the relationship that suits me and that guy.

I smiled calmly, somehow acting out the feeling of a villain I’ve seen in numerous movies.

“I want someone stronger than anyone. I plan to make my family impossible for anyone to ignore. Then only the strongest in the continent would qualify as my knight, right?”

But think about the people known as the best in the continent now. A royal knight somewhere, the master of the tower. The companion of a fairy.

“How long would it take to bring them to the family? Isn’t it faster to just raise someone?”

I am a mad scientist. I am a villain. I am a slightly crazy idealist.

My ideology is twisted and I am not normal. Therefore, what I say is not a trap but a misaligned sincerity.

Believe me, Kane. Believe. There’s even a divine contract. It’s definitely not something that will disadvantage you.

“I can’t believe your words.”

You bastard! 

I tried to maintain my smile that was about to crack and met his eyes.

“Why?”

“Because I’m not strong.”

Don’t say ‘If I were strong, that wouldn’t have happened’ with your face, you protagonist.

Anyway, no matter what you do alone, you’re just thinking about getting stronger and taking revenge.

“No. You are strong. More precisely, you’re going to be strong. Because I’ll make you that way. There’s only one thing you need to do now.”

I got down from the chair leaned towards Kane’s ear and whispered.

“Just once. You just need to acknowledge me. As your sponsor… No, supporter for your future.”

I quickly changed the word because it sounded a bit strange, then smiled.

“What?”

“You don’t acknowledge defeat. You deny both defeat and failure. But you know, for a person to develop, they need to bend their pride or will once.”

That’s because the Indomitable trait needs to disappear.

Listen to me. I didn’t want to do this either. Honestly.

“So I’m going to try to break you. I’m not seeing how well you endure. Remember my words, just once. Let yourself go just once. I’m not just tormenting you.”

Looking at Kane’s face who seemed not to understand what I was saying, I gestured.

Man, you have the genius trait. You know exactly what I’m saying and what I mean.

It was good that I disguised myself with a slightly insane villain feeling. That way, whatever I do from now on can be brushed off as ‘he’s not thinking normally’.

“From now on, don’t give him water until he’s about to die. And don’t let him sleep.”

I waved the divine contract I had prepared in advance at Kane, who was looking at me with disbelief, and stuck it on the wall.

“You see my name? Just call my name once and it’s over.”

I closed and walked out of the prison door, handing it over to the soldier who would watch to make sure Kane couldn’t sleep.

“Young master… Is it really… You, young master? It’s too… Scary… I feel sorry for that child…”

Seeing that timid person whimpering but still saying things like just kick him all you want and end it, or that not being able to eat is too terrible, is the future groom still the groom?

I looked at Luna, who was speaking well, perhaps because I hadn’t been violent for the past few days, and smiled kindly.

“Then do you want to give up the carrot cake that’s coming out today, Luna?”

“…What?”

Leaving Luna who seemed to have forgotten what to say for a moment, I walked away, and as she belatedly came to her senses and clung to my arm saying ‘I’ll give it up…’, I pushed her away.

Yeah, it’s already too late. No.