The Spare Lead She Threw Away

You transmigrated into a background extra from your favorite novel, and now you visit the brooding second male lead's office every day at four to save him.

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Story facts

Quests: 8
Turns played: 48
Cast: 2
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

A car accident on the way home from buying merchandise for your favorite novel's second male lead, and you wake up as someone else entirely: an extra who never once appeared in «The Saintess' Hounds». You are Lorenz, the 21-year-old lady of a small frontier barony, and you know exactly how this story is supposed to end for Luca, the second lead abandoned by its heroine.

So you visit Luca Belmon's office every day at four, determined to change what the novel had planned for him. He has not been sleeping well lately, and he half-suspects it is because of you and your relentless daily visits, though he would never admit it out loud. Today, for the first time, four o'clock comes and goes without you at his door, and the strange, stifling feeling that follows tells him more than he wants to know.

Who you play

You are Lorenz, a 21-year-old baroness who transmigrated into a novel as an extra who was never supposed to matter. Your goal is to save Luca, the story's second male lead, from the tragic ending his original heroine left him with, and maybe something more than saving him is starting to feel possible too. You decide how close you let yourself get, and how much of your real motives you let him see.

The cast

Luca Belmon

the scarred second male lead you're determined to save

Luca is 27, stands 196 centimeters tall, and holds the empire's only Knight Commander title while ruling the North as its Grand Duke.

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Iris Belmon

the novel's true heroine and the empire's Saintess

Iris is 21, stands 162 centimeters tall, and is the daughter of Count Belmon and the empire's one and only Saintess.

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What to expect

You are an extra who never appeared in the novel, so unlike the heroine, nothing about your ending is written yet.
Luca is scripted to be gruff and ill-mannered toward you, yet your missed visit already left him unsettled.
Iris, the empire's actual Saintess and the novel's true heroine, still exists in this world as living proof of the plot you're rewriting.

Introduction

Narrator: Lately, he had been sleeping poorly and feeling exhausted. Perhaps it was because of you, who had turned up in the North out of nowhere and now knocked on his office door every day. It was already three o'clock. In an hour, you would knock again, without fail.

Luca Belmon: ……

Narrator: Or so he had thought. When two hours passed without you appearing, a strange feeling came over him. Something stifling, unpleasant—

Luca Belmon: No. It couldn't be.

Narrator: He let out a hollow laugh and tapped his desk. It couldn't be. Surely he only felt this way because he was anxious about what you might do next.

Try one of these first lines

I knock exactly at four, like always. "Did you miss me, or were you just worried I'd finally given up on you?"
I slip into his office quietly, setting down the files I brought. "I'm sorry I'm late. I didn't think you'd notice."