Prologue, The male protagonist I raised with great effort proposed to me

“Please marry me, teacher.”

“……What?”

Sian stared at Theodore, looking utterly bewildered.

There wasn’t a hint of shadow on Theodore’s face, who was smiling brightly in front of him.

‘What did he just say?’

Sian belatedly considered what Theodore had said.

Marry him? A proposal? Was he proposing to him right now?

……The male lead of the original novel?

Confused, Sian remained speechless.

That’s because, even though he had imagined this scene countless times over the past few years, he had never once considered this happening.

“You said you would marry me.”

“No, that’s……”

That was when Theodore was much younger. Sian’s head was still complex and confused.

His eyes examined Theodore’s face and body, which had grown so handsomely.

Theodore Len Kailos. The male lead of the original novel.

If his guess was correct, by now, he would have become the emperor of the Kailos Empire, the largest nation on the Inchamber Continent.

Theodore, whom he first met, was small and weak. The child he simply wanted to protect had undergone an amazing growth and was now standing before Sian. But the smiling face was exactly the same as before.

The beautiful face that was softly smiling stared intently at the stiffened Sian.

“Now, please keep your promise.”

“Hey, promise?”

“Yes, please go back and become my bride.”

“……!”

Hearing those words, Sian’s mind cleared. This wasn’t something he should be hearing.

‘The female lead?’

Sian quickly turned his head. He looked for the person who should be in front of Theodore. Someone came into his desperate eyes.

‘There she is. The female lead!’

Yurina Dane, the female lead of the original novel. Theodore, the male lead, should be proposing to her, not him, after slaying the evil dragon.

“Congratulations, Your Majesty Emperor Theodore, and Sian!”

“……?”

As their eyes met, Yurina smiled brightly as if she had been waiting and shouted.

Sian was shocked as if he had been struck by lightning. Yurina bowed gracefully towards Theodore and continued speaking.

“Please do not forget the loyalty of our Dane Merchant Group.”

“Alright. I will remember.”

“It’s an honor!”

“……!”

Sian knew that Yurina, the female lead, was a rather materialistic character, contrary to her appearance. But it was a different feeling knowing it in his head and seeing it directly.

Sian was greatly shocked by the conversation between the male lead and the female lead, who were proceeding with the story without including him.

It felt as if a huge pillar that had been supporting his world had collapsed.

This couldn’t be happening. This couldn’t be……. According to the original work, the current situation should be a scene where the male lead, who had defeated the evil dragon, was proposing to the female lead in a cool way.

But why was Theodore proposing to someone else?

“Wait, just a moment. Theo…… no, Theodore. This is somehow wrong……”

“I’ve been waiting for this moment.”

“What……?”

Thud, Theodore knelt on one knee in front of Sian. Then, a scene came to Sian’s mind.

「I’ve been waiting for this moment.」

「Theodore…….」

「I love you, Yurina. Please spend the rest of your life with me.」

As the evil dragon died, flowers bloomed from the purified tree and began to scatter around. That was the last scene of the second part of the original novel.

And the exact same scene unfolded before Sian’s eyes. Only, the characters were slightly different.

“I love you, Sian. Please spend the rest of your life with me.”

“……!”

Theodore’s obsessive voice ensnared Sian. He couldn’t move his body for some reason, and Sian widened his eyes.

As if a trick of fate, petals fell from the sky. The flowering tree that Sian and the Dark Elves had painstakingly cultivated in the land of death had bloomed right now.

How did this happen?

He was just trying to raise the male lead well and be rewarded.

Sian pressed his throbbing head and began to reflect on the past.