The Possessed Extra is a Scammer - Chapter 1

“Oh, my lovely fiancée!”

As I opened the door to the drawing room, a man approached me with a wink.

‘What’s with this guy? And what’s this fiancée business?’

Why is he coming so close?

“The time has finally come.”

What time…

I can see the stains on your shirt collar, but that’s not what you’re talking about, is it?

“What do you mean? Could you explain in detail……”

“Oh my. I’m sorry, I skipped the explanation in my excitement.”

The man winked again, uncomfortably.

“Espin, you know that I fled to this Lumenia Empire due to internal strife over the succession issue in the Arcadia Kingdom, right?”

How would I know? I just found out that this body’s name is Espin.

It’s been two days since I opened my eyes in this body.

To be precise, 26 hours have passed now.

I don’t even know who I am, so there’s no way I would know about this man’s circumstances.

‘I don’t know. In times like these, just smile.’

I responded with an ambiguous smile instead of an answer.

“Now I hear the internal strife has been somewhat resolved. So my father, the King of Arcadia, is going to officially name me as the heir.”

“The official heir?”

So you’re saying you’re a prince?

Well, I don’t know what kind of novel I’ve entered, but shouldn’t a prince be guaranteed to be handsome…

But the man in front of me was too ordinary.

Clothes made of high-quality material, but ill-fitting on the man.

Shoes made of leather, but quite worn at the bottom.

And hair slicked up with some strange oil, looking quite greasy.

His appearance showed no trace of princely elegance.

Well, whether this man is a prince or not, what does it matter to me?

“Congratulations.”

“Now we just need to go to the kingdom and think about our happy future.”

“We… we……”

“Yes, us. We just need to go to the kingdom together. Then Espin will soon become the queen of the Arcadia Kingdom.”

Thump. My heart dropped at the man’s words.

It wasn’t a heart-fluttering thump from receiving a romantic proposal, but a thump from the bolt from the blue news.

Do I have to marry this man?

So that ‘fiancée’ I heard earlier wasn’t a mishearing, but actually meant fiancée?

I couldn’t believe it. No, I didn’t want to believe it.

“Will you come with me to the Arcadia Kingdom, leaving this prison-like family?”

Sebastian raised his eyebrows with a greasy expression.

“This prison-like family?”

The maids were unkind, but to me who had lived an ordinary life in South Korea, it didn’t seem that much like a prison.

“Espin, you told me. That you wanted to leave this prison-like family.”

“Ah, yes….”

“Now, let’s go together.”

No. Absolutely not.

I almost blurted that out instinctively. Staying with the unkind maids seemed better than following this man.

‘Let’s just say I understand for now and later say I don’t want to go after seeing the situation.’

I nodded vaguely.

“Espin. In the Arcadia Kingdom, you can become a queen loved by everyone.”

“Yes. I’m looking forward to it.”

“You should look forward to it.”

Sebastian showed a satisfied smile and winked at me again.

‘That’s not a wink. It must be an eye twitch due to magnesium deficiency.’

Thinking that, I tried hard to endure his uncomfortable wink.

“Ahem… But Espin.”

Suddenly, Sebastian lowered his voice.

“There’s one problem.”

“What problem?”

“The internal strife isn’t completely resolved, so there might still be people aiming for my life. If they find out I’m going to the Arcadia Kingdom, they’ll target me…”

With a worried expression, Sebastian continued.

“To deceive such people and safely arrive at the Arcadia royal palace, I need a fake identity.”

“I see.”

I hope you handle it well on your own.

I nodded halfheartedly to words that had nothing to do with me.

“So, Espin. Could Count Leon possibly be a guarantor for my fake identity?”

“What? A guarantor?”

Guarantor.

Just that one word made my voice rise irritably without me realizing it.

“I see. It would be difficult since the Count doesn’t know about our relationship yet.”

Sebastian dropped his head, seemingly disappointed.

“My current identity has already been exposed, and without a new fake identity, it’ll be hard to return to the kingdom…”

“Still, you need to find a new way.”

“Hmm. So I thought of a new method. Espin, could you possibly bring the Count’s seal for a moment?”

“The seal?”

“Just for a moment. I’ll use it only to create a new identity and return it right away.”

“……”

“And if Espin can prepare the money I mentioned last time, we can leave right away. To the Arcadia Kingdom.”

Facing his cloudy eyes and the two words ‘seal’, at that moment I realized.

What kind of novel this was, and who the owner of this body was.

< I Was a Commoner, But Now I’m a Noble Lady?>

A romance fantasy novel where the female protagonist, who thought she was a commoner, turns out to be the daughter of a noble lady, and Chloe, the female protagonist who learns this fact, enters the Duke’s family. It’s about the love triangle between the Crown Prince and the Grand Duke who fall in love with Chloe, who doesn’t give in despite being bullied by nobles for being the Duke’s illegitimate child.

This world was inside that novel.

And the owner of this body was Espin Leon.

She was the half-sibling of the female protagonist and a friend of Flaria Ameron, the villainess who envies her, just a passing extra.

The reason I remember such an insignificant extra so precisely is just one.

‘Because she’s like me.’

Espin was known as a pushover in the novel.

She falls in love with a man who deceives her by claiming to be a prince of some kingdom, and for him, she hands over her family’s seal and money.

But unfortunately, the man was a con artist, and because of this incident, Espin became known as a pushover in high society.

Even after that, Espin is scammed several times, losing a large portion of her family’s fortune, and eventually gets kicked out of the family, meeting a miserable end.

‘Being naively scammed was just like me.’

How angry I was seeing Espin, who resembled me losing all my assets after being deceived by the one friend I thought I had.

‘Come to think of it, even the miserable end is the same.’

Perhaps it wasn’t a coincidence that I entered Espin’s body.

Especially considering that I was transmigrated at this very moment when the man in front of me was trying to scam Espin.

“Espin? Are you listening to me?”

“Ah, yes.”

He was shaking his leg, seemingly anxious.

I don’t know how he managed to pull off scams when he’s so obvious.

Holding back the laughter that was about to burst out, I continued speaking.

“If I have that seal, can I become the queen of the Arcadia Kingdom?”

“Of course. I’ll make you the happiest woman in the kingdom, no, in this world.”

“Really?”

“Yes. Can you bring it?”

“Yes. I’ll try to bring it somehow. For Sebastian.”

“Really?”

“Of course.”

“As expected, only Espin can do this.”

Sebastian added with an excited voice.

“Oh, and I mentioned last time that I needed money for the dowry.”

“How much was it exactly?”

“50,000 litas in imperial currency. The Arcadia Kingdom has a strong dowry culture.”

“50,000 litas?”

“Yes. It’s quite a large amount. Is it difficult for you?”

“Not at all. Of course, I should prepare it. It’s for our marriage dowry after all.”

Sebastian couldn’t hide his joyful smile, biting his lips tightly to hold back his laughter.

‘Jiwoo had exactly that expression.’

Back then, I didn’t realize I was being scammed so I didn’t notice, but now I could tell. The expression of a scammer on the verge of success.

And what did Jiwoo say again?

“Sol, I’ll definitely repay this favor. I don’t know how lucky I am to have a friend like you.”

With those final words, Jiwoo cut off all contact.

“Espin, I will repay this favor twice, no, three times over.”

‘Wow, even this line is exactly the same.’

It seemed scammers in this world and the other world had something in common.

‘Such scammers should experience being scammed themselves.’

At that moment, I had an epiphany as if I’d been hit on the back of the head.

Could this perhaps be God giving an opportunity to me who died miserably?

It might be God’s will that I, who died unfairly after being scammed by a friend, was possessed by this novel’s Espin Leon of all people.

‘Yes, in this life, I won’t just be a victim.’

I’ll scam the scammers first.

They need to know what it feels like to be scammed by a scammer too, right?