In that moment, Kasha exuded a dignity that was hard to find in someone who had just come of age.
The piercing moments of betrayal and pain that Malik, Camilla, and Matthias had experienced. Understanding and compassion sparkled in her eyes as if she had already experienced it herself.
“Fate is certainly strong. But we are never… helpless beings in the face of it. I know. I know that I can change fate.”
Her voice was filled with certainty. In a way that no one could dare refute.
Having finished speaking, she turned to look at Leon.
“So… I can’t give up on Sir Leon. This person is not Camilla’s daughter, but the best thing in my life that Kasha Lyuschino chose for herself and finally obtained.”
Once again, silence flowed. However, not caring at all, Leon’s gaze eventually wavered at Kasha’s gaze that looked at him as if to persuade herself, and he slowly raised his head to face her.
All that filled his vision was Kasha’s face alone. His mind, which had been turned into a pulp by indescribable emotions, gradually calmed down.
Leon, who had been staring into her eyes, reached out at some point. He sought out her small, white hand that was still clenched into a fist and grasped it tightly.
Each other’s warmth is exchanged.
‘Right. I almost forgot.’
Leon thought.
I almost forgot again what’s most important.
A tense resolve was once again reflected on his face. Leon, who had regained his usual clear eyes, opened his mouth.
“If you say so, Kasha, then it must be so.”
He slowly continued, turning to Malik.
“I will not run away from all the sins my father has committed.”
“……”
“Even at this very moment, he must be increasing his sins. I will make sure he pays the price for all the wrongs he has done. I will make it happen with my own hands. And….”
He gripped Kasha’s hand tighter.
“For all the privileges I have received as his child… I will repay them by dedicating my life to Kasha and living for her.”
His gaze, so blatant and blind that it made the listener blush, never left Kasha.
“If what she wants is revenge, I will bring it to her feet, and if she asks for my life, I will gladly give it to her.”
“……”
“If you wish, I will swear by the gods.”
As if dumbfounded, Malik only moved his lips.
He thought that once Kasha learned of the enmity between Grand Duke Osilote and Camilla, she would easily give up her feelings for him.
But contrary to expectations, Kasha called him ‘the best thing in my life’ without a moment’s hesitation. And she looked at him as if she truly meant it.
Kasha, who had been smiling faintly at Leon, suddenly turned to Malik.
“I am a different person from my mother, Count. And… Leon is not Grand Duke Osilote either. So don’t try to find those two people in us.”
“Kasha.”
“Of course, I’m not saying I’m going to forget or cover up the past. I will remember all those who were sacrificed because of this. I will make sure those who committed the sins pay the price. And… maybe some of them are already paying the price.”
Malik, who had been listening to her words, tilted his head.
“Already paying the price? What do you mean by that?”
Kasha glanced at Leon with a thoughtful expression. Then, as if finally making up her mind, she opened her mouth.
“Leon’s father, Grand Duke Osilote. That person, he may have… been exposed to the curse of one of the missing Mana Stones.”
Leon and Malik, who had been listening to her calmly continuing words, were startled.
“Mana Stones?”
“What do you mean by curse?”
Looking alternately at the two surprised men, Kasha calmly continued her explanation.
“Grand Duke Osilote has recently… been suffering from madness. He shows vulgar speech and violent behavior that are different from usual, and even engages in words and actions that… may threaten his own life.”
“Is that true?”
Malik asked Leon, who had been listening intently to Kasha’s words.
“…Yes. He’s too young to be senile and his body is healthy. There’s no clear reason why he suddenly became like that, but his condition rapidly deteriorated at some point.”
“That can’t be. But there’s no evidence that it’s caused by a Mana Stone, is there?”
At Malik’s reasonable point, Kasha stared at Leon’s hand holding hers.
Recalling that it took tremendous courage and boldness to hold that hand just three months ago.
“Even Sir Leon here was a victim of the curse of one of the Mana Stones. Fortunately, he’s free from it now.”
“What, even Sir Leon? What kind of curse are you talking about?”
At Malik’s question filled with shock and curiosity, Kasha rolled her eyes for a moment.
She judged that it would not be beneficial to reveal the fact that Leon had been caught in the ‘Curse of Lust’ in the current situation. Leon also avoided Malik’s gaze as if troubled.
“…I’ll tell you about that later. Anyway, Sir Leon suffered from the curse for nearly a year. And that’s not all. Leon’s sister, Eve, was also kidnapped recently and almost became a sacrifice to a Mana Stone.”
“Is that really true?”
“Yes.”
“That’s surprising, but those things can’t be evidence that Grand Duke Osilote is also under the curse of a Mana Stone, can they?”
As Malik expressed his doubts again, Kasha closed her eyes for a moment and slowly opened them.
Her bright pink eyes, sparkling between her long, thin eyelashes, looked at him with clear conviction.
“It can serve as a kind of circumstantial evidence. That the one who cast the curse has a great grudge against the Osilote family.”
“Someone who has a grudge against the Osilote family?”
“At the same time, a member of the imperial family who can access information about the Mana Stones, which were the legacy of the Gilessus dynasty.”
“……!”
“It’s none other than Crown Prince Nigel.”
Hearing her unrestrained statement, Malik was unable to continue speaking as if he was flustered.
Leon was equally surprised. He also suspected Crown Prince Nigel of being behind the curse and had even directly asked Kasha about him. But at that time, Kasha did not give him a definite answer.
“Kasha. Is there a reason you’ve become so certain?”
At Leon’s question, Kasha slowly nodded.
“Yes. Because of what just happened, I finally became convinced.”
“Just now?”
Leon’s platinum eyebrows twitched.
Could it be that she’s referring to the incident where the assailants tried to kidnap Kasha just now?
“Are you saying those men were assassins sent by the Crown Prince?”
“That’s right. To be precise… they weren’t assassins, but knights of the Imperial Knights.”
Kasha answered without hesitation.
“Is that true?”
“Really?”
Leon and Malik stood up from their seats at the same time.
“It’s true, definitely.”
Unlike them who were excited, Kasha remained calm.
“Kasha. How did you know that?”
“The one who grabbed my hair… I’ve seen his face before.”
“Where?”
“Where did you see that bastard, Kasha?”
Leon and Malik asked one after another.
Kasha breathed heavily. The memories from before the regression vividly came to mind, suddenly making her breathing ragged.
‘Katiana Lyuschino, the villainess, surrender to be arrested by the order of His Highness the Crown Prince!’
‘If we take this wretch’s head, His Highness the Crown Prince will reward us greatly. She’s dangerous, but if we swarm her all at once, we have a chance!’
Before the regression, the commander of the Imperial Knights who had barged into the Wanua Shrine where she was hiding with Leon.
Kasha clearly remembered the complacent face of the man who had arrested her, dragged her away, and even severed Leon’s lifeline.
It was definitely him. The leader of those masked men who had tried to kidnap her just now and lost their lives at Leon’s hands.
Kasha took a long time to catch her breath and finally managed to speak.
“I’ve seen his face before. Those people… who tried to harm me on the Crown Prince’s orders, on a past day.”
It was a confession that she had to roughly lump together because she couldn’t reveal the truth as it was in front of Count Lyuschino, who didn’t know she had regressed.
However, Leon seemed to have read the truth in her fear-stricken eyes.
Holding her hand, Leon’s shoulders heaved heavily. As if he was barely restraining the desire to rush out and slay someone right away.
At that moment, Malik, whose face was as gloomy as Leon’s, clenched both fists and growled.
“Did the Crown Prince really make such an attempt? That baby-faced xxx…”
Malik’s face gradually turned crimson. Somehow, he seemed even more agitated than when he was recounting his terrible past.
“While I’m working day and night to protect the borders of my country, that bastard dares to try to harm my daughter? He’s an xxx who wouldn’t be satisfying even if I shoved his head into a monster’s mouth and xxx him…”
His language was rough, befitting someone who had spent his entire life on the battlefield, but Kasha was more concerned about the word ‘my daughter’ than the curses he uttered.
There was not the slightest sense of discomfort in that word that came from the mouth of that simple and unadorned man. As if it just revealed his usual thoughts and feelings.
Suddenly, she had a thought.
Kasha herself had no resemblance to Malik or Daril to an astonishingly miraculous degree. So what was the reason she had never doubted the fact that he was her biological father until now?
‘That’s it.’
On that day when she became a perfect loner at the age of twelve. The gloomy-faced noble man who appeared in front of her as she sat in front of her mother’s grave as if she had gone mad.
The moment he saw her, she could just tell from his collapsing gaze.
That he had been searching for her for a very long time.
Suddenly, Kasha spoke to the agitated Malik.
“So, let’s focus on the enemy in front of us now. If we do that, we’ll be able to take revenge all at once on the enemies of my biological father and mother, the nameless souls of Alyosha and Gilenua, and… those who have made my father suffer years of disgrace.”
“Yes, of course we should. Of course… Wait, what did you just say?”
Malik, who had been punching the air, suddenly faltered as if he was broken.
“But just now… what did you call me, Kasha?”
Kasha’s eyes, which had been blinking for a moment as if bewildered, gently met his gaze.
“Father.”
“……!”
Malik Lyuschino, the guardian of the north, the Red Bull, froze on the spot as if struck by lightning.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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