Only trained individuals among humans and beastmen could skillfully deal with these monsters. They must have been terribly scared to come face to face with such a monster. But…
‘Why do they seem to be more afraid of me than the monster…?’
It didn’t seem like it was just my imagination. I wore a bitter smile on my face. The passerby who was stealing glances at me averted his gaze in surprise when our eyes met, trembling all over his body.
“But, aren’t you Duke Salisbury?”
“Yes.”
Grayan responded to the passerby’s question in a calm tone. Then the passerby, who had taken a glance at me and swallowed his saliva nervously, opened his mouth again.
“But, she is… Ah, certainly Princess Gloria of Ainstern Kingdom, how come you two are together…?”
It seemed that the news of Gloria and Grayan’s marriage had not reached this village.
Grayan, who glanced at me, smiled faintly and answered in a slightly softer tone.
“She’s the one I married.”
“What…? Marriage…?”
The passerby, who seemed incredulous, looked back and forth between me and Grayan in a daze.
The passerby then muttered, “How could that be possible…?” as if he had completely forgotten about me because of the shock.
The knights were discreetly watching me, but I was fine. I am getting used to someone being afraid of Gloria or hating her…
“We will take you to the village. We have business there, too.”
“Huh? You have business in our village? What, what kind of business…?”
The passerby, surprised at Grayan’s words, stuttered.
Richard and Bill helped the passerby up, and Grayan returned to his unaffected tone and said.
“Don’t worry, we’re here to help.”
So, a little later, we arrived at the village with the passerby.
“Ah, Dad!”
“Gah! It’s Princess Gloria!”
“What? Really?”
“Is she here to harass our village again…?!”
“Shh! She can hear you!”
I’ve already heard everything. Gloria has committed many sins. I looked off into the distance with a lonely expression. Ah, I need a drink.
“Daddy!”
“My daughter…!”
It seems the passerby was a parent, he was reunited with his daughter, who appeared to be his child.
The child appeared to be about five years old, but there was no one who looked like her mother around.
When the child started complaining that she was hungry, the passerby choked back a sob with a sorry look on his face. Seeing this, I felt a lump in my throat as well.
Somehow, looking around the village gave me a poignant feeling. The view of the village, which I couldn’t even call poor, came into my eyes one after another.
Fields that seemed to have been abandoned for a long time due to drought, dried up river and withering trees, people with thin bodies in wornout clothes…
‘This is… too serious.’
Seeing the sight that was more serious than I had imagined, my heart shook, even though it was not my fault.
All because of Gloria’s misdeeds.
“How did this village get into such a serious drought?”
“That’s because of that Princess Gloria”
“I know that already. I was asking about the process. Normally, such a drought cannot occur.”
On one side, Grayan was having a conversation with the villagers. I glanced at him, but somehow I found it hard to lift my head and lowered my gaze.
Then, looking up at me, the little April in my arms let out a small cry.
“Keung….”
It was as if she was asking if I was okay. She comforted me in a situation where it wouldn’t be strange if everyone blamed me. She was truly a kind rabbit.
I whispered, petting her head and ears.
“Thank you. April, you are really kind.”
“Nang…!”
April grabbed the hem of my clothes tightly with her two front paws. I pulled April a little closer and hugged her, bowing my head and closing my eyes.
Voices of lament from the villagers towards Grayan Salisbury Duke kept coming.
“The drought in the village is due to the sorcerer brought by Princess Gloria Ainstern.”
“A sorcerer?”
A sorcerer was an existence similar to a wizard yet different. If a wizard used magical formulas and magic stones and had a strong academic research character, a sorcerer had a strong shamanic character who performed rituals or curses instinctively.
Above all, it was known that sorcerers communicated with spirits through natural materials such as old tree branches.
If such a sorcerer had brought drought to the land, the only method that came to mind was one.
‘Using evil spirits to curse the land.’
Was this method in the original…
…Did it come out?
“……?”
What was it? I was confused whether it was in the original or not.
It must have been in the original. Otherwise, I wouldn’t remember it in such detail.
But, I can’t remember which episode it came from.
‘It’s a little weird.’
“We don’t know the details, but that sorcerer used strange methods, and from that day on, the fields and rivers in the village began to dry up. And eventually, it came to this…”
“What exactly did the sorcerer do?”
“That’s… my memory… ah! It was truly monstrous, waving something like a black tree branch and performing something similar to a dance.”
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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