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“…….”

Eden, who had been silent for a long time, raised his gaze from the table to look at Patricia.

It was the same look as on the day they first met in the Western Tower garden. The girl who had wrapped her dress tightly and aimed a sword at Eden’s neck. He couldn’t forget that moment, and didn’t.

Patrick had suggested that Eden, who had decided to go to Osborn on the Asor continent, transform into Otto and return to Tane. Eden chose the Karsic Empire. He was content just watching her from afar.

“If your secret is revealed to anyone, you must eliminate them or, if you can’t, take your own life.”

The Emperor had presented this condition for accepting him as a citizen of the Karsic Empire. Though he said “anyone,” Eden knew it was a warning not to meet Patricia.

He hadn’t expected Patricia to recognize him and seek him out so quickly. Eden was secretly pleased about that. Even if he had to pay the price for disobeying the Emperor’s warning.

As long as he was alive, until his last breath.

“Yes, I will do so.”

“Thank you.”

Even after finishing their tea, they spent time in silence. Occasionally, they gazed out the window at the lake.

They had spent countless nights moving through numerous battlefields. They were accustomed to spending long hours sitting side by side in silence.

In fact, Bern showed signs of impatience. No matter how he looked at Count Cabanian, he couldn’t see Lord Eden’s face. It was amazing how the Empress had recognized him when he looked like a completely different person.

Bern felt awkward and uneasy in their silence.

After coughing for the third time, Bern cautiously suggested to the Empress that they should return to the palace.

“I’ll go. When I give birth to the child next summer, please come to the palace to visit.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

The imperial carriage carrying Patricia and Bern on horseback galloped along the lakeshore, passing in front of Arteum.

Harchen stubbed out his cigar in the ashtray and stood up.

“Brother-in-law, shall I go with you?”

“It’s alright, I have a dinner appointment with Patricia in the salon, I must hurry. Calip!”

Harchen leapt over the terrace railing and mounted the black horse, Kan. Calip followed behind him.

She hadn’t come to Aster Palace until late last night. When he went to White Palace, the head maid reported that she had fallen asleep early, just like the previous day, due to fatigue.

Once could be understandable. But falling asleep early two nights in a row? Was she afraid to meet him after seeing Eden?

He drank Panian alone at Aster Palace without going to her bedroom.

With each sip of the strong liquor, he walked deeper into the abyss. As his unfounded imagination solidified into concrete betrayal, he watched himself being consumed.

A driveway was visible not far from the lakeshore. The Emperor rode straight down the gentle slope. The black double iron gates were wide open.

An administrator who had been instructing the cleaning of dust from statues in the corridor approached. Calip dismounted and announced the Emperor’s presence, and the administrator bowed respectfully.

“Where is the Count?”

“He is in the backyard, Your Majesty. Shall I show you inside?”

“No, I’ll go there.”

Harchen dismounted and walked through the corridor.

*

Eden stared intently at the unfinished sculpture.

Yesterday, Patricia had seen this sculpture here. He had watched her from the second-floor terrace window as she stood in front of the sculpture, caressing its cheek.

That was enough; this was as far as his love would go in this life.

He wanted to finish it and give it to her, but even that was his own selfish desire. It was fine to leave it incomplete, just like his love.

When the Emperor’s sword beheaded him, it would be good to recall her last image he had seen.

Her mysterious appearance, carrying a new life.

Eden spread a white cloth to cover the sculpture. As he took off his work gloves and turned around, he came face to face with the Emperor’s party coming around the stone wall.

The Emperor stopped in his tracks. Eden walked towards him, knelt on one knee, and paid his respects.

“Otto Cabanian greets Your Majesty, the blazing golden sun of Karsic.”

The Emperor, with an arrogant expression, asked in a cold voice:

“You met my Empress?”

Eden bowed his head a little lower.

“Yes.”

The Emperor frowned his beautiful eyebrows.

“I’ll give you one last chance. Take up your sword.”

Harchen said, unbuttoning his black uniform coat.

*

A sharp wind shattered the edge of the Kaosan ice wall. Ice fragments floated in the air, then met an unfamiliar current and fell as frost with a flutter.

Harchen and Eden stood facing each other, swords in their right hands. To Harchen’s right rear stood the swordsman Calip, and behind Eden stood Kin, both holding swords at the ready.

Ice fragments scattered between them as they passed by once.

Jet, a boy from the Ruken alley, hung from the second-floor terrace railing, swallowing nervously as he looked down at the tense backyard.

Cold, sharp ice crystals fell onto the boy’s shoulders. The warm-blooded boy from Tane raised his palm to catch the falling mysterious ice fragments.

Nine, standing in the center between the Emperor and Eden, threw a white glove upward. The glove soared towards the low-hanging clouds and stopped at a point.

Thud. The glove fell onto the finely packed yellow soil.

Clang, clang-clang.

Simultaneously, the sharp silver swords of the two swordsmen clashed fiercely in the air. Harchen’s sword struck down swiftly and heavily.

Clang-clang-clang. Eden’s sword parried the Emperor’s blows while maintaining distance. Blue sparks flew from the silver sword blades.

The two swords fiercely attacked and countered each other without giving an inch, probing for weaknesses.

Dark clouds swallowed the faint light, and ice fragments driven by strong winds frequently fell from the air.

As soon as the ice touched the shoulders and backs of the swiftly moving swordsmen above the honed blades, it melted from their heat.

The duel that began in the afternoon continued until the early winter sun set.

The clashing swords drew large circles as they grappled, then pushed each other away. Both swordsmen were forced back a couple of steps.

Tap-tap, Eden quickly turned his body and swung his sword fiercely. There was a metallic sound of cutting through the tense air.

The breath of those watching, which had been passionate, suddenly stopped.

Swish.

Eden’s sword grazed the Emperor’s right arm. The black uniform jacket on the Emperor’s right arm parted, revealing a white shirt quickly stained with blood. Red blood dripped onto the yellow soil.

“Gasp!”

The boy covered his mouth with both hands. He looked back and forth between the two assisting swordsmen with frightened eyes. They maintained their composure, watching the swords of the Emperor and Eden.

“Shall I stop the bleeding?”

“Never mind.”

Harchen glared at Eden for a moment with a stern expression. Eden tilted his sword and wiped the blood from the blade on his own thigh.

“Well, I guess we’re even for Tane now.”

The Emperor, originally left-handed, finally switched the sword to his left hand and shook his bleeding right arm.

Clang-clang-clang, clang, clang-clang.

He immediately attacked ferociously, as if a fierce beast had awakened. He slashed through the air violently, then struck Eden’s sword accurately, attacking the gaps in his armpit, shoulder, and side of his waist. His rain-soaked black uniform gleamed with his nimble movements.

Eden’s breathing became ragged as he exhaled hot breaths, and his damp body lost balance. Eden’s wrist bent as he defended against Harchen’s fierce downward strike. Then he swung Eden’s sword upward from below and swiftly brought it down again.

Crack, Eden’s sword blade was damaged. Sharp metal pieces flew off. Slash, a red line of blood was drawn on Eden’s right arm. Eden’s sword fell onto the wet underbrush.

The tip of the Emperor’s sword touched Eden’s Adam’s apple.

“Answer my questions truthfully.”

“As you command.”

“When Emperor Kazan aimed for my back, why didn’t you, as the assisting swordsman, respond with your sword?”

At the Emperor’s question, Calip and Kin also looked at Eden. Everyone was curious.

If Eden, who was the assisting swordsman to prevent foul play in duels, had blocked Emperor Kazan’s vile attack with his sword, it would have been self-defense and he wouldn’t have been punished. But he used an assassination dagger instead of a sword.

“The rondel dagger was bestowed upon me by Emperor Kazan to… kill the princess if her existence was discovered on the battlefield.”

“Ha! What…”

Harchen couldn’t help but laugh in disbelief. Following Calip, even Kin, who had remained unresponsive like a wall to everything, sighed and chuckled.

Kazan, whose internal organs were damaged by Eden’s dagger, had survived the crisis and was still alive, albeit relying on strong medicine.

“Today, what was your purpose in meeting my Empress?”

“I had no purpose.”

Harchen pressed the sword tip further against the Adam’s apple.

“It’s a significant event in my life.”

Patricia, a significant event in her life, he says.

“Did you make plans to run away with my Empress?”

Eden glared at the Emperor with narrowed crimson eyes. Surely a pregnant woman wouldn’t plan to flee with another man… Wait, does this Emperor not know about the pregnancy?

“Those insolent eyes, lower them and answer.”

“Her Majesty the Empress made two requests of me.”

“What were they?”

“One was to lead the swordsmanship department at a women’s specialized academy, which I declined.”

“And the other?”

Eden was certain that the Emperor didn’t know about the pregnancy. He wanted to tell him to hear it directly from Patricia, but the Emperor’s state was dangerous.

Blinded by jealousy. He looked ready to pierce Eden’s throat if he didn’t confess.

“It was a request to become the knight of Your Majesty’s first child, who will be born next summer.”

Patricia hadn’t specifically said “the Emperor’s child.” But Eden phrased it that way. If he had just said “the child,” the unhinged Emperor might have imagined something else.

For an Emperor who had lost his cool judgment and was ready to shed blood over trifles due to jealousy, that was the answer.

“Haa.”

The Emperor lowered his sword from Eden’s neck. The Emperor’s hand trembled. Eden smiled, raising the corner of his mouth. That hand had never wavered even in life-or-death duels.

“Calip, repeat what this bastard just said.”

Calip approached the Emperor and replied.

“It seems that next summer, Her Majesty the Empress will give birth to Your Majesty’s baby.”

Calip quickly used a prepared string to stop the bleeding on the Emperor’s right arm. Harchen pushed Calip away.

“It’s a significant event in my life.”

Harchen turned abruptly and walked quickly towards his warhorse, Kan. Calip looked back at Eden and shrugged. After shaking hands, he turned and ran to catch up with the Emperor.

As they descended the stairs at the end of the corridor, ice fragments fell from the sky.

Harchen tried to mount Kan, disregarding the ice pieces falling on his wound. But he lost his grip on the reins, and his raised foot slipped on Kan’s wet back.

“My lord.”

Calip ran forward and caught the Emperor.

“Haha, Calip. Did you hear? The Empress, Patricia is pregnant. My baby is going to be born, right? This is crazy, haha.”

Harchen laughed so much that he lost his breath and couldn’t put strength in his hands.

“Your Majesty, I think it would be best to pretend not to know until Her Majesty the Empress tells you herself.”

“Hahaha, I will. Calip, but I can’t keep my mouth shut. How am I going to hide this?”

Kan, carrying Harchen, slid down the wet slope. As they entered the flat lakeshore, the black horse galloped faster than the falling frost.

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The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)

Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.

The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”

Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!

Warnings:

  • Male pregnancy.
  • Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
  • Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.

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