Upon hearing that, Zen seemed to perk up and grinned from ear to ear.
“You know, I now understand something.”
“Huh? What is it?”
“Love!”
“What’s that…, ah.”
Zen, who had been the only one to not understand the meaning when Duke Bellion had asked about love, came to mind. Remembering this, Delina affectionately stroked Zen’s hair.
“It seems you learned it from Betty. Well done.”
“Yes!”
“Take care while you’re in the mountains. You understand?”
“Yes!”
Zen simply nodded his head repeatedly, seeming content. Watching him, Delina also broke into a broad smile.
“……Thus, the two also went their separate ways for training.”
In Duke Bellion’s office, Duke Bellion was receiving a report from Felik.
“The other three have also left. A letter just arrived.”
Precisely, it was from their guardians. The letter said not to worry as they had arrived safely.
“I see.”
Duke Bellion responded briefly, and Felik ended the conversation.
“Ah, and about the sword Your Highness gave this time. Kallick… my lord, you gave a dagger to the young lady, I hear.”
“It doesn’t matter. The owner of the sword is Kallick.”
Duke Bellion responded indifferently. However, Felick was smiling.
“But, as far as I know, the original sword given to the heir of the Ulphrim Duke family is a longsword. Is there a reason you made both a longsword and a dagger this time?”
“……”
“And the reason you specifically said it would be fine to give the dagger to anyone else if my lord doesn’t need it is…”
“Next report.”
“Yes. Understood.”
Though he asked, Felick knew the reason.
‘It must have been hard to give it openly since the sword is originally only given to the family heir.’
If she knew, Delina would undoubtedly feel burdened and decline. Realizing Duke Bellion’s true intentions, Felick had to restrain his upwardly curling lips by pulling a document close to his face.
“Um, may I come in?”
Just then, Delina peeked her head in and looked inside the office. Both Felick and Duke Bellion’s eyes turned toward her.
“What is it?”
“Your Highness, there’s something I’d like to ask of you.”
Delina then approached Duke Bellion and spoke with a rather serious expression.
“Please train me as well.”
“……”
“Be it swordsmanship, hand-to-hand combat, anything is fine. I want to become stronger.”
‘I also need to grow.’
Each of us was striving to go our own way, and I too needed to become stronger. For that, I needed to make an effort. And right before me was a teacher better than anyone else.
“Of course, I’m like this now, but if you teach me, I’ll learn anything diligently.”
The crisis of the Empire was not yet over. The crisis for the children had just passed its first stage, and an endless threat still existed. To fight against them, I too had to prepare.
“Please.”
“……”
Duke Bellion was silent for a moment after hearing Delina’s words. Then Delina hastily added,
“Of course, I won’t be as good as the other children you’ve taught, but I also…”
“Okay.”
“……Pardon?”
“I’ll teach you.”
Delina had a surprised expression upon hearing Duke Bellion’s immediate approval, for which she had braced herself to hear a refusal.
“Shall we go right now then?”
“Now?”
“Or not.”
“No, let’s go, let’s go.”
Delina readily agreed. As Duke Bellion rose from his seat and moved, Delina followed him. All the while, her face expressed awe.
“I’m not only doing this to train, right?”
“Right now, that would be better.”
“……That makes sense.”
“But you should be able to subdue men.”
“……?”
The purpose of the training seemed a bit odd, but Delina was purely pleased to be able to train this way. As she walked alongside Duke Bellion, Delina made various comments.
“I also want to learn how to use a dagger. Ah, and throwing as well. It might be good to learn other physical skills too.”
“For performances?”
“Um… I hope there won’t be such instances anymore, but just in case.”
“Don’t do it in the palace. It attracts weird people.”
“Yes, I’d rather not if I can avoid it.”
Contrary to their initially tense meeting, Duke Bellion and Delina were now conversing and walking as naturally as anyone could. Looking at the backs of these two, Felix smiled contentedly.
My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
*
Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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