“What shall we do, Your Grace? We have a guest room, but you are pursued by a scoundrel. Shall we lock him in the barn?”
After receiving Michael’s apology and sighing in the Duke’s office, which is now my office, the butler came to me with a passionate plea.
He almost worshipped me as a hero, having heard my story about bringing holy water from the shrine ‘for us.’
“Look, Patrick, you seem to forget that the blondhaired handsome man is the best knight in this country, and you speak too carelessly.”
“Didn’t Your Grace say the Pope is worse than rotten maggots? Then knights are below, rotten worms…… Uhoh!”
Michael, who had been standing outside the office all along, shot a ghostly blue glare through the open door. I immediately shut the butler’s mouth.
“Uh.”
“……Butler, you may leave.”
“Yes, sir!”
With Patrick fleeing, Michael opened the office door and looked at me.
Expecting some protest, he surprised me with a request.
“……In this case, I would like to request to stay at Duke Keaton’s house for one night.”
‘It’s difficult to go back now.’
Even for a knight renowned for his talents, breaking through the swarming zombies to return to the shrine alone was difficult.
Going out into the streets alone in this situation would be tantamount to suicide.
“Does that mean you’ll go straight back to the shrine tomorrow?”
“I must. Those zombies you spoke of could harm innocent imperial citizens, so shouldn’t I cooperate with the priests at the shrine to exterminate them?”
A typical response for a knight who has lived an upright and serious life.
But Michael was also a fool who knew one thing but not another.
“Then you shouldn’t go back.”
“……Why not?”
“Because nobody at the shrine will take off their shoes like you to save the imperial people.”
“……What do you mean?”
At my answer, Michael’s expression hardened.
“You know the Pope, no, let’s just call him the Pope. You’ve seen his behavior, so you know that the shrine won’t stand up for the weak.”
“…….”
Mentioning the Pope, Michael closed his mouth.
‘If the water above is dirty, a clean man like Michael wouldn’t know.’
The fact that the Pope’s intentions were dirty was something Michael, who had been in the shrine for a long time, would know better.
The fact that he could not even utter the word ‘blasphemy’ and tightly closed his eyes was proof.
I fired another direct hit at him, unable to continue speaking.
“You won’t gain anything by going to the shrine. You said you were looking for fellow priests? Those people probably ran away with the Pope, just to save themselves.”
“……That won’t be the case. My fellow knights would never agree to such a selfish decision.”
Quick to assess the situation, Michael seemed to pin his last hope on his colleagues.
“There must have been a disagreement in the temple, so they couldn’t have moved to another place yet. If we go to the temple now, my colleagues will…….”
“Hey, Mr. Mihail.”
Unable to bear it, I cut him off midsentence.
“……What is it?”
“Isn’t it strange? Despite being the strongest Holy Knight, no one came looking for you, even though you didn’t return to the temple this late at night.”
“……!”
At my words, Mihail’s face turned pale.
“I said it in front of the Pope. The holy water is effective in chasing zombies.”
Upon hearing this news, the Pope was immediately satisfied, believing that the holy power had lethal force against zombies.
‘In reality, it only paralyzes zombies.’
But not knowing this fact, the priests and Holy Knights with holy power were the equivalent of the current best forces.
In other words, the strongest Holy Knight, Mihail, was a valuable asset in this situation where zombies were rampant.
“Then why is no one coming to look for you? If you have as much power as you do, it would definitely be advantageous to survive.”
The answer was simple.
“The temple has abandoned you, Mihail.”
The commander of the Holy Knights, Mihail, who pursued virtue and justice and lived only uprightly.
Seeing him get caught up in teleportation magic and disappear, the Pope must have felt justified.
‘How great it must have been. Now that Mihail, who has a strong position to stop the Pope’s agitation, has disappeared.’
Even if there was someone who opposed running away, saying this would have been enough.
Then why isn’t Sir Mihail returning?
If he was alive, shouldn’t he have naturally returned to the temple?
If not, then he must have died, but what can we do if even a strong Holy Knight like Mihail has died?
‘First, we have to survive to plan the future of this empire……. Well, they must have spouted such nonsense.’
But the priests and Holy Knights of the temple must have been shaken by the Pope’s words.
Whether Mihail was alive or dead, the Pope’s words themselves would have been terrifying to them.
Bowing conscience temporarily in front of the instinct to live was not a difficult task.
“It won’t be. No, it must not be!”
To Mihail, who denied reality, I whispered cruelly.
“Accept and recognize the reality. You’ve been left behind.”
“…….”
“You’ve been abandoned in the Duke’s estate with me, whom you hate to death.”
In the middle of this capital, where zombies are lurking.
Top Celebrity Younger Brother Bears Her Child (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: Forced to live stream romance with a top celebrity in a female-dominant world.
Yan Jin transmigrated into a brothel, with a fellow transmigrated junior beside her.
Hearing the obscene words coming from outside, the unfortunate junior covered his ears tightly, his cheeks flushed red, and whispered to comfort her, “Don’t worry, I will definitely help you escape.”
“Don’t worry, I will definitely defend your chastity.” Yan Jin looked at the flawless and delicate features of the unfortunate junior and gently comforted, “Because we have transmigrated into a female-dominant world.”
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Top celebrity Yu Shu suddenly fell into a coma during a concert.
Research scientist Yan Jin fainted in the lab after working overtime.
Two people with no connection were rushed to the same hospital.
Three days later, neither of them had woken up.
Suddenly, the entire nation discovered that a live streaming app had been forcibly installed on their phones.
Upon opening it, they heard the two discussing how to escape from the brothel.
The entire internet was in an uproar.
After the two successfully escaped from the brothel, Yu Shu’s fan group rushed to make a banner and sent it to the hospital overnight.
“Big sister bravely took action to defend the chastity of our idol!”
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When Yu Shu was diagnosed with pregnancy, Yan Jin stared at his belly for a long time.
Covering his stomach, he muttered gloomily, “If you don’t like it, I’ll go get an abortion.”
“It’s not that I don’t like it.” Yan Jin hugged Yu Shu and said softly, “I just feel like I’m not human.”
Yu Shu comforted Yan Jin, “I was already an adult when we got together.”
Yan Jin hesitated, “But you won’t be of legal marriageable age even after giving birth to the child.”
At the same time, a flood of bullet comments appeared in the live streaming room that the two couldn’t see.
[Although it’s inappropriate, I also want a young and handsome boyfriend to have my child.]
①Male pregnancy (highlighted)
The female lead is five years older than the male lead, and the male lead is already an adult when he appears.
