I clasped Zero’s small body with both hands and reassured him with a gentle voice.
“I’m unharmed.”
“…You’re really the worst.”
Soft wings, as smooth as silk, brushed over Zero’s fluffy fur. Touching those wings made the life-threatening danger I had just experienced feel less real.
In truth, I wondered if I wasn’t dreaming, entertained by a vague thought.
“Well, since you’re not dead, I guess it’s fine.”
While muttering and touching the wings, I felt the reality more vividly than the life-threatening moment I had just faced.
Zero, who had been grumbling, pulled something out of his hat. It was a qualification certificate, only as big as a human palm. The sight of pulling out a qualification larger than his body from a smaller hat looked amusing, and I burst into laughter, relieved.
On the certificate, golden letters clearly stated, “Skill Tree for the Saintess to Save the World – Mastery of Sacred Power.”
“Now, swallow this quickly!”
“S-Swallow it?”
“Yeah. Hurry up!”
It was perplexing to be told to swallow a stiff certificate that looked like coated paper at a glance. However, without paying attention to my hesitation, Zero pointed to the fallen Siena, who was strangely contorted, and continued.
“Ugh…”
Siena twisted her body, displaying two different expressions. I could tell which one was the real Siena by observing the side where the culprit spoke with Siena.
“Is that something you can face me with? Give up already! You don’t even know the grace I gave you for letting you live!”
“That… ugh… I hate it.”
Numerous nail marks were left on the floor. Those were traces of the pain Siena was feeling. Looking at the half of her face with red pupils, shedding tears, I witnessed an illusion of greenish light.
“He-help… No, kill…”
The begging Siena requested me to end her.
Zero urged me.
“To save Siena as quickly as possible, you have to do it. Don’t worry; it’ll turn into liquid the moment you try to swallow it.”
“…Okay.”
I couldn’t stand watching Siena suffer more.
I quickly took the qualification certificate from Zero’s hand, crumpled it, and stuffed it into my mouth. With all my strength, I swallowed it.
The moment it touched the mucous membrane, the certificate liquefied and permeated into my body.
As the warmth spread to my heart, blood vessels, and every cell, I tasted pain.
“Click.”
Cough. When something welled up and gushed through my throat due to the wind, I unconsciously vomited, and it was a mixture of thick blood.
‘Unharmed, he said!’
The sense of injustice overwhelmed me more than the pain. Before I could complain to Zero, a new blue notification window surrounded me.
“What’s this, the final what.”
Look at this; isn’t there at least a minimal guidebook on how to use Sacred Power? What kind of divine procedure is this? Handing out certifications and such.
“Hey, Zero. Give me the notification guide. Is there an instruction manual for using Sacred Power or something?”
I questioned Zero again, but this hamster knew nothing.
“Keek, keek! None! I heard that you can naturally use it once the skill is applied!”
“What good do you know?”
“You’re so mean!”
While I made a cold expression at the absurd notification window, Siena got up.
Still, in a form mixed with two personalities.
“Ugh… No, it can’t be.”
“Shut up. If I had known you were such trash, I wouldn’t have turned you into a mutant. I was foolish… Once this is over, I’ll get rid of you along with Duke Kitten.”
“No, stop it. Give me back my body.”
“The words of the weak are useless. Although I couldn’t completely take control of the body, about 89%… This is enough to kill those annoying ones. You keep suffering there; once this is over, die again.”
Siena weakly struggled, but in the end, she seemed to have lost to the culprit.
“Stay quiet!”
At the culprit’s threat, the red pattern on Siena’s forehead turned from bright red to dark red, even beyond crimson. Blood dripped down. Like soot mixed with black ink, sticky blood dripped from Siena like her screams.
Perhaps sensing it was the end, Siena, in agony, desperately opened her mouth to tell me what we wanted to know—the identity of the culprit.
“Our… our last… no, I won’t. I won’t become a murderer anymore. Eli, Elizabeth. This person’s name is Kiéran, no, Kirié.”
“What?”
“Don’t interrupt!”
It was an unheard-of name. Similar to Kiéran. Unbelievable.
“Ki, Kirié Worei. The last survivor of the Worei family and the murderer who slaughtered the family members. And the hidden twin sister of Kiéran.”
“Twin sister?”
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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