The newly determined Kaleta Empire’s envoy was scrutinized by the Fersecta Emperor himself. The timing was exact.
Rustica Gennes must have left with the certainty that she was a card that the Kaleta Empire was discarding. He had looked into her very bottom.
“Then I knew everything, didn’t I? How could I let you go to this dangerous place alone? I have loyalty.”
“I should kill you.”
Let’s kill him. It was unforgivable.
He should have come and gone quietly like a passerby, saying he’d met before, he couldn’t remember, he was disappointed, and spreading all sorts of lies? Rustica, who had starved for human affection, found it hard to detach from him, and he’d surely noticed that and acted like this.
Such things are common in espionage, but feeling it firsthand was disgusting.
“What? Hey, why are your eyes so wide? Are you dissatisfied that I came here?”
“Shut up; I’m not talking about you.”
“Then who are you talking about?”
“It’s none of your business. But where are we going now?”
The carriage seemed to be heading straight to a predetermined destination.
“Where else, to the embassy, Kaleta’s Envoy. Isn’t it obvious? Since we’ve finished our work, we have to go to the office and home now.”
“You talk way too much.”
The sensation of her ears filling without rest was a longforgotten feeling. Thinking back, Aldwin had never stopped talking, even on that brutal battlefield.
“I’m talking on your behalf since you don’t. Eliza and Martin are already there.”
“It must be Baron Barkova.”
“Eliza and I are on a firstname basis, you know? We’re close.”
That stolid knight pretending to be an assassin wouldn’t dare. You unilaterally call her by her first name. Rustica gave up responding.
“How did they choose the embassy?”
“It seems to have been decided in a hurry. But still, it’s the first embassy of the great Kaleta Empire, so there must be pride. They couldn’t put it just anywhere.”
The great Kaleta Empire, which has blocked the monsters pouring out of the ‘barrier’ for the world’s sake for hundreds of years. The pride and arrogance of the Kaleta Empire have been soaring ever higher, not knowing any bounds.
루가 칼레타 황제, 카를로스 아서 잉그램의 눈 밖에 난 것도 그 명제에 대해 의문을 표했기 때문이다.
‘정말 우리는 세상을 위해 장벽 앞을 지키고 있는 걸까?’
뭘 위한 일인가. 아무리 봐도 부질없는 소모전이었다. 카를로스는 수백 년간 이어진 그 소모전을 완전히 마무리할 생각도 없었다. 그렇다면 뭔가 잘못된 것이다.
“그런데 또 우리가 여긴 전혀 모르니까, 반은 속는 셈 치고 저택을 하나 구매하는 걸로 합의 봤다나.”
“어째 네가 나보다 아는 게 많네. 공사는 난데.”
뼈가 있는 말이었지만 알드윈은 헤실헤실 웃으며 넘겼다.
“에이, 너야 이제 큰일 할 사람이고, 그런 거야 호위들이 알아서 다 뒤처리할 일이지.”
쟤는 일부러 저러는 걸까, 아니면 저게 천성인 걸까? 루는 알 수 없었다.
그사이 마차는 아름답게 잘 닦인 도로를 따라갔다.
샬레아는 카타트와 전혀 달랐다. 쭉쭉 뻗은 대로가 있다는 거야 어느 대도시나 마찬가지였지만, 길마다 일정한 간격을 두고 삐쭉하니 시커먼 기둥들이 서 있었다.
저건 또 뭘까? 게다가 길에 보이는 숙녀들의 치마 길이도 카타트보다 훨씬 짧아서 활동적으로 보였다.
“그나마 언어가 통하니 다행이지.”
“글이 조금 다르기는 한데 대충 때려 맞추면 되는 모양이더라고.”
알드윈은 바깥을 슬쩍 보며 고개를 끄덕였다.
가만 생각하던 루는 미간을 좁혔다. 어떻게 언어가 같은 걸까? 지금 눈에 보이는 간판도 대충 다 읽을 수 있었다.
이곳은 마물들이 사는 줄 알았는데, 너무나 이상하다. 수상한 점이 한둘이 아니었다.
“편하니 다행이지.”
같은 고민을 하기엔 너무나 단순한 대답을 툭 내뱉은 알드윈은 마차가 멈추자 호위답게 먼저 내렸다.
“상당히 그럴듯한데?”
루는 도심 안쪽에 높은 담장을 두르고 위치한 벽돌로 쌓은 3층 저택을 올려다보았다. 벌써 누군가가 칼레타 제국의 국기를 걸어놓았다. 어쩐지 한숨이 나왔다.
‘보란 듯이 공격해달라고 표시를 해놨네. 뭐, 어쩔 수 없지. 명색이 공사관인데 깃발을 달지 않을 수도 없고.’
“어때, 루?”
이제 와서 물러설 곳도 없었다. 아무런 의욕도 없이 강제로 떠밀렸지만, 이제 루에게는 의욕 대신 강력한 이유가 하나 생겼다.
“생각했던 것보단 훨씬 낫네. 비라도 피할 수 있다면 다행이라고 생각했는데.”
이미 루스티카 제너스는 페르세타 황제에게 한 방 크게 먹었다.
그냥 당하고는 절대 못 살지. 어차피 간도 배 밖에 내놓고 산 지 4년이다.
페르세타 황제놈도, 그녀를 여기에 죽으라고 보낸 칼레타 황제놈도 똑같이 한 방 먹여주고야 말 것이다. 목숨을 걸고서라도 하고야 말 거다.
“가자, 알드윈.”
“그러시죠, 공사님. 근데 뭐부터 할 거야?”
“뭐부터 하긴. 페르세타 황제가 밤일 더럽게 못 한다고 소문부터 내야지.”
“……엉?”
My Ex-Girlfriend Is The Regent In The Female-dominant World (Male lead transmigrates to the matriarchal world)
Two years ago, Gu Sui picked up a homeless woman in ancient costume from the street.
Apart from occasionally claiming to be a princess from a female-dominant country due to illness, her figure, appearance, intelligence, and martial arts skills were impeccable.
Naturally evolving from roommates to girlfriends, as time went on, Gu Sui found it increasingly difficult to tolerate her queen syndrome.
“Mu Jiulu, can you stop controlling me inside and out? Let’s break up.”
Gu Sui made a breakup call, and since then, he couldn’t find any trace of her.
A year later, Gu Sui, who was planning to move, woke up the next day and found himself in a different place.
“Young Master, today is the day you choose your Wife-master through martial arts competition at Jade Dew Pavilion. Please get up quickly.”
Gu Sui: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
As the only son of a general’s mansion in a female-dominant dynasty, the young empress personally issued a decree allowing Gu Sui to select his Wife-master through martial arts competition. Whoever could defeat him could marry him.
Gu Sui: “……”
He didn’t inherit the original owner’s martial prowess, so anyone could defeat him! And what the hell is a Wife-master?
Forced to come to Jade Dew Pavilion, the densely packed women below made Gu Sui’s agoraphobia act up, and his face was full of resistance.
Until he saw the Regent sitting on the second floor, with a smile on the corner of her lips, her eyes wicked and nonchalant.
Hmm… she looked a little familiar.
It turned out that the Regent also found him a little familiar.
Mu Jiulu fiddled with her bone clasp, her deep gaze locked on the man who was out of place in this world.
“Finally, I found you.”
Male transmigrates into female-dominant world
One-sentence summary: What goes around comes around, taking turns in the crematorium
