Meeting Kallos made her so happy.
If her two legs were entangled in spider silk, leaving her unable to move, Irene thought she would have jumped into his arms in an instant. That’s how delighted Irene was to meet him.
Kyaah.
However, that momentary joy quickly faded when a dreadful sound, reminiscent of screaming from hell, resonated. Irene’s raised spirits, reflected in her uplifted tail, quickly dropped.
Irene’s face stiffened. When Irene tried to look back, a large hand covered her eyes.
“Don’t look.”
Kallos, who had approached right behind her, covered her ears with both hands. Thanks to him, Irene escaped the piercing scream that seemed capable of tearing her eardrums apart. She blinked slowly, looking at Kallos.
Purple is often considered the color of demons, a fear shared by Irene. So, meeting Kallos’ gaze with his intimidating purple eyes was initially terrifying for her. However, at this moment, it was not scary at all. Instead, Irene found solace in the modest reflection of herself in his purple eyes and unconsciously smiled.
Upon noticing Irene’s strange reaction, Kallos raised his eyebrows and asked, “Why are you laughing?”
“What?”
However, due to Kallos still covering her ears, Irene couldn’t hear his words properly.
“What did you just say?”
“……Nothing.”
Kallos replied nonchalantly, removing his hands from her ears. Now that the spider’s scream might be audible, Irene shuddered and tucked her neck as if avoiding it.
Contrary to her concerns, the spider’s scream was no longer heard. Did the spider die? Irene wanted to check, but fear held her back. There must be a reason why Kallos told her not to look back.
“Ah!”
Still, despite the warning, Irene, who was sneakily looking back, was surprised when Kallos touched her leg. Using his bare hands, Kallos effortlessly cut the spider silk entwined around Irene’s legs.
Snap, snap.
Despite Irene’s struggles, the tough and sticky spider silk was easily severed. Irene, half in awe and half in a trance, stared at Kallos. Knowing that Kallos was strong, Irene never expected him to be this powerful. Irene, still astonished, looked at Kallos. Kallos, who had cut the spider silk to allow Irene to move, asked, “Is it okay now?”
“Yes, I’m fine.”
Although the remaining spider silk and slime clung unpleasantly to her skin, Irene could move without difficulty.
“Thank you for saving me.”
“It’s nothing.”
In response to the somewhat belated expression of gratitude, Kallos replied nonchalantly, straightening his previously bent knee. Then he reached out to Irene.
“Let’s go back now.”
“….”
Go back? Where to? Probably to Esper Castle, right?
“The spider silk of Arachne is strong in viscosity, so to completely remove it, a special medicine is needed. So, it seems like the remaining spider silk has to be removed later… Is that okay?”
“Yes, it’s okay.”
Although the remaining spider silk and slime adhering to the skin felt unpleasant and sticky, there was no difficulty in moving.
“Thank you for saving me.”
“Not really.”
In response to Irene’s slightly belated expression of gratitude, Kallos answered in an indifferent voice, straightening his previously bent knee. Then he reached out to Irene.
“Let’s go back now.”
“…….?”
Go back? Where to?
He must be talking about Esper Castle, right?
Is Esper Castle the place for me to return?
Originally… Do I have a place to return to?
I didn’t intend to go to Esper Castle in the first place…
Irene neither grabbed nor rejected Kallos’ hand and remained silent.
“…….?”
Seeing Irene like that, the frustrated Kallos let out a deep sigh inwardly.
As much as he wanted to surround her and return to Esper Castle right away, doing so might distance them again after they had gotten close.
“…….?”
Looking at her with a pale face trembling all over, the urge to forcibly do something gradually faded.
Ultimately, he had to convince her.
It was a very challenging task for him to persuade someone when words were not his forte.
If it were intimidation, he could do well.
“…….?”
Kallos, seeing Irene, whose face turned pale, shivering, and clearly distressed, inwardly sighed deeply.
Although he still didn’t know how to persuade Irene, he couldn’t remain silent forever.
Feeling the need to say something, he parted his lips.
“Let’s go back together, Irene.”
Even though it was just a little addition to what he said earlier.
Kallos thought that he couldn’t persuade Irene with just these words, but it was a misconception.
“…….?”
Uttering my name and spitting out those words pierced deep into Irene’s heart.
Especially the word ‘together’ filled the emptiness in her heart and stimulated her tear glands.
She thought she was alone.
Her demon-like father killed her mother, and that father burned in the fire along with the house she had lived in her entire life.
Being driven away as a witch from the only familiar territory, she thought she had become completely alone… but she was wrong.
She had a place to return to.
There was someone who said, “Let’s go back together.”
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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