A door appeared again as he descended the winding stairs.
“His Majesty the Emperor.”
Two soldiers guarding the front saluted him sharply.
“Open.”
The soldiers moved in an orderly fashion as one body, opening the tightly closed warehouse door.
When Gerard entered, a space of unimaginable size was revealed.
Inside, it was filled with so many gold and silver treasures that it could make one’s eyes spin.
“A sparkling, mysterious purple gem~”
Gerard couldn’t help but bounce up to his shoulders, picking up the purple gem.
The dazzling gem, called Lavolato, was given by Prince Loren of the Deransis Empire not long ago.
This gem, called the tears of a whale, was not an object easily seen among humans.
“Of course. Sparkling is the best. It excites me.”
Gerard put the Lavolato back in its place and stared at the gold nuggets and gems next to it with ecstatic eyes.
This gem was something only the imperial family of the Deransis Empire could access.
It was because the sea that protected them was where this gem came from.
In the sea belonging to the Deransis Empire’s territory, a total of seven kinds of gems were hidden.
These gems, containing the dazzling seven tears existing in the world, were known to blind the eyes just by looking at them.
“Ha. Beautiful.”
Gerard glanced at the treasures he had collected so far, then turned his gaze to one corner.
“Uh!”
In the middle of the jewelry shelf, a woman, her hands and feet bound, shivered.
Unlike other people of the Feriat Empire, her white skin and ashcolored hair that reached her waist shook with her movements.
“Tsk tsk.”
Gerard shook his head disappointedly.
“Even though it’s gold, it doesn’t shine. It’s too bad.”
He lifted the woman’s shabby hair and sniffed it, then threw it away.
“If only it could satisfy half of my expectations.”
He glanced at the woman with cold eyes, then turned back to gaze at the gems with entranced eyes.
Then he went outside and gave orders to the guards in front.
“Play with it as you please and then throw it away. Handle it well without any slipups.”
The two soldiers exchanged glances and grinned, smiling.
“Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor.”
[Star Icon]In the dining room, which had become quiet after all the servants were sent away, only Lakrahan, Male, and Kelita remained.
Lakrahan picked up the clean glass on the table and took a sip.
“Did the Emperor order you to set a wedding date?”
Kelita looked alive and smiled.
“Yes.”
Lakrahan wiped the water droplets on the glass with his fingertips.
“So what did the princess say in response?”
“Yes?”
Kelita tilted her head as if she didn’t understand what he meant.
“I’m asking what the princess replied when the Emperor said that.”
“Ah.”
She fiddled with her fingers that were gently placed on her dress.
After hesitating for a while, Kelita opened her mouth with a puppylike expression.
“I didn’t know I had to reply.”
An answer that was hard to understand.
Lakrahan narrowed his eyes and stared at Kelita.
The naive expression of the princess was an unknown territory in a different sense from Bercheria’s inscrutability.
Although Kelita had visited this place a few times after Lakrahan settled in the north, their conversations had always been formal.
So he didn’t know.
That she was like this.
Gerard was so greedy and selfish that he assumed that Kelita, who shared the same blood, would be similar, and didn’t even think about understanding her.
But was she merely submissive?
It was completely unexpected.
Just like Lakrahan’s lukewarm attitude towards this engagement, leaving it neglected for 10 years, he thought it was because their feelings were the same.
Lakrahan felt the need to clarify this relationship at this point.
Especially now that Bercheria had appeared.
If Gerard, who despised the goddess of weather, heard of Bercheria’s existence, there was no telling what storm would follow.
He had to stop that at all costs.
“The first engagement talk was exactly 10 years ago.”
“Yes.”
Kelita quietly listened to Lakrahan’s words.
“We didn’t do anything during that time. Formal visits were all.”
“…But.”
“I interpreted the princess’s silence for 10 years as a sign of denial.”
Kelita blinked her eyes, not understanding what he meant.
She seemed to ask for persuasion with her eyes, and Lakrahan slightly shrugged.
It seemed better to speak to Kelita directly.
“I thought you didn’t want the engagement.”
“Then the marriage too…”
“The same. Just maintaining a formal relationship, a relationship that never began. I thought we were like that.”
“Ah.”
Kelita’s lips parted slightly.
Rather, this reaction was surprising to Lakrahan.
She wasn’t young, and she had seen what was happening so far.
“Didn’t you think about it at all?”
Kelita clenched the hem of her dress tightly.
“Is it because of that woman? Do you want to marry her?”
Lakrahan laughed as if he’d heard something ridiculous.
“Don’t be ridiculous.”
“Is it because she brought rain to the children?”
“……?”
Lakrahan slowly raised his head, his eyes growing cold.
“What did you just say?”
Kelita spoke with a choking voice.
“Did that witch bewitch the Duke?”
Her moist, red lips quivered like a child’s.
“If not that!”
Kelita spoke now with a voice that seemed ready to burst into tears.
“Can that woman be Bercheria?”
She was completely unaware of the thin lines forming within the deep black eyes directed at her.
“Tell me! Can that blonde woman be Bercheria?”
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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