“…Ugh.”
Yenion covered his eyes tightly and bowed his head.
As he looked at Lascellia, who seemed calm but had eyes reddened with blood, Prince Ecellion showed confusion.
“I apologize, Your Highness. My power… is not working.”
“What did you say?”
Ecellion turned abruptly to Lascellia.
Meanwhile, Lascellia took a deep breath.
Now she could understand. The moment when the power of the curse surged towards her. She regained her composure and resisted the unfamiliar power.
She believed that she had such strength within herself. Just as she restored the consciousness taken from Serben and Ibeth, she could defend herself.
It had to be that way. Otherwise, she would be exploited again without knowing anything.
Just like the prophet who lived without knowing her own face.
“How in the world…?”
Ecellion asked as if he couldn’t believe it.
It was because some of the demon’s abilities had transferred to him. However, there was no obligation to answer that question.
“Is this within the empire’s territory? Or have we already crossed the border?”
Ecellion’s eyes hardened at Lascellia’s question.
“Lady Lascellia, I…”
“I’m not particularly curious about why Your Highness did such a thing. However, regardless of your intentions in taking me somewhere and asking me to do something, I can assure you that it won’t happen. I have a tracking spell on me. There is also a spell for protection and tracking. It’s only a matter of time before the imperial army pursues Your Highness and the others.”
In fact, it was impossible to know if the tracking spell was still in effect. The same went for Degan’s spell. Lascellia was gambling now.
“If you don’t want to make things big, leave me here and continue Your Highness’s journey. I will repay the debt to King Verhoyat without asking for any further responsibility.”
“I did this for Lady Lascellia!”
Ecellion burst into anger, or rather, resentment, as if he couldn’t believe it.
“Do you know what it means to be a demon’s companion? Isn’t it forcing a marital bond to subjugate blood? I can’t accept such… Lady Lascellia, why…”
Unable to finish his words, Ecellion bit his lips.
“I don’t know where the word ‘force’ originated. Being born as a demon’s companion was not my choice, but now I accept that as my fate.”
“I’m telling you that you don’t have to do that! I will protect Lady Lascellia from the unwanted fate!”
Ecellion was probably sincere. There was no hint of falsehood.
So, Lascellia felt a little angry.
Why would he be so certain that she wouldn’t want to become Lescale’s companion? Especially now that she faced a Delarta prince she had never seen before. What did he know, anyway?
“Why would Your Highness want to do that?”
“…What?”
It was a question that Ecellion did not expect at all. He shook his shoulders as if taken aback. His pupils shook along with it.
“Even if I didn’t want it, why should Your Highness protect me?”
“I… I…”
Ecellion couldn’t answer. He stammered out incomprehensible sounds, unable to articulate a response.
“I find it highly unpleasant. I would have understood if you said you needed a prophet as a facade for the restoration of imperial power. But doing something for me doesn’t make sense. Because I don’t want it.”
“I… Lady Lascellia said… you don’t hold the emperor in your heart… you want someone else…”
“Where did you hear such words?”
“Lady Lascellia, in the study… to the Imperial Shadow Knight…”
It was absurd, but that was the truth. Ecellion couldn’t come up with thoughts different from what he was saying now.
“I have never said such words.”
“Lady Lascellia.”
Ecellion widened his eyes and knelt in front of Lascellia.
“This is not the land of the empire. Whatever is in your heart, you can honestly confess.”
“I have never lied.”
“No, you are lying now. You clearly said that Lady Lascellia loves someone other than the emperor. You shed tears while looking at me.”
It was unbelievable.
And at the same time, it was frightening.
If Ecellion wasn’t lying, it meant that someone showed him a falsehood.
‘That demon…’
They could partially seize human consciousness and use it as their puppet.
They could manipulate people through demons.
And, like Ecellion, it seemed they could inject false experiences without taking away consciousness.
“What Your Highness saw was,”
It’s fake.
Lascellia was about to say that.
“Your Highness, I…”
Tion shouted from outside the carriage, and both Ecellion and Yenion turned their heads suddenly.
Woo-woo-woo…
A dense shadow began to spread over the empty road. The round shadow grew and expanded, becoming a size where people could move.
“Ah…!”
Lascellia’s eyes widened as she discovered the shadow outside the window.
She had seen that before. It was exactly the same as the magic created by Philion, the little duke, when he came to take her out of the small room in the temple’s tribunal, claiming to have been sent by the high priest.
Finally, the shadow became a passage.
Grrrrroow!
Crack!
And from within, monsters began to pour out.
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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