“Empress!”
Following the voice, Rian appeared from the passage.
Rian was cutting down the demons and approaching.
“Your Highness!”
Tion called out to Ecellion.
“What should we do? At this rate, we can’t…”
He couldn’t continue with the following words. The demons surrounded them. Before they could comprehend why the demons had moved through magic, they had to wield their swords.
Lascellia thought about fleeing with the carriage, but there was an inn nearby. Moreover, the city was close. Eventually, they had to face the demons.
But that wasn’t enough; a Sword Master of the Empire emerged.
Using the same passage meant that when moving through magic in the Empire, they also brought demons. Facing demons meant eventually dealing with the Empire’s knights.
“…There’s no way.”
Tion muttered, biting his lip.
Ecellion responded by swinging his sword.
“I will deal with the Empire’s knights. Meanwhile, you must protect Lady Lascellia. Ensure she doesn’t get off the carriage.”
“Is that possible?”
Thump, thump!
As if to prove the point, inside the carriage, Lascellia was struggling to open the door.
Eventually, they had to ask this.
“Does Lady Lascellia wish for this escape?”
“…Ha!”
Avoiding the question, Ecellion rushed towards Rian.
However, the passage was still not closed.
Grow!
Demons continued pouring out.
Even counting the number of demons that appeared when Duke Pielion showed up, it wasn’t this many. It raised suspicions that the demons weren’t raised by the Empire but existed elsewhere.
The reason became apparent when Ecellion clashed with Rian.
“It would be better to run away.”
Rian chuckled and parried Ecellion’s sword.
Now, they had become wanted individuals of the Empire.
“Wanted individuals?!”
“Well, what do you call someone who is wanted?”
Clang!
Ecellion emanated a cursed aura.
“You alone can’t stop me.”
“Oh, that’s why I brought them. To tie your feet.”
“What… You mean the demons?”
“Well, you wouldn’t know.”
Rian stopped speaking there.
Beep!
A bright flame flew from the still-open passage, where demons were still pouring out.
Ecellion’s complexion changed.
“Vermilion Phoenix…”
If it was that flame, he had seen it before. What surprised Ecellion was the size of the flame.
What used to be a small flame, barely enough to make him smirk back then, had now grown to the size of a human head.
Beep!
The transformed Vermilion Phoenix flew by me, making some harsh sounds. It was unmistakably swearing at me.
Hwaaack!
Because the Vermilion Phoenix spewed flames towards me.
“Ugh!”
Ecellion dodged the flames and stepped back.
“Beep!”
Laughing mockingly, the Vermilion Phoenix, which seemed to be looking at him, flew towards the carriage where Lascellia was.
“Beep!”
Kyaooouwok!
Kyaou!
The flames intensified. The demons that were touched by the flames let out eerie screams.
And then, more splendid than the flames, Emperor of the Empire walked out of the passage.
Swoosh, swoosh!
With a swing of his left arm holding the sword, he mowed down the demons. Instead of the demons turning into black smoke and disappearing, they were split in half, becoming even more ferocious.
“Intentionally…!”
Ecellion shouted in disbelief.
If his eyes weren’t mistaken, the Emperor of the Empire deliberately increased the number of demons.
Now, he understood the sudden increase in the number of demons in an instant.
He deliberately increased it.
To chase Lascellia. To cut off his escape route.
“Are you crazy? You increase demons for that reason? Don’t you see the whole world there? People are living!”
Swinging his left hand absentmindedly, Rescal walked to the end of the passage.
His right hand was not human. Covered in black scales, it revealed red claws.
“What does that have to do with me?”
As he faced the gold, the fuzz on the skin rose.
The Emperor of the Empire was not human.
A being with eyes that looked at humans like that couldn’t be human.
That gold regarded himself as something infinitely meaningless, without any semblance of empathy or significance. Something so insignificant that it didn’t even warrant anger.
Such a being couldn’t possibly love a human.
Even if he called it his companion, it would be the same. Lascellia was a human. A person who understood emotions, received wounds, and understood loneliness and pain.
“Lascellia is—”
I don’t love you.
You, who can’t understand human love. Her affection should not be directed towards you.
Ecellion tried to say such words.
But Rescal was faster.
“Rian.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
That was the signal.
While Rian blocked Ecellion’s right side, Rescal passed him and approached the carriage.
Swoosh, clang!
Rian deliberately brought his face close to Ecellion and spoke.
“Are you going to let all your subordinates die like this?”
“That—”
“Now is the time to beg. Admit you were wrong. You never know. Her Majesty may spare you if you apologize. After all, Her Majesty, the Empress, dislikes things outside her eyes. Your insignificant actions may not even be worth noticing for her.”
“Shut your mouth—”
Thud!
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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