“Oh……”
He stood up from his seat with a moved expression and approached Delphine closely.
“Child of God…. To have such clear eyes!”
An exceptionally beautiful appearance, as if the woman God had loved had descended again.
On top of that, according to the report sent by Deputy Minister Hashin, she could charge an enormous amount of Possum.
Doesn’t she seem like the reincarnation of the first saint?
A woman like this was captured by the Demon Empire, and barely escaped to come to the Holy Kingdom to seek help.
To him, the representative of God.
Gdaniel I felt as if all of this was a revelation from God for the Holy War.
Delphine opened her mouth urgently towards the Emperor, who had a determined expression.
“Your Majesty. I….”
“Having to suffer through this precious body to escape from the Demon Empire…..”
However, Gdaniel I, who was already burning with faith and chivalry, could not hear anything.
He grasped Delphine’s roughened hands tightly and vowed as if swearing an oath.
“I will definitely, I will definitely punish those evil ones. ……Even if it means going to war.”
War?
Targeting the Astrax Empire where Ioan is?
Delphine’s face turned pale.
The situation was spiraling out of control.
Delphine pulled her hands out of the Emperor’s grasp and shouted urgently.
“But there are innocent people there too, Your Majesty.”
“But, Child of God…..”
“Most people are living without knowing about demons or the empire’s secrets.”
Delphine didn’t mean to stop a war that should rightfully happen just because of Ioan either.
“If a war breaks out, it’s impossible to prevent civilian casualties, isn’t it?”
Delphine brought up the question she had wanted to ask the Emperor first.
“The root of all this tragedy is the demon. ……So, isn’t it enough to just eliminate that demon?”
Didn’t they say exorcism rituals could be done with holy power?
Then, couldn’t the empire regain peace without something like a war?
And Ioan’s soul would not be taken either.
However, the Emperor’s expression was extremely grave and resolute.
“Making a contract with a demon in heaven and making a direct contract with a demon on earth are different.”
“Dif…ferent?”
“They are beings far beyond the human realm. There is no way for humans to kill a demon.”
“……!”
Delphine staggered in shock.
Lin quickly rushed over and held her.
Delphine falteringly mumbled.
“But, but……”
“God lost the woman he loved and returned to heaven himself.”
The Emperor, who probably knew the most about God and demons on the continent, continued.
“But a demon voluntarily leaving this earth….. will probably never happen.”
“But then what’s the point of bringing down the empire?”
Delphine asked urgently.
“Even if you kill the demon’s contractor, the demon will just find the next contractor.”
That wasn’t the only problem.
“Rather, it will be unleashed outside that barrier to tempt and roam around people.”
“You are correct. The demon’s purpose is human despair, suffering. And to obtain fallen and destroyed souls.”
The Emperor nodded.
He seemed to understand her intense reaction as worry for the people.
“Do not worry, Child of God. There is a way.”
As expected!
There was a way to kill the demon and save Ioan’s soul after all!
Delphine’s face lit up.
But hope was fleeting.
“Surely there must be a demon contractor in that empire.”
“There is! Then……”
“We just need to seal the demon in that body forever.”
“……!”
In Ioan, in Ioan’s body?
Lin, who was supporting Delphine, quickly asked in a sharp tone.
“Seal? Is that possible? Even if you succeed in trapping the demon in the contractor’s body, once he dies, the demon will be released.”
“That’s exactly the point.”
The Emperor calmly replied.
“It’s to bind the demon with the contractor’s soul.”
“With the contractor’s… soul?”
Delphine muttered in a low voice with a pale face.
That was no different from having one’s soul taken by the demon.
However, the Emperor displayed the typical ruthlessness of a holy knight and coldly replied.
“The contractor would have sold their soul to sacrifice others for their own greed anyway.”
At those words, Delphine flinched for a moment and lost the words to refute.
“It will be an appropriate punishment for them.”
The Emperor deeply bowed and kissed the back of her hand after finishing his words.
“……”
“I shall take my leave now. I need to send letters to the feudal lords of the continent.”
Wearing a white holy robe and the Emperor’s crown, he slowly passed by her and left the audience chamber.
No.
Delphine, who had been blankly staring into the air for a moment, hurriedly turned around.
She had to stop him.
They needed to discuss more if there was another way besides war……
But at that moment, her vision turned bright and her lower abdomen twisted in pain.
“Ahhh……”
Unable to endure the pain, Delphine let out a short scream and sank down on the spot.
“Delphine!”
Not only Lin who was next to her, but also Marianne and Belly rushed over in surprise.
“What is this….. Where does it hurt?”
“Delphine! You can’t overdo it!”
Then, Esmeralda, who was standing at the entrance of the audience chamber, quickly ran over and shouted.
“You should absolutely rest when you’re pregnant!”
“Pregnant……”
The faces of her surprised colleagues gradually blurred from her vision.
They must have been very surprised.
She needed to explain what happened quickly.
No matter how hard she tried, there was no way to hold onto her fading consciousness.
‘Baby. No……’
I’m sorry for being a poor mother, but please hold on a little longer.
If I lose you too, I……
Her vision flickered black.
Delphine fainted on the spot.
[This is the timeline separator]It was still early dawn.
The morning sun was just beginning to rise in the Astrax Empire.
“So give up. There’s no way to kill a demon.”
“……”
Pryde silently looked down at the Emperor who was constantly laughing.
His words that there was a bottomless pit of unfulfilled desire within him might be true.
Perhaps it had existed since he was born as a bastard child in Area 3, not even knowing his father.
Or since he was coldly rejected by his mother.
If not then, it might be the deep, dark abyss that formed when he was whipped in front of that daughter by Count Pembrook.
At one point, he had desperately struggled to fill it somehow.
Wearing the mask of a nobleman and trying to have the girl he desired.
But now he was different.
Rather than trying to fill my own hole and sacrificing even her, I will disappear forever with this void in my heart.
Delphine.
Just a single word that you love me moves me in such a different direction than before.
Pryde reached out his large hand towards the neck of the Emperor who had collapsed on the bed.
“Why, why are you doing this!”
“If you don’t know how to kill a demon, there’s no reason to keep you alive…..”
His eyes shone ruthlessly even with only the faint moonlight shining through the window.
Before any strength could enter the hand gripping the Emperor’s wrinkled neck.
“There, there is! A way, there is! It’s really impossible to kill, but!”
The Emperor shouted urgently.
“…..There is a way to seal the demon!”
As expected.
Pryde swallowed his sneer inwardly.
“Using your soul to seal it in that body. So it can’t escape and find another contractor. Forever.”
After spilling out the method in a frantic tone, the Emperor glanced at his face.
“…..But can you do it? You must have made a contract with the demon because you desperately wanted something. Can you give it all up?”
“The sealing method.”
Pryde rebuked, ignoring the Emperor’s words.
“You know the detailed sealing method too, right? Hand that over as well.”
“……!”
The Emperor’s wrinkled eyes widened as if they would burst.
“Don’t tell me…… You’re really going to do that?”
If the demon is gone, what will happen to this empire?
The glory that the imperial family has enjoyed for three hundred years by borrowing the demon’s power?
A large hand loomed over the hesitating Emperor’s neck again.
“Un, underground!”
The Emperor shouted before Pryde’s hand could touch him.
“The sealing method is underground! In the underground tomb created by the first Emperor!”
“……”
Pryde silently lifted the Emperor who was lying down without any response.
“Wha, what are you…..”
“That tomb must be in a place where only descendants can enter.”
“……”
Pryde growled lowly at the Emperor who was struggling to use cunning tricks until the end.
“Lead the way.”
[This is the timeline separator]When she opened her eyes again, Delphine was lying in a room with a white cloth draped over the ceiling.
“Ugh, my stomach…..”
As she turned her head with a groan, her colleagues who had been looking at her worriedly immediately rushed over.
“Delphine! Are you alri…..”
“What about the baby?”
That was the question Delphine asked as soon as she opened her eyes.
She was so afraid that something might have happened to the baby.
“The baby? Is the baby okay? My stomach hurt so much…..”
“……”
Esmeralda, who was next to her colleagues who couldn’t say anything for a moment with stiff expressions, answered instead.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
