He slowly lowered his head.
For a moment, Delphine thought Ioan would kiss her lips.
But he bowed even deeper and brought his lips to the back of her hand.
So very carefully.
As if his lowly self dared to touch her noble self.
It was a motion that looked closer to reverence offered to a saint than a kiss bestowed upon a beloved woman.
He was always like that.
He always looked at her as if she was an object of worship.
“Ioan…”
Pryde kept his lips on that soft white hand for a very long time.
His heaven and hell existed within this small hand.
A piece of his soul that even the devil could not touch would also be forever in her grasp.
Finally, slowly raising his head, Pryde recited softly,
“There is no way to undo all the things I have done.”
There is also no way to save his soul by undoing the contract with the devil.
“Disappearing with this empire is the only way to atone.”
So that she would not toil in vain trying to find a way to save him.
As always, so that only she could move forward to a bright place without a single blemish.
He would disappear into the darkness with this empire.
“Ioan…!”
Delphine called his name in an anguished voice.
Pryde’s gaze fell upon her red lips.
The urge to embrace her and share a deep kiss surged again.
But if he tasted that sweetness even once more, he would not be able to turn back like this forever.
He knew himself better than anyone, that he would again be possessive and make things difficult for her.
“Just stay inside this mansion. Then you will be safe.”
With those words, Pryde resolutely took a step back.
“Wait, what does that… Ioan!”
Delphine hurriedly called out his name, but he had already vanished.
[Timeline separator]The doctor Lin had struggled to find and bring was panting beside him.
“Huff, huff… You said there was a pregnant woman, where is she?”
“She was definitely here… Damn it!”
Lin cursed roughly, looking at the pile of stones where Delphine had been.
It wasn’t because he thought she was in there.
“Ioan can sense it if I’m in danger.”
He had collaborated on a joint operation to deceive Marquis Pryde using that information.
So he could immediately tell what had happened while he was briefly away.
“That bastard took her!”
That incarnation of obsession wouldn’t let go of his wife whom he got his hands on after half a year.
Lin vividly remembered the insane chase he had conducted in this empire half a year ago.
Also how cruelly he had trampled on him when he finally confronted him after stealing his wife and running away.
What should I do?
Could he find her again in the midst of this chaos where war has broken out?
It was when Lin was roughly running his fingers through his black hair.
On top of the collapsed pile of stones, a man suddenly descended.
A face so decadent, as if the devil had been humanized.
It was Marquis Pryde.
“You…!”
Lin shouted, taking out his Possum to cast magic at any time.
“You took her? Where are you hiding her!?”
“Delphine is at the Pryde mansion.”
Taken aback by the unexpected immediate answer, Lin momentarily faltered.
“You, what trick are you trying to pull…”
A trap?
Yes, it had to be a trap.
However, Marquis Pryde seemed utterly unconcerned about his suspicion or anger.
His dry gaze fell upon the doctor trembling beside Lin.
“A doctor? Good. That’s good. She said her stomach hurt.”
Lin shuddered at his attitude as if he was worried about her.
‘A devil can’t possibly have an emotion called love…!’
“Cut the unnecessary act and just say what trick this is!”
Lin shouted roughly, activating magic in his Possum-holding hand.
“The Holy Knights have crossed the northern defense wall, and you can no longer be the ruler of the empire!”
Marquis Pryde slowly turned his head.
“There is no trap. She is at the Pryde mansion. Delphine…”
The marquis, who had been speaking calmly, hesitated as if unable to utter those words.
What was he trying to say?
Surely not asking him to protect her?
Lin inwardly scoffed.
‘No way.’
There’s no way a man who tried to kill him simply for having feelings for his wife would say such a thing…
“Protect her.”
“…What?”
To him who widened his eyes in disbelief, the marquis threw another shocking statement.
“No, it’s not an order but a request.”
“…!”
“Please protect her.”
Leaving that last sentence, his figure vanished again.
Left behind in the street, Lin muttered blankly,
“What nonsense…”
Marquis Pryde… that devil contractor changed?
No, impossible.
“I absolutely don’t believe it.”
Whatever trick it was, he would not be fooled.
Lin vividly remembered the countless massacres and human hunts he had conducted against the people of District 3.
Such an evil person could not possibly change.
“If, if there’s no patient, I’ll get going then. I need to quickly evacuate to the city…”
“To the city. We’re going now.”
Lin replied through gritted teeth.
Even if this was a trap, he had to go if she was there.
Grabbing the bewildered doctor, Lin immediately chanted a teleportation spell.
[Timeline separator]“How dare you to the emperor and the crown prince!”
The emperor and Veritas, who had been hiding in a secret space deep within the imperial palace.
Pryde, who appeared there again, immediately threw the emperor and his son into a sealed room.
“What in the world are you doing?!”
The old emperor, who was forcibly dragged and thrown to the floor, shouted.
His young prince was just trembling beside him.
“Why, you ask.”
Pryde reprimanded them, looking down at them with a dry gaze.
“Did you think I wouldn’t know that you were looking for a way to strike me from behind?”
“…!”
As if caught off guard, the two had stunned expressions.
Especially the young prince could not hide his expression that the plan had been exposed.
The only one who knows how to kill a devil contractor is the emperor.
Looking down at the old emperor whose hands were trembling, Pryde softly recited,
“You don’t have to be in such a hurry.”
He would soon enter a painful slumber to seal the devil anyway.
But even so, he could not die just yet.
There were still things left to do for her sake.
“Even if you are a contractor, your extravagance has gone too far! I will strip you of your marquis title!”
“Do you still not understand the situation?”
Pryde coldly reprimanded the emperor who was cursing at him.
“Three hundred years. The long glory you received from your cowardly ancestors is now over.”
“Wh-what…? This impudent…”
“Stay here for a bit. Soon, you too will receive just retribution for your evil deeds.”
There was no time to waste.
Pryde’s figure vanished again from the sealed room.
[Timeline separator]In place of the confined emperor, Marquis Pryde took over as the commander-in-chief of the imperial army.
The place such a marquis led Veritas and the imperial army to was the human factory in District 3.
“Even if you use magic and divinity, you are ordinary humans.”
Marquis Pryde resolutely declared to the imperial army gathered on that polluted land.
“Within this empire, there is no human who can kill me.”
Ooooh-.
At those words, morale surged among the imperial soldiers who were confused by the sudden news of war.
A man with a demonic, strong, and beautiful appearance reached out his hand towards the sky.
At that sudden action, everyone quizzically raised their heads upward.
Then at one point, someone among the imperial soldiers softly muttered,
“Ah, hail…?”
From the clear sky, things like thick grains of sand began to pour down.
However, the expressions of those who were closely examining him with puzzled faces soon changed in an instant.
“This… is black crystal, isn’t it?”
With faces engulfed in greed.
The black crystals they so coveted were pouring down from the sky.
“H-how many of these are there!”
“They’re mine! I’m going to have more!”
There was a commotion as they scrambled to collect the black crystals.
Above them, Marquis Pryde’s soft voice descended.
“Those who wish to return to their families, those who wish to avoid war, may leave now.”
Standing on a pillar of the human factory, Marquis Pryde briefly surveyed the imperial army.
But not a single person turned to leave the factory.
Only figures fighting to have as many black crystals that fell to the ground as possible.
Looking at them, Pryde scoffed.
“Granting a devil’s wish? There’s no such thing! Human greed is like that. It never knows satisfaction.”
Perhaps some of what the emperor had told him back then was true.
“Grasp the black crystals.”
Pryde declared resolutely to the frenzied imperial army.
“Face them with the power of the devil. Fight and drive those Holy Knights out beyond this defense wall.”
When the male lead is punished by carrying the female lead’s child and having periods like a woman
“I’ve given birth to two children for you, yet you still think about him.
Was I nothing but his substitute to you from beginning to end?”
Synopsis:
Meng Huan, a scumbag who has dated countless girlfriends, transmigrates to a female-dominated country.
Day 1: Whether it’s female dominance or not doesn’t matter. The beauties here are passionate and amorous. Isn’t it easier to date them than in modern times?
Day 2: After a night, Meng Huan discovers the differences in the female-dominated world. Men here actually have chastity locks and menstrual cycles. This hinders his ability to perform, damn it!
Day 3: What’s wrong with sleeping around? I don’t want you to marry me. I’m meant to be a playboy. I don’t care about male virtues… What? You want to drown me in a pig cage? Marry, I’ll marry!
Day N: Meng Huan inexplicably vomits and receives the shocking news of his life… He’s pregnant.
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