“Then, thank you…”
Delphine was about to bid her final farewell to Hashin.
Before she could finish her sentence, a sensation similar to teleporting with Lin enveloped her body.
Only after the nauseating feeling disappeared did Delphine cautiously open her eyes.
Before her eyes, a green meadow with scattered small wildflowers unfolded.
As if waiting for them to appear in front of the teleport zone, a group of people were standing on it.
All females.
Although their hair colors varied, they all had emerald-like, vivid green eyes.
“Ah.”
Delphine muttered a single word.
The wildflowers in the meadow swayed gently in the passing warm breeze.
The fresh scent of grass and flowers lingered at the tip of her nose.
Why was it?
This fragrance felt so familiar, as if she had smelled it somewhere before…
Delphine, startled by the unfamiliar emotions surging up, clutched her heart.
‘What’s wrong with me?’
They were clearly people she was seeing for the first time in her life.
Yet it felt like meeting someone she had longed for a long time.
She felt happy and somehow felt like crying.
“Welcome. My name is Esmelda.”
At that moment, the woman standing at the forefront quietly walked towards her.
A beautiful woman with soft silver hair cascading down to her waist.
Looking at her with the same emerald eyes as herself, Delphine hesitated for a moment without answering.
Then, the woman who slowly narrowed the distance embraced her trembling body affectionately.
And whispered softly in her ear.
“…Sister.”
“Ah…”
It had been too long since she was held in someone’s arms.
In fact, it was the first time since leaving Ioan.
At that warm touch, tears suddenly burst out from Delphine’s eyes.
Delphine finally realized why she felt such a sense of longing when she saw them.
They all resembled her.
More precisely, they resembled her mother.
Delphine leaned on the shoulder of the woman she was meeting for the first time and shed tears of relief.
Perhaps because the tension in her body had dissipated, she felt a tightening sensation in her lower abdomen.
Delphine whispered to the child while gently stroking her lower abdomen as if to soothe it.
‘It’s okay, baby. We have now come to a safe place.’
Perhaps to a place where there are people she can call family.
Let’s find a way to be happy together here.
‘A way to save Ioan.’
[This is the timeline separator]It was still early dawn.
A quiet time when the faint blue energy of dawn lingered.
In the palace corridor where everything was peacefully asleep, a man with a huge build suddenly appeared.
“Pr, Pryde? Where did you suddenly come from…”
“Wait. Wh, where are you going!”
“…”
Pryde passed through the palace guards without hesitation and headed towards the emperor’s bedchamber.
Bang!
“Who…! Pryde?”
The old emperor, lying weakly on the bed, widened his wrinkled eyes upon noticing him standing at the door.
“You, you bastard. In the middle of the night, no matter how much of a contractor you are, what is this rudeness…!”
The emperor, who was shouting something, hurriedly shut his mouth.
Because the man standing at the door had moved to right in front of him in an instant.
“Why. Why are you doing this…”
Looking down at the emperor whose momentum had been broken in an instant, Pryde asked coldly.
“Method.”
“Wh, what…?”
“A way to kill a demon. You know it.”
It was the 43rd day since Delphine left him.
During that long, painful time, Pryde traveled throughout the entire empire in search of a way to kill the demon.
However, due to the aftermath of the witch hunt 300 years ago, there was almost no information left about demons inside the barrier.
In the end, he came to find the descendant of the first demon contractor, the founding emperor.
“I found out while investigating demons.”
Pryde recited coldly while looking down at the emperor trembling in fear.
Now that Delphine had left the empire, he no longer needed to show respect to this cowardly old man.
“The founding emperor also struggled to find a way to kill demons in his later years.”
In a way, it was only natural.
After selling his soul and making a contract, when the time of death approached, he must have gotten scared.
The founding emperor and a demon contractor.
The one who wielded the most powerful authority in history must have found out something.
Pryde grabbed the emperor’s collar impertinently and pressed urgently.
“What was that method? Hurry up and tell me…!”
Then, the emperor, who had been staring at him with opaque eyes, grinned with a vulgar delight.
“A way to kill a demon?”
The emperor glared at him and declared.
“There isn’t one.”
It was too resolute a tone.
“If you’re thinking of lying…”
Cutting off Pryde’s words as he frowned and recited, the emperor continued.
“Demons are basically divine beings, just with the difference of good and evil.”
“…”
“Do you think there is a way for humans to kill a divine being? There isn’t.”
A way to kill them doesn’t exist at all…?
For a moment, Pryde was at a loss for words.
His usually cold russet eyes wavered for the first time.
The emperor looked at him and burst into laughter as if finding something amusing.
He seemed pleased to have bestowed despair upon this impudent man who had grabbed the collar of the emperor himself.
However, Pryde did not easily give up.
“Then let me ask a different question.”
After repeatedly pondering the fact that she had left him alone, a question suddenly occurred to him.
He had put forth protecting her as his wish.
He had sold his soul to the demon in exchange for that.
But now that she had completely left the empire, the possibility of fulfilling that wish had become remote.
Because the demon’s power was only effective within the empire on this peninsula.
…Then, conversely, what happens to the contract with the demon once the wish is fulfilled?
Raising the hand grabbing the emperor’s collar, he recited in a low voice.
“There must have been those whose wishes made with the demon were fulfilled during their lifetime. What happened to them afterward?”
The imperial family must have records of the demon contractors throughout history.
As if his guess was not wrong, the emperor wore a strange smile.
“…What happened to those who had their wishes granted by the demon?”
“Yes.”
Then the emperor spoke again with a chuckle.
“I am now over ninety years old… Do you know what I have seen while living as the emperor and the head of Veritas?”
The humans who first came to him in search of the black crystal do not wish for much.
“Please, if you just cure this disease, I will do anything…”
“Give me the power to take revenge on my enemy. If I can achieve that, I will have no other wish.”
Those who regain their health and acquire unprecedented power through the black crystal rejoice.
Temporarily.
But those who easily achieve what they desire soon forget satisfaction and yearn.
For more power. For longer life. For greater honor.
“Those who had their wishes granted by the demon? There are none!”
The emperor shouted with a face full of strange madness.
“That’s what human greed is like. It never knows satisfaction.”
“What does that…”
“Isn’t that so? You, who had enough desire to sell even your soul to the demon.”
“…”
“Perhaps the wish had been fulfilled long ago. But were you satisfied then?”
Pryde’s face distorted terribly.
It was infuriating, but the emperor was right.
Clearly, when he first heard the demon’s voice, he only thought of saving and protecting her.
That was the reason he did not touch her for a while even after formally holding a wedding ceremony.
However, his greed kept growing.
Seeing her provoke him by asking if Ioan was right for him.
Seeing her eyes waver more and more whenever she looked at him.
His greed kept growing.
In the end, he embraced the woman he thought of as a saint and tried to protect with this corrupt body.
What about after that?
Was he satisfied?
For the first time in his life, he felt a sense of satisfaction and happiness, but it was short-lived.
He began to desire more again.
It was the same when an unexpected child was conceived.
This is a miracle.
After trembling with that thought, the next moment he desired.
For that child to become shackles that would bind her by his side.
For her to stay in this mansion forever.
“Young man. There is a huge abyss inside you.”
The emperor recited like a curse, looking straight into his russet eyes.
“No matter how much you struggle and try, you will never be able to fill it…”
Pryde roughly threw away the emperor’s collar as if discarding it.
“…Shut up.”
He had risked his life for her sake and decided to disappear with that demon.
But was even that not allowed for a lowly sinner like him?
Delphine…
“I will come back to save you,” Pryde whispered in agony to her, who was smiling beautifully in his mind.
Where are you?
He feared it the most, making his beloved wander in hopeless hope.
Top Celebrity Younger Brother Bears Her Child (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: Forced to live stream romance with a top celebrity in a female-dominant world.
Yan Jin transmigrated into a brothel, with a fellow transmigrated junior beside her.
Hearing the obscene words coming from outside, the unfortunate junior covered his ears tightly, his cheeks flushed red, and whispered to comfort her, “Don’t worry, I will definitely help you escape.”
“Don’t worry, I will definitely defend your chastity.” Yan Jin looked at the flawless and delicate features of the unfortunate junior and gently comforted, “Because we have transmigrated into a female-dominant world.”
※※※
Top celebrity Yu Shu suddenly fell into a coma during a concert.
Research scientist Yan Jin fainted in the lab after working overtime.
Two people with no connection were rushed to the same hospital.
Three days later, neither of them had woken up.
Suddenly, the entire nation discovered that a live streaming app had been forcibly installed on their phones.
Upon opening it, they heard the two discussing how to escape from the brothel.
The entire internet was in an uproar.
After the two successfully escaped from the brothel, Yu Shu’s fan group rushed to make a banner and sent it to the hospital overnight.
“Big sister bravely took action to defend the chastity of our idol!”
※※※
When Yu Shu was diagnosed with pregnancy, Yan Jin stared at his belly for a long time.
Covering his stomach, he muttered gloomily, “If you don’t like it, I’ll go get an abortion.”
“It’s not that I don’t like it.” Yan Jin hugged Yu Shu and said softly, “I just feel like I’m not human.”
Yu Shu comforted Yan Jin, “I was already an adult when we got together.”
Yan Jin hesitated, “But you won’t be of legal marriageable age even after giving birth to the child.”
At the same time, a flood of bullet comments appeared in the live streaming room that the two couldn’t see.
[Although it’s inappropriate, I also want a young and handsome boyfriend to have my child.]
①Male pregnancy (highlighted)
The female lead is five years older than the male lead, and the male lead is already an adult when he appears.
