“It’s a fever.”
Riche touched the unconscious Deon’s forehead and muttered.
His body was boiling with fever.
‘This is serious.’
High fever was not good for a child.
In the past, the children who disappeared while living together were not just because they were noisy.
Sometimes there were children like Deon now, who got feverish and broke into cold sweat.
Such children disappeared the next day and could never be seen again. Riche knew that it was not a good thing.
‘I was told that I could go out into the forest in the morning.’
Could Deon hold out until then?
Riche listened carefully. Fortunately, no sound of monsters was heard.
The breath of unconscious Deon was rough. Moans of pain flowed out too.
‘Did you plan to give him to the monsters?’
Why she only said something wrong, she didn’t know, but she didn’t say earlier that she was just scared and didn’t intend to save him.
She didn’t respond, choked with anger, but she had heard everything Deon said.
“What should I do?”
If it was her 19yearold body, she would have carried Deon and looked for a safe place.
But now she was only 7 years old.
What she could do was….
“Uh, uuh….”
Riche looked at the black energy swirling around Deon’s chest.
As she reached out, the black energy, as if waiting, wound around her fingers.
‘What I can do is….’
Her fingertips trembled and her heart beat fast.
Fear. The emotion that Riche felt was fear.
Hesitating, Riche let the purification power flow from her fingertips.
The energy, like a snake attacking its prey, charged towards the shining light.
“……Ah!”
A sensation like a hot sharp awl digging into her fingertip.
Unable to bear the excruciating pain, Riche stopped the power and pulled her hand back.
The black energy rippled as if it regretted missing its prey.
‘I can’t do it.’
Even the Gerwer Duke had waited until Riche’s 9th birthday.
He had later casually mentioned that if he had purified her before, her body wouldn’t have been able to withstand it.
“You would have died. The power of Rettium comes from the heart. The energy of my curse that entered your body would have exploded your heart.”
Familiar pain thrust Riche back into memories of the past.
“Purify.”
“It hurts, it hurts……!”
Riche’s small body trembled like a shivering bush.
She had promised to live a life without suffering this time.
“Cough. Cough.”
Deon’s upper body heaved heavily.
The brief purification earlier seemed to have stimulated the energy and turned into a poison.
Deon’s condition was rapidly deteriorating.
Unlike before, his breath, now short and rough, seemed on the verge of breaking.
Tears welled in Riche’s eyes.
‘I am….’
Two days.
Yesterday and today, she hadn’t been in pain.
She ate delicious food, bathed in warm water.
Slept in a soft bed, and had people who treated her kindly.
For a moment, she had rekindled hope, and even got a new name.
Although it didn’t feel real, she had gained a father and a brother.
Maybe what God gave her was a brief respite after Gerwer Duke’s demise. Her life was originally supposed to end in the basement.
“Call me father.”
If she had known that was the last time, she would have called Duke Rodwik father.
A title she never thought she would use in her lifetime.
More like giving up than determination, Riche, ready to let go of her life again, reached her trembling hand towards Deon.
Sssssssss.
The wind blew again. The leaves rustled against each other.
The land where the monsters fell disappeared, and a new path was formed.
The forest began to change its shape.
“Don’t die. ……You are my brother.”
Riche clenched her teeth.
Bracing for the impending immense pain, she was about to use the purification power when,
“What……?”
Boom.
The transformed forest. And the vast lakeside scenery that unfolded before the children.
The cool night sky was covered with countless stars. The calm lake embraced that night sky.
Everything that met the eye sparkled. As if jewels were scattered.
Riche’s eyes were captivated by that calm and beautiful world.
Thump, thump.
One of the stars in the lake jumped out of the water.
And then they flew quickly around Riche.
‘……What?’
Riche turned her head to follow the star, but all she could see was the afterimage of the light due to its fast speed.
A cheerful voice reached Riche’s ears.
[Are you, Lertium?](This is a time delimiter.)
Screech!
Shlash.
A running monster fell to Zed’s sword.
Zed looked back at Blake with a proud feeling.
“Master, did you see? My sword skills just now…….”
Uh…….
But the boasting was cut off.
With one strike from Blake, three monsters had fallen.
“What did you say?”
“I didn’t say anything.”
Really, wasn’t the master alone enough? Maybe he didn’t need to follow.
Once again, Zed, who realized his master’s extraordinary skills, bowed his head.
‘The master is a monster. I’m exceptional, of course.’
While Zed was comforting himself, Blake, with sword in hand, looked around.
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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