‘What?’
Riche’s eyes widened in surprise.
What did that knight just say? He clearly called me Retiom.
How does he know?
[That guy!]Suddenly, Pythons, who had climbed up the curtain rod of the bed, shouted in Riche’s head.
‘Who is that guy?’
[One of the six great stars I felt last time during the costume ceremony. Damn! Now I know why the energy was cut off.]A great star like Pythons.
Riche recalled the last time Pythons said he had something to ask a great star and questioned,
‘So what do we do? Capture and ask how to awaken the stars’ slumber?’
[No. Let’s not collide. I don’t fare well in battle against him. I roughly anticipate what’s going on.]It was a sound of Pythons overwhelmed by the star.
Let’s get out of here for now. Pythons whispered.
But Riche was sitting on the bed with the injured Ziegbert. The knight was blocking the only escape route.
Riche feigned ignorance at the knight.
“……What is that?”
It was surprisingly a decent act, but it seemed ineffective.
“Why did you purify only my son?”
Riche already sounded convinced that he was Retiom.
In the unfamiliar appearance of a great star, Riche discovered something familiar.
Those piercing golden eyes, as if they could see through everything.
Anxiety, as if something terrible was about to happen, overcame Riche. Past trauma wrapped around Riche’s body.
[Contractor! Pull yourself together! That guy is[dash].]Before Pythons’ words could finish ringing in his head, the knight grabbed Riche’s arm.
“Don’t you have a contracted star? Is it hard to use power, so you haven’t purified the duke yet?”
Madness gleamed in his single golden eye. It was dangerous. Instinct was warning him.
“Grr!”
Ziegbert bit the knight’s arm.
The young wolf’s sharp teeth dug into the flesh, but the knight remained calm. As if he felt no pain at all.
The knight shook his arm violently, and Ziegbert was thrown against the wall and fell to the floor.
“Squeal…….”
“You, mongrel!”
The collision was hard. Ziegbert staggered to his feet but couldn’t even take a step before collapsing again.
Riche glared at the knight.
“Lodwik Duke didn’t announce your name. Tell me, what is it?”
Strong force went into the hand holding Riche’s arm.
It hurt. Tried to shake it off but couldn’t. Use Pythons’ power? But that would be almost the same as admitting to the knight’s claim that Riche was Retiom.
Riche struggled to free his arm from the knight’s grasp.
“Get off……!”
Thump.
Something fell from above and struck the knight’s head. It was Pythons.
It was a powerful blow that could shake the skull.
Caught off guard by the unexpected attack, the knight let go of Riche’s arm and staggered back.
[Get lost. Hikanka.]The voice of Pythons’ star, spoken aloud, was like a furious thunderclap.
A sound that sharply pierced the eardrums. Riche shuddered.
Hikanka twisted his lips at the squirrel standing proudly in front of Riche.
“……Oh, I didn’t know you were here. Pythons.”
“You wouldn’t. Idiot. This one’s contracted with me, so don’t even think about it. Get lost.”
“What’s with the pathetic form? The name ‘God of War’ is lost on you. Haven’t you recovered from that wound yet?”
“Hmph. You’ve grown up a bit. Even asking how I am.”
Pythons clenched his fist.
……God of War? Curious, Riche’s mind was filled with Pythons’ voice.
[Contractor, take the wolf and run.]‘Run? How should I do that?’
[We need to draw attention.]There was no time to listen to an explanation.
“Still not listening to others, are you? I told you to get lost, and you’re still here[dash]!”
Pythons rushed at Hikanka. An explosion erupted from his small fist. Hikanka raised his arm to defend. Immediately, their fight unfolded.
Riche cried out in haste.
‘Pythons! Using your abilities directly will strain your body!’
The battle between Pythons and Hikanka raged on, while Riche and Ziegbert made their move, seizing the opportunity created by Pythons’ diversion.
Lutiom, like using the ability of purification through a contract with a star, found it difficult to use its ability alone in the human world.
Even more so in the body of a squirrel.
Pithonus began to be pushed back by Hickenka’s attack. He was so busy defending that he couldn’t even attack. Just when it seemed dangerous, there was a sudden explosion, and Hickenka’s leg was broken.
“You……!”
Pithonus turned his head. It was Riché. She had taken his power and used it on her own. That monsterlike fellow. But now was not the time to be surprised by that.
Pithonus did not miss the opportunity Riché created and counterattacked Hickenka.
[Didn’t I tell this contractor to run away?]Riché, who had come down from the bed, was holding an unconscious Ziegbert.
‘You can’t go and leave him. What if you fight alone and something happens?’
[Huh, you think I’m so weak? If you’re worried, get out of here quickly! If you go, I’ll follow you!]Riché hesitated for a moment and then ran toward the treatment room, holding Ziegbert. She had no choice but to believe Pithonus’s words that he would follow.
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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