After changing clothes, the cold crept in.
Milia poured some warm liquor for the duke.
He emptied a glass in one go and muttered with a gloomy face.
“Ha, that Crown Princess is very audacious. Can you believe what she dared to say, staring at me with wide eyes?”
Upon hearing Jaina’s name, the Empress discreetly smiled.
“You went to see that child?”
“Yes. I thought she was a child I could communicate with, but she was not at all.”
“I expected that much. It’s time to move on to the next plan.”
“The next plan?”
“Yes.”
Milia tilted her own glass of liquor as she muttered.
Her father was still needed for future plans.
There was something she hadn’t told the duke yet.
“The DS Knight Order.”
“Your Majesty!”
The duke was surprised and looked around.
Then he lowered his voice and bent over.
“How many times have I told you not to mention that name carelessly?”
“We may need their power. Just like then.”
The duke hesitated for a moment and slowly put his words together.
“They don’t appear anytime. That time, it was because our interests aligned.”
“So, you mean there’s no way to call them from our side?”
“Yes.”
The Empress tightly closed her lips.
This made things a little difficult.
Milia pushed the duke.
“We still need their power. Or at least something similar.”
“I’ll inquire for now, but it might be difficult.”
If the duke was speaking to this extent, it could really be difficult.
The Empress thought she would have to consider another way.
(This is a time divider.)
His whole body felt as heavy as if soaked in water.
Maximilian instinctively realized that this was that ‘dream.’
The dream he had been sick of dreaming for the past six months.
At first, he believed it was anxiety expressed.
Then he believed he had had a prophetic dream.
However, as the dream repeated, Maximilian thought that this might not be a simple dream.
“Ah…….”
Maximilian collapsed on the floor.
Teresa, with her pale face, lay in the coffin as always.
Surrounded by the lilies she loved most, she closed her eyes.
“It’s all your fault! How dare you show your face here!”
Maximilian couldn’t speak.
When he first heard that Teresa had an incurable disease, he thought she was lying to get attention.
When Teresa refused his visit, even when the Crown Prince, his protector, pushed him away.
“Why…….”
‘Why did Teresa die?’
Maximilian staggered to his feet.
He couldn’t believe the reality, seeing her still as beautiful as when she was alive.
He touched her pale cheek, but no longer felt the soft, warm sensation.
“It can’t be like this. Not like this…… not like this dead.”
Maximilian embraced Teresa’s body.
He couldn’t believe the absence of her gentle voice or warm presence.
“Drag that madman out! How dare you here!”
People from the Menisil family rushed and pulled Maximilian away from Teresa.
Worried that Teresa’s body might be damaged, Maximilian willingly stepped back.
Having been driven out of the cathedral, he slumped down on the stairs.
His body moved without Maximilian’s will.
And emotions, too, surged without his will.
A sense of loss as if his heart was torn out, loneliness as if thrown alone into the vast ocean.
When the sturdy support he trusted collapsed, Maximilian’s body sank into emptiness.
[Dash] You always think about yourself.He recalled something Jaina once said.
Even now that Teresa was dead, Maximilian only considered his feelings of being left alone.
He rose from his place.
He couldn’t just sit there like this.
There must be another way.
Teresa wasn’t the one to die like this.
She was kind to everyone, approached everyone without bias; she wasn’t the one to die like this.
“Something must be wrong.”
Maximilian began to wander aimlessly, abandoning his family and name.
Perhaps it was to punish himself.
(This is a time separator.)
“Huh!”
Maximilian sat up as soon as he opened his eyes.
He downed the water by his bedside in one gulp.
“Haa…….”
It was the first time he remembered a dream so vividly from beginning to end.
The chilling sensation that touched his hand was still vivid.
In the dream, Maximilian was so cruel to Teresa that it was chilling. He ignored her will and pushed his emotions on her at times.
The fact that the result was the death of innocent Teresa choked Maximilian’s breath.
It’s all my fault.
Looking out at the dimly brightening window, Maximilian grabbed his coat and hurried outside.
Fortunately, he was in the capital.
As always, Maximilian waited at a spot where he could see Teresa coming out of the Menisil family’s mansion.
‘She’s a bit late today…….’
Teresa had many days when she went to the palace as a maid.
Thanks to that, if the timing was right, he could see Teresa from a distance.
He couldn’t deny that this behavior of his was disgusting.
Suffering from that dream for several months, Maximilian was so worried about Teresa’s wellbeing that he couldn’t bear it.
Jaina said she would take care of her, but now it must be hard for her to take care of herself.
He didn’t think she would carefully watch Teresa while so busy.
‘Looks like she’s leaving late today.’
Maximilian anxiously checked the door again.
Then someone grabbed his body from behind with a jerk.
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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