At that moment, it felt like flames were igniting on the back of my hand, and it was burning.
“A wielder of a sword with the noble bloodline, a sacred ability user. Moreover, awakened with ‘sincerity’ to protect the precious ones…”
The Pope looked at me with a trembling voice. His eyes began to shake like crazy. It was not the calm, hypocritical, and gentle voice he had been using all along.
I looked at the Pope with a bewildered expression. His mustache on the corner of his lips trembled and shook violently. It was not the composed appearance he had been maintaining, pretending to be calm and speaking kindly.
However, as if reading my thoughts was burdensome, the Pope, with a tone that squeezed my heart, whispered, “Such things can happen in the world. Indeed, God has blessed this temple. Finally, an opportunity to kill all the trash.”
“What… Why such an unlucky expression?”
I glared at him, chewing my lips multiple times.
However, he seemed indifferent to my defiant tone. Instead, he…
‘It seems like he forgot I’m here.’
He looked down at my hand, smiling with an ecstatic expression.
“Finally, a hint about the one chosen by God.”
However, even as he heard my defiant tone, he never showed any discomfort. Instead, he…
‘It seems like he forgot I’m here.’
Looking down at my hand, he wore a blissful smile.
“Finally, a hint about the one chosen by God.”
His voice felt trembling.
‘Strange. That expression, it’s more ominous…’
It wasn’t pleasant to be tortured. Seeing the Pope delighted, a sudden sense of unease overwhelmed me.
It was a different level of ominousness than when my thoughts were read before.
‘Why…’
He smiled as he saw me, who was biting my trembling lips tightly.
“Yeah, I should have kidnapped him instead of you…”
“What?”
Hearing the Pope’s muttered words, it became strangely ominous.
I already thought he was not in his right mind, but hearing the voice he was making now sent shivers down my spine.
“The one who satisfies all these conditions should come.”
“What? What are you talking about?”
However, he didn’t respond to my words.
Trapped in his own world, he paced around the room in a gloomy manner. Going to the right, then to the left…
Though he seemed to be coming to his senses, he seemed oblivious to how he was moving.
Narrowing my eyes slightly, I heard the Pope muttering like a madman.
“When he finally comes… the world that God has sent will open. The doors of heaven will open, and those who hate God will all die. He is a great being sent for us. Oh, what a perfect thing on my generation…”
The incoherent rambling seemed truly insane.
I spoke my thoughts aloud.
“What? Really? It’s noisy. It sounds like you’re out of your mind.”
“Oh… That’s right. I’ll answer you when the altar is completed. You were a very good, excellent hostage. Cien Mirmord. Anyway, you’ll die in his hands.”
I mocked the Pope sarcastically.
“Oh, really? Wouldn’t Melodia not want the altar to be completed? Can I do it?”
The Pope’s words were due to his inferiority complex towards Melodia.
However, the Pope didn’t react to my mockery mixed with the assumption that ‘you are Melodia’s puppet.’
Instead, he laughed.
“Oh, anyway…”
He smiled as if mocking me, who was bound, tilting his head to the side.
From the tip of his fingers, a faint white light flowed, summoning flames beside me.
It looked like an altar for a witch hunt.
“This is a fire ritual, right?”
The Pope replied blissfully, covering his lips.
“Yeah, because I’m going to subject the great being to the fire ritual. So that he can manifest before us when refined.”
He kept mentioning ‘that being’ from earlier…
With the question I had been wondering all along, I blurted out.
“Who on earth is that being?”
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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