“Arcadia, have this lady serve in my retinue. It’s an order.”
“What?”
Arcadia looked at the Duke with a face of disbelief, widening his green eyes.
I, too, was startled and looked at the Northern Duke, Sion Belphegor.
‘He said he didn’t trust me, so why?’
“Arcadia, don’t be afraid.”
The Duke’s playful response made Arcadia lower his eyes that were glaring in protest, but he soon looked up again, indignantly. Contrary to his pure and mysterious appearance, he blurted out words that didn’t match.
“Your Grace, don’t you still know little about this woman? She was a close aide to Medea, who furiously refused to let her go, no matter how disgraced. What if she tries to poison you, or stabs you with a knife while you sleep, or breaks your horse’s leg to injure you?”
Terrifying.
I couldn’t help but frown.
Arcadia, too honest to the point of being hurtful.
“You’re too morbid, Arcadia. And since you’ve just recited all the things this lady can do, even if she could…”
The Duke looked into my eyes.
“She can’t anymore. If she really wants to assassinate me as a spy for the Southern Duke, now I’d be assassinated in some unheard-of, cruel way, not in the ways you mentioned.”
…This is maddening.
Are all men in the North this brutally straightforward?
Maybe, this trait is a weapon to disconcert the cunning enemies.
“Your Grace!”
Arcadia’s resentful call made the Duke look at me.
“If you plan to do that, I’d be grateful if you did it quickly. I can’t afford to spend much time discerning black from white.”
His eyes had already cooled. Like the surface of a cold winter lake.
The Duke smiled faintly at Arcadia.
“Don’t worry. I’m accustomed to poison and not one to fall into a deep sleep. It won’t be easy for the concerns you have.”
“Your Grace! Stop risking yourself like that!”
Arcadia’s eyes reddened.
Ah.
Arcadia knows. He knows who the Duke risked his life to save by poisoning himself.
Belphegor suddenly became serious.
“To change the situation, I had to gamble big.”
“This woman doesn’t seem to fit into the ‘big’ category, does she?”
Arcadia questioned. The Duke didn’t respond, just glanced at me, precisely at my sky-blue eyes.
I involuntarily held my breath.
What’s this?
Feeling my tension, the Duke looked away.
In the Duke’s silence, Arcadia also seemed puzzled, glancing at me.
“This lady wanted to escape, but Medea didn’t want to let her go, even offering a gold mine for her. Isn’t it somewhat valuable to understand why? What do you think, Arcadia?”
“Should we try torturing her?”
“We’re not the South, Nugent.”
The aura surrounding the Duke became chillingly subdued.
“I apologize.”
Arcadia bowed his head.
“That was a shameful thing to say.”
“Even if she’s assigned as a retinue, she won’t always be by my side. If she ends up working in the residential area, she’ll be under Mobius. If it’s related to combat, then in the armory with Ergo. If it’s patient care, then under the medical tent chief. After she’s assigned to one of these three areas and there’s work related to me, let her serve me. More eyes will be watching, which might be safer.”
I was uncertain whether he meant safety for me or for himself.
Fortunately, Arcadia seemed convinced by this and nodded. Then, the Duke looked at me, asking for my opinion.
I deeply bowed.
“Your Grace, I will follow your wishes.”
There’s no reason for me not to comply. Right now, before my eyes are the living Arcadia and the Northern Duke, Sion Belphegor.
Just that fact alone filled my heart with emotion.
A few hours later, my heart, once full of excitement, cooled in unfamiliarity.
Seated at a large white table with Duke Belphegor at the head and Arcadia and three men on either side.
I stood opposite the Duke.
In a swift decision, the Duke had called the heads of the three areas—residential, weaponry, and medical—to Arcadia’s tent.
Mobius, who was responsible for the knights’ and soldiers’ accommodations and meals in the field, and titled as Field Kitchen Chief; Ergo, the head of the blacksmith department that crafted and maintained the knights’ weapons; and the doctor I briefly saw when I entrusted the yellow larva to him, the head of the medical tent.
“One of you gentlemen will have to take this lady under your wing in this situation.”
Hardly had Arcadia finished speaking when a man named Ergo spoke up.
“I apologize, Your Grace, but I refuse.”
Tall and sturdy, Ergo, fitting for a man who handled metal, had sharp eyes. Without even glancing at me standing in the corner, he rose and deeply bowed to the Duke.
“I cannot allow someone of uncertain origin into the Northern Knights’ armory. Weapons are a knight’s life.”
A stubborn but valid point.
“I too have similar reasons for not wanting this lady near our wounded soldiers…”
The lean doctor, with a stern demeanor, pushed his round glasses up his nose and bowed. The Northern Duke then turned to the last remaining option, Field Kitchen Chief Mobius.
“What about you?”
“I…”
He looked at me intently.
Male lead says he’s pregnant — and it’s female lead’s child
Something seems a bit off about this world.
Wang Zhao thought as she watched a pregnant man walking towards her…
Intro
Female lead finds herself in a world where the men who possess the ability to bear children.
As she navigates this unfamiliar reality, she is caught off guard by the sudden appearance of her boyfriend, who reveals that he is pregnant.
Is this truly her boyfriend?
Why can’t she recall any details about their time together?
She begins to doubt whether the child her boyfriend is carrying is even hers.
Is there a hidden reason behind her amnesia, or could it be a side effect of her sudden arrival in this strange new world?
Just when it seems the protagonist’s life couldn’t become any more entangled, her ex-boyfriend makes an unexpected appearance, raising questions about the protagonist’s past.
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