“You must take it.”
The chauffeur carefully placed the pouch at Scathach’s feet, bowed, and left.
Ironically, the one who treated her most like a person at Lindcom’s mansion was not the Duke or anyone else but that chauffeur. At least they had said goodbye.
Scathach walked toward the monastery like a madwoman.
“Scathach!”
Then her nurse found her, called out to her, and embraced her as she ran up.
“Etin…….”
Seeing Scathach return in a luxurious, shoulderbaring chiffon dress, Etin thought that the rumors circulating in the village might be true.
That Scathach had acted as the new lord’s wife to escape from prison.
“Let’s go…… Let’s go to the room quickly.”
Fearing the eyes of the other nuns, Etin took Scathach to the annex of the monastery.
Scathach’s room had been ransacked twice by the Lindcom police officers and the Blahnath division soldiers after she was imprisoned, but Etin had somewhat restored it.
“Are you okay? You look pale.”
Hiding what she really wanted to ask, Etin covered Scathach’s slender neck, round shoulders, and the unmistakable traces of a man that likely continued inside the dress with a shawl.
“……I want to sleep.”
“Yes, go to sleep. You look tired.”
Etin laid down Scathach, who had only waited for her to return, on the cleanwashed quilt. Although she had cherished and raised her like a daughter, she had never forgotten that she was Princess Erwin.
Therefore, she could not shake the thought that the Blahnath family had been cruel to her to the end.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Hanging laundry behind the monastery building, Etin recalled the time when she escaped from the royal capital holding Princess Erwin’s small hand.
At that time, they closed the castle gates and only waited for the support of the Parsard Imperial Army. Parsard Empire, who took tribute every year but suppressed military reinforcement.
Even though there was internal strife in Parsard, and they could not send troops, they believed in Parsard until the end, never dreaming that they would abandon the Kingdom of Eberron.
Deployment is certainly to be carried out, and rightfully so. However, the Teshia Empire, having blocked the supply route and surrounded the castle, waited leisurely outside the castle as if to mock them, for them to die of starvation.
Just before the royal castle was about to fall, the queen urgently called for Ettin.
Support has finally arrived from Parsad. However, since not everyone can be saved, please take Erwin and escape. She handed a pouch filled with jewels as she could grab to Ettin.
“Going together is…….”
While knowing it could not happen, Ettin asked back foolishly, to which Queen Lia faintly smiled. The condition was the lives of the king and queen, voluntarily opening the castle gates. The Teshia Empire’s condition was that they would spare the lives of others.
“Stay away with Ettin for a while, once the situation stabilizes…… you can come back.”
Queen Lia unclasped her necklace and put it around the neck of Princess Erwin, who was about ten years old, swallowing her painful tears.
“They said they were going to negotiate with the Teshia Empire? Why do I have to go?”
“If the negotiation doesn’t go well, go to the Parsad Empire and ask for help. This is a very important role.”
At the tender lie told while stroking her head, Princess Erwin nodded firmly with her big eyes, not knowing that it was her last farewell with her mother.
The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)
Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.
The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”
Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!
Warnings:
- Male pregnancy.
- Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
- Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.
