Marriage with the Younger Brother of the Man Who Betrayed Me - Chapter 4

I quietly shook my head at the commander who urged me to drink all of the potion.

“Well… I need to save some of the potion for another use.”

“…?”

“I need to apply half of what’s left to my forearm.”

Since there was only one reason to apply a potion to the body, he immediately guessed my condition.

“Did you get injured on your forearm?”

“Yes, didn’t the monster from the 3rd Rift manipulate cold? Its cold breath touched my arm and caused some frostbite. It should heal quickly if I apply the potion.”

“…Why didn’t you say something earlier? About being injured.”

“I was so overwhelmed that I forgot about it for a moment. I had just regained consciousness after fainting earlier, so I was a bit confused.”

In truth, it wasn’t so much that I had fainted, but rather that I had died and returned to the past 5 years ago, so I didn’t have the chance to pay attention to something like frostbite on my forearm.

That’s why I had completely forgotten about the frostbite until I felt the throbbing pain in my arm and barely remembered it.

“It’s the first time I’ve seen someone forget they were injured.”

He didn’t hesitate to mock my forgetfulness.

Before the regression, he had been calling out to me in anguish as I was dying, but now he had this attitude.

Feeling somewhat annoyed, I was about to snap back at him, but before I could, he approached me first.

Coming closer suddenly. Did he perhaps sense that I was cursing him in my mind?

While I was having such nonsensical thoughts, the commander had come right in front of me and pulled up a chair to sit down.

“Roll up your sleeve.”

“There’s no need for you to see it…”

“Hurry up.”

How could I not follow a superior’s order?

I willingly showed him the injury on my left arm by rolling up my sleeve.

The moment I saw the frostbitten area that had been hidden under my sleeve until now, I was shocked.

It was worse than I thought.

Was it like this before the regression too?

I hadn’t checked it visually since getting up, so I didn’t know it was this bad, but the affected area was frozen blue.

Unlike ordinary cold, the cold energy imbued with magical power that the monster had breathed out didn’t easily dissipate over time.

Sure enough, when I lightly touched my forearm, I could still feel an icy cold energy.

So this was why I had a fever and my whole body felt chilly.

Though a bit surprised, I soon understood and nodded.

However, unlike me who quickly accepted it, the commander was still frowning as he looked at my injured area.

“…You forgot you had frostbite to this extent? There’s a limit to being insensitive. Don’t you know that overexerting yourself like this becomes a burden to other members as well?”

“There was a reason I forgot I was injured—”

“Shh. Stay still. I need to concentrate.”

The commander stopped listening to me and slowly raised his hand.

His large hand stopped a little distance from my forearm.

It seemed he was trying to melt the cold energy left by the monster using his ability.

The special power bestowed by God, ability.

Those who could use such abilities were called ‘Awakened’, and there were only a handful of such Awakened even in the Empire.

The commander and I were among those few Awakened, using that power to exterminate monsters.

Sure enough, after waiting a bit, the commander unleashed his ability and created a small flame in his palm.

The black flames that had raged fiercely when exterminating monsters were now in a smaller form, melting away my wound.

While melting the wound like that, the commander added:

“As you know, the cold energy left by monsters contains magical power, so it doesn’t disappear easily. You need to use an ability with flames containing magical power to melt it.”

“Ah…”

“It’s fortunate that I found you. This kind of injury isn’t easily treated even with a potion.”

As he said, when I had simply taken fever reducers and left the frostbite alone before the regression, I had suffered quite a bit.

The cold energy had persisted for nearly a week.

Unlike then, now the frozen area was visibly melting away quickly.

The only problem was that it was a bit hot?

The commander’s ability was truly powerful, continuing to radiate heat even after mostly melting away the cold energy in my forearm.

Thanks to that, the frostbitten area quickly got better, but it was too hot.

So much so that my clothes were getting damp with sweat.

“Just a moment, I’m going to take off my clothes.”

“What?”

Since it wasn’t particularly rude behavior, I didn’t bother getting his permission.

I took off the shirt that was starting to get damp with sweat and held it in my hand.

There was nothing to be embarrassed about since I was wearing a thin undershirt underneath.

However, the commander didn’t seem to think so.

“W-What are you doing?”

I could see his cheeks and ears turning bright red.

It was such an obviously flustered appearance that anyone could see, so I became flustered as well.

“Ah, I just took it off for a moment because it was hot. Should I put it back on?”

“…Shouldn’t you obviously put it back on? Right now your underwear… ahem.”

“Huh? Underwear… This is just an undershirt. I often trained like this with other members too.”

“You often dressed like that? Are you serious? Have you perhaps not properly seen what you look like right now?”

Hearing those words, I looked down at my chest and was immediately shocked.

My underwear… was visible.

I had chosen to wear a thin undershirt today, and it had even gotten soaked with sweat, revealing my skin and underwear completely.

Belatedly realizing this fact, I hurriedly crossed my arms to cover my chest.

“Ah, um, this—”

“…Put your shirt back on.”

“Yes…”

I quickly put the shirt I had taken off back on.

The commander, who had been looking away the whole time I was putting my clothes on, gently reprimanded me.

“In the future, it would be better to wear thicker clothes. It’s inappropriate to appear before the members like that.”

“I’ll be careful.”

Whether it was because of the flame he had created earlier or because of embarrassment, my cheeks were burning hot.

So I grabbed the remaining half bottle of potion and left his tent, almost as if I were running away.

The night breeze was a bit chilly, but even that chilly wind couldn’t cool down my thoroughly heated cheeks.

The commander I encountered the next morning fortunately seemed fine.

He didn’t act particularly awkward or anything.

So I too acted as naturally as possible in front of him, as if nothing had happened.

That afternoon.

Thanks to the treatment last night that had completely healed the injury on my forearm, I was able to attend the strategy meeting as usual.

Since I somewhat dislike being late, I went to the commander’s tent, which was the meeting place, quite early, but as expected, no one else had arrived yet.

So it was inevitable that I ended up facing the commander, who was waiting there, alone.

I gave him a light bow, and he nodded his head in return to acknowledge my greeting.

“……”

“……”

After exchanging greetings, we didn’t engage in any conversation.

I thought it would be fine since the commander had acted normally in the morning, but now that we were alone, it was unbearably awkward.

I wondered if I should have arrived later than the others, when the commander broke the silence.

“You came early.”

“Yes, I came especially early today. I wanted to come early and prepare myself mentally since I plan to share some important information.”

“Important information?”

“I’ll announce it when everyone is gathered.”

We didn’t have to wait long.

After about 3 minutes, Elma, the leader of the auxiliary support squad, arrived.

Soon after, Karl, the leader of the medical support squad, also arrived at the location.

Once everyone had gathered, the commander immediately asked me:

“Well, now that everyone’s here, can you share that important information?”

“What I have to say is information related to the 4th Rift that we’re about to attack.”

After saying that, I took a deep breath for a moment.

It took a lot of courage to inform them about what had happened when attacking the 4th Rift before the regression, in order to prevent the same tragedy from occurring again.

Since they didn’t know that I had regressed, there was a high probability that they would treat my words as nonsense even if I told them about what would happen in the future.

So, gathering my resolve, I spoke with difficulty:

“For this rift attack, it would be best if only Commander Martin and I went.”

“Why…?”

As expected, the commander asked for the reason.

To that, I opened my mouth and gave an answer that might shock him somewhat.

“If other members come along… half of them will die.”

There was no lie in my words.

If other members besides me and the commander participated in this 4th Rift attack, half of them would lose their lives.

But since I had said it without providing any evidence, no one agreed with my words, as expected.

They just looked at me with bewildered or questioning gazes.

But that didn’t mean I could stop trying to persuade them.

I appealed to the commander again.

“Only the commander and I should go on this attack, excluding other members. That is the safest path.”

“I don’t understand. Why would it be dangerous if other members came along? Isn’t it natural that the more people there are for the attack, the safer it becomes?”

“That would be true if the monsters appearing from the 4th Rift were ordinary monsters.”

“They’re not ordinary monsters…?”

I nodded lightly at the commander’s question.

“Yes, the monsters there are… mind control type monsters.”

Translation complete. 100% of original text translated.

When the male lead is punished by carrying the female lead’s child and having periods like a woman

“I’ve given birth to two children for you, yet you still think about him.

Was I nothing but his substitute to you from beginning to end?”

Synopsis:

Meng Huan, a scumbag who has dated countless girlfriends,  transmigrates to a female-dominated country.

Day 1: Whether it’s female dominance or not doesn’t matter. The beauties here are passionate and amorous. Isn’t it easier to date them than in modern times?

Day 2: After a night, Meng Huan discovers the differences in the female-dominated world. Men here actually have chastity locks and menstrual cycles. This hinders his ability to perform, damn it!

Day 3: What’s wrong with sleeping around? I don’t want you to marry me. I’m meant to be a playboy. I don’t care about male virtues… What? You want to drown me in a pig cage? Marry, I’ll marry!

Day N: Meng Huan inexplicably vomits and receives the shocking news of his life… He’s pregnant.

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