However, Klein’s ambitious plan was overturned even before it could be attempted. It was because of the words the attendant reported an hour later.
“Your Highness, the Emperor has sent back the Tarium envoys! He said there is no suitable person to send as a concubine to Tarium.”
Klein stopped looking at the mirror and glared at the attendant in surprise.
“What? Who was sent back?”
At his formidable momentum, the attendant stepped back hesitantly.
“Not me, but the Emperor…”
[This is the time separator]“Brother!”
When Klein barged into the office by pushing the door open with a bang, Hyacinth was sitting on a large office chair, frowning as he smoked his cigarette.
“What is it, Klein? Don’t your hands have a purpose? Don’t you know how to knock?”
“They do. They serve to drive away the blocking knights.”
Hyacinth opened his mouth and as if revealing his feelings, smoke slowly billowed out.
“You have a pretty sharp tongue, little brother.”
“Really?”
“It’s a sarcasm.”
“Not that!”
Klein hopped up several low steps at once to get right in front of Hyacinth’s nose, then pulled a small chair and sat down.
Is he mad…?
Hyacinth, narrowing his eyes, removed the cigarette from his mouth.
“If you have a question, ask it properly.”
“Did you send back the Tarium envoys?”
“Ah.”
“Was it you?”
“Is there someone else who could have sent them back?”
As Hyacinth lightly smiled as if to say bring such a person if there is one, Klein protested, flustered.
“Are you crazy? Why did you send them back?”
“You must be the one who’s crazy. I am your brother, but currently, I am also the Emperor, Klein.”
Klein sputtered but only mumbled, unable to argue that part.
Since they had grown up quarrelling so much, he still spat out informal language, but the fact that Hyacinth was largely tolerating it was something Klein himself acknowledged. Eventually, Klein lowered his voice a bit.
“I mean, do you want to go to war with Tarium? Was it 2 years ago or 3 years ago, you received a concubine from Tarium, didn’t you? What’s his name… anyway, someone came. Who was it?”
Hyacinth silently rubbed out his cigarette on the desk. Klein scowled in bewilderment.
“What, you don’t even know the name? He is your concubine, isn’t he?”
“The point.”
“How can you say that we won’t give a concubine after receiving one yourself? Do you think Tarium will just accept it? Wouldn’t they feel hurt? They might even consider it as a dismissive act. No, if it’s not actually dismissing them, you shouldn’t have rejected. Where is such a cheap case of only receiving and not giving?”
“There is no one to send. The son of a minister is married, and the son of a duke is an only child who can’t be sent abroad. Among the royals, the only unmarried ones are women.”
Without a word, Klein drummed on Hyacinth’s desk with his hands folded like a beak, and then pointed at himself with a finger. Hyacinth cocked an eyebrow.
“You? You want to go?”
“You said it yourself. There’s no one to send. Isn’t it exactly that there’s no one but me to send?”
However, Hyacinth flatly refused, as if there was no need to even think about it.
“No.”
At his cold voice, Klein beat his chest in frustration. What a blockhead!
“Brother. Don’t you understand?”
Even after all this?
“?”
“Emperor Latrasil initially sent the envoy with me in mind.”
Hyacinth’s expression ambiguously changed.
“Why? Why do you believe that she sent you to the harem with you in mind, Klein?”
“You said it yourself, brother. There’s no one else to go.”
“……”
“You know that as well. But the fact that she sent an envoy, doesn’t it mean she’s asking for me?”
“……”
“I don’t mind going there, brother. After all, she likes me… Hmm. With the prestige of Karisen, she’ll probably send an official document at the right time.”
Hyacinth stared at Klein for a moment with his mouth tightly shut, then waved his hand.
“Go. I’m busy.”
After Klein left, Hyacinth kicked the desk with a thud. He rested a hand on his forehead and looked up at the ceiling. The ornate and majestic painting on the ceiling seemed to be mocking him.
“Latil. Is this for real? You’re not really trying to get back at me like this, are you?”
[This is the time separator]“Wow… Sir Sonnaught. Look at this.”
The chamberlain looked annoyed at the sound of Latil’s mutter.
After leading the imperial guards to help Latil in the battle of Tlava, Sir Sonnaught naturally became Latil’s closest confidant and remained a knight commander.
He was unusually young when he became a knight commander, so even though he served under two generations of emperors, Sir Sonnaught was still younger than the other commanders.
However, the reason the chamberlain looked at Sir Sonnaught with displeasure was not because the commander was young.
While he was a friend of the former crown prince Rean and virtually a neighbor brother to Latil from a young age, the relationship between Latil and Sonnaught was now that of a lord and a vassal.
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.
