“Is there no way for me to make a contract with Undine instead?”
“You want to make a contract with Undine?”
“Yes.”
William answered decisively. Siod sighed and tried to convince him.
“I’m telling you again, there’s no way as effective as the familiar magic to teach you the conjugation. Maybe just once would be enough? Close your eyes and let’s send Sylph just this once, kids.”
Larisa was completely upset, holding Sylph tightly and burying her head in Gernoble’s chest.
“Leave her alone.”
Gernoble glared at him.
“No, just once, if you send Sylph, I can learn the conjugation! Why can’t I do it my way since I’m the contractor in the first place!”
“Can’t you do that for the kids? Being a dad?”
“…….”
Siod, who had been roaring silently, finally gave up and slumped down.
“Fine. Do whatever you want.”
“If I make it rain, that should be enough.”
“Vera, just catching fish for William won’t teach him how to fish. I’m trying to educate them now.”
“Your mistake in the first place was summoning Sylph and making the kids attached to it.”
“Who thought they would get attached in just one day?”
Gernoble said with a gloomy voice.
“Kids are like that naturally. I was the same. I don’t want to teach my kids the feeling I had when I fed onions to the dog in the mercenary squad.”
‘Am I the only trash?’
Siod couldn’t bring himself to say those words out loud and swallowed them inside. It felt like the answer would come back saying, “Yes, you are the only trash.”
Unable to do anything, Siod seated William on the opposite side and sighed heavily.
“Hah, do we have to go around like this when there’s a faster way…”
“I’ll do my best.”
“You really have to work hard.”
“Yes.”
Looking at the crying Larisa, William nodded with determination. Larisa began to cheer him on.
“William, cheer up! Make sure to protect our Sylph!”
“Don’t worry.”
“Guys… I told you not to name it…”
Siod said, touching his forehead. Gernoble shot back coldly.
“It doesn’t matter since Larisa isn’t the contractor. Just quickly teach them.”
Siod looked at the Sylph nestled in Larisa’s arms, who was in turn nestled in Gernoble’s embrace. The Sylph, meeting Siod’s gaze, seemed to smile brightly.
“That…! Did it just laugh?”
It seemed like Larisa had clung to William for too long. The Sylph, rapidly learning about humans, had already begun to play tricks, even on its rightful owner.
As Siod stumbled in the swamp of shock, William sat in front of him and cleared his throat.
“Well, let’s get started quickly, shall we?”
“Hmm… Alright. But!”
“But?”
“If you can’t summon Undine within a week, I’ll cancel the contract with Sylph.”
“What?”
William opened his eyes wide in surprise, and simultaneously, Larisa began to cry loudly.
“Uh-oh, Mom! What about our Sylphy!”
“Don’t worry, Larisa. If Sylphy dies, I’ll kill that dragon kid too.”
“Oh, come on! Vera, you’re just… You’re not helping at all educationally!”
“Am I joking? If I make our kids sad, you’ll lose your heart, you know.”
“No, what kind of threat is this…”
Could it be that he meant to use my heart to turn back time? Just because of this Sylph? Siod was appalled. He thought that Gernoble might really go for it.
“Haha, what absurd thoughts I have… It’s not like that.”
His offer to give his heart didn’t mean that. Gernoble seemed to interpret it as if he had gained some kind of infinite power to turn back time.
“Ah, let’s just get started.”
“Alright. Watch and learn.”
At William’s urging, Siod, coming out of his trance, let out a deep sigh and uttered an incantation.
If he had terminated the contract with Sylph, Undine would have appeared with just a call. However, now that he was bound to Sylph both in spirit and soul, no phenomenon occurred.
“Undine?”
[Undine.]“Un, Undine.”
[Undine.]“Hoondine?”
“This is endless! You have to make a Familiar contract!”
Siod exclaimed in frustration.
“William, if I take over your body and use the incantation with your body, then from the next time, you should be able to sense it, right? Just listening and imitating like this won’t work even if we do it a hundred times.”
William frowned and replied, “It hasn’t been a week yet.”
Frustrated, Siod pounded his chest. It was a task to train William’s vocal cords personally to perform the incantation. But now, with this lack of cooperation.
“Undine. Hoondie. Unnie!”
“William! Hang in there!”
They say parents can’t beat their children, and with sad eyes, Siod had no choice but to watch William struggling with futile attempts.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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