달칵.
From behind, the heavy sound of the wooden door being locked shifted the gaze of the young maid called Jully, as if it were a signal.
Unlike when she was childishly bickering with Celine, her expression had hardened unbelievably, making her look like a different person.
“I found out.”
Hailey scrunched up her face in response to Jully’s words.
It was a look more of annoyance than anger.
“Who is it?”
“As you suspected.”
“Celine always hated the cold of the north.”
Though she clicked her tongue as if regretful, there was no sign of sympathy in Hailey’s expression.
“But to act so quickly.”
It was only natural for Hailey to be suspicious.
Princess Bianca had arrived just a day ago.
And already, someone was spreading rumors about her?
“What exactly did Celine say?”
“How dare you call someone erased from the imperial family, Termina? You want to be taken away for imperial blasphemy?”
Jully repeated exactly what Celine had said.
“Erased from the imperial family?”
“I haven’t heard of it.”
She knew that the princess had been abandoned.
But she had never heard the news that she had been erased from the imperial family.
Celine’s confident attitude as she had been berating the maids seemed oddly certain.
How should she handle this?
If Celine’s words were true, it meant that there was a higherup who was giving ‘classified information’ to Celine that even she didn’t know about.
This matter was getting bigger than she thought.
It was not something that could be handled by simply dealing with Celine, nor was it something to be handled unilaterally.
“The Duke?”
“He is said to have left the castle.”
At Jully’s words, Hailey, who seemed ready to rush out at any moment, couldn’t hide her disappointed expression.
“Just now.”
“A demon crossed the ice wall.”
“At this time?”
“So the Duke went to check.”
Just now.
At this time.
There were no other words to describe it.
On the day when the Duchess arrived, one trouble after another.
It was still far from the start of the wave, at this time.
The continuous occurrence of troubles felt uneasy.
Although the North was rumored to be teeming with demons, there had never been an occasion like this.
Even making the Duke rush twice in one day.
It was still the beginning of winter.
It was still too early a season for demons to move.
Everything seemed to be suddenly, urgently tangled and revolving.
“Why all of a sudden…”
That was a murmur to herself.
“What are you worrying about? What will happen will happen anyway.”
Hailey turned her head at the indifferent voice.
“Worrying won’t make what’s about to happen go away, nor will it solve what’s already happened.”
This time, too, Jully smiled, shrugging her shoulders.
What Hailey Armour hated most was someone making pointless remarks and pretending it was a plan.
But at this moment, Jully’s words seemed quite plausible.
So…
“Ugh!”
She grabbed Jully’s hair and bent her head back while kicking her knee to make her kneel. It happened in an instant.
Jully did not resist.
Rather, she looked up at Hailey with a more submissive expression.
Her gently arched eyebrows and slightly flushed eyes made Jully look pitiful.
Even though her eyes were filled with tears, Jully never shed a tear.
Hailey bent down and stared at her intently.
“Jully.”
“Yes.”
Jully tried very hard to speak in a polite voice, panting for breath.
“Pretty good.”
Hailey, who had been looking at Jully expressionlessly, burst into a brief praise and laughter.
It was then that Jully’s face, which had been smirking all along, froze in a pale rigidity.
Even when her head was grabbed and kicked, Jully, who hadn’t even blinked an eye, stammered at Hailey’s smile.
“Why, why are you like this? So scary.”
“I appoint you as the personal maid of the Duchess.”
“My goodness.”
The momentum that had been pressing down cruelly had long since dissipated, and the hand that had gripped the head so it couldn’t move even a fraction had long since relaxed.
But Julie remained rigidly frozen, not budging at all as she looked up at Hailey.
“You will…? You will keep me as the personal maid to the Duchess? That, that means…?”
She stopped midsentence, and Julie covered her mouth.
My goodness.
In her hand, a sound that could be either admiration or a sigh burst forth without stopping.
Julie acted like someone slightly out of her mind.
However, considering that escorting a ‘Lady’ as a knight is a tremendous honor, Julie’s reaction was entirely reasonable.
So instead of berating Julie, who was foolishly gaping, Hailey reached out her hand and helped Julie to her feet.
“Oh… This is really…”
“You can do it, right?”
“Of course!”
Julie lightly clenched her fist and brought it to her left chest.
With a slightly flushed cheek from overflowing pride, Julie looked quite pleased.
“Knight Commander. As you know, I’m confident in physical tasks? I’m second to no one. I’ll quickly learn something like being a personal maid, ack!”
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.
