As soon as Kevrant turned his gaze away, Alford came to his senses.
Only then did the shame come. To pee in front of others.
But now wasn’t the time to worry about such things.
The gold mine of Lavent, which was intended to be given to Duke Withlow, was, in fact, soon to be a closed mine. This was because almost all the deposited gold had been mined.
Such a mine would not matter even if given to others, but he absolutely didn’t want to give it to Kevrant, who had taken away ‘my Iris’.
“Even, even so…… Even so, I can’t give you my mine! I will formally protest this issue to the Holy Country!”
With all the courage he had, Alford shouted and quickly turned around.
He was about to run away as it is, but he couldn’t. Three masked men, who had come in unnoticed, were standing at the door.
Seeing them, he remembered the thugs who had attacked his carriage when he was headed to Duke Withlow a few days ago, and felt a chill run down his spine.
“What, what are you doing? Move aside!”
Alford, unable to approach them, shouted.
As if they didn’t hear Alford’s words, they just stared straight ahead.
Alford wanted to turn around and protest to Kevrant, but he was scared. It felt like there was something demonic behind him, and he couldn’t move at all.
Dark fear climbed up his feet and gnawed at Alford. He felt as if he wasn’t in this world.
“Do… Do you think I can survive this, Count Green?”
Alford spoke with trembling legs.
“Oh, no matter how you threaten me… I will… I will definitely report this issue to the Pope. No, I will tell the reporters too.”
Once he started speaking, his fear subsided a bit. Only then was Alford able to turn and look at Kevrant.
“You forcibly took Iris, whom you promised to marry me, and you locked me up in a torture room and insulted me when I came to protest about it. The fact that there is a torture room in the house where the faithful guardian of the sacred relics lives is a big issue, and it will be a bigger issue that you threatened me there.”
Kevrant grinned. The masked men at the door also snickered.
Alford was uneasy because he didn’t know why they were laughing.
“Viscount. Thank you. For making me laugh.”
Contrary to his words, Kevrant’s eyes turned cold.
“You thought you could safely get out of here and see the Pope. Really funny.”
Realizing the meaning of his words belatedly, Alford was startled, jumped up, turned around, and ran towards the door, but the masked men were blocking it so he couldn’t reach it.
A big masked man among them grabbed Alford’s neck.
“Gasp!”
Alford gasped for breath. The masked man lifted Alford by the neck he was holding.
Alford struggled, but the brown eyes seen through the mask were ruthless.
“Cho… Choke…!”
Alford thought the masked man would let him down after scaring him enough. But the hand of the masked man didn’t lose its strength, and on the contrary, Alford’s body gradually lost its strength.
The world turned black.
“Uh!”
When Alford woke up, having been dunked in cold water, Kevrant was in front of him.
Alford hadn’t forgotten the fear of death he experienced before he fainted. He now realized that feelings like shame or humiliation were, after all, good feelings in the face of death.
Alford got up abruptly and knelt in front of Kevrant.
“I’ll, I’ll give it.”
Kevrant gave a slow gaze.
“What?”
“Tha, the gold mine. The Lavent gold mine, that. I will give it. Yes, I have to give it.”
“Too bad.”
“Eh?”
“I wanted to use this.”
Kevrant was holding an intimidating tool that Alford neither knew nor wanted to know what it was used for.
Seeing the tool full of thorns, Alford swallowed his dry saliva.
At Kevrant’s gesture, the masked man quickly brought the documents.
It was a contract stating that the Lavent gold mine would be transferred to Iris Green.
“Ah, Iris….”
Seeing the name written in the contract, Alford unknowingly mumbled.
“Viscount.”
Kevrant pointed the intimidating tool at Alford.
“Don’t call someone else’s wife by name casually. She has a nice title, the Countess.”
“So, sorry.”
Alford didn’t want to go against Kevrant’s mind anymore. He just wanted to get out of this torture room as soon as possible.
‘Just let me go. I won’t stay quiet.’
Alford was able to leave the torture room only after signing the contract to hand over the gold mine, stamping it, and also stamping it.
Kevrant had escorted Alford to the mansion’s gate.
Alford intended to run straight to meet a reporter from a major newspaper, discuss everything about this matter, and then head to the Holy Kingdom.
“Baron. I’ll give the baron a nutritious story for his sake.”
Alford wanted to leave quickly, story or no story, but he endured and looked up at Kevrant.
“The baron is a greedy upperclass owner, and I am a guardian of the holy artifact. If the baron babbles nonsense, I’ll have to respond… Who do you think people will believe? The upperclass owner? Or the guardian of the holy artifact?”
“…!”
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.
