Drawing on my experience in Rose Palace, I patted her on the back with my toes, and she hugged me with a touched expression.
“This is the best birthday gift I’ve ever received. Really.”
“Uh, ooh. I’ll do something better later!”
I’m in such a situation that I can only give a few flowers now.
A day will come when I can give a proper gift when I’m taller.
It was a thoughtless remark, but Sione’s heart seemed to feel differently.
“There’s no better gift than this. It will be like this in the future too. Thank you, Bella ma’am.”
Saying so, she hugged me a little tighter.
The three maids standing next to us were also wiping their eyes, looking at us with satisfaction.
“Uh, this is embarrassing.”
A ticklish yet stinging, strange feeling, as if someone was tickling my side.
Although my face turned red as if my innermost thoughts had been completely exposed, strangely, I didn’t feel too bad.
I buried my face in her embrace to hide my increasingly flushed cheeks.
Pretending not to notice as the true meaning of those three clumsily pressed letters became a little clearer within me.
(This is a time separator.)
At that moment, Vlady, having finished a great battle, was heading toward his barracks across the military camp.
The battle with the demons that began at dawn ended with a great victory for the Tzepes kingdom’s army.
Finally, it seemed that the long and arduous expedition was coming to an end.
“Gather the magic stones from the corpses of the monsters, and make sure to collect all other spoils. We can’t provide food for those hyenalike imperial bastards.”
“We will handle it as commanded, Lord.”
There’s bound to be much loot left after fighting hundreds, thousands of monsters and various other battles.
Weapons and equipment turned into money, but particularly, those used in magical research were traded expensively on the black market.
From horns or claws of the monsters to something like a heart, a magic stone.
Just one of them could allow a commoner to live luxuriously for a year, so thieves naturally followed such long expeditions.
People not willing to make any sacrifices, looking to fill their black bellies without lifting a finger.
Integra Empire, especially bordering the kingdom, was like that.
‘This time, a new Emperor was crowned, and they seem to cling more blatantly.’
Integra Empire’s young Emperor, Karl von Integra.
A trashlike human who imprisoned his sister in a tower to steal the Emperor’s mark he lacked, and falsely accused her of being a witch, even taking her life.
Through the spy planted in the imperial royal family, Vlady, who had already heard the secret about Karl, was not pleased with him.
A thief among thieves. A sly and filthy being.
That was Vlady’s succinct impression of the new emperor of the empire.
“…Humans are all like that.”
To begin with, humans never held much appeal for Vlady.
Contrary to popular belief, vampires felt no particular appetite towards humans, who were utterly lacking in magic power, and even if they occasionally felt the urge to suck blood, it was typical to satiate that through their own kind.
Beings that deceive and kill each other and strive to prove their boundless desire, yet can’t live even a hundred years.
Unlike the demonkind who rarely see their offspring, they were taking over the continent with tremendous fertility, but the vampires and other species hadn’t felt any threat from the humans yet.
Rather, it would be accurate to say that the empire was afraid of the Tzepes kingdom.
Unlike the Tzepes kingdom, which had no interest in interacting with the empire, the empire wanted to send envoys every year and establish a friendly relationship.
But Vlady, who couldn’t possibly be unaware of their dark intentions, maintained only minimal diplomacy with the empire as a country facing their border, keeping his guard up.
After giving additional orders needed for the military, Vlady entered the command post, and Balter seemed to be waiting to greet him.
“Lord, Elga sent a message through a magical sphere. Will you check it?”
“…Elga?”
When the royal magic team was in existence, Elga, who had been the head, taught magic to Vlady, a royal.
Although there were hundreds of years difference, if you look into it, Sione and Vlady had the same master.
But unlike Sione, who Elga raised like a daughter, Vlady and Elga were somewhat awkward with each other.
The positions of royalty and servant made their relationship uncomfortable.
Moreover, Vlady had entrusted Elga, who had temporarily retired, with a significant task for the kingdom.
That was to investigate the ‘boundary’ to prevent the influx of monsters, which was also the reason for this expedition.
“It’s unusual for them to contact first. Did they say anything happened to the boundary?”
“I did not read it separately as Elga insisted that only the Lord should read it.”
With a snap of his fingers, Balter handed a box containing the magical sphere to Vlady.
Vlady, who deciphered the code floating in the magical sphere in an instant, frowned.
“…A chore disguised as a request.”
Male lead says he’s pregnant — and it’s female lead’s child
Something seems a bit off about this world.
Wang Zhao thought as she watched a pregnant man walking towards her…
Intro
Female lead finds herself in a world where the men who possess the ability to bear children.
As she navigates this unfamiliar reality, she is caught off guard by the sudden appearance of her boyfriend, who reveals that he is pregnant.
Is this truly her boyfriend?
Why can’t she recall any details about their time together?
She begins to doubt whether the child her boyfriend is carrying is even hers.
Is there a hidden reason behind her amnesia, or could it be a side effect of her sudden arrival in this strange new world?
Just when it seems the protagonist’s life couldn’t become any more entangled, her ex-boyfriend makes an unexpected appearance, raising questions about the protagonist’s past.
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