At this very moment, of all times?
Aeli’s eyes trembled finely as she unconsciously opened her mouth.
“Ta… ta-da.”
“……”
“……”
“……”
“……”
Of course, it didn’t go over well at all.
It wasn’t like she was putting on a show, and there was no one who would laugh while watching her prepare to have her throat slit right in front of them.
At least not anyone in their right mind.
And as far as Aeli knew, Lutis was sane… well, at least sane enough to function in daily life. Aeli blinked rapidly and bit her lip.
Lutis’s momentum gradually grew more menacing, matching her rolling eyes.
Twinge.
“Ah, ouch.”
The moment Aeli’s trembling hand finally left a thin line on her neck with a chilling sensation.
“Uh… ahhh!”
With a crashing sound, the heavy weight in her grasp disappeared, causing Aeli to stagger.
Lutis supported Aeli’s waist and gritted his teeth as he looked at something in his hand.
Only the handle remained of the sword Aeli had been holding, and she finally realized that Lutis was the one who had snapped the longsword she had been gripping in two.
“……”
A Sword Master should be able to freely control aura, so breaking something like this would be nothing, right.
As the menacing momentum showed no signs of subsiding, Aeli glanced at Lutis and slowly asked.
“Were you surprised?”
“……”
“No, I didn’t mean to do that… I just woke up and found myself doing this here while watching Adi sleep with you.”
“……”
“But I can’t go outside like this, and I can’t keep staying like this indefinitely without knowing why either. If we get caught by someone, we’ll all end up on the execution platform—”
Wait, but why am I making excuses?
She couldn’t even bring herself to touch her stinging neck. Aeli, who had been spewing words thoughtlessly as they came to mind, suddenly felt something odd.
Come to think of it, she should be the one questioning this situation.
It was Lutis who had been preserving her body with a maintenance spell, and it was also him who had hidden that fact until now.
‘The latter can be understood since there’s nothing good about blabbing about it, but still…’
It was obvious that the basement had been left unattended and unprotected in its current state while Lutis was away at war for several years.
Fortunately, such a thing didn’t happen, but what if he had met with some mishap in the war and was unable to inform anyone about this?
Whether in the near future or distant future, when the basement was discovered, it would be the child who would bear the full brunt of the damage.
Therefore, Lutis should not have left Aeli’s body in this state at the very least. He should have either buried her back in the ground or cremated the corpse according to the customs of neighboring countries.
“……”
Whether before his departure or after his return.
Aeli covered her face with both hands. She took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, steadying her breathing.
It sounded a bit awkward, with her breath coming out irregularly at times.
Aeli grabbed Lutis’s arm around her waist and turned her body. As she leaned halfway against his arm and faced him, the memory of attending a banquet with him as her partner surfaced, perhaps due to their posture.
……The situation was very different though.
Aeli opened her mouth.
“You… prepared this basement… even before your departure, right?”
“……”
“You must have known that if it was discovered, you wouldn’t escape unscathed.”
“……”
Her current remarks weren’t meant to blindly criticize him for why he did it.
After all, Aeli herself wasn’t entirely free from responsibility for how things turned out.
She seemed to have unconsciously tightened her grip on Lutis’s arm, but due to her already unsteady body, it didn’t leave any significant impact on him.
At least not physically.
Flinch.
Aeli closed her eyes tightly as Lutis stiffened his body as if burned by fire every time she moved.
Soon, Aeli spoke with her mouth open.
“Everyone in the empire knows that I’ve been dead for a long time.”
“……”
“I just……”
“……”
“……thought it would be the right decision for me to go again rather than all of us meeting our end together.”
In fact, it had been wrong from the start, and this was the right thing to do, she said. But in reality, her words trailed off weakly, and her voice trembled terribly.
She wasn’t unaware that it had been a reckless act. It was an obvious thing to say since she had done it knowingly.
However.
……Even if she had already died once, how could she not be afraid?
‘But I can’t ask Lutis to do this for me instead.’
How can she just sit back and smile when she knows there’s no hope unless she does it herself?
When Lutis was able to see Aeli. And when he confessed his apologies while groveling at her feet with tears in his eyes.
Perhaps she thought they could all be happy together, not just watching from the side.
Even if it was a precarious joy built on thin ice, she had been greedy in thinking it could be turned back.
“……”
Yet that greed wasn’t heavy enough to be weighed against their lives.
It was utterly foolish, but for Aeli, that was the reason for her choice.
“Then……”
It was then that Lutis, who had been quietly listening, opened his mouth.
As Aeli couldn’t bring herself to raise her head and just stood still, Lutis continued.
“……Then what about me?”
“Huh, what?”
Aeli reflexively asked back in surprise.
Lutis gritted his teeth with a pale complexion.
The pulse throbbing beneath the touching skin was palpable, but the finely trembling fingertips were more concerning, leaving her with no choice but to maintain silence.
Lutis spoke with a furrowed nose bridge and a pale face.
“The sword you were holding… it was me who had been maintaining it.”
“……”
“If you had slit your throat with it just like that. If I had lost you again without even being able to use my hands once—”
“……”
“……Then what about me?”
Am I supposed to spend the rest of my life blaming and tormenting myself, growing old and dying just like that? The tone of his question was laced with a clear hint of anger.
However, the voice he uttered as if suppressed and the gaze shooting above her head didn’t seem to be entirely directed at her, so Aeli narrowed her eyes and lowered her gaze.
Lutis spoke as if sighing.
“Why did you decide that on your own without even a word of consultation?”
“……”
“……I begged you not to go.”
Yet why do you never give me a chance to make amends every time…… Lutis spoke in a voice so faint it seemed like it would scatter and disappear into the air at any moment.
Lutis bent down and rested his forehead on Aeli’s neck, grasping her shoulders with both hands.
“I’ll find a way. I’ll protect you so that everyone can live without you having to die, so if you really don’t trust me, think of the child.”
“……It’s not that I don’t trust you—”
“……You know they’ll come looking for you first when dawn breaks.”
“……”
“So……”
Lutis stopped mid-sentence and seemed to hesitate for a while.
She couldn’t see what expression he had as he had his head buried in her.
She could only guess that he was moving his lips, unable to easily continue his words.
“……So please. Don’t ever do this again.”
Aeli finally gave in to those words delivered in a damp voice.
Whether she would regret it later was a choice even she herself didn’t know.
[This is the timeline separator]Some time had passed, and both had calmed down.
Learning from Lutis that it was still early dawn before the child would wake up, Aeli also heard a few more details about the situation. Greatly shocked by this, Aeli widened her eyes.
‘It’s not a maintenance spell……?’
Aeli felt like fainting upon hearing that her body had remained intact even though she swore she had done nothing.
After all, on top of the fact that a beast had dug up her grave after her death, her body hadn’t undergone any decay at all. She couldn’t help but be surprised.
It was her own body, but hearing that story made her feel somewhat uneasy.
Aeli looked at Lutis after wiping her face and asked.
“Then for now…… I understand, so could you go and at least explain the situation to Adi? Last time…… I promised not to go anywhere without telling him.”
Aeli, who stammered in the middle of her own words out of guilt, fixed her gaze on the floor for no reason.
However, Lutis firmly refused, saying he wouldn’t go alone.
“No, why?”
“……”
“Why…… I think I know why, but still, the child will be in an uproar if he wakes up, so you have to be there!”
“……”
“Be-besides, there’s only one exit over there, and there are guards. If they see me, won’t they just faint?”
At Aeli’s words, Lutis glanced at the basement door he had roughly opened earlier and nodded.
As Lutis gathered all the blades on the wall into one place, he said.
“There’s another passage, so first, bring a cloak or something to cover yourself. The sun hasn’t risen yet, so there won’t be any servants wandering around the castle.”
“What? No, even if there are no servants, there are knights on guard. In the first place, if we return to the castle, how can we avoid the eyes of the few people there?”
Aeli snapped at his remark about sending the knights away beforehand and keeping her here if she was worried about that.
He could say that because he didn’t know how difficult it had been for her to endure this place without even a bathroom, let alone a side room.
“……”
However, Aeli couldn’t deny the fact that there was a limit to how long she could endure with this body, so she closed her mouth.
Kwajik!
Lutis, who had gathered the blades in one place and shattered them into pieces with aura, left the basement just like that.
When Aeli checked out of concern, she found that he had dulled all the blades while breaking the numerous pieces.
[This is the timeline separator]And about 10 minutes had passed.
“Hey…… I have legs too, you know?”
“This is faster.”
“……”
Aeli, who was abruptly carried by Lutis, closed her eyes tightly.
It was true, but it was extremely embarrassing.
When the male lead is punished by carrying the female lead’s child and having periods like a woman
“I’ve given birth to two children for you, yet you still think about him.
Was I nothing but his substitute to you from beginning to end?”
Synopsis:
Meng Huan, a scumbag who has dated countless girlfriends, transmigrates to a female-dominated country.
Day 1: Whether it’s female dominance or not doesn’t matter. The beauties here are passionate and amorous. Isn’t it easier to date them than in modern times?
Day 2: After a night, Meng Huan discovers the differences in the female-dominated world. Men here actually have chastity locks and menstrual cycles. This hinders his ability to perform, damn it!
Day 3: What’s wrong with sleeping around? I don’t want you to marry me. I’m meant to be a playboy. I don’t care about male virtues… What? You want to drown me in a pig cage? Marry, I’ll marry!
Day N: Meng Huan inexplicably vomits and receives the shocking news of his life… He’s pregnant.
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