At Rosé’s words, the duke looked down at his body and spoke softly.
“It probably got on me when I was checking if the fallen Duke Bled was still breathing. And then I heard your footsteps.”
The duke said he came closer in case there were other victims.
‘So was this all really a misunderstanding?’
There were still suspicious parts, but Rosé nodded and spoke.
“……I see.”
That’s when it happened. She heard the sound of people rushing towards them.
“There!”
“Arrest the Duke immediately!”
Armed knights ran at a fast pace towards the Duke and Rosé. In an instant, the knights surrounded Duke Artyom.
“So, it was you after all. Duke Artyom.”
A sharp voice coming from behind the knights. A man with an imposing expression pushed through the knights and entered.
“What is this about?”
The duke, neither surprised nor confused by the knights surrounding him, stared directly at the man in front of him.
“Duke Artyom. It seems you still can’t read the room.”
The middleaged man, unable to hide his sarcastic smile, was Duke Plichen. The closest person to the current emperor and the center of the power trying to execute Duke Artyom.
“Duke Bled is dead.”
‘Duke Bled… the person that the duke helped?’
Rosé looked at the duke with wide eyes. It was then that the duke seemed to realize the situation.
That he had been caught in an inescapable trap.
Duke Artyom clenched his fist as he looked at the Duke pushing him into a corner.
“I can guess what’s going on without you telling me.”
The sudden disappearance of Duke Bled and the monster’s corpse. It seemed that these guys were setting up the duke as a murderer.
People began to back up Duke Plichen and started making comments.
“You kill someone and act shamelessly.”
“When do you think the Emperor will turn a blind eye to your actions!”
Without even facing the duke, they threw words at him from behind the knights in a cowardly manner.
“I didn’t kill Duke Bled.”
“Ridiculous. Your appearance itself is evidence. Evidence that you killed Duke Bled!”
Duke Plichen pointed and spoke towards the bloodsoaked duke.
It was an overwhelming momentum. Rosé didn’t yet know the duke’s identity, but she could feel throughout her body that he was an extraordinary person.
However, Duke Artyom was no pushover. He didn’t yield to Duke Plichen’s momentum and approached him.
The knights, determined not to yield an inch to the duke approaching their master, drew their swords. All of their blades were aimed at Duke Artyom’s throat.
Duke Artyom, who was surrounded, didn’t show any fear of the blades pointed at his throat. Rather, the ones who were overwhelmed by the atmosphere were the knights.
“How dare you point a sword at my neck. You must be dying to die.”
Anyone who injures the body of the royal family is executed, regardless of the reason. Even if he had committed a major crime, a royal’s crime is handled according to royal law.
As Duke Artyom moved one step, the knights flinched and retreated in unison.
Although they trusted their master, Duke Plichen, and drew their swords, they could never hurt the duke.
“Sheath your swords.”
Normally, when a blade is brought to one’s neck, it collapses.
Duke Plichen, who was trying to take the stunned man and put him in jail, retreated one step as his plan didn’t go as expected.
Duke Artyom walked slowly towards Duke Plichen.
“I went for a walk and saw Duke Bled being attacked by a monster. So, I helped him. This blood was stained when I was checking if he was breathing.”
“A monster? That’s not even funny.”
Duke Fleche chuckled hollowly at the words of the Archduke who had approached him.
“Duke Bled was simply done in by a monster?”
“He was drunk, so drunk he could hardly stand.”
“Just because he was drunk doesn’t mean he would be done in by a mere monster. He was a member of the Royal Knights!”
“It wasn’t an ordinary monster. It was a creature I’d never seen before.”
The Archduke recalled the giant monster that had invaded his mansion. It had razorsharp claws and teeth that seemed like they could sever a person’s throat in an instant, and oddly enough, wings on its back.
‘It was like a wolf… but it had the wings of a wyvern on its back.’
The creature wasn’t just bizarre in appearance, its strength was also immense. He, skilled in swordplay, hadn’t been able to avoid the claws and had been scratched on the back of his hand.
The Archduke looked at the clear scar on the back of his hand and recalled the monster that had disappeared without a trace.
“How amusing. So where exactly is this ‘monster’ you’re talking about?”
Upon hearing the Archduke’s words, Duke Fleche took one step further and asked with a swagger.
“It was gone when I returned.”
Laughter echoed around them at the Archduke’s words.
“It seems even our Archduke has seen better days.”
Duke Fleche patted the Archduke’s shoulder with a smack and continued speaking.
“You should have picked on someone else. Why did you bother Duke Bled? He’s my dear friend, and a favored subject of His Majesty the Emperor.”
Was it Rose’s imagination, or did the man seem unusually excited as he talked about his friend’s death?
He grasped the Archduke’s shoulder with a grim smile.
“Did His Majesty not say so last time? If you cause trouble one more time, there will be no mercy for the Archduke.”
The Archduke closed his mouth as he looked at the Duke closing in on him.
‘He’s been setting a trap all along.’
He’d said that he would humble himself and live quietly when he moved north.
‘This time, there’s no escape, Archduke.’
Duke Fleche glared at the Archduke with crazed eyes.
The victor of this round was him. He hadn’t left any way for the Archduke to escape.
Archduke Artyom, cornered, wracked his brain for a way out. But aside from his last resort, ‘that’, no other method came to mind.
‘Do I have to reveal everything here?’
It was a forbidden move to show all your cards…
It was at that moment when Artyom was agonizing. An unexpected person interfered.
“I’ve seen everything.”
Upon hearing the clear voice, everyone turned their heads towards Rosé. At the end of their gaze stood Rosé with a resolute expression.
Their attention had been focused solely on the Archduke, so they hadn’t realized that she was there. They seemed rather surprised to see Rosé. Until now, her presence had been no more than dust floating in the air.
“What did you see? And when were you here?”
Duke Fleche sent a displeased look at Rosé who had suddenly intruded.
“I’ve been here from the beginning.”
Rosé felt the gazes of the people gathering on her for a moment and took a deep breath due to the tension. Then she continued in a calm voice.
“I watched everything, the Archduke saving Duke Bled, and his fight against the monster.”
At Rosé’s words, the face of the man who had been smiling a moment ago distorted horribly.
He thought he had won the game…
The Archduke stared at Rosé standing in the center of everyone’s gaze with a strange look.
Just a moment ago, she had been misunderstanding him as a murderer, so he hadn’t even considered the idea that she might help him.
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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