“She doesn’t even know that she’s affecting my illness.”
Kashar grinned.
If she had known that she could make a cure for madness, she would have asked for something in return.
But Aileen was desperate to escape his clutches, not making any demands.
“That can’t happen.”
He squeezed the purple fruit in the glass plate, and the thick juice dripped onto the desk.
The poison that had been preventing the madness until recently was now useless.
“If I eat her cooking, it seems I can hold on for about a month.”
It meant that after that time, he would go mad.
“Then taking the fruit again is…”
“Why would I do such a useless thing with something so interesting right in front of me?”
Kashar spoke as if he had heard some absurd thing.
His senses had not yet returned. Only Aileen’s cooking was the solution.
“I must capture her slowly. So she cannot escape.”
Maybe it was because her reaction was so amusing.
Imprisoning the wet nurse of the cold palace was not a big deal, but he didn’t want to go easy.
“Recently, I’ve been enjoying myself.”
Madness. The damned disease that led him to abdication.
Before going to war, Kashar had made an ancient vow with the Emperor.
It was a vow no different from a leash, and if the Emperor commanded, he would die.
But the Emperor also set a condition.
“If your madness goes away, I will release you.”
If Kashar’s madness was cured but the vow was not lifted, the Emperor would die.
The evidence of the vow was engraved on Kashar’s back.
In the mysterious array, there is a red moon symbol.
The clean disappearance of this mark was evidence that the madness had been cured.
“…It’s so fun, I want to slit its throat.”
The Empress was also his enemy, but his hatred for the Emperor was deeper.
Kashar continued to laugh.
While he was spitting out laughter, Mikhail was sweating profusely.
Until now, it was he who had procured the Alrubee fruits for Kashar.
Mikhail felt anxious as he saw his lord no longer taking the fruits, yet he was worried that perhaps Kashar was already gone mad, using Aileen as an excuse and talking nonsense.
From Mikhail’s standpoint, the unshackling of the collar around his lord’s neck was a joy.
But he just couldn’t believe that the key to the longunsolved problem was a suspicious woman.
“Why not just make her a cook. Do you want to keep her as a lover… because of Queen Wyeno?”
Wyeno had declared she would find a companion for Kashar.
Not long ago, the Queen picked a woman to her taste from a suitable family and called for Kashar.
Naturally, the promise fell through, but it was only the beginning.
If the Duchess of Vladis became the Queen’s person, it would greatly benefit her.
There was no need to keep Aileen as a lover if the Queen was excluded, and Mikhail did not understand why Kashar chose a strange path over an easy one.
“It doesn’t matter now. I didn’t know, but I’ve already had an old lover.”
“What? What’s that…”
Mikhail asked, startled, and then his face turned as if he couldn’t believe it.
“She said we met 3 years ago. I was the only one who didn’t know.”
“Do you mean Aileen Hallen? She’s an even stranger woman than I thought.”
At the words “strange woman,” Kashar couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
After laughing quietly, he tapped Aileen’s name written in the investigation report with his fingertip.
“It’s okay to be a bit crazy to become my lover.”
Kashar’s attention was again drawn to Aileen.
He touched her portrait and muttered to himself.
“I have to make her responsible for what she said.”
Having finished his thoughts, Kashar stood up from his seat.
“Where are you going?”
“It’s almost time for the appointment.”
He was curious about what answer would come, and he was dying to know, even though the result was already decided.
Kashar boarded the carriage to the imperial city.
A moment later, he arrived at the imperial palace.
It was when he was walking through the rose garden.
“Your Highness.”
It was a woman’s voice.
When Kashar looked up, the young lady’s cheeks were brightly flushed.
“Jayana Enders greets you.”
She was a daughter of the Earl of Enders, and Enders was a close follower of the Queen.
‘The woman sent by the Queen.’
The appointment was originally set here.
He had permitted it, judging that she would not behave annoyedly for a while if it was in an open place.
“I heard you were busy that time. I was very sorry not to see you. But I’m very happy to see your face now.”
Jayana grinned and clung closely to Kashar’s side.
Certainly, she was a beautiful woman, even in a social world full of beauties.
But she did not captivate his attention.
“You look even more wonderful up close. Actually, I saw you at a party a few years ago, but I was too shy to greet you.”
“Talkative and ostentatious,” Kashar made his judgment.
He was about to pass by Jayana.
She blocked his way, perhaps fearing he would leave.
From a distance, it looked as if they might even hug, so close they were.
Just before Kashar’s brow furrowed, a scream was heard in the distance.
“Darliiiing!”
“……?”
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.
