The royal palace of Nord was in chaos preparing for the sudden funeral of the deceased king.
“No, that’s not it!”
“It takes at least a month to prepare the tapestry…”
“Where do we have the time for that! Use something else or complete it within ten days!”
It was not just that the servants were stepping on fire, they were running here and there, not standing or walking.
Due to the sudden death, a national funeral had not been prepared, but the Crown Prince had issued the order.
‘Prepare the national funeral as soon as possible.’
Who would dare defy that command?
From the start, the Crown Prince’s position was firm, there was no bloody struggle for the throne, he was the one to ascend the throne soon.
The servants, being too busy, had no time to go to the dining hall and started eating lunch in the hallway where they were working.
The servant, his eyes blurring and throat parched from running without rest, could not endure without eating. Tearing a piece of bread into the soup, he opened his mouth.
“I wish I could sleep like the dead.”
At this, the other servants nodded their heads weakly and stuffed their mouths with bread.
The servant, who had been staring blankly, remembered the Crown Prince who had urgently ordered the preparation of the national funeral.
His gaze unconsciously went to the small carrot at the end of his fork.
And subsequently, the Crown Prince and the gorgeous beauty, Greta, who was with him.
“That woman… her hair color is like this carrot.”
The servant who murmured so quietly that he couldn’t hear himself, began to shake his head.
He had been too busy to remember, but that woman was a bit too strange.
These people who had been closer to the king and the Crown Prince than the closest servants.
When, where, how they came, who they were, no one knew.
The ones who felt unease about them were not the nobles, but the servants. After all, the nobles were the ones enchanted by the magician, not the servants.
The servant, poking the carrot with his fork, opened his mouth.
“Isn’t it strange?”
At his sudden words, the other servants, who had been absentmindedly eating lunch, started to listen.
“What?”
“What are you suddenly talking about?”
“Well… what should I say.”
However, even before he could start talking properly, he became speechless. Because it was ambiguous what to call the magician.
Not a duke or a marquess, not having any specific title or duty.
Moreover, since the king didn’t need to find the magician, the servants had no reason to call him separately.
The servant, who had been choosing the name for the magician, opened his mouth again.
“That person…. hasn’t been seen since His Highness passed away, right?”
Though he did not mention the magician, the other servants also nodded their heads and chimed in. That’s how accustomed they had become to the magician being by the king’s side.
“Yeah, I haven’t seen him recently.”
“Now that you mention it, yeah. Always there and…”
Even before the words of one of the servants were finished, a long shadow was cast from behind them.
“It seems like you are having an interesting conversation.”
“Ah, it’s not interesting, it’s just that after His Highness passed away and suddenly disappeared, it’s strange…”
The servant who first spoke shut his mouth tightly.
Because in front of him, where he lifted his head, auburn hair was shimmering.
The servants, who had turned pale, almost threw their food and stood up abruptly.
As always, she was not alone.
“Greta.”
At the Crown Prince’s call, Greta bowed her head slightly and scanned the servants.
The gaze was as sharp as snake scales, causing the servants to instinctively shrink their necks and lower their heads.
“There were strange stories being told.”
She neither yelled nor even furrowed her brow.
Clink.
As if it was an agreedupon signal, the servants all swallowed their dry saliva simultaneously.
Greta then took in every last servant gathered there in her gaze before she opened her mouth again.
“Speaking carelessly about matters within the palace.”
Although what she said was correct, technically speaking, since the mage had never been a part of the palace, it wasn’t an ‘internal’ affair.
Moreover, it was just simple talk, not even a complaint shared among the servants while having lunch in this quiet corridor.
However, there was no servant who could point that out to Greta, who was involving the crown prince.
Because the crown prince was looking down at them without even blinking.
The lips of Greta, who had stepped right next to him, parted.
“One must pay the price for running their mouth carelessly.”
It was a whisper only audible to the crown prince.
“Isn’t that right, Your Highness?”
At Greta’s whisper, the crown prince stared directly at the servant with clear eyes and opened his mouth.
“One must pay the price for running their mouth carelessly.”
As the servants’ eyes widened to the point of almost splitting, the crown prince issued an order.
“Kill them all here.”
The tone was as if he was commanding someone to dispose of rolling trash.
Then the knights, who had quietly appeared and surrounded the servants, swung their swords, and the servants’ necks fell without even getting a chance to plead for mercy.
Blood had stained the tip of Greta’s shoe after confirming the last servant had fallen dead, but she only wore a smile.
In the corridor where the stench of blood lingered, Greta’s whisper resonated in the crown prince’s ear, who was simply standing with his eyes wide open.
“Send a messenger to the Empire.”
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.
