“You killed me and my family. Where else could I go?”
Lowell, with a twisted face, spat words full of resentment. Her hands mercilessly strangled Peter. They were no longer the hands of a girl.
“If it hadn’t been for you, there would have been no reason for me, my family, to die…!”
Annet Martinec. The last memory before Peter woke up was of her strangling him.
Along with the memories, the suppressed madness invaded him more fiercely than before.
And now, several days later.
‘I need to stop thinking about Lowell.’
It had been days since Simonen declared he would guard Annet.
Peter finally stood up, unable to bear the turmoil in his mind. It was already dark outside. The time when it was hard to distinguish whether a creature running across the horizon was a dog or a wolf mirrored the landscape in Peter’s mind.
‘Erase memories again, and Annet’s presence will only backfire.’
Leaving it as is, there’s no way to control the madness.
Facing Annet in this state won’t have a good impact. If I don’t want to cause trouble at the Tillemann Memorial, I need to find another way to control this madness before then.
Fortunately, I had a method I used until three years ago. I haven’t used it since I started erasing memories, but…
‘I should visit the garden again.’
Peter decided to open a door he had long kept shut.
“I formally greet you. I am Simonen Lindell, and from today I will be in charge of your escort.”
Watching the knight with grey eyes bowing, Lowell thought,
‘My luck might not be as bad as I thought.’
Just before Simonen’s arrival, Lowell was deep in thought, naturally about what lay ahead.
‘So far, everything is going according to plan.’
Even as things stand now, there wouldn’t be any major problems, but Lowell preferred certainties. The habit of checking even the stepping stone before crossing stemmed from her time in Operetta. In that place, no one was given a second chance in anything. Only the most cautiously calculated and accurately seized single opportunity could determine the outcome of everything.
Therefore, to increase the chances of success, any means or methods that could enhance the likelihood of success should be utilized. This time was no different, being as ruthless, if not more.
She flipped through the documents written in Operetta’s code.
‘Based on what I’ve experienced, the current Emperor Peter’s madness hasn’t progressed as much as I thought.’
These documents, compiled by Lowell, were her diligent collection of stories and her final opinion on them. Among them, the most notable was about Peter’s madness.
‘Other Emperors without companions had already gone half-mad by the age Peter is now.’
With the progression of the Emperor’s madness still largely unknown, Lowell had to speculate whether Emperor Peter was in a similar state. In this process, she realized that Peter had maintained his sanity longer than any other Emperor.
The situation should be the worst possible, yet how?
‘Madness can’t simply be stopped by will…’
Peter must have used a certain method, Lowell was sure of it. She just couldn’t figure out what it was.
Even the information from the Martinec family couldn’t reveal this. She even subtly probed Monique to see if she knew anything.
‘Monique seemed clueless too.’
Finding out this way seems unlikely. As Lowell pondered this, Simonen came to her.
Mabel, working in the same place as her brother, was delighted.
“It’s really great that my brother has come to be your escort!”
“……I see.”
Lowell turned her gaze to Simonen, responding. It didn’t take her long to face his hostile gaze. Confronting his cold grey eyes, she remembered her visit to Simonen the previous day.
[‘I dislike you, Annet Martinec.’]The man who said this last night wouldn’t have suddenly started liking her enough to come here.
Lowell pretended to rest her chin on her hand, hiding the upward curl of her lips.
“Well, that’s good.”
What does the reason matter?
Now she might get closer to uncovering Peter’s secret.
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.
