“Then, where are the sins sealed by the two families that have disappeared?”
“Ah.”
Originally, there were seven major sins.
But since only five families remained, the whereabouts of the remaining sins were unknown.
But why did people never once question the whereabouts of the other sins?
“They probably thought the royal family was quietly watching and monitoring the seals.”
No one would care about a family that has become extinct.
That the important seal stone came out into the market like this.
I looked down at the red seal stone, resting my chin. Looking closely, something seemed to be flickering inside the gem.
“So, what can we do with this seal stone?”
I knew it was a seal stone of sin. But how it could be used to make a fortune was still unclear.
Reian answered without hesitation.
“We will summon the sin.”
“…What?!”
I stared at Reian in shock.
Summoning sin, isn’t that a threat to destroy the world?
Despite such a tremendous statement, Reian’s face remained calm.
“It does not mean unsealing. If you deal with the sin, you can use the power of the sin. But you must pay a price. What the price will be depends on the sin’s demands.”
“You mean, we can make money using that power through a deal with sin?”
“The result is the same, but the process is different.”
Reian lowered his voice after a glance at Munga.
“There is an unknown fact related to sin. The owner of the seal stone can use the power of sin without paying a price.”
“Just by possessing the seal stone?”
“Yes. But neither the heads of the four major families nor the royal family know this fact.”
If that were true, it would be an enormous secret that could not simply be ignored.
It meant the ability to fully utilize the power that tried to destroy the world.
But apart from that, another question arose.
“How does Reian know this secret?”
“….”
How could he know something that even the heads of the families guarding the seal stones from generation to generation did not know?
I couldn’t let it slide.
Reian was silent for a long time. An uncomfortable silence lingered like the sticky humidity of summer.
I endured the silence. I could not move on without hearing an answer.
A tugofwar of silence ensued, and eventually, it was Reian who spoke first.
“I have dealt with the sin of pride in the past.”
The sin of pride was sealed by the Aphelite family, one of the extinct families long ago.
So, the red seal stone in front of me must be ‘Greed,’ sealed by another extinct family, the Bietan family.
“Hmm, so this is Greed then.”
Reian nodded to my question.
“All I can tell you is that I have dealt with pride.”
Whether he was hiding it or truly unable to tell, it was clear that prying would get me nowhere.
Reian’s will seemed firm.
Certainly, I will translate the passage into English as follows:
“Do you ever plan to tell me? What Reina is hiding.”
“Yes. ……Someday.”
“I understand.”
Just hearing the fact that he had dealt with arrogance was valuable information about Reina.
‘It must be wrapped in a veil after all.’
He sighed lightly and looked down at the sealing stone again. This is called the Sealing Stone of Greed.
“Sin, how do I summon it?”
You can take out an iron horn at once, and he was planning to summon it once.
Reina began to explain as she returned the jewel box to me.
“First, hold the sealing stone in your hand.”
“Okay. Holding it in my hand.”
He reached out to the sealing stone as Reina had said.
And at the moment his fingertips touched the Sealing Stone of Sin[Dash].
“……!!”
Thud[Dash]!!
His vision went dark.
(This is a time delimiter.)
A splitting headache overwhelmed him. Not only that, but his stomach felt like it was about to throw up any moment.
“Ugh…….”
With one hand on his mouth, and one hand holding his throbbing head, he opened his eyes.
What greeted him was the middle of a ruined temple.
He couldn’t tell whose temple it was, but the pillars of the completely shattered building were scattered here and there.
And he had just woken up there….
In the middle of the building ruins, where the dim dawn light settled, he stiffly raised his upper body.
“Where is this, who am I……?”
He had been talking about the Sealing Stone of Sin in Reina’s office, and then he had passed out and been transported to this strange place.
He pinched his cheek, wondering if it was a dream[Dash].
“Ouch.”
The pain was real.
‘Hold the sealing stone in your hand!’
Doesn’t that mean there is a next step? There was no mention of falling into a strange place like this!
He was at a loss in this sudden, unexpected situation.
Furthermore, the headache and nausea were not improving at all.
“What on earth is going on.”
First, he looked at the building ruins while sitting to figure out where he was, and that’s when it happened.
A small fox appeared out of nowhere and stood in front of him.
The peculiar thing was the color of the fox. It was an allblack fox.
“A fox……?”
Where did the fox suddenly come from? Then maybe there might be someone else here besides me.
The moment he got up from his seat, staggering,
The black fox snickered.
[Fox? No. Greed.]“……?”
The fox, it speaks?
As he stared at the black fox in astonishment, it looked back at him with sharp eyes and said,
[What are you looking at.]“……But why do you talk like that?”
The fact that the fox spoke, or that the fox introduced itself as Greed, was more bewildering and absurd than its strange way of speaking.
The fox smirked in response.
[Don’t like to talk long. Waste of energy.]“Still, wouldn’t it be better to speak properly? How much longer will it take?”
At my words, the fox answered firmly.
[The economy of language.]“…….”
Is it crazy…….
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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