Thinking of Hadel, who must have felt frustrated and lonely, my heart ached. But there was no time to indulge in emotions. Even if Hadel was the only fire attribute swordmaster in the kingdom, there was a mentor here who could teach him.
Right here.
It was me, Marian, the country’s top fire attribute swordmaster.
“I’ll help you!”
“Kyukyuu!”
Determined, I vigorously kicked the ground with all four limbs and leaped forward. Since I had only stepped back enough not to be trampled by Hadel in the first place, it didn’t take long to approach him.
Hadel, surrounded by monsters, spotted me and shouted urgently in a strained voice.
“Marian!”
It was the first time I heard my name from his mouth.
“I thought you just let it slip and forgot.”
Even though I knew everything, he called me Kyukyuu instead of Marian. At a time like this, his mischievousness was beyond words.
After melting the wolf-shaped ice monster trying to bite his arm, Hadel, with a desperate expression, yelled at me.
“Why didn’t you run away!”
“Kyuu!”
“I’m not your subordinate, and if you tell me to go, should I just go!”
“And in this situation, I’m the only one who can help you, right?”
As I was about to leap onto Hadel’s body, an ice monster attacked. Just as it was about to climb up his leg, I couldn’t avoid an attack aimed at biting my side.
“Ugh, if I get bitten in my current condition, it’ll be a big problem!”
If my heart were in good condition, I wouldn’t be worried about such feeble monsters as opponents, but currently, my heart was malfunctioning. The approaching cold towards me was threatening. It was when I reflexively tightly closed my eyes.
“Kyukyuu! Danger!”
Hadel threw away his sword and embraced me with both hands. Warm mana flowed into my body.
Hadel stared at me with eyes filled with turmoil. Before I could detect any emotion in that gaze, his forehead, which had bowed down like a collapsing dam, touched the tip of my head. Without meeting my gaze, he spoke with a heavily suppressed voice.
“If you get hurt too…”
Normally, he wouldn’t show such emotionally turbulent behavior, so why was he revealing his vulnerable side so generously today?
Although it was quite adorable, now was not the time to comfort and soothe him. I pressed my lips against his, which had come closer.
“Don’t nag, just shut up and use your lips!”
Our lips sealed tightly as if the air couldn’t escape. Given the situation, there was no room for gently pressing our lips together and waiting for his heart to be ready.
“Ugh, really, carrying such mana…”
Mana flowing into my body gushed like lava, scalding hot. It was incomprehensible to be struggling against such ice monsters with such pure flames inside.
His breath and mana tangled turbulently, and in an instant, his short arms and legs stretched out, and his soft soles touched the ground.
“Ugh.”
Momentarily unable to regain my body’s balance, I swayed heavily. Hadel instinctively pulled me close with both arms.
Though it was a considerate action, it was an excellent move for the imminent flame attack he would show.
“…That’s not how you use fire.”
I flicked my fingers in front of his eyes. Just like sparks fly when lighting a bonfire, small flames blossomed before our eyes, twinkling like stars.
“Now is the time.”
With mana being passed back and forth between Hadel and me, this was the time to do it.
Gently nurturing the sparks, I reached out my hand.
“Gather them up and explode them all at once!”
At that moment, a massive wave of flames poured out from my hand.
Using a sword was easier because flames were so intense and easier to control. However, if there were so many enemies, and allies were not within the range, why bother swinging flames intricately?
The biggest advantage of flames lies in their explosive power.
“Ah, refreshing.”
A sense of liberation, thinking I would never experience this again, shook my entire body. With a refreshing smile, I turned to Hadel.
“Why are you suppressing yourself like that?”
“Marian.”
I nodded to Hadel and pulled him toward me. Sharp-witted Hadel understood what I wanted without me saying a word.
“If there’s no one to teach, then I’ll teach you.”
In the cold forest, waking up with a malfunctioning heart was nothing but a miserable thought. I wondered if there was any meaning in living like this.
But if I was by Hadel’s side, there was something I could do. It was something that brought great happiness to me as well.
Hadel raised his hand. It felt awkward for him to generate flames without holding a sword, and I could keenly sense that. I cheered him on enthusiastically.
“Yes, that’s right. You’re doing well.”
Just gather all the mana from every heart and explode it at once.
Boom!
With a tremendous sound, the ice monsters surrounding Hadel exploded instantly. I couldn’t help but burst into laughter. Facing Hadel, I asked with a smile.
“Feels refreshing, doesn’t it?”
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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