Calon, tall in stature, extended his arm and bowed his head politely, causing the shouting Aradis to take a few steps back and say nothing more.
He, too, instinctively recognized something, that the man before his eyes was not someone he could handle casually.
“Help? What help did my daughter provide? And Lida, you! You’ve been with a stranger at this hour! You don’t even know shame!”
Aradis, like Elise, directed his anger at Aelfrie, the easy target.
“Daughter……?”
“Yes. I am Lord Aradis, and she is my daughter. Now let go of that rude hand!”
The lord spoke as if Calon was holding onto his possession.
Upon the lord’s words, Calon released Aelfrie’s hand at once, looking around him for a moment.
Aelfrie, her face flushed, not knowing what to do.
Unlike Aelfrie, a woman, dressed flamboyantly but unable to hide her eeriness, laughing.
And a lady who looked very much like the woman and her husband.
Surely, the lord’s eyes, who had called Aelfrie his daughter, showed no affection for her.
Calon was able to easily guess what kind of relationship this family had.
After his father’s remarriage, the child of a previous marriage, treated worse than the servants of the house, was not a rare occurrence.
There were those who said, “How can you discriminate so much against your own child?” but there were even more people who could do so precisely because it was their child.
Violence by strangers, but discipline by family, so many thought.
Calon could easily imagine what Aelfrie would go through after he left.
She would be blamed for not finishing the task properly, and for behaving improperly as a noble daughter. Surely, violence would accompany the criticism, judging by the attitude Elise had taken when Aelfrie arrived.
Thinking so, Calon suddenly felt a surge of anger. It was an inexplicable rage.
Honestly, Aelfrie was amusing, but to him, she was just an eccentric person who helped him, nothing more.
He had no intention of paying more attention to her than needed.
However…….
Calon’s gaze briefly rested on the wornout mansion of the lord, stripped of its paint, and the messy, almost untended garden.
Even that was enough to tell the economic situation of this house. Well, he could have known that by Aelfrie’s clothes alone.
‘Good.’
Calon knew exactly how to deal with these people.
What they lacked was what he had the most.
“Is that so? Once again, I apologize for making Miss Aelfrie late.”
Calon bowed once more and then turned toward the carriage. Lord Aradis, thinking that he would leave just like that, tried to stop him.
Instead of stopping and looking back at him, Calon opened the door to the carriage that he and Aelfrie had ridden.
“Oh my!”
Before long, Maya, who had come along with the Jajak couple, looked inside the carriage and exclaimed in surprise. And it was no wonder, for the carriage was filled with boxes of gifts.
“Move all of this into the mansion.”
“Understood.”
The coachman, who had been firmly instructed to take good care of Nisha before leaving, quickly got down at Calon’s command and began moving the boxes of gifts.
The Jajak couple and Elizee could only stare blankly at the boxes that kept pouring out of the carriage, forgetting even to be angry.
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.
