Fostering the Male Lead

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Just when I swung the sword to attack the unknown thing, it jumped out shouting, “Rosetta!”

I barely stopped my arms at the familiar voice.

Phew, that was close! I almost killed the male lead!

“Please say something when you come, Your Highness.
I nearly killed you.”

Sihael sighed, as if frustrated, as he looked at me and the demon alternately.

“I expected you to cry after seeing a demon, but I see you’re doing fine.”

“What?”

Why would I cry? I had never cried since I became Rosetta.
When I asked him what he meant, Sihael just shook his head.

“I ran here for nothing.”

“How did you know about it, Your Highness?”

“There’s no way I wouldn’t know because the smell of its blood is wafting everywhere.” When Sihael saw the blood splattered all over the place, he frowned.

“Good, you managed to destroy its nucleus.
It must have been hard to find.”

“Nucleus?”

What was that? Sihael’s eyes widened to large circles when I tilted my head in confusion.

“You don’t know? Then how did you kill the demon? Don’t tell me you just kept slashing at it mindlessly!”

“You’re right! I hacked it until it died.”

Sihael burst out laughing when he heard my response.
He seemed to find it extremely amusing, as his laughter did not stop.

“You are truly amazing, Rosetta Katzel.”

“It’s a compliment, right?”

“Of course it’s a compliment.
You are the first person to kill a Chimera* without knowing anything about its nucleus.”

*[ It’s not the Greek Chimera.
Here it’s a class of demonic monsters that live in the demon realm.
]

Sihael continued to praise me.

“If I had hands, I would have given you a standing ovation now.”

It was nice to be praised, but I couldn’t shake the implication of the proverb, ‘Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.’

“But why is a demon suddenly here?”

“There are two possibilities.
One is that the demon might have come over here through the mountains in the north.”

Sihael kicked the dead body of the mangled demon.

“The other possibility is that the empress is behind this.”

My pupils constricted as I remembered the empress’s setting from the original novel.
The empress was a wizard who could command familiars, most of which were birds — mainly crows.

Because the Empress’s abilities were limited, she was unable to deal with large animals.
That was why she was so obsessed with creating chimeras that obeyed her commands.

“It must be the empress’s work.”

Sihael nodded as he looked at the cold body of the Chimera.