Fostering the Male Lead

Chapter 36

“Not really.”

“I didn’t expect you to grow up so well since I last saw you. Our parents will be happy to see you like this.”

Is this something to be praised for…?

They might get happy because I didn’t make a fuss about cutting the maid’s hands off unlike before, but I don’t think it’s something to boast about…..

“I’m also happy for you, Rosetta.”

“…Are you on something?”

“Your habit of saying things mindlessly still remains the same.”

Leonard’s features tremendously softened and he stroked my hair. Feeling the tender warmth over my head, my lips trembled and puckered. Leonard laughed, seeing my mouth stick out like a duck’s beak.

“That habit is still the same.”

At that, I curled my trembling lips up.

* * *

That evening, the results of my blood analysis came out.

To put it simply, my blood was an aphrodisiac and a nourishing tonic for monsters. Ingesting my blood would give their body strength and improve their brains/make their brains more active.

The concentration of magic in my blood was also high, so I could heal their wounds even if they consumed just a little of my blood. In addition, my blood also smelled very sweet. So if a demon smelled it, it would get drunk and would fling itself at me.

“No wonder those demons went crazy and pounced on this child whenever they saw her.”

“Yes, our sister has suffered a lot since she was young.”

Lanoa and Leonard shook their heads, saying that they now understood why the demons were after me so much.

“His Highness also attacked her.”

Giving a sidelong scowl to Sihael, who was sitting quietly, Lanoa continued. His nose twitched, feeling awkward.

“You said it yourself, that His Highness smelled something delicious from you.”

“That’s because His Highness too has demon blood flowing in his veins. It’s natural for him to be affected.”

Just as Nanabi said, Sihael too had the blood of the demons. Sihael’s ancestor was the first demon to enter the human realm. He married a human woman he loved and had a child. The mixed race child born out of that union had superior intelligence and power far beyond human capabilities. The child knew how outstanding he was and he thought that the only right place for him was to be an emperor.

So finally, he usurped the throne, and the mixed-race child became the first emperor of the Idris family. Are you wondering how such a powerful person who had so many strengths, let alone a weakness, ended up getting cursed?

It was because he killed a wolf deity that was protecting the Imperial family during the usurpation of the throne. When the deity saw a man with the blood of the demons step into the Imperial Palace, cut off people’s throats, and spill blood, he cursed him in extreme anger.

It cursed the Emperor that on the night when the full moon rises, he would turn into a wolf and kill a beloved person.

Just as the deity cursed, the first Emperor became a wolf every full moon and put the people around him in danger.

The Emperor laughed and treated the curse as a joke, saying that he only needed to pass the day of the full moon well. But the curse did not stop there. At first, the Emperor returned to his human form after the full moon, but at some point, the time he stayed as a wolf began to lengthen. He eventually completely turned into a wolf and died at the hands of his own children.

‘The real problem started then.’

The curse continued even though the first Emperor, the main culprit of everything, died. It was because of the damn condition that the curse would be valid as long as the bloodline of the demons continued.

In order to resolve this curse, the Emperor’s descendents had to look for a mate and imprint on them. There were cases where some descendents met their companions early and imprinted on them, but there were also many cases where they could not find them until their death.

Fortunately, as time went by, the demon blood was diluted and the effect of the curse gradually faded. As a result, no cursed child was ever born.

But was it a joke of fate? When Sihael was born, the fading curse arose out of the blue, making him suffer terribly by turning him into a wolf every full moon.

From Sihael’s point of view, the recurrence of the curse was like a bolt out of the blue.

Out of all the people, the combination of the demon blood and it’s crazy curse had to befall him!

‘That means if he didn’t imprint on his companion, he would become a wolf like the first Emperor.’

As I looked at Sihael with pitiful eyes, I suddenly remembered our crazy first meeting and asked Nanabi.

“Then, the day when His Highness saw me and tried to eat me up, was it because of my blood?”

“That’s highly likely.”

So that was why he left everyone else alone and only attacked me. I wondered whether the reason why he kept looking for me again and again was because he was becoming impatient to eat me.

“Did I really do that?” (Sihael)

“Yes, you saw me as a fresh chunk of meat.”