“I heard that the Monster Lord was coming to the ball this year.” “What? Is that true?”
These rumors are often not contrary to each other. In the empire, the “Monster Lord” pointed to one person. He was the owner of the Northern Halstead castle, where demons roamed around.
The Lord was not good at socializing with other people. However, in order to get the essential information needed to hunt the demons, he decided to attend the ball.
“I heard that the face behind the mask is so ugly?” “Even demons will be afraid of him!”
The Halstead Lord’s monster-like face has already become a noisy topic. On the other hand, some people paid more attention to the Lord’s wife.
“Poor woman! At a young age, she had to marry a monster on
behalf of her older cousins! Although it’s a nominal couple……”
“Other than that, I heard that the young woman was resourceful! Didn’t she collect a whole property by seizing the demons in the North? Her beauty is also substantial.”
“A waste on such a monster!” “Right! Right!” “If you think about it, you can seduce her. It won’t be that difficult. Trapped in a secluded castle, living with an ugly monster! How would a nobleman, like us, look to her compared to her monster husband?”
The noblemen happily chattered. Some of the nobles did not end with just words as they even tried to act it out. Count Baldane was among them. His handsome face was the reason why he enjoyed his life all the time as he always got special treatment everywhere because of it. Moreover, his visuals are the root of his overflowing confidence.
With a happy face, Leticia looked outside the window.
Whenever she thinks about her destiny with Erden, it was as if she’s been intertwining long and long threads ever since she was a child. The beginning was like that. The demons in the north lost their parents and grew up with cruel uncles and aunts, when the parents had died they returned to the same northern area. That was when Leticia was twelve. The day when everything started was still vivid to her.