I’m The Male Lead’s Biological Daughter, But I Want To Live With The Second Male Lead! - Chapter 99

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Episode 99
The chaos wrought by Zigmund finally came to an end with Winter’s surrender.
Even Winter, who had seemed absolutely immovable, was helpless before the sheep-shearing.
“So what you’re saying is…….”
Aselt arrived to find Zigmund making a scene and moved to summarize the situation.
“Winter is a Fantasy Species, and he placed a Covenant of Subjugation on Mabel?”
“Yeah.”
Zigmund, who was kneeling on the floor for some reason, answered.
His disciple Aselt sat on the sofa with his legs crossed—but why was Zigmund on his knees like that?
And why were Mabel and Kellic standing beside him?
Not a soul among them truly understood what was happening, but no one raised an objection either.
Well, that was because…….
“Right.”
Aselt’s gaze shifted to the space beside Mabel.
More precisely, to Winter, who stood rigid as stone.
That’s right.
The moment Aselt heard the story, he’d immediately petrified Winter.
Before Mabel could even get a word in to stop him!
“What—what are you going to do?”
As Aselt approached, Mabel threw her arms around Winter tightly.
Since he’d turned to stone, he was too heavy to move, so she could only shield him with her body.
“What am I going to do?”
Aselt smiled gently at Mabel, who stood tense and wary.
“I’m going to have a word with that beast.”
Winter had gone from “he” to “that creature” in Aselt’s mind.
Mabel swallowed hard, and Aselt clenched his fist pointedly.
“If you don’t fix this mess right now, next time you’ll be shattered to pieces.”
“Eek……!”
It was clear he meant to petrify Winter again before the beast could even release his Aura!
If Winter broke apart while petrified, he’d either suffer severe injury or die.
It was true that Winter had recklessly forged the Covenant of Subjugation with Mabel without permission, but threatening death was still too far!
“Listen, Aselt! Even so, that’s going too far!”
“That’s right! You’re being too harsh!”
Zigmund rushed to intervene at the harsh threat.
Kellic, who’d been anxiously poking his nose with his finger to ease the numbness in his legs, joined in as well.
But.
“And what have you been doing all this time, Master, to let things come to this?! Mabel is about to have her entire future mortgaged to some greenhorn who can’t even assume Beast Transformation form!”
Aselt’s sharp rebuke deflated Zigmund in a single blow.
There was no time to point out that Aselt was speaking informally.
“I… how was I supposed to know they’d do something like this…….”
Zigmund huddled in on himself, grumbling miserably.
“And Kellic, you’re no better. If you chose to be the bait, you should have done the job properly. You bear responsibility for what happened to Mabel too, understand?”
Kellic withered under the barrage of harsh words as well.
“You’re right, but… even so, isn’t that a bit too cruel…….”
The two of them leaned against each other, sobbing pitifully.
There was no point looking to those two for help.
Mabel opened her mouth urgently.
“But you don’t understand! If Winter hadn’t done that back then, I might have died-”
“That’s exactly what bothers me!”
Aselt cut off Mabel mid-sentence as she desperately tried to defend Winter.
“In the end, what did he do? He imposed a Covenant of Subjugation on you because he thought he was going to die.”
“That’s… that’s not-”
“Did he even ask you? Did he ask if it was okay? No, he didn’t. And what did that beast do? He’s been keeping his mouth shut about it this whole time!”
While Mabel tried to speak, Winter said nothing in his defense.
Moreover, he’d acted as though he planned to hide the fact that he was a Fantasy Species from now on, lest it put Mabel in danger.
‘And now here we are. He’s done all this, and what does he do?’
Aselt felt anger rising even toward himself for having trusted this beast, even for a moment.
“Mabel, a Covenant of Subjugation is as good as a Subjugation Mark—it’s irreversible once it’s been established. He committed this atrocity against you.”
Aselt had always thought that if he ever had to bear a Subjugation Mark, it would be from Zigmund or Mabel.
Since he was a Beastman, if he didn’t bear a Subjugation Mark, he would continue to be a danger to those around him.
He’d thought it natural.
But Mabel shattered that assumption in an instant.
And yet, now Mabel herself had become entangled in something far worse than the Subjugation Mark!
‘Mabel clearly has no idea what’s happened to her.’
That’s why she stood there with such an open face, defending an ungrateful beast.
He hated growing distant from Mabel, but if it meant protecting her, Aselt could become a necessary evil.
“That creature deliberately deceived you, you—”
That was when it happened.
“Wait, Aselt. You’re getting too worked up right now.”
Zigmund, who had been sitting crumpled against Kellic, rose to his feet.
Aselt moved to press the issue again.
As Mabel’s guardian, as her protector.
No—beyond that, he was angry at Zigmund too, an adult who hadn’t even known Mabel had come to this.
But Zigmund was faster, stepping forward to press a firm hand on Aselt’s shoulder.
“Calm down first. Like you said, we should try talking before anything else.”
It was the kind of force that would brook no further resistance.
“And I might be misunderstanding something. Winter didn’t exactly answer directly either.”
So they needed to give Winter proper time to explain.
It was so like Zigmund—to refrain from hastily harming others until he’d grasped the full context.
Aselt finally retreated, grinding out rough, irritated breaths.
“Then release the Petrification now. And apologize to Kellic later as well.”
“……Very well.”
Aselt clicked his tongue, still displeased with the turn of events.
The moment his eyes blinked, Winter’s stiffened form returned to normal.
“Winter!”
Mabel immediately scooped Winter into her arms.
Winter was bewildered, unsure what had happened to him.
Then, remembering that Aselt had turned him to stone, he began releasing his Aura at once.
“Hnn……!”
Kellic, standing nearby, flinched sharply back.
But Kellic’s situation was slightly better than that.
The Aura that had been so terrifying even without emotion now carried unmistakable hostility.
Aselt, the target of that hostility, couldn’t even breathe.
‘At this point, I’d rather be petrified again…….’
Aselt clenched his fists to hide his trembling hands.
“Winter, no! We can’t fight—we need to talk about this!”
Mabel quickly covered Winter’s eyes.
“Kyaow!”
Winter, thoroughly infuriated, threw a tantrum even at Mabel.
As if demanding why she was defending Aselt.
But Mabel had something to say too.
“You placed the Covenant of Subjugation on me without asking my permission first, Winter—that’s your fault!”
Winter fell silent at the sharp rebuke.
In the same moment, Aselt and Kellic exhaled the breath they’d been holding.
Winter had withdrawn his Aura.
Then words appeared above Winter’s head.
[But.]
[Then. No. Choice.]
[Hate. Die. Me. Mabel. Too.]
[This. Bad?]
“……No, that’s not bad.”
Knowing this, Mabel couldn’t bring herself to be angry with Winter.
If not for the light that had so brilliantly illuminated the Cave back then, Winter might truly have died.
“But you should have told me about it later, at least.”
[What?]
“That you placed the Covenant of Subjugation on me, and that we became like that.”
[Why?]
“Why, you ask…….”
Mabel was left speechless by Winter’s brazen attitude.
Indignation and frustration welled up, and irritation began to bloom.
Yet there was a reason Winter hadn’t told Mabel everything.
[It won’t work.]
“……Huh?”
[Covenant of Subjugation.]
[Failed.]
“……What?”
Mabel’s eyes flew wide open.
Her pupils trembled violently as she stared at Winter, whose eyes were hidden.
“What are you saying? What do you mean?”
Zigmund, who had been waiting silently for Mabel to explain, pressed her with a note of urgency in his voice.
He was frustrated, unable to even guess what they were discussing.
Even so, Mabel stared at the top of Winter’s head for a long moment.
“Mabel, what did Winter say?”
Aselt, unable to contain his curiosity, joined in and asked.
Only then did Mabel turn to face Zigmund and Aselt.
Her pupils were still trembling uncontrollably.
At last, Mabel’s mouth opened.
“The Covenant of Subjugation… it… it won’t work……?”
“……Huh?”
“……What?”
“Winter was prepared to attempt the Covenant of Subjugation, but it failed. Probably because I’m not a Seer…….”
In other words, to sum it up: this was what had happened.
Zigmund and Aselt had both committed a terrible wrong—they’d tormented a white lion.
“They’re going to report it to the Wingrieon Clan and have you prosecuted as animal abusers…….”
Based on mere conjecture, they had inflicted a grave injustice upon Winter!

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