I Became the Frail Young Master of the Duke's House

Fantasy · Game · System · Royalty · BL · Pregnancy

[Status abnormal: curse. □□ has cursed you. ※The curse will be lifted upon □□'s death.]

Possessed into the son of one of the empire's greatest ducal families inside the open-world game Eternal Empire, Ion finds himself in a body that is dying from a curse.

To find the □□ who cursed him, he goes to see Camillus, the emperor's illegitimate son and the man rumored to be the witch's son, since Camillus is a clue to breaking the curse.

"You showed me a miracle like that. So Ion, you too are my miracle."

Before Ion possessed this body, Camillus had lived locked away in a tower by his father, the emperor. Because Ion saved him, he gives Ion unconditional favor.

But with even the three-meeting quest with him unfinished, Camillus chooses to head to the remote northern frontier for Ion's sake.

Eight years later, after the emperor dies and he becomes a grand duke, he returns to the capital and stands before Ion again.

"Even if you needed my life, I'd gladly give it. ...You absolutely deserve to receive that from me."

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"Ion, didn't I tell you?"

"Tell me what?"

"You're my miracle. Without you, I wouldn't be who I am now. Maybe I would still be locked in the tower."

"...But the you of now could have escaped on your own, couldn't you?"

"What ifs are meaningless. If you hadn't freed me then, I can't even be sure I would have survived."

"..."

"You pulled me out of hell. But can you really not love someone like that?"

Ion flinched at Camillus's question that was almost, but not quite, a question.

If he didn't love him, then what was that kiss just now?

"I can only love you."

Love.

Ion could not bring himself to say that this was the kind of thing men said to each other. He knew just how special Ion Kreiger was to Camillus.

In other words.

"I can give everything I have if it's to protect you."

He was his life itself. Something beyond even a god.

But what if I am not that person? Then... what happens to that blind devotion of yours?

"If only I had taken this curse instead, it would have been better."

The more he heard, the more guilty he felt.

Your Ion Kreiger is not here.

Instead, some nobody whose origin and name are unknown has drifted in without memories and is merely pretending to be the owner of this body.

Ion's eyes sank darkly.

If the day ever comes when you learn the truth later on, when that day comes.

Don't forgive me.

Because you will never be able to understand my situation, one that leaves me no choice but to deceive your pure heart.