The Demon King's Confession
Dropped. I am getting sort of bored with this story. I will try to keep reading but may drop. FL, Lapis, always thought she was one of the cursed magicians, and so she wanted to be a paladin so she could either find the dark lord and have them break the curse or be killed before she becomes a beast. However, she kept failing. After failing the entrance exam again, she tried using magic sigil. Despite being magician, she can't seem to use magic...until one sigil brings the dark lord. Then a holy knight comes and she barely lights a candle to pass the test and is parent of the Area academy. She meets her childhood friends again, and they accept her for the wizard she is and help hide it. She also befriends a guy named Hector whose mom apparently killed the queen (though none of us believe that). The dark lord's constellation is falling and Lapis agrees the help the dark lord calla fetch them, of she'll break all wizards curses. However, funny story...Lapis is actually the OG dark lord. Also, the holy knight who helped her get into the academy is psycho killer against any and all magicians. Her friendos just found out that she is the dark lord and stayed by her side. The disciples are trying to determine what the "followers" are trying to do. And we as readers just discovered one of the disciples is actually the deer horned follower and he is with the little girl whose dad helped raise Lapis when she ran away from her friends 5 years before. He was the one who curse that man and made Lapis kill him. IMO Hector should totally be end game, but it seems like it wants that bastard killer holy knight to be the end game. Like... war can only excuse so much, but brutally massacring children should never be overlooked for a love interest. Like wtf??? Anyways, story is compelling. Art is okies. 3.8/5️
A Stepmother's Märchen
Also wait for better versions. FL is brought back to life after finally leaving behind the step children who didn't like her. She was sold to a Marquess whose wife had died and he took her in as his wife and trained her on how to run the household so that she could raise the kids and run things when he died until his eldest son could take his place. Mind you, when he dies, she's only 16. The kids hate her and she kept on going in the previous life despite that but then the eldest is about to get married and his fiance told her that he didn't want an embarrassment like her to even attend. She was sad because she was looking forward to it, but after the other kid's nonchalant attitudes when she asked them about it, she left, and she was brutally fucking murdered by what we now know in these later chapters to be the church. When she comes back she makes some small choices that changed how the children interacted with her. Like requesting to see her dead husband alone, because she wakes up again on the funeral day, and crying. The eldest son sees it, and whereas he was jealous of her for stealing his father's attention just before his death and thinks she's heartless like all the rumors say, seeing her broken up changes how he treats her. Other events happen and they're calling her "mom" instead of "fake mom", soon. They have a happy ish childhood. She deals with the power struggle within the family trying to undermine her. She meets another guy who prevents her skeevy brother from beating her in an alleyway, and his father is one of her dead husband's friends whose helped her out. Unfortunately, the conniving ass little prince manipulated his parents into punishing him harshly for something he never did and his dad's been abusive and cruel ever since. Meanwhile, prince is interested in FL and won't leave her alone. Priest ends up putting them in a situation where eldest son thinks prince is gonna assault mom and he punches him. The empress wants to cut off eldest son's arm for it, and prince doesn't object. He's a scheming fuck. Anyways FL figures it out, Empress takes a liking to her, prince leaves her alone for a bit, and thennnn time passes and middle son gets a gambling problem. Prince also got his younger brother into it, without getting involved himself, because skeevy. Meanwhile that other guy has become most likely ML material. ML is no longer enemies with eldest son, and they're close friends now. The two concoct some sort of plan to resolve the gambling issue. Prince trying to get into FL business again, annnnd pretty sure that's where I am at. Some of the flashback stuff was brutal. Kids were pranking her about the wedding and were gonna surprise her and take her themselves and finally call her mom. Eldest nevvvvver said he wanted his mom gone. Fiance decided to say thay herself because eldest said he would keep FL on the house and fiance got jealous that he had emotional connections with her (I think they're strictly familial, but can't tell). Anyways, he stops the wedding until FL can be found, and it is canceled because she's found and she is dead. In the previous life, the now ML met FL as a kid. He saw her on balcony crying. When he became a knight and was tasked with investigating her, he was already kinda in love. Then she died. Sad times. Not to mention that the marquees just before dying locked her into a closet because he suspected her of cheating because of a miscellaneous gift she received. When she got out she found him dead on front of the door. anyways, story is good. Super dark and sad sometimes. super cute and uplifting others. I like the art and the story. 4.9/5
Ebony