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They say abnormal fetuses cause hormonal changes in mothers.
I hadn’t understood those hormones’purpose until I saw Emma’s war against the world.
Time passed quickly.
The mule clan poured their resources into protecting Emma’s pregnancy,while stirring hate online.
Emma took it a step further,starting a live stream titled“The Birth of the King.”
She claimed that her child had unmatched masculinity and supreme regal aura.
In other words,a perfect hyper-masculine chimera.
After all my warnings,I’d hoped at least one mule clan member would stop this child’s birth.
Instead,the whole clan supported it,boasting,“Let’s see who has the guts to stand in the way of our clan’s last hope!”
No one bothers with fools,so while people cursed Emma online,no one confronted her in reality.
But Emma mistook their restraint for blessing.
A leopard clan woman came to me in tears.“Lila,the child you blessed me with is gone—scared away by Emma’s.”
I frowned.“What happened?”
She explained that Emma,while streaming,privately messaged pregnant mothers,demanding they bow to her.
She bragged,“Don’t bow to me now?You’ll be forced to bow to my son when he’s born..”
The leopard woman ignored her,thinking Emma was unhinged.
But one night,she woke to Emma standing over her with a knife.
“It was terrifying!Her eyes were bloodshot,and she tried to stab me!”
“She said her child’s path to greatness couldn’t be blocked,and my son was in the way.She wanted to eliminate him.”
“I managed to dodge,unharmed,but the shock caused my miscarriage.”
She sobbed,her grief for her lost child echoing my own.
More shocking was Emma’s descent into madness.
Her child’s influence on her was worse than I’d imagined.
I visited Emma,who was now in police custody.
During the day, she seemed normal and denied everything.
The police showed her surveillance footage.
She stared at her own face on the screen,disbelieving.“Impossible!That’s not me!”
“I’m pregnant.Why would I harm another mother?I’m not a monster!”
Emma screamed,on the verge of collapse.
But no matter her denials,her attempt to harm someone with a knife was undeniable.
As a pregnant woman,she hadn’t been sentenced yet,but once her child was born,judgment awaited.
I was puzzled.Emma,however flawed,wouldn’t randomly attempt murder.
Attempted murder was a serious crime, and no one in their right mind would commit such an act under surveillance.
Emma saw me and clung to me like a lifeline.“Lila,my best friend,tell them it wasn’t me!You know who I am!”
She grabbed my hand,refusing to let go.
I struggled,but as my fingers brushed her pulse,I froze.
Opening my celestial sight,my blood ran cold.
In just one month,her child wold be ready to be born.
And what was that abomination in her womb?
There was no trace of the original ten species.
Nine embryos had vanished,and,only one remained,clinging on.
I stared at her belly with my celestial sight.
The monstrous thing inside suddenly opened its eyes,blood-red pupils locking onto mine.
A chill gripped me.
