Webtoon 2

⚠️ Trigger Warning ⚠️This story contains content which some readers may find distressing. This includes references to incest, sexual assault, and violence. Continue at your own discretion.

## Chapter 2

**Chapter 2** of the Webtoon was published on Ridibooks in South-Korea (2020-07-31), and on Manta in English. See here for a full overview of all media related to this chapter.

## Synopsis

> The devil of my Ducommun ancestors, please, help me put a stop to this! I don't want to marry him.
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In a flashback, Giovinetta recounts how her kissing her twin brother out of curiosity, resulted in being locked up in the tower, and how her first husband was murdered on their wedding night, for which she was dubbed *"Lady Devil"* by the rumors. After the flashback, Giovinetta is summoned by her father regarding her second arranged marriage, before she seeks out the Ducommun coffins for the first time.

## Summary

Memory

> I swear that the first time was out of curiosity, Kretschmann. I resent how the warmth of my brother's soft lips… clings so strongly to my mind.
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The chapter begins in the summer with a 6 year old Giovinetta Valdemar kissing her brother, Johannes Valdemar, out of curiosity before their horrified mother angrily drags Giovinetta away after seeing the two. From then on, Giovinetta would be confined inside the chamber on the third floor with her mother for company, where she could only experience the outside world from up in the tower through the window, from which she could watch Johannes train for knighthood.

Wedding

> The shame of having dozens of people witness the act was nothing… compared to the dreadful loneliness I had to endure before that.
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After several lonely years, Giovinetta weds a nephew of Rodrigo the Mighty; An arranged marriage which she accepts as an opportunity to finally gain individual freedom. Their consummation is displayed in the middle of a hall on an alter-like bed, but the next morning, she wakes to find her newlywed husband brutally murdered. For her husband's untimely and gruesome death, rumors begin dubbing Giovinetta as the "*Lady Devil*".

Myth of the Ducommun devil

Back to the present, Giovinetta's chambermaid, Griselda, relays that her father is summoning her. The duke inquires about the portrait and tells Giovinetta to not "make a fuss" about the matter, as Indridson is a suitor who is unconcerned with the rumors and is only intent on acquiring the Valdemar name. She meekly attempts to refuse this proposal before sulking away.

For the first time in her life, she seeks out the Ducommun family's devil, recalling how her mother had claimed that the devil would fulfill any wish laid upon one of the coffins. Giovinetta admits that it was against her better judgement, but the prospect of marrying the elderly Lord Indridson terrified and compelled her to make an ill-fated prayer to prevent her marriage. Elsewhere, Johannes is startled awake in cold sweat on his bed with demonic wings bursting from his back.

## Trivia

* According to the English translation, it is Giovinetta's great-great-grandfather who sealed the devil. However, we know that it is Kretschmann who's responsible for partitioning and sealing the devil. This means that this is probably a translation error. The story may actually mean that in her great-great-grandfather's age, a devil sealed, though not necessarily by her grandfather. Otherwise, it may indicate that Kretschmann is genetically related to the Ducommun descendants somehow.

## Appearances

Giovinetta Valdemar

Johannes Valdemar

Kretchmann

Duchess Valdemar

Griselda minor

Duke Valdemar

Devil

Ducommun