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Chapter 76
I smiled unconsciously as I spread my fingers, and the man who had given me the newspaper stuttered.
âI guess you like your husband a lot.â
âHngg, but my husband wants a divorce.â
âHeuk.â
âSo, thatâs why you left home?â
âYou donât have sons?â
I sniffed at the man with the greasy face.
A few seconds ago, he was shoving his face towards me, but now heâs a little farther away.
I took a sip of cocoa and replied moderately.
âSons. Come to think of it, my first son really hates me. Heâs not my real son.â
Heâs not even Aedisâs biological son.
âMy first son asked me to marry him. He was going to kill me because I refused.â
âAmazing.â
âWhat⦠Whatâs the age difference?â
âThe second son is embarrassed because he thinks itâs all his fault that Iâve become like this.â
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He thought that he had awakened Pymon, so I had no choice but to sign a contract.
He didnât even listen when I explained that he wasnât at fault, so I was really upset.
ââ¦You have a second one?â
âWhoooaa!â
âWhat is this soybean flour* family?!â
*soybean flour family: divided, no bond, no order among the family members
âIn the first place, these are the circumstances of your family?â
In a moment, they had forgotten what they were doing and listened carefully to my familyâs relationship like it was the opening stage.
âSo?â
âWhat are you going to do now?â
âI donât know either.â
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The greasy-faced man grunted to himself and smashed the table with his fists.
âMiss, no. If youâre married, youâre not a Miss. Anyway, Iâm sorry for you! Whatâs your husbandâs name! Where is he now? Iâll kick his a**!â
His name is Aedis, and heâs over there.
âKaak! Kaak!â
Raven flapped his cute wings and flew to my shoulder and sat down.
Aedis furrowed his brows, looking displeased with Raven, who flew in quickly the moment he opened the door.
âMaevia, itâs past meal time. What are you doing hereâ¦â
âAre you the husband?â
The greasy faced man got up and pointed at Aedis.
It was as if he had used up all of his courage for the rest of his life.
âCome on! Fight fair and square for the Miss. Aghhh!â
Aedis came up to me, throwing the greasy faced bastard and his gang out of the store as if he were chasing a fly.
He reached out and stopped.
âWhy did it get worse? Did something happen?â
The blue eyes gleamed brightly. One must be really determined to so much as wave his hand with an unpleasant look on his face.
âNothing much apart from Shaula bringing and leaving me here?â
I felt relieved, so I used respectful words as usual, but on the contrary, Aedis narrowed his eyes.
I smiled at him and waved my hand.
âAedis, I canât get up.â
âI would think so.â
âHold me.â
Aedis picked me up with one arm and threw a pouch of money at the shopkeeper.
My tension melted like snow in the perfectly familiar arms.
However, the gang that had been kicked out of the store were nowhere to be seen.
How far did they flyâ¦
âKyaak?â
Raven followed me and tilted his head.
Since we were not going to see each other again anyway, I turned off my mind and focused on Aedis.
âThank you for coming to pick me up. I was scared.â
âYou were scared?â
Not because of those guys.
âAs Shaula said, you really went out of the castle, so I was afraid you wouldnât come back.â
ââ¦â
âCome to think of it, once youâre gone, thereâs no way for me to find you.â
âThere is no way I can disappear.â
Said the husband, who had been missing from morning until the sun went down.
âI canât believe it. I got married because someone said he didnât want to get a divorce. That turned out to be a lie.â
ââ¦â¦Thatâsâ
âThatâs?â
Aedis looked at me with a face that showed his complicated feelings, and his eyes widened.
Huh?
âWhat did you put on my face?â
Something hot dribbled from my nose.
I hurriedly covered it with my handkerchief, and checked to see if it was blood.
Itâs gotten really bad.
Aedis lifted me into his arms.
I grabbed his arm.
âDonât go to the castle.â
âHowever-â
âAnyway, Iâm in a mess right now. What I need the most is time alone with you.â
ââ¦â
âIf you donât listen, I wonât get a divorceâ¦â
As my nose bled, my energy seemed to drain away as well, so there was no strength in my voice.
Aedisâs arms embraced me, giving me strength.
âMaevia, I wonder whatâs going to happen to my head because of you.â
Am I a pain in the butt? But youâre happy, right?
***
Aedis accepted my choice and took me to a place that wasnât Cyclamen Castle.
It was a simple house with only the most essential furniture. A bed, desk, and wardrobe.
There were no paintings, and it seemed that it did not have any daily necessities at all.
There were hardly any traces of human life.
Nevertheless, the temperature magic worked, and the house was warm, so I took off my coat and fur hat.
Where are we? Aedisâs haven?
After looking around slightly, the structure of the house consisted of a living room on the first floor, and a study and a bedroom on the second floor.
There were less than ten books in the library.
After exploring the interior, I looked out the window and saw a pure white snow field.
Half of it was ice, and the other half was snow.
In a world covered in ice, the crystal gateway shone.
âWow, is it a crystal gate?â
This place was in between the land of humans and the realm of the beasts.
Beyond that gate, the quarry I bought, Tolka, would have an incomparable number of demonic beasts encamped.
Perhaps the place where this house was built was also a no-go zone.
I checked the window on the other side, but there were no other buildings.
There was only this little house on the white frozen ground. From the outside, it must be a bit of a lonely sight.
âHow did you build a house here?â
While wiping my face with a cloth dampened in warm water, Aedis said, âStrictly speaking, it doesnât belong to me. It was Andreiâs annex.â
Andrei�
âThe predecessor Grand Duke?â
Oh, my nosebleed has stopped.
âBefore he died, he left me the key and told me not to come alone. Am I not isolated enough from the castle?â
âYou have a good friend.â
Aedis sighed and laughed.
âIâm also the person who made the marriage contract.â
He lifted me up and placed me on the high window.
Thanks to this, my eye level was slightly higher than Aedisâs, who had folded his upper body.
It looked like his thick eyelashes were trembling.
âMaevia.â
I wish he would call me Eve.
I rolled my eyes and nodded lightly.
Aedis hesitated for a moment, as if contemplating how to start his sentence.
âI canât tell my wife everything. It also wouldnât be a good choice for me to be alone with you in the future.â
ââ¦â
Aedis was silent for a few seconds.
His distorted expression proved how reluctant he was to talk about this topic.
Because he really didnât want to say it.
Because he didnât want to reveal anything.
However, in the end, he decided that it was something he had to say.
âMaevia, Iâm not like you.â
He said that with a voice that sounded as if he was sinking deeper into a swamp.Note: his voice is becoming softer, as if he was talking while being submerged into a swamp
âThe reason why my hair and eyes are different from what you saw in your dreams is because I got a different implant.â
Differentâ¦â¦?
âItâs not human.â
His eyes trembled. His breathing was harsh.
âThe hand holding you, the eyes looking at you. Even this voice may not be mine.â
ââ¦â
I couldnât fully understand what he meant right now.
Aedis also knew my confusion, so he grabbed my hand and rubbed it against his cheek.
I gently stroked his face.
He seemed to have calmed down a bit by the action at least.
âYouâre probably wondering why itâs just a guess. But I donât know either. I donât know where my ârealâ body is. Even hundreds of years later. I still donât know.â
I remembered the silver-haired boy I saw in my dream.
Unidentified bruises were exposed beneath the sleeves of the clothes.
Suspicious scars that resembled needle marks.
âMaybe only the smallest part of the brain is original.â
He squeezed my hand.
Does it hurt?
â¦â¦I do not know.
âI donât know how to treat you. Youâre my wife. You chose me, but I didnât want to reveal it until I repaid the favor.â
ââ¦â
âEven if I donât die or grow old, I still want to be by your side as a human in nature.â
My hand that was held by Aedis turned white. There was no blood flow.
âBut now that you know my secret, itâs safer for you to return to the capital. As you can see, I canât control myself when it comes to that. Before I hurt you⦠Maevia?â
Ummm, Iâll have to remove my hand.
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