Grand Duke, Please Stop Obsessing Over Your Wife! - Chapter 48
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48.
Pamine woke up from sleep with tears.
He couldn’t remember the content, but it had been very sorrowful. He wiped away his tears and then grabbed his head.
“Aah! It hurts!”
A splitting headache struck Pamine.
‘Is, is this the hangover that Lady Annelize mentioned?’
It definitely didn’t hurt when he was drinking. But now that morning had come, it hurt so much.
Wait a minute. Lady Annelize?
‘I was with Lady Annelize yesterday. What did we talk about…’
Pamine clutched his head and struggled to recall his memories.
‘It was definitely very important content.’
As soon as he remembered, Pamine’s heart dropped with a thud.
‘Lady Annelize found out that we’re not human!’
Due to his hangover, yesterday’s memories weren’t coming back properly, but in the fragmentary memories that surfaced, Annelize had discovered almost all the secrets of the Grand Duchy.
‘Even the secret between my lord and the Frost Monster.’
Pamine vaguely remembered Annelize patting his head and then turning around to leave.
‘She must have run away thinking we were fearsome monsters.’
Humans had always been like that.
‘Right. I remember telling Lady Annelize to take care even if I went somewhere else.’
Pamine bolted upright.
‘Let me cling to her even now. Even if I have to grab the hem of her dress. Maybe she’s still in her room.’
He roughly burst into Annelize’s room.
“Lady Annelize! Where did you go, leaving me behind! I’m already feeling separation anxiety from Lady Annelize!”
I’ll sit in front of the door and not move until Lady Annelize returns…
Pamine looked around Annelize’s room with a thread of hope.
He discovered a paper thrown in the corner of the room.
It was the suicide note that Annelize had written and discarded before leaving for the village.
Pamine’s eyes filled with shock.
“A, a suicide note?”
-Suicide Note-
If you’re reading this, I’m probably already dead…
If it had been a real suicide note, it wouldn’t have been cut off in the middle, but Pamine didn’t have the mental capacity to delve into such detailed nuances due to his hangover.
‘Lady Annelize!’
Pamine clutched the paper with both hands and collapsed.
He had tried beer for the first time yesterday, and was experiencing a hangover for the first time today.
He didn’t notice that his physical condition was particularly strange today.
‘Did she hate and fear us that much? Enough to choose death instead…’
Just thinking about it was too sad.
Last night. In stark contrast to how he had shown off his knowledge about divine powers like an expert in front of Annelize,
Pamine burst into tears like a newborn baby experiencing the world for the first time.
“Waahhh-”
A maid who was sweeping the corridor was startled and threw down her broom.
“What’s that? What’s that sound?”
“Is it thundering outside?”
“No. It seems to be coming from the lady’s room.”
The maids who opened the door, drawn by the sound, were overwhelmed by the sight and trembled in fear.
It was understandable to see a mountain-sized adult man with scars on his face crying loudly.
The servants eventually called for Isaiah.
Isaiah shuffled into the room and looked down at him.
“Pamine? What are you doing in the Duchess’s Chamber?”
“Waahhh-”
Pamine’s sorrow was still ongoing.
Isaiah’s hand grabbed his chin.
“Pamine. Listen carefully. I don’t have a hobby of wiping men’s tears. Stop it on your own. Got it?”
“Y, yes.”
Pamine instinctively tucked his tail. He really was a scary human.
“Good.”
Pamine stammered as he explained the situation.
“I, I made beer yesterday, and Lady Annelize said it was really delicious and petted me, and she even scratched my chin so I was happy. I got excited and stood up, but then… I ended up revealing the most important part of a male.”
He made a dejected expression.
“…”
Isaiah’s gaze lingered on the area between Pamine’s trouser legs, where his tail was located.
“I told you. I said you’d get caught by the Duchess someday if you kept doing that.”
“The moment Lady Annelize grabbed my big, fluffy gray tail in her hand. I realized I’d been caught. After that…”
Pamine was in the middle of confessing his mistake with mixed feelings.
“What’s going on?”
“My lord!”
The Duke staggered as he joined them.
As soon as they saw the Duke’s face, Pamine and Isaiah exchanged glances.
It was because their lord’s condition wasn’t good.
‘He looks exactly like he’s about to fall asleep.’
Isaiah supported the Duke.
“My lord. Surely you’re not thinking of going out. If you fall asleep, we’ll handle it.”
The Duke shook his head vigorously.
“This isn’t the time. Isaiah! Look at the sky.”
When they opened the window, an unusually cloudy and dark sky came into view.
“It’s a barrier. They’ve set up a barrier over only part of the Grand Duchy. To control the weather.”
“What kind of weather…”
“A snowstorm will occur.”
The Duke looked confused.
“Lady Annelize might leave us.”
“Leave? Why-”
“Look at this, my lord!”
Pamine thrust Annelize’s suicide note in front of his eyes.
“A suicide note… you say?”
Pamine said gloomily.
“Due to my negligence, Lady Annelize found out all our secrets. What if she runs away? No, she might already be running.”
The Duke struggled not to lose control of his consciousness. Something unknown was pulling him into a drowsy state.
A suicide note, leaving the world? She left home, why? A suicide note?
If it had been the usual Duke, he could have quickly distinguished between the delusions that anxiety showed and actual reality.
But right now, he was too on edge.
The anxiety that Annelize might have left him gnawed at him.
His senses kept feeling too vivid… the Duke’s vision wavered.
Annelize, why?
With that, the Duke fell into sleep.
The moment the Duke fell asleep and lost consciousness.
A Frost Monster appeared within the boundary.
It was still translucent and hazy for now.
* * *
Evening came.
People gathered at the village’s underground shrine.
They came to witness the opening of the shrine for the lunar eclipse.
Before the eclipse began in earnest.
Annelize naturally joined with Elli.
Alriksen walked down the stairs and opened the underground shrine.
When he raised the ceramic box above his arms, people cheered.
‘Actually, I have the real camellia flower.’
Annelize clutched her bag tightly.
But seeing the residents’ joyful expressions, she could understand why Alriksen made that choice.
While the residents were playing with torches, Annelize secretly slipped away.
‘I have to go to make the real camellia flower bloom.’
The full moon was gradually being shadowed bit by bit.
Annelize then spotted a child standing some distance away from the village.
‘What was that child’s name again. She said it was derived from Anelarion like mine. Ah, it was Anel.’
“Anel! How did you get there all alone? It’s dangerous. Come back to the village quickly. Anel!”
Anel stood frozen in place.
A chill ran down Annelize’s spine.
‘This child…’
Fortunately, her pulse was beating. The child’s skin was cold.
“How long have you been standing like this?”
I need to take her and warm her body quickly.
When she lifted Anel into her arms.
The ground turned into a swamp and they were sucked downward.
‘It was a trap.’
But by whom?
Her body was pushed into the barrier.
At that moment, Annelize used all her strength to push Anel outside the barrier.
After confirming the small body was completely outside the barrier, she closed her eyes.
‘Thank goodness.’
* * *
“Master! The lady has gone missing!”
Those were the words Elli burst in and blurted out.
Annelize had disappeared.
“She was staying in the village, but she suddenly vanished about an hour ago!”
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