Grand Duke, Please Stop Obsessing Over Your Wife! - Chapter 50

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50.

 

⟡Chapter 13⟡

 

I Wanted to Reach You

 

You.

 

The monster peered into her violet eyes to see if they were real, then smiled with satisfaction.

 

Sharp ice teeth glinted.

 

Found you

 

Hearing the voice flowing from the monster, Annelize felt goosebumps rise.

 

‘It has the exact same voice as the Duke.’

 

Even when she heard Pamine’s words, she couldn’t be certain.

 

Now there was no denying it.

 

The reason the Duke disappeared whenever the snowstorm raged fiercely.

 

The fact that he had never encountered the Frost Monster even once.

 

‘It was because every time the Duke fell asleep, he awakened as the Frost Monster.’

 

Actually, Annelize already knew. That the two were the same being.

 

‘But I didn’t want to accept it. The Duke and that monster are… too different.’

 

Unlike their first meeting when it observed her while maintaining a certain distance, the monster’s movements were unrestrained.

 

It was gradually getting closer.

 

In Annelize’s vision as she tried to flee, she saw the Duke collapsed and unconscious.

 

‘I can’t leave the Duke behind. And I can’t escape anyway. It will keep chasing me.’

 

She had to face it head-on here.

 

Sharp ice thorns glinted menacingly, ready to wound her at any moment.

 

Annelize wiped away the cold sweat flowing down her forehead.

 

The Frost Monster was completely different from the Duke.

 

Unlike the Duke who was extremely afraid she might get hurt,

 

the monster before her seemed unconcerned whether she was injured.

 

‘Rather, it seems to want me to get hurt.’

 

As if to prove this, blade-like ice cut her arm.

 

“Ugh…!”

 

A moment later, it cut the same spot once more.

 

“Hey… who cuts the same wound twice! Don’t you have any decency!”

 

Annelize gripped her arm’s wound tightly with her handkerchief.

 

‘I can’t collapse here. I still have so much left to do.’

 

The Third Prince hadn’t even met Anna Rose yet.

 

‘Without me, who will protect Anna Rose and Mother? And.’

 

Annelize looked at the sleeping Duke’s face.

 

‘And if I get hurt, the Duke will be sad too. Since he seemed not to remember his time as the Frost Monster.’

 

I can do this.

 

“Find the Camellia Flower first. I need to make it bloom. The Frost Monster hates Camellia Flowers.”

 

She deliberately talked to herself while groping around on the ground.

 

Since there was no one to help her, she had to rely on herself.

 

In the snowstorm, she barely managed to find the ceramic box buried in the snow.

 

Grasping the drooping stem in her hand, she whispered.

 

“Please bloom.”

 

It remained still.

 

I… hate… you…

 

You… made me…

 

The monster’s voice heard through the snowstorm made her shudder.

 

‘Pull yourself together.’

 

Annelize panted as she clutched the Camellia Flower to her chest.

 

“Please bloom. Please.”

 

Her power didn’t work at all. Then.

 

‘That “manifestation” thing Sir Pamine mentioned, can’t I use it now?’

 

Annelize grasped at every straw she could find.

 

‘But how do I do that?’

 

She didn’t know how to activate it.

 

‘I’m in a situation where I need to manifest “manifestation”…’

 

‘I should have asked Sir Pamine for more details.’

 

Let’s start from the beer story step by step. She pondered Pamine’s statement.

 

[Lady Annelize guided me to become the person I wanted to be, someone even I didn’t know about.]

 

‘Telling Sir Pamine to make beer? I just asked without much thought. I knew his power could be used that way. I thought it would suit him well.’

 

Why? Because.

 

‘I just thought that was the right thing to do…’

 

Could this be the power Sir Pamine mentioned?

 

‘First, I need to have conviction. Then I can guide things in that direction.’

 

Good. I think I roughly understand how it works.

 

‘But isn’t that conviction easier to have the more you know about the other party?’

 

She and the Camellia Flower were practically strangers.

 

‘What do you want to become? What must you become?’

 

Even when she asked, the flower before her just stayed still like a haughty princess.

 

As if it would remain still while she figured everything out on her own.

 

‘This is the first time I’ve wanted to grab a flower by the collar.’

 

She couldn’t even tell its basic preferences.

 

She was still struggling.

 

Meanwhile, the time available to make the flower bloom was steadily decreasing.

 

* * *

 

The lunar eclipse would end soon.

 

For the next three years or so, there would be no opportunity to make this flower bloom.

 

Annelize’s heart grew urgent.

 

“Please bloom. Please. Hm? What should I do?”

 

Threats. Pleas. Persuasion. Nothing worked.

 

No matter what she did, the Camellia Flower still didn’t respond.

 

Stay calm. I can do this.

 

After calming her mind, Annelize carefully went through information about Camellia Flowers in her memory.

 

It was said to bloom during the approximately one hour of the lunar eclipse’s progress.

 

“Simply blooming isn’t enough. It has to be a flower that must manifest in this situation.”

 

Suddenly. Another characteristic of the Camellia Flower came to Annelize’s mind.

 

‘A flower that burns itself.’

 

Why did I only think of this now?

 

If a plant born with such characteristics had to produce a flower, there was only one kind.

 

‘I think this is right. No, it is right.’

 

With conviction, Annelize shouted.

 

“Bloom into flames!”

 

Golden energy enveloped the hand tightly gripping the flower.

 

At that moment.

 

The Camellia Flower bloomed fully.

 

Red petals flashed like lightning. Immediately, the flower began burning fiercely.

 

It literally became a flame.

 

‘It burns itself while illuminating the world. How beautiful.’

 

Staring blankly at the flower, Annelize nearly got burned.

 

As she threw the flower, it fell at the monster’s feet.

 

Immediately, flames transferred to the Frost Monster.

 

It hurts!

 

The monster let out a scream. It was so agonizing that it would freeze anyone who heard it.

 

It hurts. It hurts. It hurts.. It hurts!

 

I hate being in pain.

 

I want to stop hurting.

 

‘It sounds like the Duke’s screams.’

 

She couldn’t bear to listen and covered her ears with her hands.

 

Why do you always make me hurt.

 

The Frost Monster writhed in agony.

 

‘I’m glad I can’t hear the monster’s screams.’

 

The flames never died down for even a moment, devouring the monster as if to burn it completely.

 

It was when it had almost completely burned.

 

Annelize relaxed, convinced that the monster could no longer fight back.

 

That was the moment.

 

The monster gathered its last strength and extended ice toward Annelize.

 

Toward where her heart was.

 

The thin ice pillar stretching out resembled the movement of extending a finger.

 

It touched very lightly.

 

Just enough to feel her heartbeat.

 

“Gasp!”

 

Annelize was so distracted by the flames that she noticed the Frost Monster’s movement too late.

 

She nearly stopped breathing when she saw the ice spike touching below her left collarbone.

 

‘Stay still. If I move, it might pierce deeper.’

 

The monster was disgustingly persistent. She could feel its malice to leave a scar even if it meant its own destruction.

 

Wooong. Woooooooong-.

 

The ice resonated like a vocal organ. As if transmitted directly to her heart.

 

Annelize heard the Duke’s, no, the monster’s voice.

 

I am…

 

Just… you…

 

To you…

 

…( ).

 

The last words couldn’t be heard properly.

 

All she could hear was the sound of ice cracking and crumbling.

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