Grand Duke, Please Stop Obsessing Over Your Wife! - Chapter 59

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59.

“Of course. We’re heading that way anyway.”

Isaiah readily agreed.

“I’ve caught a glimpse of the second young lady of Solariccen in the capital before. I’ll finally get to be properly introduced.”

What? Annelize made a face as if asking what he was talking about.

“I’m sorry, but Sir Isaiah can’t meet Anna Rose. You’ll need to hide while I meet with her. Or cover your face with this cloak.”

“Is there a particular reason I need to hide? If it’s because I’m not human, I’m more confident than anyone at concealing my identity. Don’t tell me you’re worried I might harm your sister? Hmm, looking at your expression, that doesn’t seem to be the reason.”

Isaiah offered various guesses. He seemed completely unable to grasp the situation.

Annelize stopped walking and looked Isaiah up and down.

Fine golden hair and an angelic face. A lean body with well-defined muscles that didn’t give off a dull impression.

‘As expected, he has the kind of beauty that would drive Anna Rose crazy. He’s exactly her type.’

Anna Rose had been eyeing him even during their brief encounter in the Empire.

‘I can’t let her meet another blonde handsome man when I don’t even know if she’s met the Third Prince yet.’

“Why are you looking at me with such wary eyes? Is there some problem with me?”

Annelize pointed at his face with her hand.

“That face is the problem!”

“My face?”

“Anna Rose is weak to blonde handsome men. If she sees Sir Isaiah, she’ll fall head over heels for him. Then my plan to make Anna Rose fall in love with the Third Prince and become the Empress’s sister will be ruined.”

Annelize was truly serious.

“You understand, right? So please cooperate for the future of the Empire, Sir Isaiah.”

“…Well. I understand. Thank you for worrying so much about my good looks. I have a heavy responsibility. I’ll just take a walk outside the monastery.”

“If you happen to unexpectedly encounter Anna Rose, at least make an ugly expression.”

“I’ll do that.”

Isaiah suppressed his laughter and promised to avoid Anna Rose.

The shortcut from the ruins of the temple where they had been to the monastery required crossing through the forest.

As the monastery drew closer, Annelize felt a strange sense of unease.

“There’s no smoke rising from the monastery roof. Usually at this time, they’d be lighting the oven to prepare lunch.”

That wasn’t all. Though they should ring the bell once every hour, the monastery’s bell tower remained silent.

‘What’s going on?’

Annelize quickened her pace with an anxious heart.

The side gate of the monastery came into view.

Just before entering the beginning of the path leading to the side gate.

Rustling sounds came from the nearby forest.

Though the temple probably wouldn’t extend its schemes to the Northwest Region, it was better to keep their interactions hidden as much as possible.

Annelize took Isaiah and hid behind a tree to observe the situation.

Urgent human footsteps gradually approached and revealed themselves through the thicket.

As soon as she saw the familiar light brown hair, Annelize jumped out without thinking.

“Anna Rose?”

Anna Rose was constantly rolling her eyes, looking around her surroundings.

She seemed afraid that someone might see her, yet unable to figure out how to seek help.

Anna Rose flinched in surprise at the sound of her name being called and turned her head.

“…Sister?”

A look of relief momentarily crossed Anna Rose’s face.

She hurriedly approached Annelize.

“What’s wrong? What happened? Why is your face so pale?”

Anna Rose had a deathly pale face and was trembling.

“Sister… What should I do? I think I killed someone!”

“What did you say?”

Annelize’s gaze moved downward.

Anna Rose’s hands were stained with blood.

“I killed a blonde handsome man! With my own hands, I killed a handsome man who should have brightened this world! A handsome man famine will begin in the Empire because of me!”

She screamed in shock.

While Annelize tried to understand her sister’s statement.

“…Kup!”

Isaiah suppressed his laughter from behind.

“Sir Isaiah!”

Annelize turned around and glared at him.

“Oh my.”

Anna Rose made a gasping sound.

Despite all her nagging for him to stay hidden.

Anna Rose had finally seen Isaiah.

Anna Rose’s advanced handsome man sensor completed its assessment of the beauty of the man who appeared before her eyes in less than a second.

She became even paler and stepped backward.

“You are! The blonde handsome man I saw in the capital who has three wives and twelve children! Your job is merchant and you tried to encourage my sister to gamble!”

That’s Anna Rose for you. For just a brief glimpse, she remembered quite accurately.

“Please stay away from me! I don’t know what I might do to you! I can’t lose another handsome man!”

“Khup.”

“Stop laughing, Sir Isaiah! Our child is so serious!”

Annelize quickly covered Isaiah’s head with the Duke’s cloak.

And she embraced her still-flustered sister’s shoulders and patted her.

Just as she used to do whenever Anna Rose had nightmares as a child.

“Anna Rose. Calm down. It’s okay. I’ll help you. Okay? What do you mean you killed someone?”

“Sister…”

“Don’t you trust your sister? Even if you killed someone, I’m always on your side.”

In her embrace, Anna Rose gradually found stability.

After a while, Anna Rose made a dejected face and led them to the thicket.

The Third Prince was lying collapsed under a tree.

Bleeding from his mouth and unconscious.

“Well, you see. What happened was…”

Anna Rose began to explain the whole story with a pained expression.

* * *

The story goes back about a day.

Anna Rose Solariccen opened her eyes in bed, having no idea how her fate would change in a few hours.

That day was no different from any other.

“What is Sister thinking? What’s the point of me learning what departments exist in the Imperial Court? It’s not like I’m going to get a job there.”

Mother Cullen, a former Imperial Palace maid, mercilessly drilled Anna Rose.

[Anna Rose, I told you to step forward with your right foot first in the Imperial Court.]

[Don’t bend your waist! Always walk confidently with your spine straight, wherever you are!]

Anna Rose felt inexplicably sad and dabbed at her tears.

“I miss the sister who said it was fine as long as I grew up healthy, even if I didn’t know etiquette well…”

Having gained some kind of enlightenment.

Her sister suddenly began expecting more from Anna Rose.

‘She looks at me like I’m some future savior.’

Anna Rose was flustered when she noticed her sister’s gaze.

Still, there must be reasons for everything her sister asked her to do.

‘I don’t want to disappoint Sister. I know how hard she’s worked since Father passed away.’

After the warehouse fire, the household was turned upside down.

The always-kind father and the mother who had steadily led the household were nowhere to be found.

‘Those few years were truly terrible. Things have gotten much better recently, though.’

In place of their mother who suffered from depression, Annelize, who wasn’t even of age, ran around as acting count, handling all household matters big and small.

Since that sister had expectations and made a request of her, she couldn’t refuse.

After struggling through her homework, it was finally evening time.

Anna Rose looked forward to evening time every day.

Because that was when she could take walks in the nearby forest.

‘Sister specially asked the Monastery Abbot that I should walk around the forest every day. It’s truly a time when I can confidently get some fresh air!’

Since she had eaten dinner late that day, by the time she came outside, the sunset was already setting.

‘In a little while, the sun will set and it’ll get dark. But today there’s a full moon up, so it’s bright enough that it should be fine.’

Anna Rose took a lantern in her hand and hurriedly set out for her walk.

She had just made one round along the familiar path she walked every day.

‘It’s dark.’

Her vision suddenly became dark. As if the moonlight that had been illuminating the forest had disappeared.

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