I Became the Wife of the Hero Who Killed Me - Chapter 30

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#Episode 30

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Lady Olden, who had left the VIP Guest Room, was anxiously pacing around her own quarters.

Elisia had started menstruating.

The effects of the Hemokaran Synthetic Drug should be appearing soon, but no matter how long she waited, Elisia remained perfectly fine and showed no particular changes.

They said it was a fast-acting drug, so why was there no news for so long?

If she happened to get pregnant in the midst of all this…

She was nervously biting her lower lip when she suddenly turned her head at the presence she felt outside the window.

Four irregular knocks. It was the signal she had been waiting for.

“Why are you so late, Sir Roter!”

She hurriedly drew back the curtains and unlocked the window.

But the person reflected in the lady’s eyes was a completely unexpected figure.

“Even lovers wouldn’t greet each other this passionately.”

“Y-you are…”

The clouds covering the moon slowly passed by. The backlighting cleared and the man’s face gradually became visible.

Lady Olden stepped back with a pale face.

The man stepped forward just as much.

“Disappointed that it’s not who you were waiting for?”

What blocked her vision was Duke Edwin of Lombard, who should have been at the Northern Wall by now.

He looked around the servants’ quarters with apparent curiosity, then closed the window and drew the curtains.

Even in the darkness without a single point of light, his golden eyes glowed eerily and clearly.

As if he weren’t human.

It was chilling.

“Roter, was it? He was quite a notorious poison arts practitioner in the Imperial Capital. On the surface he acted like a noble physician, but in reality, medicine and poison are only separated by a sheet of paper.”

“I-I don’t know what you’re talking about. Sir Roter is—”

The lady suddenly noticed something strange in the Duke’s words.

‘…was it.’

It was past tense.

The lady’s eyes, which had been looking up at the Duke, widened in horror.

“Ah, did you notice?”

“Where is Sir Roter now?”

“Well, wouldn’t he be having a pleasant reunion with those who were once his patients? They probably have a lot to talk about.”

A chill ran down the lady’s spine.

But that wasn’t only because she realized that Sir Roter was probably no longer among the living by now.

‘Just how long has he known?’

And how much did he know?

She had put considerable effort into making Elisia infertile.

She had handled every process secretly to avoid external exposure, and had poured considerable time and money into maintaining confidentiality.

Yet it had been discovered so futilely?

Or could it be that he had known their plan from the very beginning?

When her thoughts reached this point, Lady Olden collapsed to her knees at the Duke’s feet.

“P-please spare me!”

“Is there a reason I should let you live?”

“I’ll tell you anything! Whatever I know, whatever it is, everything!!”

Lady Olden was desperate, but on the other hand, she had something she secretly believed in.

That was the fact that the Duke didn’t get along very well with Elisia. No, rather than not getting along well, it would be more accurate to say he despised her terribly.

Otherwise, there would be no reason not to consummate their marriage yet.

Of course, officially it was said that the two had consummated their marriage without problems, but as Elisia’s closest confidant, Lady Olden couldn’t help but know the truth.

“I know many things about Madam. It would be incomparable to what Your Grace has investigated.”

“No, you know nothing about her.”

“I’ve been by Madam’s side since childhood. After the Former Crown Prince Couple passed away, I personally served Madam under imperial command! There’s no one in the world who knows Madam better than I do!”

She cried out desperately to survive, but the Duke only snorted.

He truly seemed to have no interest whatsoever in Lady Olden’s information.

‘Some other information that might catch the Duke’s interest…’

Lady Olden desperately clutched at the carpet spread on the floor.

If she said this much, she might survive today, but she couldn’t guarantee what would happen after that.

But she had no other choice.

Like a beast looking down at its prey, the lady could clearly feel the Duke’s gaze touching the back of her prostrate neck.

The Duke would have no hesitation in cutting off her breath.

“There’s something else I can tell you. A-actually, I have a real master…”

“Planning to confess your backer? You’ve made quite a big decision. But if you want to prove your usefulness, you’d better think of other information. I already know your backer.”

“Wh-what do you mean?”

Lady Olden was flustered.

Her ‘master’ had never once given her direct orders.

Publicly, the two were complete strangers with no connection whatsoever.

She could guarantee that no matter how excellent a spy might be, they would never be able to discover this relationship.

“Lombard was too underestimated. Even though I may have neglected governance.”

As if reading through the lady’s thoughts, the Duke chuckled.

“Lombard has dealt with both the demons beyond the Northern Wall and the Imperial Family, who fear and keep our military power in check, for hundreds of years. Do you think this was possible with ordinary abilities? You should not have forgotten that.”

“…”

Lady Olden hung her head in futility.

The corners of Edwin’s mouth turned up.

“Is this the end? Can’t you prove your usefulness?”

At the end of a long silence, Lady Olden muttered.

“Even Your Grace probably doesn’t know my backer precisely. How far that person’s reach extends here in Lombard…”

The lady glanced up toward where the Duke was.

He was sitting leisurely on the sofa inside the room with one leg crossed.

Meanwhile, she was still kneeling by the window as she had been from the beginning.

‘Just one step.’

She could escape.

No matter how much of a duke he was, it would be impossible to catch up to this distance in an instant.

Having thought this far, the lady immediately got up and threw herself toward the window.

Since she didn’t have time to unlock it, she planned to break the window and escape to the garden.

Even the window bars were thin and slender wood unlike the Duke’s Castle, so with this much, surely…!

‘Huh?’

She had definitely thrown herself. But she didn’t feel the expected impact.

Instead of the sound of breaking glass, only the sound of something crunching and chewing reached the lady’s ears.

“Ah, aah, aaaahhh!!”

Then countless purple eyes appeared in the pitch-black darkness.

Hundreds and thousands of eyes were all staring at her alone.

“Let me tell you one thing as a farewell gift.”

Nothing was visible except the purple eyes. Only the Duke’s leisurely voice could be heard.

“You’ll meet them soon. Those reaches you mentioned. They’ll all be ‘in there.'”

Crunch, crack—

With the chilling sound of something breaking, her fingertips and toes gradually disappeared into the darkness.

Lady Olden screamed in agony without even knowing what was happening to her.

But even that died away without a sound.

The purple eyes grinned wickedly.

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A black cat, having finished a satisfying meal after a long time, was carefully licking its front paws clean with its tongue.

Gone was the ravenous appearance from moments before, replaced by an elegant demeanor.

[As I always say, humans filled with malice are the greatest delicacy.]

“There was no need to be in such a hurry.”

[I was starving for ages. How could I eat anything with you glaring and watching my every move?]

“I can’t have you eating my people as you please.”

At Edwin’s indifferent retort, the cat’s eyes narrowed sharply.

They weren’t the usual amber color, but a vivid purple.

Purple was the symbol of demons.

Among them, such an intense purple could only be possessed by a greater demon.

Edwin surely knew this fact, yet he didn’t even blink when facing the greater demon inhabiting the cat’s body.

Rather, he clicked his tongue as if telling it not to be bothersome, and even the previously arrogant demon quietly averted its gaze.

[If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t be in such a miserable state right now.]

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