I Became the Youngest Sister-in-law of the Ruined Reverse Harem’s Male Leads - Chapter 169

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Worried for no reason, I had stopped by the ducal residence with the intention of secretly watching from afar before leaving, when suddenly the sound of breaking glass rang out.

Marius immediately sensed that the ducal residence had been invaded.

His head went cold. His blood ran cold. He gritted his teeth and rushed into the ducal residence.

“Edith! Lilliana! Edgar!”

A loud explosive sound came from the end of the first floor corridor. It seemed like a battle was taking place in the drawing room.

“Edith—! Edgar!”

When he ran up to the second floor and rushed to the playroom, he encountered Andrea who was just running out of the room carrying Edith.

Behind Andrea, Regina was holding the twins’ hands.

“Marius?”

As soon as Andrea confirmed it was him, he handed over Edith and picked up Filippo.

“We need to evacuate quickly.”

“What about Lilliana? Don’t tell me it’s Lilliana fighting on the first floor?”

“Right now, getting the children to safety is the priority.”

It was a cold judgment for someone who had raised Lilliana like his own child, but the face that met Marius’s clearly showed the urge to return to the first floor immediately.

“Take the carriage and get the children out of here.”

Marius held Edith tightly, who had frozen completely from the sudden tragedy.

They each carried a child and rushed down to the first floor.

“Aaaaah!”

“Kyaaaah!”

Bat minions that had flown in through the broken windows were biting the flesh of several servants.

A few knights who had entered the ducal residence with Marius were trying to kill the bat minions, but it wasn’t enough.

Andrea helped up a servant who had fallen while fleeing, but a flying bat grabbed his shoulder and snatched him away.

The servant fell from the air, bleeding and collapsed.

Regina, who witnessed the horrific scene, hastily covered her son’s eyes. Marius ran toward the carriage parked in front of the gate.

A bat flew toward them. Marius swung his sword and slammed the bat to the ground.

“Ugh… Mama…”

Terrified Edith grabbed onto his clothes and began shedding tears like chicken droppings.

The thought that he must protect this child dominated him.

The fear that if this child died, his own life would end as well surged up from the depths.

“Edith, keep your eyes tightly closed. It’s okay. Uncle will protect you.”

“Uncle! Another one’s flying from over there!”

At Filippo’s scream, Andrea picked up a garden axe that had been lying on the ground in front of the entrance and drove it into the bat’s body. It seemed to belong to a gardener who had been resisting the bats.

The carriage wasn’t far. Marius and Andrea ran toward the gate, protecting Regina from front and back.

However, Regina gradually slowed down as carrying her 8-year-old son while running seemed too much for her.

“Mama, put me down. I can run.”

Yosiyas sobbed.

Before Regina could answer, a bat flew toward her. She hurriedly lowered her body, then lost her balance and tumbled.

“Mama!”

Still, she had held Yosiyas tightly so he wasn’t hurt. Only Regina’s skin was torn.

Her shoes had come off long ago, so Regina’s soles were already covered in dirt. Faint bloodstains spread across her clothes.

“Yosiyas. Are you okay?”

“M-Mama…”

“Regina! Hurry!”

Andrea gestured toward the carriage with his head. He wanted to grab her hand and help her up, but he was too busy blocking the continuously attacking swarm of bats.

Filippo, held in Andrea’s arms, took in his mother gasping for breath and the adults constantly swinging weapons with frightened eyes.

Edith, with his face buried in Marius’s chest, was sniffling without being able to cry loudly.

Regina, who had jumped up, panted as she crossed the gate. She urgently opened the carriage door and threw Yosiyas inside.

Then she received Filippo from Andrea who had followed.

“Hold Yosiyas’s hand tightly. Got it?”

While Regina pushed Filippo into the carriage, Andrea struck down flying minions with his axe.

Since he couldn’t use aura or powerful abilities, there was a limit to how many he could kill.

One bat minion flew toward Regina’s back. It seemed to persistently target her, judging that Regina posed no threat.

Filippo, who had just gotten into the carriage, spotted the bat and threw a ball that was inside, hitting it. It was a gift Marius hadn’t been able to give Edith last time.

“Not our mama!”

“Regina. Get in quickly!”

In the distance, a goat minion charged forward with its horns pointed.

Several bats that had grown to the size of young children after devouring servants approached right up to the carriage.

The frightened horses reared up, shaking the carriage.

Regina, who was just climbing into the carriage, swayed and collapsed.

“Mama!”

The giant bats quickly changed course to devour Regina.

“Mama!”

As soon as Regina crouched down covering her head with both arms, Andrea and Marius simultaneously struck down the bats.

Andrea’s skin, splattered with black blood, burned hotly.

Andrea gritted his teeth and lifted Regina, pushing her into the carriage. Marius handed Edith to Regina.

Thud.

As soon as Marius closed the carriage door and moved his body aside, the goat rammed into the carriage.

The door shattered and wooden fragments flew in all directions.

“Waaaah! Mamaaa!”

“Get away! Monster!”

“Uncle, dodge!”

He swung his sword to cut the goat’s neck, but its hide was so tough it seemed impossible to kill in one strike.

“Huff. Hah.”

Marius and Andrea stood back to back and checked the number of minions surrounding the carriage.

“Are you okay?”

“Damn, it hurts.”

Andrea had gritted his teeth so hard that a vein bulged on his forehead.

“Once we eliminate the bats, drive the carriage and get out of here.”

“Aren’t you coming with us?”

“I need to check on the children. No matter how tall and strong they’ve gotten, they’re still kids.”

“…I’m counting on you.”

Hahaha.

Marius let out a leisurely laugh that didn’t match the situation.

To think the day would come when Andrea would ask him for a favor. He found this situation not too bad at all.

“I’m counting on you with Edith too.”

The minions charged. Marius pierced through a bat and slammed it to the ground while Andrea simultaneously struck it down with his axe, killing it.

Marius cut the wings of another bat charging from behind with his sword, making it crash.

While Marius was cutting down the bat, Andrea threw his axe at the charging goat.

The axe grazed the goat and stuck in the ground, but it was able to stop its movement for a moment at least.

“Go!”

Andrea sat in the driver’s seat instead of the coachman who had fled.

The goat minion stamped its hooves and prepared to charge again.

Andrea hesitated for a moment, then pulled the reins.

As the carriage departed, Marius let out a short sigh mixed with relief and raised his sword.

At that moment, a giant ice pillar shot up through the manor’s roof.

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A pitch-black sea serpent crashed its head down onto the deck with its mouth gaping wide.

The deck shattered and waves surged high. Knights and dark mages fell through the broken deck into the sea, flailing helplessly.

Edith caught the knights falling below the ship and threw them upward, freezing the broken deck to create footing.

“Return to the warship!”

After sending a retreat signal to the knights and inspectors, Edith and Leopold found themselves facing each other across the broken deck.

Leopold nodded to Edith. It was a signal that he was ready.

Boom! Thud!

Massive chunks of ice fell from the sky, striking the sea serpent.

The more it was hit, the more venomous the sea serpent became, lashing the sea with its tail to create enormous waves.

The ship rocked and the ice that had secured it shattered instantly.

When Leopold unleashed his aura to cut the tail, the sea serpent whipped its head around to look at him.

“Go!”

While the serpent was distracted, Edith froze the towering waves that threatened to swallow the ship and climbed on top of them.

The moment she was at eye level with the sea serpent’s head, Edith drove her sword and ice into the eyes that flashed as they turned toward her.

Kieeeek!

The sea serpent writhed, bleeding.

Clinging desperately to her sword on the serpent, Edith braced her feet against its mouth, then twisted her waist and pulled out the sword.

Her body plummeted downward. She drove her sword into the middle of its body, slicing through the hide lengthwise as she landed on the ice floor.

The sea serpent writhed and tried to hide its body in the sea, but Leopold was faster.

He severed the head of the sea serpent as it charged blindly, writhing in pain.

“Ugh.”

The serpent’s head fell into the sea, creating waves.

Dark red blood spread across the waves. Leopold, drenched in blood, grimaced at the foul smell.

“It’s terrible.”

“What do you expect from something venomous?”

“When I cut the tail, I confirmed there were no problems with the blood.”

“That’s because it’s not a minion. It was created with low-grade magic and grew by eating people.”

Edith rested her sword diagonally on her shoulder and glared sideways at the dark mages escaping on deck fragments.

She felt relieved to be able to annihilate the Order and the dark mages.

However, unless she fought Lazarus, the day her thirst for revenge would be satisfied would never come.

“The sunset is approaching.”

A sunset viewed from the sea follows a different course than the scenery seen from land.

The sea that absorbed the colors painted in the sky and the waves sparkling brilliantly with the sunset.

Edith now understood the emotion of loving someone so gloriously that one would give up this beautiful world.

An indescribable emotion slowly, bit by bit, shattered the piercing sorrow she had felt as a child watching her parents die before her eyes.

‘Just as mother said, Lilliana really was a lovely child.’

And my son is also very lovely.

Edith stared at the end of the horizon, then blinked hard to dry her tears.

Crack. Snap.

She froze the sea all the way to the ship the surviving dark mages were using to escape.

Edith gestured with her chin to her comrades who had only watched the battle from the warship.

“Let’s go. There are plenty of people here with grudges.”

Her long hair tied up high fluttered in the sea breeze.

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