I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 122

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Judith was startled by those words.

“What? Here?”

“Yes. I’ve prepared a temporary classroom.”

She hadn’t even gone to work at the school today.

But it seemed Ekian had noticed her concerns and made arrangements.

“All the classroom supplies have been moved here, so you can continue teaching at the Marquis’ estate.”

“But still, this is a house, not a school…”

“You said you wanted to reform the education system anyway.”

Judith’s expression immediately softened at those words.

“That’s true. That’s good, but… I still have many teaching materials in the faculty office.”

“I’ll have someone bring everything over.”

At those words, Judith was certain.

Ekian wanted Judith to stay only at the Marquis’ estate.

Did he dislike someone seeing her, or did he dislike her seeing someone?

Since he showed his displeasure so openly but didn’t issue an exile order to Huyd, it probably wasn’t related to men.

Even the Emperor was no longer in this world, so the dangerous elements for her had disappeared. But why was he trying to do something like confinement here…

“Yes, I understand.”

Knowing he wouldn’t answer even if she asked, Judith meekly agreed.

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

The servant showed a relieved expression when Judith, who seemed like she might argue, obediently nodded.

She glanced at the servant and said.

“By any chance… can I think that Ekian’s intention in giving me this room was to announce to the territory that I would become the Marquis’ wife?”

“Ah…”

The servant’s expression instantly became troubled.

“That… perhaps you should discuss it after the Crown Prince returns.”

“I see.”

Judith smiled kindly.

“I understand.”

One more fact became certain. While she wasn’t misunderstanding Ekian’s sincerity toward her, he clearly didn’t seem to have any intention of publicly announcing her as the Marquis’ wife yet.

‘Why exactly? What problem remains?’

Ekian not telling her something was getting tiresome now.

But she also didn’t want to wait quietly like a doll, surrounded by his people, waiting for his orders and instructions like before.

And there was one thing he didn’t know.

In this territory now, she wasn’t without her own people.

The situation was completely different from the Meius Mansion where she truly had to get permission for everything and could only move alone.

She smiled slightly and said.

“I’ll start classes right away from tomorrow. Please make sure to tell the students.”

A few days later, at Garseia seaside village.

“No more credit.”

The grocery store owner said coldly to Ron, who was holding Petro. Ron protested several times, but the store owner slammed the door shut.

“Petro, once you become the lord, let’s destroy that store first.”

He spat and showed his irritation.

“Even if you don’t become the lord, we can surely get at least one of the Marquis’ vassal houses.”

Since Elizabeth had left confidently, Ron was also full of expectations.

He too was a servant who had worked long in noble houses, and his standards had risen, honestly thinking this commoner’s life was shabby.

“Your sister is finally making it big.”

The news of the Emperor’s death hadn’t reached Garseia territory yet.

So Ron was spreading his wings of imagination, waiting for Elizabeth’s glorious return.

“The Emperor will also support us, and if your mother just manipulates the Crown Prince well, we could gain even greater power, couldn’t we?”

Meanwhile, dust had accumulated in the accessory shop’s display area, and overdue payment notices began arriving one by one.

It was natural. Since the Emperor’s retainers had visited, they hadn’t done proper shop work.

But what did that matter? Soon they would be living the life of nobles.

He spat once more in front of the grocery store door.

That’s when it happened.

“Ron Dale.”

A group of people in black clothes stood before him.

“You need to come with us to Arten.”

Arten? Wasn’t that the place Elizabeth had gone to, saying it would become the new duchy?

Ron rolled his eyes, trying hard to understand what the current situation was.

Seeing this, one of them chuckled.

And contrary to his intimidating impression, he spoke in a somewhat soothing tone.

“There will absolutely be no harm to you. You’ll be able to choose anything in that land. I swear to God.”

Entrance of Arten Territory.

“There will be a brief inspection.”

As soon as Elizabeth got off the luggage cart, she encountered a group of guards.

They were inspecting everyone trying to enter Arten.

“Since the Crown Prince is currently away from the territory for barbarian subjugation, there were orders to thoroughly manage outsiders.”

It was a procedure to check whether someone was a barbarian or not, so it wasn’t very complicated, but it took a lot of time. Elizabeth had to wait endlessly in line.

‘The Marquis is away?’

Though she had come to meet the Marquis, thinking that there was a grace period before facing that eerie person, she couldn’t help but feel relieved.

He was certainly a young man with such tremendous presence that it was scary to face him again.

Elizabeth massaged her aching leg while waiting her turn.

Then she heard other people chattering in front of her.

“Did you hear? About the new Crown Princess?”

“Yes! My goodness, how long has it been since he divorced and he’s already bringing in another woman?”

At those words, Elizabeth’s ears perked up.

They continued chattering and giggling.

“But they say she has red hair? Could it be his former wife?”

“Who knows. Maybe red hair is just his preference?”

Eventually, Elizabeth couldn’t hold back and joined their conversation.

“Excuse me, could you tell me more details about that Crown Princess?”

She showed a kind smile and asked gently.

She didn’t forget to smile bitterly with very meaningful eyes, so that people would have no choice but to be kind to her.

“Somehow I think I know that person well. This is a very urgent and desperate matter for me.”

Then the people who had been chattering looked at each other with troubled faces. Then they answered with reluctant expressions.

“This is all I know too.”

“They say even the territory residents don’t know much. The Marquis’ estate security is thorough.”

It was quite a disappointing answer.

When Elizabeth sighed deeply with disappointment, one of them said.

“If you want information, how about going to the Grey Information Guild? It was a very famous information guild in the capital, and they opened a branch in Arten.”

“An information guild?”

“Yes. Though it’s a bit expensive, they say there’s nothing they don’t know. If it’s such an urgent and desperate matter, it would be good to try such a place…”

Elizabeth was also well aware of information guilds.

But usually information guilds only bought and sold information from their region, so she was thinking there might not be much gain in Arten.

But if it was an information guild from the capital, they might have information about the Marquis and Judith.

She had been struggling precisely because she lacked that ‘information’.

“Thank you for the advice.”

Elizabeth smiled brightly and nodded.

“That sounds like a really good idea.”

Several days had passed since Ekian left for barbarian subjugation.

News arrived daily at the estate that they were winning consecutive victories and would chase the barbarians all the way to their stronghold to root them out completely.

Everyone was moved by Ekian’s actions—unable to even attend his own father the Emperor’s state funeral, he had immediately departed to subjugate the barbarians for the sake of his people.

While Ekian was away, Alteon ascended to the throne and became Emperor in the capital, and he immediately proclaimed Aarten as a marquessate.

Thus, Aarten became a marquessate.

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