I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 29

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Huyd smiled bitterly and stepped back.

The Duke and Duchess were nobles too. They would feel sorry about marrying Judith to a commoner.

No matter that it was a remarriage, with the Duke and Duchess stepping forward, Judith would easily be able to remarry into nobility.

Just looking at her, she was pretty, so there would be many young nobles who would take a liking to her.

There would probably be many vassal families who would deliberately line up saying it was fine, trying to curry favor with the ducal house.

‘Right. Master’s words must be correct.’

He felt rejected without even having confessed once.

Last night their conversation had flowed too well… So he felt like he had momentarily forgotten even his own position.

Judith had simply been kind to him out of consideration for him being a commoner. Perhaps he was the only one who thought they were well-matched.

‘Master knew everything. All his words were right.’

Huyd trudged along toward Judith’s room. No matter what, he had to deliver Master’s reply.

‘How wonderful it would be if I were a noble.’

When he found himself thinking thoughts he’d never had before, Huyd was surprised at himself and shook his head vigorously. Then he resolved to stop having idle thoughts and be a good friend to Judith until the end.

He met Judith like that, even bringing along medicine good for hangovers. Judith was reading a book together with Karl.

“Oh, Huyd?”

Karl waved his hand toward Huyd cheerfully.

“What’s that?”

“Ah…”

Karl was in a state of not knowing the truth. The boy was in a state of believing without doubt that Judith was pregnant with Ekian’s child.

So Huyd secretly winked at Judith as he spoke.

“This is medicine that eliminates nausea. You drink it the day after drinking too much, or it’s prescribed for pregnant women.”

“Ah, that’s welcome news to hear. Thank you.”

Judith received Huyd’s medicine and drank it, and Huyd handed over the letter he had received from Master.

“This is what you requested while I was out in town.”

“Oh my. Thank you for this too.”

Without guessing Huyd’s sunken heart at all, Judith smiled brightly and received the letter.

That evening.

As soon as Judith was left alone in her room, she unfolded the letter Master had delivered.

[The Soden Marquis and Marchioness stay in the marquis domain, but to attend this month’s imperial palace banquet, they are currently residing in their town house in the capital with their children.]

Judith, who quickly read the brief content, exclaimed and muttered.

“The capital? How convenient that they’re nearby?”

The Soden Marquis and Marchioness, that is, Huyd’s birth parents.

They too were still desperately searching for their eldest son who had been lost as a child.

‘Just like the Meius Duke and Duchess who continue waiting for Ekian…’

Judith smiled bitterly.

She already knew that parental love for children was usually tremendous.

Judith had seen terrible helicopter parents every day while working as a tutor.

Since Judith’s parents hadn’t been like that toward her, she sometimes felt lonely, but she could now lightly brush it off thinking ‘my life could be like that.’ It was a fact she’d had to accept from a very young age.

Every time she faced such parents, it felt like a corner of her heart stung, but she knew well that it was better for herself to get through it as calmly as possible.

So Judith immediately continued her thoughts.

‘First I need to meet the Soden Marquis and Marchioness.’

However, she had never met the Soden Marquis and Marchioness. She couldn’t just visit them out of the blue and say ‘The eldest son you’ve been searching for so desperately is Huyd Ramis, who works as the Meius ducal house’s physician.’

If she said that and they asked ‘How did you know?’, she wouldn’t have anything to answer, and now Judith also had the position of ‘wife of the Meius Marquis.’

If she acted strangely out of the blue, it would cause trouble for the Meius ducal house too.

‘As naturally as possible… without arousing suspicion from the Meius Duke and Duchess either… isn’t there some way?’

Judith fell into thought while looking at Master’s note.

It was trivial content, but it seemed like an answer would come if she stared at it.

The capital… they said they came up to the capital.

‘Ah, come to think of it.’

Judith quietly stared at the word ‘capital’ and let out a small exclamation.

‘Then the Soden Marquis and Marchioness will go there this time too.’

In the original work, the Soden Marquis and Marchioness had a place they always secretly visited whenever they came to the capital to find their lost eldest son.

It was the ‘Shrine of the Last Shaman.’

There was a shrine on the outskirts of the capital where Shaman Chaska, called the ‘Last Shaman’ as the final heir of the Oilte Clan said to be able to prophesy the future, had lived.

A clan that had continued inbreeding on a small island all fell to ruin, and Chaska came to the empire alone. She naturalized 25 years ago, asking the current emperor to allow her just enough land to build a ‘small shrine.’

Chaska, who lived quietly only within the shrine, was extremely beautiful, but she lived in seclusion without showing her power to anyone. Then after just a few years, she disappeared.

There were rumors that she had been pregnant, but with her disappearance, it wasn’t a fact that could be confirmed.

But the mysterious thing was that even though the owner had disappeared, the incense in that shrine never went out.

With no one cleaning or coming and going, that small shrine with only Chaska’s large portrait hanging had always remained clean and quiet, just like 25 years ago.

‘I even heard that the candles and flowers near the shrine remain as if time has stopped, whether it rains or snows. It’s definitely a place where mysterious power circulates…’

After several people including imperial knights went in to extinguish the fire and trample it carelessly, only to immediately come out insane, the empire’s people didn’t touch that shrine.

Rather, people who made wishes or desperately wanted something would go to that shrine to offer earnest prayers.

‘The Soden Marquis and Marchioness go to that shrine every morning whenever they come to the capital to pray for their son’s safety.’

Judith thought carefully with her arms crossed.

‘I should encounter the Marquis and Marchioness there. And… I should pretend to hear something there. Anyway, no one knows about the shaman’s power.’

Remembering her past life at some point. Coming to know the affairs of this world as if reading a book.

Thanks to that, Judith was able to navigate life’s difficulties a little more easily, but in fact, she had no idea why such strange things had happened to her.

She had only told the Meius Duchess that she ‘had strange dreams related to the future.’

If she made excuses that all of this might be the shaman’s power, she could help Huyd find his birth parents without arousing great suspicion.

‘Let’s go tomorrow right away.’

For that, she needed to get permission from the Meius Duchess. She thought she could just say she had a dream telling her to go there.

Publicly, she could make excuses about wanting to secretly visit to pray for the baby in her womb’s peace…

‘I should get permission before the night gets too late.’

Just as Judith was choosing her words and standing up.

Knock knock, a knocking sound was heard.

‘Hmm? Master?’

A knocking sound not from the door meant Master had come. Judith spoke while standing.

“Come in.”

Even as she said that, she was puzzled. Well, there didn’t seem to be any particular business, and even if there was business, he could write it in a letter through Huyd, so what was he coming and going to the ducal house for?

After Judith entered the Duke’s mansion, he had really been roaming the Duke’s mansion almost daily using the secret passage. If the Duke and Duchess knew this fact, they would really be shocked.

While thinking she should say something, Master entered the room through the secret passage.

Master was wearing a mask as always so his expression couldn’t be known, and he was dressed in pitch-black clothes.

Judith asked as soon as she saw him.

“What’s the matter?”

“You ask about business as soon as you see me. Are we the kind of relationship that only meets when there’s business?”

“Yes.”

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