I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 33

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“…Rather than the order I received to destroy Meius, having you in this house was such a terrible thing for me.”

Anger finally began to flicker in Bart’s eyes.

Ekian was slightly surprised by the raw hatred he was encountering for the first time. Had there been anything for Bart to hate him this much? He had been kind to all the servants, and he was even only seventeen years old at that time.

Bart breathed roughly.

“Because Sera loved you.”

Ekian frowned. Sera here? Why on earth?

“Because Sera… only looked at you, and wouldn’t look at me.”

Bart and Sera had an age gap of over ten years. Ekian could only laugh bitterly at this truth he had never imagined.

Sera was remarkably beautiful and clever. There was no reason for Bart, who lived with her, not to have feelings for her.

“It was hard to see Sera dreaming of you.”

Bart said with a cracking voice.

“I couldn’t bear to see that anymore, so I sent you away. And then….”

Of course, even after Ekian left, Sera still didn’t look at Bart.

“I hated the Meius that she dreamed of.”

Ekian silently looked down at Bart. At seventeen, when he was being destroyed, this calm physician had seemed so enormous, but now he only appeared as an ugly and foolish human.

“In the end, I hated both you and Meius.”

The feelings one couldn’t help but harbor while watching what an unattainable person desired. The reality mixed with ugliness and vulgarity, wretchedness and desire was left bare behind the shadow called love.

“I wanted to kill you, but… I couldn’t do that because I was afraid I too would receive the shaman’s curse. So I only drove you out.”

As long as he was trapped in Meius’s prison, Bart would die after being painfully tortured. The same went for Sera.

“Yes, I did it because I loved her. I loved her so much that I ended up destroying even myself.”

Both of them were the same. The ridiculous motivation that ruined everything that was clearly going well was ‘love’.

What the hell was that supposed to be. Really… what the hell was that supposed to be.

After learning only the terrible truth, Ekian turned around without any lingering attachment.

After that, he went to Judith’s room and received comfort while listening to her trivial words.

Even then, he thought.

Love… what the hell was that supposed to be.

What made people forget all their purposes and ultimately made them ugly and wretched.

All through that night, lying on his bed and watching her chatter away, he had thought about love.

He had learned the most terrible truth of his life and truly hated his own existence, but because of her, the memory of that night wasn’t entirely bad.

Was that why.

Even in front of the traces of his birth mother who had cursed him and died, only she caught his eye.

While he quietly watched the small shrine and Judith, the line gradually shortened. And finally, Judith’s turn approached.

It was when Judith carefully entered the shrine.

Crash, lightning struck. At the same time, the candles that had been flickering in front of the shrine suddenly went out with a whoosh.

This was the first time this had happened since the last shaman disappeared.

“My goodness, what is this?”

“Oh my my my!”

The Soden Marquis and Marchioness behind Judith were startled and tumbled over, and Ekian unconsciously rushed toward the shrine.

However, at the same time.

With a whoosh sound, Ekian was bounced back. The shrine that had swallowed Judith was rejecting not only Ekian but everyone else.

“Judith!”

Ekian tried to enter the shrine once more, but this time a massive wind blew and swept over the shrine, making it impossible to even approach.

Judith had been waiting in front of the shrine since dawn. Naturally, she had identified the position of the Soden Marquis and Marchioness and even lined up in front of them.

‘I should say I received a revelation while praying and coming out.’

Since she had received permission from Isabella to come, everything seemed to fall into place perfectly. It was also convenient to act since hardly anyone knew her face.

This was Judith’s first time coming to the Shrine of the Last Shaman, and it certainly had a mysterious atmosphere that made everything feel strange.

The candles that shone quietly without flickering in the wind, flowers blooming out of season, and the surprisingly clean exterior of the shrine were somewhat eerie even to Judith.

She suddenly wondered if selling the last shaman’s name might be somewhat distasteful. Still, she steeled her resolve once more.

‘No. Don’t be scared.’

Judith took a deep breath.

‘The shaman would be okay with her name being used for good deeds.’

She didn’t know much about the rumors regarding the last shaman, but she had to hope she wasn’t a very bad person anyway.

‘And I know something scarier.’

Against the instinctive fear she felt, Judith thought vigorously.

‘Debt is scarier.’

She was someone who had even resolved the moneylenders that seemed like they would devour her life. She endured the fear by imagining scarier and sadder things.

Like the smile of the moneylender who had been pleased, saying that with such a pretty face, she could be sold for a good price in the back alleys… or her father’s death that she had heard about through a maid.

Or like her mother’s back as she turned away, avoiding the last eye contact with her before leaving with a servant.

When her turn came and she entered the shrine alone.

‘Huh?’

The moment the back door slammed shut by itself, Judith realized something was wrong.

The candles that had been quietly illuminating the surroundings went out instantly.

Judith immediately prostrated herself. Thinking that the shaman’s spirit seemed angry, she quickly shouted.

“I’m sorry!”

Since she already felt guilty about something, she judged that quickly begging was the best strategy.

“How dare I think of using the shaman’s name as an excuse! I was wrong! I’ll leave right away!”

Even while doing so, she didn’t forget to add pathetically.

“But, but… I really! wanted to do good things! I was lucky enough to learn about the future, and it would be wrong if only I lived well and ate well! It’s better if as many people as possible are happy….”

A whooshing sound was heard and the view outside the window began to disappear. She was clearly caught in a whirlwind.

When she raised her head to look at the window, there was a sandstorm making everything hazy. Judith swallowed dry saliva at the surging fear.

‘I can’t even get out of here, can I?’

As the small shrine shook, a voice echoed in Judith’s ears.

While Judith was prostrating and trembling at the extremely strange supernatural phenomenon, a gentle voice was heard in her ear.

[Judith Ailan.]

She could instinctively tell. This was the voice of the shrine’s owner, the ‘last shaman’ Chaska.

[We finally meet.]

“Huh?”

Even while trembling, Judith peeked up at Chaska’s portrait and said.

“But, but this is our first meeting….”

Although she had heard much about the last shaman, she had never visited or shown interest before. Living her own life had been more urgent.

“But, but… are you still alive… then where are you….”

While Judith was rolling her eyes and babbling, the voice continued.

[I’m not alive. I’m a shaman who can manipulate time, so only my lingering spirit exists in the tangled threads of time.]

So she was saying she was dead after all. The thought that she was talking to a ghost made the back of Judith’s neck feel cold.

Faced with the supernatural phenomenon unfolding before her eyes, she became more flustered and began to say various things.

“I, I… did wrong. I really did wrong. I just… um, so I happened to learn about the future, you know? While I was at it, I wanted to do good deeds too, so….”

[You did nothing wrong. You can do as many good deeds as you want. And Judith learning about the future by chance was because of my power.]

“…What?”

[I told you. I wander through time. So I showed Judith the future by borrowing the sight of another person with a clear spirit.]

Another person with a clear spirit… Judith’s mind raced quickly.

‘Is she talking about the female lead? The protagonist of the original story that I thought I had been remembering all this time?’

A supernatural phenomenon she had never seen anywhere.

If this was the power of the last shaman who dealt with time, it made sense.

[Judith.]

A complex voice continued.

[I have a son.]

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