If I Were Reborn, I Wouldn’t Marry You - Chapter 64

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Chapter 64

Even Leonhardt, who had been holding up well, seemed to have reached his limit now.

Once he stopped, his body refused to move again.

He didn’t even have the strength to lift a finger.

We killed time in silence just like that.

I didn’t even have the energy to open my mouth, so I cursed the Crown Prince inwardly.

I was raised too gently and regretted not knowing many harsh words.

Just as the sweat that had soaked our entire bodies began to cool down a little, we started hearing signs of people in the distance.

“Young Lady!”

“Your Highness!”

The sounds grew closer and we could hear voices calling out for us loudly.

“It’s Roderick’s knights!”

I cheered quietly.

“The emblems on their swords and armor are definitely Roderick’s.”

While Leonhardt and I were preparing to clear away the vines and come out, the knights seemed to have discovered the markers we had left near the rock shade.

“Your Grace! There are markers here!”

Father must have been searching nearby as well.

“Miela! My baby!”

Father’s call followed immediately after the knights’ shouts.

“Father.”

I called out to Father loudly as I emerged from the rock shade.

I was so exhausted that it was only slightly louder than an ant’s voice, but Father recognized my voice immediately.

“Miela! Dear God… You’re safe, thank goodness.”

Father, who had rushed over urgently, pulled me into his arms.

‘I’m alive.’

Relieved, I fainted right there.

Through my fading consciousness, I saw Leonhardt collapse a little later than me.

‘He’s going to be okay, right?’

Leonhardt’s complexion was, to put it severely, almost as pale as a corpse, so I fainted with worry.

‘Wow, this is the second time just today.’

It felt like I had closed my eyes and opened them right away, as if my consciousness had been cut and reconnected.

My exhausted body hadn’t improved much, but I woke up because I was insanely hungry.

“Waaahhh.”

I felt so sorry for myself that I wailed like a real child.

‘What is this! How embarrassing!’

My adult ego was ashamed, but the tears wouldn’t stop.

“Baby? Are you okay?”

When I heard Father’s startled voice, I felt even more sorry for myself from relief and just cried harder.

“Oh my, you were so scared, Miela.”

Father picked me up, sat me on his lap, and patted me.

I gradually calmed down from his familiar touch.

“Hic.”

I asked while trying to stop crying.

“Father, what about Leon?”

Only after my raging emotions subsided did I think of Leonhardt.

The corpse-like complexion I had seen just before fainting belatedly worried me.

‘Sorry, Leon.’

Father answered in a gentle tone.

“He’s over there.”

Leon was lying quietly on the opposite seat.

“He doesn’t have any external injuries, but he seems to have internal injuries, so I gave him some emergency medicine.”

Thanks to the appropriate first aid, his complexion had improved a little too.

Relieved, I said with swollen eyes.

“I’m hungry.”

Grumble!

As soon as I spoke, my stomach rumbled loudly.

“Father didn’t think that our baby would be hungry.”

Flustered Father rummaged through the carriage and found some rations.

“This is all there is…”

It was tasteless food I would never have eaten normally, but maybe because I was hungry, it looked so delicious.

I took the rations and stuffed my mouth full.

“Miela, you’ll get indigestion.”

Father, even more flustered, handed me a water bottle.

My throat was already getting blocked by the dry rations.

I sucked and drank the water from the bottle.

I still hadn’t swallowed the rations and drank water on top of that, so my cheeks puffed up almost like a hamster.

It wasn’t my intention that at that exact moment, I made eye contact with Leonhardt who had just woken up.

I was so surprised I almost spit out everything in my mouth.

But I couldn’t show any more embarrassing behavior, so I endured it.

My nose stung and tears welled up.

Leonhardt saw something unseemly the moment he opened his eyes, so he stared at me blankly with a flustered face, then quietly turned his head away.

It was excellent manners worthy of being a model for others, but that didn’t lessen my embarrassment.

This was the first time I had shown such a raw(?) side of myself to Leonhardt.

I sniffled with my face swollen from crying and diligently chewed and swallowed the rations.

“Father, give me a handkerchief.”

Then I mumbled a request to Father, received a handkerchief, and vigorously wiped my face.

I quietly threw the handkerchief stained with tears and snot into a corner of the carriage.

It would be better than before, but I could feel without looking in a mirror that I still wasn’t in a state to be seen by Leonhardt.

‘What I need at times like this is momentum.’

I looked at Leonhardt with a confident and self-assured expression like when entering a ballroom and asked.

“Are you feeling okay?”

It was my best effort at acting nonchalant, but it had no effect.

“Uh, huh? I’m fine.”

Leonhardt had been earnestly looking the other way and pretending not to notice, but when he heard my words and turned to look at me, I could transparently see that he was stunned.

Was my condition really that terrible…?

I was quite thick-skinned, but at this point I couldn’t hide my embarrassment.

For a while, an awkward atmosphere flowed in the carriage.

Actually, Leonhardt had been awake since before Miela woke up.

More precisely, it was closer to him clinging to his hazy consciousness.

Although they had successfully escaped safely, they had been helplessly kidnapped.

It was an incident that had such a big impact on him that he couldn’t feel at ease even after reaching a safe place.

Therefore, Leonhardt had been desperately holding on ever since the emergency treatment got him out of the state where he seemed about to collapse at any moment.

“Waaahhh.”

The sorrowful crying that suddenly rang out strongly pulled back the thread of consciousness that was fading away.

‘Miela?’

However, it definitely took some time for Leonhardt to get up.

His young body was too weak to endure the accumulated fatigue.

When he struggled to open his eyes, what he saw was the most adorable hamster in the world.

Miela, whose swollen face made her look even more like a baby, had stuffed her mouth full of something until her soft cheeks puffed up completely, and when she discovered him while chewing, she was startled.

With her slightly swollen eyes wide open, Miela hurriedly covered her mouth with her hands.

Miela’s cheeks, covering her mouth with her tiny hands, turned bright red…

‘Ah, so cute.’

It was truly fatal cuteness.

His heart felt like it would burst from overexerting his ability that hadn’t even properly manifested yet.

“Whew.”

Leonhardt took a deep breath and shifted his gaze away from Miela.

It wasn’t an easy choice, but his will to survive made it possible.

His body felt hotter and his heart pounded harder than when he had run to the point of nearly vomiting during their escape.

Even though he deliberately looked in another direction, Miela’s adorable appearance from moments ago flickered before his eyes.

It was a pain that came periodically ever since he became aware of his love for Miela, but no matter how many times he experienced it, he never got used to it.

“Are you feeling alright?”

He must have looked pained, clutching his chest and breathing shallowly.

Miela asked in a gentle voice.

“Uh, huh? I’m fine.”

It must have been obvious that he wasn’t fine, as Miela made a troubled expression.

After that, silence flowed through the carriage for a while.

It was fortunate for Leonhardt, who had been barely managing to answer even trivial questions.

While Miela, Leonhardt, and Duke Roderick were each lost in their own thoughts, the carriage continued to roll on.

Leonhardt, who had been pretending to look out the window but was actually intoxicated by Miela’s cuteness that remained like an afterimage before his eyes, noticed something strange a moment later.

‘Why are we going in this direction?’

The carriage was heading toward Duke Roderick’s mansion rather than the Grand Cathedral where the New Year’s Ceremony prayer service was being held.

“Why aren’t we heading straight to the temple? We won’t have enough time if we stop by the Duke’s residence first, will we?”

When Leonhardt asked with a puzzled tone, Duke Roderick answered with difficulty.

“For now, both Your Highness and Miela need to receive treatment and rest. How about postponing this schedule and setting another day?”

Though his tone was close to persuasion, there was a firmness that showed he couldn’t tolerate an unreasonable schedule as their guardian.

However, Leonhardt couldn’t give in to Duke Roderick’s persuasion.

As much as Miela was precious to him, Leonhardt’s anger toward Prince who had tried to harm them ran just as deep.

The first step to getting rid of that Prince was announcing his awakening at the New Year’s Ceremony.

‘That’s how I’ll at least get to the starting line.’

He couldn’t give that up just because he was a little hurt.

‘It hasn’t been long since the annex fire incident. If Prince planned this kidnapping after that, the timing would have been extremely tight.’

What reason could there be for rushing into such a tremendous affair that would bring great trouble if he failed and got caught?

‘He must be trying to finish the job before the New Year’s Ceremony no matter what.’

He had to succeed.

Leonhardt steeled his resolve.

“It doesn’t have to be the New Year’s Ceremony specifically. We chose today because it was the earliest festival anyway.”

Even Miela tried to dissuade him, but Leonhardt’s will remained unbroken.

Eventually, the carriage turned around and headed toward the temple.

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