I’ll Be the Heroine’s Competent Divorce Partner - Chapter 156

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Chapter 156

 

Every time I heard the clanking sound, my chest felt stuffy.

 

‘At this rate, finding a way to escape seems hopeless.’

 

Unable to overcome my frustration, I pressed myself close to the window.

 

Looking at the scenery outside through the gaps between the wooden planks helped ease my mind a little.

 

‘Huh?’

 

Suddenly, my eyes widened slightly.

 

In the distance, I could see a man loitering around.

 

The way he was carefully observing this direction didn’t seem like he had simply approached the warehouse by coincidence.

 

‘Could it be, a rescue request…!’

 

I frantically looked around.

 

But all that was scattered on the floor were scraps of rope left over from before.

 

This won’t work, it would be difficult to let him know I’m here with just this…!

 

‘Ah, that’s right!’

 

Riiip!

 

I tore off a piece of my dress with all my strength.

 

Fortunately, my dress had become a complete mess during the journey here.

 

A little tear wouldn’t be noticeable.

 

Still, just in case. After tearing off a piece from the inside that wouldn’t be visible from the outside.

 

‘Please, please…’

 

I crumpled up the piece of dress and pushed it out through the gap in the wooden planks.

 

As I held onto a corner of the fabric and gently waved it, the bunched-up piece of cloth spread out and fluttered like a flag.

 

A piece of a woman’s dress fluttering from a grain warehouse would surely catch attention.

 

Especially if it was high-quality material with lace attached.

 

‘Did he see it?’

 

I anxiously watched the outside carefully.

 

At the same time, I could see the man staring in this direction.

 

He didn’t approach rashly.

 

Instead, he stood rooted to the spot, quietly watching the piece of cloth I was waving.

 

After doing this for a while.

 

The man suddenly turned around.

 

He left the spot.

 

‘Please.’

 

Watching his retreating figure with desperate eyes, I first pulled in the piece of dress.

 

I hid the piece of fabric in a corner so it wouldn’t catch Marquis’s attention.

 

Then I slowly sank down to the floor.

 

My heart was beating frantically with tension and anticipation.

 

‘Please, let that man have noticed my signal.’

 

I prayed earnestly in my heart.

 

* * *

 

“We found her, Your Majesty!”

 

“What?!”

 

Joshua’s eyes widened in surprise.

 

“It’s a grain warehouse located not far from Port of Calais. It seems he knows that Your Majesty has deployed people to search.”

 

The informant continued his report.

 

“There was a piece of cloth sticking out through the gap in the window, and it appeared to be from a woman’s dress.”

 

“A woman’s dress?”

 

“Yes. I was afraid of arousing Marquis Bartsen’s suspicion, so I couldn’t get too close, but…”

 

The informant concluded with emphasis.

 

“I saw it clearly. It matches the appearance of the dress Marquis Lucelno was wearing when she was last seen!”

 

Joshua shot up from his seat.

 

“I’ll go there myself.”

 

To think she tore off a piece of her dress to signal her location, how desperate she must have been.

 

Joshua clenched his molars tightly.

 

‘Elodie.’

 

Her smiling face flickered before his eyes.

 

His violet gaze sank deeply.

 

‘Please wait just a little longer. Right now…’

 

Joshua took a short deep breath and headed straight outside.

 

‘I’m coming to get you.’

 

* * *

 

Elodie, who had been dozing off, suddenly snapped to attention.

 

“Everyone block the entrance!”

 

“Be careful not to let them escape!”

 

The outside had become completely chaotic.

 

Elodie’s drowsy eyes instantly became clear.

 

She gulped down her dry saliva.

 

‘They finally found me!’

 

Elodie hurriedly looked around.

 

She couldn’t just sit there dazed in such an important situation.

 

At the very least, she shouldn’t be a hindrance when they subdued Marquis Bartsen.

 

‘To do that…’

 

Elodie picked up the rope that had fallen on the floor.

 

First, she twisted up her disheveled hair and tied it securely.

 

Just in case someone might grab her hair if she tried to flee.

 

She also tied knots in her dress hem so she could run well.

 

She approached the door.

 

Pressing her body against the wall, she hid herself in the shadows.

 

‘The structure of the warehouse…’

 

The interior of the warehouse she had seen when she was first dragged here came to mind.

 

She remembered it having a fairly simple structure.

 

Excluding the storage room where she was confined, the interior was spaciously open without any particular structures.

 

Also, the warehouse door had a structure where a wooden bar was slid across to lock it.

 

So.

 

‘I just need to get outside.’

 

The wooden bar would come off if you just pulled it.

 

It could be dismantled quickly.

 

‘When the door opens, I’ll definitely go outside.’

 

She absolutely couldn’t miss this opportunity.

 

Elodie tensed her body.

 

* * *

 

Marquis Bartsen chewed his lips until they bled.

 

His bloodshot eyes glared at the closed door.

 

Although they had piled up miscellaneous items from the warehouse to build a barricade, it didn’t seem like it would hold for long.

 

Bang! Bang!!

 

Outside, they were pounding fiercely to break down the door.

 

“Open this door right now!”

 

“Surrender quietly!”

 

The Marquis watching him contorted his face with rage.

 

‘Damn it!’

 

He had no idea how his tail had been caught.

 

When he came to his senses, security officers had surrounded the warehouse.

 

They were monitoring so tightly that even a mouse would have trouble escaping.

 

“So this is how you want to play it?”

 

The Marquis muttered to himself like a madman in a voice filled with spite.

 

“I warned you several times. If you keep acting like this, I can’t guarantee that woman’s safety!”

 

Shing.

 

The Marquis drew his dagger.

 

In the dark warehouse, the sharp blade reflected a keen light.

 

“You think I’m going to die alone?!”

 

The Marquis strode toward the storage room where Elodie was imprisoned.

 

He roughly unlocked it and grabbed the door handle with impatient hands.

 

Slam!

 

“Get out here right now!!”

 

Marquis Bartsen, who had been shouting, suddenly froze.

 

It was because Elodie wasn’t there.

 

Flustered, he stepped into the storage room.

 

He frantically looked around.

 

“What, what? Where did she go?”

 

And at that moment.

 

‘Now’s my chance!’

 

Elodie, who had been hiding pressed against the back of the door, pushed the Marquis with all her might and ran outside.

 

Crash!

 

The sound of the Marquis tumbling to the floor rang out loudly.

 

A sharp shout echoed from behind her.

 

“That, that bitch!”

 

At the same time, Elodie who had run outside bit her lips hard.

 

Deep despair filled her blue eyes.

 

‘This can’t be!’

 

Clearly before, there had only been a bolt across the main door, but now all sorts of miscellaneous items were piled up like a barricade in front of the door.

 

Frozen stiff, she hurriedly looked back.

 

In the distance, she could see the Marquis sitting collapsed on the floor.

 

With his face contorted like a demon, he pushed up the corner of his lips at an angle.

 

It was a clear sneer.

 

“What, did you think you could escape that easily?”

 

But then.

 

BOOM!!!

 

Suddenly a tremendous explosion rang out, and the blocked door shattered into pieces.

 

A strong wind blew from behind her.

 

‘Sword energy?!’

 

Elodie’s eyes widened greatly.

 

Also, the person who could use sword energy in the current Empire was…

 

‘…Could it be?!’

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