I’m a Mother-in-Law, but I Dislike Conflict with My Daughter-in-Law - Chapter 243

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I’m a Mother-in-Law, But I Don’t Want Family Conflicts Episode 243

They probably planned to kill Helene first, then use the children for ransom negotiations or to extract information.

For now, it was important to get the children out of this banquet hall.

“Uh, Mother…”

“It’s alright. Go outside for now.”

After comforting the tearful Minerva, she sent her outside the banquet hall. Zeonil seemed to have noticed something, as he grabbed Minerva’s hand and disappeared down the corridor.

The banquet hall door closed again, and the assassins approached Helene.

“We apologize for mistaking our target. Don’t worry, we’ll send your corpse respectfully to the Layton Family…”

“For assassins, your judgment is quite poor.”

“…What did you say?”

Helene looked around her surroundings. In the open banquet hall, chairs were scattered about in disarray.

“Do you really think I made that proposal to spare the children?”

She had only sent them away because it would become troublesome if the assassins targeted the children in this wide space.

‘Give up my life? What a ridiculous notion.’

She looked at the assassins approaching her and spoke with a voice full of contempt.

“The ones trapped here aren’t me, but you.”

And she picked up a chair that was beside her.

The opponents were dozens of armed assassins. On this side was a duke’s lady holding a wooden chair.

The outcome of the battle was obvious.

Helene moved like the wind, raising the chair high and bringing it down toward an assassin.

“Hueok…!”

Crack-!

With a satisfying sound, the chair shattered and the assassin rolled powerlessly on the ground. It was destructive power unbelievable for a woman’s strength.

If Wilhelmina had been here, she would have excitedly shouted:

[Chair Shot!]

The assassins didn’t know.

That what stood before them was a genius swordsman who had almost become the Empire’s greatest sword saint…

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“What kind of nonsense…!”

Rage, the leader of the desert assassins and a mage, couldn’t come to his senses from the storm-like violence pouring down. In the middle of the banquet hall filled with chairs, a platinum-haired woman was fighting beautifully.

The problem was that the weapon in her hands was neither a sword nor a spear, but a chair.

‘What kind of chair has that destructive power…!’

Helene handled the chair freely as if it were her own limbs. When daggers were thrown, she raised the backrest to block them, and when large assassins approached, she blocked their torsos with the four legs and slammed them to the floor.

Those who had only received assassination training couldn’t possibly know that chairs were decent weapons for subduing people.

Rather than just knocking them unconscious, Helene steadily finished off the assassins.

Taking broken chair legs to the fallen assassins…

“This, crazy…!”

Rage hastily used magic to attack her. He shouldn’t use magic carelessly since the illusory world was unstable, but in this case, he had no choice. At this rate, they might be completely wiped out.

“Die!”

Dozens of fire arrows flew toward Helene.

But she easily dodged the magic. Her movements were light, as if she had anticipated them coming.

Just before avoiding the last arrow, she spoke quietly to Rage.

“You are… last.”

It was a chilling murder announcement. The other assassins fell one by one at Helene’s hands.

Crack-!

They collapsed after being struck by chairs and stabbed by shoe heels. The lady of the ducal house in a white dress was massacring the Eastern Region’s finest assassins.

“Ah, aah…”

After all the assassins had fallen, Rage sat down with a devastated expression.

Helene walked steadily toward Rage. Her beautiful face with clear bloodstains looked like a goddess of beauty born from hell.

“D-don’t come closer, you mon… urgh!”

Helene mercilessly grabbed Rage’s throat.

Her sharp nails tore the skin of his neck, causing blood to flow down.

“Let us out, assassin.”

“Huh, urgh…”

“Then I’ll at least kill you without pain.”

No matter how you heard it, it wasn’t something the lady of a ducal house should say.

Rage, who had been shedding tears from pain, soon began screaming desperately.

“If you kill me… you think you can get out! You’ll remain in this space forever!”

It was a lie. It wasn’t Rage who used the magic, but an ancient relic. If they found it, they could leave this place without Rage’s help.

Rage was using his head to preserve his life in his own way.

If Helene had been an ordinary person, she would have been frightened by this threat.

“Then it doesn’t matter.”

“…What?”

Unfortunately, she wasn’t normal either.

She stared at Rage with gleaming eyes.

“You targeted the witch, Rohana… that is, Wilhelmina.”

‘I never mentioned the witch’s name… As expected, this woman was an acquaintance of the witch!’

He didn’t know who the name Wilhelmina that followed referred to, but it was clear she had figured out his target.

“She is my mother. A person more precious than my life, who became a milestone in my life.”

“Kh, khuk… But the witch’s age is…”

According to his investigation, the ‘witch’s’ age didn’t exceed thirty. But her child?

“That doesn’t matter at all.”

“Aagh!”

Then her nails dug deeper into his throat.

“You tried to harm what’s precious to me. That alone makes you deserve death.”

“If I die, you can’t get out either…!”

“Don’t make me say it twice. Mother is more important to me than my own life. So your death for trying to kill her… takes priority over my death.”

If the assassin would also live by me surviving, then I’d rather give up my life to kill the assassin too.

It was the result of a broken scale where Wilhelmina’s safety was more important than her own life.

‘She’s insane.’

This woman was completely insane.

There was no trace of reason in those blue eyes filled with killing intent.

Even among assassins who weren’t normal people, she had never seen anyone this crazy.

At the thought that death was glaring at him, Rage’s body began to tremble violently.

“I was going to give you a comfortable death if you let us out… but you refused. Then I’ll use all my strength to kill you painfully. Fortunately, there’s no one here to interfere. Since I have to live here forever, I have plenty of time.”

“Kuh, kek… please…”

She picked up the dagger that lay on the floor. And brought it to Rage’s chest.

“I know well the areas where there’s less bleeding but greater pain, so you’ll have to endure for a long time.”

She sat Rage on the broken chair. Her posture was relaxed, as if the entertainment was just beginning.

“Now then. Shall we begin…”

At that terrible and murderous sight, Rage finally confessed with a tearful voice.

“I’ll let you out, I’ll let you out! So please, stop…!”

The corners of Helene’s mouth curved up wickedly.

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Helene, who had emerged into reality, immediately handed Rage over to the knights. She had no intention of killing him on the spot. She planned to interrogate him thoroughly to find those who had targeted Wilhelmina.

She threw the spatial transfer treasure, the green box, into the safe in her office.

“Oh, Mother.”

“Minerva, Zeonil. It’s alright now. Go back and rest.”

Minerva seemed to think Helene had negotiated with the assassin for their sake. After sending out the tearful Minerva, Zeonil, who was about to follow her, mouthed the words.

‘Thank you for your hard work.’

Helene chuckled softly and waved her hand.

‘His skill was decent, but he wasn’t a wise assassin.’

Helene wiped away the blood with a wet towel brought by an attendant, recalling the recent battle.

In fact, the threat she had made to Rage was half a lie.

First, she hadn’t even thought that he would know how to use spatial transfer magic. Even that excellent mage, Rohanos, couldn’t use such magic, so there was no way a mere assassin would have such ability.

As expected, the green box was the medium for the magic, just as Helene had predicted.

Yet the reason she kept him alive to torture him was because finding the green box would have been bothersome.

‘If it had been hidden inside the banquet hall, he would have quickly retrieved the box and tried to escape alone when the other assassins were dying. Since he didn’t do that, it meant he had hidden it somewhere far away.’

Even though it was an illusory world, the space was limited, so if she had been determined to search around, she wouldn’t have been unable to find it.

But Helene hated wasting time. And she didn’t want to play along with that stupid man’s rhythm either.

Sure enough, the box was inside a drawer in the middle of the corridor.

‘How unfortunate. If he had mixed in lies, I could have tormented him more under that pretext.’

The punishment for the crime of trying to harm her mother was insufficient with just one limb.

By the time she had wiped away all the blood with the towel, Wilhelmina, who had returned to the castle, came looking for Helene.

“What’s this, did something happen? Helene?”

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