I’m a Mother-in-Law, but I Dislike Conflict with My Daughter-in-Law - Chapter 262

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I’m a Mother-in-Law, But I Don’t Want Family Conflicts Episode 262 Special Side Story

And after a long time had passed, Rohan muttered in a low voice.

“We didn’t fight. We just don’t talk to each other.”

“So the atmosphere has turned cold and you only exchange awkward greetings?”

“…You know quite well.”

When Rohan nodded reluctantly, Mikhail smiled bitterly and said.

“Well, I’m your senior when it comes to being a husband.”

He could roughly guess what kind of situation it was.

Wilhelmina and Rohan were extremely sensible people. Even when they had marital fights, they never raised their voices.

They had fought a few times before, but it only lasted as long as not seeing each other’s faces for a while.

“But for you to come looking for me like this… the cold war must be lasting longer than expected.”

Mikhail threw the liquor bottle.

Rohan took a bigger gulp than before and continued speaking.

“The situation is complicated. It wasn’t something that could be easily resolved.”

“Really? What kind of matter is it?”

“That’s…”

Rohan closed his mouth as if hesitating.

Mikhail shrugged and caught the liquor bottle that Rohan threw.

“If we discuss it together, we might come up with a good solution. I also received help from Rohanos, so don’t think of it as a burden.”

“…If that’s the case.”

Perhaps thanks to Mikhail’s casual attitude, Rohan also approached with a much more comfortable demeanor.

“It started with an assassination. There was someone who tried to kill Mina.”

‘…Somehow this doesn’t sound good from the start.’

Mikhail hesitated for a moment, but the story had already begun. Mikhail felt a strange tension and listened intently to Rohan’s story.

* * *

Since the Empire was created by the unification of three kingdoms, the atmospheres of the Eastern Region, Western Region, and the capital were completely different.

If the western part of the Empire, led by House Layton, had political tendencies that valued principles and dignity, the Eastern Region where the Venice Ducal Family was located was the complete opposite.

In the Eastern Region, strong national defense, wealth, and land were power itself. It meant a society where newly risen nobles who discovered gold mines received more attention than prestigious families boasting a hundred years of history.

A society familiar with survival of the fittest, being warlike and meritocratic, and winner-takes-all.

In such an Eastern Region, the person called Wilhelmina was an extremely peculiar existence.

“The fallen Wolf God Temple, I heard it suddenly became rich?”

“They say it’s thanks to the red-haired witch.”

“Moreover, that foolish scholar developed a new alcohol, and that was also thanks to the witch…”

This was because she gathered despised nobles, scholars, artists and such, achieving strange accomplishments and making her name known.

At first, they regarded her as just an eccentric under Rohan’s protection, but before they knew it, she had rapidly risen to become a presence with influence that couldn’t be ignored.

Thanks to this, the influential people of the Eastern Region began to pay attention to her.

At first, they tried to recruit her, but after learning that she moved strictly only under the Venice family, they changed their approach.

If they had been nobles from the Western Region, they would have tried to somehow tarnish her honor and frame her, but the Eastern Region knew a much simpler method.

“We can’t leave things like this. The situation is already such that merchants are concentrating only on the Venice family.”

“Avoid the Duke’s eyes and eliminate the witch.”

Assassination.

It was the optimal method for killing those who were an eyesore.

The idea of destroying what couldn’t become theirs was common sense to the Eastern people.

So the influential figures each selected their best skilled individuals to try assassinating the witch.

“…Failed, you say? All of them, completely wiped out?”

They all failed completely.

Before the mysterious knight protecting her, the assassins were like scarecrows. That person was so strong that even an assassin called a legend couldn’t withstand ten exchanges and fell.

So this time they deployed knights targeting when she went out, but Rohan and his guards appeared and blocked them. They couldn’t defeat Rohan’s army, which had unified the chaotic Eastern Region through force alone.

“This is ridiculous, are we supposed to just stand here and watch?”

If force didn’t work, they could win through political strife.

But the Eastern Region’s influential figures, who had always seized everything through power, weren’t as flexible as the Western nobles.

They were consumed by fear that the mysterious witch was overturning the Eastern Region.

So in the end, they reached for a power that had become taboo even in the Eastern Region.

“Was the witch’s weakness being vulnerable to young children?”

Child soldiers.

That was the beginning of this incident.

* * *

“Haah.”

Mikhail swept his forehead with his hand and let out a sigh. The moment he heard those words, anger surged within him as well.

‘I can imagine Mother’s reaction too.’

If he felt this way, he could clearly picture how angry Wilhelmina must have been.

Wilhelmina, famous for cherishing page boys, wouldn’t have stayed still.

“What did Mother say?”

“She was furious. More than I’d ever seen before.”

Rohan took a sip of alcohol. He had already emptied half the liquor bottle.

“The child soldier infiltrated to assassinate Mina. Since she happened to be holding a study session in the tower, it would have been easy to sneak in. Fortunately, the child soldier’s assassination attempt was stopped by Sir Nata, but…”

It was shocking enough that an assassin had entered the tower, but who would have thought someone would send a young child as an assassin.

As soon as Rohan heard the news, he began investigating to find the mastermind who sent the assassin.

“But the child soldier wouldn’t open his mouth easily, so we couldn’t find the mastermind. They had carefully eliminated all clues.”

“Is that child soldier still alive?”

“Our family is protecting him. Due to being brainwashed from a young age, returning to normal life seems distant.”

If the opponent had been an adult, Rohan would have used his ability without hesitation to manipulate their memories. But since it was a young child, he couldn’t bring himself to do it. Wilhelmina would certainly not forgive it.

While they were racking their brains unable to find the mastermind, Wilhelmina stepped forward.

“She said she would welcome another assassin. Let’s set a trap.”

“A trap, you mean…”

“She meant to throw herself as bait.”

Oh my goodness.

Mikhail leaned his back against the bench and tilted his head back. Thinking nothing of her own life was truly so very like Wilhelmina.

“Then Rohanos…”

“Naturally refused. In the first place, we were trying to find the mastermind behind the assassination for safety’s sake, but for the person in question to become bait – it was a foolish plan that confused the purpose.”

Rohan let out a sigh. Looking at his expression, it was clearly predictable how things had ended.

“In the end, you volunteered to be the bait.”

“Yes, she set a trap behind my back.”

As a result, Wilhelmina’s trap succeeded magnificently. It was a brilliant plan that exposed not only the assassin targeting her life, but also the identity of the mastermind behind it.

The biggest factor in its success was that she mobilized all of her connections so that Rohan couldn’t stop her.

“But the real problem came after we uncovered the mastermind.”

Rohan frowned as if even remembering that time was disgusting.

“The mastermind was a merchant who had dealings with my predecessors. He was mass-producing assassins at the Hidden Desert Temple. We tried to round them all up with the information Wilhelmina provided, but the merchant who caught wind of it instead took child soldiers hostage.”

“No dignity or shame whatsoever.”

“Eastern Region people are generally like that. Fortunately, Sir Nata raided the scene where the hostage situation was taking place, so there were no casualties.”

Looking at the results alone, it was a perfect operation where none of our allies were hurt.

However, Rohan couldn’t approve of Wilhelmina. Instead, he called her over and warned her never to do such a thing again.

“…Do you know what her response was?”

“Hmm, something like ‘We solved it without anyone getting hurt, so isn’t that good?'”

“Worse than that. It was ‘I did less than usual this time, so why are you being dramatic?'”

“Pfft…”

Mikhail, who almost spat out his alcohol, covered his mouth and lowered his head.

‘Well, it wasn’t her first time.’

Considering how she stepped forward during the Raymond incident, or how she faced off against assassins when she went to the capital, becoming bait might not have been such a big deal.

But for Rohan, who was her husband, it was certainly not pleasant to hear.

“I begged her never to do such a thing again. I pleaded with her to please think of her own safety.”

‘She wouldn’t listen.’

But just as Mikhail expected, she didn’t listen to Rohan’s words.

Rather than having an outstanding spirit of sacrifice, it was because of her temperament that made her feel more comfortable solving things directly herself when something happened.

Since she considered herself rational, she had no intention of changing herself.

“In the end, I found myself shouting at her in anger without realizing it. After that, she suddenly disappeared.”

Probably angry at him, Rohan sighed.

“What did you say to her?”

“Probably…”

‘Not cherishing yourself is the same as hurting me, who loves you. You always disrespect my love. Do you hate me enough to kill me?’

“That’s what I said.”

Rohan regretted it, saying he had blurted it out in anger when his temper had reached its peak.

However, Mikhail’s face, having heard those script lines, was burning bright red.

‘What should I say, those lines are just like…’

It felt like an even greater love confession than a marriage proposal.

I hate seeing you get hurt more than death itself. But since you don’t cherish yourself, you’ll surely hate me to the point of wanting to kill me—it was an extremely embarrassing love confession that was too overwhelming to even explain in words.

‘If this is the case, it doesn’t seem like Mother avoided me because she was angry.’

She imagined Wilhelmina’s appearance, eyes wide open and at a loss for words.

Probably with her ears turning bright red…

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