Instead of My Beloved Sister, I Married a Monster - Chapter 21

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Chapter 21

Evnia, who had been unable to close her gaping mouth, finally came to her senses after a moment and asked.

“Lord Ram, can you fly?”

“Huh? What, like a bird? It’s a bit cold for this weather.”

“No, you’re flying right now.”

Having answered thus, Evnia ran toward Ram with quick steps.

Naturally, there was no device around supporting his body.

Perhaps it was such an everyday occurrence for him that he hadn’t expected her to be this impressed.

Ram, who had been making a bewildered expression, suddenly straightened his slouched body.

As if feeling a sense of duty to preserve her childlike wonder, he hastily squeezed out some sincerity and began to play along with her.

“That’s right, totally amazing, right? This is your first time seeing a person fly around, isn’t it?”

“Yes!”

“Do you want to try flying too?”

Evnia nodded without a moment’s hesitation.

She couldn’t shake the feeling that he was treating her like playing with a much younger child, but that wasn’t what mattered right now.

As soon as she grasped the hand he extended, Evnia’s feet also began to rise into the air like his.

While looking around in all directions and marveling at the floating sensation she was experiencing for the first time, Evnia soon reached the same height as him.

Evnia was thoroughly excited and tried to share her impressions of her first flight with him, but the moment she saw his face, she lost her words.

He was looking at her and smiling from closer than she had expected.

As if this moment was sufficiently enjoyable for him too.

Because his height was much greater than hers, she had always had to look far up at him, but now her eye level was the same as his.

Not wanting to ruin that state, Evnia stopped moving while maintaining her awkwardly seated posture.

Knowing that she had been trying to say something, he too simply waited quietly for her.

When Evnia’s mouth didn’t open even after a long while, he spoke to her first again with a face full of laughter.

“Were you very surprised? It’s not as big a deal as you’d think.”

“…Not a big deal? I’m flying right now.”

“I’ve been wanting to ask since earlier, but isn’t flying supposed to be like this?”

He asked in a nonchalant tone and suddenly pulled Evnia’s hand upward.

Their bodies instantly rose to the ceiling, then changed direction and slowly fell downward.

Perhaps it was because he kept holding her hand so she wouldn’t be scared. Strangely, even the moment of falling felt only dreamlike and ecstatic.

Evnia came to love this magic more than anything else.

Evnia asked with a flushed face.

“Can’t we go outside just once?”

“Huh? No way, that’s not something a person should do. It’s incredibly cold and your eyes will sting. But if you really want to try it, let’s go out during the day wearing warm clothes.”

Ram soothed Evnia with a gentle voice and let go of her hand.

At this, Evnia unconsciously curled her fingertips.

Realizing that she had reflexively tried to grab him again, Evnia blushed with embarrassment.

Fortunately, Ram seemed to understand that reaction a bit differently.

“Is floating alone scary? Should I bring you down to the floor?”

“No, I was just surprised. By the way, Lord Ram…”

Evnia quickly rolled her eyes and looked around.

Fortunately, there were plenty of things nearby to change the subject to.

“Have you been reading books here the whole time?”

“Yeah, this is my first time getting married with a sacred vow and all, so I have no idea what kind of problems might arise.”

“Problems?”

“Even if you don’t say anything, I can’t use the method I thought of for a while anyway. The acquaintance who would help me avoid crossing to the afterlife is currently hibernating.”

What kind of being was this acquaintance that they even hibernated?

It was still autumn here, but seeing that they had already entered hibernation, perhaps they lived in a very, very cold land.

While Evnia’s attention was drawn to side matters, Ram began explaining the real crisis that had befallen them.

“So for the time being, we have no choice but to live as a married couple… Anyway, the essence of marriage is a contract, right? There are conditions that must be fulfilled, like a duty of good faith. I was investigating what we need to observe from where to where, and at what point and in what way problems arise if we don’t observe them.”

Saying this, he picked up a book that had been floating nearby and showed it to Evnia.

The cover had large letters that read:

[Marriage, Never Do It – How Eternal Vows of Love Meet Their Downfall]

Even without their current situation, it was a book that would catch attention with its title alone.

Ram shrugged and introduced the contents within.

“It’s a case study showing what kind of endings couples who married through sacred vows met.”

“Didn’t you say divorce wasn’t possible? Are there other endings besides living happily ever after?”

“I’ve read about half of it so far, and everyone up to this point has died.”

Ram split the book pages in half to estimate how much he had read.

Although half the pages he hadn’t checked yet remained, somehow he didn’t feel hopeful. Probably because the title itself predicted downfall from the start.

Evnia narrowed her brow and carefully examined the illustration drawn on the page he had opened.

Two men and women sitting across from each other at a dining table were glaring fiercely at each other while gripping their knives and forks in opposite directions.

Evnia asked in a suspicious voice.

“Do both people die if they break the sacred vow?”

“No, the person who breaks it dies.”

“What about cases where both people are at fault?”

“Both die.”

Evnia’s expression darkened.

Ram hastily conveyed positive news as if to comfort such Evnia.

“But the hopeful fact is that the range of normal married life is broader than expected. I was worried that sexual activity might be included in the conditions for maintaining a marital relationship, but fortunately that’s not the case.”

Sexual activity.

Flustered by the unexpected topic, Evnia hung her head low.

Evnia waited for the heat on her face to subside while chewing over his explanation several times in her mind.

After repeating the word ‘fortunately’ about ten times in her mouth, for some reason that word didn’t feel fortunate to her at all.

“Well, killing someone for not doing that would be rather sordid.”

“Sordid…”

When Evnia quietly repeated his muttering, he made an ‘oops’ expression.

Thinking he had brought up unnecessary talk in front of a child, he quickly changed the subject.

“Anyway, look here, the case I was just reading is quite interesting. A couple who lived without a single hug, let alone a good morning kiss, survived for 10 years without any problems. They were literally just sharing a bed.”

“What happened after 10 years?”

At Evnia’s keen observation, Ram silently flipped through the pages.

It seemed he hadn’t read to the ending because he had suddenly received a visitor.

After checking the last paragraph, Ram was briefly silent before speaking.

“…They died. The husband ate poison that his wife put in the soup.”

“Oh my… Don’t worry, Lord Ram, I won’t do that.”

“Yeah, but I’m immortal so I won’t die anyway, so keep that in mind.”

Ram hurriedly emphasized the fact that poison wouldn’t work on him.

It was a bit funny that he was worrying about something that would never happen, so Evnia raised her hand to cover her constantly curving lips.

She had tried to hide the fact that she laughed, but avoiding his eyes seemed impossible as a suspicious gaze soon followed.

Evnia cleared her throat with a cough and naturally moved away the back of her hand that had been pressing her lips.

“Anyway, in this case they didn’t die because of the sacred vow.”

“Right, the standards are more lenient than expected.”

“But weren’t these people living a fairly couple-like life compared to us? We don’t even share the same bed.”

“…Isn’t that not a very important issue?”

In place of Ram, who suddenly began avoiding reality, Evnia entered into an objective assessment of the situation.

“Isn’t there anything written about what happened to couples who used separate rooms?”

“So far only cases of separation have appeared.”

“What happened in those cases?”

“There was no immediate problem after moving, but there was an excuse about a change in work location. The husband died falling on his way to work, and according to witness testimony, he was staring very passionately at a passing woman. This case might be somewhat debatable though…”

Ram trailed off and rubbed his chin.

Evnia realized that this was precisely the moment she needed to step forward.

Because there was one matter blocking their path that could become quite shameless or infinitely wholesome depending on whose mouth it came from.

After alternating her gaze between the dark window outside and the thick book for a moment, Evnia suddenly spoke up.

“Just in case, should we try it?”

“Wh-what?”

“Sharing the same bed.”

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