Instead of My Beloved Sister, I Married a Monster - Chapter 51

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Chapter 51

Though the dance music flowing through the air was undeniably elegant, she felt as if she were performing acrobatics with her life and death at stake.

Perhaps noticing that Evnia’s back had stiffened, Ram whispered softly.

“Relax, it doesn’t matter if we’re found out.”

“…Is it obvious that I’m nervous?”

“If it really comes to it, you could always fall with such dynamic movements that it would convince everyone you’re definitely not the monster’s bride.”

“I’d rather just dance…”

At Evnia’s weak response, Ram laughed in a barely audible voice.

Unlike Evnia, who was frantically trying to respond to his words while stepping in the right direction, he was simply relaxed.

If her partner hadn’t been skilled, Evnia would have already stepped on his feet more than ten times.

Perhaps sensing this fact, Ram glanced down at their feet for a moment before suddenly pointing out her dancing skills.

“You’re surprisingly not confident in dancing.”

“…I haven’t danced much.”

“No, it’s because you think you’ll do poorly. You’re getting scared of making mistakes when there’s no need to.”

“…”

“You know what? Even if you fall here, nothing will happen.”

“How is that nothing… What embarrassment could be worse?”

“When a big incident happens, everything that happened before it is usually forgotten.”

It was the moment he uttered those cryptic words.

Suddenly, a fierce wind swept in and all the lights illuminating the interior disappeared.

Since it was an evening banquet held late at night, the sun had already set long ago, so as soon as the lighting went out, thick darkness swallowed the entire building.

As the surroundings instantly darkened, the melody stopped and the murmuring of people grew louder.

Ram, who had been looking around like others nearby, muttered in a voice that sounded like he just realized something.

“Ah, I didn’t mean for the music to stop too.”

As if even that wasn’t important, he raised the hand he was holding with Evnia high up.

Unable to resist his urging, Evnia lightly spun in place.

It was a movement she would have done together with everyone else on the ballroom floor if the banquet hadn’t stopped.

“See? It’s nothing special, right?”

At his question, Evnia only nodded silently.

She was dancing with a man who could turn off all the lights in the entire building. So as he said, there were no mistakes for her to fear.

“…Was my dancing so terrible? Terrible enough that no one should see it?”

“No, you actually danced quite well. But it seems we couldn’t fool that guy.”

“…Who?”

Just as Evnia asked back in a voice full of dread, a piercing scream erupted from the distance.

“Mon, monster! The Monster of Litberck has done…!”

The man’s cry stopped as abruptly as its sudden appearance.

Evnia, who had been waiting for the continuation with a bewildered heart, felt puzzled by the voice that wouldn’t come.

It seemed like he would shout any moment that he had seen the monster’s bride here, so why had it suddenly gone quiet?

Could it be…

“It’s okay. I’ve taken care of it now.”

Ram whispered low.

It seemed he had gauged the location by sound and removed that man from this place.

Only then did Evnia realize why he had turned off all the lights in the interior. He had wanted to get rid of the problematic man from the party venue without being noticed.

“…Where did you send him?”

“To a place with deep mountains and good water?”

The confusion didn’t last long.

Attendants, fearful of their master’s wrath, hurriedly brought lamps to brighten the view and began turning the lights back on.

As lights came on in the interior, people’s faces brightened accordingly.

Fear seemed to have vanished with the darkness, as everyone boldly raised their voices as if they had never been frightened.

“Did you hear that just now? They said Litberck, right?”

“Don’t worry about it. Someone probably played a prank taking advantage of the confusion.”

“But I heard that knights who went to Litberck some time ago definitely met the monster’s bride…”

“Isn’t that just a rumor?”

“So, is there actually anyone who has seen this so-called monster in person?”

At someone’s rebuke, the surroundings fell silent for a moment.

Didn’t they say that even the soldiers who went to Litberck met not the monster himself, but his bride?

Even this, from some point on, the parties involved began keeping quiet as if being cautious, so the proper truth was never revealed.

While the Monster of Litberck was indeed a fearsome existence, he was a disaster with a definite preventive measure.

Anyone living near Litberck knew this.

That the monster Ram had never once shown his face outside his own territory since they were born.

That the stories of those who met terrible ends by Ram were always fables that began with coveting his treasure.

“If there’s one thing certain, it’s that he never goes out first to make enemies. Let’s all just be careful not to take the wrong path to Litberck on our way home.”

At one noblewoman’s mischievous joke, smiles spread across people’s faces.

Music began playing again, and waiters busily moved around the venue, soothing guests’ hearts with alcohol. And finally, the awaited face entered the hall.

“Finally, today’s main character has appeared.”

Ram’s gaze turned toward Baron Schwaiger, who appeared opening the door on the second floor.

He naturally led Evnia off the floor, avoiding the people who had started dancing again, and asked.

“Are you still nervous? Should we catch our breath for a moment?”

“I’m not scared anymore.”

Perhaps Evnia’s answer wasn’t convincing.

He slightly lowered his head to look at her face.

He seemed concerned that Evnia had been tense and withdrawn throughout their dance. Though Evnia had already regained her composure thanks to his comfort.

Evnia was no longer afraid of standing before people. Because with him, even mistakes became jokes.

Evnia smiled at Ram with a confident face.

“I’m really confident I can do well.”

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Baron Schwaiger entered the party venue in an uncomfortable mood.

Of all times, all the lights in the interior had to go out just before his entrance.

It must have been due to wind blowing in through the open door, but even so, the doubt about whether this was really possible remained in a corner of his heart.

As if this inexplicable phenomenon was a harbinger of some incident to come.

‘No, I’m just being oversensitive and having such useless thoughts. Get it together.’

Indeed, lately he had many things gnawing at his nerves. It was because his son’s death, who had gone missing three years ago, was being discussed again belatedly.

No, in truth, the suspicion had already sprouted from the day his son secretly took all his guards and disappeared in the middle of the night.

Because when pondering why his son didn’t return, the thought ‘surely it’s not because of that incident?’ inevitably came to mind.

‘For 20 years, no, at least for 17 years, nothing happened. That couldn’t have been the problem, right…’

It was when Baron Schwaiger was looking down at the lower floor, trying hard to calm his troubled heart.

For a moment, his eyes met with an Unnamed Man who had extraordinary eyes.

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