Instead of My Beloved Sister, I Married a Monster - Chapter 58

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Chapter 58

Anton raised his voice excitedly without realizing it.

The startled woman quickly hid behind her husband. She seemed to have been frightened after hearing about the Monster of Litberg.

Only then did Anton regain his composure and cleared his throat with an embarrassed expression.

The man stared down at Anton and answered as if amused.

“Ah, we were at an angle where we couldn’t see those people very well.”

“Oh my… You missed quite a rare spectacle.”

“Was it really such a rare spectacle?”

“Of course! They say both the monster and the bride were so beautiful it was as if they weren’t of this world. Ah, of course they probably aren’t human anyway. No one noticed their true identity until they punished Baron Schwaiger. That makes sense! How vicious have the rumors about Litberg’s master been all this time!”

“The rumors were quite malicious, weren’t they? Calling him ugly or a monster without ever meeting him. Everyone believed such nonsense as if it were gospel truth.”

“Exactly. We firmly believed he wore beast hide and could be recognized at first sight, but goodness, he could actually disguise himself as human. Then he might have been wandering among people all along!”

“Who knows, who knows. We’ll never know.”

The man nodded repeatedly as if agreeing with Anton’s words.

Excited by this, Anton began reciting the descriptions of the monster couple he had collected so far.

“They say Agrham truly has blood-red eyes as the stories tell. But that color wasn’t entirely eerie. His eyes looking down at the baron glowed red in the light, and that sight was so bewitching that everyone present couldn’t take their eyes off him.”

“Oh ho.”

“And what about the bride! With rose-gold hair and ivory skin, she looked more like a fairy than a monster’s bride. Several gentlemen, enchanted by her beauty, went to ask her to dance, but none received an answer.”

“Those half-formed creatures must have been gossiping shamelessly.”

“Haha, this is something I heard directly from one of the rejected gentlemen, but Agrham was guarding her so fiercely from behind that he looked ready to kill all approaching men with his gaze!”

Then Anton whispered quietly, “They seem to have a good marriage,” and looked around at his audience with a proud expression.

Only then did Anton’s vision finally expand.

A black-haired, red-eyed handsome man and a beautiful woman with rose-gold hair were waiting with somewhat embarrassed expressions for him to finish his story.

The moment he realized this fact, Anton’s body froze.

He moved with creaking steps and quietly went behind the counter. It was to buy time to think.

However, now that even the prejudice about Agrham being in beast form was erased, Anton finally looked with suspicious eyes.

He wondered what the true identity of this couple might be, hidden behind the first impression of good customers.

Anton took out a spare customer card from the drawer with trembling hands.

He politely extended it toward them and said.

“Dear customer, thinking about it, you meet our store’s VIP criteria. Before you take your items, could you tell us your name and address? If you leave your information, we’ll prioritize serving you from now on.”

“Are there special VIP benefits?”

“Yes? Yes, first of all, you won’t need to trouble yourself coming to the store – we’ll visit your home directly, and there’s also special delivery service…”

“Even to neighboring domains?”

“…”

Anton closed his mouth.

The man smiled slightly as if he knew exactly why Anton was acting this way and began writing his name on the card.

“By the way, I didn’t disguise myself as human – this was always my face. Sometimes there are guys who suspect me. They wonder if I changed my face with magic and am living a new life. Well, I can’t say I don’t understand that feeling. Guys who lack both looks and ability would feel depressed seeing me. They’d want to curse for no reason…”

“…”

“Kid, it’s good that you’re spreading rumors about how handsome I am, but from now on, spread this story too. That I didn’t fix anything, okay?”

The man, who made this request as if coaxing a child, pushed the signed paper toward Anton.

Anton checked the writing on it with the feeling of wanting to bite his tongue.

Name: Agrham Litberg

Address: Litberg Castle

Main entrance access method: A scary butler comes out to greet, so please shout “delivery” before opening the door 🙂

Anton fainted while standing.

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They say people become closer faster when sharing targets they dislike rather than ones they like.

That was exactly what Litberg was like these days.

After defeating the common enemy Baron Schwaiger, the people of Litberg finally began to perceive the lord’s castle somewhat differently than before.

They learned that Litberg Castle, which they had regarded as merely a landmark for gauging location or a scarecrow for chasing away unwelcome guests, was actually a more compassionate place than they thought.

Though those who received help in this incident were refugees from Schwaiger, the news that they were cleared of false charges was welcomed by the neighbors too.

People especially celebrated Yens’s success as if it were their own, which was natural since they no longer had to worry about attacks from neighboring domains and tremble with anxiety every night.

The concern that empty spaces might become noticeable if all the Schwaiger natives left the village at once was unexpectedly resolved without much problem.

This was because only about half of those who expressed intention to return home actually did so.

They had already lived here for a long time, and they didn’t have particularly good memories of Schwaiger.

Count Max also sent a look to Evnia asking his return intentions as if asking whether she was serious, and questioned back.

“Return to the side of colleagues who tried to kill me? You’re joking, right?”

Strictly speaking, there was someone in this castle who had tried to kill him too, but Evnia silently agreed. She had no intention of pushing someone who didn’t want to go to the point of forcing them out.

From the beginning, Evnia felt the same way about wanting to continue staying here.

Although Litberg was somewhat inconvenient to live in, it was also true that there were definite advantages corresponding to those inconveniences.

Moreover, those inconveniences were also being improved to some extent.

‘They said they’d come this afternoon… Did I come out too early?’

Evnia stood at the garden entrance and looked down at the distant main gate.

When she visited the village last time, there was someone interested in employment, so she had scheduled an interview, but for hours now, not even an ant had been loitering around the entrance.

Though she thought about just going inside, she was concerned about possible mishaps and couldn’t bring herself to leave.

‘If they happen to meet Lord Giyermo first, there’s no telling what might happen.’

Surely he wouldn’t badly chase away someone who came looking for work, but it was better to be careful anyway.

Evnia turned her eyes back to the overgrown garden and began pondering how to deal with all the weeds filling the place.

If it was going to be hard to improve the aesthetics anyway, wouldn’t it be better to use it as a field?

Would management actually be more difficult that way?

It was when Evnia was contemplating with a serious expression.

A sharp cry came from below.

“I’m telling you, you can’t go in there!”

“Oh my, really, why are you being like this? If it doesn’t seem right, I’ll come out right away.”

“No matter how hard life gets, there are things you should and shouldn’t touch. Do you know what might happen to you if you go there of your own accord?”

Evnia raised her head and looked toward where the sound came from.

Two women who were supposed to come for interviews and a bent-backed elderly woman were having an argument in front of the gate.

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