Instead of My Beloved Sister, I Married a Monster - Chapter 75

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Chapter 75

After a long hesitation, Ram finally began to speak with difficulty.

“You, you know how when you get treated by a healer, there’s that slightly cool breeze, right? Like when disinfectant is applied, it stings.”

He knew what Ram meant, but didn’t feel like bothering to answer.

Seven waited for the explanation to continue, arms crossed in a critical posture.

“When I kissed Nina, there was always that cool breeze in my mouth. Back then, we fought almost every day, so my lips were almost always split. When I found wounds, I’d treat them while I was at it. But, damn…”

“…”

“Am I crazy? When I kissed her earlier, I felt exactly the same thing. It doesn’t make sense since she doesn’t have abilities like Nina. So was I mistaken? Did my longing for Nina become so great that I unconsciously projected her onto that girl? But then again, just feeling that sensation again felt so good. All these thoughts came flooding in at once…”

Seven couldn’t understand what Ram was talking about at all.

Saying Evnia didn’t have abilities like Nina.

Even if he hadn’t heard the news that Evnia had awakened yet, wouldn’t he know if he received treatment? That his wounds had healed.

Seven was about to argue back when he checked Ram’s face and soon closed his mouth in bewilderment.

No wonder he didn’t know he’d been treated – his skin was all torn up from how badly he’d been abusing his lips again.

Seven asked as if astounded.

“Why did you kiss her in the first place? Were you lonely? Did you stick your lips out wanting treatment for your split mouth again?”

“Who would do it because they wanted to? What was I supposed to do when the girl was dying because of me? I bit my lips because I was upset about that!”

“What kind of nonsense is this now? Why would she die because of you? She just couldn’t control her newly awakened ability and used it excitedly until she collapsed.”

Finally, the misaligned gears fell into place.

Ram and Seven, who had been sitting face to face arguing, confirmed where their conversation had gone awry and quickly exchanged information.

“She developed abilities?”

“Yeah, when I went down to the manor earlier. Why did you think she was dying?”

“That bastard Giyermo came and said there was a problem with the pact because we weren’t having a proper married life… Damn it, no wonder he was spouting all kinds of nonsense and getting on my nerves.”

Ram cursed and rubbed his flushed face.

Seven realized Giyermo had pulled something similar to what he did at the wedding.

As always, there was nothing legitimate about Giyermo’s way of solving problems, but thanks to his unconventional handling, extraordinary results beyond common sense had emerged once again.

‘If left alone, these two would have been formal strangers for life, but he got them to kiss at their wedding.’

His aptitude was so questionable that maybe he should have worked for a matchmaking company instead of being a wish-granting lake.

Whatever else, his track record alone would have been tremendous. The problem was his terrible service quality.

“So you just pounced on a girl who knew nothing?”

“…It wasn’t forced.”

“Of course not. She likes you. But now when she recovers, you’ll have to go tell her it was a mistake and not to get the wrong idea?”

Ram picked up a bottle with a troubled expression and began drinking straight from it.

Seven decided not to make his already pitiful friend more troubled with insensitive questions.

Fortunately or unfortunately, they had other matters to discuss besides that problem.

This time, Ram brought up a point that was difficult for Seven to answer.

“Why did her abilities suddenly manifest? Was there some dangerous incident in the village?”

“I was handling business elsewhere, so I don’t know well. When I arrived, she was already gathering all the villagers and running a free clinic.”

Seven avoided Ram’s gaze and played dumb.

He couldn’t let it be discovered that Evnia had been with him the day before when she was doused with dangerous chemicals.

The discovery that pouring awakening agents for the Blessed could awaken the unmanifested would be buried along with it, but that wasn’t something good for the world to know anyway.

In an era when Blessed Ones were rarely born, who would waste life and money on such slim possibilities…

‘There are quite a few crazy people in the world.’

Some insane wealthy person might hear the news and gather drugs and people for frenzied human experiments. So he was contributing to world peace through his silence.

Thinking this way and nodding to himself, Seven suddenly spoke in a serious voice.

“Hey, can I say something crazy too?”

“Go ahead.”

“What if she really is Nina?”

At this, Ram looked up from the messy table to stare at Seven.

Did he think it was just something said to tease him?

Ram’s gaze held some resentment and reproach.

Instead of bothering to explain his intentions, Seven immediately shoved the stone hanging around his neck into his friend’s mouth too.

“I’m not saying this because I heard you talking about breezes blowing and going to heaven when you kissed – I’m being serious. I’ve been thinking about it since yesterday. Isn’t it too perfect a coincidence? That they both happened to develop the same ability.”

“…”

“Look, their names are quite similar too. Evnia, Nina. Nia, Nina.”

“…What’s so significant about similar names when they’re renamed after reincarnation anyway.”

“If there was a prophecy that you’d find a wife in the Hessen family and only she survived to come here, of course it’s significant. How easy is it for such coincidences to pile up?”

Ram, who had been disagreeing with a displeased expression, lost his words and closed his mouth again. He seemed to have some suspicions too.

“The Queen of Adenka’s prophecies are absolute. She’s a woman born from a god’s womb who became an existence rivaling gods. If I inherited only the bad traits of fae and humans, Her Majesty could be said to have inherited only the good traits of fae and gods. That woman might have known in advance that the older sister would die.”

“If so, she would have designated the younger sister from the start. Did you forget? It was that very queen who told them to propose marriage to the Hessen family as soon as the first daughter was born.”

That was a point Seven found difficult to explain as well.

However, the bride who arrived here was Evnia Hessen, not Emilia Hessen.

Seven thought there might be some meaning to that fact.

“That’s why I said ‘what if.’ Yes, it might not be. But the possibility isn’t zero percent either.”

“…”

“So how about we take Evnia to Adenka and get confirmation? You’d feel uneasy in this state too, wouldn’t you? Let’s confirm first, then do whatever you want – go to your manor or whatever. Who knows? Maybe you recognized Nina spiritually.”

Seven casually gestured with his chin and picked up the pipe from the sofa table.

His throat felt dry, perhaps from talking too much since morning.

Even after Seven lit his cigarette, Ram remained deep in thought with his mouth firmly shut.

During the long silence, Seven leisurely burned through an entire bowl of tobacco leaves.

By then, dawn had apparently broken as dim sunlight was spreading through the room.

Seven could give Ram all the time he needed to organize his thoughts, but unfortunately, not everyone shared that opinion.

Near dawn in the early morning, someone suddenly began pounding roughly on Litberck’s gates.

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