Marriage With A Suspiciously Demure Husband - Chapter 30

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Episode 30

Jed covered the documents with a deep sigh.
“All right, I understand. If that’s your decision, I can’t stop you any further. Let’s proceed with the formalities.”
“Thank you so much!”
At last—freedom. Walking out that door meant liberation.
She could escape death from overwork too! What should she do? What should she do?
Hazel Love had always performed exceptionally well, and thanks to that, she’d risen to Senior Knight faster than anyone else—so her severance would be substantial.
She’d later hear from a colleague that she might’ve become Vice Commander in another half year, but it was just talk. There was no reason to regret it.
Hazel Love wouldn’t make it that far anyway—death from overwork would claim her long before then.
That was absolutely not happening.
Besides, she’d built up good credit in her life, so if she needed money, she could always take out a loan.
Wait, did they even have loans here? Well, it didn’t matter!
While her happiness circuits spun merrily away, Jed’s voice cut through.
“So, Love.”
“Yes?”
“What are you planning to do now?”
“Well, I haven’t really thought about it yet, but I think it’d be nice to open a small shop, or maybe take up farming.”
“A small shop, I see…”
“For now, I’m planning to rest a bit.”
As long as I don’t die from overwork.
Jed still looked displeased, but he soon signed the document with a flourish.
“Fine then. Still, drop by once in a while. Lilia has taken quite a liking to you.”
That wouldn’t be hard. As long as she wasn’t given work to do, she’d be grateful.
“Of course, sure.”

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“Whoo-hoo!”
Not long after, as Jed had said, the resignation went through without a hitch.
The moment Jed gave his approval, everything moved at lightning speed.
Though Jed tried to stop her a few more times, she handled it firmly.
And before leaving, she made sure to request that no knights ever be worked to exhaustion again, in her stead or anyone else’s.
Now she just had to pack her things and go.
Word spread, and colleagues came by one after another, clinging to her trouser legs and reluctant to let go.
If she’d known this would happen, she’d have thrown her resignation letter down in her old life and walked out on the spot.
The problem was that she’d started at a big corporation right after graduation and stubbornly hung on.
“Anyway… let’s forget the past. What matters is now.”
She couldn’t go back anyway. And she didn’t know how.
She busied herself packing.
Since Hazel Love had lived almost entirely in uniform, she didn’t have much to pack.
The next day.
After cleaning thoroughly for the knight who would move in next, she stuffed everything into two large wheeled bags and left them by the door.
Her plan was to head straight home and sleep for three days straight.
Even in her original life, she’d wake up at four in the morning to prepare and leave for the bus.
And she’d often return late at night or come home in the early hours.
In other words, she’d been exhausted.
Now that she wouldn’t be heading to the afterlife from overwork, she wanted to rest a little more comfortably.
With a considerably lighter heart, she threw the window wide open.
Since Hazel Love had lived on the highest floor of the Knight Order Tower, the entire capital spread out before her in one sweeping view.
And from the hallway, through the opposite window, she could see the Royal Palace.
Because Jed had made such a fuss about not processing her resignation right away, she was leisurely taking in the sights for the first time.
Since expeditions happened in the mountains or the outskirts of the capital, she’d rarely had the chance to observe it like this.
Most buildings were made of bright bricks that were nearly white, and there were three enormous Magic Spheres left over from ancient times above the Royal Palace, the Temple, and the Central Clock Tower—the city drew energy from them and used it for everything.
The massive Magic Spheres looked like multiple moons, giving the city a sense of mystery.
Now let’s see…
She called to mind the plot of the original work again.
Elcard, the capital of Elkiam, was a major setting from the early to middle portions of the story.
It was also the span where Jed and Lilia Daysworth, the princess, met and began to kindle the seeds of love.
The protagonists’ first meeting was nothing particularly special.
Lilia Daysworth had come looking for her older brother, who was also Jed’s friend and commander of the Second Knight Order, but she mistook the First Knight Order for the Second and happened to meet Jed by chance—that was their first encounter.
Hazel Love simply guided her kindly when Lilia said, “I’ve come to see the commander,” and the two fell for each other at first sight.
Lilia’s older brother, Romiel Daysworth, doted on his sister enormously and was overprotective, keeping her hidden even from his own friends, but all his efforts were swept away that day.
In the early chapters, once Romiel learns of their meeting, he interferes with them at every turn, while Lilia receives different kinds of affection from both Jed and Romiel as they bicker—episode after episode unfolds this way.
As the story deepens, it becomes entangled with the hidden mastermind Kailrus, and they fall into all manner of dangerous situations, but later the three join forces to drive him out and even defeat the final mastermind, ending the tale.
By that point, battles are fought and the scope expands to the Northern Region, so this place fades somewhat, but still, if you were asked to name the most beautiful place in Elkiam, it would undoubtedly be the capital, Elcard.
I’d heard that when the final mastermind unseals his power later, one of the capital’s Magic Spheres disappears as well.
Looking at it this way, it resembles a moon, or perhaps a massive translucent crystal sphere, so it seemed a shame that one would vanish.
“It has nothing to do with me anyway. Let’s go!”
I took one last look around the room, gathered my belongings, and stepped outside.
“Hazel! Hazel Love!”
With a rumble from the wheels of my luggage, I was exiting the quarters when a voice like a songbird called out to me.
Lilia Daysworth came rushing over, gathering her dress in both hands.
Each time she ran, her silver hair swayed like ripples across water.
Her long hair, not a strand out of place, looked so smooth it seemed to flutter as if underwater.
But why was Lilia here, when she should be with the male lead?
“Your Highness, hello.”
“You’re really quitting!”
She exclaimed.
Ever since the first time Hazel Love guided me, she had always spoken formally to me, treating me with respect. Perhaps because she was the female lead, her nature was genuinely kind.
“Ah, so it happened that way. It seems His Highness must have told you.”
“It’s all so sudden… Is there some difficult reason behind this?”
Lilia asked with a worried expression. A hint of moisture gleamed in her jade-green eyes.
“No, not at all! I’d been thinking for a while now that it was time to step back. I want to enjoy life doing the things I truly wish to do before it’s too late.”
“If that’s the case, I’m relieved… though Jed spoke of you as an exceptional talent, never letting the subject rest.”
Perhaps because she was the female lead.
Every emotion played across her face. There was a palpable disappointment in her expression.
Had Hazel Love and Lilia Daysworth become close to this degree?
As far as I knew, Lilia and Hazel Love had only just met.
Ah, I remembered—when Hazel Love was seen the second time, Lilia had seized her hand and eagerly asked to be friends, saying she truly liked her.
I also recalled that Hazel Love would later die from overwork, and that she wept in Jed’s embrace.
Thanks to her and Jed, Hazel Love, despite having no one else in the world, had received treatment that left her wanting for nothing in her final days, or so the story went.
So then, wasn’t her disappointment understandable…?
While I couldn’t help but think it was rather bold that the two of them, caught up in romance, had dumped all the work on me and left, but that shouldn’t be the case any longer—I decided to let it go and see them in a favorable light.
Maintaining ties with the two of them might prove useful someday, after all.
Jed had already realized what he’d done and even apologized.
“His Highness understood and permitted this. Are you heading to see him? Allow me to escort you inside the Palace.”
Resigning gave me nothing to worry about. There would be little threat within the Royal Palace itself, in any case.
Lilia shook her head from side to side.
“No, I came to check in on Love, and hearing the news from Jed, I came here instead. I’m glad I wasn’t too late. Will you visit us sometimes?”
“Of course. If possible, I’ll visit every quarter.”
“Really?”
“Of course.”
It was a lie, actually.

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