Marriage With A Suspiciously Demure Husband - Chapter 93

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Episode 93

The noise was louder than I’d expected.
I flinched, my body jerking in surprise.
“It sounds like they’re engaged in combat, my lady.”
As I moved toward the window, Serez stepped in front of me.
Thud! Thud!
That wasn’t the kind of vibration a Medium Beast would make.
I could hear the faint cries of beasts mixed in with the percussion.
Sitting leisurely on the bed had suddenly become impossible.
“It’s a Medium Beast, right?”
“Pardon? The other knights reported it that way earlier…….”
I finally pushed myself off the bed.
My guards’ faces showed alarm, but I couldn’t just sit and wait when I didn’t even know what was happening outside.

“I’m just going to check. I’ll be back in a moment.”

Kailas wouldn’t fall easily to mere beasts, but…….
It felt like an old habit I couldn’t shake.
“Hisan, could you bring me some clothes? I need to go out.”
“Pardon? No, my lady. You were told to stay in this room.”
“I’m just stepping out front to check. Just to confirm.”
I straightened the Coat that Kailas had dressed me in earlier and fastened the buttons.
“My lady, we’re guarding you, so please don’t worry. The guards and mercenaries are handling things outside.”
Hisan and one of the guards took turns trying to block my path.
Ignoring their protests, I headed for the door, only to have the guard stationed there plant himself firmly in my way.
“If there are two or more Medium Beasts, there’d be over thirty Small Fry, and the north is practically crawling with packs. Besides, that’s not the sound a Medium Beast makes. What takes thirty minutes, I can handle in ten. Hisan, my shoes.”
“It’s not a matter of time, my lady. Your safety is our highest priority…….”
Before I could leave, I glanced at the clock—it looked like I’d slept about four hours.
“Hisan, you stay here. Only Serez comes with me. You two stay and watch the place. Don’t worry—I’ll handle cleanup afterward.”
“My lady!”
To sleep so deeply while chaos unfolded outside—what a thing to do.
I pushed past those trying to stop me and took only Serez with me.
As she followed behind, Serez was visibly anxious.
“I’ll tell them I brought you along, so don’t worry about it.”
“B-but still, your safety comes first, my lady…….”
Once outside, the sounds of combat became sharper and clearer.
The noise wasn’t coming from one place. Fighting was happening on both sides.
“……The Back Gate too?”
Even if beasts were more active at dawn, how could they be attacking both the Main Gate and the Back Gate at once?
I stopped midway to decide.
Should I head to the Main Gate or the Back Gate?
Listening carefully, the Back Gate seemed more chaotic with beast cries.
The Main Gate, by comparison, was relatively quiet.
I turned toward the Back Gate.
I needed to thin out their numbers first, at least. Besides, Kailas might be there.
“Serez, let’s head that way.”
Serez followed me, her face looking like she might cry any moment now.
We ran for about five minutes toward the Back Gate.
In a small village like this, the Back Gate entrance came into view quickly.
At the same time, I saw three enormous shadows engaged in combat with people among clouds of dust.
Beneath the lamplight, the haze of earth hung like a mist.
I scanned rapidly across the scene, searching for him.
‘……He’s not there.’
Among those engaged in combat, I could see neither Kailas nor the other guards.
I turned to head straight for the Main Gate, then hesitated.
At the Back Gate, four mercenaries were fighting.
Three animal-form Medium Beasts.
They were skilled, but struggling more than I’d have expected.
Clearly, the beasts had swarmed through the Main Gate first, drawing the crowd there, while the mercenaries staying at the Inn had rushed out to this side.
“Sigh…”
But with three Medium Beasts and minions clinging to them, the standoff seemed to drag on.
“Serez, guard my back.”
“Yes, ma’am. Don’t worry.”
Serez finally gave up trying to talk me out of it and, seeming to have resigned herself to protecting my rear, drew her sword.
Once I’d made my assessment, I darted swiftly between the mercenaries.
The moment I positioned myself behind a mercenary who looked relatively at ease, I prepared to cast magic.
Elemental Magic was nearly my weak point, but I could manage simple spells, so I fired small bursts of Fire Spark at the beasts’ eyes like flicking sparks.
Snarl!
The instant I seized the attention of the three Medium Beasts, I blinded them and arrested their movement.
“Now!”
While the beasts flinched and clawed at their faces, writhing in agony, the mercenaries glanced at me briefly before charging forward.
I kept my focus on restraining the beasts’ eyes and limbs.
After dodging back and forth for a stretch while the mercenaries wielded their blades, two of them collapsed with a sickening thud, their heads severed.
“Phew.”
For the last one, I bound its entire body tight with Illusion Thorn Vine—my specialty—and then flicked another Fire Spark at it just as before.
There were no roaring flames like a fire mage might conjure, but the spark transferred in an instant, racing along the vine and consuming the beast’s body in fire.
At least I’d managed to startle the creature.
Finally, one mercenary leapt up and drove his blade down.
A heavy crack.
The beast, which had been by far the most massive, crumpled ignominiously.
“…That’s done.”
Now that all the minions had fled and only five or six remained, they should be able to handle it themselves at that level of skill.
I quickly stepped back and turned to Serez.
Serez stood watching in a daze.
“Serez?”
“Oh, yes, yes? Ma’am!”
“This side seems mostly settled, so we should head to the Main Gate.”
I heard a mercenary calling me from behind, but I rushed toward the Main Gate.
Words of thanks followed in my wake.
Fortunately, the Main Gate was nearly wrapped up.
About twenty of us, including our escort, had gathered there, and I could see the remains of beasts scattered about.
The corpse of a Large Beast lay off to one side.
The moment I spotted Kailas, I witnessed a grim sound—slash—as a Humanoid Beast’s neck was cleanly severed by a man’s blade before my eyes.
The Humanoid Beast was small in stature, but its crimson eyes and the Purple Mana Stone embedded in its forehead were unmistakable.
Why was there a Follower Beast here too…?
As I froze in shock, the corpse of the dead Follower erupted in black flames.
In the meantime, the other knights and mercenaries swiftly cleaned up the surroundings.
“Well, we’ll finish up here, and then the Back Gate…”
As Kailas casually sheathed his sword and turned, our eyes met.
His red eyes widened, then narrowed in displeasure in an instant.
With a stride more terrifying than any beast, he stepped directly before me.
“Hazel, what in the world are you doing here? Didn’t you hear me say not to come out?”
Whether he was angry or not, I found myself scanning him from head to toe without thinking.
“…You’re not hurt…”
“Hazel.”
I belatedly came to my senses and looked up into his eyes. They were blazing with fury.
“Oh, it wasn’t that I didn’t hear you—there was suddenly such a loud noise that I just came out for a moment to assess the situation.”
Kailas’s jaw clenched, then relaxed.
“What situation do you need to assess? Are we playing house right now? I told you absolutely not to leave the room. Didn’t you hear my order to keep my wife inside?”
“I’m s-sorry!”
Kailas’s gaze turned toward Serez behind me.
I stepped sideways to block him, cutting off his angry line of sight.
“I just came out on my own. Serez came to protect me. I wanted to go, and what strength does she have against that? More importantly, that Follower Beast just now… that was one, right?”
“Alec! Finish clearing the perimeter and come out to check if there are any more beasts. Kaila, you head to the Back Gate and assess the situation. Sid, once you’re done, reassign the mercenaries at the Inn.”
Kailas didn’t answer my question, simply sweeping me into his arms and heading toward the Inn.
It was a hasty, urgent motion.
Being carried like a sack, I gasped and gripped his shoulders.
“No, wait, wait…! I can walk. I can walk, I tell you! And the Back Gate is already all cleared. There’s no need to go there.”
Kailas’s crimson eyes snapped to me in an instant.
“…What did you just say?”
“There were about three Large Beasts at the Back Gate. The mercenaries were fighting them, so I helped out a bit…….”
Kailas, who had been walking with that frightening intensity, stopped dead in his tracks.
“You went to the Back Gate too?”
“I thought they were there… I heard the commotion.”
Kailas exhaled sharply, as though exasperated beyond words.
His voice, carefully constrained, carried an ominous edge.
“Do you truly find my orders so amusing?”

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