My Contract Husband Demands a Divorce - Chapter 22

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I know.
Even if I say this with the face of Scheit, who harmed Yulisian, it won’t resonate.
However, he believed in the two of them.
Death takes away life, but the end of a life does not mean the things that must be protected disappear.
That is what it means to follow someone who upholds a grand cause.
Even if he dies, inheriting his will and his soul.
Ensuring that his death does not simply end as a death.
Just as Yulisian had accepted the final wishes of his grandfather, the former emperor, and his master, Tristan and Papilion would do the same.
“It is true that I participated in his cruel and merciless atrocities under Kildian. I have no intention of making excuses. I simply wish to atone.”
At the word atonement, Papilion gnashed his teeth in disgust.
Tristan narrowed his eyes, as if weighing something. Then, he picked up the prenuptial agreement.
Scanning the contents, he stroked his chin and pondered for a long time before speaking.
“Phil, this evidence is real. Take a look.”
“Since it is the first time, of course he would bring something real. He needs to earn our trust! That man is planning to act as a spy!”
“Then we can just utilize this evidence alone, can’t we?”
Tristan proffered the prenuptial agreement.
Papilion shifted his gaze to the contract.
He saw an amount written there that was similar to Kildian’s war funds, which they had been unable to track down.
Cutting off the funding source would benefit everyone who opposed Kildian.
Papilion bit his lip hard and turned his head away.
His emotions urged him to strangle Scheit Huniswald right before his eyes.
However, his intellect knew better.
The person they truly needed to exact revenge upon was Kildian, and if they did not stop him, similar tragedies would continue to occur.
Papilion barely managed to swallow down the surging hostility.
“…Stop playing the hypocrite by pretending to be righteous and just speak honestly. What do you want? Why are you suddenly trying to side with us?”
Yulisian brought up the same lie he had used when deceiving Amarynthis.
Since he had even deceived Scheit’s wife, it wouldn’t be very difficult to deceive people who didn’t know what kind of person Scheit truly was.
“To be honest, I suffered a head injury, and my memory is incomplete. I can no longer read the directives that arrive in cipher, nor can I read notes or the research journal.”
This explanation was sufficient.
Kildian was not the type of person to tolerate sudden amnesia.
Whether the amnesia was real or fake, he would never keep a tool that had become useless by his side.
He possessed a temperament where, if an item in his possession failed to function properly, he would break it with his own hands.
“So you came to us just to survive?”
“That is correct.”
Papilion’s face contorted in an instant.
It seemed repulsive to him that the bastard who had tried to assassinate Yulisian was now floundering just to save his own skin.
Separately, it wasn’t that he couldn’t believe the claim of wanting to live even at the cost of betraying Kildian.
Papilion barely suppressed his emotions and donned a mask of rationality.
“Can you prove your claim of wanting to become our assistant?”
“What would you like me to do?”
“…For starters, put that mask back on.”
Yulisian nodded and meekly put the mask back on.
Staring at the marriage contract, Papilion spoke.
“I need you to divorce Amarynthis Rootsild.”
It was a natural demand. Just severing the connection with Amarynthis, who acted as the funding source, would put immense pressure on Kildian.
However…….
“I tried that as well. But Prince Kildian ordered me to extract one billion from my wife every month. Trying to proceed without getting caught made it far from simple.”
Yulisian thought the two of them wouldn’t believe his words.
Yet, surprisingly, Papilion acquiesced easily.
“He is indeed not an easy opponent. Since it involves property, he likely refused to divorce all the more.”
His attitude was like that of someone talking about a person he knew very well.
Yulisian was inwardly surprised.
“Did you two know each other?”
Before he realized it, he almost spoke too casually, so he hurriedly adjusted his phrasing.
Papilion frowned.
“Why are you asking something like that?”
“She is, after all, my wife.”
Papilion scoffed.
However, when Tristan beside him showed curiosity, he spoke freely.
“We took the same classes several times at the university.”
The Imperial Comprehensive University was a place difficult to enter without brains, no matter how prestigious one’s family was.
Among its branches, competition within the Department of Theology was particularly fierce.
Merely graduating from it would establish connections with the Vatican, which wielded massive power, and most members of the imperial family or high-ranking nobility hailed from the Department of Theology.
Amarynthis had entered that very Department of Theology at the top of her class.
Gentle eyes, a pure and elegant face, outstanding academic achievement, and a mild, kind disposition.
Amarynthis was famous as a flawless, perfect talent who lacked absolutely nothing.
During her sophomore year, she ascended to the position of Student Council president, exerting massive influence even over political circles.
Anyone with ambition was frantic to establish a close relationship with her.
However, envy and jealousy always follow admiration.
At some point, a malicious rumor began to spread that ‘Amarynthis bought the top spot with money.’
The corruption of the honest and perfect Student Council president.
Regardless of the truth, the sensational rumor grew as it was passed along from mouth to mouth.
‘I heard somewhere that she got the top spot this time by seducing a professor.’
‘No way. Why would a Rutshield ever need to do that?’
‘Because she’s a Rutshield, it makes even more sense. Losing the top spot while bearing that family name would damage their pride.’
‘True, she attends almost every single social gathering on campus to manage her network. Where would a person like that find the time to study?’
‘That’s also true.’
‘I didn’t think she was that kind of person, but how utterly vulgar.’
‘I heard that she even bought the exam questions with money when she entered the school. Just to get the title of the youngest.’
Instead of tea party refreshments, instead of drinking snacks, people chewed over the rumors.
Gradually, changes began to manifest in people’s attitudes toward Amarynthis.
Those who flattered her to her face while spreading vicious words behind her back, those who openly distanced themselves from her for fear of getting caught in the crossfire, subtly mocking and sneering glances, and insulting words.
The rumors were so widespread that they even reached the ears of Papilion, who had no interest whatsoever in networking.
Papilion did not believe those rumors.
When he studied late at night at the library, he frequently ran into Amarynthis. Furthermore, she kept her seat until dawn in almost most instances.
Inwardly, he had even worried.
What if she abandoned her studies because she was having a hard time due to the rumors? That would be a great loss for the empire.
Yet, Amarynthis was always among people with an elegant and kind face.
If someone asked if she was alright, she would tilt her head with a look of complete ignorance and smile.
‘What do you mean by asking if I’m alright? Did something happen that I am unaware of?’
Until then, Papilion had thought to himself.
‘She must have been raised so delicately that she lacks situational awareness.’
Well, as the only daughter of the Rootsild Family, she wouldn’t have had any reason to walk on eggshells around anyone.
Just when he thought it had been a pointless worry, unfamiliar faces began to appear among the people mingling with Amarynthis.
They were the people known to have spread the rumors.
As they grew closer to Amarynthis, they denied the rumors with their own mouths.
‘What I said last time, it seems I misunderstood. She is not that kind of person.’
‘To think Amarynthis bought the top spot with money, do people still believe such an absurd story?’
They had used the mouths of their former enemies to raise her reputation back up.
That produced two effects.
Those who envied and jeered at her began to curse the ringleaders of the rumors who had changed their stance.
The words of the rumor ringleaders lost credibility. Simultaneously, the rumors that had originated from their mouths naturally lost credibility as well.
Because people were busy cursing them, badmouthing Amarynthis was temporarily pushed to the back burner.
Conversely, those who liked her but had kept their distance because of the rumors turned favorable once again.
Because the ones who had actively slandered her had corrected the rumors.
Papilion was struck with admiration.
‘To suppress enemies and draw in allies by utilizing the enemy itself. That is truly admirable social maneuvering.’
Around the time the gossip finally quieted down, she received a medal from the Pope for her work in Ancient Language Decoding.
She had proven her ability on her own.
The rumors vanished in an instant.
If it had ended there, Papilion would not have been wary of Amarynthis.
He would have remembered her as merely a wise person with good social skills.
But she…….

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