My Contract Husband Demands a Divorce - Chapter 35

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Though I felt a prickle of annoyance, I kept it off my face and rested my head against Scheit’s shoulder.
“That was naturally to provoke Scheit’s jealousy. As you know, my husband is quite… passive. I felt that if I didn’t push him like that, he would never admit his own feelings.”
“……”
“Otherwise, why would I openly do something that could ruin my own reputation?”
Kildian grimaced as though he had bitten into unripe fruit.
He didn’t seem to fully believe my words.
But it didn’t matter.
Kildian was never the type to place absolute trust in anyone anyway.
I just needed to get through this moment.
I slipped off my necklace, earrings, and even my rings, holding them out to Kildian.
“Even if you dismantle them and sell only the gems, they will easily fetch a billion.”
Kildian accepted the pieces I offered.
Yet his green eyes continued to drift between Scheit and me.
“The truth of those words will reveal itself in time.”
He stared at me with a lingering look of suspicion, assessing whether I had another motive, before finally turning around.
“Scheit Huniswald, restore the Laboratory and await further orders.”
“Yes. I… understand.”
Perhaps because he believed he had already been caught, Kildian opened the secret passage and left the room without the slightest hesitation.
I didn’t even have the presence of mind to be surprised by the opening bookshelf.
The moment he vanished, the tension snapped, and my knees gave out beneath me.
Still, somehow, I had managed to pull it off.
…To think that the romance novel Sindy recommended would actually be useful.
Live long enough, and you really do see everything.
As I stroked my chest to calm my racing heart, Scheit crouched down in front of me and met my eyes.
“Why did you do that?”
I just saved his life, and he immediately interrogates me? Isn’t that a bit much?
I lifted my gaze to glare at him with a disgruntled expression. He didn’t ask again, simply waiting for my answer.
So, I replied.
“I told you I would cooperate.”
“Is handing money to Prince Kildian your idea of cooperation? Knowing full well that money will be used as War Funds?”
His rebuking tone made a surge of anger rise within me.
Is that any way to speak to the person who just helped you?
“Then are you saying I should have just let Prince Kildian harm you?”
A sharp silence stretched between us for a long moment.
That silence was as good as an affirmation.
A sudden wave of defiance—or perhaps unfairness—welled up from deep inside me.
“Right. I suppose it doesn’t matter to you. No matter what happens to that body.”
Scheit slowly rose to his feet and looked down at me. I tilted my head back to follow him.
A straight, unyielding posture, a right hand that naturally swept back his hair, and clear, dark brown eyes devoid of any fuzziness.
He was Scheit, yet not a single thing about him was like Scheit.
“Because that body isn’t yours anyway.”
Dawn broke, pouring light into the room.
The eyelashes lowered to look down at me cast long shadows across his pale cheeks.
His face wore its usual smile.
“That again? I told you, my changes are due to amnesia.”
He stared intently into my eyes, his brow twitching slightly.
“You never believed me.”
“How could I? A person changing one hundred and eighty degrees just from losing their memory makes absolutely no sense.”
I pushed myself up from the floor to face him.
“At first, I just thought you were using amnesia as an excuse to reveal your true colors. That seemed the most realistic explanation.”
Looking back, there were flaws in that theory.
First, there was no reason to reveal his true colors only to me.
Second, his dominant hand had changed. There was no need for a right-handed person to pretend to be left-handed just to hide their true nature.
Even so, I had tried hard to ignore that discomfort.
If I didn’t, the only thing left was an unrealistic, absurd reason like Possession.
But then……
“Before burning them, I saw the records in Scheit’s Laboratory.”
His Laboratory held research records written in the Ancient Language and all kinds of materials regarding sorcery.
Necromancy, Demon Summoning, Possession, and even methods for creating monsters and magical beasts.
They were materials so dangerous that merely possessing them would send someone to the Inquisition to have their head chopped off.
And the bigger problem was……
‘It seems he actually succeeded.’
Under Kildian’s orders, Scheit had been researching something preposterous.
Placing a human soul into another person’s body.
Though the purpose behind such research remained unknown, the Research Journal was quite detailed, even containing records of experiments on animals.
In the end, it seemed he hadn’t achieved satisfactory results with animal research.
Yet the ultimate fruit of that research was standing right in front of me.
A Scheit Huniswald who felt entirely like someone else.
“So don’t even think about denying it. You aren’t Scheit, are you?”
Though it ended with a question mark, it wasn’t a question.
It was a conviction.
Scheit… no, the mysterious person who had taken over Scheit’s body stared down at me. I did not avert my gaze.
Only the sounds of breathing and the ticking clock filled the room, our eyes still locked onto each other.
This time, he broke the silence first.
“You are right, my lady.”
Scheit leaned in toward me. The hair that usually shrouded his face fell forward like a curtain.
“I am not Scheit Huniswald. My name is……”
He was close enough that I could see his indrawn breath, the slight upward curve of his lips, and his dilating pupils.
It was the face of someone on the verge of pouring out a secret he could tell no one else.
In that instant, an alarm bell seemed to ring in my mind.
I hurriedly clamped both hands over his mouth.
“Wait!”
“Mmm?”
He let out a muffled sound, his brow furrowing in displeasure.
But I gripped his mouth even tighter.
“Don’t say it!”
“Mmm?”
Despite my hand blocking his mouth, Scheit made a noise anyway, unbothered.
Startled by the vibration humming against my palm, I yanked my hands away, only to see him about to open his mouth again.
I hastily cut him off.
“I’m not curious about who you are.”
His flawless, elegant court etiquette, his disciplined stride, and the way he had deftly pinned me down on our first day made it obvious.
The ghost inside Scheit’s body must have been a nobleman of considerably high rank when he was alive.
Perhaps he was even royalty.
Furthermore, his personality was predictable. Despite ending up in someone else’s body, he hadn’t batted an eye, and the moment he realized Kildian’s insidious research, he tried to stop it.
He was undoubtedly someone who couldn’t stand injustice and had a meddlesome streak.
People like that usually don’t live long.
Like a moth plunging into a flame without realizing it will burn, he was bound to throw himself into danger.
And if I got entangled with someone like him, I would likely get dragged into all sorts of trouble too.
He was a poor match for my life philosophy—to spend the rest of my days eating, playing, and squandering my Inheritance—so it was best not to get deeply involved.
“So don’t tell me who you are.”
“Hmm…… Are you truly not curious?”
“Not at all.”
“I had hoped at least one person would know who I am.”
Just what kind of dangerous things was he planning to do that made him speak as though it wouldn’t be strange if he vanished tomorrow?
Seeing his lack of lingering attachment to life, it was clear he was a figure from the past who had been a ghost for quite some time.
I couldn’t afford to grow attached to someone when I didn’t even know if he could continue living in Scheit’s body.
“I don’t want to be that one person. If you really want to leave a trace of who you are, write it in a diary or something.”
“You say you will cooperate, yet you want no involvement?”
“Precisely.”
Scheit seemed to mull it over.
He couldn’t utilize Scheit’s connections anyway.
His attempt to join forces with Archduke Yulisian’s people had also fallen through, so he would need me for the time being.
“Is there a need to hesitate? I can give you what you want. To avoid getting caught by Kildian, you need someone who can decipher the Cipher and the Ancient Language.”
“At the same time, the War Funds will continue to flow to Prince Kildian.”
“Then we just have to cause him a loss greater than three billion, don’t we?”
“Can you manage that?”
“Just trying to restore the materials I burned will eat up half that money. You could also pocket some extra funds under the guise of research.”
“You are quite far removed from morality, my lady.”
“Is there any need to be moral when dealing with a bad person?”
“……”
Scheit fell silent for a moment before letting out a wry chuckle.
“Very well. Then, given the lie we told Prince Kildian, we shall have to act like a happily married couple from now on.”
Perfect. I had finally succeeded in negotiating.
A bright smile spread across my face as I extended my hand to him.
“Well then, I’ll be in your care for the time being.”
“Likewise.”

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