Newlywed Life Begins with a Mistake - Chapter 65

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Chapter 65

At the same time.

“Why aren’t they coming! These people.”

Silvia, who had arrived early at the location Matthew mentioned, raised her voice and vented her irritation.

With the help of her subordinates, she had barely figured out that chive meant Galasia, but a messenger bird had flown in while she was on her way to the destination.

【Please come to the unloading yard.】

When she unfolded the note tied to the messenger bird’s leg, there was a brief message along with the location of the changed meeting point.

When she went there, she found an abandoned dockyard.

“What the hell is going on!”

Seeing the scene crawling with rats and insects, Silvia wanted to storm out immediately, but there was a problem.

Matthew, who had notified her of the location, was nowhere to be seen.

Just as Silvia was getting scared.

“Sorry. We’re late.”

“Sorry for being late, no, we apologize.”

Matthew and a woman appeared.

“Are you both crazy? You changed the meeting point on your own and dare to make me wait for an hour?”

“There were circumstances that delayed us. We apologize once again.”

Seeing Silvia thoroughly angry, Matthew immediately bowed his head.

The woman who came with Matthew also bowed her head and watched Silvia’s mood, but complaints inevitably came out.

“We had no choice. What could we do when we had a tail?”

“A tail? You cut it off for sure before coming, right?”

“Yes. We used two carriages as a decoy to shake off the pursuit.”

“You were late because you each took different carriages? Anyway, we don’t have time, so work quickly.”

“Understood.”

At Silvia’s urging, Matthew and the woman changed into work clothes and headed to the cart piled with sacks.

When they untied the stitched thread, unprocessed wheat came out.

“This much should be fine.”

“We’ll begin.”

When the woman who came with him confirmed by eye that there was nothing wrong with the grain, Matthew took out a glass bottle from his bag.

An intense liquid reminiscent of poisonous mushrooms was sloshing around.

Hiss.

The liquid was sprayed over the grain.

A pungent, sour smell spread in all directions.

Before long, the color of the wheat in the sacks began to gradually change.

As small crystals appeared in rows along with grain that looked burnt black, Matthew and the woman who came with him carefully peeled off the husks.

“If we dry it in a cool place and then do secondary processing, it should be fine.”

It was sufficient now, but additional work was needed to reach the level Bentley wanted.

As they continued working through repetitive labor, it had become a dim dawn before they knew it.

“I don’t need to come anymore, right? It’s enough if I only come when the location changes anyway.”

Silvia, who had been watching the work from afar, frowned as if her nose still hurt and spoke.

“When she hasn’t done anything…”

“Shh.”

When the woman beside Matthew grumbled quietly, Matthew shook his head.

As his colleague said, she was a woman who wasn’t helpful, but she was a courier sent by the kingdom.

Moreover, she was the only one who knew the faces of the subordinates sent by the Sibaven Kingdom and the Padcale Empire.

Matthew, hiding his true feelings, put on a smile and showed courtesy.

“Yes. Thank you for your hard work. Please give our thanks to your attendant as well.”

“Attendant?”

When Silvia made a face as if she didn’t understand, Matthew added an explanation.

“The black-haired man wearing a half-mask. The coachman said he was a new attendant.”

“Dante, did we hire a new attendant?”

At Silvia’s question, the coachman who was sealing the sack opening quickly shook his head.

“That’s impossible. Wasn’t I busy staying by the princess’s side all day today? Even now I’m in the middle of moving the grain piled on the cart. I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“Are you twins? What about meeting us earlier! Your clothes changed, but you brought us here!”

“Meeting? I was busy staying by the princess’s side today and had no time to drive another carriage.”

The woman who came with Matthew asked as if interrogating, but the coachman scratched the back of his head and spoke as if puzzled. He truly looked like he didn’t know.

“Didn’t you come driving a black horse?”

Matthew, feeling a sense of déjà vu, asked a question, and the coachman waved his hand saying it was nonsense.

“Where would we get a black horse! Do you know how expensive those are!”

That meant.

“…Is it a trap?”

Someone had cleverly intervened in the transaction.

Only then did Matthew realize.

Both the mysterious man who appeared with the black horse and the coachman were all fake.

“We need to scatter immediately!”

Matthew’s hair stood on end as he urgently shouted.

But painful groans flowing through gritted teeth came first.

“Ugh!”

Multiple attacks came flying with a loud roar.

As sudden bombardment poured down like rain, the abandoned buildings positioned like a protective barrier collapsed helplessly with a cracking sound.

“Ugh! What! There was a hidden rat bastard?”

Everyone including Princess Sibaven gritted their teeth as if crying out in pain.

After a round of fierce attacks poured down, a familiar voice pierced their ears.

“So you were all here.”

Thud, thud. Sharp boot steps gradually drew closer.

“I didn’t know you’d conduct secret deals at the unloading yard.”

The ruthless intruder who emerged through the hazy smoke was looking around with an expressionless face.

“Did you change locations because it’s a secret passage connected to Galasia.”

The man who had mercilessly trampled their territory asked with piercing cold eyes.

They had definitely thought they’d completely shaken him off.

“…”

“I think an explanation is needed, Matthew.”

Menacing eyes pressed for an answer like pronouncing a death sentence.

“…Casian. What brings you here?”

Matthew, suppressing his fear, barely managed to speak.

They had once been close friends, but the situation had changed as of today.

Casian said nothing at all.

He simply maintained silence.

The longer Casian’s silence continued, the more chilling sensations bound Matthew.

‘Is there an escape route.’

Matthew, consumed by fear, turned his head with a frozen face.

They were surrounded on all sides.

Though it was an open outdoor area, there was no hole to escape through due to armed knights positioned everywhere.

Some of those who sensed the ominous atmosphere attempted to flee.

“Ahhh!”

But before long, they collapsed to the ground with death-rattle-like screams.

“Judging by the acrid smell soaked into the cart, you must have been manufacturing something artificial.”

Though corpses piled up behind him, Casian continued his deduction with an indifferent face.

“What exactly were you making?”

Casian, who had checked the contents of the sacks, asked in a flat voice.

“That’s…”

“No! Are you crazy, Princess?”

Silvia tried to confess the truth under the frost-like interrogation, but the woman who came with Matthew covered Silvia’s mouth.

The Valhalla Knights tried to separate the two, but the woman knocked Silvia unconscious and immediately committed suicide.

The woman who ingested poison without a moment’s hesitation vomited blood and closed her eyes.

“It seems they carry poison around.”

To die already before a proper interrogation had even begun.

Casian clicked his tongue briefly and ordered the knights to search their bodies and gag them.

“What on earth were you thinking when you did this?”

Casian asked Matthew, whose hands and feet were bound, once more.

“I can’t tell you. Even if you knew, it’s something you couldn’t resolve anyway.”

They had kept it thoroughly secret so no one could know.

From source to destination. Taking care of everything, they had continuously produced poison according to their patron’s orders.

Though production would be blocked for a while, half the amount their patron requested had already been filled.

When Matthew smiled bitterly while looking up at Casian, Casian’s face slightly hardened.

“If you’re really curious, try touching the grain with your bare hands. Then I’ll tell you.”

“You mustn’t, Your Grace!”

The knights on both sides burst into anger, but Casian readily removed his gloves. He knew it was a petty provocation, but he needed information.

“Give him truth serum.”

“Your habit of overworking your body remains the same.”

Matthew, who had been watching such Casian, said with a sneer.

If he was going to die anyway, it seemed fine to destroy Casian’s mind too.

Before long, Casian was looking at the sack.

His fingers covered with wounds touched the sack.

Just as Casian was about to touch the grain in the sack with his bare hands.

“Honey! Be careful. Touching it with bare hands can cause delirium symptoms!”

Evelyn, who appeared from somewhere, turned the tables.

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