Newlywed Life Begins with a Mistake - Chapter 90

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Chapter 90

Meanwhile, at that moment.

“May the prosperity of the South reach your household.”

Casian, who had been greeting people in the first-floor banquet hall, walked around the hall while maintaining his smile.

To fulfill his role as host, he gave appropriate greetings to the invited guests and tried to fill the void left by Christina, who had returned to the mansion.

It was while he was maintaining proper etiquette and observing his surroundings.

Crash!

Suddenly, the chandelier crashed down onto the stage hall, and yellow particles came pouring down from the air.

“Ahhh!”

“Aaahhh!”

As the brilliant cluster of lights shattered, the venue instantly fell into chaos.

Screams spread through the banquet hall that had been bustling with laughter.

Casian quickly secured an escape route and evacuated the shocked nobles while searching for Evelyn.

That’s when it happened.

“Your Excellency! This is terrible. His Majesty’s escort knights have all collapsed!”

Hans came running while gasping for breath and delivered the urgent news.

At this, Casian climbed the spiral staircase and headed to the 3rd floor where the Emperor was.

“Your Majesty!”

“Cough, gack!”

When he opened the door, Glenn was clutching his throat and attempting to vomit.

“What’s wrong with you?”

“How dare! How dare that wench poison me!”

“She poisoned you?”

“Yes! She put poison in my pie!”

As Glenn pointed at the dining table in indignation, Casian’s head turned following Glenn’s finger.

On the table covered with a tablecloth were white plates and cutlery.

And a fallen white chess piece.

“King?”

Casian, feeling a sense of déjà vu, moved as if entranced.

An indescribable sensation flashed through his mind, but he approached the table with his gaze fixed on the chess piece.

The fallen white king was lying on a small piece of paper.

Casian, drawn to unfold the note, eventually hardened his expression.

【Checkmate.】

“Your Majesty!”

“What on earth is going on here!”

While Casian’s eyes were fixed on the note, the Head Servant and Royal Knights burst into the 3rd floor.

Casian, coming to his senses at the loud commotion, hastily hid the chess piece in his embrace.

Meanwhile, Glenn, supported by the Head Servant and knights, searched for potions with bulging eyes.

Only after gulping down three bottles of the swirling liquid did the Emperor speak with bloodshot eyes, breathing heavily.

“Catch that woman immediately!”

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“Bel! We need to hurry!”

“I know.”

Around the same time. Evelyn, who had escaped from the banquet hall, rode her horse while holding Pupu, who had returned to slime form.

After leaving the stables and entering the dense forest attached to the hunting grounds, she moved following the markers.

“Looking at how the red flags continue to the left, it seems like there’s a village nearby?”

When one of the loyal servants leading ahead voiced his question, another loyal servant held a magical device to his eye to confirm.

“Smoke is rising from chimneys beyond the hill. The private forest seems to be connected to the village. Master, what should we do?”

“Let’s avoid the village if possible. There will be knights everywhere.”

The priority was to quietly escape while avoiding people’s eyes.

Fortunately, thanks to quickly escaping the Hetis Duchy, there was no one blocking their path ahead.

But it was too early to feel relieved.

Separate from the Hetis Duchy appearing distant, subtle vibrations could be felt from the ground.

“Be careful! It’s a trap!”

Whoosh!

As soon as Pupu’s cry ended, the trap was triggered.

A snare shot up into the air along with sturdy rope. Sharp metal pieces barely grazed Evelyn’s hair as they cut through the wind.

“The entire forest seems to be used as hunting grounds.”

“Right. Everyone watch your step.”

While Evelyn and her loyal servants ran in perfect coordination, dodging the randomly triggered traps, an eerie roar was heard from behind them.

“Stop!”

Crash!

An attack filled with killing intent cut down a tree. Leaves came pouring down with a loud crash, obscuring their vision.

Seeing the Royal Knights chasing them with torches, Evelyn hurriedly shouted.

“Secure an escape route!”

As the trees in front of them fell like dominoes, Evelyn and her loyal servants increased their speed and raced through the thicket.

The Royal Knights continuously shot crossbows, but due to the thick darkness, their accuracy was low.

“It seems we lost the flag markers along the way. What should we do, master?”

“Looking at how the smoke is getting fainter, there’s a high chance we’ll encounter unfamiliar paths. If we make a wrong move, we might face a dead end or a cliff.”

A solution was needed.

Seeing such looks from her loyal servants, Evelyn turned the reins after a brief moment of conflict.

“Let’s go down. …To the village.”

She didn’t want to involve the Empire’s citizens if possible, but right now hiding among the crowd was the best strategy.

At Evelyn’s command, her loyal servants rushed down the steep downhill path without hesitation.

The frightened horses stumbled, but they performed acrobatic feats and reached the village entrance in an instant.

The knights who witnessed the strange sight were flustered, but they persistently followed behind.

“Don’t let her escape!”

“She’s the villainess who tried to assassinate His Majesty!”

Tense air enveloped them.

Even as Evelyn and her loyal servants broke through the alleys avoiding people, sharp arrows poured down relentlessly.

“Pu! What are those guys? Are they really Royal Knights?”

As Pupu said, those people were hard to consider Royal Knights.

As if they couldn’t see innocent people getting hurt, they were launching indiscriminate attacks as if capturing Evelyn alone was enough.

“Ahhh!”

“Ahh!”

Screams erupted everywhere.

Dust clouds rose, and with loud horse hooves, carts overturned as the streets were covered in chaos.

“This won’t work. Let’s go back to the forest.”

Evelyn, who had escaped the chaotic streets, entered the forest shrouded in deep darkness, dismounted her horse, and chose an uphill path.

She crossed over steep curves and traversed flat ground, but the chase didn’t end.

“Ugh!”

“Stay conscious. If you collapse here, you’ll die.”

When sharp metal struck the leg of a loyal servant who was following behind, the servant groaned and swayed.

Evelyn helped up the servant who had rolled on the ground, telling him to steel his heart as she looked behind.

The Royal Knights, who looked like marauders, had already approached close enough to be seen with the naked eye.

“I’ll shake them off, master.”

“Leave this to us and go ahead first, master.”

The loyal servants who had been at the front suddenly stopped running and pushed Evelyn’s back.

“But-“

“What they’re after is you, master.”

“That’s right. We’ll deal with them appropriately and then escape, so don’t worry.”

As her loyal servants waved their hands, Evelyn took out two bracelets embedded with white diamonds from her bosom and put them on each of her servants.

“These are bracelets with defensive magic. You can only use them 3 times. …Be careful. They’re cruel-natured people.”

“We understand, so hurry and go.”

“There’s no time, master.”

As her loyal servants urged her on, Evelyn reluctantly ran while holding Pupu.

She tried to run steadfastly looking only ahead, but her head kept turning back.

Even while running, Evelyn glanced back.

Crash!

One of her loyal servants swung his sword.

Then a huge boulder that had been embedded in the ground rolled toward them. At the same time, a hidden trap activated, restricting their movement.

“Damn it!”

“Those wenches dare to use their brains!”

As their movement lines got tangled, rough voices burst out consecutively from behind.

“Bel, don’t worry too much! The Royal Knights might be superior in natural physique and strength, but your people are one step above in actual combat.”

“Right. They’re people who survived for survival, so they’ll somehow stay alive.”

These were people who had climbed up from the bottom, wielding weapons indiscriminately.

They had endured to survive and picked up swords to fight against violence, so they would be fine.

Besides, she had given them bracelets containing defensive magic.

Unless there was a major incident, they wouldn’t lose their lives.

If there was a problem, it would be me.

“Bel, be careful!”

Crash!

As soon as Pupu’s cry ended, the place where she had stepped instantly opened up with a hole.

Just a light step had created a huge gap.

Startled, Evelyn stepped backward.

The visibility was already dark, and everywhere was covered with snow to the point where she couldn’t distinguish between flat ground and cliffs.

It was impossible to tell whether it was solid earth or empty void, so running recklessly had its limits too.

“What should I do.”

Just as Evelyn was pondering this sudden obstacle.

“Don’t worry! Pupu will do it!”

Pupu, who had been clinging to Evelyn’s shoulder, jumped down into the snow field, nibbled on some white snow nearby, and then shouted.

“Pupu!”

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