Surviving as the Wife of the Swordsmanship Clan’s Troublemaker - Chapter 46

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Episode 46

 

How Helbeorn gained his power could be investigated later. Now that Helbeorn had become a threatening presence, he was nothing but an obstacle to Nikolai.

 

For now, there was no choice but to confine him.

 

And so Helbeorn was forcibly imprisoned underground.

 

But it wasn’t really like prison life.

 

Inside were luxurious beds, sofas, and even tables, and delicious food was provided at all hours.

 

Just then, a soldier brought a tray with his favorite protein-rich fried eggs.

 

“Please eat.”

 

“I don’t need that crap, so let me out!!”

 

“Stop wasting your energy. He said he’ll release you if you stay quietly for a few days.”

 

Aaaaah!!

 

He had finally gained power.

 

It was unfair enough that his power was being suspected, but prison too.

 

Helbeorn felt like he was going to die from frustration.

 

***

 

Helbeorn in prison?

 

“It’s all his own doing.”

 

Whatever the reason, he must have gotten on Nikolai’s nerves.

 

That would be just like Helbeorn to do.

 

[That’s too harsh. That crazy guy even went to the border for you before.]

 

Junel had started viewing Helbeorn favorably since that day.

 

He often suggested visiting him, saying it had been hundreds of years since someone dominated a blood sword.

 

“You just go to him yourself.”

 

[No, I’m just saying. Who knows? Maybe he was imprisoned because Nikolai hated him for that incident?]

 

Because of me?

 

“No way.”

 

[If not that, there’s no other reason.]

 

I didn’t think so, but it left me feeling uneasy for no reason.

 

“Young Madam. Please have some tea.”

 

Just then, May suddenly brought out tea.

 

“What’s with the tea all of a sudden?”

 

“Actually, the Madam sent this as a gift to thank you.”

 

Francesca?

 

I had been feeling sorry about choosing onions and making her cry. I never expected to see her sobbing like that. She had been trembling and sniffling, so I was worried and sent her ginger tea… but I never thought of a gift.

 

“The Madam really seems to like you. Just like I do.”

 

“You think too well of me.”

 

“It’s true though.”

 

May smiled warmly as she poured the tea.

 

It had the autumn scent of tree leaves dried under warm sunlight.

 

It was tea that went well with the cool, clear day outside.

 

The honey fragrance that subtly permeated through it whetted my appetite.

 

“The aroma is so nice.”

 

What kind of tea was this.

 

It was an unfamiliar scent to me, who had only been drinking solomon’s seal tea, cassia seed tea, and schisandra tea every day under my mother-in-law’s nagging.

 

“It’s rooibos tea. The Madam said she enjoyed drinking this when she was pregnant.”

 

“Hmm. I see.”

 

I wondered why she was bringing up pregnancy, but the aroma was very pleasant.

 

Plus, the cup she served it in was so pretty that I felt like I was being treated well.

 

“May. Do you have another teacup?”

 

“Huh? Yes.”

 

May took out a teacup from under the trolley and handed it to me. I poured tea into that cup.

 

Then I pointed to the chair across from me.

 

“Let’s drink together.”

 

Her face showed she was wondering what I was talking about.

 

Expecting this reaction, I pulled her over and forced her to sit in the chair.

 

“Drinking alone feels so lonely.”

 

If only I said it was delicious and good, May wouldn’t know. So we should taste it together.

 

“But…”

 

“Go ahead and try it.”

 

May hesitated for a long time, then slowly picked up the teacup. Then she carefully sipped the tea.

 

Soon her eyes widened.

 

“It’s really delicious. I’ve never had tea with this kind of aroma in my life.”

 

“Right? Isn’t it a bit unique? It seems to have a tree bark scent too.”

 

Then May sipped the tea again and nodded.

 

“You’re right! Young Madam must have absolute taste. I didn’t notice, but seeing you think of that right away.”

 

“Oh, you’re flattering me too much.”

 

May’s cheeks flushed rosy as she drank the tea.

 

I poured the rest of the tea into May’s quickly emptied cup.

 

“Why are you giving it all to me?”

 

“I prefer nutty flavors.”

 

I guess I’m an inevitable Korean. Having always boiled and drunk things like barley tea, nothing suited my taste as much as that.

 

“But since the Madam drank this tea diligently and gave birth to the young masters, it’s tea with that much good energy. You should also work hard to give birth to a young lord.”

 

“Huh?”

 

So there was such a deep meaning.

 

Who knew this was a gift with the deep meaning of telling me to bear a son.

 

Pregnancy…

 

Come to think of it, something I had forgotten came to mind.

 

‘Madam Michelle.’

 

I had forgotten about her.

 

I had been so busy surviving here that I completely forgot about my life in the village.

 

‘She’ll be looking for me.’

 

It had already been about two weeks since I left the village.

 

Michelle must be worried about me disappearing without any contact.

 

‘Going out like this would be difficult.’

 

But I couldn’t pretend not to know about Michelle, who must be endlessly worried. I needed to find a way to contact her separately.

 

***

 

Village near Kalrwai Market.

 

“Hallara, where on earth did you go!”

 

Michelle was troubled looking at Hallara’s suddenly empty house.

 

Hallara had disappeared overnight.

 

If she had packed her belongings and run away, she would have thought Hallara had left, but the ingredients she bought from the market were still in the kitchen.

 

For two days, she waited thinking Hallara might return soon, but Hallara didn’t come back even when the ingredients rotted and attracted swarms of flies. Instead, flocks of black crows circled around the house. Michelle’s nerves were on edge from the crows’ cries that could be heard for days.

 

“Doctor Thomas, didn’t you hear any news about Hallara while going around?”

 

Thomas, who had just returned, shook his head.

 

While making his rounds, he had asked patients about Hallara’s whereabouts, but no one had seen her.

 

Thomas suddenly recalled meeting someone.

 

“By the way, Michelle, didn’t some noble lady come looking for you?”

 

“Who? Why?”

 

“Well, I wondered if some noble family had offered you a wet nurse position.”

 

“A wet nurse? What are you talking about out of nowhere, in this situation?”

 

“No, never mind.”

 

Thomas deliberately pushed away that memory.

 

If they hadn’t found Michelle, they would have found another woman.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

Bang bang-!

 

At the sound of someone pounding the door hard enough to break it, Michelle screamed. Who could be acting so rudely at this hour? Michelle stomped over and flung the door open.

 

“You almost made me lose my baby!”

 

Then a man in a white robe immediately pressed a sword to her throat.

 

“Why, why are you doing this?”

 

“Answer what I ask.”

 

“P-p-please spare me.”

 

At that sound, Thomas came over asking what was wrong, but when he saw the sharp blue blade pointed at Michelle, he stepped between them.

 

“She’s pregnant. I don’t know what this is about, but please lower your sword and tell us.”

 

“Answer truthfully to my questions and you’ll keep your lives.”

 

“We’ll talk, just please spare our lives.”

 

Thomas answered calmly on behalf of Michelle, who was trembling with fear. The man seemed ready to kill even a pregnant woman.

 

They had to say something.

 

“Where is the woman who lives in that house?”

 

“H-Hallara?”

 

After a moment of suffocating silence, the man answered.

 

“That’s right. There are signs she’s been away from home for over ten days. Tell me where she went.”

 

“We don’t know either!”

 

Michelle shouted in a trembling voice.

 

“We were wondering about that too since she suddenly disappeared. That’s all we know.”

 

Thomas added to this.

 

The man’s white sleeve trembled. It was because Michelle was shaking.

 

When Thomas tried to approach, the man pressed the sword closer.

 

Thomas stopped and raised both arms.

 

“Please spare us.”

 

Instead of adding lengthy explanations, he made a short, direct plea.

 

“Do you know her?”

 

“No. She’s just a woman who lives in the house across from us, so we only saw her coming and going.”

 

Thomas answered immediately.

 

Michelle looked at him with wavering eyes, but Thomas signaled her not to say anything.

 

“Were there people who came and went from that woman’s house?”

 

“Some men whose faces we didn’t know came and went. We don’t know who they were. There were quite a few of them.”

 

Thomas answered evasively.

 

The man didn’t respond.

 

In the suffocating silence, Michelle felt like she might faint at any moment.

 

“Erase from your memory the fact that I came here. If you run your mouths carelessly, I will definitely kill you.”

 

With those words, the man suddenly vanished without a trace.

 

“Huff.”

 

When the cold blade that had been at her throat disappeared, Michelle collapsed to the floor.

 

“Are you alright?”

 

“Alright? I really almost lost my baby.”

 

Michelle wiped the sweat that had formed on her forehead.

 

She had really almost died without her husband and without even giving birth to her child.

 

“I think we should stop investigating now. It’s dangerous.”

 

“Hallara…”

 

More than that, first Hallara had gone missing, and now this suspicious man had come looking for her.

 

‘What kind of dangerous situation did she get involved in?’

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