Surviving as the Wife of the Swordsmanship Clan’s Troublemaker - Chapter 70

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Episode 70

“You’ll come out anyway, won’t you?”

But Docheop only answered as if it were obvious.

In the past, she had also gained her freedom by escaping from her family after all sorts of struggles and hardships.

“I’ll help you escape from your family. Of course, after the promised three months are over.”

Docheop knew the method to get her out.

“If you become my companion for just the next three months, I’ll give you everything you want.”

And he knew the direction she needed to grow in the future, and everything necessary for that growth.

“What, what? What does this scoundrel know!”

“You want to escape from your family.”

“So what! You must have picked up some gossip floating around. So what about it.”

“I’m saying I’ll help.”

“Then why?”

“Because you have similarities to me.”

At those words, Elise hesitated.

Elise wasn’t unaware of the stories about Docheop. Like herself, he was from a hero family but was practically a cast-off child, so she had been curious.

“…I’m not quite a scoundrel though?”

“Let’s save the time for comforting each other’s wounds for later. Decide quickly. Opportunities like this aren’t common.”

Docheop asked while opening the pocket watch he was holding.

For Elise, this couldn’t help but be an absurd situation. She had crossed the border hoping to eat wedding reception food away from watchful eyes, only to have the wedding’s main character suddenly ask her to abandon her family and become his companion – an absurd situation indeed.

Even his tone was shameless and the content was outrageous.

If anyone else had said such things, it would have warranted having wine poured all over them.

‘But why am I tempted?’

However, ridiculously, she found herself interested in Docheop’s words.

She had no memory of meeting him since glimpsing him once in childhood, and had only heard rumors of him being a scoundrel, yet strangely, really strangely, he didn’t feel unfamiliar.

Thinking rationally, it was sophistry not worth considering… yet following his words and carrying out his orders felt like something predetermined.

“F-first, give me that.”

“Sure.”

Elise first grabbed another snack. She had planned to save it for later, but having eaten nothing but grass for days, she couldn’t resist and unwrapped a nut bar to put in her mouth.

“This is really delicious.”

Whoever made this was definitely a genius. To think of coating already savory and delicious nuts with caramel made from boiled sugar and butter, then covering it with rich chocolate?

Do people here eat things like this every day?

For her, who had at most eaten desserts of cream spread between bread, this was a shocking revelation.

‘Wait. This must have been made by the chef here. If I recruit that person…?’

The thought of offering double the current salary crossed Elise’s mind.

“How is it? The snack my wife made?”

Docheop spoke as if he had read her thoughts.

“What? Wife? That blonde woman from earlier?”

“Not ‘that blonde woman’ – Hallara.”

“That pretty woman made this?”

“I’m blessed when it comes to wives.”

“No way!”

Elise kept exclaiming in admiration while recalling the bride she had seen in the ceremony hall. Actually, even before seeing her directly, she had expected her to be pretty. Unless she was that beautiful, a commoner wouldn’t dare think of setting foot in one of the Four Hero Families.

But the Hallara she actually saw was more beautiful than expected. Seductive, elongated eyes contrasting with pure, clear pupils.

She was so pretty that even if she were a man, she would have been captivated.

But she’s also good at cooking?

Not just good, but innovatively good. This kind of snack was a first!

“Wow, she really has everything. Everything.”

“She has everything. Because she has me.”

At Docheop’s words, Elise’s expression stiffened then relaxed.

“I want to have her too. That woman.”

Her interest began growing more toward Hallara than Docheop. If she were a man, Elise might have made her into a husband.

“That won’t do.”

“Why? You said to be companions. You said you’d give me everything I want?”

“Alright, time’s up. You’re becoming my companion, right?”

“But this is kind of an unreasonable proposal.”

“Unreasonable things are scheduled to happen from now on.”

But he also lacked time to explain logically.

“Elise. For the next three months, help me when I need it. In return, after three months, I’ll give you complete freedom.”

As Docheop said this, he realized anew the fact that he had regressed. Before regression, Elise wouldn’t leave his side even if told to go away.

“I won’t call on you often.”

“You mean I’m your subordinate, not companion?”

“If you need me, I’ll have to come. Because we’re companions.”

“Easy to say. How would you come? Crossing the border for days? Even if it’s possible for you, it’s impossible for me. As you know, Cardia doesn’t act alone.”

Unless she abandoned her family right now, that would be impossible. Whether companions or allies, they each belonged to separate empires, making it difficult to meet easily.

As her head cleared, she could see Docheop properly. She wondered if she had been foolishly entertaining him because she was distracted by the snacks.

Not just any prince, but a recently awakened scoundrel prince couldn’t possibly have the power to rescue her from her family.

“Ah, I was forgetting because of the snacks.”

Docheop rummaged through his jacket and pulled out a heavy stone, throwing it to her. Elise’s eyes flashed as she caught the flying object.

“What is this? I thought it was a snack, but it’s just a rock?”

“Unfortunately, you can’t eat that. It’s a Freya magic stone.”

“What?”

“A Freya magic stone.”

Elise’s eyes, nose, and mouth gaped open.

Just then, trumpet sounds came from outside.

“I’m going. Use that to create a gate between Bloodmere and Cardia. I don’t need to explain the details, right?”

Docheop spoke quickly and immediately left through the terrace.

Suddenly left alone, Elise blinked while looking down at what remained in her hand.

“A Freya magic stone? He just gives away something this precious? Is he… really crazy?”

Freya magic stones were precious items that only appeared in legends.

Those magic stones that had dried up over a hundred years ago and were now hard to find even at auctions.

Docheop had just handed it over.

Moreover.

“Wait. How did he know I can use magic?”

He also knew Elise’s secret that she had never once revealed to anyone.

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Docheop headed straight to the waiting room where Hallara would be.

The wedding dress that had been taken off and the bouquet were there.

But Hallara wasn’t there.

Instead, there was a note Hallara had left.

“I’m too late.”

Docheop muttered quietly as he picked it up.

Then he opened the letter.

“To whoever sees this, please deliver to Prince Nikolai.

The traitor is Captain of Guards Morgan.”

It was a story about Hallara making contact with the traitor.

What she had written didn’t end there.

“Behind him is the Holy Church.

Why would their name, forgotten even by history, suddenly appear?

They never actually disappeared in the first place.

They were just scattered everywhere, hiding their identities while waiting for the right moment.

What’s important is that the Bloodmere Family will be their first target.

You must prepare thoroughly.

Soon you’ll be turning the entire world into your enemy.

Please be careful.”

The letter was packed with hard-to-believe content.

Docheop soon folded the letter neatly and put it back in the envelope.

“She ran away.”

Then he rubbed his face once and clicked his tongue with a bitter taste.

If she met with the traitor, all she had to do was find Nikolai.

The fact that she left only this note meant she had been planning to leave from the beginning.

The reason was obvious.

The reason Hallara could so easily discover the traitor and instantly figure out their purpose.

Hallara was probably connected to that traitor through some kind of relationship.

It was a very serious matter.

And yet.

“How cruel.”

More than the fact that there was someone who dared betray the family, her absence from this place stung more deeply.

“No matter how urgent it was, to abandon her husband before the wedding ceremony was even over.”

This was the first time he’d felt such emotion. His chest ached with disappointment.

“But Hallara. There’s no way I’d let you go.”

He immediately stuffed the letter into his pocket. She was Brinihanta. The one he had been desperately searching for.

There was no way he would let go of Hallara, who had become completely his as of today.

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