The Ice Age Came And I Just Got Married - Chapter 102

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Episode 102
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Logan lifted his head abruptly.
They were in the Underground Level of Norton’s Lord’s Castle now, alongside Aiden, Brian, and Graham—Amelia had stayed behind.
As he glanced between Aiden and Eve in turn, perhaps Eve misread his pensiveness for something else, because she asked him a question.
“Are you all right?”
Her bright face came into view.
“I’m fine.”
Except he wasn’t, not really.
What had happened between Eve and Aiden when they were alone? What had they talked about?
He wanted to know everything—her eyes, her breath, every gesture.
Every. Single. Thing.
Logan was aware enough to recognize that this wasn’t a normal emotion.
But he wanted to have her. To possess her.
That fierce hunger was nearly impossible to bear.
His gaze settled once more on the crystalline depths of Eve’s eyes.
How was he supposed to resist such a craving when she was beautiful like this?
“Logan.”
Eve called his name then.
“I don’t know why, but you look anxious again.”
She squeezed his hand firmly.
He looked down at where their hands were joined, fingers intertwined.
It was maddening.
Even the warmth of her skin, weaving between his fingers, was enough to drive him mad.
How could she be so perfectly suited to his tastes in every conceivable way?
He really did wonder.
What had Eve been like in the memories he’d lost? How had their first meeting unfolded? How had he come to fall for her?
“Here we are.”
Aiden’s voice cut through the moment.
He stretched his arm forward, pointing ahead. There stood the door he’d mentioned before—the one leading deeper into the underground.
It was starkly different from the basement storeroom.
A single, massive iron door completely blocked off the corridor ahead, its surface covered in pristine white frost.
But that wasn’t all that was strange.
From several paces before the door, frost spread across the floor in a perfect circle.
It was as though a Barrier Line had been drawn to keep anyone from approaching further—the frost lay unnaturally thick in that section alone.
“The anomalies I mentioned begin from here,” Aiden said.
He stopped walking. After swallowing dryly, he reached out with his fingertips.
The moment his fingers grazed the Barrier Line, white frost spread in an instant across the back of his hand.
He withdrew his hand immediately.
The frost vanished as if it had never existed, but his fingertips remained stiff and unresponsive.
“If you go any closer, you’ll lose consciousness.”
At Aiden’s words, Eve fell silent, her face thoughtful for a moment.
Everyone turned to look at her.
Unspoken but present in all their minds was the belief that she might be able to open this door.
“I… I think I can try. I think I might be able to open it.”
Eve stepped forward. Logan’s hand twitched as if to reach for her, then stopped.
His memories of Eve began only after they’d met in Dotori Village, but he’d witnessed her power firsthand.
She was extraordinary.
There was no reason to doubt her, no reason not to trust her.
‘She seems perfectly capable on her own.’
He couldn’t understand why people had once said he’d been overprotective of her.
“It feels like the world keeps throwing nothing but trials at me. But it’s never been me who suffered from them—it’s always been you. I’m so sorry for that.”
Eve had said that to him on the way to Norton.
He still couldn’t understand it. There were too many gaps between them, too many blank spaces.
Then Eve extended her hand.
A crimson light burst forth from her palm. It was the RedStone Power.
The reddish glow radiated a gentle warmth.
The light flooded toward the frost-laden door, illuminating everything in its path, but then faded helplessly away.
Nothing happened.
Eve blinked, confusion crossing her features.
“Hmm. It seems the lady’s special power doesn’t work here either.”
At Aiden’s words, Eve grew troubled as well.
Then Graham placed a hand on her shoulder.
“Don’t burden yourself with this.”
Eve tilted her head.
“It’s strange. I could have sworn I felt something—a sense that I could open it…….”
That was when it came.
Sacrifice yourself for her.
A voice that kept echoing in his ear.
Sacrifice? He had no interest in that.
But if he could do something in her place, well—that was another matter entirely.
Logan stepped forward on Eve’s behalf.
“Logan.”
“Wait, Your Grace.”
Before anyone, Eve included, could stop him, he crossed the Barrier Line that had been sealed in frost and seized the door handle.
Crackle.
White rime bloomed instantly across the back of Logan’s hand as he gripped it.
Past his wrist, spreading up his forearm like creeping vines, the frost crept onward.
“Logan! Let go! It’s dangerous.”
Eve cried out, but he did not relent.
Channeling every ounce of focus into opening the door, he tightened his grip on the handle.
In that moment.
You wanted to save her anyway—
The voice boring into his ear grew sharper, clearer.
His breath caught in his throat.
The edges of his vision began to bleach white.
I helped you because you looked so desperate—
So naturally you must sacrifice for her—
That’s why I chose you—
And yet, strangely, he felt no pain. He felt only relief that he could bear this cold in her stead.
“Logan!”
Eve called his name urgently.
Sinews stood out on Logan’s arm as he gritted his teeth.
Crack.
The door handle, frozen solid, shifted ever so slightly.
“It moved……!”
Brian’s eyes widened in disbelief. Logan said nothing.
With each breath his lungs seemed to crystallize, yet he clenched his jaw and twisted the handle all the way.
Screech.
From somewhere deep within the iron door, a mechanism long dormant stirred to life.
Boom.
The massive door shuddered inward slightly, driven by the force of the impact.
A glacial gale swept through the corridor like a storm.
“……It’s… open.”
Brian murmured in a daze.
Thud.
The strength drained from Logan’s legs.
He collapsed to one knee, his entire arm caked in pristine white ice.
“Logan.”
Eve gripped his arm with composure.
Warmth spread from where she touched him—the warmth of RedStone Power.
The frozen arm began to thaw, slowly melting. Like his heart.
Logan lifted his gaze to meet Eve’s.
Eve kept her lips pressed together as she healed his arm.
“I should be the one doing this,” she seemed to say without words.
“No. This is my burden to bear. Just as it always has been. It’s my duty to do everything in my power to keep you alive.”
Eve’s eyes flew open wide in shock.

“What?”
Eve opened her eyes wide in astonishment.
“What did you just say?”
Eve’s question caught Logan off guard. He himself couldn’t understand what he’d just spoken moments before.
“Did your memory come back?”
“Unfortunately not. The words just came to me.”
At Logan’s answer, Eve’s face darkened at once. But she quickly erased any sign of disappointment.
Logan felt a sudden jealousy toward his former self.
The version of himself that she waited for so longingly—the one whose memory remained intact.
Despite being the same person, a mad hunger and jealousy surged up within him.
But that feeling didn’t last long.
Creeeeak—
The door he’d left open swung wide.
Even though no one had touched it.
Logan was the first to step through the threshold.
Eve followed close behind him. But the trouble came next.
Thud—
Graham, who tried to enter after them, was blocked by something and couldn’t cross the doorway.
The door stood open, yet an invisible, transparent barrier barred his path.
Only Logan and Eve could enter.
Graham pounded fiercely at the barrier, calling out to Eve in desperation.
“Eve! Are you all right?!”
Eve gave Logan a bewildered glance, then looked around the space.
There was nothing inside the room.
In the midst of darkness where no light penetrated, something glowed with its own luminescence.
“……A Compass?”
She tilted her head in confusion, then turned back to Graham.
“Brother, I’m fine.”
After reassuring Graham, Eve looked toward Logan.
Logan nodded unconsciously—as if to say everything was all right, as if to say he would be beside her.
The two of them approached the Compass.
“I think this is the artifact Graham mentioned. I can feel it.”
Logan nodded at Eve’s words.
He felt it too.
The same energy he sensed from the inner voice that kept whispering to him.
Then Eve, who had been quietly gazing at the Compass in silence, spoke.
“Logan, there’s something I want to tell you.”
Logan tilted his head slightly to one side. A gesture for her to go on.
Eve’s cheeks flushed with embarrassment.
“If this really is the Frost Heart, your memory might come back……. And somehow I feel like I won’t be able to say this if your memory returns, so I’m telling you now.”
What on earth was she trying to say?
“We’re newlyweds, after all. So, so I want us to live as real h-h-husband and wife. Not like friends like this.”
Ha.
Logan burst into an exasperated laugh. Eve’s face turned crimson.
And she was choosing this moment to say it.
“I don’t like that.”
“Huh?”
“You made me jealous doing that with your past self. You should do it with me too.”
“Why are you being jealous of yourself?”
“Never mind. Let’s have a real romance like proper lovers.”
Logan immediately grasped Eve’s waist and pulled her toward him.

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