The Ice Age Came And I Just Got Married - Chapter 35

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Chapter 35
As Logan moved to close the door of the Isolation Zone, I caught his hand.
“Logan, there’s no need for us to dirty our hands directly.”
I continued calmly.
“So let’s leave him be. Whether he stays trapped in here or finds a way out—it doesn’t matter.”
Even if he did escape, a man in such obvious malnutrition wouldn’t last long out there.
At my words, Anelus’s eyes filled with tears as he bowed low to me.
“Thank you! Thank you so much!”
“Don’t thank me. I don’t want thanks from a criminal like you.”
I simply didn’t want to soil my hands or my allies’ hands with this.
But watching Anelus continue to weep and bow, thanking me over and over, I sighed and extended my hand to him.
Logan tried to stop me, so I gave him a sudden, unmistakable wink.
He froze in shock.
He was startled enough to make me a bit embarrassed.
“Thank you. Thank you nonetheless.”
I helped the sniffling Anelus to his feet and naturally steadied him by his collar.
My fingertips brushed the inside of his coat, and I felt exactly what I expected.
A hard, cold crystal—a Blue Stone.
I absorbed it in an instant.
A flash of blue light burst from inside his coat.
But Anelus, still weeping and thanking me, didn’t seem to notice the light at all.
Only Marcus and Charlotte couldn’t hide their shock as they stared at me.
“Take care now.”
I withdrew my hand as if nothing had happened and stepped back.
Anelus never noticed that the Blue Stone he’d been carrying was gone.
Well, he’s better off not knowing.
Chapter 6: The Tidal Wave
The Naval Base had yielded decent results.
I’d absorbed a Silver Stone and a Blue Stone, and gathered information about Julian Oraberni.
Of course, it probably wasn’t particularly crucial information for the others.
We left the Naval Base and had now arrived at the Harbor District.
I convinced the party to do some fishing while we were here before heading back.
Though truthfully, there was another reason we needed to visit the Harbor District.
‘If the story unfolds as I remember, that person should be here in the Harbor District by now.’
A fisherman who would later join the protagonist Aiden’s party, though he would eventually attempt to assassinate Logan.
Why was I eager to meet such a person?
To establish a good impression of Logan beforehand, and if possible, to offer him a position in Acorn Village.
‘He turned out to be quite a capable asset.’
I raised my head, recalling the novel’s events.
The towering Tidal Wave still weighed on my mind.
A day had passed while we were at the Naval Base, and morning sun now hung in the sky.
“I’ve got to say, I’m seriously suspicious of our junior’s true identity.”
“You too? I’ve been thinking the same thing.”
Marcus and Charlotte were openly whispering to each other about me.
“So what are you trying to say?”
“Well, with Acorn Village and your mysterious power and all—don’t you think it’s time you explained what’s really going on?”
It was an awkward question, one I couldn’t properly answer.
“I wish I could explain, but honestly, there’s still far more I don’t understand.”
Neither Logan nor I knew why Acorn Village was so special, and my ability to absorb Winter Stones remained just as mysterious.
“But there is one thing I’m certain about.”
“And that is?”
“Right now, what we need isn’t to jump to conclusions—we need to verify things one step at a time.”
“Verify?”
This time, even Logan turned to look at me.
“Yes. Why is Acorn Village special? Why can only I absorb Winter Stones? What is the Frost Heart? How were the Snow Monsters created? What truth does Julian Oraberni know? We need to verify each of these piece by piece.”
Finding Julian Oraberni and asking him directly would probably give us the most accurate answers.
‘But where do I even begin looking?’
The only lead I had was that he’d gone north.
This was nearly as hopeless as searching for a needle in a grand plaza.
“But they all seem to be connected to each other somehow.”
That was when Marcus objected to my reasoning.
“Fine, let’s say the Winter Stone and the Frost Heart are both Magic Stones. But Acorn Village and the snow monsters—why them?”
“Remember? The first village chief we found in Acorn Village. He was wearing a mage’s robes.”
“You don’t mean…….”
“It’s just a hypothesis, but the common thread among these four things is their connection to magic.”
At that, both Marcus and Charlotte nodded, their faces showing understanding.
“Then we’ll need to find Director Everhardt to get any real leads.”
“That’s precisely the problem.”
Marcus shook his head at my answer.
Still, I was grateful they seemed to grasp what I was saying.
I’d been worried about how to make them accept such an absurd situation.
While we spoke, we’d drifted deeper into the Harbor District.
The frozen tidal wave loomed even larger from this vantage point.
“Could we use the Silver Stone’s power to send this somewhere else?”
Logan answered my question flatly.
“You can’t control your power yet. What if you end up getting transported far away? Absolutely not.”
“Ugh, are you my husband or my father?”
At my mutter, Logan’s eyebrows shot up. The father remark clearly didn’t sit well with him.
“Husband. Not father.”
He corrected me again. I shrugged, and Logan let out a sigh.
Tap—patter.
Ice particles fell on my head from above, and I looked up. The culprit was the frozen tidal wave.
Now that we’d descended into the Harbor District, the tidal wave rose like it would swallow the entire city, blotting out the sun completely.
The shadow beneath it grew darker still, making the Harbor District feel unusually cold.
The wave hung there as though time itself had stopped.
A massive surge frozen mid-moment—the instant before it could engulf the city, crystallized in ice.
A wall of ice dozens of meters tall stretched along the harbor in a long, jagged line.
It looked like some god had carved the sea itself into a colossal crystal sculpture.
Yet there was no beauty in it.
Ships were trapped inside the ice.
Sailing vessels tilted with their sails unfurled, fishing boats half-destroyed. And people frozen on the decks while trying to flee.
Some cradled children in their arms. Others reached their hands toward the sky.
Terror remained etched on their faces.
‘If I used the Silver Stone, couldn’t I move this out to the middle of the sea?’
Far away from land.
I looked down at my hands. I opened my palms, then clenched them tight.
I feel like I could do it.
I really do feel like I could. A certainty I couldn’t put into words.
But for now, my power wasn’t enough.
To move that massive wave all the way out to the open sea, I needed a little more of the Silver Stone’s strength.
“Eve.”
I lifted my head. Red eyes gazed at me quietly.
“What? Why?”
“You’re thinking about it now. That you might be able to do it.”
“That obvious?”
“Yes.”
Logan didn’t deny it and simply answered.
He seemed to know me better than I knew myself.
He glanced at Marcus and Charlotte, who were examining the shops within the Harbor District, then spoke to me again.
“Do what you want.”
“Really?”
“But I’ll keep trying to stop you. Whatever you do. I won’t be able to cheer you on.”
Logan’s calm face caught my eye.
I understood why he said he couldn’t cheer me on.
I knew the anxiety underneath—his fear that I might die again.
He continued speaking in a tone as casual as if remarking on the weather.
“But you’ll move forward anyway. Because that’s who you are.”
……
“Just don’t forget I’m here behind you.”
He said it as though standing at my back were the most natural thing in the world.
I met Logan’s gaze steadily. He looked down at me in silence.
We stood like that for a long moment, simply watching each other. The soft whisper of wind and snow came through clearly.
But the sound of my own heartbeat seemed to thunder louder than the wind.
Then, cutting through the silence, came Charlotte’s voice.
“Eve! I found some fishing gear over here!”
I came to my senses and glanced toward Charlotte, then turned back to Logan and extended my hand.
“Not behind. Beside me.”
Logan’s eyes widened slightly—surprised by my words. I shrugged and spoke to him.
“What can we do? We’re married. We walk side by side.”
His lips pressed into a thin line. For a moment they trembled slightly. Then he laughed.
Logan must be busy thinking of ways to protect me.
I’m busy thinking of ways to keep Logan from succumbing to darkness.
The affection I hold for Logan may never match the depth of his love for me…….
But we share the same desire to keep each other alive, and that’s enough.
For now, I wanted to believe that was true.

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