The Ice Age Came And I Just Got Married - Chapter 66

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Chapter 66
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Jack had been caught by Logan.
Marcus thought the expression was perfectly apt. He watched the two men standing in confrontation in Eve’s bedroom.
“Look, Logan. What are you doing right now?”
Logan didn’t answer Aiden’s question, only stood with his arms crossed.
At the end of his gaze lay Eve, still lost in sleep.
Beside her, Jack fidgeted nervously, shifting his weight from foot to foot. He shot a pleading look toward Marcus, but there was nothing Marcus could do.
This village belonged to Chesswind and his wife, after all.
‘But weren’t you once the greatest magnate commanding the Kingdom itself?’
That’s what Jack seemed to be saying with his eyes. But Marcus merely smiled without moving, though his eyes remained unmoved.
“Raven needs medical attention as well. So you’ll hand over Harper.”
“Why should I?”
“What?”
Aiden furrowed his brow as if perplexed. But Logan responded with an expression of complete bewilderment.
“Why should I?”
He posed the question once more. His face was utterly blank.
Without Eve, Logan seemed inhuman. More precisely, he seemed like a puppet stripped of all humanity. He appeared almost like pure evil incarnate.
Aiden, at a loss for words, studied Logan for a moment before turning his gaze to Eve lying beneath the blanket on the bed.
He opened his mouth again.
“I’ll apologize in my man’s stead for his rudeness, but I also just heard what Raven said to Nathan about your wife.”
“Rudeness? What did he say?”
Logan asked as if he truly knew nothing. Aiden realized that Nathan hadn’t told him anything, and Logan himself knew nothing of it.
Aiden decided to swallow the unnecessary words and get straight to the point.
“You want me to leave this village quickly. But for that to happen, Raven needs to recover his strength as soon as possible, doesn’t he?”
Aiden lowered his head.
“My purpose is the reconstruction of the Kingdom. To restore daily life to its people. I believe that is the duty given to me as Crown Prince.”
……
“That’s why I heard the rumors and coveted your wife’s abilities. I thought your power and hers would be useful in rebuilding the Kingdom, but…….”
Aiden’s gaze turned back to Logan. Logan appeared to be looking at Aiden, yet he was not seeing him. He looked like a broken thing.
Aiden thought that while Eve might be useful, Logan certainly didn’t seem like he would be of any help.
In fact, he was dangerous.
The same would be true for Eve. There was some credibility to the rumor that Eve could absorb Winterstone and wield it as her own power, though it didn’t seem infallible either.
Look at how she lay unconscious, unable to even open her eyes.
‘It would be a waste to leave your wife beside that man. And it’s dangerous.’
It might be better for everyone if I took her from Logan and brought her with me.
Aiden entertained such a thought for a moment, but he didn’t let it show on his face and smiled thinly.
“So, help us leave safely. Once Raven recovers, we’ll be gone immediately.”
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Shortly after Julian disappeared.
The place changed.
I was walking down a mist-shrouded path. I couldn’t see even a hand’s breadth ahead.
This time it really feels like a dream.
‘Was what I saw just moments ago merely a dream as well?’
And after walking for some time, I reached a place.
Beyond the distant afterimage, a familiar face appeared.
Jet-black hair. When I turned my head, what I saw was Logan, red eyes and all.
?!
As if I’d developed Clairvoyance, I could see a red heart within Logan’s body beating fiercely.
The problem was that part of the red heart was turning black.
It wasn’t completely consumed, but more than half of it had already been corrupted.
‘Logan?’
No sound came from my throat.
Logan stood before a massive Mana Stone.
It was a sickly black, as if rotting away. It seemed like the color of disease itself, as though it had swallowed all the darkness in the world and become corrupted.
The enormous Mana Stone seemed similar in size to the Frost Heart I’d seen when I dreamed Julian’s dream.
Back then, since I was trapped inside it, I couldn’t see its exact shape….
Now that I could see it clearly, it truly resembled a heart.
Centered on the Frost Heart, hundreds of crystal pillars stretched outward in all directions, and across their surfaces flowed blue light like veins.
Between the crystals, frost bloomed like flowers, then faded away.
It was breathtakingly beautiful and unsettlingly ominous all at once.
Logan had his hand placed over that sinister heart—pressing through all the ice that enshrouded it, making direct contact with the black heart beneath.
Black smoke poured from the heart and was absorbed into Logan’s body.
Soon after, Logan’s already dark heart grew darker still.
Tick-tick, tick-tick.
The sound of a clock’s second hand echoed from somewhere.
Now, wake up.
Gasp!
My eyes flew open. A familiar ceiling came into view—the bedroom ceiling of Eve House where I stay.
When I turned my head, I saw Logan asleep with his head resting against the bed frame.
The moment I looked at him, his Regression ability surfaced in my mind.
Tick-tick, the sound of the clock’s second hand moving.
Wasn’t that the sound of time itself?
‘It felt like the Frost Heart was giving me a hint.’
What hint, exactly?
A hint about his Regression ability?
The Regression ability Logan had used all this time seemed to mirror the properties of the Frost Heart itself.
In the novel, it clearly said that every time I died, Logan used the Regression ability directly himself.
And why did the Frost Heart show me this scene?
Was it a warning?
Did the Frost Heart want to save me, or did it want to use me?
If the Frost Heart was close to good, it would be the former; if it was close to evil, it would be the latter.
And Julian had classified the Frost Heart as evil.
If the Frost Heart was the primordial Mana Stone—the mother of all Winterstones—then such magical abilities seemed entirely possible.
‘Then could all the voices I’ve heard until now have been the Frost Heart’s voice?’
Voices asking me to recover all the Winterstones, and such.
But why?
Why me of all people?
It was Julian who went missing with the Frost Heart—
It was Logan who wielded the Frost Heart’s abilities—
So why could only I hear the Frost Heart’s voice, and why could only I absorb the Winterstones?
‘I can’t tell if this is a trap or genuine help.’
I called to mind that sickly heart color once more. Certainly, that heart didn’t seem inclined to help me.
What if it was using me to collect the Winterstones and then utterly destroy the world?
In the previous cycles, there were no Winterstones, he had said.
“I remembered what you said just before you died in your last life…….”
“That the Frost Heart would soon shatter.”
I recalled Logan’s words and tried to organize my questions.
Q. Why did the Frost Heart grant Logan the power of Regression, knowing that its own body would gradually fragment?
Q. What is the Frost Heart’s true purpose?
Q. Where is Julian now?
Q. Did the Frost Heart cause the Ice Age?
‘I really have no idea. Would Mother and Father have known? Would my brothers?’
Why had my family all lost contact and disappeared—everyone but me?
Lost in confusion, I sat up. Then I turned toward Logan and our eyes met.
He was watching me quietly, his head still resting against the bed frame.
My heart stopped.
“You startled me. What are you doing?”
“……I was wondering if this was a dream.”
“Hm?”
He reached his hand toward me. His palm touched my cheek.
Why was he doing this? I tilted my head in confusion, and he leaned forward.
A cool soap scent drifted over.
Logan’s face drew close—inches away.

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