The World Mistakes Me for Terminally Ill - Chapter 49

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The World Thinks I’m Terminally Ill Episode 049

 

After coughing up blood and losing consciousness, when I opened my eyes, a familiar yet strange space greeted me.

 

“Here again.”

 

The White Forest.

 

In the distance, I could see the pure white forest that surrounded this space like a mirage.

 

I looked at it indifferently, then looked down at my body.

 

‘Did it become clearer?’

 

Unlike my previous visit when my form was blurry and translucent, I now looked more similar to the ‘me’ in reality.

 

Could this actually become clearer?

 

I wondered briefly, then gave up thinking what I could expect from supernatural phenomena. This place itself wasn’t reality but an unprecedented space, so nothing that happened here would be strange.

 

I began walking through the flower garden.

 

‘If I keep doing this, won’t that vision called the first memory appear?’

 

The vision where Uncle Degen betrayed me, and after I completely lost control of Seton, I saw Shubel’s appearance for the last time.

 

As soon as I thought that, the vision appeared, continuing from where it had cut off last time.

 

‘Who are you anyway?’

 

‘What?’

 

‘You’re in the way.’

 

The setting was Jenaide Villa. The first meeting between Elisia and Shubel in the vision.

 

I raised my eyebrows seeing Shubel with an arrogant and cold atmosphere that I couldn’t imagine now.

 

‘I did think he wouldn’t be easy to approach if he didn’t smile, but I didn’t know he could make that kind of face.’

 

The Elisia in the vision also seemed incredulous, taking a defiant posture.

 

‘That’s what I should be saying.’

 

After that, a strange week-long story unfolded between the odd intruder and the villa’s heir.

 

Whether in reality or vision, when Shubel got fixated on something, he only focused on that – he occupied the old window seat and refused to leave.

 

Because of this strange intruder, Elisia, who had come to briefly look around the villa, couldn’t leave and tried everything to get Shubel out.

 

After a week of unintentionally spending time together like this, one day.

 

‘Fine.’

 

The annoyed Elisia ran her fingers through her hair.

 

‘If you like that spot so much, pay a fair price and buy it. Duke of Runein.’

 

At those words, Shubel, who had been silently reading a book as usual, turned his head.

 

Since he was a person known only through rumors, I wasn’t sure when I first saw him, but after spending a week together, I became certain this person was the Duke of Runein.

 

‘This is the last inheritance my parents left me, and it’s everything to me.’

 

You’re illegally occupying that precious place.

 

Of course, she didn’t really mean to sell it – she was telling him to leave.

 

‘How much?’

 

She was furious to the tips of her hair at his indifferent question.

 

Elisia shouted whatever came to mind.

 

‘If you want to take someone’s everything, you should give your everything. How about marriage? I need Runein’s reputation right now, and you seem to like Seton’s last inheritance.’

 

Though she shouted in anger, half of it was sincere.

 

To rebuild the collapsed Seton, she needed power and prestige.

 

From Elisia’s position with little left, she had no cards to negotiate with other noble families that were already well-established. The only possibility was Runein.

 

But she never expected the other party to actually accept this deal-

 

‘I accept.’

 

‘What…?’

 

‘Wasn’t that a proposal?’

 

The man spoke with unbelievable coldness for someone accepting a proposal.

 

‘Then I’d appreciate it if you don’t interfere anymore.’

 

Shubel Runein and Elisia Seton in the vision ended up getting married after this bizarre week.

 

I muttered in disbelief.

 

“They really got married like this?”

 

The real Shubel also tends to move according to his interests, but he’s not this reckless…

 

‘Actually, he is.’

 

I suddenly understood.

 

A man with life plans wouldn’t spend all day following around his contract marriage wife.

 

Whether in vision or reality, Shubel was Shubel.

 

‘Anyway, that’s not what’s important. According to Kaiseus, the visions of the White Forest are a kind of “record.”‘

 

I understood this as the case where I didn’t make choices – in other words, the original story.

 

So if this was the story before the original began, and the family destruction occurred after this, flowing according to the original story?

 

“It still doesn’t make sense.”

 

I learned about the original story on my wedding day.

 

For the future to change according to my choices, Seton’s collapse should have already been in progress.

 

Moreover, Shubel and my first meeting should have taken place at the villa, not on the day of the carriage accident…

 

“Ah.”

 

While organizing my thoughts, I realized.

 

In the end, the variable in all of this was in our ‘first meeting.’

 

Because I met him, ‘Shubel Runein’ became an option in my choices, and Seton could remain safe.

 

‘That means… the cause of change is Shubel?’

 

It made sense if he became interested in my existence for some reason, unlike in the original, and changes occurred as he intervened in my life.

 

So now that ‘some reason’ was the problem.

 

‘You were literally so radiant. I couldn’t just leave you alone.’

 

“People aren’t glowing objects, so what does this even mean?”

 

There’s a limit to speculating alone.

 

I didn’t think I could go further without more clues.

 

‘Since this vision seems to show hidden stories from the original, I’ll probably find out if I keep watching.’

 

Someday, when I see the ending of this story destined for tragedy, I’ll be able to know why he changed.

 

I watched the original Elisia go straight to the Grand Duke’s Castle after the wedding ceremony and fell into thought.

 

This vision ended there.

 

I waited to see if another vision might appear, but nothing more came – this seemed to be the end for now.

 

“How do I get back this time?”

 

Eventually, I sat down in the flower garden with a strange fatigue.

 

Strangely… my heart felt like it was beating faster than before.

 

Last time, I fell asleep like this and woke up in reality hearing Shubel’s voice.

 

This time, I didn’t have a husband to call for me.

 

“At least tell me where you’re going. It’s needlessly worrying.”

 

While watching the pure white petals fluttering under the blue moonlight, I raised my left hand.

 

The wedding ring sparkled in the moonlight.

 

An object symbolizing the contract and trust between us.

 

I definitely thought it was nothing when I was working, but perhaps because I recognized this as a lonely space with no one around.

 

My true feelings finally leaked out.

 

“I hate… the sound of rain.”

 

Whoooosh.

 

I seemed to hear an auditory hallucination from reality.

 

I curled up with my knees together in the pure white flower garden.

 

Around the same time, Shubel.

 

“Damn it, what kind of monster is this… Cough!”

 

He was already outside the duchy.

 

The reason was simple.

 

“Hiiik, hiiiik.”

 

To kidnap – no, take along – this kid who was supposedly a healing priest from Daesin Palace.

 

Because Shubel wanted to be a somewhat high-maintenance, delicate(?) husband to his wife, he hadn’t told Elisia about his abilities or the purpose of this mission.

 

Although she possessed tremendous divine power, if he were to say he was kidnapping a mere twelve-year-old girl… it seemed like the lady, who appeared to love children, would dislike it.

 

‘Then it would be fine if the lady doesn’t know.’

 

He generally didn’t want to do anything behind Elisia’s back, but the speed at which the healing priestess was arriving exceeded the limits of his patience.

 

Shubel wanted to heal Elisia. That was what motivated him to cast aside all his ennui and move personally.

 

“A-a-are you a kind kidnapper, sir?”

 

However, there was one hitch in what should have been a smooth kidnapping plan.

 

Shubel looked down with an expressionless face at the healing priestess girl who was clinging tightly to his side.

 

“You’re the healing priestess dispatched to Lunein, correct?”

 

“Yes, yes! Kind kidnapper sir, please punish that evil kidnapper!”

 

The fact was that there was another kidnapper besides himself.

 

He turned his eyes away from the girl and looked ahead at the other kidnapper who was beaten to a pulp.

 

“Cough, big brother. Can’t you let it slide just once? I’ll reform from now on.”

 

When he had found the girl, she was just about to be dragged away by a masked figure of unknown identity.

 

Shubel, who couldn’t let Elisia’s cure(?) be stolen away, immediately entered combat, leading to the current situation.

 

The pretty silver-haired, green-eyed man—according to the girl’s assessment—whose fox mask had been removed, grinned with his split lip.

 

Ice fragments were embedded here and there on his body, making him quite grotesque, and seeing him roll his eyes and smile in that state, he definitely wasn’t normal.

 

“No way! If you let him go, despite that pretty face, he’ll definitely do bad things!”

 

The girl shrieked.

 

Shubel, who had been quietly listening due to learned social skills, was gradually getting bored of hearing their story.

 

Just as he was about to resolve the situation.

 

“…!”

 

Shubel felt the crystal butterfly connected to his heart being destroyed.

 

He turned his head sharply toward the direction of the duchy.

 

‘My lady.’

 

For the first time, deep ripples appeared in his emotionless purple eyes.

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