The World Mistakes Me for Terminally Ill - Chapter 75

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The World Thinks I’m Terminally Ill Episode 075

Crash-!

Along with the sound of the window breaking.

“My lady.”

Shubel pushed aside the Duchess without any regard for respecting the elderly and caught my collapsing body.

The screams of startled people.

The embrace that firmly supported me.

Even in this chaotic situation, when I met those upright purple eyes that only looked at me, this thought came to mind first.

‘Ah, I need to pay for the window.’

Even though I had clearly told him it was acting, the moment I clutched the necklace, he immediately sensed something was wrong and burst in.

Strangely, I felt relieved. Dignity, honor, justification. And even the gazes of those around us. It meant he prioritized me over such important but trivial things.

After always seeing people who were curious about my private life, seeing someone who tried to cover me with his cloak first… Well, I’m getting a bit sentimental.

“Stand back.”

Shubel embraced me and coldly commanded those around us.

The actors who stood up in confusion and the excited audience pretending not to look while peering this way.

The knights disguised as passersby began controlling the surroundings.

But there was only one person. Someone who was clueless even in this situation.

“Your Grace! Did you finally come to see me?”

When Vivian approached with a bright smile, Shubel paid her no mind and stood up from his spot.

Of course, true to her extreme self-centeredness, she didn’t back down.

“Your Grace? Huh? You definitely saw me. Your Grace, Vivian is here! Kyaa, what?”

“We’re controlling the area. Do not move carelessly.”

Even with that level of appearance, she should have caught his eye at least once, but Shubel didn’t look back even slightly, as if the surrounding audience and Vivian felt the same to him.

While pondering why the embarrassment was my share, I firmly grabbed his sleeve.

“Don’t… cry.”

A sharp atmosphere emanated from him in his uniform.

I couldn’t imagine what Shubel was like on the battlefield, but I got a sense of what it might feel like.

Sensing that I could no longer hold on, I did my best to move my lips.

“My lady, you cannot close your eyes. We’ll go to the priest right now- My lady!”

“I’m, really, fine.”

Don’t cry.

With that, I coughed up blood and fainted in Shubel’s arms.

The news that Elisia had coughed up blood and collapsed due to Countess Herman’s harsh treatment reached the ears of the Duke and Duchess of Runein in less than an hour.

The knights risked their lives to stop the Duke, who despite his usually serious nature, drew his sword in anger and tried to rush out.

“Your Grace, you must calm your anger.”

“Stand aside.”

“Your Grace.”

“Stand aside, Luke. Since when did I have to say things twice.”

Luke Elliot bit his lips and knelt down.

“Then please punish my crime of failing to properly watch over my sister first.”

Only then did the Duke cool his boiling head.

Luke had been expelled from the Count’s family when he was barely a teenager. The Duke had taken him in, and they had fought back-to-back on battlefields for twenty years now.

He wasn’t even recognized as a family member and merely borrowed the surname, so it was impossible for the Duke’s character to blame him for crimes just because of blood relations when problems arose.

Jerkhal sheathed his sword.

“Tell me the reason I must endure this.”

“It was the Duchess who recommended etiquette education. Bella surely wouldn’t have wanted the Duchess to be heartbroken.”

“So that’s why you’ve been enduring without saying anything until now.”

Jerkhal sighed quietly.

Elisia had only intended to quit from the beginning, but for those who didn’t know this, it was a natural misunderstanding.

“If I punish them directly, it would mean ignoring the Duchess’s authority and our daughter-in-law’s feelings, and dragging social matters outside…”

He gazed at the snowy mountains with deep eyes before opening his mouth.

“Luke.”

“Yes.”

“Since when has Runein become so weak.”

“…”

Jerkhal thought it was inevitable when he saw merchant guilds refusing to invest in the Northern Region.

Even when he watched vassal families distancing themselves one by one and seeking their own survival, he left them alone thinking he should understand. Who would want to sink with a sinking ship.

But.

“No, the weak one was me.”

What he thought was kindness became an opportunity for him to be looked down upon.

Because of this, his daughter-in-law was hurt.

Not him, but his daughter-in-law who always felt only sorry.

The blue eyes of the man called the Eternal Fortress blazed bright blue.

An indomitable family that had continued a war for a thousand years that would be overwhelming even for ten or twenty years.

That great spirit that had been sleeping in his heart due to long resignation awakened.

“All those who haven’t attended vassal family assemblies even once in the past ten years will have all their vassal benefits revoked.”

“…!”

The moment the master of the North, who had been silent, became angry.

They would now have to prepare to face an angry blizzard that would erase everything.

From small things like the right to request an audience with the Duke to major things like being exempt from military deployment to border regions.

All the things they thought were natural would disappear.

“And remove the Elliot Count family’s name from the vassal registry.”

Elisia thought of the Duchy as a child that was large but still lacking in strength, but that was just her small misconception from seeing too much of Runein’s bottom.

No matter how clever she was, she too was from a generation that only knew Runein’s past status through history.

The Duchy was a much more enormous family than she thought. The great dragon that had been crouching for a hundred years was already ready to soar.

Luke sensed that a storm would rage around Bella and answered with discipline.

“Yes, I will obey your command.”

A few hours later, at the Elliot Count’s domain.

At the social club in the center of the estate.

There, those who had connections with Count Elliot were having casual conversations.

“The Northern Region has become strange ever since that villainess arrived.”

“She’s been making a fuss with strange things like hot springs and whatnot.”

“This time she called some clown to the capital city? Where is the prestigious Northern Region’s reputation with such lowly clowns!”

Count Elliot, who could be considered the center of this group, arrogantly drank and put on airs.

His eldest son and heir was already living in the capital.

His beloved youngest daughter had become part of the most influential Duchess’s close circle in high society, so now only smooth sailing remained.

‘If you forget old favors just because difficult times have come, that makes you a beast, not a person!’

Well… that second son who dared to harbor rebellious thoughts against his father’s decision had been expelled long ago, so it didn’t matter.

He casually dismissed the memory that had surfaced after a long time for some reason.

Then.

“Count, this is terrible!”

Suddenly his aide came running in.

“What? Can’t you see there are guests here?”

“Miss Vivian has been expelled from the Duchy and returned!”

“What?”

He was shocked by the fact that his precious youngest daughter had been expelled and returned as if fleeing.

“What do you mean! Vivian being expelled?”

“They say it’s for the crime of allowing the Duchess of Runein to collapse.”

“That’s ridiculous, our child wouldn’t do such a thing!”

“And, and a messenger came from the Duchy. They say they’ll remove Elliot from the vassal registry…”

Suddenly, the social club that had been filled with music became as quiet as a mouse.

Count Elliot thought he had misheard.

The prestigious Elliot of the Northern Region. The very Elliot who was Runein’s right hand during the Thousand-Year War!

So naturally, he should receive compensation for that loyalty.

‘But they’re excluding us from the vassalage document?’

He had no awareness that he had lived comfortably throughout the war period as compensation for that loyalty.

Nor what efforts the past Elliot had made for that loyalty.

It was common for noble families, which could be considered living political creatures, to change their course.

Even if they belonged to the Northern Region, it wasn’t strange to join hands with other families to advance into the Central.

But in such cases, they should be prepared to give up all their Northern foundations.

Only those here were unaware that it was solely due to Duke of Runein’s magnanimity that they could enjoy all sorts of tax exemptions and military service exclusion benefits.

“That can’t be. His Grace wouldn’t do such a thing. What kind of family is our Elliot! I must meet His Grace immediately-“

Just then.

“Viscount! A message has come from the Duchy House! They say they will revoke vassalage benefits…!”

“Baron, this is terrible!”

The club’s doors burst open again as other people’s advisors rushed in competitively.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Soon the social club fell into chaos with those denying reality.

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