This Emperor Is Running a Marriage Scam - Chapter 66

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Chapter 66

 

I couldn’t be certain things would go as I planned, but if it worked out well, I thought I could at least divert the Vice-Captain’s attention.

 

I quickly took advantage of the confusion to move the iron rake and a few wooden pieces to different positions before returning to my spot.

 

“…Nuna?”

 

Baron and Kyle’s eyes widened, so I pressed my index finger to my lips.

 

‘Shh.’

 

Soon, Cosette and Carter were also completely subdued by the knights. The two were forced to kneel beside Potter.

 

“What can these rat bastards accomplish by resisting? Resisting, tsk! These guys really don’t know their place.”

 

The Vice-Captain raised his nose high in the air again and began walking around the same area he had been pacing earlier.

 

“All three of you need to get beaten to death before you’ll come to your sen— Ugh!”

 

His words were cut off immediately.

 

Not watching where he stepped, he stepped squarely on the tines of the rake on the ground.

 

The recoil caused the rake’s handle to shoot up quickly, striking the Vice-Captain’s face directly. Just like a slapstick comedy.

 

The Vice-Captain, having received a strong impact, staggered while covering his face and couldn’t see the wooden pieces scattered around him….

 

“Ugh!”

 

Already staggering, he stepped on a wooden piece and lost his balance, falling onto the humus organic matter—that is, the wet mud. It took less than 3 seconds for the Vice-Captain, wearing heavy armor, to slide straight into the pond.

 

Splash!

 

“Gasp! Vice-Captain!”

 

“Vice-Captain!”

 

The panicked knights released their grip on Cosette and Carter and moved frantically. Then additional people started slipping on the mud.

 

“Oh my!”

 

A startled knight who lost his balance while approaching the pond to grab the Vice-Captain grabbed onto the person next to him, and they slid straight into the pond together.

 

“Argh!”

 

The Vice-Captain, who had been flailing in the pond with his head above water, was pushed back under by the weight of the two men.

 

His body was already heavy from the armor, and now two more knights were added to that—need I say more?

 

Unless someone helped them, all three would have a hard time getting out.

 

‘They’re all going to swallow quite a bit of water.’

 

The other knights didn’t know what to do. They were clearly hesitant, afraid they might fall in too if they approached carelessly.

 

After a brief commotion, the Vice-Captain and the two knights barely managed to get out of the pond by grabbing onto a wooden stick another knight extended to them.

 

“Cough! Cough!”

 

“Bleegh!”

 

“Gah! Ptui ptui!”

 

The three men lay sprawled pathetically, spitting up pond water for quite a while.

 

Thanks to the mud being properly mixed in, the water seemed to taste incredibly disgusting.

 

Whooosh— Bang!

 

This time a blue signal flare exploded. Its position was close to where the first red signal flare had appeared earlier. That was probably near the Gate.

 

One knight supported the Vice-Captain’s pathetic figure and spoke.

 

“Vice-Captain. It’s an emergency assembly. If we’re late, the Captain will be furious.”

 

“Huff.”

 

The Vice-Captain, gasping for breath and barely managing to stand, glared at the Potter brothers and Cosette while grinding his teeth, then turned away. From his expression, he seemed to want to beat them up some more, but the Captain’s summons seemed urgent.

 

“Tsk, I’ll come back soon and beat you all to pieces! Let’s go!”

 

The Vice-Captain and knights left.

 

It was a bit unsettling that one knight kept staring at me until the very end before turning away.

 

However, the Vice-Captain and most of the knights seemed completely oblivious to me, Baron, and Kyle, who had been standing inconspicuously to one side.

 

‘Thank goodness for having no presence.’

 

As I was patting my chest in relief, I realized Baron and Kyle were watching me.

 

“Huh? Why?”

 

“Because you’re amazing.”

 

“I think you’re amazing too. How did you think of all that?”

 

Receiving such admiring looks from the little ones made me grin sheepishly.

 

“I noticed the Vice-Captain wasn’t paying attention to his surroundings and just kept going back and forth in a certain range.”

 

Sticking out my tongue, I quickly approached Cosette.

 

“Are you okay?”

 

“Th, thank you.”

 

As I helped her up, Baron and Kyle also quickly supported Carter and helped him stand.

 

Cosette, now standing on her own, tried to help Potter, who was still sitting on the ground.

 

“Get up, Husband.”

 

But Potter didn’t get up. He remained curled up with both hands covering his head.

 

“It’s, it’s pathetic. I didn’t want that kind of past to be exposed.”

 

His trembling voice still had tears mixed in it.

 

“You know what? The truth is, just seeing the Vice-Captain makes my body shrink automatically. I can’t move at all.”

 

“….”

 

“I was afraid that if you ever saw me like this, you’d be disappointed and ask for a divorce, so I absolutely didn’t want to come into the forest.”

 

Cosette, shocked by his dejected appearance, couldn’t continue speaking and her eyes welled up with tears.

 

“Brother, I’m sorry too.”

 

Carter’s shoulders drooped.

 

“I didn’t even know such a terrible thing had happened to you.”

 

“When my wife was being subdued by knights, this husband couldn’t even protest, let alone move.”

 

Potter spoke with a voice that was half crying, half laughing.

 

“I’m not qualified to be a husband. Any woman would want to divorce an idiot like me.”

 

Cosette exhaled through her nose. Rather than looking disgusted from learning about Potter’s past, she seemed at a loss for how to address his severe dejection.

 

‘Oh dear, at times like this, she should just hug him.’

 

At that moment, she looked up, so I quickly gave her hand signals.

 

First hug him. Give him a kiss on the cheek.

 

“!”

 

Cosette quickly wrapped her arms around Potter’s shoulders. Then she kissed his cheek.

 

Potter flinched and slowly raised his head to look at Cosette.

 

“H, Honey?”

 

“I’m sorry, Husband.”

 

When their eyes met, tears began to well up naturally in Cosette’s eyes.

 

“I didn’t know you had such wounds and only insisted on my own way. You must have been suffering inside, unable to say anything. It must have been hard, right?”

 

Potter’s expression crumbled in an instant. Overwhelmed with emotion, he buried himself in Cosette’s embrace and began to cry.

 

“No, I’m sorry. *Sob* I’m, I’m… so incompetent.”

 

“No, you did nothing wrong.”

 

The two began to embrace and sob together. Then Carter hugged both of them and wailed.

 

“Brother, Sister-in-law! I’ll do better!”

 

Carter seemed to be caught up in the atmosphere, but the relationship between the three had definitely become closer than before.

 

Now Potter and Cosette probably wouldn’t fight anymore.

 

‘Good, that’s good.’

 

When I wiped away the tears that had naturally formed in my eyes with my fingertips, Baron’s eyes widened.

 

“Nuna, are you crying?”

 

“Huh? No. Oh right, this isn’t the time for this.”

 

I began to gradually tidy up the scattered surroundings. It would be troublesome if someone accidentally stepped on something and ended up like the Vice-Captain and knights.

 

Then Potter, his brother, and Cosette, who had been embracing and crying, also wiped their tears, stood up, and joined in cleaning up the area.

 

Potter, who checked the materials piled under the tent, sighed.

 

“Ha, looking closely, the quality is really good.”

 

“Of course. Do you know how much effort I put into this?”

 

Cosette, who had answered, asked cautiously.

 

“But honey, do you think that guy will really come to destroy this place like he said?”

 

Potter nodded his head.

 

“Probably within a few days.”

 

More of the past flowed out through his lips.

 

It was a week later when Potter, who had been bedridden after getting severely beaten, managed to pull himself together.

 

“Since we couldn’t do any harvesting, I thought we should at least recover our tools, so I quietly went to check.”

 

All the tools were completely destroyed, so there was nothing to recover.

 

While sighing deeply as he came out, he ran into the Vice-Captain and got beaten up like that once more.

 

Potter, who had been pondering for a moment, looked toward the workshop.

 

“For now, let’s just carry what we can manage, and we’ll have no choice but to give up on the rest.”

 

Carter also sighed deeply while examining the raw materials.

 

“Sigh, it’s such a waste to have to abandon such good stuff. It would be great if there was a way to move them quickly.”

 

Cosette also let out a deep sigh.

 

“I don’t know how many more times we can go back and forth, but let’s start organizing for now.”

 

The three people began tidying up their tools.

 

Shovels, rakes, ropes, and pulleys went into the small cart. Then they started putting the finished raw materials into appropriately sized wooden boxes.

 

As I watched them organizing for a while, Cosette made a request to me.

 

“I’ll make the Crooke for you. Could you help us move the raw materials?”

 

Just then, a good idea occurred to me.

 

“Ah! How about we move the raw materials like this?”

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