episode_0058

“Do you really mean to forgive me?”

《You’ve worked hard all this time. You had a hard time because of me, right?》

“It was something that could not even be compared to the Grand Duchess’s pain.”

《Now you don’t have to humble yourself like that. It means I recognize you as my husband.》

“really… Are you?》

If the story, which had been wrong from the start, had gone as planned, it would probably have ended up like this.

The past that ended with a little atonement brings a bright future… Wouldn’t it have happened?

Of course, I don’t know what the future will be like for you… .

“huh. here.”

I would have reached out the hand I always wanted for help and held your hand.

“thank you… . thank you… !》

“Ho Ho. There’s no need for that anymore?”

“Well, then what can I call you now?”

《Before the title… “Shouldn’t we start by speaking comfortably?”

I guess this was the real beginning, right?

Our story.

Maybe I didn’t care much about other kids’ reflections.

Could it be that I clung to you so much because your reflection alone was enough?

I guess the reason I was obsessed with denying your abstention and proving that it was a lie was because the Battle of Marriage has no meaning without you.

《Spread out, comfortably… What do you mean?》

“huh. We are a ‘couple’.》

“married couple… ?》

“You are my husband, I am your wife. So please speak comfortably. Now it’s my turn to praise you.》

Isn’t it funny?

That I had, without even knowing, embraced a bright future with you, who was a bystander to the terrible abuse?

I saw it in a book a while ago… I heard that there are cases where hostages feel love for their captors. Is that true?

I thought it was absurd nonsense, but maybe… Did I do that too?

“le… Miang?》

“huh. honey.”

《Hey, honey… !?》

Phew.

It’s funny how he keeps making a bewildered expression on his scary face.

At the academy, he had a face so fierce that it was scary to even look at him.

《Hohoho. Are you that surprised? It’s a natural title between a married couple.》

《Huh… ! thank you. Lemien. I’ll really do my best!》

Flash!

《Kyahaha! Hey, let go of this!》

Originally, I would have been held by you like this at the wedding, but I don’t regret it.

Just being able to write a happy story now is enough.

It’s enough just to prove that my choices and decisions were not wrong.

《Mite! Mite! Mite!》

“Oh oh! Honey, can you hear this loud shout?》

《Hohoho. Is it that good?》

“then! Looking at this brave cry and beautiful appearance, it looks like you and I are exactly half alike.》

“Ho Ho. I wish I was more like you.》

“ha ha ha! “I wish I was more like you?”

… I guess it was this?

Our beginning, ending, and another beginning.

It must have been this.

You have changed, and I have changed.

A child who closely resembles each other’s strengths would have rewritten our story.

yes?

But it’s funny, really.

Wouldn’t it be great if I had known about these plans earlier?

If you had known earlier that all the plans were made just for you, would you have been able to catch the clouds that were moving away?

If I had noticed my foolishness earlier, would I have been able to reassemble my misaligned beginning?

no.

Now that I look back, I think it would have been better not to catch the clouds moving away.

I think it would have been better not to reassemble the misaligned beginning.

Perhaps the curse of the monster chieftain began immediately after leaving for the academy.

I don’t know if the curse that was thought to be over was now preparing for this moment.

I think solitude suits the cursed person.

Even if you look at it now, it’s still like that, right?

I don’t deserve to be loved, I don’t deserve to love.

How could someone who makes everyone suffer and hurt dream of something like that?

It is said that people should live within their means.

It is only natural that the words of someone who had an undeserved dream of love and happiness would be so miserable and miserable.

“haha. What should I name my child?”

《Since you are a daughter, how about combining your ‘El’ and my ‘Le’ to make ‘Elle’?》

“oh! That sounds really good. Our Elle, please grow up to be pretty like your mom.》

《Hohoho. This is true too.》

It was too much of a dream for me.

The wind was not suitable for me.

So thank you.

For coming to my dream like this.

In this way, it showed me what I had hoped for.

At least like this… … .

For making me laugh.

Thank you so much for letting me dream of being locked up forever.

I don’t want to wake up, I want to stay here forever, but I think the moment has come to wake up.

“honey? What are you thinking?》

“sorry. honey.”

“what… You mean?》

“I’m sorry for catching you.”

Because I was foolishly obsessed.

Because of my stubbornness.

《Honey-!!》

You move forward like you do now.

I’ll walk backwards like I do now.

really.

I’m sorry.

“Lady-! Are you coming to your senses?!”

hi.

**

“… … .”

It feels like I woke up after sleeping for eternity.

It felt like I was sleeping soundly for a long time.

It’s truly a refreshing morning for the first time in a long time.

Lemian woke up like that and sat with his back helplessly against the head of the bed.

“… .”

Lemien looked at his left hand.

It was still bandaged.

Sreuk.

The bandage was removed.

Four fingernail marks had healed cleanly.

As if it never existed in the first place.

“It’s okay… Do you?”

Marien asked while looking at her complexion, and Lemien asked back while touching her sore palm.

“How much… Were you asleep?”

Feeling like he had been asleep for quite some time, he asked a question, and when he heard the answer, Lemian had to feel that his feeling was not wrong.

“… Three days.”

3 days.

Three days had already passed since that night when I cried and then laughed in the rain.

If the Battle of Marriage had proceeded successfully, the grand finale would be held tomorrow.

“How… Is it okay?”

The Great Siege must not have been quiet during the three days it was asleep.

I asked him, and again.

“His Majesty the Archduke arrived two days ago.”

Lemien had to feel that his intuition was not wrong.

“Father… Are you?”

“Yes. He came back without going to the capital city.”

“I see… .”

It seems that Lord Gellwood sent an urgent letter.

It must have been a letter asking to prevent the 3rd Grand Duchess’s rampage and downfall.

And it wasn’t just my father who came to the Grand Duke’s castle.

“And… Duke Felon Kelid and Marquess Wyden Rospell also visited yesterday. Miss, what happened… ?”

Lemien smiled bitterly and drank winter flower tea.

A warmth fills the space that must have been filled with emptiness for three days.

Lemien looked down at his reflection in the winter flower car in a daze.

His gaunt face was shaking, just like the day when he was dry and thirsty for learning.

“It’s all over.”

“Yes… ?”

“Revenge, liberation, I don’t want to do anything like that anymore, so I’m done with it. I revealed all their sins and mine.”

“Well, really… ? So what you said you were going to do that night… .”

“That’s right. It was I who called Duke Pelon and Marquis Wyden.”

“… … .”

Marien, who was at a loss for words, could only look at her young lady with startled eyes.

I felt like I knew what kind of determination they had made to achieve it.

However, I didn’t know whether to comfort or cheer.

Because no words will reach you.

“To my father… Did you say anything else?”

“Ah, well, His Highness asked me to let you know when she wakes up.”

Marien stood up.

but.

“That’s it.”

He had to quickly support the young lady who stood up after him.

“Oh, lady, you can’t move now.”

“It’s okay. I’ll go there myself.”

Lemian refused help and struggled to get up.

It was difficult to walk on my shaky legs, but I had to go.

Because sinners have to do that.

“Ah, lady… .”

“I’ll go and come back.”

Marien fidgeted behind her, but Lemien just moved forward step by step.

**

smart.

Lemian knocked on the office door, opened it, and entered.

I could see my father’s back standing at the window, looking out the window.

The father must have recognized that his youngest daughter had arrived, but the father was just looking outside with his back turned.

Lemian fell to his knees.

“Sorry… do… .”

That was all I had to say.

All I could say was that I would accept any punishment, and that I would follow any decision.

and.

What I heard from beyond my father’s mountain-like back informed me of what had happened over the past three days and the outcome of this blood-soaked wedding battle.

“It goes without saying. Tomorrow, you will be betrothed to Deron Kelid, so know that.”

His father doesn’t even notice him when he wakes up after three days.

Her father tells her to marry the person who led those who abused her for three years.

Even though he knew everything, his father did not ask about the pain of that day.

Lemian thought that this was an ending that was truly fitting for someone who did not deserve to be loved or comforted.

“Yes… .”

I could only answer so lonesomely.

and

I thought it was a truly fortunate ending.

Because we can protect the Northern Territory’s grand festival.

Because you can protect the child’s self-esteem and the adult’s joy.

For that purpose, Lemian thought that sinking together with the instigator would be an undeserved ending.