Toxic Marriage - Chapter 1.1
Chapter 1.1
O people of our esteemed Empire!
The sun rises every morning and the leaves of life sprout anew, but there is still a dark shadow in the Paala Empire.
Because there is a messenger of hell protecting the North, a beautiful devil who can neither grow old nor die! The king of demons who blinds you just by looking at him and suffocates you with an ominous aura just by getting near him!
The Margrave of Niflheim, he is the devil in person!
We must defeat him in the name of justice. We are planning a peaceful demonstration this weekend, so if you would like to join us, please come to the plaza with the statue of St. Patalo on 132nd Street…
‘It’s already unbearably hot, and this bullsh*t early in the morning…’
The leaflet with scrawled handwriting stretched out in all directions was crumpled mercilessly in Freya’s hand.
There was a pesky annoyance in her drowsy eyes.
Freya hadn’t slept for days because of the hot weather. Behind the glamorous summer of the Empire, when the tables are enriched with delicious fruits and the visitors are abundant, there is a terrible heat.
And this leaflet flew in annoyingly when she was already in a bad mood. She barely managed to close her eyes at dawn due to the tropical night, but a paper airplane made from a folded leaflet flew in through the open window and hit Freya’s forehead while she was sleeping. Freya had no choice but to wake up and check the leaflet made by the fanatics.
But it turned out to be just another ridiculous claim of making someone to be the devil.
Ugh.
Freya rubbed her dry eyes and got up from the bed, sipping the water on the side table. As the lukewarm water passed through her throat, her eyes seemed to become a little clearer.
Huh? She noticed today’s newsletter, placed on the side table behind the leaflet filled with bullsh*t. The maid must have brought it early in the morning.
「Sage Tobias passed away at the age of 120.」
Freya belatedly swallowed the water in her mouth, and her throat gurgled.
The sage died.
Unlike the nonsense of the fanatics who cast people as the devil, it was something that could make things noisy for a while. He was one of the few living witnesses of pure divine power in the world, and as a result, he lived until he was 120 years old.
With his death, the only people with divine power now were…
Knock, knock.
Just as Freya’s eyes narrowed in thought, she heard a knock on the door.
“Lady Freya, Cardinal Heirn is looking for you.”
Freya’s eyes lit up at the mention of the cardinal.
She already had a feeling that he would call her early in the morning when she read the news of Sage Tobias’ death, and it turned out exactly as she had hoped.
Damn it, why did it have to be today?
Freya, who was moving slowly like a bird drenched in water, became busy.
The person who called her was a respected cardinal of the empire’s diocese, and a person who was like a guardian to her.
Tyrann became Freya’s guardian when her parents died at the age of eight and she became an orphan. At that time, Tyrann was only a 20-year-old young guardian, but the young Freya followed him, sometimes treating him like a strict teacher and sometimes like a blood-related brother. That was why Freya felt close to Tyrann, yet had a hard time.
‘A person so perfect like him must have already started his day early.’
Of course, he would think that she would also wake up accordingly.
Though she had only fallen asleep at dawn due to the heat, it was not something that a diligent person who had never slept late in his life could understand.
Because she was in too much of a hurry, when she finished fastening all the buttons, she noticed that the top one was not in its hole.
Damn it.
Freya quickly unbuttoned all the buttons and carefully matched them to fasten them again. She was able to complete the task that had been done poorly as a result of being in a hurry.
‘It’s hot, so I’ll have to unbutton the last button.’
After that, she washed her face and combed her hair in less than a minute. If she had woken up early, she could have left her disheveled hair to the maid, but there was no time left to do so.
Alright, she was ready in five minutes.
Now, as long as she didn’t show her quick pace when she arrived at the office, no one would notice that she had overslept.
Freya took one last look in the mirror and opened the door.
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