Toxic Marriage - Chapter 3.2

Chapter 3.2

Freya’s closed mouth opened, and a sneer flowed out.

Now he was talking about her relationship with Tyrann as if he was worried. After all, he came here to blackmail her.

“So Lady Lindberg, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to marry and become independent. Although the Margrave is unilateral when it comes to marriage, it is true that he has been ruling the North peacefully. Considering that, all the talk about him being the devil and such is just a rumor.”

Devil. The word that bothered Freya kept lingering in her head.

“About him being the devil, is it really just a rumor?”

Freya, who had never doubted it before and was leaning towards marriage, suddenly became anxious about that word.

The aide smiled comfortably as if to calm her anxiety.

“It’s nonsense.”

Then, the conversation came to a conclusion.

It seemed that this marriage was inevitable in order to keep her secret.

However, her heart grew heavy as she anticipated how Tyrann would be saddened by this decision. Even though she knew it was inevitable, he was more important in her life than anything else.

Freya looked at the teacup.

There were gentle ripples on the surface of the tea.

***

Eventually, Freya sent a letter to the Emperor saying that she would consent to the marriage. Of course, it was done without Tyrann knowing.

The news of this marriage spread like wildfire. The fanatics knocked on the imperial palace door like crazy for days, saying the saintess was being sold to the demon lord.

Freya laughed sarcastically at the news.

‘What saintess.’

It was said that Freya’s great-grandmother, who was revered as a great person, healed sick people in the past with her divine power and saved many lives.

However, the only thing left for the saints now was the symbolism of good. They rarely healed people with their divine power. They only did it occasionally for show.

Nevertheless, Tyrann, the next papal candidate, was often seen healing people in the slums with his divine power.

Freya, who couldn’t even do that, wasn’t too happy that she was one of the few remaining people with divine power in the world. She only benefited from being a saintess when she was a child and was entrusted to Tyrann, so she didn’t have to become an orphan.

But lately, even that was making her sad.

Tyrann never once sought her out after hearing the news of Freya’s acceptance of the marriage.

Freya had to go through a period of depression that she couldn’t tell anyone about due to Tyrann’s blatant disappointment in her decision. It was the first time she wanted to make a major decision on her own, she didn’t want to be hated.

Freya tried to distract herself from the sorrow. It was wise not to think about it unless it was something she could avoid.

So, she became absorbed in investigating the margrave of Niflheim, who was her fiancé but whose identity was kept a secret. Of course, there wasn’t much she could figure out because of Niflheim’s solidly enclosed walls. He seemed to maintain his life in the citadel as strictly as she had heard.

‘Is he as ugly as the rumors say?’

There were rumors about his appearance being either extremely beautiful or extremely ugly. However, people naturally assumed that if he had a good appearance, it wouldn’t make sense to hide himself like that.

However, there was also a fallacy in this assumption. The current Margrave of Niflheim was the third generation, and they never revealed themselves to the public since the first generation.

It made no sense that three generations of men were so hideously ugly that they never showed themselves.

There were occasional testimonies from people who had encountered the first margrave in battle, but they only described him as someone who was always covered in blood, not his appearance.

There were even stories that the first Margrave of Niflheim enjoyed human flesh and had a hobby of mutilating people, as the fanatics claimed.

Most of them were just vicious stories like this, but she still knew for sure that the heads of the Margrave family had a tremendous power of evilness. It was said that just the margrave had fought with hundreds of people in past wars.

Knowing how to make good use of their evilness can become a great source of power, and no one seemed to possess as much pure evilness as the current Margrave of Niflheim. Even though there weren’t as few people compared to those with divine power.

Freya, who was reading a book about evilness with quite an interest, suddenly stopped at a passage.

“When the energy of pure divine power and evilness meet, all the senses are maximized. So, in addition to seeing distant places clearly and heightening your sense of smell, you can also have an ecstatic experience during s*xual intercourse…?”

After unwittingly reading the sentence aloud, she was startled and hastily closed the book.