Villainous Husband, the One You’re Obsessed With Is Over There - Chapter 152

Chapter 76.2

For the people in this town, having gold was meaningless. They made their living mostly by bartering, but gold?

It would be difficult to turn something like that into something practically helpful for their lives, and it would just make them targets for thieves, which was definitely not a good thing for the people. On the other hand, young people might dream of taking it and going down to the Empire for a new life, but then what happens to the community they’ve left behind?

It was like tossing a stone into a calm pond, causing ripples in the muddy water.

Raniero would surely know that, too.

“Anyway, if Seraphina kills the Emperor now, a thousand soldiers left without a commander will sweep through here, right? We need to get out of here before that happens.”

“And what about the people here? Will they die?”

“Don’t think about that. Actilus’s blood and Tunia’s sword… just think of those two things.”

“Eden, this is too…”

It was the moment I was about to say that it was becoming too difficult to handle due to the increasing scale that I suddenly heard footsteps. Eden, who had glanced back, hastily closed the door while I stood frozen in front of the closed door like a statue.

A familiar voice came from through the crack in the doorway.

“What’s this place?”

Raniero.

I clenched my mouth shut. A groan, almost like a sob, escaped through my lips as my body shuddered.

“How did you come here? This area is prohibited from entering by outsiders.”

Eden’s voice in response to him was calm.

After a brief pause, Raniero spoke.

“I heard my wife’s voice.”

My legs gave way beneath me. At the same time, my heart raced intensely as my ears felt muffled. I was afraid that Raniero might say he would open the door right away.

“Is Her Majesty the Empress also in the temple?”

Rather than responding resolutely, Eden pretended to be innocent and asked back.

Raniero’s voice answered.

“No. Her health is not well, so she’s receiving care.”

“I see. Then, it’s natural that her voice wouldn’t be present.”

“Who were you having a conversation with?”

Raniero showed no signs of leaving.

I sat down hesitantly, covered my lips and trembled.

“It’s the Saint. This is the Saint’s prayer room.”

“The Saint?”

“Entry by outsiders…”

“Is forbidden.”

“If you’ve lost your way, I can guide you to the main building.”

If it were me, I might have really fainted, yet Eden was calmly steering the conversation.

I crawled through the prayer room. Despite the fact that I wanted to walk, it was impossible because my legs refused to cooperate. After opening the door to Seraphina’s room, I entered and slid beneath the bed to hide.

I remained like that for quite a while until I eventually fell asleep while smelling the dust.

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“You’re on probation. You’ve been banished and yet can’t pull yourself together and crawl into the prayer room?”

The voice of the paladin commander resounded conspicuously throughout the temple. Seraphina, who had secretly hidden in a secluded place and overheard the conversation, closed her eyes and pressed her lips tightly together.

Naturally, the wings of imagination unfold.

Did Eden go there to find her? Or did he go to see Angelica?

It was a little more likely that he went to find her. Still, Seraphina wasn’t feeling good about it. It was because the reason for him to find her was evident. He probably hadn’t prepared a straightforward explanation.

Her long, unrequited love would never be reciprocated.

That was the punishment she had been given.

‘If he had liked me even a little, he wouldn’t have said he likes me as a means of expulsion.’

Such a cold person.

Eden, who had always been aflame with faith and obedience, suddenly turned cold to everything one day. The day when the Archbishop had shared concerns about him with her came to mind.

“Well. Whether he’s lost his passion or given up on something, it’s concerning. To be tormented by such things and become lukewarm, isn’t Eden still only eighteen years old?

She remembered the warm words she had said to the Archbishop then.

Don’t worry, Your Holiness.

There was no point in worrying about it.

…After all, worrying about someone who had already changed held no meaning at all.

Seraphina smiled bitterly.

Both Eden and Angelica wished for her to meet Raniero and kill him.

Along the way, there was no one who warned her about the danger of covering things up and offering to help. Seraphina didn’t blame Angelica since she most likely thought that it was Eden’s role to protect her. Or perhaps she was too frightened by the fear of her own fate — that she might die soon — that she couldn’t think of anything else.

But if she were to speak from Eden’s perspective…

‘…He’s probably never even considered the thought of protecting me.’

If it were necessary for the plan, he would protect her, but if it weren’t necessary for his plan, he would abandon her.

That was the current Eden.

A strange smile appeared on Seraphina’s lips. Resignation and resentment intertwined into an indistinguishable tangle.

She came out from the secret passage.

It was to show her face to the Emperor of Actilus.

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