Villainous Husband, the One You’re Obsessed With Is Over There - Chapter 172
Chapter 86.2
I didn’t want to look at the wound, yet I found myself doing so involuntarily.
The moment I looked directly at the wound, my breath was caught in my throat. It wasn’t like the bleeding had stopped. Pinkish new flesh was welling up from the crimson-filled wound. It felt as if it wriggled and squirmed under my touch as if it were growing. I knew it would heal quickly, but I thought it was within the realm of common sense for the recovery to be at a faster rate.
…I was out of my mind. I was crazy.
I was trying to kill this creature. I foolishly thought he would die if I stabbed him with a knife.
Seraphina should have done it.
She was the Saint of Tunia… the only person capable of carrying out this task. It was because the prophetic assurance that she could do it wouldn’t have been wrong.
“Ah, ah…”
Even though I put strength in my hand, Raniero didn’t let it go, as if trying to emphasize that he, too, was injured.
His voice trembled.
“This person hurt me, too. I was in pain as well, but why were you only afraid of me?”
He pressed me a few times as if coaxing an answer. However, I was so weak that my teeth barely clicked together, and I couldn’t say anything. I could only try to escape from his grip with feeble strength.
How much time had passed? He gave up.
Raniero’s red eyes alternated between me and Eden. It was only then that I realized Eden’s back was rising and falling, indicating that he was still alive. Still, if left unattended, he might actually die.
My eyes now turned towards the entrance.
I remembered that other than the sound of Raniero’s footsteps, another lighter sound followed.
‘Seraphina. You’re there, right? Please…’
As I carefully searched between the shelves, I finally found a hem of white cloth sticking out on one side.
If Seraphina stepped forward, everything might be resolved. Raniero’s focus had narrowed considerably, and he was only aware of me and Eden. In addition, there were swords lying around on the floor, sharpened to the point that they could cut through the skin with just a graze. It was the perfect time for the person who had been given the right to kill Actilla’s godson, a man who had been granted by the god, to act.
However, Seraphina didn’t come out.
…Should I shout to call her? Though if I did, Raniero would undoubtedly notice something suspicious.
I collapsed to the floor and sobbed.
As Raniero had said, the hunt was now over.
I muttered in resignation.
“Kill me…”
In the end, it turned out like this. I laughed self-deprecatingly.
“Congratulations.”
Raniero raised his sword in response to my words. Despite the fact that I waited for the blade to fall on my neck, there was no sensation of the blade piercing my skin.
Instead, I heard the sound of him sheathing his sword before he approached me and grabbed hold of me. After witnessing what he did to Eden, I took a deep breath and leaned back, and as a result, the wound on my ankle opened again. The blood that had flowed in the cold air was congealing and hardening inside my shoes.
“Ugh…”
I was grimacing in pain, but Raniero just picked me up just as I was. The inevitably eerie feeling was written all over my face.
Fortunately, Raniero didn’t look at me.
He lifted me and took a step.
It was only then that the hem of the clothes that was visible in a corner moved. Seraphina crawled out slowly. She was filled with more fear than I was, and her beautiful face had become almost grotesque. Then, almost in a daze, she crawled to Eden with her mouth open, urgently checking to see if he was still alive.
Eden was alive.
Seraphina, who had realized this, quickly pulled him into a tight embrace with trembling arms.
Raniero paid no attention to whatever they were doing. With an attitude suggesting that he had seen enough, he dryly held me and stepped out.
A strange, animal-like wailing emanated from Seraphina. Even my exhausted, slumped figure felt a chilling sensation from the eerie sound. A feeling of deep-rooted emotions, as if there was something more than just being kidnapped by Raniero and witnessing Eden almost die.
As if to support my intuition, she murmured.
“…It could have turned out like this.”
Upon hearing those words, all the hair on my neck stood on end. I even held my breath to listen more closely to her muttered words.
However, her soliloquy was no longer a mere muttering. She howled.
“He could have been spared like this!”
‘…What is she talking about?’
My heart sank.
…She could have saved him like this? Did she mean there was a time when it wasn’t like this?
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