Villainous Husband, the One You’re Obsessed With Is Over There - Chapter 173

Chapter 87.1

I remembered the day I first met Seraphina. She fed me a meal when I awoke from my collapse, and I asked her to kill Raniero.

At that time, she seemed like she didn’t know anything. She also didn’t acknowledge anything when I spoke about having a book of prophecy and recited the original story. It was the same when Raniero, who had failed in the invasion of Sombinia, stayed at the Temple of Tunia. In front of me, who was in chaos, she asked what was supposed to happen when she met him.

As if she knew nothing.

Still, what did that mean… that it could’ve been like this?

It was as though…

‘…It seems like Seraphina has memories from the original story.’

A mental shock surged through me. Along with that shock, the memory that surfaced was Seraphina apologizing to me for an unknown reason. Only then did I realize.

‘She was apologizing for deceiving me.’

Perhaps that was why she forgave me so easily when I revealed that I’d tried to use her as a shield to distract Raniero.

It was because she deceived me, too.

She thought it was a draw.

Feeling as if I needed to listen carefully to Seraphina’s story. In my blindness, I even pushed Raniero away slightly.

“P, please put me down. I need to hear what she’s saying.”

However, Raniero was like a rock.

He didn’t budge.

“Your Majesty.”

As I pleaded and grabbed onto his clothes, when I looked up, he was looking straight ahead, ignoring me.

“You have to listen to what she… I—”

Eventually, Seraphina’s sobbing became distant as he left the old sanctuary while still holding me. At that point, I gave up and kept my mouth shut. The pain in my ankle, which I had momentarily forgotten about, seemed to radiate throughout my body.

It was Eden who took the brunt of the beating, but my whole body ached.

A wasteland where nothing could be seen except knee-high thorny bushes.

In the meanwhile, Raniero held me and kept walking incessantly, without saying where we were going. The smell of blood, vibrating from him and my body, set my nerves on edge. When I closed my eyes, I could see visions of Eden, where I had been brutally beaten. The horrifying speed at which fresh wounds had appeared on Raniero’s neck also came to mind.

I was close to him, yet I didn’t dare to check his neck.

I never thought that Actilla’s godson would be such a being. No matter if he was called the avatar of a god, even if his physical abilities surpassed those of humans… I never expected it to be to this extent.
[ T/N: It’s explained a bit more here that Raniero is like Actilla’s avatar, so that’s why hurting or killing him would hurt Actilla himself. ]

‘In the novel, I died by Seraphina’s sword, so naturally, I didn’t know.’

In the original story, there was only one scene where someone other than Seraphina attempted to kill him, and that was in the duel with Eden.

According to the description in the novel, Eden couldn’t inflict a single wound on Raniero then…

By the way, did he have no intention of killing me?

Seeing Raniero sheathe his sword and walk away with me in his arms, I was only able to take a deep breath then. All I could see now was the passage of time. As the darkness slowly receded from the sky, a red light began to emerge on the distant horizon. As time passed, his footsteps were gradually becoming slower and heavier.

Was he tired, too? No, I couldn’t think that. This person seemed like he wouldn’t get tired.

In the distance, the Temple of Tunia could be seen.

While he headed there without hesitation, I felt devastated, knowing the events that were about to unfold.

We didn’t arrive at the Temple until morning had come. At the entrance of the Temple, several priests, including the Archbishop, were obviously restless. The faces of those who saw Raniero and me turned ashen since it wasn’t the person they were expecting. They must have been waiting so eagerly, not for me, but for Seraphina.

The Archbishop knelt down, clear tears flowed from his eyes.

“Oh, oh… What happened to Seraphina? Our saint…”

Raniero remained silent before he eventually opened his mouth harshly.

“Prepare the best room.”

“Seraphina…”

“The moment you make me repeat it three times, everyone dies.”

The Archbishop was at a loss for words at the chilling tone. Another priest, who had been watching from behind him, quickly gestured for Raniero to follow him. He headed towards the room where we had stayed during the subjugation of the demonic beast.

However, Raniero stopped without any intention of following.

When the priest turned back in confusion, he finally started walking. However, it wasn’t as if he intended to go to the given room; instead, he went straight to the prayer room without hesitation. Despite a bewildered priest following him, he paid no attention and opened the door.

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