Villainous Husband, the One You’re Obsessed With Is Over There - Chapter 87

Chapter 44.1

Just thinking about that day still sent chills down my spine.

In front of the cold and furious Raniero, I was out of my mind, and I was desperate, thinking that I might really die.

‘…He’s a really scary person.’

I trembled.

There was no way he could be so angry just because I wasn’t at the Empress Palace. For him, I was just a little game that was fun to fool around with, so there must be other reasons for his anger. Perhaps, he caught me meeting Eden.

Nonetheless, even if I thought about it that way, questions still remain.

‘Still, why?’

Why would he be so angry that I met Eden? As I kept pondering, I could only come up with one possibility.

‘No way… did he notice that he and I were up to something?’

I didn’t even have a proper plan for what I was doing. If that were the case, it would be safe to say that Raniero’s intuition was more like a beast than I thought.

‘…No. There’s no context or connection between Eden and me.’

There was no way he would know that Eden and I shared the characteristics of being a book-transmigrating person. Conceivably, if we were found to be transmigators, it would no longer be a matter of petty encounters.

The more I thought about it, the more my head hurt. While Eden, who had Cha Soo-hyun’s soul inside, seemed like a person who liked to analyze, I wasn’t. I hated studying or analyzing. Nevertheless, studying the bow and social circles had to be forced if I wanted to live.

I eventually stopped my thoughts. It was because the solution was simple, even without thinking deeply about the cause of Raniero’s anger.

First, don’t go out of sight of the Emperor recklessly.

Second, I shouldn’t meet with Eden privately.

After all, the only time he and I would be able to have meaningful conversations again would be at the time of the demonic beasts’ subjugation, so by then, I would’ve completed my library inspection.

‘I have to follow the subjugation no matter what.’

It would be difficult to obtain information on black magic or magic in the Temple of Tunia. In the first place, this worldview wasn’t accessible to magic or witchcraft. Like other fantasy novels, large-scale magic wasn’t even dreamed of and small-scale curses were depicted.

While Eden seemed to think we were brought here by someone’s scheme, the more I thought about it, the more skeptical I became. Such a spell must be complicated, but who the hell would cast it? And for what purpose?

‘…I’ve been thinking too much again.’

Let’s leave that reasoning to Eden since the most important thing for me right now would be not to offend Raniero. Still, I was worried. If I told him I’d like to follow him to the subjugation, wouldn’t he be angry if it was a mistake to ask such a thing?

I took a deep breath.

After that, if nothing else happened and I only repeated the path of going to the Empress Palace’s library. And even when I was away to go to the library, I also didn’t forget to leave a short note stating that I was certainly going to the library.

Meanwhile, I treated Eden as if he had never existed.

Though before the delegation of the Temple of Tunia left, there was an accidental encounter with the paladins gathered in the garden of the Imperial Palace. Coincidentally, I was with Raniero, and Eden was there among the paladins.

I turned a blind eye to him with all my heart. Thankfully, he was also quite tactful.

“You must be familiar with the Imperial Palace’s garden by now.”

As the Empress, I gave out a ceremonial greeting while I smiled gracefully while Eden kept his mouth shut.

‘Nice! You keep pretending that you don’t care about me.’

It was another paladin, who seemed to be the oldest, who answered me.

“It’s so beautiful, it’s fresh every time I see it.”

Even though his answer was rather mellow, the other paladins looked a little uncomfortable. It was fully understood. I heard that the people of the paladins were injured a lot in the friendship sparring. In addition, even the Knights Commander of Actilus tried to step on the fallen paladin with a horse’s hoof.

Contrary to me, who was stunned and thought, ‘What if someone dies?’, the young maids who told me the story were really excited.

‘As expected, the national characters of this country…’

I decided to be considerate of the paladins, so I thought to leave this place as soon as possible. However, Raniero didn’t move.

“Your Majesty…”

I called him carefully.

“Hmm?”

He responded kindly. It was a bonus that he also made eye contact with me and smiled.

‘…What is this?’

It felt like someone was sliding ice on my spine. Until now, my relationship with His Majesty has been more frightening than sweet. Despite that, I couldn’t dispute him pretending to be close.

I was so embarrassed that my face flushed red.

“I-I’m leaving now.”

‘These paladins look uncomfortable, too.’

Regardless, the answer that came back to me was a spectacle.

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