Chapter 102
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“He’s not coming.”
Asil, who had been waiting for Edenber until the very last moment, drooped her head dejectedly.
She heard that he went out dressed up incredibly prettily yesterday, so he must have gone to a very fun party.
Asil really likes her husband a lot, but does her husband not like Asil that much?
A negative thought briefly came to mind, but she immediately shook her head.
‘No, there must have been something that happened.’
Asil could bet her precious treasure pouch on the fact that Edenber thinks of her as a close friend.
But even so, the thought of leaving without seeing her husband…… made her feel sad.
She can’t wait any longer now.
She even wrote a letter saying she would leave early in the morning because of the ship time.
She waited until the very end, but it seems her husband intends to part without even saying goodbye.
‘I practiced smiling so much to part with a smile.’
She ended up going home without showing it even once.
If he appeared now, she could really smile her best……. She wants to see her husband’s face just one more time before going…….
Asil bowed her head deeply with a dejected heart.
While doing so, she fiddled with the scarf around her neck that Edenber had given her a long time ago.
“It’s time to leave now, my daughter.”
Unaware of Asil’s burning heart, Arcian spoke softly.
“Yeah…….”
Asil, who answered weakly, turned her back.
And receiving Arcian’s escort, she jumped onto the carriage where the baby rabbit was already riding.
As soon as she sat on the chair, Asil hugged the rabbit tightly.
“It’s a relief that I can go with my rabbit friend.”
“Kkyu!”
As if comforting her, the rabbit rubbed its face against her.
Soon, the carriage began to move smoothly.
While going to the place where the warp gate is, Asil looked out the window.
Everything was sparkling, her eyes were spinning, it was deafeningly noisy, and full of chaotic things, just like when she first came to the capital.
The sparkling white castle, and the golden castle that seems to reach the top of the sky over there, everything was the same.
‘Back then, I came with my husband, grandfather, and the female lead human.’
Now, she was going only with her dad.
Come to think of it, she couldn’t say goodbye to the female lead human who became a saintess.
‘I was going to make her my maid…….’
When she returns as a potato, she must make her one.
While fiddling with the soft, snow-white rabbit fur in her arms, feeling sad at the thought of really leaving.
Rattle-
Suddenly, the carriage stopped in the middle of the road.
“Move aside! Prisoner escort carriage, move aside!”
She heard holy knights shouting from behind.
Along with the voices of people screaming ‘Kyaaah!’ and running away, as if something was happening.
Arcian muttered with a puzzled face.
“What’s going on? The transfer of Duke Skya should use a different road, not here-”
It was then..
Boom!
With an explosion sound, the carriage Asil was in shook.
“Hwaaang!”
“Kkyuuu!”
The startled Asil and rabbit hugged each other tightly.
Arcian, who reflexively cast a protection spell over the entire carriage, checked outside the window and drew his sword.
“My daughter, absolutely do not come out and stay here.”
“What? What?!”
“It seems someone attacked the prisoner escort carriage. We seem to have gotten caught up in it.”
After briefly explaining, he jumped out of the carriage.
Since she didn’t know how the situation was unfolding, it was better to stay still here rather than move and get hurt.
The carriage after Arcuan left was quiet.
Asil stuck close to the window to check outside. Then boom! Boom!! She flinched at the ear-splitting roar.
The rabbit, sensitive to sound, trembled.
“Kkyuuu…….”
“It’s okay. Asil will protect you!”
She herself was just as startled, her heart pounding, but as a fierce black dragon beastman, she shouldn’t be scared of this.
Asil quickly covered the trembling rabbit friend with a cushion.
Boom!!
It was noisy with explosion sounds everywhere, as if someone was detonating magic tool bombs.
However, thanks to the spell Arcian cast, Asil’s carriage didn’t shake at all even when bombs exploded nearby.
Then, from far away, the rough sound of horse hooves galloping through the explosions was heard.
At the same time, the voices of the tense holy knights shouting came.
“Protect the prisoner!”
“There’s someone trying to kill the prisoner!”
Asil’s eyes widened in surprise.
What is this? There’s a human trying to kill the Duke Skya?
Right then, Asil spotted someone riding a horse and galloping exactly toward this direction.
“Protect the imperial citizens! Protect the people who got caught up!”
‘Husband!’
It was Edenber.
Thinking that the people in the carriage were stuck in the middle of the road, he tried to open the carriage door.
But because of Arcian’s spell, the door wouldn’t open from outside.
As he soon drew his sword, Asil flung the door open.
“Duke!”
“……!”
Edenber was shaken by the unexpected meeting in an unexpected place.
Boom!
Just then, a magic tool bomb exploded nearby.
Gritting his teeth, Edenber extended his hand to Asil.
“Come out this way quickly!”
“No, it’s safer here. Duke, come in and close the door quickly!”
Rather, it became more dangerous because her husband opened the door.
Asil pulled the awkwardly positioned Edenber in and slammed the carriage door shut.
The flustered Edenber gasped.
“What are you doing!”
“I cast a spell. No matter what happens, it protects everything-”
Boom!
A bomb fell near the carriage.
With superhuman reflexes, Edenber hugged Asil and threw himself to the carriage floor.
“Hwaaaaang!”
Even though the carriage didn’t shake at all, she suddenly ended up rolling on the floor with her husband.
Asil pushed him away with all her might.
“I said it’s really okay!”
“There’s no way it’s okay, carriages are so weak- Huh?”
Edenber, who looked around, suddenly stood up.
And realizing that the carriage, which should have been blown away long ago, wasn’t damaged at all, he flinched.
The proud Asil stuck out her belly.
“This place is the safest.”
“……It seems so.”
He didn’t know how this could happen, but since it wasn’t the first time something hard to understand happened while with Asil, Edenber nodded in acceptance.
He was covered in dust from going around where bombs were falling.
Edenber stared at Asil intently.
As if afraid Asil might disappear, he clenched one hand tightly.
Then, as if not knowing what to say, he opened his mouth haphazardly.
“Were you trapped while going to the warp gate?”
“Yeah. What about the Duke?”
Even though the situation was urgent, she had to ask this one thing.
Asil narrowed her eyes sulkily.
“Why didn’t you come to see Asil?”
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A few days before meeting Asil in the midst of explosions.
That is, around the time when Asil was carrying the completed Edenber doll and came to the office.
The real Edenber’s mind was entirely elsewhere.
“There’s a request from the temple that the Duke act as a witness during the transfer of the former Duke Skya.”
“…….”
“Duke?”
“……Sorry. What did you say just now?”
At this, the aide’s expression became sympathetic.
Although young, Edenber usually showed only a serious demeanor.
This was the first time he looked so spaced out.
This had been going on for several days now.
The aide clicked his tongue inwardly.
‘It seems the rumor that Lady Asil’s health is not good is true.’
Although the knights kept their mouths shut, the fact that Asil was sick was already quietly known in the dukedom.
Seeing Asil sleeping a lot, being depressed, and distributing dolls as if saying goodbye, it was impossible not to know.
The aide said with sincerity.
“Lady Asil will surely get better.”
“……What?”
“Nothing. I will send the reply to the temple on your behalf.”
Since Duke Skya was absent, and Duke Starafit was bedridden due to injury, there was no one else but Edenber to act as witness.
Soon, the aide politely bowed and left.
Left alone, Edenber blankly stared into the empty void.
As time just kept passing like that.
“Ppyasat-!” (Husband-!)
Knock knock knock. The sound of Asil knocking was heard.
It seemed she succeeded in controlling her strength, as the door miraculously didn’t break.
The flustered Edenber froze as he was.
He only moved his eyes to confirm that the door was tightly closed.
Being quiet without even breathing, the sound of Asil’s wing flaps going elsewhere was heard.
Flap flap flap.
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