IDEFYEM - Chapter 79
Black Man, Black Man I'll Do Everything For You Except Marriage!
"Shall we go, my bride?"
I raised my head and looked at Raphael Kronhardt's expression.
Visibility was blurry due to the sunlight pouring in from the large glass window.
Raphael's eyes looked so complex that they couldn't be named.
If I were asked to define it now, I would probably name it happiness.
'But how...'
When I saw that expression, I suddenly felt like I knew. There were many moments to notice.
There were a lot, but I was intoxicated by the sweetness of my first love and I did not want to think that Kael had betrayed me.
'And now... You can't do that.'
When I realized the reality, I started to feel out of breath. I felt dizzy with it.
Raphael quickly grabbed my wrist, which was staggering for a moment, and supported me.
It was such a quick and precise movement that no one noticed anything strange. It's like the trick he's been using to deceive me.
Strangely, the shoe-clad feet moved forward as if nothing had happened. Perhaps the man holding my hand was leading me with skill.
Raphael glanced at my steps, which soon returned to their normal pace.
Then he bowed his head and whispered.
"Be careful, Enri."
That sweet voice was the Kael I had always loved. In our joined hands, I once again felt a rare warmth.
I thought of all the opportunities I've had to shake off this hand.
All the moments I overlooked because I believed in a man named Kael Belbrington who never existed to begin with.
The wedding carpet, where I walked through thoughts rather than happiness, was quite short.
"The moment of oath under the watchful eye of the Holy God has arrived."
Before we knew it, Raphael and I were about to take the final step of the ceremony in front of the officiant.
"Do you two promise to be each other's better half for the rest of your life, and to always love and protect each other?"
"Yes. I swear."
The man answered without hesitation with his lips straightened up.
I'm sure there are snakes in that black thing, but how many are there?
As if I had been hit by a horse's hoof, I was thinking about other things with my head in a daze and lost the timing.
I couldn't answer when it was my turn.
"... Would you like to swear?"
Embarrassment was evident in the officiant's voice as he repeatedly asked the question.
If we hesitated for just a few more seconds, the guests would have started to get upset.
Oh, why don't you just open your mouth.
If I don't dare to shake off the hand and run away, this will be a small revenge.
But I shouldn't have forgotten. The fact is that he is not Kael, who accepted my complaints with difficulty, but Grand Duke Kronhardt.
If I was unlucky. I might be killed before I even got to the first night. It was only then that I realized the unrealistic situation I was in, and a feeling of fear began to creep in accordingly.
After a short period of thought, I looked up and saw a face covered in fear.
Immediately, I felt my heart sink.
Eyes like damp ruins, as if a strong rainy season had passed.
A man who had been cursed and transformed into a hideous figure was looking at me as if he had been hurt by his lover who did not recognize him.
"..."
But I'm the one who's been fooled for months. I am the one who blames you and has to be hurt right now.
Why do you have hurt eyes like an abandoned dog?
"... I swear."
I finally pursed my lips.
I hid my true feelings by rationalizing that maybe ending this situation quickly was all I could do.
"Then you two, kiss."
I have never hoped for a moment like this.
A wedding where you just close your eyes and hope that this moment will pass quickly.
My eyes became red for various reasons that I cannot clearly put into words.
Raphael came closer to me and lifted the hem of the thin veil.
At that moment, the approaching face stopped, as if it had come face-to-face with a single teardrop.
At the last moment, he slightly twisted my chin and kissed the corner of my mouth instead of my lips.
At the end of the short kiss, he gently pressed my tears away from my cheeks with his fingertips.
The man smiled faintly.
I didn't really remember how the wedding ended.
After the ceremony, before heading to the location where the reception will be held
I collapsed in the blind hallway and gasped for breath.
Raphael bent his knees and watched me closely.
As I continued to breathe heavily, he handed me water in a clear glass.
As I silently accepted the cup, Raphael spoke first.
"Last night I confessed the truth and you fainted. I waited for a long time, but it seemed like you was asleep so I left."
It really wasn't a dream. Funny enough, I am finally convinced.
Even though my lips were dry, I couldn't drink the water in the glass and lowered my head.
"I have prepared a way for you to leave if you resent me the next day."
"..."
"I prepared a carriage and money to take you wherever, and I also informed your maid."
Instead of making sense of the words that followed, I only became more confused.
"I-I didn't hear that. I hear I suffered from a terrible fever yesterday."
When I stuttered out the words, surprisingly, it wasn't difficult to raise my voice.
"My memory was hazy, so I stupidly thought I had a terrible nightmare."
We spewed out our emotions like people who couldn't hear each other. Soon after, Raphael also opened his mouth and began to let out a tearful voice.
"Today, as you stood next to me, you looked happy and your eyes sparkled. So I thought you were...."
There was quite a long silence between the words.
"I thought you chose me after all. I never thought you couldn't remember."
"..."
"For a moment, I felt like I had the whole world. But your expression..."
Suddenly it occurred to me that I was missing an important fact.
"You felt like you had the whole world?"
I interrupted Raphael and asked.
"Why?"
At that time, I forgot the fact that he was a Grand Duke and the worry that he might die.
I waited for the words I imagined to come out of Raphael's mouth.
For a long time, the circumstances of this conversation pointed to only one conclusion.
Raphael's lips trembled.
He was smiling like a man who had forgotten how to cry and instead smiled.
"I love you."
I ended up hearing what I wanted to hear the most, in a situation where I least wanted to hear it.
"I love you, Enri. I love you."
The blue eyes I loved were as transparent as beads.
Even the greatest actor in the world wouldn't be able to perform like this.
His eyelashes become wet and tremble, and his eyes become darker.
For a moment, I wanted to forget everything and just hug the man in front of me. But I soon came back to my senses and raised my thorns.
The scene from the original where the Grand Duke kills Enrica came to mind and tormented me.
"I was fooled through my life by your lies. This too must be false."
"No, Enri. Just this..."
"Is it Kael or Grand Duke Kronhard who is speaking to me now?"
No answer came back.
After waiting for a while, I left after saying those last words.
The maximum time I can be late for a reception using my health as an excuse is about 30 minutes.
I started walking wherever I could, getting as far away from the Grand Duke as I could.
It wasn't until I turned my back on him that the thick teardrops continued to flow.
The only place I could think of right now to organize my thoughts was my room.
"Ugh, uh, huh..."
As I locked the door and let out the tears I had been holding in, my mood calmed down a bit.
After a few minutes, I stopped crying took a deep breath, and sat down in front of the mirror.
'My face is a mess.'
If I have to call Sarah to fix my makeup, time will be tighter than I think.
As soon as I thought of that, my heart sank.
Suddenly, the conversation I had with Sarah the day I arrived at this mansion came to mind.
"I'll tell you if you promise to grant me a wish."
"I promise that I will listen to you only if I know what it is, no. Huh okay, say it."
"Don't not mad at me."
"Why am I mad at you?"
"Something might happen to make you angry. I lied, or I hid something very important from you."
Sarah knew everything.
I was biting my lip in a feeling of betrayal, and in the end, I even had that thought.
I wonder if Raphael and Sarah will have a strange relationship like in the original.
"Hmm?"
No, that's probably impossible.
In the midst of this. I frowned at the completely unimaginable scene. But when I think about it that way, there are more than one or two things that have changed from the original.
It had just been revealed that even the relationship between the main character, Sophia, and the second Prince was a contract love affair.
'If the original work only showed fragmentary aspects... Maybe even the Grand Duke?'
I tried to remain hopeful for a moment, but the next thought calmed me down again.
'But that doesn't change the fact that they have been cleverly deceiving me like a villain.'
To what extent is the truth?
The tender consideration, the eyes looking at me, the confession of love just now.
"..."
While I was pondering things in my head, I suddenly heard a knock on the door.
No one would come to visit. Could it be Raphael or Sarah?
I soon opened the door wide and looked into the hallway, but there was no one standing there.
It was a moment when I became even more puzzled because I could not sense any sign of him.
There was a knocking sound again. From the window, not the door.
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