IELNDMH - Chapter 35 < My Heart Toward Rebecca >
I Ended Up Living Up Next Door With My Ex-Husband
When I raised my head and followed the blue rays, I saw a familiar figure.
".. Cedric?!"
Cedric, who was curling the corners of his lips seductively, jumped down between the torn roofs in an instant.
When I looked at him in surprise when he suddenly appeared in front of me, he smiled brightly.
"I'm glad you look better than I thought, Rebecca."
Cedric spoke as he cut down the enemies without hesitation with a blue beam extending from his hand. The monsters that were cut down by the sharp beam of light lost their appearance in an instant.
"It's a straw doll. It looks like someone cast a spell and created a magic doll."
I didn't think it was a person, but it was a straw doll with a spell on it.
'For some reason, they said the number increases endlessly.'
It was at that time that I looked down in bewilderment at the large straw dolls scattered on the floor. Cedric shouted loudly at Adrian outside the carriage.
"Adrian! Can you put up a protective barrier in the forest and drive the carriage?"
"Of course, Your Highness!"
Adrian answered loudly and hurriedly turned to return to the carriage. Then, the magic dolls started running behind him again.
However, unlike before, this time a blue ray of light struck straight down their backs like lightning.
How long had it been since Adrian ran while being escorted by Cedric?
Soon, Adrian's voice was heard again from the coach compartment.
"We are ready to go!"
With his words, Cedric immediately drove the group of monsters out of the carriage. Then, he immediately planted a blue barrier around the door where the door had fallen off.
Then, the monsters that rushed into the carriage again hit the barrier, lost their strength, and turned into straw dolls.
"It looks like the barrier was planted properly."
Cedric muttered lowly and shouted loudly at the coachman.
"Adrian! Run as fast as you can! So they can get behind the wagon!"
"Yes, Your Highness!"
Soon the carriage started moving at a faster speed. The forest wind blew fiercely into the carriage, which had a broken door and a torn roof.
At the same time, monsters that could not keep up with the speed of the carriage gradually began to fall behind the carriage.
How long did it run like that?
Outside the door that had fallen apart, a purple light began to appear around the forest. It seemed that the barrier that Adrian had created to protect the forest had finally begun to spread throughout the forest.
After watching it for a while, I closed my eyes tightly against the harsh wind blowing.
'Well, I'm sure it won't fall out...?'
The moment I grabbed the window frame of the carriage with both hands out of anxiety. I felt something solid wrapping around my waist.
When I slowly opened my eyes again, what I immediately saw was Cedric's chest. Suddenly, Cedric, who was wrapping one of his arms around my waist, looked down at me and opened his mouth.
"You don't have to be afraid, Rebecca."
A soft bass sound flowed from Cedric's lips once again.
"From the moment I came, there is no danger to you. Because I won't make it happen."
Comfort is given indifferently. But it instantly calmed my anxiety. I hugged Cedric's waist tightly and spoke confidently, trying to pretend not to be scared.
"Keep that promise."
At least I don't want to die today. At the same time, Cedric smiled slightly as he watched me bite my lip to hide my trembling lower jaw.
"It's nice to have some guts. I won't be embarrassed to go anywhere and say you were a member of the Twins family."
"To prevent that from happening, let's just not say anything."
I gritted my teeth and answered. And when I pinched Cedric's waist, he hugged me tighter and burst into joyful laughter.
"It hurts, Rebecca. I feel the pain too."
"That's what I was urging."
"But why do you say you don't want to die, at least today?"
"..... Why is that? Are you really going to let me die just because I pinched you?"
Cedric let out a low laugh as he watched me turn white. Then he looked down at me with his brilliant blue eyes.
"I was just curious."
"......"
"Why is today so precious to you?"
Cedric said, handing over my hair that was blowing in the strong wind. It was the first time he was curious about my daily life. Well, of course, the current situation is not normal at all.
I slowly opened my mouth, moistening my lips in pleasant awkwardness.
"I went to the futures trading market today."
"Yeah, I heard that much. And?"
"And......"
"Maybe the reason I'm in a good mood today is because of the person I was there with... "
"You were together?"
"....Huh."
At that moment, the carriage shook violently, and Cedric hugged me even more tightly as if entangling me. A heavy yet cozy, familiar scent passed by the tip of his nose.
After getting used to being in his arms, I spoke again naturally.
"Oh, if it was the person I was with..."
"..."
"Camilla came. Countess Dmitry."
It may not have been the name he was expecting, but Cedric raised his eyebrows with an inwardly surprised expression.
"I won the competition with that woman with flying colors, so I bought the gift I had been eyeing for a long time. All that's left is to become rich with that, but if I die today... "
"....It's really difficult."
Cedric let out a laugh as he looked at me confessing with a serious expression.
"Is that really why you don't want to die today?"
"Yes. The feeling of not wanting to die is the same every day, but that's the reason why I don't want to die today."
"Aha, I see...."
Cedric bowed his head and was silent for a while. Soon I noticed that he was holding back laughter and I raised my voice out of embarrassment.
"Stop laughing! I'm very serious! Today is a really important day for me, right?"
"Okay, I got it..."
Cedric continued to laugh while twisting his body to avoid me pinching his waist again. Then he suddenly grabbed my hand and made me hold onto the window frame myself.
"Just wait a moment. I'll be back soon."
Then, with a swift movement, he jumped onto the roof. I shouted urgently at Cedric.
"What, you said you would keep me from dying! Where on earth are you going?!"
The corners of Cedric's lips quirked up as he looked down at me through the gap in the roof.
"To end your precious day perfectly."
With those words, Cedric immediately grabbed a monster that jumped onto the carriage. Then he grabbed the monster's neck tightly with one hand and gritted his teeth low.
"I know they are monitoring the situation through these."
"Off......."
"So listen carefully."
He seemed to be leaving a message for someone controlling the monster.
Cedric's voice became lower as he stared at the struggling monster for a long time.
"The moment you threaten my wife again, I will find you and personally slaughter you."
Eventually, a blue light flickered from Cedric's hand, which was holding the monster's neck. And that light soon turned into a flame and burned. The monster that caught fire gradually began to transform into a straw doll.
Meanwhile, numerous hordes of monsters were still running after the carriage. Cedric threw the burning straw doll at them without any hesitation. Then, the blue flames instantly turned into a huge fire and began to devour the monsters in a terrifying manner.
***
Around the same time, a shabby building in an alley in the northern city.
The interior of the building's basement was narrow and dark at first glance. The musty and formalin smell further amplified the discomfort felt there.
There were black cast iron pots and dried corpses of frogs and rats hanging in the cupboards, and old books with unusual titles were lined up on the bookshelf. An old woman passed them with familiar steps and sat down in front of a round table. A table covered with a dark purple cloth.
When the old woman touched the large crystal ball placed on top of it, a mysterious light flickered within the ball. She just watched the beads for a while.
The old woman's brow furrowed slightly. It was around that time that she heard a low clicking sound.
"Oh Dear..... Unfortunately, you failed this time, Lady."
At the old woman's words, a woman leaning against the cupboard let out a long sigh.
"I thought she would be easy to kill..."
"How on earth did you fall?"
Despite the woman's sharp rebuke, the old woman did not lose her composure and answered slowly.
"It looks like His Highness the Grand Duke helped."
"His Highness?"
The woman's eyes blinked slowly. Soon, she hurried to the old woman's side with an expression of disbelief.
"Show me."
As the woman spoke, the old woman raised both hands again and touched the crystal ball. Soon the scene the old woman had seen was reproduced once again.
"The moment you threaten my wife again, I will definitely find you and slaughter you personally."
The moment she saw Cedric's face as she uttered her terrifying warning, the corners of the woman's lips curved at an angle.
The woman tapped her fingers on the table.
"Again."
At the lady's command, the old woman touched her crystal ball and brought back the image.
"The moment you threaten my wife, I will definitely find you and slaughter you..."
The woman, who was staring at Cedric's face in her orbs, commanded again.
"Again."
"The moment you threaten my wife..."
Cedric's warning continued like a stretched tape for a while,
"Stop."
The woman who ordered the old woman intoned softly as if lost in her thoughts.
"His Highness the Grand Duke jumped in to save Rebecca's life...."
The woman blinked in disbelief as she looked once again at Cedric's face through her orbs.
"That person... Why?"
***
Darkness had already fallen in the forest.
A forest at night where a huge blue flame and a purple barrier are intertwined. While a scene as mysterious and beautiful as the universe unfolded, the number of monsters decreased significantly.
Adrian also checked the situation and slowly slowed down the carriage, and Cedric returned to the carriage only after confirming that the last monster was burning.
Cedric's eyes caught the image of Rebecca looking out the window in fascination.
Before she knew It, the enemies that were threatening her life had disappeared and everything had become stable. It seemed that her eyes were belatedly caught up in the beautiful panoramic view of the forest with its lights flickering.
Cedric smiled softly as he watched her wonder, even letting out an exclamation.
"Is that so interesting?"
"Yes, a lot. And it's pretty. You too, come and see."
"I'm already sick of what I saw on the roof."
Cedric responded while approaching Rebecca's side. Rebecca then pulled Cedric's arm to make him stand closer to her and looked out her window again.
"How is it? It looks prettier here, right?"
Cedric's eyes landed on Rebecca's face as she softly asked. A dreamy light shimmered over Rebecca's white face, and a pleasant scent wafted from her body, which was lightly touching him.
"....Yes. It's really beautiful."
Rebecca still had her smile on her face, her eyes fixed outside the window. That moment when he unconsciously raised the tip of his lips, following her lead.
Cedric suddenly became curious. If he were his former self, would he have sensed Rebecca's danger and rushed straight to find her as he does now?
Probably not. He probably thought it would be more reasonable to release the knights to find the Grand Duchess. But why did he lose his senses earlier and blindly set out to find Rebecca?
Numerous questions and wrong answers appeared in his mind and disappeared again and again. A series of useless repetitions due to his pride.
Finally, at the end, Cedric thought.
Maybe his heart...... Maybe it gradually turns towards Rebecca.
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