IELNDMH - Chapter 39 < It's My Turn to Have a Crush on Rebecca >
I Ended Up Living Up Next Door With My Ex-Husband
"Fortunately, there doesn't seem to be any problem with the seal."
Vincent carefully checked the seal and scratched the tip of his nose.
After spending the night at the Mansion of Light, he headed to Mt. Manakin in the Demon World with Cedric early the next morning. This was to check whether Lillian's heart was properly sealed.
To Cedric, there seemed to be no particular problem with the seal.
"I guess we can close the hole for now, Manakin."
Manakin snorted at Cedric's words with a displeased expression.
"Insolent bastards. You've been bothering this old man all morning."
As Manakin said that, he slowly moved his huge front paws.
Kuung.
As Manakin blocked the large hall beneath the ground, a loud noise and a mild earthquake occurred within the cave.
However, Cedric and Vincent just stared calmly into Manakin's big eyes, as if they were familiar with the situation.
Cedric, Vincent, and Manakin. These three had entered into a contract to seal 'Lillian's Heart'. Due to their contract, the dangerous object was sealed with the magic power of the two duchy heads and buried under Manakin's giant feet.
As soon as the earthquake around him stopped, Vincent chuckled at Manakin.
"Hey, Grandpa. Even if it's almost time to die, what if you don't even bother to move your front feet?"
At those words, Manakin rolled his eyes fiercely and snorted hotly at Vincent. Vincent dodged quickly, as if he was used to it, and gritted his teeth as he glared at Manakin.
"Ah, this old man again!"
"Even when you were a little boy who followed your father to greet me for the first time, you acted arrogantly and were crazy. How is it that you do the same thing when you grow up and become the head of the family?"
Cedric just watched the situation with a slightly bored expression, as if he was used to the two's bickering. Soon, as soon as Vincent saw the red fire starting to glow between Manakin's teeth, he hurriedly turned his back towards the entrance of the cave.
"I checked the seal, so I'll have to go now, Cedric. I feel like if I stay here any longer, the Norman family line will end!"
Vincent turned his back and gradually walked away, waving his hand high.
"Say hello to Rebecca too!"
Dragon Manakin's large eyes, which were staring at Vincent as he left, slowly moved toward Cedric.
"Rebecca...."
Manakin muttered in a low, sinister voice. Then he asked with an expression as if he was pulling out one of countless memories.
"Was that your wife's name?"
Cedric nodded his head slowly and he snorted softly.
"She's still not engraved?"
It was a grumpy voice. When Cedric frowned at that, Manakin let out a snarky laugh.
"It seems like you still think my choice was wrong."
Cedric had always said clearly that Manakin's choice to connect him with Rebecca was a mistake. But now, Cedric just remained silent with a confused look on his face. After a while, Cedric slowly removed his lips.
"I'm not sure right now."
"..."
"I think your choice might not be wrong..."
"I hear it often."
It was Cedric who always poured out his resentment towards Manakin. Although such an unusual reaction was surprising, Manakin's face did not show the slightest agitation. He just smiles suspiciously.
"Are you still suspicious of that woman because of 'that night'?"
Cedric's brow cracked at Manakin's words. It was because memories of his past came to mind.
On their first wedding night, Cedric received an urgent call from Vincent. There was news that suspicious movement was felt near Mt. Manakin. So, as he left for Mount Manakin, he promised Rebecca his future, but he met her again in an unexpected place.
'Rebecca, how did you get here...? This was the seal of 'Lillian's Heart'.
It was luck that found Rebecca first before Vincent arrived.
Otherwise, Vincent would have tried to kill her when she appeared in the seal. In fact, Vincent did not hide his suspicions about Rebecca's origins until their wedding day.
'Her father is from the Kingdom of Katsis, right? What if you recklessly spend your first night with such a woman, and you, the seal manager of that thing, are taken advantage of?'
Vincent was chuckling playfully, but Cedric knew what he meant. The now fallen Kingdom of Katsis. The royal family was a family that had been around since ancient times.
Therefore, even though they were humans, they knew the secrets of demons that were not well known to the human world.
It was about the imprint and Lillian's heart. Of course, because of the contract with the devil, the secret was kept for a long time.
A person who loses power and collapses in an instant becomes desperate to regain that power. The Kathis Kingdom had been defeated just a few years ago and had been driven out to a nearby island.
To those people, Lillian's heart, which promised ultimate power the moment they got it, would have been the most coveted item. Moreover, after learning that the Katsis royal family and Duke Bold had been secretly communicating.
Cedric's suspicions toward Rebecca began to grow uncontrollably. The more he sees her obsession with one night with him, the more he becomes obsessed.
"But what makes you now think that my choice was not wrong?"
Manakin asked with a suspicious smile.
"It turns out it was all a misunderstanding?"
Hearing Manakin's words, Cedric looked somewhere else and opened his mouth.
"Yes. I thought maybe it was all a misunderstanding on my part."
"..."
"I always suspected she wanted me too much. It felt like she was trying to get something out of me. Yes... I definitely did."
Cedric licked his lips as if he was having trouble coming out with words. He hoped so a few times. Cedric finally opened his mouth with a bitter look on his face.
".... Rebecca said she doesn't want me anymore."
A look of interest flashed across Manakin's large eyes.
"Hoo. At Las...."
When Cedric wrinkled his eyebrows in displeasure at his words, Manakin chuckled.
"So what about you?"
"... What?"
"I wonder if you feel relieved because she doesn't want you as you had hoped."
In response to Manakin's question, Cedric remained silent for a while. He just stayed silent for a while with a bitter look on his face. He muttered lowly, like someone revealing a secret.
"...... At all."
At first, Rebecca's coldness felt a little strange, that's all. And he thought that Rebecca's indifference towards him was just an act on her part.
However, every time he saw Rebecca's changed appearance after that, he thought that maybe he had misunderstood her for a long time. So Cedric gradually let go of his doubts and faced Rebecca.
She was a completely different person from the one he knew. Rebecca was a woman with a beautiful smile that seemed to light up the whole world. And she tenderly cared for those around her and worked hard to correct the mistakes of her past.
Cedric felt more and more guilty about his own callousness that had made her such a bad wife. And he finally regretted it. The fact that he did not realize in advance how precious Rebecca's heart was before she left him.
"It seems like you finally have that child in your heart."
Manakin muttered softly to Cedric, who was silent. Cedric nodded his head with a bitter expression.
But now that he had realized his own feelings, he and Rebecca were already divorced.
Cedric was resentful of himself in the past for throwing away the only reason he could hold on to Rebecca. Even if Rebecca were to leave him right now, he wouldn't be able to say anything.
"If I could, I would like to go back to that last moment when I was able to hold Rebecca."
It was a time when Cedric was mocking himself with his head down.
"You idiot, you can catch her now."
Cedric slowly raised his head at Manakin's grave voice.
"The only thing that's changed is that now you want her more than Rebecca."
Manakin laughed lowly, looking at Cedric's slightly shocked face.
"Cedric, I have clearly foreshadowed you the fate that heaven and earth have ordained."
"..."
"But it's up to you to turn that relationship into destiny."
Cedric's blue eyes slowly opened wide. It felt like his tangled threads had been unraveled. Cedric raised the corners of his mouth, feeling refreshed for the first time in a long time.
"It is said that you lived a long time as a monster and gained the wisdom of all things in heaven and earth, so that was not a word without spirit."
Manakin burst into laughter at Cedric's words.
After talking with him a little more, Cedric bid his farewell and left the cave.
Manakin smiled happily as he watched Cedric leave.
".... Now It's your turn to fall in love with Rebecca."
***
Early afternoon, Bianca invited me to the Mansion of Light.
Since Cedric left for the Demon World with Vincent and the mansion was empty, we decided to have a tea party together.
I spent a long time chatting alone with cute Bianca. A servant approached me and carefully held out something.
"Uh... Your Highness, the letter has arrived."
"..."
"Well, you said you were enjoying the refreshments, but the messenger was so angry that he asked you to give him the answer right away...."
She seemed afraid that something unpleasant might come from me. I knew that the residents of the Mansion of Light were still afraid of me, so I smiled brighter and nodded.
"Thank you."
Then the people around me, including the servant, blinked their eyes in surprise.
"..... Yes?"
"You said it was urgent news, so you must have tried to deliver it to me quickly. Thank you."
Then, the person holding the letter in his hand slightly raised the corners of his mouth with a puzzled expression.
"Oh, no. I thank you, Your Highness..."
He handed me the letter and stepped back.
'Is there anyone who would like to send me an urgent letter?'
The moment I finally confirmed the sender of the letter.
'Of course it is.'
I frowned in discomfort. And immediately tore up the letter and gestured towards the person who brought it to me.
"Tell them it's hard to find time. I think it will continue to be like that in the future."
That evening, the Duke of Bald of the South.
It wasn't until evening that the messenger sent from the north flew into Duke Bold's study. Duke Bold hastily unwrapped the note stuck at the massager bird's feet. He took a moment to read it.
"This......! You cheeky thing!"
Kuang!
Duke Bold, who hit the table nervously, gritted his teeth loudly.
"Rebecca, if you ignore the promise you made to me before marrying the Grand Duke like this..."
There was venom in Duke Bold's fiercely opened eyes.
"I can't just leave you like this, can I?"
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