Kwaduk...!
The sound of human bones breaking eerily echoed everywhere. Agatha, who was sitting on a spot covered in blood, was startled and her body trembled.
It was a night like any other. There was a massive assassination attempt, and her seventh husband, a brilliant knight, skillfully defended her.
The only difference was that one of the intruders touched her.
The moment she was dragged out of bed and thrown onto the cold marble floor, a flashing sword pointed above her head.
Sigh-
The husband returned before she knew it and tore the intruder's body apart. It was the first time she was covered in warm, pulsating blood.
From then on, her husband, Enoch Aratus, seemed a little strange. His large hands ran over his blood-soaked face, and then he turned and butchered the intruders.
When there is no one left standing but him.
The man returned and stomped on the neck of the assassin who had dragged her away. Agatha could only look up at Enoch blankly.
“I told you I’m not like your ex-husbands.”
“...!”
A stab wound visibly crossed his beautiful features.
Bright gray eyes stared at her as if they would pierce through her.
“I will take this opportunity to punish your relatives. So..."
The man, who threw down his sword without a thought, held out his hand to Agatha.
“Come here, Agatha.”
Don't make people crazy there.
***
This was the marriage history of Agatha Nobilis, the heiress of enormous assets who was not only known in the Roxbard Empire but also in other countries.
She lost both her parents and two brothers when she was five years old, and followed the wishes of the Emperor who became her godfather and married Duke Gregory Progus for the first time.
Agatha still remembers his first words when she met him at the ceremony.
'Five years old?'
'...'
'Wow, you have more than 10 years left to become an adult. Well, it doesn't matter because it's golden blood. Ha ha ha ha ha!'
It was an arranged marriage with over 30 years of difference in age between them.
With this marriage, the Emperor expanded his borders and gave her the added security of another order of knights from Nobilis's relatives who were eagerly pursuing the young heiress.
The marriage seemed to be going well until Agatha turned ten.
'Die!'
'Ahh!'
A Duke who loved gambling suffered a catastrophe when he was stabbed in a gambling den and became a eunuch.
If Agatha failed to give birth to a successor, the right of succession would pass to another relative in a foreign country, and the Emperor could never bear to see that happen.
The second wedding was with the second Prince of the neighboring country, the Mainukor Empire. This was because the Emperor coveted the right to inherit the country.
Second Prince Fernand Mainumconti was young, beautiful, and had no sexual problems.
‘Now, hide! Today I will spend the night with women who are not captured by me!'
'...'
'Oh, of course, Agatha is still young, so you can't. Just sit over there and watch. Got it?'
He was so horny.
When he married Agatha, he already had ten concubines.
Even when an illegitimate child appeared, Agatha, unable to bear it, asked the Emperor for a divorce, leading to a catastrophe. At that time, Agatha was only thirteen years old.
Afterward, the third wedding was held because the Emperor coveted a new port and decided to go to war.
At that time, her third ex-husband, George Portis, was a man called the best knight in the Roxbard Empire.
However, as talented as he was, he was a man with a strong sense of entitlement, and low self-esteem, and was so ugly that it was difficult to even look at him face to face.
He couldn't see anyone looking directly at him.
'Don't look at me! Who would not know that they look at me in amazement because I am ugly!'
'...'
Agatha, crying and eating garlic, received mediation from the Emperor and held her third and final wedding before becoming an adult.
And they divorced in an instant. This was because George, who had ambitiously gone to the battlefield, was defeated, and Agatha, who realized that she could divorce him as much as she wanted if the circumstances were right based on her past experience, immediately made a request to the Emperor.
‘Now I’ll find a husband. Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty.'
'...'
She was sixteen years old at that time.
As she became an adult, Agatha fully exercised her rights as the heiress of the Nobilis family, so even the Emperor could not treat her carelessly.
'...Good night. I recognize your independence in marriage. However, the fact that I am your godfather and master of the empire remains the same. Since the interests involved in the Nobilis family are serious, we must admit that we may intervene if necessary. Do you understand?'
‘That’s enough. Thank you, Your Majesty.'
Thus, after 16 years, Agatha was able to secure her independence from the Emperor through marriage.
At first, she thought about going on a trip to enjoy her freedom.
'It's an attack!'
As an adult, she gave up after seeing that her relatives took advantage of the Emperor's diminished protection to send assassins in earnest.
For the first time in her life, Agatha chose her own husband. He was Henry Insidio, Agatha's fourth ex-husband.
'I love you so much that I feel like I'm going to die.'
Before and after marriage, her married life with a caring husband who seemed to give her the moon and back seemed to be going well for a while.
'Do you really love Agatha Nobilis?'
'What bullshit? After she gives birth, I have to kill her. I will become the next representative of the Nobilis family, take power myself, and live a happy life.'
The fourth marriage ended when Agatha discovered his true intentions.
Agatha, who had a lot of authority, immediately chose a man to become Karl instead of her and got rid of her fourth ex-husband, Henry.
That man was her fifth ex-husband, Leonard Sinzerer.
It was an arranged marriage because the conditions were right, but her fifth marriage wasn't bad.
She felt like she was living well.
'I am a born eunuch.'
'What!'
The tests she took after failing to have children revealed that Leonard had some, if not major, problems.
The fifth marriage also fell apart due to the Emperor's outrage over the possibility of transferring the succession to another country.
Finally, at the moment when she was about to get married for the sixth time, Agatha was worried.
'If I marry someone from a family that has everything, at least I won't have to die, right?'
What she accepted was the marriage proposal of Theodore Neuta, the young Duke of the Neuta duchy.
In reality, the sixth husband did not plot to kill Agatha.
Like a gentleman, he cared for her and guaranteed her safety through a powerful order of knights.
The problem lay elsewhere.
***
Seven months before the previous attack, the ancient and magnificent residence of the Duke of Neuta.
Agatha Nobilis walked through this historic hallway with fury. Soon her husband's office was visible, and knights were standing in front of it.
“Meet the Duchess.”
“Open.”
"The Duchess has arrived.”
“Wha- What?”
A deep voice came from inside. The anger in Agatha's violet eyes deepened.
Seeing Agatha enter somewhat roughly, her husband, Theodor Neuta, stood up.
"Ma'am? What’s going on?”
“I have something to tell you. Can you give me a moment?”
Agatha, who was sitting on the sofa first, pointed to the seat across from her. Theodore took off his glasses and quietly sat down on the sofa.
"What-"
“I can’t take it anymore.”
Agatha stared at her sixth husband's handsome face. The high status of a Duke.
As the Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was talented, young, and had everything: wealth, power, and fame, but there was just one thing. He had a fatal flaw.
“Get your grandmother, mother, and sister out of this mansion right away and live on our own.”
"Ma'am? But-"
“Answer carefully. Depending on your answer, this could be my last request.”
Although he was taken aback by the sudden request, Theodore solemnly shook his head. He could not send his grandmother, mother, and sister out of this mansion.
He was under the illusion that this was a regular thing between women.
“What did my grandmother, mother, and sister say again?”
“Is that your answer?”
“Agatha. Have you not handled it well so far? I’m embarrassed that this happened all of a sudden...”
Agatha raised her hand to stop Theodore.
“I handled it well. I returned the favor and tolerated it in moderation, but I did it because I thought of them as your grandmother, mother, and sister, so I decided that I couldn’t do it anymore.”
Was it a mistake to accept the marriage proposal of someone who had everything?
Her husband's family did not welcome her as she had been divorced five times.
‘The dress is truly vulgar. After all, having been married five times isn't going anywhere.'
Her grandmother-in-law and mother-in-law looked at her as if she were the mistress of the Neuta duchy.
'Is it that difficult to give away some of your territory?'
The sister-in-law was dissatisfied that she, who had a lot of wealth, did not give her a huge gift.
If that's the case, would they be against it from the beginning?
Agatha accepted it, returned it, and tolerated it once or twice, but any more was at the risk of harming her spirit.
“But I can’t send my grandmother, mother, and sister somewhere else-”
“Theodore.”
"Yes?"
There was nothing that could be done for a husband who thoughtlessly ignored the women's work, calling it housework.
"We... I’m getting divorced.”
Theodore's face became dumb when he saw her smiling brightly.
The greatest heiress of the Roxbard Empire.
It was Agatha Nobilis' sixth divorce.
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