I Am Trying To Divorce My Villain Husband, But We Have A Child - Chapter 32

Chapter 32

At first, it seemed like it was a person with a broken soul. But unlike the soldiers with the black aura who still had a relatively human appearance, this monster only had a human shape; otherwise, it was totally black.

Richard, who felt uneasy about this monster, stopped the knights who were about to approach it.

“I’ll go over there and check it out, so you guys just stand by here.”

“We’ll check it first. It’ll be dangerous if you carelessly go over there.”

“No. I’m quicker than all of you.”

The knights were rather nervous about Richard’s plan, but they couldn’t refute his words. Because just as Richard had said, Richard, who had his family’s power, was exceedingly quicker than all of them in attacking and defending.

Richard started walking away from his knights who were looking at him with worried eyes and slowly made his way to the monster in human form.

The monster seemed to have heard him walking towards it and turned around as well.
When they made eye contact with each other, Richard stopped walking.

The monster didn’t have any eyes, but Richard felt as if it was staring into his eyes.

“…… Are you human?”

The monster didn’t answer. Instead, it slowly made its way over to Richard.

As it approached him, Richard suddenly became cautious and started to speak to it.

“If you have a consciousness and your own will, stop right there.”

“…… .”

“If you don’t, I’ll decide that you’re an unconscious being with no will, and I’ll let you rest in peace.”

But as if the monster was ignoring Richard’s words, the monster kept walking over to him.

Richard created a wind storm and lifted the monster into mid-air and slammed it onto the ground without mercy.

The monster, who had just endured a strong attack on its body, squirmed on the ground. But it did not even make a sound.

Richard thought that it was a monster who couldn’t talk and pierced its body with his sword.
But just then, the monster started to speak with a piercing voice.

“I…… waited…… a long time…… for my…… desire…… .”

The moment Richard started to have questions about the monster’s words, its body faded out and disappeared as if it had never been there.

Thompson and the knights, who had been watching the situation from a distance, ran over to Richard in a rush.

“Your Excellency, are you okay?”

“Yes. I don’t think it was anything special, so let’s go back.”

Richard and his knights started to walk back together. But on Richard’s mind, the last words of the monster that had been here just a few moments ago kept replaying in his head.

‘my…… desire…… .’

Strangely, he felt as if the monster’s words were aimed at him.

***

Elisha, who had been bedridden due to overexertion and a cold, was only able to get up after a whole day in bed.

As soon as she regained her senses, she ate her breakfast and asked a question to Anne.

“Anne, did something happen while I was out? Something is off about the atmosphere.”

“It was revealed that the monsters that appeared recently were because of the demon’s soul stone. So his excellency himself went to the infected land to investigate.”

“The demon’s soul stone?”

Elisha’s face was etched with shock.

If a demon’s soul stone was found in a monster’s body, it meant that somebody had brought it out and given it to the monsters with malicious intent.

‘Just who could have done something like this……’

If the monsters in Rubelin became ferocious, the people of Rubelin will panic because of fear.

Then there will be rumors that Rubelin is a dangerous land, and then people who hear those rumors will leave the territory.

‘If Rubelin’s territory population decreases, then the Rubelin house’s influence will also decrease.’

Of course, there were probably a lot of people who wished for this to happen, but the person who probably wanted this to happen the most was…… .

‘Is it the Emperor?’

Elisha bit her lips.

Richard, who the Emperor had hoped would die in war, came back as a war hero, and if that wasn’t enough, Richard had become the head of Rubelin, so the Emperor was probably extremely anxious.

Elisha was angered by the fact that the Emperor wanted to destroy Richard and Rubelin just because of his inferiority complex, but at the same time, she was rather flattered.

Among the countless number of nobles, the only person who was keeping Arensia’s emperor in check was Richard.

In other words, it has just become proof of how strong Rubelin is.

‘Anyway, that’s why I couldn’t see Richard.’

Even as she had been suffering from fever, there were times where she briefly regained consciousness. And every time, she hoped that she would see Richard.

She wanted to make sure that nothing changed in the relationship between her and Richard because of what happened in the cabin, that his attitude towards her would still be the same.

But everytime she opened her eyes, Richard was not by her side. This made Elisha nervous.
However, as it turns out, he had gone away because of work, so that settled her nerves.

“Please eat this too.”

In front of Elisha, who had just finished her meal, there was a teacup with a red flower floating on top and a dish that was speckled with something that looked like a sunflower seed.

Elisha looked at the items before her with a puzzled look.

“What are all of these?”

“This is a tea that is supposed to warm your body. The duke said that your illness would have seeped into your bones and caused you to feel cold, so he told us to give this tea to my lady.”

“Then what are these black things?”

“They’re supposed to help to recover health. Oh, and they say that these are seeds from an extremely rare flower. Anyway, you have to eat all of this!”

It looked like Anne was going to make sure Elisha finished the tea and the seeds.

After warily looking at the tea and seeds that Richard had left for her, Elisha finally raised the teacup.

‘He worried for me……”

Even when they were young, he had taken care of her while pretending not to care. His attitude may have been cold, but she wholeheartedly knew that he really worried and cared about her.

Elisha drank her tea and nonchalantly asked Anne about Richard’s atmosphere before he left.

“Anne, how did His Excellency look before he left?”

“Hm…… he looked like he was mad about something.”

“……Mad?”

“Yes. He left the room after saying “crazy bastard” to himself.”

Anne, who didn’t know what had happened between the two of them, just told Elisha what she had heard outright.

At Anne’s words, Elisha’s face froze.

‘As expected, what happened was on his mind.’

A gloomy Elisha suddenly felt that everything was very unfair.

‘No, but! He liked it too, and he was…… he was really active too!’

Of course, her memory was spotty due to the alcohol, but she remembered that it was Richard who had skillfully convinced her to continue their activity when she was a bit teary from pain.

Elisha was blushing as she pouted, when a servant knocked on her door and came into her room with a message.

“Madam, His Excellency has returned.”

At her words, Elisha got up in a flash and went straight to Richard’s bedroom.
She had just reached the stairs when she saw him going into his room.

“Richard!”

Elisha, who finally met Richard, stopped in her tracks.

After what had happened in the cabin, this was the first time that she had seen him in the right state of mind.

As she looked at his face, she could only remember his disheveled appearance from that night, and she felt heat rush into her face. She couldn’t even greet him like she usually did when he came back because she was so embarrassed.

“Did it go wel-”

Elisha finally got her greeting out and stepped towards Richard. Richard, who had been gazing at Elisha, seemed to realize something a beat late and stopped walking.

“…… Next time.”

“Huh?”

“Let’s talk next time.”

“Oh…… Alright.”

Elisha stopped walking towards him.

Richard stared at Elisha for a few more seconds and then turned around and went into his room.

Elisha awkwardly looked at the closed door and turned around to go back.

***

Richard went straight to the bathroom.

There was a black, ominous looking, liquid that stained his outer clothes.

It had splattered on him while he was taking care of the possessed soldiers and monsters.
Agail looked at Richard’s stained body and at the dead bodies and had advised him of something.

‘For now, it would be best if you distance yourself from others. If we look at the past records, there are cases where unhealthy and weak people were infected by the black liquid, although healthy people are relatively safe.’

To be honest, Richard had wanted to meet Elisha as soon as he came back to the castle.

First, he wanted to check her body’s condition, and then he wanted to finish talking to her about that night.

But because of Agail’s advice, he had no choice but to distance himself from Elisha.

He was worried that he would accidentally infect Elisha, who had finally just gotten up after a few days after having been sick from a cold.

Until she completely recovered and until he got rid of all the black liquid and aura from his body,
he had no choice but to distance himself from her.

When he stripped off his inner shirt, a curved, muscular body was revealed.

It seemed that the monsters’ blood had seeped into his inner shirt as well since there was blood on his skin.

When he saw the blood, he was suddenly reminded of what had happened in the canyon.

‘I…… waited…… a long time…… for my…… desire…… .’

He wondered what that monster possibly could have been.

When he thought about all the monsters he had encountered there, he suddenly felt quite uncomfortable.

Richard poured water on himself and washed off the black liquid.

But when he wasn’t looking, the black aura of the liquid had seeped into a part of his back.

He finished his bath and returned back to his bedroom.

“Your Excellency. We examined the broken badge that was found near the canyon. After we wiped all the blood off, we found the name ‘Rohas” on the backside.

“If it’s Rohas, isn’t it the Rohas Viscounty?”

The Rohas Viscounty was famous for being nobles in the Emperor’s faction.

More accurately, they were famous for doing dirty work for the Emperor’s in-law, Marquess Felice.

The connection was just too strange.

“I’ll send someone to infiltrate the viscounty so that we can spy on Viscount Rohas.”

“No, there’s no need to do that. Because I’m going to go there myself.”

“Then we’ll start preparing for your trip. When should we finish the preparations by?”

“Within three days.”

“I will do as you wish.”

Agail bowed to Richard and started to make his way out the bedroom door.
Richard, who was watching Agail walk out, added something to his orders in a hurry.

“I’m going to take Elisha to the Viscounty too, so tell her to get ready.”

If the emperor was aiming to destroy not only him but all of Rubelin, he didn’t want to leave Elisha in a place where he wasn’t there.