I’ll Just Be Friends With My Ex-Husband - Chapter 81-1

Arthur went as well. He was now back in shape and back in his position. He began to perform his duties as the sword representative of the Arena Empire and as the Duke.

That was why the news arrived late that Louella had collapsed.

“What about Louella?”

“Not yet. Gerald is inside.”

“Whoa… She’s not sick, is she?”

“He said that she was only asleep… If she doesn’t wake up tomorrow, we’ll have to call another doctor.”

There was a conversation that could be heard outside Louella’s bedroom. Gerald clasped Louella’s hand.

“Lulu.” Gerald tilted the bottle he had between Louella’s lips.

It’s a drug that could heal Nisephor. It meant that it was a medicine that erased the traces of the white God. Now Louella was smelling strongly of a black snake.

The black snake had to be kicked out of Louella’s body so that she could rise. He was strongly convinced that this medicine would help. Gerald’s blue eyes flashed brightly.

If the black snake is trying to take over Louella’s body by using dirty tricks, he would never let it slide. He was going to risk everything to get Louella back. Gerald asked this a long time ago.

The potion slowly seeped through Louella’s lips. Perhaps because of the grinding of mana stone, it was a liquid that shone with a subtle color Gerald swept Louella’s cheek.

“You have to swallow it, Lulu.”

Did she notice Gerald’s desperation? Louella’s throat rang. Gerald sighed a little. A little light burst from Louella’s body. The energy of the black snake that had stayed with Louella had disappeared.

[Can’t hold it in] The black snake is back.

Gerald exclaimed coldly. “The standard you had seems to be different from mine for a while.”

The return of the Black Uroboros to Gerald means that he did not betray him. He was also convinced that at least he did not harm Louella in any way.

“What happened?” Gerald asked in a hushed voice.

[It’s solved. There will be no chance of Louella getting sick with Nisephor. You have completely erased the traces of the white snake as you wished.] Gerald breathed a sigh of relief.

He felt like he was losing his strength. He had been running three lives for this moment. He couldn’t let go for a moment. It was a day when he felt like he was getting suffocated by fear that he might lose Louella again if he did something wrong. Finally, he was able to take off the weight he had bore.

“Ha…” Gerald rested his forehead on his hands.

[Louella will live for a long time] The black snake whispered in a laughing voice.

Gerald clenched his teeth. Tears were about to burst. The days when he lost Louella came to mind clearly. It was an experience where his heart was ripped into pieces. It was also a past that he did not want to go back to.

Of course, there were a lot of happy moments. The memory of Louella was still in Gerald’s heart. Among them, the peak of happiness was when Louella had a child.

At that moment, he felt like he had the whole world. Gerald laughed bitterly. Of course, that happiness didn’t last very long. He didn’t even remember how he turned back time, as it was driving him crazy.

[She lost her memory because of the shock. It’s not that easy to turn back time. It’s supposed to shock the soul in some form.] Said the black snake in a pleasant voice.

[It’s a really good day. For the first time since I lost to my brother, I have surpassed him. I didn’t know it would feel so thrilling to take what the white thing has. I think I know why he only wanted what was mine.] It was the first time the Black Uroboros spoke such words.

Louella’s eyelids moved. Gerald waited for Louella as he tried to catch his breath.

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“Gerald?” It’s been a while since Louella saw Gerald as soon as she opened her eyes.

She couldn’t help but laugh. Gerald looked as if he was about to cry.

“Why do you look like that?”

“Lulu…”

“You told me to trust you. And now, you don’t trust yourself?” Gerald bit his lip and it formed a small bruise.

This fool. Gerald clasped Louella’s hand.

“It’ll be all right now.”

“That’s what I wanted to say. Everything will be fine now.” Gerald nodded softly.

“Seeing that face, I guess I didn’t wake up right away?”

“You slept half a day.”