I slapped my mouth.
It’s blood, or in technical terms, it’s blood.
‘No matter how much the child’s stamina bar is almost depleted, what is it? What is it?’
Anyone who sees him will think he’s an elite engineering team member out to kill monsters.
Fortunately, Klaus understood my nonsense and immediately poured the medicine into the child’s mouth.
The purple health bar returned to red, and the rapid decline in health stopped.
Saved.
I could barely take a breath.
“But it’s not too late. I did a good job of destroying it with magic, right?”
“We will have to file a separate claim for damages from the imperial family.”
“How about we just charge Duke Brudel? Actually, that person is the reason we made such a fuss.”
“That’s a good idea too.”
The couple who had been sitting there with blank expressions while Klaus was talking asked me as I relaxed.
“What about you?”
“Your Majesty. Your wife is in a more serious condition. Your husband is also infected.”
“I am Klaus Ertikev.”
“You are a majestic star of the imperial family.”
“That fussy young lady is Elena Sebes, the eldest daughter of the southern Count Sebes family.”
“……His Royal Highness?”
The couple looked at me and Klaus in turns, as if they didn’t understand the situation.
In the meantime, Klaus answered the couple’s questions and skillfully opened a bottle of medicine and gave it to his wife.
“Drink it. It’s medicine.”
“It is clear that medicine cannot be supplied….”
“It’s settled, so you can drink it. Your daughter is alive, unless you plan to die first.”
It hasn’t been resolved well, but I have to go and resolve it soon.
“My daughter survived?”
“You gave me medicine a little while ago, right, Elena?”
“Although I have almost no physical strength. Still, since the illness has gone away, I will get better quickly if I get treatment. Once I get over this disease, recovery is quick.”
The couple looked at the medicine for a long time as if they couldn’t believe what I said, then picked up the bottle with trembling hands. And soon tears poured out.
“Heavens, ah, thank you. Thank you!”
“Lily! Anna! I’m so glad. Really….”
Even after taking the medicine, the couple cried and hugged each other for a long time. The couple passionately kissing the cheek of the girl lying on the hospital bed with her eyes closed looked so happy and affectionate.
“Thank you so much. Thanks to you, I was able to save my child.”
“You two saved my family. Thank you so much.”
The couple cried for a while and bent over with swollen eyes.
Still, after crying that much, he seemed to have calmed down considerably compared to the first time.
“It is the imperial family’s job to stabilize the people’s lives. Since the people of the imperial family paid tribute to the imperial family, the imperial family only fulfills its duty.”
“The comment you just made was kind of cool. It’s the imperial family’s job.”
“Young lady, be quiet.”
Klaus pushed my shoulder nervously at my scolding.
But I can’t keep quiet now. His Highness Klaus has to act dignified and cool, so he can’t tease me like he usually does.
I can’t miss the opportunity to attack alone without counterattacking.
“It really is a royal star, isn’t it?”
“Yes. This is why I felt that I had no choice but to respect the imperial family. Thank you very much.”
“Look at that.”
Klaus glared at me in front of the couple who bowed their heads.
I get it, I get it. I’ll stop.
“The inn door was closed tightly, so I had to destroy it and come in. Please charge this to the imperial family.”
“No. We can repair this right now.”
“I’m still recovering, so don’t overdo it and accept the favor. Repairing one of your doors won’t make a single hair change to the royal family’s finances.”
“Well, if you say so… thank you very much.”
“I just have one favor to ask.”
Klaus suggested to the couple who were almost bowing with their heads on the floor.
“Just tell us! If we can give it to you, even our lives.”
“I don’t need other people’s lives.”
right. I don’t need that either.
“We need two rooms in this house. This lady is very tired, so we need to let her rest soon.”
“As much as you want. No, you can use both the first and second floor rooms!”
“Well, there’s no need for that much. I’ll just use them one by one.”
I smiled awkwardly as I saw Klaus looking back with a questioning expression and the couple looking at me with sparkling faces.
After many twists and turns, the couple allocated two large rooms on the first floor, one for me and Klaus.
It was my judgment that the room on the second floor would be better for the couple and their daughter, who was recovering from illness, to stay comfortably.
Since we didn’t have any luggage, it didn’t take long for me and Klaus to get in and out of our respective rooms.
“Well, now that we’ve taken care of the urgent fire, we can just take care of the remaining people.”
“I told everyone to gather at the treatment center, so they’ll be waiting.”
“Let’s go right away.”
“Can’t I rest any longer?”
Klaus asked worriedly.
I nodded.
“It would be better to finish all the work and take a rest. There are less than ten people left, but there are more urgent things to do. It would be better to finish and rest well.”
“If you want, I will do so.”
Klaus nodded.
And I soon came to regret this statement.
If you plant a flag like this, it will definitely come true… … .
Thanks to the active cooperation of the village residents, Marie from the back house, the guests staying at the hunter’s house, and the people who went out hunting were all sitting in the treatment center.
The problem was that among them were some faces I recognized.
“……Lady Maewyn?”
Were you the noble lady staying at Hunter Gilter’s house?
“Do you know him?”
Klaus asked.
I nodded with pride.
“Do you remember that in the very beginning, I was dumped by Duke Bruedel? But at that time, Duke Bruedel told me to wake up and say that he had a fiancé. At that time, the one he said was his fiancé was Lady Maewyn….”
Moreover, Mawin was clearly on his way into the duke’s residence that day.
I thought that if we lived together like this, we would get married quickly and live happily ever after.
But why is that Maewin living in a commoner’s house in a village like this?
“……Oh, it’s been a while since I’ve seen you, Countess Elena. It’s my first time seeing you, Your Highness….”
Maewin lowered his head in embarrassment and took the medicine. I could see her fingertips trembling.
“Thank you for the royal favor.”
I unknowingly caught Maewin, who was about to turn away after saying a polite thank you.
“Hey, Lady Maewyn.”
“yes?”
“Let’s talk.”
There was a look of hesitation on Maewin’s face.
However, as I remember Mewin’s previous appearance when she came into the duke’s house wearing a yellow dress and looking as flushed as a chick, I couldn’t send her away like this.
No, why did the child become like that?
“Come this way.”
“Well, I am.”
“Oh, quickly!”
“Now, now. Please do as you say. Our Lady Elena can be a tyrant sometimes.”
Klaus narrowed his eyes as he gently pushed Merwyn towards me.
It’s really funny. Someone is talking about who the tyrant is.
We soon moved to a quiet ward inside the treatment center.
“What happened? Weren’t you married to Duke Brudel?”
“Yes, she is married. Now she is the Duchess of Brudel, not Baroness Maiwyn.”
“Oh my, I was rude. I didn’t even know I was doing it.”
“No. Actually, there isn’t much difference.”
As he said that, Maewin smiled forlornly.
“It’s just that we haven’t divorced, in fact, you and the duke are no different from strangers.”
“How long have you been married and can you say something like that?”
It was only three months ago, three months ago, that I said I would get married!
Even if I got married then, it was less than 100 days since I got married!
‘In a situation like this, is it normal for divorce to be heard and the Duchess to be stuck in the country?’
Is this a situation where the duke is so calm that he misunderstands?
“……Did you get married and the duke was too indifferent?”
“…Has the rumor spread to the South? The Duke will hate it even more.”
“No, it’s not like that… And you hate your wife just because the rumor spread?”
“Well… it’s just that our distant ancestors were close, but in reality, the Duke and I are of different rank.”
Maewin looked out the window. Over the past few months, her cheeks have become noticeably pale.
It seemed like he had gone through a lot of trouble at the duke’s residence.
“It’s a different level.”
“That’s true. The duke was always upset because I didn’t fit into the dukedom.”
“Isn’t that just how you perceive the cold expression on your face?”
“Hehe, I hope that’s the case.”
“…….”
“But… I guess not. You only did it because you said marriage was necessary, and you also directly told me not to expect anything more.”
No, why did you say that?
“But he actually said that divorce was not possible. I thought he was very uncomfortable, so I told him, but he got very angry.”
You really have a strange personality.
Of course, the strange speaking style of the northern dukes shined through in many of the novels I read.
There was a northern duke who couldn’t forgive himself after his wife said she was sick on the first night, so he stormed out of the bedroom and refused to sleep with her again. He was grateful for the food she made, but he said it was okay not to go through any trouble. There was also a northern duke who expressed, “Don’t bring anything like this again.”
Usually, when the female lead gets tired of this way of speaking and leaves, or tries to regress and lose her affection, the male lead turns into a regretful male lead.
Although this world is not a novel, there is a possibility that it could develop like that.
“Is that why you came out?”
“Yes. I thought something would change when I came out, but nothing much changed. I had a hard time… but thanks to the help of the people in this village, I was able to go out and dig up herbs.”
Mawin smiled while saying that, but his outstretched hands were covered in blisters.
This is the standard development of a male protagonist who regrets being a complete piece of shit.
It’s not that I don’t like you completely, but I can’t divorce you, but I end up regretting it because we’re growing apart, and I end up becoming a foot-wipe for the woman I met again.
‘If it’s a novel.’
okay. That is, if it is a novel.
But I think this way.
It’s not a novel, but in reality, should we really accept a shit car that we regret?
“Duchess Brudel. No, Lady Merwyn.”
“yes?”
I said, holding Maewyn’s hand tightly.
“Let’s go to the capital together!”
