I Wish My Husband Were Dead - Chapter 144



Only Noblemtl

Hello, My Daughter
2024.03.23.

Nazabut, who had been stained with caution, checked Cordelia’s face and smiled. Since she was wearing Lydia’s face, her smile was very strange.

“Cordelia! You came all the way here.

I’m so happy.” “It’s been a while.”

Cordelia received his greeting calmly. Nazabut did not approach Cordelia hastily, perhaps noticing that her attitude had completely changed.

“Where have you been? I found you.”

“I was busy preparing for the wedding.”

“Wedding? Marrying? With who?”

“With Leonard. Lydia, please come and congratulate me.”

Nazabut’s mouth twitched. His eyes were the same as before, but his lips kept losing their place and moving here and there. He could not control his strangely moving mouth, and finally opened his lips.

“Ha, ha. Who, ha. As you please?”

“Why? Lydia is Leonard’s old friend. I thought she would at least congratulate him on his wedding.”

Cordelia continued to stare at Nazabut with her eyes downcast. Nazabut twisted his body even more. It seemed as if he had lost complete control of his body.

Cordelia stared at him for a long time, holding her breath. From a distance, she saw the gray-haired man getting closer.

“Chu, congratulations? How dare you congratulate me? How can you! You!”

Nazabut stamped his foot and roared. Nazabut’s originally low voice gradually cracked, and Lydia’s soft and refreshing voice came out a little at the end.

Cordelia instinctively realized that she had to provoke her more here. She deliberately touched her lower abdomen and said calmly,

“If we have a child, won’t Lydia be our child’s godmother? I think I’ll feel so relieved.”

“A child? A child?”

Now she could hear two voices together. Nazabut turned his gaze to Cordelia’s lower abdomen with a fierce and vicious look.

“Kill me, I’ll kill you. I’ll kill you!”

Flames rose up around Nazabut. Cordelia calmly spread her cloak and covered her face. The cloak was enchanted, so it didn’t even get scorched by the flames.

Cordelia felt all her magical powers being deployed with just one breath. She had learned and come to know many things since making a contract with Servette’s shadow, but it was still amazing that she could use the magic she wanted so naturally, as if she was breathing.

‘Is this why everyone wants to make a contract with the devil?’

The fireball Nazabut threw flew toward Cordelia with a threatening sound. Cordelia rubbed her palms together to condense her magical power, then spread them apart. A snake-shaped water pillar appeared between her palms.

“Die!”

Just before the fireball could reach her, the water pillar quickly enveloped Cordelia and protected her. After that, he repeated the same thing several times, but he didn’t touch even one of Cordelia’s fingers.

Nazabut wasn’t surprised at the sight. He just smiled with an incomprehensible smile.

“It seems you made a contract with the devil. In the end, you’re just like me.”

“Just the same. Lydia and I are completely different. Your talent and my talent are incomparable.”

That certainly seemed to have provoked Nazabut. Nazabut’s right eye turned blue. Cordelia braced her stomach and shouted.

“Now!”

Loti, who had been waiting for her chance from a little distance, jumped up with all her might. She jumped so high that it was hard to believe she was human.

Loti held a black dagger tightly and stabbed Nazabut in the back.

“Keuk!”

Fortunately, Loti’s one hit went through. The dagger was firmly embedded in the center of Nazabut’s back. Then, the devil trembled as if he was having a seizure.

It was a fatal wound, but Cordelia and Lottie didn’t expect the demon to die from this. So instead of retrieving the dagger, Lottie approached Cordelia.

“It seems the magic that separates the demon and the host is still effective.”

“Yes. It seems that Lady Matilda is doing a good job. Judging from the fact that Lydia’s voice and eyes appeared after just a few words.”

“Good job. Lady Servette’s shadow will arrive soon. We just have to buy some time until then.”

“Wouldn’t Lydia’s mind come back if we provoke her more?”

“Well. Since she’s completely conscious, provoking her more won’t help the host’s mind rise from the bottom.”

“Yes. That’s right.”

She knew it, but when Nazabut reacted so much that one of her eyes turned blue, she had expected it.

To be honest, she didn’t really care about Lydia dying now. However, Cordelia wanted to have one last, heart-warming conversation with Lydia. All this resentment was not resolved by a few malicious words from Rosenblu.

The conversation ended here. Despite the dagger in the middle of his back, Nazabut’s smile was still fresh. He straightened his back again and extended his claws, his specialty.

“I will tear you to pieces and swallow you piece by piece.”

“With that skill?”

This time, Cordelia made the first move. In the past, she had been panting because it was difficult to use even one defensive spell, but now she felt her lungs filled with magic power as she raised both hands. As she exhaled, she rained down a divine punishment on the demon’s head.

Lightning poured down from the cloudless sky.

Of course, Nazabut did not take it lightly. He dodged the lightning and swung his claws at Cordelia and Lotty. Before, they were simply sharp weapons, but now, any living thing that touched the tip of the claws quickly corroded.

“Poison.”

Lotty noticed it first and told Cordelia.

Cordelia, risking the dangerous situation, concentrated once again and gathered her magic power, and then she saw a group of knights approaching from afar. This area was dangerous because Cordelia kept dropping lightning.

“Don’t come near!”

Cordelia shouted at them loudly, but the knights hesitated for a moment and then bravely walked toward the hill where the lightning was striking.

“This is driving me crazy.”

In the end, Cordelia stopped her magic because she couldn’t hurt a tough person. Nazabut rushed to Loti as soon as the lightning stopped.

Loti, who had been granted power by Servette, had become stronger than when he was a dog, and was now able to match Nazabut’s strength.

“It’s Ingrion.”

The knights who were getting closer had delicately drawn peonies and birds on their shoulder blades, so she could tell right away where they belonged.

It was the House of Beluche. Cordelia frowned involuntarily. She remembered clearly how she had parted ways with them in the end.

“I came to help.”

“You’re helping me by staying away from here.”

Cordelia tried to be as kind as possible, but it didn’t work out very well. The brown-haired knight standing first twitched his eyebrows, perhaps noticing the annoyance in his tone.

“Please don’t ignore our goodwill.”

“What I mean is, ha. Leonard, didn’t you hear from Elector Attila? We’re currently in the process of corralling the demons.”

“I heard that the Elector has arrived.”

It was just that they came to the place where lightning was striking. Cordelia grabbed her throbbing head and spoke to the knight.

“I fully understand your goodwill. But please leave this place to me and focus your efforts elsewhere.”

“No. We’ll help you too.” This is driving me crazy.

Seriously.

In order to tie up Nazabut’s feet, you had to use the constant lightning to corral him, but it wasn’t easy to do that while protecting more than ten knights at the same time.

Behind him, Marquis Ingrion stood majestically on his black horse. Next to him, the Saracen Elector was frowning and saying something.

Only then did Cordelia realize why the Marquis had sent knights without even asking for them.

‘Even on the battlefield, political troops.’

It was obvious that Cordelia was trying to quickly add a spoon, as she felt that Nazabut was being led. If he failed here, it would be Cordelia’s fault, and if he succeeded, he would definitely ask to drink together.

“Okay. Then do as you wish.”

After confirming the Marquis’ intention, Cordelia steeled herself and rubbed her palms hard again. This time, five snakes simultaneously emerged from the space between her palms.

“Loti!”

Just by calling her name, Loti knew what she wanted. He stepped aside and made way for her. The five snakes rushed toward Nazabut along the path.

“For nothing!”

The five snakes wrapped around his body. Nazabut snorted and shook his arms to shake them off. But the snakes clung tenaciously to Nazabut again, stopping his steps.

The sky was quickly becoming cloudy.

Cordelia realized what the signal was and quickly retreated. She also called out to the knights standing on one side, hesitating.

“Run! Hurry!”

Lottie was already far away. Cordelia did not warn them twice. When she too ran in the opposite direction, leaving Nazabut behind, the remaining knights hesitated, and soon several of them chased after Cordelia.

In an instant, the sky darkened and a loud noise that seemed to split the world apart rang out. But this was only the beginning.