I Wish My Husband Were Dead - Chapter 146



Only Noblemtl

Hello, My Daughter
2024.03.25.

The pale face of Rosenblu, who had fallen to the floor, was the first thing that caught my eye. His lips were so pale that I feared he might be dead.

Leonard bent down and put his fingers on his neck. Fortunately, his pulse was still there.

“Baron.”

Although his voice was not loud, Baron quickly approached his master as if he had been waiting for him.

“Move Rosenblu to the back. He seems to have been poisoned.”

“Yes. I understand. And be careful.”

“Take care of yourself.”

Leonard answered curtly and passed him. Then he stood in front of Nazabut, who was trembling with her back bent.

“Lydia Elfenbaum. Can you hear me?”

“… … .”

“It doesn’t matter if you can’t hear me. I don’t want to talk to you anyway. Just listen.”

“… … .”

“You said you loved me. You said that if you could be my wife, you wouldn’t need love, wouldn’t have to stay home, and wouldn’t even mind having a lover. At first, I thought I understood you. When Cordelia pushed me away, I thought that as long as she was by my side, it was okay not to love me back.”

Nazabut very slowly raised her waist. Lydia’s face, which had always been beautiful, had been filled with evil at some point. Now, only anger and hatred remained on that face. Leonard continued.

“But when I thought about it, it wasn’t true. Would I really be happy if I had Cordelia’s shell? Would Cordelia, who was chained to me, be happy? Maybe if Cordelia had rejected me all the way, I might have backed down.”

“… … Love?”

“That’s when I realized. You didn’t love me. What you were doing wasn’t love. It was just obsession.”

“Shut up.”

Nazabut’s eyes were now completely blue. Leonard laughed at him openly.

“You were just a selfish, selfish woman. “I was a fool who couldn’t let go of what I didn’t have and ended up throwing my own body into the pit of hell.”

“Shut up!”

Nazabut swung his last claw sharply. Leonard easily dodged it by tilting his head back.

“It’s because of you. It’s all your fault that I summoned the devil! I didn’t love you! My life is a mess because of you. If only it weren’t for you, if only I hadn’t loved you!”

Nazabut screamed. It sounded like a sob at the end. He waved his long, sharp claw wildly, his movements much slower than usual.

Instead of fighting back, Leonard just watched his struggle from a distance.

“Look at what you did, Lydia Elfenbaum.”

“It’s because of you. If you hadn’t chosen Cordelia. If you hadn’t introduced her to me.”

“And now you’ve killed your own brother with your own hands.”

“No. No. It’s all mine, no!”

Although Rosenblu’s breath had not stopped, Leonard’s words seemed quite useful in shaking Nazabut’s mind. Nazabut held her head tightly with both hands and shook it up and down. It seemed as if she was trying to shake off Lydia, or rather Nazabut, who was occupying her mind.

Despite her relaxed appearance, Leonard could not completely hide his nervousness. He kept looking in that direction as he trampled Nazabut’s black shadow that occasionally flew towards Cordelia.

Fortunately, the other wizards arrived just in time.

“Cordelia!”

Kanon was the first to notice her and ran over happily, but was stopped by Matilda.

“Be quiet. The child is concentrating right now.”

“Kanon. Matilda.”

Cordelia smiled at the sight of the two. However, her pale expression and sweat pouring down her forehead only made her look pitiful.

“Oh my. Our Cordelia’s face has become half-white.”

“Stop talking nonsense, back!”

Matilda shouted while looking behind Kanon. Kanon didn’t look back and clenched his fist hard, cutting off the shadow’s head.

“Huh. I thought we were going to hold a funeral here.”

“I should hold your own funeral before I go.”

Kanon chuckled and laughed heartily.

Several shadows circled around Cordelia after that, but Matilda, Kanon, and even Beluce stood guard and blocked them. It was quite sturdy, so Cordelia was able to focus on drawing her magic circle.

“We’re ready.”

“Already?”

We’ll stay by your side, and you’re the most important.”

“Almost. Phew. It’s done.”

Just because you can see magic doesn’t mean it will come out the way you want.

The more tightly the net became entangled, the more Cordelia’s concentration increased, because she had to calculate and distribute the magical power and draw it carefully, and if she drew even one line wrong, she had to start over from the beginning. She could barely hear Kanon and Matilda’s voices behind her.

The end was in sight.

A magic circle so dense and large that it was hard to believe it even I had done it, covered the sky. It probably would have been difficult to achieve this if I hadn’t made a contract with Servette.

“I’m ready.”

She finally drew the last line. Cordelia looked back and forth between Kanon and Matilda, holding her pounding heart tightly. If everything went as planned, it wouldn’t be difficult to seal Nazabut and protect the world.

“You did this alone. I really want to steal it away to Diduacel. Even that great guy Blay wasn’t at your level when he was twenty.”

Kanon muttered. Cordelia laughed, holding back the breath she had been holding back. He tried to pat her shoulder as if he was proud, but his expression hardened when he saw something. Following Kanon’s gaze, Cordelia let out a scream.

“Master!”

Nazabut’s long claws pierced Leonard’s back. Cordelia was so surprised that she tried to run to him, but was caught by Kanon.

“Wait, Cordelia. No! We have to start now. If not now, it’s all over.”

“But Master, Master!”

“He’s not a guy who can handle that. So for now, we have to focus on sealing that demon.”

“I’ll go.”

Beluche, who had been quietly standing behind her, stepped forward. Cordelia swallowed dryly and barely nodded.

Kanon sent a signal to the magicians behind him. A single ray of light rose into the sky. It was a weak light that seemed like it would die out at any moment, but as it touched Cordelia’s magic circle that filled the sky, it gained strength and began to emit light.

“Cordelia.”

“I’ll focus.”

Kanon, who noticed that her eyes kept going to Leonard, grabbed her shoulder tightly. Cordelia completely closed her eyes. Otherwise, her mind would be distracted and she wouldn’t be able to concentrate properly.

‘That’s right. There’s no way that Master can be defeated by him.’

As she began to perform the magic in earnest, a huge amount of magic power began to be sucked in. Although it was invisible to the eyes of ordinary people, the sky distorted slightly.

Cordelia swayed involuntarily because she needed more magic power than she had expected.

‘I can do it. I can do it.’

She closed her eyes and clenched her molars hard.

It wasn’t as painful as the magic that Lottie had taught her before, but it consumed a tremendous amount of energy. Even after quite some time had passed, she hadn’t even filled half of the magic power needed to complete the magic circle.

“Cordelia. Keep your eyes closed and keep concentrating. Okay?”

“Yes. Okay. But is Master okay?”

“Then. Who is that guy? I, um. I’ll take a quick look around. Matilda will stay by your side.”

Kanon’s hand on her shoulder disappeared, and another warmth and voice touched Cordelia’s back.

“Cordelia. Don’t worry, I’m behind you.”

“Yes.”

“And I’m sorry for mistaking you for a demon. Gritta would never do something like that, but I made a hasty judgment.”

“Huh? How did Matilda-sama think of that?”

“Close your eyes and keep your ears open. I was investigating the collapse that happened twenty years ago. I thought it coincided with your birth, and Gritta made a contract with a demon and conceived a non-human child.”

“That was… … .”

“But it was all my misunderstanding. As you’ve heard, you’re the child of Elector Vasquez and Gritta. Remember that.”

“Why are you suddenly saying that?”

“I felt like I had to.”

With that, even Matilda’s hand on her back disappeared. Cordelia suddenly felt a surge of anxiety. She became even more anxious when she realized that the surroundings were too quiet.

But now she had only just filled half of the magic power needed for the magic circle.

She wanted to open her eyes.

She was so anxious because she didn’t know what was going on right now. Cordelia pressed hard enough that her fingernails left marks on her palms. She wanted to open her eyes right away and see what was happening, but she barely suppressed that desire.

She couldn’t mess up here.

Just a little more.

The surroundings became completely quiet. Cordelia knew that her body was slightly floating in the air, but she didn’t care.

She just focused all her strength on activating the magic circle. Even when she threw up so hard that her insides were squeezed and the pain hit her, she held back and didn’t open her eyes.

“Cordelia. It’s been a while.”

A voice she could never forget forced Cordelia to open her eyes.

“Lydia?”

“How are you? You’re marrying Leo?”

Lydia stood there, covered in blood.

Cordelia quickly looked around. Then she took a deep breath. Matilda, Kanon, and even Belluce, everyone she knew was lying on the ground, motionless.