"Here you are, Duke."
It was clear that Leonis had told him to send someone to prepare first. All the Duke's employees were bowing in a row.
Leonis approached as the servant opened the door of the carriage. As I came down from the low carriage holding his hand out, people of the dukedom were seen staring.
There were no big enough people to stare openly. I just peek with a cautious eye.
The marriage to Celia Montague was compulsory, and at the end of the wedding, it was nothing short of ruin. Is that all? In the end, the duke was forced to follow the beast.
They're probably judging that Celia would feel bad. I'm sure that you almost hate the Duke.
But I thought Celia's affection was necessary.
The invasion of the Duke and the injury of the man were handled by the Knights Line, but the attack of the beast was done by a mage.
Because of this, the damage was great, and I thought Leonis, the main character, deserved to step up.
It may be regrettable that the wedding was like that, but people's lives were more important than weddings.
It wouldn't have been such a fun wedding for Celia anyway.
As a friendly person, it was a wedding that I wanted to finish quickly because I wasn't feeling well. I didn't know Leonis would take me to the battlefield.
Perhaps because Celia wasn't being picky, or because she was married to Leonis, Cardian's knights were favorable to her.
Leonis himself was being nice to Celia.
"Oops."
As soon as Leonis stepped on the last step of the carriage, he held Celia in his arms. Surprised Celia looked at him, but Leonis headed for the mansion with a look of no concern.
"What about the new guy?"
"Here we are. Shall we call them in?"
Leonis seemed pleased with the butler's answer.
"Yeah, I'm weak, too, but I think I've been hurt by a long carriage trip."
The butler would have immediately understood whose body was weak. Celia wondered if the duke's employees would know she had fainted at the wedding.
The wedding was held in the capital, but as the Duke prepared for the wedding, it was likely that the Duke moved a large number of employees of his nature.
"I see."
The butler ordered one of the servants to bring in a new officer. In the meantime, Leonis went upstairs with Celia in his arms.
The wedding was held, but there was no honeymoon scheduled for them. It was because Leonis was forced to marry Celia and moved up the wedding.
As soon as the ceremony was held, he was to enter the Duke's residence. The Duchess' room was ready for human entry at any time.
The servant who followed opened the Duchess' visit. It was a colorful room with bright sunlight pouring through large windows.
Leonis strode across the room to bed, hugging Celia. Celia looked at the four-stock bed with a white lace curtain.
It was the first time she'd ever had such a big room, such a fancy bed.
At least in his previous life as a sweetheart.
Leonis gently put Celia down in the middle of the bed and looked around. Perhaps rushed to the room at the urging of the servant, the priest came into the room holding his breath.
"Duke, duchess, congratulations on your wedding."
Leonis nodded briefly at the priest's words. As he stepped aside, the new building approached the bed where Celia was sitting.
He looked at Celia's complexion and seemed to hold her hand and look at her energy with holy power.
"You've been treated well. I think you're a little tired...… and if you rest well, you'll recover quickly."
"How long, specifically, will it take to recover?"
When Leonis asked like this, the priest seemed to be embarrassed.
"Get plenty of nutrition and sleep for more than eight hours...… you'll recover in three or four weeks if you take a walk or something."
"Three, four weeks…….”
Leonis murmured with a troubled face, and Celia was ashamed for some reason. I thought I knew what was going on to gauge that number.
Leonis looked at the new building with a frown.
"Then can I substitute exercise for something other than a walk? Like sex……."
"Ahhhh!"
Celia, who was listening, couldn't resist and screamed. The duke's people looked at Celia in surprise, but the first thing they did was to stare at Leonis with Celia's face wide open.
Leonis smiled oddly as if he had guessed why. Celia's face was indifferent to putting strength on her eyes and staring at Leonis.
However, since the priest was near Leonis, he seemed to understand what he said. He was looking at Celia and Leonis with a vague expression.
"……The Duchess must have been surprised to see a bad bug. I think you should take a rest, so you'd better go away."
"You mean the worm?"
The butler looked around as if he didn't understand, but Leonis looked straight at Celia. The smile made Celia's face even redder.
Anyway, as the Duke ordered, the employees of the mansion hurried out of the room. Leonis also kissed Celia on the forehead and left.
'You're not going to the priest to ask for the old one, are you?'
Celia, who was left in bed alone, agonized over it, but couldn't keep up with him. Above all, I was so tired. I think I've been sleeping in the carriage, but I can't believe I'm so sleepy again.…
'I don't know. I'll have to live first.’
Celia pulled the soft blanket up to her neck and slept.
* * *
The priest rolled his eyes embarrassedly, but eventually gave the Duke the answer he wanted.
"Slightly sweaty...… if it's exercise, it'll be fine. Well, if it's in bed, maybe two or three times...….”
2 or 3 times...….
He was frustrated, but he thought it was better than not being able to do it at all. It's not like Celia's stamina isn't fully recovered.
Leonis returned the discerning priest and returned to the Duchess' bedroom. It didn't take that long, but Celia was already asleep.
'You look easygoing.’
It's always seemed that way for a forced marriage to an unwanted man. Although the fly complexion at the wedding hall poisoned her, it was surprising that she had done so since she opened her eyes.
He wasn't afraid of him coming right up to me after the battle with the queen ant.
'I felt like I was about to die. Has it changed since you came back to life?’
Betrayed by her trusted ex-fiance, she would have abandoned some of her lingering feelings. It was not uncommon for a dead person to change his mind.
Maybe he met him at the wedding and changed his mind.
'It's a good thing for me.’
However, it was doubtful whether such a figure of Celia would be a trick. Forced away from the man she liked and forced to marry, he must be a hateful man for Celia.
Leonis's push for her marriage was only for his own benefit, not for Celia's.
But it was inevitable even for him.
It was not unusual to procure goods or people to kill every day. If you break it for a day, you may kill everyone around you, so you're not in a position to look after others.
He shrugged off the relationship between Celia and Fabien in the first place. It was thought that the engagement relationship was surprisingly well-matched rather than love.
He didn't expect Celia to poison herself.
He intended to coax Celia in some way once she had been tied to him by marriage.
His possession, the Duke of Cardian, thought it was possible because he had wealth in second-hand power over the emperor.
'I didn't feel comfortable, but....’
It was fortunate that Celia did not die from the poison she drank then. If she died and couldn't make it to the wedding, so only his men would lead him out on the hunt...…. Something terrible would have happened.
'I am grateful for the return of heart right now and I have no choice but to please her as much as I can.’
Even if her attitude now is all a play.
* * *
"The monster finally took the bride with him back?”
Michael put down the telegram as if it were intrusive.
The beast sent to Asylus was the work of a wizard he owned. Michael did not want Leonis to marry and have children of his next generation. The curse of blood had to return to the royal family.
"Such a cheeky Cardian."….’
The Duke of Cardian was a family founded by the younger brother of the previous emperor. To be exact, it was one of a number of "gifts" received in exchange for the "curse of blood".
As a result, the Cardians had power equal to the imperial family and wealth greater than the imperial family.
How dare a duke! A duke should never have power and wealth beyond the imperial family. If he had more, of course, he had to take it, trample it and suppress it.
But the current emperor was afraid that the curse of blood would be upon him.
That's why he didn't like Leonis, who was just his cousin's nephew, but eventually raised his hand.
He's afraid the curse of blood will come back to him.
If Leonis dies without seeing his child, it was likely to be the case. And Michael was wanting it, too. He was the First Prince, but the Empress secretly gave birth to him through other people and friendship.
'You have to thank your mother for her prudence.’
Grace, the empress, always chose someone with the same hair color and the same eye color as the emperor whenever she chose her lover. He always used birth control rings when he was involved, just in case.
The 'what if' actually happened, and Grace cried as soon as she realized him and sent an assassin to his beloved lover.
Because no one should have known that Michael was a child of an affair except himself. Perhaps the father died without knowing who sent the assassin.
So Michael was free from the 'blood curse' that descended on the imperial family.
Despite the emperor's numerous concubines, there were only four children. Of them, there were three princes. The emperor did not declare any of them the crown prince.
The emperor thought the ability of the three princes was calm.
If any of them had the support of the Cardians, they might have become Crown Prince, but that did not happen.
Leonis, Duke of Cardian, took a step back from the battle for the throne with his eyes on power.
At least the only thing he's been interested in lately was the Marquis of Montague's Celia.
The Marquis of Montague was a man who sided with the Second Prince.
He doesn't know why Leonis wanted Celia, but only the union of the Cardians and the Montague family had to be prevented.
It didn't stop the marriage, but it set a trap and instigated Leonis' madness. Having heard that Celia Montague had been taken to the battlefield, Celia must have detested Leonis by now.
'The best thing would have been for Leonis to kill that Montague girl...What a shame.'
If it did, the Marquis of Montague would have gone berserk. Even if the Second Prince condoned it, it was obvious that other high-ranking nobles involved in the Second Prince would have complained.
It could have caused the aristocracy supporting the second prince to split, but he felt sorry.
But the opportunity wasn't just this time, and he hadn't figured out why Leonis called for Celia Montague yet.
It is known that Leonis had a crush on Celia at a glance, but not many believed the nonsense.
It was none other than the work of the killer Leonis Cardian.
If Leonis was actually into Celia, it was interesting in its own way. He was about to need a leash to tighten the maniac killer's breath.
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