Chapter 26 - The Monster Duke Mistook Me for His Wife
Translated by Arnlian
Edited by Arnlian
“… Alright, alright. I get it, so stop now.”
Harris covered his ears. Dillian brags about his lover with a stupid face, it was so hard to hear anymore.
“You got it, right? I will have a happy family with Miss Ria.”
“But Miss Ria doesn’t want to.”
“It’s because she’s shy. She’s such a fool-like, kind, and sweet woman.”
No, she really hated it though…
‘Sir Dillian’s bull. No, nonsense or everything just ignore it. He doesn’t remember anything now, so he has a strange misunderstanding.’
If I refused and said no to it, he was on the verge of kneeling.
The polar reaction. It’s like, he got brainwashed.
‘Perhaps, something happened to him in Wilhelm?’
Like dark magic, what if he got brainwashed by mental magic?
It was nonsense, but Dillian’s behavior was strange enough for me to have such doubts.
Otherwise, a cold and indifferent person cannot change this much.
“You, is there anything strange about you? On your head or on your heart, are you feeling a sense of difference?”
“I can guarantee that this is the best time in my life.”
“What do you mean it’s the best even though you don’t have memories?”
“That’s what I’m saying.”
He takes jokes too. Hmm, sure it’s weird.
Harris grabbed Dillian by the shoulder and put his divine power.
Zap-!
Harris clicked his tongue at the splashing spark.
“Of course, it’s not working.”
“What?”
“I was wondering if you were caught by something.”
Harris shook off his prickly hand.
‘It’s still the same.’
A body that can’t receive divine power, is troubling.
“You, do you know that you can’t receive divine power?”
“I can’t receive it?”
“Yeah.”
Isn’t Divine power omnipotent?
Unlike healing magic, which requires a high degree of mental strength and skill, divine power has no unique restrictions for treating a person.
If you have divine power, it’s easy to use if you know how to apply it.
Of course if you use divine power that exceeds your body standard, your life might be at risk, so, such serious illness is taken care of by the high priests.
They can save even someone who is about to die.
However, it could not help them, the people with high divine resistance.
Dillian is that person with greatly high divine resistance.
“Until now, you’ve never received divine power. Not once.”
It’s been like that since birth. So he didn’t get the usual blessing like other people.
Instead, a curse grew on him.
Dillian’s face was tinged with confusion at the truth he heard for the first time.
“That woman must have a hard time. Because she has to treat you with pure medicine.”
Medicine? No. The one that Ria uses is divine power for sure.
“What if I can receive divine power?”
“There’s no way. You always push the divine power away, you never accept it.”
It’s not just a saying. I said it because I knew the precedent.
Harris added while shaking his head.
“You said that you forgot that you had a curse, right? In that situation, it’s a relief that you didn’t get Runaway.”
“I did.”
“What?”
“I did, twice.”
He doesn’t remember the first time, but the second time, obviously was a Runaway.
Harris was also confused by the unexpected answer.
“But how can…”
How can this village be so peaceful?
Dillian’s Runaway devours everything, swallowing everything greedily. It doesn’t matter whether it’s an animal, a plant, or even a human.
It’s swallow and swallow until satisfied.
But for that to happen, this village was perfectly normal and peaceful.
“Dillian. You, is there…”
Bang!
Surprised by the door that opened roughly as if it were to break, the two people turned their heads.
“Miss Ria?”
Ria’s heart thumping heavily. Her shoulder trembled as if it were on the verge of collapsing.
“Dillian…”
Ria, who was bowing her head, raised it and called his name.
Her voice was so moist as if she were about to cry.
And at the time he met the eyes as clear as glass beads.
Dillian forgot how to breathe.
He feels like he is falling into a lake where there is no end in sight, it’s an intuition that no matter how much he dives, he won’t be able to get out.
Being swayed by the unfamiliar sense, he ran as his instinct told him to and hugged Ria’s slender shoulders.
Dillian drew Ria slowly and locked her in his arms.
Ria, who would normally have fled in a panicked state, was quietly hugged in his arms, trembling.
Ria’s fresh and soft unique scent stimulated him constantly.
Dillian raised his hand, resisting the urge to bury his face in Ria’s neck.
Patt, patt. He patted her back carefully.
Like a newborn deer learning how to walk, he soothed someone for the first time.
With the most awkward gesture.
‘Nathan would do better.’
It was such a clumsy act, for him to have self-mocking thoughts.
Dillian wasn’t the only one feeling complicated.
Harris held his breath at the strange sight of Dillian he saw for the first time.
‘That is Dillian? That’s not a monster with a flipped over shell…?’
Dillian, whom Harris knows is a destructive person who ruins everything, not someone who takes care of it.
What’s more, that tender atmosphere. The two looked like lovers to anyone.
Harris, who is between the unruly two, decided to take a step back and watch them.