Alusha: Contractual Marriage That Saves The Country - Chapter 5

When Alusha opened her eyes, it was dawn, with a deep blue light engulfing the sky. No, it may be running towards the night. But it was good.

I thought the days when I cried every time I opened my eyes were over, but somehow I ran away from that terrible hell and came safely to Kalad, and now I was relieved, so I wept again.

I couldn’t breathe, I was short of breath as if water was filling from deep my lungs.

Mother, father, sister, and Bianca.

Bianca, my child.

After muttering Bianca’s name again and again, her goal became clear again.

Putting a knife in the neck of Kipril, the lunatic emperor who killed Bianca. There was nothing else I wanted.

I don’t know why the time has gone back.

She quietly cleared up her thoughts as she gazed at the unfamiliar ceiling of the Duke of Caspian.

Same time.

Duke Kalad Caspian woke up feeling the ground was shaking.

Earthquake?

Looking out the window, it was still dark and the moonlight was visible from the top of his head.

Is it about 1 or 2 a.m?

But the house was still, and there was no sign of someone waking up.

Recently, a strange guest came to his house and he became sensitive, so he may have felt it strongly even though it was a minor earthquake.

Kalad sat on the bed thinking that way.

At that time, his feet shook once again. He felt his head spinning.

It’s a pretty big earthquake.

As he hurried out to the lobby in his pajamas, the butler ran out with all his hair all over the place.

“Master, what’s going on? An earthquake?”

“……Well. You shouldn’t worry about earthquakes, you should worry about the cause of the earthquake.”

Just as he said so, usually strong vibrations that last quite a long time were not caused by trivial events such as detonating explosives or the appearance of monsters.

At that moment, the voice of a blonde woman saying, ‘The Galen Volcano is going to erupt’ hit his head and passed.

I’m really starting to think strange things.

Kalad laughed at himself and looked for his aide.

The foundation of the buildings and security for the safety of the residents was firmly established.

With some soldiers, he climbed the northern wall and looked back to see if there were any attacks by the northern barbarians or animals that were involved in the chaos.

It was a pretty big earthquake, but there seems to be no significant damage.

As he looked on the walls he saw Remetron looked peaceful as usual.

The only difference was that all the lights were on in all kinds of houses at night, as the first dawn had not yet even reached.

He felt that he had checked all the places to look around, so he went down the wall again, and it was that moment.

“What the hell is that…..?”

Chet pointed at the air beyond Remetron with his fingertips. Even in the middle of the night, they could see the sky sprinkled with ash.

What the hell is that?

Kalad frowned as he looked and received the telescope that Chet handed over.

“……It’s the volcano.”

It seemed unbelievable to him even though he already said it himself.

It was in Galen’s direction.

Kalad who felt like he was possesed to return to the duke’s residence, strode to his room.

The woman who gave him the trouble he had never had before was sleeping well.

She sometimes made a groaning sound and sweated, but it seemed that her condition was getting better than it was the first time.

However, the maid was applying medicine to the wounds on her face and body. So he couldn’t confirm and check it properly except for her eyes, nose, and mouth.

The maid, Cathy, saw him and stepped back. She was an orphan, and someone adopted and raised her.

“She’s still sleeping?”

“……Yes.”

“What did the doctor say?”

“It’s no different from what you’ve heard. He prescribed medicine then left…… And, the priest said the spirit was strange and used divine art. He said she’d wake up within this week.”

“……I’m going crazy. Try to wake her up.”

No matter how crazy she was, he was reluctant to touch her body directly.

Cathy, understanding what Kalad was feeling, shook the blonde woman’s body lightly.

However, even when she waved her body or told her to get up, the woman didn’t seem to have any signs of waking up

After trying a few more times, Cathy shook her head.

“…… I see. Call me when she wakes up.”

Cathy seemed to have something else to say, but Kalad went out of the room, lost in other thoughts.

I’m at a loss for words.

Volcanic eruptions have not even been predicted by leading scholars. How the hell did she know?

Kalad frowned.

What if the other two cases she mentioned also happen?

Then……

Do I need to believe her?

That the woman is living her fifth or sixth life?

Or that she’s the damn princess?

Both stories were absurd.

Thinking about it, he leaned against the window and saw a horse running from far away. It had a red flag which meant urgency.

It must be a request for support to mobilize mercenaries and residents in the disaster area.

Yeah, let’s put off the ridiculous thoughts later.

For now, the first thing to prioritize is to address the support request that came from Galen.

***

Volcanic ash formed black columns up to the sky. The strange column of ash, which seems to have come from the devil, luckily it fell to Hortuac because of the wind.

However the roofs and the amount of gray debris sitting on top of the livestock were enormous, making it seem as if there was black snow.

Although the ash did not come toward the Kalad estate, the temperature dropped sharply due to its effects and caused the public sentiment to fluctuate. There were many things to care about.

It isn’t that difficult to gather people for support, as long as they promise an appropriate salary.

The trust of the Duchy people in the Caspian family was very strong. He was a duke who protected the territory from northerners for many years.

It didn’t matter how much Kalad was acting like a dog of Hortuac, it was only the outsiders who spat and threw stones at him.

They thought that the Duke of Caspian might have something in his mind, so they quietly followed Kalad’s instructions.

Meanwhile, the emperor’s messenger visited.

Kalad felt strange. Soon the messenger began to carry the emperor’s edict.

[Listen people

Jim has been working day and night worrying about you, who have become the new people of Hortuac.

(N/T: Jim 짐, referring to oneself as a king.)

It breaks my heart that the empire had to collect high taxes to recover the land that has been devastated by the conquest of war.

Therefore, we want to give the people who served Hortuac the opportunity to receive the same treatment as the people of Hortuac.

For those who convert to the Saibana Religion, learn the Hortuac script, and pass the examination of the temple will be certified as “civilized” so that they can be treated as one of Hortuac’s people.]

I felt like I had been hit on the head.

Because it’s an edict that comes from time to time she can hit it to a certain extent, but to predict the exact timing and exact content?

Furthermore, the emperor has only taken hard-line policies so far, and this is the first time he has attempted such a conciliatory policy.

How on earth could she predict the arrival date and content of the Emperor’s edict?

When Kalad wrinkled his forehead as he felt lost and didn’t know what to do, the messenger in front of him frowned.

“What’s wrong with your face?”

A messenger was complaining about the Duke’s expression.

The Duke of Caspian smiled bitterly and shook his head.

“I don’t know what my expression was like. But I thought that it was a good opportunity for our people, and I am very grateful for His Majesty the Emperor’s grace. I will declare it well, so don’t worry and go back.”

The messenger looked up at him with a contemptuous glance and turned away.

Chet, who was next to him, was seen angrily clutching his fist tightly.

“Chet, I told you not to worry about it.”

“……But, your grace.”

“More than that, there’s another case that needs to be taken care of now.”

“What?”

When I felt that I was coming to my senses, the messenger finally stepped down and Cathy was seen passing through the open door. He called Cathy and asked.

“Cathy, is she awake?”

Cathy shook her head horizontally.

“……She’s sleeping for a really long time.”

“But I think she’ll wake up by today. That’s what the doctor said.”

“I see.”

“That……”

Kathy opened her mouth as if she had something to say.

“Do you have anything to say to me?”

Cathy shook her head as if she had stopped trying to say something.

“When she wakes up, bring her to where I am. But call me if she doesn’t have the strength to walk.”

“Yes, your grace.”

The first was a huge event that no one could manipulate. But isn’t it just one kind of natural disaster? It may be that it succeeded with the predictions due to unknown calculations.

However, the emperor’s edict was a little different.

The content was so unpredictable. As far as the emperor’s attitude was concerned, the contents of the edict were close to a whim.