I Became the Villain’s Wife - Chapter 66

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Translator: Lioness

“I… I, I am fine. Tashian. You came for me. I really don’t mind those words at all. It’s all… well ended and dealt, and there’s no pain anywhere! I …….”

Eun-woo groped her lips to the extent that she thought she looked like an idiot, and searched for words that could comfort Tashian.

“It was an unavoidable … accident that we parted ways! After all, you found me again, so I…”

Eun-woo felt her head was going crazy and caught Tashian’s intense gaze staring at her face. And she noticed that a completely different spark was flashing in his fierce eyes.

Eun-woo felt that Tashian’s chest that she touched was hot enough to burn despite the cloth blocking his skin. The feeling of tingling all the way to her neck convinced her that it was dyed red to the lobe of her ear. She felt like she wanted to hide in a hole if there was and run away.

However, the strange air current that flowed between them was finished due to Ikshid’s interference.

“It’s fine now. You can stop. Duke, you should calm down now. Let’s finish this job, look at that child’s hand. When this is all over…tsk, tsk. As soon as the wagon arrives, you should hurry back to the castle and receive treatment.”

As the prince said, Eun-woo felt the bitterness in her hand and gave up her impression of yes, and then watched him stroke her hand again and swallowed back her sigh.

However, at some point, the air between them, who had been waiting for the carriage with a more relaxed mind, turned cold in an instant.

Eun-woo frowned slightly at the appearance of a man caught in her sight. From a near distance, a tall man was slowly approaching in the direction where Ikshid was standing.

Short hair that was almost white, and a large scar on one of his eyes.

It was a man with short hair, which was close to white, and a large scar on one of his eyes. The two hollow cheeks made the dull grayish complexion look sharper than human skin. It was a strong impression that would be unforgettable once seen, as if a weasel looked like a human being.

Eun-woo asked himself, ‘Have I ever seen that man somewhere?’ She had no particular memory of him.

At the appearance of the man, Ikshid’s servants were a little confused.

Some soldiers of the Black Troops blocked the path of the gray-haired man who was approaching Ikshid.

“You can’t come any closer than this. Vice Chief Bascal.”

Then the man suddenly twisted the tip of his lips as if it was a hard procedure, without hiding his anger.

“Move.”

A man named Bascal responded with a command line to Ikshid’s minions, maintaining an arrogant attitude.

“You know why I am here. I have come to deliver the words of the chief.”

“However…….”

“The chief’s words are the calling of the Black Church. Even if he is the Crown Prince of the Empire, he knows well that he cannot go against the decision of the Senate.”

Bascal cut the crowds holding him back like a knife. At the infinitely straight and dignified voice, Ikshid’s subordinates looked at each other and hesitated.

Bascal’s gaze turned to the scattered rogues around him, and the bloodstains along the road, up until Karzxion, who seemed to have slaughtered a bear, and to the servants who were tidying the messy and rotten scene.

When his gaze fell on Eun-woo, who was covered in white clothes with red blood, he couldn’t hide his distasteful twitching eyebrows.

“What the hell is this……”

Eun-woo opened her eyes and watched him.

Now she vaguely remembered what kind of person he was. That white-haired man was certainly one of Reinhardt’s closest aides.

The man who did not hide his displeasure towards the noisy scene eventually slammed the minions with a sullen voice.

“You guys are eating up the chief’s time right now……! Hurry and move away!”

With the unrestrained momentum of the man with gray eyes, the subordinates who stood in the way of Ikshid slowly made their way through their unwillingness.

Eun-woo watched as Selena, who was next to Ikshid, looked at the crown prince’s face with a displeased expression, and then backed away together.

“Bascal.”

Ikshid greeted the chief aide with a frown as if he had a fishbone stuck in his throat.

“I’ve been seeing your face for over 10 years… but every time I see you, I’m always thrilled.”

Bascal twisted the tip of his lips to accept Ikshid’s words.

“I can only thank you for your consistent hospitality.”

His gaze turned to Ikshid’s overly glamorous red robe. His expression contorted as if Ikshid looked simply pathetic.

The two men of similar height but markedly different in age showed a sense of hostility, as if they had no intention of managing each other’s facial expressions.

Eun-woo took a step towards Tashian in the unusual atmosphere between the two of them.

Seeing Bascal who did not think of bowing his head in front of the Crown Prince of the country, even though he was not the chief himself, but only a Vice Chief who came to convey the Chief’s words, she recalled the authority Ikshid has.

Ikshid pretended to be relaxed and opened his mouth in a sarcastic voice.

“All right… What did the chief give me again today? Were you yelling at me that I came out to enjoy the festival without body pain like a child? Are you telling me to stop and come back to the Imperial Palace because I’m ashamed of the fuss here?”

“I can’t, Your Highness. The chief is more respectful to the blood of the royal family than anyone else.”

“Of course, I know, and I’ll see what kind of excuse you’re giving me this time to make my face ashamed.”

“Your Highness is now misunderstanding.”

Bascal, who never lost his reason despite the sarcastic tone of Ikshid, spoke with an arrogant voice.

“The chief always speaks only words of advice that are beneficial to you.”

Hearing these words, Ikshid stuck out his tongue as if exasperated.

“If you have something to say, tell me.”

Then, without even a second’s delay, Bascal put the request in his mouth.

“The chief is urgently asking for a face-to-face meeting with Your Highness. He is the one who asks you to return to the imperial castle immediately.

He cast his gaze towards Tashian, as if he was looking at a wild beast.

“He told me that you should come along with Sir Verk, who is standing over there.”

Eun-woo frowned slightly at the tone that seemed to say that Duke was lowly than him. He didn’t even use the title duke to refer to him.

Only the words were plausible, but in reality, it was close to an order to invite the prince and duke to the imperial castle. In that case, the tyranny of the chief, not only Ikshid, but also the faces of the subordinates who served him were dyed red.

“No matter how powerful the chief’s authority is, I didn’t know that it had reached a point where even the crown prince of a country could come and go.”

Ikshid said without hiding his displeasure. Then Bascal answered, raising one eyebrow.

“He has something to say about the festival and the competition for knights. We are bound by the responsibility of the Black Cathedral to protect the precious people, so I advise you to quickly get going now.”

Bascal added in a calm voice.

“I am only delivering the chief’s words. It will be up to you to judge.”

Even Eun-woo, who had not seen him a few times, couldn’t help but think that the appearance of passing the responsibility of the rest of the situation to Ikshid after delivering the chief’s nonsensical orders.

As soon as he heard Bascal’s words, Ikshid’s expression turned red like a person being dragged into the dark pit of hell. However, he only clenched his fists and controlled his anger in front of the chief’s agent.

Ikshid then beckoned and bit him in disgust.

“I’ve heard you well. But it would be better if you disappear from my sight now.”

“I’ll reserve a seat for the two of you and wait, then…”

As if Bascal had been waiting for Ikshid’s gesture, he got back on the horse he was riding on. Then he opened his eyes to the Black Troops behind Ikshid with a daunting look, and went away with a roaring sound of horseshoes.

As soon as Bascal disappeared, Ikshid spit on the ground like someone who had nothing to do with what he said, and kicked the dirt with his feet.

“Damn it…!”

A few members of the Black Troops, who saw it, took a step ahead and responded to Ikshid’s anger. However, he bit his lips as he savagely defeated such subordinates.

“Now you’re treating me like a dog that’s obedient to you…!”

The long-standing antagonism between the successor and members of the imperial family was a time-honored practice testified by the history books of Hellasium.

However, no matter how many successors, there was no precedent for treating the imperial family as if they were servants.

“The imperial family is well aware that there is no justification to reject the Chief unless there is a special reason such as a situation where his own life is threatened or the national loss is evident! Damn it, I will definitely pay them back for this disgrace…!”

Ikshid trembled at the uncontrollable power of the Chief, who was becoming more and more arrogant, and sharpened his teeth with anger.

Selena quickly and gently placed her hand on Ikshid’s arm. Then Ikshid turned to her and straightened his distorted face a little.

Eun-woo was surprised to see him that way again.

It is because it was the first time that she saw Ikshid showing off his anger like a child, no matter how easy he was to express his feelings, regardless of aristocratic obligations and status. Eun-woo looked up at Tashian’s face standing next to her with an ominous heart. Sure enough, he was also grimly crumpling his impression like a sickening man.

She sensed that his body, standing right next to him, was filled with humiliation and indescribable disgust, and felt a slight tremor in her body. She felt as if she was engulfed in anxiety and frustration, and anger that she could not help.

She couldn’t understand the man called Bascal. The expression he had been looking at Tashian a while ago was nothing more than the insensitivity of the person throwing leftover bones to the wild dog.

It wasn’t that she didn’t understand the feelings of Tashian’s distorted hostility towards the chief. Rather, she was more curious about the story of the endless thousand generations that the chief took toward his half-brother.

Even though he was not born with the fittest, Tashian was also clearly one of the Duke’s bloodline. Moreover, on behalf of the chief who was elected as the successor, he is building a family with supreme abundance, and as a knight commander-in-chief, he is a younger brother that is enough to be proud of.

What the hell happened between these brothers, so that they couldn’t hide their anger enough to make his heart annoyed with just the sound of the chief calling him?

Eun-woo, like Selena, gently placed a hand on his cheek, suppressing the desire to appease him.

She wanted to hold his face up and turn his gaze to her. And Tashian showed hostility like a wild dog showing his teeth toward the direction in which Bascal disappeared.

But there were too many eyes around her to do so, and a strong foreboding was sense if she’ll be held responsible if she acts recklessly.

(TN: His Older brother had died, so why??)