The Monster Duke Mistook Me for His Wife (Web Novel) - Chapter 55

The High Priest left the mansion before Dillian returned.

It was Harris’s measure to avoid Dillian’s anger, who would soon return.

As he broke through recklessly, he was afraid of the repercussions, so he had an urgent return.

‘Ria-nim. Today ….’’

‘Ugh. Sir Harris. I just got goosebumps. Sir Harris also, don’t do that.’

Suddenly, she was freaked out and horrified with Harris, who was using honorifics, but he bowed his head once more.

‘… Ria-nim, I am sorry for coming recklessly today.’

Even though she waved her hand, to say it’s okay, Harris didn’t stop saying he was sorry.

‘I’m not that angry.’

She was perplexed, but on the other hand, she wondered how hard Dillian had hit him with such an iron wall, so that Harris took such a hard way.

‘Then it’s true that he will protect me.’

The invasion of the great temple people only increased the trust and faith in Dillian.

“Ria, how did it feel to meet Aaron?”

“He looks like a good man. I have never seen such a clean divine power.”

And this was the first time I had seen a person strong enough that I could see the divine power.

Unlike my worry, he might be hiding his dark intentions, he was a gentleman and did not force me to come to the temple.

Even, the request was polite and low-key, I needed to keep reminding myself that he is the leader.

‘I’ve been a worker all my life, I never thought I would be the boss.’

And if it wasn’t for Aaron, I would have been stuck without knowing the existence of the fragment of the Darkness.

Regardless of the process, the meeting today may have been absolutely necessary.

‘But I do not intend to catch the Darkness with the temple.’

I just said that I was forced to think about it because of the High Priest who did not raise his head.

‘But the fact that I’m already thinking like this, I may have been involved with the High Priest later.’

Seeing my subdued expression, Nathan came up on my shoulder and comforted me.

“You don’t feel like it, right?”

“Yeah, they’re asking me to be the bait, aren’t they?”

It would be nice if I could catch the Darkness, but my role there is definitely a bait.

Isn’t that a very tasty meal? So, the High Priest must not be able to hide his apologetic face.

How many people would immediately say, ‘Let’s do it!’ when they can clearly see what will happen to them in the future.

“Well, it could be like that. Don’t worry too much. Everything will be as you wish.”

Will be as I wish…. I don’t know.

What I wanted was not to come to the capital, but to flee to a neighboring country.

‘I thought I wouldn’t be here where the original work started….’

It’s not enough for me to come to the capital, I am also involved like this.

At this point, I had no choice but to admit it.

‘An extra, huh? It’s a hidden character though.’

The overflowing divine power, the strong power to suppress Dillian’s curse, and the only existence that could save the world from the Darkness.

Who would give an extra such a crazy setup?

I was surprised to have only one setup, and for me to have all of the setup.

“Haaaa.”

A heavy sigh erupted from the depths of the dungeon.

I felt like I was caught in a typhoon and lost my way.

After lying on the sofa and breathing deeply for a long time, I got up.

Suddenly, the sunset began to set in the sky.

I sat down at my desk, pulled out a piece of paper and a pen, and glanced back. Nathan buried itself on the pillow and snored.

“Koooo.”

“It sleeps well.”

Seeing Nathan taking a nap, I circled the pen again and fell into thought.

‘Let’s sort it out one by one.’

This story is the story of Aina, a Saintess who saves the world.

As I have said many times before, the opposite of Aina, who is ‘good’, is Dillian, who is ‘evil’.

Dillian, who hated the temple, hated Aina’s existence, and Aina also recognized Dillian, who was cursed, as a target of removal.

‘The first meeting was probably at the imperial ball held last month, wasn’t it?’

However, Dillian, who lost his memories in Wilhelm, met me in the Black Forest instead of meeting Aina at the imperial ball.

As a result, the two could not meet, and the timeline was distorted.

The two who had to face each other will not even know each other’s faces.

‘… It’s because of me.’

Dillian, who should have focused his attention on Aina in a bad way, was obsessed with me and focused on the plan to make me his wife.

And in that empty place, a new villain, the Darkness, appeared.

This is something that didn’t exist in the original.

It was the first time I had seen it too, so I couldn’t deal with it properly.

‘This is more dangerous than Dillian.’

The reason Dillian is upgraded to the final boss is because he was fatally wounded and the curse took away his ego.

It won’t happen as long as I’m with him. Even if he went rampant, I was able to suppress it.

And before that, Lexter that bastard was going to get rid of him.

‘Isn’t it because of me that Darkness appeared?’

Aina needs an ordeal, since I stand by Dillian’s side and his danger significantly lowered.

I didn’t know that a new ordeal had been thrown for her.

Is this the butterfly effect or is it my karma?

“I’m screwed….”

In this case, there is a high possibility that it will not flow as the original.

Of course, it was a good thing that the original was destroyed.

I’m not in any danger and all that’s left is happiness.

However, Dillian was not the only force holding Aina in check.

In fact, Dillian didn’t attack much until his curse didn’t take him.

It was because no matter how much Aina flew or crawled, Dillian was only at the level of mosquitoes.

In fact, it was the Crown Prince’s enemy, the 3rd Prince who was hostile to her.

‘By now, the Crown Prince and the 3rd Prince must be fighting fiercely.’

From the beginning to the end of the original story, I stopped while organizing a few big incidents.

“Huh? It’s weird.”

I looked up and looked at the calendar.

When I folded my fingers and counted, it is time that a terrorist incident targeting the Crown Prince should have occurred by now.

“Did I get it wrong?”

No. I’m sure it’s around this time.

It was an episode, in which the Crown Prince, who injured by the terrorist attack and Aina, who came to heal him, became even closer.

“If there had been a terrorist attack, I would have heard the news when I came to the capital….”

I tilted my head in ignorance.

But even though I think about it, I can’t find an answer.

As a commoner, there is only one way for me to know the situation of the imperial palace.

“Dillian. When are you coming?”

All I can do is to wait for him to return home quickly.

***

Meanwhile, Dillian, who Ria was eagerly waiting for, was alone with the Crown Prince.

“Thank you. It was a difficult request, but you fulfilled it. With this occasion, I have once again confirmed Duke’s loyalty.”

“I’m glad you noticed.”

Not ‘thank you’ but ‘glad’. It was not something to say in front of the Crown Prince, but Cassis did not point out that fact.

It was arrogant, but that was Dillian’s own polite words.

His pride was hurt by his shallow manners as if it would tear him apart, but it was not good to stand up against Dillian, who came to visit him with the dragon’s heart.

No matter how serious Dillian was, it showed that the Duke of Sinaize, who currently holds the most power, has no intention of confronting him.

‘It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t support me. It’s just a matter for him not to give his power to Manus.’

The name that people call Sinaize is King Maker.

The one they choose will become the next emperor.

Though he had hoped Dillian would have chosen him, he was notorious for not being interested in politics.

But you don’t know what will happen to a person.

He did not know when and where he would come into contact with the third prince, Manus.

So Cassis sent him to Wilhelm on an absurd condition to confirm Dillian’s sincerity.

“I was worried because Wilhelm was such a hideous place. Were you not hurt?”

“As you can see, everything is fine.”

“That’s a relief. If you were hurt, I wouldn’t be at ease.”

Dillian pulled up the corners of his mouth without saying a word at the sound of the slap on his lips.

‘It’s boring.’

He has delivered the dragon’s heart, so he would like to leave his place at this point, but Cassis caught Dillian’s foot as if he had changed his strategy from containment to consolation.

Dillian was slowly feeling the limit of his patience at Cassis’s suggestion to be on his side.

Now, Dillian’s attention was focused only on one person.

‘I have to go back before miss Ria goes to sleep.’

So that I can get a welcome greeting, right?

It was the greeting that I barely heard after waking her from sleep this morning. I had to listen to her greeting when she woke up.

Still, he felt better when he remembered Ria, who was rolling around on the bed like a caterpillar.

Cassis, who was stopped by Dillian’s relaxed smile he saw for the first time, asked him with weak expectations.

“Duke, how about having dinner together?”

“I think that would be difficult. There’s a rat outside listening to us.”

At those words, Cassis’s face hardened terribly.

All the servants were expelled, fearing that our conversation would leak, but who…!

As he suspected it to be a spy sent by Manus, the door opened harshly.

His cold face was bewildered by the small body.

“… Aina?”

“Your Highness the Crown Prince, I have prepared tea for you because you have a guest.”

Aina held out the tray and smiled shyly.

“Thank you. I’ll drink it well.”

“Who is it?”

When Dillian, who had accurately caught Aina hidden behind Cassis’s back, asked, dispirited appeared on Cassis’s face.

Cassis, who knew the relationship between the great temple and Dillian, drew the word, not knowing how to introduce Aina, the Saintess.

“Hmhm, so this woman is….”

Dillian immediately recognized the woman’s identity.

‘This is the famous Saintess.’

Silver hair rustling from the tip of her chin, green eyes, and, crucially, a stigma imprinted on her forehead.

‘It said she was so great, it’s not as good as the status.’

Dillian doesn’t have the eyes to recognize divine power. But he could be sure.

In terms of the degree of holiness alone, Ria was much more holy.

“It must be the Saintess.”

Cassis’s face hardened as he didn’t know if Dillian could recognize her.

“What are you so worried about? Do you think I’m gonna kill her?”