Moreover, since discovering that the Katchis royal family and Duke Bold were secretly interacting.

Since then, Cedric’s suspicion of Rebecca had become increasingly uncontrollable.

Especially as he faced her obsession with their one night together.

“But now, why do I think my choice wasn’t wrong?”

With a slightly ambiguous smile, Manaquin asked.

“Perhaps everything was just a misunderstanding?”

In response to Manaquin’s words, Cedric, still glancing elsewhere, spoke.

“Yeah. It seems like everything might have been my misunderstanding.”

“…….”
“She always seemed suspiciously eager for me. It felt like she wanted to use me to obtain something. Yeah… it definitely felt that way.”

Cedric struggled to speak as if the words didn’t come easily.

After a few hesitant moments, Cedric finally opened his mouth with a bitter expression.

“…Rebecca says she doesn’t want me anymore.”

An intriguing glint crossed Manaquin’s large pupils.

“Oh, finally…”

In response to her words, Cedric furrowed his eyebrows as if displeased, and Manaquin chuckled.

“So, what about you?”

“…What?”

“Now that the woman you desired no longer wants you, do you feel liberated?”

Cedric remained silent for a while in response to Manaquin’s question.

He stayed in silence, wearing a bitter expression.

Like someone confessing a secret, he whispered in a low voice.

“…Not at all.”

At first, Rebecca’s coldness had felt somewhat unfamiliar, and he thought her apparent indifference to him was just an act.

However, every time he saw the changed Rebecca afterward, he began to wonder if he had misunderstood her for a long time.

Thus, Cedric gradually let go of his suspicions and faced Rebecca.

She was a completely different person from what he had known.

Rebecca could smile beautifully, as if illuminating the entire world, and she tirelessly worked to rectify past mistakes, showing kindness to those around her.

Cedric felt increasingly guilty for turning such a woman into a villain with his own coldness.

And only then did he regret not realizing the preciousness of her heart before she left him.

“Now you seem to have embraced that child in your heart.”

Manaquin muttered quietly towards Cedric who fell into silence.

Cedric nodded with a bitter expression.

However, even though he now understood his feelings, he and Rebecca were already divorced.

Cedric resented his past self for abandoning even the last justification to hold onto Rebecca.

He couldn’t say anything even if she left him right now.

“I wish I could go back to that last moment when I could have held onto Rebecca.”

It was a moment when Cedric bowed his head in self-reproach.

“Fool, you can still hold onto her even now.”

In a mysterious tone, Manaquin spoke, and Cedric slowly raised his head.

“What has changed is that now, more than Rebecca, you desire that child.”

Manaquin lightly laughed, watching Cedric’s face filled with a subtle shock.

“Cedric, I have undoubtedly foretold the fate predetermined by heaven for you.”

“…”

“But changing that fate into destiny is solely your responsibility.”

Cedric’s blue eyes gradually widened.

It felt like untangling a knotted thread.

Cedric, feeling the refreshing sensation of a long-lost feeling, raised the corners of his mouth.
“Having lived around the subject of demons for a long time, claiming to have gained the wisdom of all creation, it seems your words were not baseless.”

Upon Cedric’s words, Manaquin burst into hearty laughter.

After a bit more conversation with her, Cedric bid farewell and left the cave.

Manaquin watched Cedric’s departing figure with a satisfied smile.

“…Now it’s your turn to have unrequited love for Rebecca.”

In the early afternoon, Bianca invited me to the Luminous Mansion.

Since Cedric had left for the Demon Realm with Vincent, the mansion was empty, so she suggested having a tea party together.

Bianca and I chatted alone for quite some time.

A servant approached, cautiously extending something to us.

“Um… Lady Bianca, a letter has arrived.”

“…”

“He said he knew you were enjoying the treats, but the messenger was so insistent on getting an immediate response…”

She seemed anxious, fearing I might reprimand her.

Aware that the servants at the Luminous Mansion still feared me, I smiled even more brightly and nodded.

“Thank you.”

Then, the surrounding servants, including her, blinked with surprised expressions.

“…What?”

“They probably tried hard to deliver urgent news to me. I appreciate it.”

The servant holding the letter raised the corner of her mouth slightly, looking slightly surprised.

“Ah, no. Thank you, Lady Bianca…”

She handed me the letter and stepped back.

‘Is there someone urgently sending me a letter?’

The moment I finally checked the sender of the letter.

‘Well, that’s how it is.’

I furrowed my brow at the rising discomfort.

And immediately tore the letter, gesturing to the servant who brought me the letter.

“It seems difficult to make time. It seems like it will continue to be like this in the future.”

That evening, the Bold Duke’s mansion in the southern part.

The messenger sent from the northern region finally flew into Bold Duke’s study in the evening.

The Bold Duke hastily untied the note attached to the messenger’s leg.

After reading the contents for a while.

“This…! This insolence!”

Crash!

The Bold Duke, in a nervous fit, slammed the table, making a loud noise.

“Rebecca, if your daughter ignores the promise she made with me before marrying the Grand Duke like this…”

The Bold Duke’s eyes glared fiercely, venomous.

“I can’t just let you go like this, can I?”