I Just Raised Men for Revenge - Chapter 54
“……Yes. That’s right.”
“May I…… May I have a moment to think?”
“Yes……”
Perceptively, the tower master brought the chair he had been sitting on to Teddy.
Anger or hatred. Or sadness. Such emotions were not visible. As if in a dream, Teddy just sat there blankly.
‘You should cry instead. You should get angry instead. Why…… Why are you so lifeless.’
That would have been less painful. That would have seemed less difficult.
Sesenia had thought about this moment hundreds of times. The situation when she would tell Teddy that he was royalty.
And in those hundreds of thoughts, Teddy got angry and despaired.
She naturally thought he would react that way, but lifelessness?
Teddy, who always liked holding Sesenia’s hand, now seemed to have fallen into such emptiness that he let go of that hand.
Sesenia gently patted his shoulder.
Sweat poured down Gelox’s forehead as he watched this entire situation.
How could he survive? How could he escape this situation?
It was a moment when he regretted speaking without any doubt.
Suddenly, he was able to make eye contact with the man sitting in the chair.
More precisely, he saw the one sitting there blankly, but even that was enough to tell.
That royal, that man whose hair he had changed, looked much more dazed than expected.
A smile spread across his face for a moment.
He struggled to move his bound limbs and prostrated himself in front of Teddy.
“I’m, I’m sorry. Back then I…… be, because of money…… I had no choice.”
“……”
“My child, my child was sick. When my child was sick and there was no way…… That…… th-they said items from the magic tower could extend the child’s life, but it was so expensive…… This was my only option. So please…… please spare me. I was wrong.”
Teddy showed no reaction to those words. Instead, the tower master’s face hardened.
“Gelox.”
“Y-Yes?”
“You seem to really take us for fools.”
“Wh-What do you……”
“Did you think we wouldn’t even know that you have no family?”
“Th-That is……”
The lie he blurted out to escape the immediate crisis was more flimsy than expected.
That flimsiness further provoked the tower master’s temper.
“Why. Do you have a child not registered in the family registry?”
“That’s right. I, I have a daughter. A very sickly child. I, I somehow managed to get a device from the magic tower with the money I received then…… But in the end she died. That’s why you don’t know. Yes. Th-That’s right.”
“Ah. So that’s why I don’t know?”
“Of course. Of course.”
Sesenia felt like such a fool for feeling a brief moment of pity at first.
Still, still, she thought it wouldn’t be like this. How could he tell such lies?
“It’s been a well-known fact for 20 years that you’re utter trash. A man who gambled away all the money in his household, who beat his wife who lived day by day calling such a man her husband to the brink of death, what are you going on about?”
“Huh…… Huh…… Did I do that……?”
“In the end, your wife became unable to bear children, and even got divorced. That’s a story from well over 20 years ago, so where did this child suddenly come from?”
“It’s my mother. I misspoke. Haha.”
“First it was a daughter, now it’s your mother? I know your mother died in childhood? You’re saying some really funny things.”
It was truly pathetic. Creating a non-existent child to survive, even dragging out a dead mother.
Sesenia felt like she would develop even more misanthropy.
“Gelox. You just told one lie and committed one blasphemy.”
“Wh-What?? Blasphemy……? S-So this is all my……”
“The lie that you have a daughter, a family. The other is lying that items from the magic tower are expensive.”
Gelox understood the lie part but couldn’t comprehend the blasphemy part at all, and his shoulders trembled.
“What?”
“You say such things because you don’t know well. The magic tools from the tower are expensive. That part is true because I let the makers set their own prices. But. The essential items and those related to people’s lives are all unbelievably cheap.”
“Ha…… Ha…… 20 years ago it wasn’t……”
“I’ve been doing this for 100 years, what nonsense are you talking about? Have you lived 120 years?”
“……”
“You probably didn’t know because you never had to buy such things. You just knew that items sold at the magic tower were expensive. You really are the worst till the end.”
He just bit his lips while mumbling.
“I, I truly regret it. I made absurd excuses to survive. I really want to live. I’ll live righteously from now on. Please…… please……”
The tower master’s gaze turned to Sesenia. Sesenia’s coldly hardened eyes looked down at Gelox calmly.
“Perpetrators are always like this. They don’t stop committing further harm to prevent their own crimes. Even now, instead of sincerely apologizing, you’re trying to pressure Teddy to save your life somehow.”
“N-No. That’s…… that is……”
“Even asking for forgiveness is another form of harm…… Why don’t people like you understand?”
When you should be prostrating yourself flat on the ground in apology and it still wouldn’t be enough.
“Tower Master, please punish this person on my behalf. The law can’t fully punish perpetrators anyway.”
“Don’t worry. I’ll discipline him properly.”
The tower master stood up as if he had been waiting for this. Picking up the rope binding the man’s limbs from the floor, he smiled grimly.
Only then did Gelox hurriedly open his mouth.
“Ah…… Ah…… I-If you spare me, I’ll give you information about the culprit that just came to mind.”
“Information?”
“Yes, if you just spare me!!”
“Alright.”
The tower master nodded more easily than expected.
“What?”
“Speak, you said.”
“Ah…… That…… A-Are you really sparing me?”
“Of course. Naturally.”
“Are you definitely sparing me on your name as the tower master?”
“I said so.”
The tower master made eye contact with Sesenia. Sesenia’s expression had changed from before as well.
“What is this information?”
“Th-That person was someone who handled swords. There were lots of old, hardened calluses. It was clearly different from thugs who just beat people up. Those scars. He must be a knight.”
“What else.”
“More?”
Sesenia leaned towards him.
“How many sword users do you think there are in the empire?”
“Uh…… Well……”
“Say more. Anything. If you want to live.”
“Uh…… S-So…… Th-There was a scar on his hand. It may have faded a lot after 20 years…… but there was definitely a scar. I, I saw it when he gave me the money. He was about my height, and his build was very broad-shouldered.”
But the information wasn’t that great. The fact that he was a knight was quite useful information, but it wasn’t enough to deduce the culprit.
As disappointment appeared on Sesenia’s face, he hurriedly rolled his eyes and nodded.
As if squeezing out and wringing his memory one last time.
“Ah……! And, and he mentioned a ‘lady’.”
“Lady?”
“Yes. It…… didn’t seem proper for referring to his own wife. It was as if he was being respectful…… ‘The lady instructed caution and perfection, so the hair color must not fade.’ That’s what he said. I think he said the family name before that……”
“Family name?”
“Yes, yes!!”
“So what was the family name?”
“Well…… How could I remember…… It was so long ago……”
But the tower master didn’t seem satisfied.
“Think hard. If you really can’t remember, shall I help you remember?”
He moved his hand threateningly again.
“It’s been too long……! But I’m not certain, but there was a ‘ch’ sound in it. That’s all I remember…… Please…… I’ve said this much……”
“Is this enough help, Sesenia?”
“It’s better than nothing, I suppose.”
“She says you pass. Congratulations. You’ve been of mouse-dropping’s worth of help compared to what you did.”
“Are you sparing me……?”
“I never said I would kill you in the first place?”
Gelox’s face turned pale as he watched the tower master speak as if it were nothing.
“What?”
“So you should have asked better. Like ‘Please release me’ or something. Though I would have caught you right away even if I did release you.”
“Ah……”
“If it were me, I would have said ‘Please release me and don’t punish me for my crimes.’ You’re really stupid.”
“Was that…… po-possible?”
“No. Even if you said that, there’s no way I would have done it.”
The tower master chuckled as if amused watching the despairing Gelox. Meanwhile, Sesenia shifted her gaze to Teddy.
“Teddy.”
Sesenia lowered her head towards Teddy.
“……Yes.”
“Should we let that man go like this? What that man did to you, the tower master will properly punish him for. But you’re the victim. So……”
At those words, Teddy barely raised his head and gave a sad smile.
“Just get rid of him. I don’t want to see him.”
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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