Strategic Marriage with the Mad Villain (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 103

I stood there blankly, lost in thought, until it suddenly hit me. This man never intended to send me to Belliata in the first place.

‘Why on earth…?’

He clearly said he wanted to help me. He even promised I could leave whenever I wished and personally offered to arrange a ship for me—so why…?

Reus would know better than anyone that I hadn’t done anything suspicious. So it never even crossed my mind that he might still distrust me.

Yet that only made this moment even more confusing. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t fathom his reason for acting this way.

“…You’re joking, right, Reus…?”

I almost wished this were just one of his usual silly pranks. Reus gave a faint chuckle at my desperate plea, then gently pulled me further toward the bedroom.

“Let’s return to the bedroom quickly.”

“W-wait! Just a moment, Reus!”

I stubbornly planted my feet with all my might, and only then did Reus finally stop walking.

“Well, you see… Dwin said he’s waiting for us! We really can’t afford to be any later, so I truly must go now. So please, enough with the jokes…”

I subtly turned toward the stairs, but Reus instantly grabbed my hand, spinning me around.

“I’m not the kind of person who’d jest about something like this.”

Then how was that any different from actually eliminating every ship bound for Belliata from Rocheter Harbor…?!

I nearly wanted to scream at him to just go ahead and make it a joke already.

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