Lady Devil - Chapter 55

#55

Crack!

The split firewood made a hollow sound and bounced to both sides. At the same time, her husband’s arm holding the axe fell downward in a short arc. It looked as if he was about to drop the axe, causing Griselda to startle and reflexively make a grabbing motion.

However, her husband merely let his arm droop without actually dropping the axe. The reddish rusted metal blade swayed next to his foot.

“I tried hard. I tried cutting… and stabbing. But it still wouldn’t die.”

Her husband spoke while receiving the blazing sunlight pouring into the open space on his back. What could he mean by this? His complexion, shadowed by the backlight, was expressionless as usual, just iron-gray.

“I should have killed it… I don’t know how.”

Drip, the sweat that had gathered on his eyebrows ran down, parting his eyelid and gathering on his eyelashes. Her husband slightly lowered his head and wiped his eyes with his empty hand. It was the expression and gesture of someone who was far from joyful, rather a bit at a loss, and certainly not the reaction Griselda had expected.

“Kill? What are you talking about?”

Griselda showed a bewildered expression to her husband, who was calmly reporting his failure. She doubted if he had properly heard what she said. Her heart, which had been overflowing with joy just moments ago, suddenly became unsettled.

Just before, she had told him that a child had been conceived in her womb. It was such wonderful news, yet suddenly he was talking about killing something?

Setting aside the ominous content that was disturbing just to hear, her husband’s attitude was in no way the delight of a man about to become a father. His eyes alone remained dry within his damp face as he looked at Griselda.

“Don’t you understand, Griselda? I told you before that the child I saw in my dream had blonde hair, right? It was… our child after all. So that thing… bewitched you… our child…”

Thud. The axe he finally threw down as if discarding it fell with a heavy sound.

“I don’t understand why.”

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