“Heuk, heuk… I can’t do this anymore… Let’s take it easy…”
“It’s not human stamina…”
The Delmark knights each collapsed onto the training ground, groaning in pain.
But it meant nothing to Caligo.
“Don’t make weak sounds! Anyone who falls before me, who arrived at the mansion only yesterday, won’t be able to lift their head by the end of today.”
“Isn’t it similar if we say we went on a monster subjugation yesterday?”
“It’s quite similar. While I uncomfortably slept in a place that’s not even my house for days, you guys were relaxing and went on a monster subjugation. Doesn’t it sound about right?”
Caligo kicked his subordinates, urging them to get up. Instead of rising, the knights writhed on the ground, avoiding his feet.
Caligo was a knight highly regarded even within the order. He had excellent physical and combat abilities, coupled with good interpersonal skills, making him a candidate for the next commander.
However, the knights secretly hoped that the day he became the commander would never come.
The reason was the brutal intensity of his training.
“Please, someone stop the training…”
As the knights fervently wished while rolling on the ground, someone appeared at the entrance of the training ground. All eyes turned in that direction.
There stood Blair, accompanied by servants, holding a basket in her hands.
“I thought everyone might be struggling, so I brought some snacks.”
In the eyes of the knights, who were on the verge of death, Blair’s appearance brought a glimmer of hope.
The gods have answered! Even those who usually viewed Blair unfavorably saw her as an angel at this moment.
“If I disturbed you in any way, I can leave it for later, so you can eat…”
“No! I want to eat it now!”
“You’ve prepared it with sincerity, isn’t it proper to eat before the meal?”
The knights, who had been sprawled like corpses, suddenly rose and approached Blair and the servants.
Caligo tried to kick one of his subordinates approaching Blair, but the subordinates ignored him.
Finally, Caligo raised his hands.
“Well, it’s not polite to send you off without greetings when the lady has come in person. Take a break for the next thirty minutes.”
Cheers erupted among the knights.
The servants shared snacks with them, consisting of baguettes with meat and vegetables and apple juice.
Watching the subordinates eat, Caligo was handed snacks directly by Blair.
He gladly accepted them, behaving like a child.
“Oh, you personally brought them… Thank you, my lady. Indeed, a household should have a mistress.”
“I was worried about whether I was disturbing the training by coming here, so I didn’t come often. If I had known everyone would be this happy, I would have brought something earlier.”
“Well, they enjoy taking a break when their training is disrupted. Anyway, I’ll enjoy this.”
Feeling hungry himself, Caligo started eating the baguette right away.
However, Blair’s gaze, watching him from the side, turned colder than it was a moment ago.
In truth, Blair hadn’t visited the training ground purely to treat the knights.
This morning, as soon as Herdin left the bedroom, Blair sent a letter to Mihail asking for Kaligo’s investigation. However, with the murderer who killed her right in front of her, she couldn’t sit still. She had come up with an excuse to bring the knights, thinking of doing something.
“Oh, this is delicious. How I missed freshly baked bread all the way down from the estate… The bread they sell at the inn feels like rocks. Madam, you haven’t tasted it, have you?”
“The bread is as hard as a rock?”
“It’s true. The next time you come down to the estate, try it. It feels like it’ll pull all your teeth out.”
“…Pull all your teeth out?”
“Uh, I shouldn’t use such words in front of the lady… I apologize; I grew up not knowing these things very well.”
Caligo, belatedly realizing he had said something inappropriate, thumped his rough mouth. Then, he noticed a subordinate passing by and casually nudged him.
“Go get another piece of bread.”
“Me?”
“Don’t you see I’m talking to the lady now?”
Grumbling, the subordinate went to get another piece of bread. Caligo’s attitude of grumbling was a sign that he had a good boss. It meant he accepted such requests.
Blair stared blankly at Caligo. The man who killed her was too ordinary to be a murderer. He liked being taken care of, enjoyed eating delicious food, got along well with people, and didn’t harbor prejudices against himself. That’s what made him even more frightening.
The realization that someone like him could kill her.
“It seems you’ve been in Delmark for a long time. Everyone seems to follow you well.”
“Well, I’ve been here longer than those punks. I think I came to Delmark when I was fifteen.”
“Then, where were you stationed before that?”
If Caligo didn’t personally kill her for some reason, it might have been someone else’s order. If his master wasn’t the mastermind, the probability was high that it was someone he had a connection with before.
“Before coming to Delmark…”
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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