After a brief chase, what we saw in the secluded alley was Blank holding the assailant’s leg in his mouth, lifting his head fiercely.
“Growl!”
With his great strength, the assailant was lifted momentarily before being slammed back down.
“Blank, come here.”
Following my command, Blank immediately released the assailant’s leg. Then, lowering his body and wagging his tail, he approached me like a giant puppy.
“Well done.”
As I praised him and petted his head, Blank sat down and wagged his tail energetically.
Now that we had caught the assailant, it seemed appropriate to hand him over to the city guards.
Mild, approaching with determination, grabbed the struggling assailant’s collar and lifted him up.
“How dare this son of a…!”
In his rage, Mild’s fist, filled with anger to the point where veins popped on his forehead, struck the assailant’s face directly.
“Argh!”
While the assailant groaned in pain, he attempted to retaliate, flailing his body to strike Mild.
However, Mild was exceptionally strong. The assailant’s counterattack was futile. Soon, the assailant began to look as if he was becoming Mild’s punching bag.
After beating the assailant for a while, Mild kicked him to the ground. Then, drawing his sword, he aimed it at the assailant.
“Who sent you?”
The assailant, with a messed-up face from the beating, wiped it with his sleeve and breathed heavily.
“Are you, are you going to talk?”
At that moment, a tremendous scream echoed through the alley.
“My, my hand! My hand!”
Mild’s sword ruthlessly severed the assailant’s left hand. The terrified assailant writhed in pain on the ground.
Witnessing the unexpectedly gruesome scene, I was also taken aback, covering my mouth with both hands.
“I have no patience when it comes to Madam’s affairs. I ask again.”
Mild, without blinking an eye, pointed his sword at the assailant.
“Who sent you?”
The terrified assailant, clutching his left wrist, screamed in fear.
“T-There’s nothing like that! Oh, today just felt bad!”
“Is that so?”
“Argh!”
With a single motion from Mild, the assailant’s right hand disappeared in an instant.
“There seems to be a hidden force behind that must not be revealed.”
“N-No, really. Hu!”
Denying Mild’s questioning, the assailant, now trembling, swallowed his breath as the blade approached beneath his chin.
“If I kill you, will I feel a bit better about this filthy feeling?”
Mild seemed genuinely inclined to dispose of the assailant on the spot. However, his swift judgment was interrupted as the city guards and people arrived at the scene.
The city guards, responding to a witness report, checked our identities, circumstances, and the situation.
When presenting my identity badge, their reaction was somewhat indifferent. Probably because I was not a noble of the Cigarette Kingdom?
Hesitating to claim to be the recently divorced Countess Morris, I instead used the name of Duke Rinoa.
The guards immediately changed their attitude upon hearing my name. They inquired about any injuries I might have and then proceeded to arrest the assailant and Mild.
It was utterly bewildering.
“Why are you arresting my knight?”
The guard, in response to my complaint, asked as if bewildered.
“Considering the evidence scattered on the ground, wouldn’t it be obvious to arrest him? The defense is excessive.”
“…”
“The knight tried to harm a noblewoman. Wouldn’t it be justified even if he were summarily executed? What’s the point of arguing against it?”
Despite arguing in that manner, my heart pricked with guilt. Perhaps because, having lived in the previous world of possession, Mild’s defense seemed excessive even to me.
But in this world, self-defense was clear. Moreover, he tried to protect me, so I also had to protect him.
“Of course, the lady is right. However, the lady is a foreign noble, and there is currently no means to accurately prove her status, is there?”
“What?”
“I apologize. We follow the procedure. If the lady wants to release the knight for the reasons she mentioned, she must either present her home country’s proof of status or obtain the guarantee of another noble.”
I was left speechless.
Not knowing what to do immediately, I looked at Mild, who lowered his head with a very apologetic expression.
“Madam, please take care of yourself.”
Saying that reluctantly, he then turned away with an unwilling expression.
“Currently, the fastest person who can vouch for Madam’s status is…”
He didn’t need to say more for me to understand who that person was.
Even after the divorce, the person who comes to mind first.
“Alright. Just endure a bit, Knight Mild.”
As soon as I finished speaking, the city guards swiftly escorted Mild and the assailant away.
They said that the visit would be possible starting from tomorrow if nothing unusual happened.
Blank and I, the remaining ones, stood blankly for a moment and then headed to the main street.
Our carriage, casually parked on one side of the road, came into view. I paid the fee to a nearby merchant and had the carriage stored in a stable.
Now that I had to meet Philip and release Mild, I called a carriage for business use and rode with Blank.
“To the courthouse, please. As fast as possible.”
I wasn’t sure if Philip was still at the courthouse. However, since he had left a little while ago, he seemed likely to still be nearby.
“Guests, dogs are not allowed in commercial carriages…”
I handed two silver coins to the coachman who was about to mention the boarding rules for commercial carriages.
“…but it’s okay. I will take you to the courthouse! Move quickly!”
The elated coachman drove the carriage towards the courthouse.
“Yeah. I divorced without knowing. It felt like the atmosphere demanded it in this unfamiliar world.”
The surroundings were pitch black, but Ellen’s figure and voice standing a short distance away were vivid to Philip.
Dressed in a red dress like a rose, Ellen opened her fan, covering half of her face with a loud sound.
“But Philip, you did that, didn’t you? It was like advising to think carefully about whether you really need to divorce during the divorce consideration period.”
Her voice was cold. The gaze she directed towards him was equally chilly, making Philip feel as if an ice dagger had pierced his heart.
Philip had never received such coldness from any woman.
“But then, Philip, you also stamped the divorce confirmation seal? Why bother leaving room for words if you were going to do that?”
One corner of her mouth went up mockingly.
“It was a candy given out to resolve beastly desires, but it almost became a close call.”
Her resentful rebuke, turned away and muttered, was Ellen’s soliloquy.
“Mi-Miss, that’s not it. I apologize!”
Philip hurriedly ran towards Ellen, shouting. He desperately wanted to catch Ellen, even if he had to cling to her, to clear up the misunderstanding. It was necessary.
Ellen, a Sword Master, was within reach if Philip leaped just once. But his steps didn’t match his feelings.
The body chasing after Ellen to grab her was as heavy as a thousand kilograms. In addition, his feet wouldn’t seem to detach like they were stuck with glue.
“Why am I so slow!”
Philip ground his teeth.
With the premonition that he would forever part with her if he missed it now, he gave even more strength to the unyielding foot.
“Wife! This is a trap! Please give me a chance to talk!”
At that moment, as if it were a lie, his foot became lighter.
In an instant, Philip, who had leaped, reached out to grab Ellen.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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