The Plan of the Terminally-Ill Wife's Divorce (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 102

The monsters had already crept up tightly behind Count Alexei. Yet Count Alexei was aiming not at the monsters, but at them—and the monsters made no move to attack him.

“Ugh… It’s clear now. Though I realized it far too late.”

At that moment, Arshama spoke with a bitter smile. Anette still couldn’t believe Count Alexei had betrayed them, even as the situation had deteriorated this far.

“You know how to command monsters?”

“You’re about to die, yet you’re full of questions. You might have lived if you’d just stayed quiet. You overstepped, Anette Inkheart.”

Count Alexei deliberately used not her title of Grand Duchess but precisely called her by her full name, then gestured to the monsters.

Though the bullets fired by the count could be deflected with the power of wind, the monsters’ brute-force assault was another matter entirely. Even if she endured one or two attacks, it was obvious she couldn’t hold out for long.

“This can’t be. The count has always led the charge in slaying monsters more than anyone else….”

“So it seems you believe one can perform such acting for the sake of a greater cause.”

Arshama muttered bitterly, and Count Alexei gave a mocking chuckle.

“Freeing the slave market, joining the procession to contain the Northern Mountains—you’ve accomplished so much. But what will become of the North if the Grand Duchess, who spearheaded all of it, dies now?”

“Silalion!”

At Alexei’s ominous threat, Anette summoned Silalion, the high-tier wind spirit in human form. She didn’t hesitate—she still possessed the power she’d gained from the past.

「Mas…ter…」

But Silalion’s faintly visible form instantly scattered like smoke.

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