The Plan of the Terminally-Ill Wife's Divorce (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 143

As soon as my words about needing mental and physical stability fell, Kaitlyn was escorted to her room.

Even as she was grabbed by both arms and taken into the room, Kaitlyn continued to be hysterical, shouting that she kept meeting me in times and places where we shouldn’t have crossed paths, as if she had seen a ghost.

‘She wandered around fortune tellers so much, did she really get possessed by a ghost?’

When I was in the capital, Kaitlyn’s love for fortune telling was famous enough to reach my ears.

There’s no way the potions sold by back-alley fortune tellers aren’t suspicious, so if Kaitlyn had gulped down a bowl of that heavy metal lump, it wouldn’t be incomprehensible for her to act like that.

If it wasn’t that but a matter of minor spirits, a priest could come and lay hands in prayer, but the priests of the southern temple had already fled.

I had hoped that if it was the temple, they might know something about the Holy Grail, but seeing that sight made my heart feel so empty.

The relic finger also showed no particular change beyond glowing brightly on the first day we arrived at the Fosse family.

Even in the urgency amid the ruined temple, I hadn’t forgotten to bring the finger I had taken care of, but when I took it out, the light was already diminishing.

And though we returned to the marquisate, the finger no longer glowed as it did at first. If it doesn’t even emit light, this is now just an ugly finger.

I was lying in bed when I sat up and glared at the relic placed inside the velvet box.

Then, I suddenly grabbed it and quietly left my seat so as not to wake Darius. For now, I planned to walk around the Fosse family holding this.

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A dark night where the commotion in the marquisate had subsided. Kaitlyn, who had been crouching in the corner of the room, kicked off her seat and stood up.

Unlike earlier when she showed a frightened appearance, now her mind seemed to have returned, and she had her original eyes full of greed.

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