“It, it wasn’t something to worry about to that extent!”
I was flustered by his reaction, as if I had died and come back to life.
Of course, I was almost in big trouble because of the corrosive liquid, but didn’t it get resolved well as planned when he broke the restraint?
“You don’t know anything.”
Anselot burst into laughter.
“Huh…?”
Not knowing what was going on, I just blinked my eyes.
[This is the timeline separator]The moment Luibel infused her sword with sword energy, the restraint that received a strong stimulation flashed black.
The restraint that swallowed her and Klaus flickered with a black light, then went out with a thud and fell to the floor.
Kkkiiiit!
―Lulu!
The green bird left behind in this space, unable to follow her, cried out in search of Luibel.
Anselot immediately ran towards the restraint.
Unusually, he became impatient.
By now, Luibel would have crossed over to this space through the restraint.
The flow of time is different between the inside and outside of this space.
While 10 minutes pass outside, an hour can pass inside.
If it’s an hour, that’s fortunate, but it can also create a difference of 1 year, 10 years, 100 years, or even more.
That’s why Anselot picked up the fallen restraint to break it as quickly as possible.
That’s when it happened.
Kkkiiiiit!
―This is for killing!
Piya chirped urgently.
“What…?”
A small window floated over the restraint.
Item
A magic restraint created to suppress and kill monsters. (Restraint period: Permanent)
Next to the item name, the words ‘For Killing’ were neatly written.
It was something Luibel had never heard of.
Without a moment to think, Anselot immediately broke the restraint.
Crash!
The time it took for him to check the item description and break the restraint was less than 5 seconds.
But during those 5 seconds, he had to suffer from an incomprehensible anxiety.
It was an anxiety similar to fear.
And when Luibel revealed herself.
Anselot froze at the sight of her miserable state.
The clothes she was wearing were charred black as if burned by fire.
For a while, it felt like he couldn’t breathe.
“Ha…”
Only after confirming that her body was intact without any injuries could he barely let out a breath.
Unlike Piya, who ran to her crying, Anselot couldn’t approach her and just stared at her from the same spot, gritting his teeth.
Why am I like this.
It was strange.
“Thank you, Anselot.”
Luibel said, smiling brightly at him.
To Luibel, who was smiling and talking without knowing anything, it seemed like he was getting angry…
“…”
Instead of answering, Anselot approached her.
He didn’t like her charred and tattered clothes.
Anselot wrapped the overcoat he was wearing around her.
The oversized overcoat fluttered like a cape over her shoulders.
Strangely, Anselot found it difficult to look at her face.
So he grasped her shoulders tightly and bent his head to the side.
“…”
“Anselot?”
“You really are… Ha…”
He laughed because it was ridiculous how she asked as if she was puzzled.
After a long time, Anselot barely spoke.
“I was worried, you know.”
“It, it wasn’t something to worry about to that extent!”
Seeing her shouting as if perplexed, Anselot laughed.
“You don’t know anything.”
“Huh…?”
Luibel really didn’t know anything and just blinked.
“That restraint, it wasn’t just for suppression but for killing. Did nothing happen?”
“For killing? Ah, so that’s why…”
She nodded her head as if something clicked.
“There was a corrosive effect in this space. But it’s okay. Lord Klaus protected me.”
Luibel said, gesturing to Klaus next to her.
Anselot belatedly noticed Klaus.
He was standing right next to her, just one step away, but he hadn’t even noticed.
When Klaus’ eyes met Anselot’s, he silently bowed his head in greeting.
But Anselot, who had never known courtesy from the beginning, looked over Klaus instead of returning the greeting.
Klaus was in a much more miserable state than Luibel.
His knight uniform, which was always neatly buttoned up to his neck, chaste and even ascetic, was charred, torn, and tattered here and there.
Although there were no wounds left on his body, bloodstains could be seen in places.
And…
The Shield of Light
Anselot stiffened his eyes at the changed status window of Klaus.
‘Something definitely happened to protect her at that moment.’
Somehow he didn’t like it.
Even jumping into the restraint together with her at that moment…
In the meantime, the empress, who had sorted out the situation, approached Luibel.
The empress glanced at Anselot’s hand on Luibel’s shoulder, then looked back at Luibel and asked.
“Luibel. Are you okay?”
“Yes, Mother. But Orent…”
At that moment, Luibel noticed Orent being carried away on a stretcher.
Seeing Orent in a terribly half-dead state, Luibel was startled.
“Gasp, what happened to him!”
Then the empress’s knights all looked at Anselot.
Anselot himself calmly ignored the gazes pouring on him.
‘It must be Anselot’s doing.’
The moment Luibel ran to the spectator seats to block the restraint.
Anselot, who reflexively flinched, gritted his lower lip and rained attacks on Orent at her gesture.
The empress’s knights who were going to capture Orent had to watch as the suddenly emerging hook-shaped white energy lifted Orent into the air, slapped him to the ground, and attacked.
It was a power that they couldn’t tell if it was magic or holy power.
The really scary part was that even during that, Prince Anselot didn’t even glance in Orent’s direction and only glared at Luibel and the restraint.
That merciless attack, which barely left Orent breathing in a short time, only ended after the black light of the restraint went out and Anselot ran towards it.
Thanks to that, Orent was in a terribly unconscious state without the knights even needing to subdue him.
“Unfortunately, the martial arts competition has ended like this.”
The empress muttered to the knights to hurry and take Orent out.
At those words, Luibel came to her senses.
‘Ah, the martial arts competition…!’
The finals match between Klaus was ruined because Orent caused trouble.
‘This is serious. If the finals end up messed up like this…’
At this rate, even her plan to complete the quest by dueling Klaus was about to fall through.
While she was thinking about what to do.
Klaus, who had been standing still the whole time, approached her and knelt on one knee.
“Princess Luibel Azester.”
Klaus politely offered his sword to her with both hands and requested.
“Please accept me as your knight.”
“Lord Klaus?”
“I wish to pledge my knight’s oath to you.”
Luibel looked at Klaus’s favorability with disbelieving eyes.
The Shield of Light
Favorability: −470
His favorability was still low.
“Am I perhaps too late?”
There was a hint of anxiety in Klaus’ voice as he asked back.
It was an anxiety stemming from the worry that he might be rejected.
“No way!”
Luibel answered immediately.
It was just when she was at a loss on how to complete the quest with the martial arts competition being messed up.
“Then do you allow me to pledge my oath to you?”
“If you’re okay with it.”
As a positive answer flowed out of Luibel’s mouth, a faint smile bloomed on Klaus’ lips.
“But this place is…”
Luibel said, looking around.
It was a bit chaotic as the commotion caused by Orent wasn’t completely sorted out yet.
Some people who hadn’t left the arena yet were watching them.
The empress was also observing with interest, and Anselot, who had stepped back, was also looking at them with his arms crossed crookedly.
However, as if the gazes of others didn’t matter, Klaus only looked straight up at Luibel and answered.
“If you allow it.”
As Luibel slowly nodded her head, Klaus bowed his head in a piously kneeling posture.
“I pledge my life and honor to my liege. Please accept my lifelong loyalty.”
Klaus recited the knight’s oath that was now forgotten.
Luibel picked up the sword resting on Klaus’ palm.
Drawing the sword, Luibel declared as she lowered the back of the blade over Klaus’ shoulder.
“You are my knight.”
[SYSTEM] You have become the of Klaus Winster! [Main Quest: Proof of a Hero (1/2)] Complete!▷Clear Condition
Option 2. Receive the knight’s oath from [√]
▶Reward: Experience +3000, Skill Point +10, Skill
[SYSTEM] Quest successful! [SYSTEM] You have gained 3000 experience. [SYSTEM] You have leveled up! (Lv.18) [SYSTEM] You have gained 10 skill points. [SYSTEM] You have acquired the skill . [SYSTEM] Quest completion reward has arrived in your mailbox. [This is the timeline separator]I don’t know what change of heart Klaus had, but thanks to that, I was able to complete the quest.
The second quest arrived immediately, but the remaining quest was very easy.
[Main Quest: Proof of a Hero (2/2)]The empress is filled with worries due to the oracle given to the empire. Declare to the world that you will embark on the , and gain the empress’s trust!
▶Reward upon success: Experience +3500, Skill Point +10, Priest’s Blessing
“It doesn’t seem like I particularly need to do anything?”
Kkirrit!
―There are times when you should take it easy!
Piya answered, sticking close to me.
The martial arts competition was originally held under the pretext of finding a knight to accompany me on the journey.
Since one of the two finalists was Klaus and the other was me, there was no need to continue the competition any further.
‘Alright, then I’ll inform the temple.’
When I told them I would leave with Klaus, Mother nodded her head in understanding.
However, it wasn’t like I could leave right away just because I said, “I’m leaving!”
Like other countries on the continent, Azester also had a temple.
I had to receive the priest’s blessing in front of the statue of the god, with the temple’s faithful as witnesses.
‘Those scamming bastards, what blessing…’
Mother cursed viciously, saying it was an unnecessary procedure.
‘Well, there’s no harm in receiving the priest’s blessing.’
Now all I had to do was wait for a reply from the temple while idling around.
That was the case…
That was definitely the case…!
Boooom—!
A white sphere of light brushed past my side and embedded into the training ground floor.
“Th, that almost hit me!”
I shouted in horror at Anselot who was mercilessly raining attacks.
Regardless, Anselot just looked down at me with his arms crossed crookedly.
“Your reaction is slow.”
The moment he murmured in a blunt tone.
Booooooom—!
An even louder roar than before exploded in my ears.
“Wait, wait, wait!”
__________
Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.
Synopsis:
To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.
But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.
He even had his eyes on another woman.
It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.
Su Mu expressed her disdain.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
She also wanted to embrace Xie Yi, who had silently stayed by her side in her previous life and committed suicide by taking poison after her death.
Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.
Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.
“Let’s divorce!”
—–
Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.
Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?
But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.
Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.
Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.
In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.
Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”
Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.
He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”
[Reading Guide]
1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.
2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.
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