42. Look, this is my wife

I already had a death script that seemed ready to spring into action, but the contents of the other scripts were actually saying I should “take the fall” for it. Even if you wanted to clear your name, isn’t that a bit unreasonable ?Isn’t that a bit too much trouble!?

Unfortunately, I didn’t have the chance to ponder what this Claudilus, the witch the saint told me was “one of the fairies,” was really thinking. After all… with the death script appearing, I had completely lost any ability to act . The crisis was truly closing in!

And just at this troublesome moment, the foolish saint beside me started waiting!

“Euclid! Are you out of your mind? Coming here to seek death! Do you think you’re some kind of hero!?”

Damn, do you think I came here for fun!?

“Even if it didn’t work out, could you not speak ill of your savior? Your Highness the Saint.”

The most important thing is that you’re making a fool of yourself in front of the enemy. I see Ikusis, and it seems your head is stuffed with nothing but mush.

“It’s because of idiots like you that I’m going to die! I could have begged for mercy, but now it’s all your fault! You’re the one to blame! Idiot!”

Since I couldn’t move anyway, I simply lay back and stared at the ceiling.

“I was just thinking that later you could say a few good words for me at the summit of the nations, you know?”

“With my life on the line, you’re still talking nonsense!?”

“So, that means if there’s a chance, you would definitely speak up for me?”

“Ahhh! I’ll agree to that before I die, okay!?”

The foolish saint started to shout in despair, but…

Good, that’s exactly the line I was waiting for, along with Ikusis’s affirmative promise that appeared in the script!

As for the other side, the moment I met the gaze of the purple witch, with her smug expression, it no longer seemed significant to me.

“If? Euclid, just like her, you have no ‘if’ left!”

I saw that within the floating purple sphere, something sharp seemed ready to “shoot out” violently. While the initial target was definitely the saint, I was a hundred percent sure I was the next one to meet my end! However, just then, the magic sword Alsas, which had fallen to the ground, spun up and managed to block the light arrow shot from that sphere with its blade!

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I hope this captures the essence and atmosphere of the original text!

“Useless Alsace!”

The purple fairy seemed unfazed by it all, even breaking into a sinister laugh. “You’re just a weapon fairy; without a user, what can you do? Want to save these two?”

“Ahh~ I’m so annoyed by you, you purple old hag. I know you high-level fairies are all noble and stuff—but… I’m not stupid. Do you really think I’d let some weakling, especially a stinky man, drag me into danger?”

The direction in which Alsace flew off… was outside the hall!

Suddenly realizing something, the fairy immediately turned her gaze toward me. It seemed that in the script, her top priority was actually to “kill me,” rather than to protect the saintess!? However, it was already too late for her to make a move!

This time, the “cold wind” blowing in from outside was strong enough to freeze her arm halfway in an instant, and her gaze toward me turned fierce!

“Ou·Ji·Li·De! You really… will turn to ashes!”

Miss Fairy, I don’t know why you’re so angry with me, but… you can’t possibly think I’d come running here just because of a single word from Ikusis, right? My wife is fierce; I don’ t want to go back and kneel on a washboard!

So, my earlier actions were merely because Kephir hadn’t arrived yet, and I needed to step in early to save Ikusis, while also… tricking this foolish saintess into making a promise to clear my name, so she wouldn’t change her mind later.

In that brief moment of pause, Kephir had already arrived in front of me, all alone, but that was enough. At a time like this, there was no need for any spectators to come in after the fact.

“Turn him to ashes? If you can do that, then go ahead and try~”

The howling wind unleashed this time was on a completely different level from when I used Alsace. As the purple fairy hurriedly retreated, the ground in front of her had already frozen over, and then it exploded! She immediately commanded the sphere in her hand to defend, but the next moment, Kephir’s sword followed up, shattering her defense like broken glass, bursting open from the center! It shattered into pieces all over the ground!

In the next instant, however, the fairy herself transformed into an afterimage. Could it be that she had planned a backup from the very beginning!? Just as I was thinking this and preparing to remind Kephir of the script, the real Claudia appeared, but her feet were stuck to a layer of sword hilt, forcing her to gasp for breath as she struggled to break free, then fled in a panic. Kephir chased her as if she were not a dangerous boss, but merely a large butterfly.

This… completely negated my need to check the script for Kephir, right?

Not being able to cling to any strong ally, I simply lay back, watching the foolish saintess shiver in fear.

“Don’t panic, it’s just a small scene.”

“But, but…”

“I told you, as long as you’re still within the borders of the Great Ying Empire, before you help me clear my name, you won’t encounter any unexpected troubles.”

With that, I casually pointed at Kephir. “And… you see, Kephir.”

“…”

Ikusis fell silent. It seemed that despite being foolish, she at least had the basic sense to know who was easy to provoke and who wasn’t. At the very least, the Kephir who could obliterate the heavens, the earth, and even the air now appeared to her as the “most formidable” type.

“Just to let you know, that marriage certificate she slapped on your face that day isn’t fake; it’s real. Although there’s no formal marriage contract, in name, she’s already my wife.”

Ikusis was struggling to swallow.

“From now on, whether you draw a knife on me or ride on me… you can figure it out for yourself.”

At this, Ikusis trembled even more for a while, and then the script vividly captured her current feeling of helplessness.

[Ikusis has backed down.]

“Ha~ haha~ I never thought about wanting to kill you, Ou Ji Li De, that was all a misunderstanding~ misunderstanding~”

Come on, if I hadn’t secretly dealt with the knife you stole last night, do you think Kephir would care about you today? Even if that purple fairy witch didn’t kill you, Kephir would probably stab you again.

After such cowardly words last night, Ikusis…

Also came to lie down beside me, pretending to be dead, as if the dangerous personality she had shown when I first arrived, which had nothing to do with being a “fool,” was just a game.

“No, but Euclid, you’ve really gotten yourselves into trouble now. Claudia’s true form isn’t here; even if she were to die, she would just disappear and then reappear at her true form. And… as for the true form , it’s with the master, and the master is… very dangerous.”

“…”

Phew~ This fairy, and the master of the fairy, these worries you don’t need to take on for me.

After all, even with guesses and doubts, deep down, I already had an answer that didn’t make me happy at all.