Episode 20
After a formal greeting to the family head, the two immediately left the wedding hall.
“Branch.”
Lucerne whispered.
“The carriage will come soon. You can just get on and leave.”
“Right now?”
It was before Elisha even changed her clothes.
'There must be no way to pack my luggage.'
Elisha quickly gave up. An old pencil or notebook, and a few pieces of clothes that are about to fall out. It was just a few pennies that I had saved up like a treasure. She couldn't go to Jacob's villa to pack her things.
“I'll buy you a new one for everything you need.”
Elisha nodded her head.
“You are in a hurry.”
“He said he didn't want to play the first night here.”
“…….”
“I have to go. To a better place. Before tonight is over.”
Elisha was stunned by her.
'What a great man.'
Jacob and Marco act like clowns to please the family head. Lucerne's ability to act, prepared to leave right after the wedding, was amazing.
“Are we leaving alone? There must have been knights.”
“I am waiting for that. My subordinates said they needed time to prepare.”
“…… How much time did you give me to prepare?”
“Well. Right before entering the wedding hall, two or three hours ago.”
“…….”
There were no tyrants. Even the most trained knights will need time to dress up.
Elisha glanced at Lucerne as her. Elisha wondered if her lucerne was happy with her own attitude today. She was now a Lucerne person, whether she liked it or not, so there was nothing wrong with him looking good. Coincidentally, Lucerne spoke out first.
“What if I overdo it with an empty check?”
“What?”
“What do you mean I'm going to catch a bigger dragon?”
Lucerne's eyes were laughing as if they were having fun. Elisha searched her memory to see if he was such a laughing man.
“I have 10 years left in my 80s. Do you remember?”
“That inspiration, good memory.”
“You can catch me.”
Elisha stared at Lucerne.
“If you don't think it's necessary, you shouldn't do it.”
Lucerne smiled.
“Where do you teach me how to talk like that, and in monasteries they teach me how to make men go crazy?”
Elisha looked away from her. The cheeks turned red.
“Don't talk like that.”
Then she thought of Elisha.
'Even if I say this, I'll be kicked out anytime if I become useless.'
I knew it through her past life memories. Lucerne is not a man who reveals his female color. He has perverts, but he is a man who will fully control himself. He is not one to favor Elisha because of his sexuality.
'Furthermore…….'
Words that Carola delivered to alienate her.
'I want to live with a wife who can turn me into a ghost at any time…' ….'
It was a fact that I already knew. The reason why I felt bitter as if I had been killed was because I realized that Lucerne was also extremely Cartier. Thinking that if I became a useless chess piece, I would be kicked out right away, I felt like I was getting a sense of direction.
'I have to do it well, in order to have a relationship that uses each other like now.'
A mild headache came. It may have been because I had been in a space full of people in Cartier for a long time.
“What else is our little ghost thinking, why does it look like this?”
Elisha shrugged her shoulders.
“You said to be her wife. I was thinking if I had gone too far.”
“Thanks to you, the first family gathering was fun.”
It seemed to mean well done. Elisha nodded her head.
“…… Is that so. I will continue to do so.”
Lucerne smiled her incomprehensible smile, then caressed the nape of Elisha's neck and fell off.
“Are you angry, perhaps?”
“What is there to be angry about?”
Elisha answered quietly.
“Well. Didn't listen to you?”
Elisha had a strange feeling, as if someone had pricked her heart. It's just something to get over. Why does she talk like someone she wants to hurt? He was a strange man
“…… It's enough that you didn't ignore me in front of people. Besides, I don't care what Carola says.”
“Okay?”
Lucerne's eyebrows twitched. Elisha's doubts deepened. Do we need a more specific definition of relationship?
“I know my situation. Even if I'm married to you, it's up to me to survive. I won't be holding you back with useless emotions or foolishness. So don't worry.”
Lucerne looked down at Elisha quietly. Elisha was just a little nervous.
“Is that all?”
“Yes. That's all.”
Lucerne nodded her head. At that time, Lucerne's carriage finally arrived. Elisha thought she was glad her awkward silence was over.
Lucerne opened her carriage door. Elisha took his hand and climbed into her carriage.
The coachman started the carriage as soon as he had been instructed. Elisha caught her breath and stuck her head out the window of her carriage.
Now leave this hellish place. The corners of Elisha's mouth went up and down a little.
'Finally…….'
Even if Lucerne treats you harshly, it will be like heaven to you here.
It was then.
“Hey, you fucking bitch!”
I heard someone shouting. Elisha was startled.
“Four years will be cursed. Will you repay the kindness that fed and clothed you with an enemy?”
“…….”
“Lucerne, don't be flattered that you took a woman from me. Do you think I would have left that bitch alone? Of course I ate it once. Taking a girl who wasn't even a virgin, uh, excited. Damn bitches. Go to Hell!”
Elisha's brow furrowed. It was Jacob, who was drunk.
* * *
Jacob proudly came out to say something to Lucerne. However, he shrank just by looking at Lucerne's carriage. He slowly tried to take a step back.
Then Jacob noticed Elisha looking out the window. Elisha, with her bridal makeup on and her hair up in a bun, looked stunning in her.
'To think I didn't recognize that and was taken away by Lucerne. Damn I would have seen it once. If that bastard from Lucerne marries the bitch who once had a crush on me, she'll be able to talk about it for the rest of her life.'
She was patient However, Jacob's rage exploded when he saw a smile on Elisha's face as he leaned out the window. The fact that Lucerne's knights were not around gave him courage.
'This lowly thing turns my insides upside down and where does it laugh?'
So when Jacob started to move his carriage, he said he was right and cursed. He did not forget to adjust his voice so that the head of the temple could not hear him.
It was cool inside. That is until the carriage stopped.
* * *
Elisha's heart pounded. The memory of her violence was clear at any time. When Jacob screamed drunk like that, he would always hit Elisha. My stomach rumbled.
'What if I believe that?'
What if Lucerne believes the lie that Jacob slept with Elisha? I thought that. He knew the psychology of powerful men well. They were promiscuous and messy, and they couldn't stand a woman touched by someone else.
“Is that really cursing at you?”
Elisha nodded her head. Most of them were memories of her past life.
“Yes.”
Lucerne banged on the carriage wall. Her coachman stopped her carriage. He squeezed and opened his leather-gloved hand as he got out of the carriage.
“For a moment…….”
It was the day that the high-pressure Lucerne was satisfied with the family head. What Jacob said was bullshit. It wasn't worth responding to. Elisha tried to stop him.
“Don't close the window and look straight ahead.”
If Lucerne hadn't looked Elisha in the eyes and said so, she wouldn't have gotten off.
Lucerne opened the carriage door and went out. The next moment Elisha doubted her eyes.
Match!
As it was, Lucerne approached Jacob and blew Jacob's cheek with a large hand. Not even a single expression has changed.
“Uh…….”
Jacob's head was bent very slowly in front of Elisha's eyes. The blow was so hard that blood flowed from Jacob's mouth.
“Ji, what have you done……. I think the head of the household will forgive this…….”
“Raise your head. It's not over.”
“What?”
What did Jacob say?
Fuck!
“Oooh!”
And Lucerne's fist stuck in the other cheek as well. Lucerne abandoned the sprawling Jacob and got into the carriage. The last Jacob Elisha saw was crawling on the floor, bleeding from his nose.
Lucerne took off her glove and threw it on the floor.
Tak, the carriage door closed.
Lucerne looked at Elisha with her dark eyes and said.
“Elisha.”
“…….”
“Congratulation for the wedding.”
Elisha shut her mouth. Her heart was pounding.
Arguably, it was the most electrifying congratulation she had heard in both her lives.