Chapter 27

Ian had ridden a horse across the street to find Laritte.

But when he reached the gate, her carriage had already left the capital.

“How long has it been since the wagon of Count Brumayer had passed this area?”

A guard at the southern door recognized Ian and hurried to search through the entry and exit documents. A cursive handwriting grazing on the old clumps of the papers was seen.

“15…..It’s been 15 minutes, sire!”
“Thank you.”

They wouldn’t have gone that far.

Since the path outside the capital was dark, Ian borrowed a lamp from the gate before galloping away on his horse.

It was still early spring and the night breeze wasn’t much comforting. It bit his skin. His cheeks were getting red under the fierce fangs of the wind.

If it wasn’t Ian, he wouldn’t be able to endure it.

He continued combing through the various paths.

Riding a horse at night with a single source of light in one’s hand could be very dangerous.

Something in him once asked why he wanted to give up his life like this.

But all he could think about now was that he needed to find Laritte.

His outstanding horse-riding skills shone in the dark.

“Huff….”

He could faintly hear the sound of wheels scratching on the stony path somewhere in the distance.

Ian soon blocked the way by turning his horse right in front of it.

The horse that was leading the carriage neighed loudly at the sudden hindrance before coming to a stop.

The horse was scared. If it was trained well, he could have moved according to its master’s instructions, but Count Brumayer was too ignorant.

The driver of the carriage got furious.

“Hey! What’s wrong with you!”

Even when he slashed the reins on the horse’s back, it was static at its place.

Cursing under his breath, his gaze moved on to the man who stood in front of him.

“What do you think you’re doing in front of the Earl’s wagon?!”

Because of the darkness, he could only make out the silhouette of his opponent.

“……This is the wagon of Count Brumayer?”
“Well, it is! Don’t you know? Can’t you see the crest of the red bird? Come on, get out of our way!”

Ian jumped down from his horse and walked to the carriage. It was not long before he appeared under the light of the carriage.

His gold orbs were dangerously glistening over his dark skin. It could not have been more frightening than a lion appearing in the middle of a mountainous road. A stance intimidating enough to make shivers run down in one’s spine.

without even realizing it.

the

carriage behind the two

Laritte was there.

lava. A thought occurred to him that they would have treated Laritte in a very different

person had treated her well, the situation wouldn’t have gone

approaching

“Get lost…..Right now.”

their life, even when he didn’t

and got dissolved into the darkness

of the moon, guiding them to nowhere. Still,

soon as they disappeared, Ian walked to the rear of

noticed the carriage to be

a carriage

the handle,

He murmured a

see his wife. Why were there so many interruptions?

out of its sheath and situated

swordmasters who would waste their energy in

clattered and fell to the ground, while the door slowly opened

the weak figure

that was once shining in the dress he gave her was nowhere to be found and

looked like a herbivore being driven to a dead

eyes widened as they

called out to her.

“Laritte!!”

of relief and resentment, which she had finally recovered from, passed through her weak stature.

She gasped out.

“…..Ian?”

just a few hours ago that

his eyes to the ground. But the anger did not leave him.

going to without

answer. He kept gazing down, waiting for her reply. But, it never came. So,

with tears. It wasn’t long before they spilled out, flowing along

“…….”

who pressed down her lips, only cried with a calm

it contained desperation, the pain in

was the largest emotional change she

called her with her name. Her

but her own.

desperate to search

her as the Duchess?

somehow saddened

“Why…..”

weakly blinking at him.

you yelling at

wasn’t her fault that she didn’t know she would

– Redra – thought that Rose was going to be the Duchess. Even when

in the Empire

commoner. And an illegitimate child was obviously considered ominous to be a bride for an aristocrat. They were a living insult and a sin to

was strange that Ian had come to

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