Don’T Get Caught By Your Husband! [EN]: Chapter 70

Don’t Get Caught by Your Husband! Episode 70. Helper (2) (70/130)

#Episode 70. Helper (2)

2024.05.09.

Soon, Escalio’s tightly closed lips parted.

“You think I’m not focused on training?”

“Seems like it…?”

“Then what am I focused on?”

“I wouldn’t know…?”

Escalio frowned immediately at Graham’s foolish answer.

He wanted to hurl insults at him, who was blinking blankly, but in fact, he seemed to be annoyed at himself, not Graham.

The same voice had been ringing in his head for days.

Several times a day, several times even when he was living as if nothing had happened, several dozen times even when he was just living an ordinary life…….

Her voice rang in his head, disrupting him and instantly stealing his nerves.

Even though he knew it might be another outrageous lie…….

“…She said she’d come back.”

“What?”

Graham asked back, toward Escalio, who was muttering.

Escalio bent down, picked up the dagger that had hit the back of his head, and raised the corner of his lips.

“No, go find your sword. You must have been prepared for the price of daring to hit me in the back of the head, right?”

* * *

“Oh… Saintess, I ended up giving birth to his child a while ago. My husband won’t even dream of it. Fortunately, the baby was born with hair the same color as my husband’s… It’s as if the child was born with heavenly luck.”

The noblewoman sitting in front of Belladona unfolded the fan she was holding and began to create a breeze.

“My dream is for that child to succeed my husband as Marquis [a hereditary title of nobility]. If I can continue his will even in that way…….”

Belladona looked at her with a picturesque smile.

Inside the dimly lit confessional, Belladona blinked, looking at the pattern on the wallpaper on the opposite side.

She couldn’t count how many times this noblewoman, who was sighing in front of her, had come.

A few days after Belladona returned, the confessional was opened, and the Papal States were once again filled with believers.

“…Okay. You’re telling me to raise the child as is, right?”

“…….”

“It’s been seven years since I married my husband, but seeing as there are no heirs, it means there’s nothing to expect from my husband’s side anyway, right? Yes! I understand, Saintess.”

Although she didn’t say anything special, the noblewoman smiled contentedly and folded the fan she had been unfolding.

“I, I’ll try to raise that child well. If he resembles him rather than my husband, he’ll grow up to be a much more affectionate and warm-hearted man. He’ll be a son I can rely on more, too. Thank you so much, Saintess!”

The noblewoman then got up from her seat and bowed lightly.

Belladona smiled back at her.

Although she had committed an immoral act, the noblewoman’s face looked at least very refreshed and happy as she left the confessional.

As the noblewoman left the confessional, the priest standing in front of the door poked his head inside.

He was the priest who was in charge of guiding the believers in order in front of the confessional door today.

“Saintess, the next believer is waiting right away. Shall I tell them to come in?”

‘Really, I can’t rest at all…….’

Belladona bit her lower lip, exhausted from not being able to leave the confessional all morning.

Listening to the believers’ complaints was something she hadn’t done in a long time, and she thought it was something she couldn’t do.

‘How did I endure all day back then?’

At that time, she had just opened her eyes as Saintess Belladona, so she was out of her mind, and she was overwhelmed by everything in the Papal States, so she didn’t have time to look elsewhere.

Besides, compared to her previous life as a farmer’s daughter…… It wasn’t something that could be said to be more difficult.

‘But now…….’

After enjoying a free life with Escalio in Griblatta and returning to the confessional, she felt even more stuffy in this narrow and dark place.

It was like a bird that had been flying in the vast sky was suddenly trapped in a cage.

‘Besides, if I get lost in my thoughts while listening to the believers’ stories…….’

Before she knew it, she was naturally thinking of Escalio.

Walking around Griblatta Castle with him, going on outings to see beautiful scenery from time to time, going to festivals, and going to the sea, the forest, and Cirelenia.

And bumping into him and lying on the bed…….

Being immersed in happy memories and then suddenly realizing her situation of sitting still in the confessional was a more painful and sad thing than she thought.

“Saintess……? Are you okay?”

The priest, who was sticking his face in, asked again.

Belladona turned her head and looked at the clock on the wall.

Anyway, until the Papal States closed in the evening, Belladona had to listen to the stories of the believers endlessly.

She smiled weakly and nodded.

“Yes, then…… Next believer, please come inside.”

With the priest’s guidance, the next believer came in.

Just as she thought the robe the believer was wearing was unfamiliar yet familiar, he took off the robe he was wearing after sitting down.

Huh……? Belladona’s eyes widened as she checked the believer’s face.

“Madam, please don’t be surprised.”

The sound of the long beard that the wizard had carefully hidden falling down was heard.

That person is……?

Belladona, who was looking at him, was so surprised that she almost got up from her seat.

The old wizard Fabion took off the robe he was wearing and put it on the floor, opened the bag he had brought, and took out the things inside.

What, why is this person here……!

“Since you don’t give me any time, Madam, this is the only way I could think of.”

Ah, so he applied for confession pretending to be a believer and came all the way here?

Belladona looked at the closed confessional door with an uneasy face. Should I just kick this person out for being a troublemaker……?

“I know it’s uncomfortable, but please give me a little time. It won’t be a loss for you, Madam. Please believe me.”

At the voice filled with earnestness, Belladona sighed helplessly.

Well, since he’s come this far, let’s hear what he wants to say.

If it’s a strange story, I’ll really kick him out……!

As Belladona made up her mind and turned her body completely to face him, Fabion’s face brightened slightly.

He took out a thick book from his old bag as if he was excited and put it on his lap.

“After leaving Griblatta, I traveled around the world in search of sages [wise and knowledgeable people].”

Fabion said as he carefully turned the cover of the thick book.

‘Why sages all of a sudden?’ Belladona still looked at him with a lukewarm face.

“The phenomenon of suddenly opening one’s eyes in another person’s body. The sages I met said they had never seen or heard of such a phenomenon directly.”

“……!”

Belladona, who was listening to his voice, widened her eyes and straightened her back.

The phenomenon of suddenly opening one’s eyes in another person’s body.

That was clearly referring to the fact that she had opened her eyes in the Saintess’s body after her death in her previous life.

‘This wizard…… He really knows everything?’

When she thought that everything had been seen through, she felt goosebumps on the back of her head and her whole body seemed to stiffen.

Fabion, who was looking at her reaction with gray eyes, opened his mouth.

“I guess my guess is correct.”

‘Ah…….’

Belladona belatedly made a flustered expression and bit her lower lip.

She should have maintained a nonchalant expression until the end, but she regretted being so surprised too late.

“Don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone. I’m here to help you, Madam.”

Belladona swallowed hard.

She couldn’t figure out what he wanted. Why is he trying to help me?

“I know you’re very doubtful, but please understand that the original Saintess Belladona was a precious relationship to me. If it wasn’t for her…… I wouldn’t have been alive until now.”

“…….”

“So I just want to help the Saintess and you, Madam.”

Fabion was able to save his life thanks to the Saintess? She couldn’t know, but it seemed that there was a more complicated story hidden between the two, not just a simple doctor-patient relationship.

“So will you listen to my story? This old wizard has been investigating the absurd phenomenon that happened to you in his own way.”

At Fabion’s question, Belladona, who had been pondering for a long time, slowly nodded her head.

She still couldn’t completely trust him, but as Belladona, she had always been curious and frustrated about the fact that she had opened her eyes in the Saintess’s body, so it wouldn’t be bad to hear what he had found out.

“Thank you for giving me the opportunity. Then I’ll explain what I’ve learned.”

He said, looking down at the thick book he had brought.

“As I said a little while ago, the phenomenon of suddenly opening one’s eyes in another person’s body has not been studied much.”

‘I guess there’s no one else in this world besides me who was born again in another person’s body, especially in the Saintess’s body, after dying.’

“When I was gradually getting tired of not being able to grasp anything, I heard a very interesting story from an eastern sage.”

Fabion’s hand, which had been turning the thick book page by page, stopped at one page.

He turned the book over with both hands so that Belladona could read it.

[Records of the Saint.]

‘What is this……?’

Belladona narrowed her eyes and leaned her upper body forward, focusing on the page that Fabion had opened for her.

“The eastern sage has mainly studied people like the Saintess. So…… People who were ordinary people but gained great divine power in exchange for something, that is, about the Saint.”

Saintess Belladona was a person who gained divine power in exchange for her voice when she was young.

Divine power could be manifested to anyone, regardless of gender or age, and there was no clear tendency or characteristic about it.

“In the meantime, I have been focusing on the phenomenon itself that you experienced, Madam. That is, the fact that you suddenly opened your eyes in someone else’s body. Conditions, objects, characteristics, and ways to return to ‘possession.’ But after meeting the eastern sage, I was able to realize that my approach was slightly wrong.”

‘And is this what Fabion thinks is the right approach?’

Belladona, who was listening to his explanation, began to read the letters again.

Records about the Saint…….

“I think it’s not a simple ‘possession,’ but a possession as ‘one with divine power.'”

‘So that’s why he searched for records about the Saint?’

Belladona, who was looking at him for a moment, reached out and picked up paper and pen.

At this point, she had something to say to him.