After I Died, My Husband Went Mad [EN]: Chapter 46

Sevelia lay in bed, gazing at the ceiling. The swirling patterns of the wood grain captivated her. Her blue eyes moved as if swimming through them.

Just yesterday, she had resolved one question and taken on another. The former concerned her illness, and the latter was related to the past.

‘Life is a thorny path, indeed; it’s never easy.’

Sevelia glanced at the book she had been reading and pressed her lips tightly. Today was the day Dihart would be free. The wording felt strange, but she couldn’t find a more appropriate term.

Sevelia knew that she had been diligently refusing to think about him. In the early days of arriving at the institute, she thought he would leave soon, and after that, she focused only on not being swayed and pushing him away.

“Hoo…….”

But as the day to face him arrived, her heart raced madly. Sevelia placed her hand on her chest and took several deep breaths. Nevertheless, the tension did not easily dissipate.

‘What will he say as soon as he sees me?’

Will he be angry? Will he resent me? No, he might even demand that I return. Seeing him wailing in his nightmares as he experienced my death, he might not… but you never know.

‘But how on earth did he know I was here and come after me?’

Dihart might not know, but Sevelia thought that he knew she was alive and had tracked her down to this place. Her assumption seemed reasonable at first glance. Sevelia didn’t know what Dihart had been doing all this time.

So Sevelia’s thoughts only lingered on the idea that Dihart might have felt a little guilty and regretted it after her death. She never dreamed that Dihart would suddenly try to uncover the truth of her death after she died, close Hillend Hall, imprison his family in the tower, and get stabbed in the side while looking for the nanny.

“Don’t show any wavering; I have to face him calmly and composedly.”

Sevelia put her clasped hands to her forehead and chanted as if praying. Even when Claude knocked on the door, she couldn’t let go of her tension.

Thus, the moment of reunion finally arrived. And Sevelia froze, having blown away all the composure she had barely gathered.

“Nice to meet you. I’m Dihart.”

Dihart Inverness, that fierce and twisted man, was bowing shyly to her. He glanced at her with a pure and innocent face she had never seen before, then turned his head away.

“Di… Dihart?”

“Are you someone who knows me? I’m sorry. I’ve lost my memory recently……”

Sevelia felt like she was going to lose her mind at his bright smile.

* * *

Of course, Dihart’s amnesia was a pathetic trick.

Claude stared at Dihart, who was putting on a disgusting act, with cold eyes, and turned his head away because he felt nauseous. Wartz, who was sitting across from him, didn’t seem to care much and was only focused on finishing his meal.

He recalled what had happened the previous evening, before Dihart’s restraints were released. It happened after Wartz came in with a bunch of keys.

“Wait, are you trying to release him now?”

When Claude blocked him, not yet ready, Wartz tilted his head and shook the bunch of keys. He was slightly frowning. He looked as if he was being unexpectedly disturbed just as he was about to finish a long-delayed task.

“I got permission. I asked three times, and all three times they said it was okay.”

“But you need to know exactly what the relationship is between the two……”

“I understand that you’re going crazy with affection and pity for your nephew, whom you’re meeting for the first time in almost twenty years, Cardy, but your nephew is the head of the largest family in the North and an adult who is twenty-nine years old this year.”

Wartz clicked his tongue and scanned Claude, who was standing as if blocking Dihart, from head to toe.

“Let’s be honest. You’re not worried about Miss Bella; you just don’t want to admit that your nephew is the one who’s going to harm her, so you’re trying to isolate the two of them.”

“Wartz, that’s harsh.”

“Haa……. Claude, I know you have this naive hope that such a terrible thing won’t happen if you don’t let them meet. The two are adults who can make independent judgments, and you have no right to stop them. So move. I have to release the restraints.”

He felt breathless. Claude opened his mouth to argue, but only a whistling sound came out. Behind him, Dihart let out a long sigh.

“I guess I wasn’t very trustworthy.”

“Considering the patient’s well-known behavior, I don’t find you very trustworthy.”

Wartz pointed out his misdeeds that were published in every newspaper. Dihart’s brow furrowed, but soon he relaxed his expression and shook his head.

“The things you’re worried about won’t happen. For example, arson, or hiring someone to commit murder… things like that.”

Dihart said with a chilly smile. For some reason, the things he pointed out one by one were quite eerie, but there was nothing he could do about it now. He chuckled and looked at Claude.

“If you’re so worried, I’ll tell you just one thing. But keep in mind that I’m only doing this because I think it’s absurd to be treated like this.”

Claude, who had been looking down at the floor, flinched. Wartz stopped taking something out of his inside pocket. Dihart raised the corner of his mouth and said as if whispering.

“It’s a very simple story. The woman downstairs is hiding the truth from me. Well, it could just be that I’m crazy. But I won’t back down until I know what her lie is.”

Whether I’m crazy and believe she’s the real Sevelia, or she’s a trap created to break my mind. It was a very simple statement, and Dihart had no intention of returning until he found out one of the two answers.

“So I will never harm her, Claude. Of course, if that truth is a plot to hurt me, then I’ll have to think about it then.”

“Dihart, you…….”

“Now that you’ve roughly understood, stop interfering in the strange things between her and me. Please leave me alone no matter what I do in the future. It’s definitely a new experience to be treated like a teenage brat at this age, but it’s a bit unpleasant.”

Dihart finished speaking with a disgusted look. Wartz, narrowing his eyes, took something out of his inside pocket. He let out a long sigh as if he didn’t like it and muttered as if to be heard.

“I’m glad I searched the warehouse.”

“What is that?”

Claude, seeing the small box Wartz was holding, approached him. Wartz let Claude take the box. A clicking sound was heard, and Claude asked in a voice full of questions.

“Earrings…?”

“It’s a control device.”

Wartz picked up the earrings with red jewels. Holding the key in one hand and the control device that looked like earrings in the other, he said to Dihart.

“Either accept both, or reject both. There is no option to choose only one.”

“Ha. You have really wonderful friends, Uncle. Okay, I’ll accept as much as you want, but there’s a condition.”

Wartz tilted his head as if asking what it was. Dihart, smiling as he looked at the brilliantly shining red jewels, continued.

“Don’t interfere with whatever I do at the first meeting with her tomorrow morning.”

“I can’t agree to such vague and ambiguous conditions.”

“It’s not difficult, Doctor. I told you, I won’t touch a hair on her head. I want the truth, and she’s hiding it. And how to get it out is all a matter of method……”

He smiled slowly and looked at his wrists tied with restraints.

“I just want to build trust with her from the beginning. So will you cooperate?”

Crack!

At that moment, a gruesome cracking sound erupted from the black iron restraints and the bed frame. Claude’s eyes narrowed coldly. Wartz’s mouth hardened. His fully recovered power far exceeded their predictions.

“I’m merciful, so I’ll let you choose one of the two. Cooperate and go your separate ways peacefully without anything happening, or don’t cooperate and burn to death here together. What will you do?”

Tick, tock. Hundreds of sparks repeatedly flared and disappeared in the air. This was a clear threat, and at this moment, there was no one who could stop him.

“…He’s crazy, indeed.”

Claude, hearing Wartz’s muttering, snatched the control device and the key from Wartz’s hand. He said to Dihart in a growling voice.

“If there’s even the slightest disturbance, you’ll be kicked out immediately. I’ll use all my strength to kick you out.”

“I told you not to worry. I keep my promises.”

“You’re good at talking.”

Claude immediately inserted the control devices into both of Dihart’s ears. With a feeling as if a hot wind had blown, the seal of the control device was activated.

‘I can break this anytime.’

If he used that much power, he would probably cough up blood and become a patient again… but he didn’t care. Feeling the tingling sensation and the warm blood flowing down, he smiled. It was like a scene from a horror novel.

* * *

Claude was worried even as he released his restraints. What if this madman breaks his promise and harms Miss Bella? But his nephew was unfortunately a politely crazy bastard.

“Nice to meet you.”

How could there be a guy who has gone crazy so politely? At the gathering for breakfast, he appeared before Bella, who was nervous, with a pure and innocent demeanor like a naive country boy.

“Dihart?”

Bella called his name in a bewildered tone, but Claude and Wartz had no choice but to keep their mouths shut. Dihart was exuding a murderous aura that told them to stay still. If they revealed the truth here, the entire institute would be engulfed in flames.

‘Besides, if they are really deceiving each other, there’s nothing more I can do.’

Bella is hiding the truth from him and pretending not to know, and Dihart is acting a lie to find out the truth. If you are in a position to be threatened with your life, it is right to step back at this point.

“Are you someone who knows me? I’m sorry. I’ve lost my memory recently……”

Claude lost his appetite.