Don’T Get Caught By Your Husband! [EN]: Chapter 53

Don’t Get Caught by Your Husband! 53. Kidnapping (53/130)

#53. Kidnapping

2024.04.22.

Soon, the maid’s displeased voice was heard.

“Hey. I betrayed the master I’ve served for so long because of you. You better take responsibility until the end.”

“Hehe… If I don’t take responsibility for you, who will? Hurry up and pack your things and get up. The broker who will take you to the border said he’ll be here soon.”

“Okay.”

After the conversation ended, the maid and the man got up and began to clean up.

Wait a minute! What about me…?

Belladonna flinched and shrank her shoulders.

“Wait, what about the Lady?”

“Let’s just leave her. How long do you think she can last in this cold? She’ll freeze to death soon. They’ll just think she got lost and died.”

Oh, no…! If they leave her behind, she’ll really be trapped here, not knowing where she is, and have no choice but to freeze to death.

“Then wait. We should untie her before we go.”

“No, she might escape down below. Let’s just leave her. By the time someone finds this place, she’ll be a corpse.”

Belladonna raised her head at the thought she didn’t even want to imagine.

A c-corpse…?

“But I’m still worried. The Lord cherishes her quite a bit… What if they find out later that she died and come after us to the death?”

“Hey! How many times do I have to tell you? To me, the Imperial Knights and the Lord are all the same. If you’re going to be so weak, just go back to the castle!”

“What? How can I go back now!”

The man and the maid started arguing.

Perhaps their movements grew larger as their emotions intensified, a pebble on the cave floor bounced and hit Belladonna’s body.

Belladonna, who had been concentrating all her attention on listening to their voices, was startled by the pebble that suddenly hit her and bounced away, and she flinched.

“Huh, what? This woman’s awake?”

The maid, who didn’t miss it, shouted.

Ah, I’ve been caught…!

“O-oh, let’s go quickly!”

The maid, who had gotten up, grabbed the man and pulled him back.

However, the man who was grabbed by her didn’t move, but slowly tilted his head and grinned as he opened his mouth.

“No. Wait a minute.”

“What are you going to do!”

The man, who approached Belladonna who was lying on the floor struggling, cut off the cloth that was tying her mouth with the small sword he had been handling a moment ago.

Ah…!

At the same time as the cloth that had been tightly blocking her mouth was loosened, she felt a sharp pain where the sword had brushed past.

“Ah, shoot. I accidentally scarred your face.”

The man spat out in a voice mixed with laughter.

The maid, who was standing next to him, asked in a displeased and anxious voice.

“What are you really going to do…! Why did you untie that?”

“She can’t speak anyway. I’m just letting her breathe comfortably.”

The man soon raised his sword again and took it near the cloth covering Belladonna’s eyes.

At his actions, the maid, who had become uneasy, looked around and opened her mouth.

“Don’t tell me you’re going to untie the string covering her eyes too? Why are you doing this? Let’s just abandon her here!”

“You know, I’ve been doing this for a long time, and…”

The man touched the cloth with the sharp tip of his sword.

Perhaps he grazed it again, as she felt a tingling pain below her eye.

Belladonna frowned without realizing it.

“We have to completely cut off any possible seeds.”

“What are you talking about?”

“It doesn’t matter since she can’t speak anyway. Let’s just gouge out her eyeballs. How about it?”

What…? Belladonna stopped moving, doubting her ears.

The maid was also surprised, as she asked in a much smaller voice.

“…D-do we really have to go that far?”

“That way, she won’t be able to say anything, and she won’t be able to see anything.”

After finishing speaking, the man put strength into the hand holding the sword and completely cut off the cloth.

Suddenly, Belladonna frowned and looked ahead at the light pouring through her pupils.

She could see the maid, whom she had encountered in the hallway a little while ago, and a large, threatening-looking man sitting side by side, squatting and looking at her.

Quickly turning her eyes and looking around, the place she was in looked like an abandoned cave in the forest, far from the castle.

Cold wind blew in with small snowflakes through the cave entrance in the distance, and cold water droplets dripped from above.

On the other side, deep inside, only darkness that she couldn’t see the end of was settled.

W-where is this place…

“…”

The man’s pupils widened as he checked Belladonna’s blue eyes.

Soon, the corners of his lips gently turned upwards.

“Wow, this… She’s an incredibly beautiful woman?”

“Ah, let’s just go. I have a bad feeling about this.”

“Do you see this? I love this look so much.”

“What kind of look are you talking about?”

“This, you know. The look of being so scared of me that you don’t know what to do. Like a herbivore in front of a predator.”

The man’s dark eyes gleamed as he said that.

Belladonna, who was looking at him, trembled her shoulders in fear.

The man in front of her now was completely insane.

‘…How did I end up like this?’

Realizing where she was now, she was dumbfounded by her situation.

She had clearly met Scarlett in the morning and had a good time with Escalion, but in the afternoon, her heart had dropped to the floor because of the letter sent by the Pope, and now she was about to have her eyeballs gouged out by two unknown murderers.

Thud.

Tears that had been pooling up fell to the floor.

What did I do wrong…? Suddenly, a surge of sorrow came over her.

I, I would have rather died of a fever back then! It wasn’t enough to be reborn as the Saintess and be oppressed by the Pope, and now I’ve finally met my husband and was about to be free and happy…!!

I don’t know who you are, but why are you doing this to me, really!!

“Even crying is pretty?”

The man holding the sword approached with a bitter smile.

He opened his mouth, pointing the sharp tip of the sword in front of Belladonna’s eyes.

“It’s a shame I won’t be able to see those pretty eyes anymore. Please, forget that you saw us. Madam.”

Belladonna closed her eyes tightly in fear. The man chuckled and lifted her eyelids with his fingers.

With her face roughly grabbed by the man, Belladonna thought.

‘If there is a god, why are you doing this to me? If you were going to do this, why didn’t you just kill me back then?’

Tears kept flowing down her already scarred cheek.

But perhaps because her whole body was frozen from the cold, she didn’t feel much of a stinging or painful sensation.

Behind her resentful feelings, Escalion came to mind.

Thinking that her eyes would be gouged out like this, she wanted to see him so badly, even if it was for the last time.

Escalion’s gentle voice calling her name rang in her ears.

She missed that low voice so much.

She also felt sad and resentful at the thought that if she died like this, she would never be able to resolve the misunderstanding with Escalion.

“Hey, wait a minute…”

At that time, the maid who was standing next to him turned her head towards the dark depths of the cave and grabbed the man’s arm.

“What’s wrong? Let go. I have to gouge them out at once. That way, the beautiful Lady won’t suffer as much.”

“No, wait a minute… Didn’t you hear a strange noise?”

“It’s probably the sound of the wind. The more you do this, the longer she’ll be afraid.”

The man shook off the maid’s arm as if he was annoyed.

Woowoong.

“A-ah, no! What is this sound? I just heard a strange noise! Didn’t you hear it? Hey, hey, let’s just go!”

At the maid’s urgent words, the man turned his head and looked at where she was looking.

“Ugh, really…”

“Could that be… A b-bear sound?”

“This is a bear cave, but bears hibernate in the cold winter, you stupid idiot [a mild insult].”

“Uh…? Hey, hey, that! Aah!”

The maid, who had been restless and looking inside, found something and widened her eyes.

She hurriedly took a step back and fell over a stone, tumbling down.

“Oh, really… What is it?”

The maid kept failing to utter the right words and pointed her finger at the inside of the cave, kicking the floor with all her might with both legs.

“B-b…”

“Why are you being like this…? Uh…? What, what is that!”

The man, who had been clicking his tongue and frowning, turned to look at where the maid was pointing and screamed.

As the maid who was rolling on the floor said, a huge bear that should have been hibernating was crawling towards the cave entrance, drooling from its snout.

Its bloodshot eyes were sharp, as if it was angry at being awakened, and white steam was constantly rising from around its warm body.

The bear, who had stopped for a moment and looked at the maid and the man, opened its large snout wide.

“Woowooeong!”

“R-run away!”

The man holding the small sword quickly got up and ran towards the cave entrance.

The maid, who had been rolling on the floor, also regained her senses and chased after the man.

“Hey! Take me with you, you cowardly bastard [stronger insult]!”

Belladonna also tried to get up, but perhaps because the drug hadn’t completely worn off, she couldn’t put strength into her thighs.

Ah, oh, what do I do? Belladonna roughly rubbed her wrists against the sharp cave wall, trying to untie her hands tied behind her back.

However, the tightly tightened string didn’t loosen, but only added small scratches to the back of her hand.

The bear slowly took heavy steps and approached Belladonna.

The bear was staring straight at her with its gleaming eyes.

“Ha… Am I destined to be torn apart by a bear in the end?”

Belladonna frowned and muttered quietly.

A hazy feeling from the drug that hadn’t completely worn off, a faint stinging sensation on her face, and blood and tears constantly falling to the floor, and her wrists that had become a complete mess…

Is this my end?

It was so absurd that she was about to let out a hollow laugh.

Belladonna looked at the bear’s sharp teeth visible between its open snout.

I hope my end isn’t too painful…

Her vision gradually darkened as she breathed roughly. Yeah, let’s just pass out.

“Woowooeong!”

The bear raised its snout and made a sound once again.

Belladonna, who had been slowly blinking her eyes, soon lost consciousness.

‘But…’

The bear’s appearance, which was captured in her vision for the last time, somehow felt very familiar.