I Raised My Husband Wrong

“Ensody. What do you think of this situation, huh?”

Duke Everett asked again as if to work.

Nsody clenched her fists and stared at the table, then jumped up from her seat and went back to her room. There was no one to stop it.

Duke Everett looked at his disappearing back and licked his tongue, then continued eating casually.

There was only one person missing from the dinner table, but everything was running as quietly as before.

After every meal, the peacock opened his mouth by tapping the tip of his mouth with a napkin.

“… Violetta.”

“Yes Yes!”

“Are you having a good class?”

Violetta had been taking lessons to become a Duchess for some time. She nodded quickly and smiled brightly.

“sure. I’m working very hard. Mrs. Roneaz gave me a lot of compliments.”

“Mrs. Roneaz is not very reliable because she is a person of praise.”

“My, you said that starting tomorrow, you will be conducting a higher level liberal arts class! And I read all the books my father gave me. It was a very helpful book.”

“When did I give you that book, and now you have read it?”

“No, of course I’ve read it all before!”

Violetta’s smiling lips trembled slightly like convulsions.

“okay. Be more cautious in the future. You will soon become the Duchess. You must never be such a failure.”

The peacock’s eyes blinked, and it touched the seat of the departed Nsody and left. Violetta nodded her head.

“I will do my best to be the perfect daughter.”

Then the duke got up from his seat as if satisfied.
After the meal, Duke Everett headed to the Imperial Palace with Violetta.

It was to talk to the emperor about the promotion of marriage between Duke Valtail and Violetta.

“I felt it when I attended the last banquet, but I think the imperial palace is really grand and wonderful.”

Violetta said with a slightly excited face as she walked down the corridors of the Imperial Palace.

He was a well-educated, but still curious, 12-year-old child. It was natural for a child to be drawn to the splendid imperial palace.

‘what?’

As she was examining the Imperial Palace, she saw a familiar silhouette passing by on the other side of the hallway. She immediately grabbed the Duke of Everett’s collar.

“Father, over there, maybe….”

“Violeta.”
But the duke vehemently threw away her hand.

“I should have told you a little while ago to be more cautious. Why are you being so distracted from before?”

“Ha, but over there….”

“This is the Imperial Palace. This is not the place for your foolishness.”

The duke’s voice was calm, but also firm. I felt the unspoken pressure.

“… yes.”
At that stiff reaction, Violetta quietly followed him with her mouth shut.

Upon entering the emperor’s office, the emperor greeted him with his characteristic, gentle smile.

“Come on, Duke.”

“I see you, Your Majesty. How have you been?”

“Haha, didn’t I see you at the banquet just recently? We don’t have to be so polite between us.”

“It’s overkill.”

Duke Everett rolled his eyes and sat down with a smile. He didn’t even tell me to sit down, which was pretty rude, but the emperor just smiled haha.

‘Emperor who struggles to survive.’

Duke Everett swallowed a laugh inwardly.

He certainly looked down on the emperor and looked down on him. It wasn’t an identity issue.

A weak, indecisive man. The emperor who did not choose himself, but luckily survived and took over the throne by accident. Available at any time, not a puppet.

“So, what did you say you would like to see today?”

“Nothing else, I have a small request from Your Majesty.”

“Hey. A peacock that even drops birds in the sky? What is it?”

asked the emperor as if surprised.

“It’s not that difficult. Did you not lose the big star of the Empire this time? I am the Duke of Valtail.”

“ah. It did.”

“His son has a new duke, but, as you know, he is very young, so it is a concern. So, I want to help out a bit by marrying my girlfriend.”

Violetta, who was sitting next to Duke Everett’s horse, smiled cutely. Even that was a smile that was practiced and calculated.

“Duke Baltail is still young, so he doesn’t know what to say, and he doesn’t seem to know the truth, so I ask your Majesty to proceed with the marriage instead.”

“ah. uhm. That’s it….”

Contrary to Duke Everett’s prediction that he would accept it at once, the emperor frowned with a troubled face. Duke Everett’s eyes narrowed as if incomprehension.

“Isn’t it possible?”

“This is true. What should I say?”

The emperor said with an awkward smile as if he was really in trouble.

“Just before the Duke of Valtale got his marriage papers stamped, he left.”

***

Everything happened lightning fast under the control of the emperor.

When Caius heard the emperor’s command to marry Leverticia, he resisted, but after hearing that he would otherwise have to marry Violetta, he naturally chose Leverticia.

There was no grand opening ceremony or a separate ceremony.

After following the minimum procedure, getting the emperor’s approval on the marriage papers, and hearing the declaration of marriage from a high- ranking priest, it was all over.

There was no scattering of pollen, no flashy marches, no celebrations or bouquets, it was just a procedure.

Now, outside the imperial palace, go to the pre-determined quiet and uninhabited ceremonial place and receive the declaration of the Holy
Marriage and the blessing. There were also high-ranking priests who had been hired by the emperor in advance.

In order not to be noticed by anyone, they rode a small, ordinary wagon along a deserted road to the ceremonial site.

As they moved, Leverticia caught a glimpse of the outside view through the window curtains that were very slightly turned.

“… It’s more fun than I thought.”

“what.”

“It’s marriage.”

“I’m not doing anything, so what’s fun?”

The reason for such a secret and quick escape as if to escape at night was natural.

It was because of the opposition of the nobles who were aiming for the title of Duchess of Baltail, and the Duke of Everett, the most influential among them.

‘It was close just before.’

Leverticia stuck out her tongue slightly.

After all, they almost ran into each other in the hallway on the way out after getting their marriage papers stamped. Fortunately, I was able to get out without running into them by a slight difference.

“… But are you really okay with this?”

“yes?”

“No…. According to the book, when you get married, all women wear fancy dresses, have jeweled hair ornaments, and receive very pretty flowers…”

He hesitated at the end of his words, but the meaning behind his words was self-explanatory.

It’s her wedding day, but she couldn’t even wear a wedding dress. Leverticia was now wearing trousers under a baggy beige tunic, ankle-length leather boots, and braided hair.

He even wore a sword on his belt.

At this point, they were excluded from everything that could be called the romance of a wedding.

“done. I get tired of wearing white clothes every day, but what else?”

Leverticia let out a smirk and gently opened the carriage window. A breeze blew through the crevice and gently blew her hair.

“By the way, it’s amazing that people make a family like this.”

“What else is-”
“Are you talking nonsense?”

Kaius, who was constantly tackling as usual, stopped.

Her pink eyes glowed with anticipation like a child waiting for a picnic. He looked really genuinely happy.

“Well, I think family is very important.”

From the day she found out that she was not the real child of the Celsiers, she felt a sense of indebtedness to her parents’ love. Every time they love and hug each other like a real daughter, even more so.

At the same time, I dreamed that one day I would have a family like this.

Although the wedding was for a different purpose now, it felt like a childhood dream had come true, so I was very happy.

Leverticia turned her head to look at Kaius and smiled broadly.

“It’s temporary, but you’re part of my family. In the meantime, I will protect you.”

“… You promised.”

“yes.”
Leverticia held out her pinky finger. At that innocent promise, Kaius was at a loss for words.

I wonder who the hell is more childish.

He didn’t really believe in family or promises. It was his father who was killed in battle after promising to return home.

“Walk quickly. Do you know how to make a promise? let me know?”

“Can you not know?”
Kaius sullenly placed my little finger on hers.

It was only a little finger caught, but somehow it felt like the most effective of all the marriages I had ever done.

Leverticia grinned and muttered.

“Now, shall we fulfill our first promise?”

“What-”
For a moment, Kaius felt the hairs all over his body stand up. Goose came up on his back.
he screamed unconsciously.

“Dangerous!”
Quang—

As soon as his horse fell, there was a loud roar from outside and the wagon shook violently.

Kaius instinctively reached out and grabbed her arm. The small wagon swayed non-stop, and it slanted to one side as if the wheel had been broken.

“What is this, what is it?”
“it’s okay. No worries.”

She whispered as she grabbed the sword around her waist.

“Because you brought the strongest person in the world into your family.”

Those words that would have sounded only as arrogant bluffs if they had been spoken by her, felt straight and confident when she said them.

Leverticia immediately kicked the wagon door and jumped outside.

Outside, the wagon was surrounded by unidentified assassins who had their faces covered with black cloth. As a rule of thumb, there were about twenty people.

“The duke seems to have noticed.”

Leverticia grinned. The innocence he had seen earlier was an expression that could not be found even in the eyes.

“But what is this? Twenty or so against me, you know it’s not worth the time.”

As soon as her muttering ceased, black smoke flowed from around the bodies of the assassins and surrounded them. Leverticia’s eyes widened in surprise.

“ah. Would you like to write a family secret? I must have been quite hot.”

Leverticia swung her wrist back and forth.
Since the establishment of the first Evgenian Empire, two dukes, Baltail and Everett, each boasted a long history.

The two were called the imperial spear and shield, the spear of Valtail, the dragon slayer, and Everett, the protector of men, the shield.

That black smoke is Everett’s secret, and anyone caught in that smoke will have a strong defense like steel.

Biggie can only be used by the head of each family and consumes extreme stamina when used once, so it was not an ability that you see very often.

“Now it’s going to be fun.”

A wide smile crept across Leverticia’s lips.

***

The assassins were quite talented.

They were well aware of the swordsmanship used by the Imperial Knights.

Unlike the mercenaries who each used unique and free-spirited martial arts, the swordsmanship of the knights was standard.

The rule of thumb was the best method refined through many trials and errors, but in other words, it was a uniform and obvious method.

The knights were too good opponents for the assassins with good speed and agility to dig through the cracks.

Of course, that was the story when it was an ‘ordinary’ article. “Big!”
“Ugh!”

“Aww!”

The assassins fell one by one like leaves being swept away.

The black mist was increasing his defense, but that was all. It was enough to defeat it with a stronger force as much as the defense increased.

At the most, if two or three layers of eggshells were layered on top of each other, a rock the size of a house would fall to pieces if hit.

Besides, Leverticia’s swordsmanship wasn’t even standard.

“Where are you looking? This is it.”
“No, what-Whoa!”

The assassin, who was trying to trick her into attacking behind her back,
was rolled back by Leverticia, who suddenly turned around and kicked him hard in the stomach.

Not only that, but she swung her sword and pierced it this time towards the assassin approaching from above the crown.

Attacks poured in from all directions, front, back, sides, up and down, but she stopped and counterattacked.

However, the technique she used was not the sword of the individual mercenaries. It was too neat for that, and it was the knights who kept the basics intact.

“Ahaha, you guys are fun. It’s more fun because you don’t look at me like that grim man and you can just fight. Let’s all run together, okay?”

… The scariest thing among them was that they were smiling brightly throughout the fight.

The assassins were able to realize why everyone called her the mad dog of the battlefield.