The Male Lead’s Father Refuses to Break Off Our Engagement

Chapter 112

 

Erin examined Cassis’ body carefully. I woke her up, but she didn’t look upset at all.

Evelia stood behind Cassis and watched the situation anxiously. Cold sweat broke out from my hands.

Erin examined Cassis with a stethoscope, drew his blood, and tried various medications.

After some time passed, she came to a conclusion.

“There is nothing special.”

“But he coughed up blood.”

“I suspected poisoning, but there are no particular symptoms of poisoning. As far as I know.”

Erin was the best doctor in the Empire. Evelia knew that she was capable of rivaling the Imperial physician.

However, this was not an Empire, but the Kingdom of Cesia. Could it be that there are poisonous plants in the Kingdom of Cesia that she doesn’t know about?

Erin added, as if reading her thoughts.

“My teacher was from the Kingdom of Cesia. Thanks to my teacher, I also know the medicinal herbs of the Kingdom of Cesia well. But just in case, I’ll take another look at the poisonous plants here.”

“Thank you.”

Evelia thanked Erin and returned to the room with Cassis. Fortunately, Ruth was sleeping safely under Nikita’s protection.

“You can go back.”

“I’ll be at the door.”

“Okay.”

Evelia looked closely at Cassis again after Nikita left.

“Is there really no pain anywhere?”

“I’m okay.”

“Really? You can’t lie.”

Cassis shook his head.

“It’s hard for you to believe it, but I’m really fine.”

“You didn’t have any internal injuries?”

“I don’t think so either.”

Evelia hugged his neck with a deep sigh.

“I was very worried.”

“…….”

Cassis paused for a moment and then hugged her.

“I’m sorry for making you worry.”

“No, you have nothing to be sorry about, but…”

Evelia, who was whispering softly, stiffened her face at a fleeting thought.

‘Now that I think about it, the reason I suspected Ruth’s fever was a curse was because of the pattern that appeared on his body.’

What if Cassis was not poisoned but cursed?

She reached for his buttons, not bothering to ask him for clarification. Cassis stiffened.

“Wife?”

“Wait. Just stay still.”

She slowly unbuttoned Cassis’s clothes and examined his body closely. The moderately tanned body had solid muscles, but there was nothing to admire about it.

Her serious gaze passed over his neck and chest to his back.

‘Oh, there is….’

There was a very faint pattern the size of a little fingernail drawn near the wing bones. You wouldn’t know it if you didn’t look closely.

“This… Since when has it been around?”

Even if I asked that, there was no way to know. Cassis was in a position where he couldn’t see it himself, and Evelia had never seen his bare body.

‘I guess it’s a real curse.’

Evelia trembled and hugged Cassis again.

“Don’t leave my side.”

She was filled with fear that Cassis might die one day.

Now that I had finally met the person I loved and lived happily ever after, I felt like that happiness was being taken away. I wasn’t going to let that happen.

 

*****

 

The next day, Evelia sent a letter to Samuel, who remained in the Empire.

If Cassis’ hemoptysis wasn’t due to poisoning, it might have been a curse as mentioned in the original novel.

‘If it’s because of a curse, we might be able to fix it with Aria’s power.’

Aria had such strong divine power that she was later recognized as a Saint. Her power could defeat any curse or evil force.

However, you can’t ask him to bring Aria directly. Evelia decided to try another method.

‘If we have an item imbued with Aria’s power, we might be able to prevent the worst situation from happening.’

After preventing the curse from spreading further with an item imbued with Aria’s power, I decided to quickly take care of the matter here and return.

Then, we would be able to meet Aria before Cassis’ condition gets worse.

Evelia delivered the letter to Lionel.

“Please send this to the Empire. Make sure to send it to someone you trust. You must never let Her Majesty the Queen know.”

“I get it. I’ll do that.”

“And I think we should go back to the Empire as soon as possible. Please help Ruth receive His Majesty’s blessing.”

As soon as he heard those words, Lionel’s complexion darkened.

“Why are you in such a hurry?”

“Yes?”

“Can’t you stay a little longer?”

“Ah…”

Evelia also wanted to allow Ruth and Lionel to spend more time together.

‘But the situation is not favorable.’

I don’t know how long Cassis can hold out. Moreover, if things continued like this, Clarisse could have done something to Ruth.

But no matter how much I trusted Lionel, I couldn’t tell him about Cassis. It was better for as few people as possible to know about it. So I left that story out.

“There are many things here that are dangerous for Ruth.”

“You mean the Queen?”

“……”

Lionel held Evelia’s arm tightly.

“What has she done to Ruth in the meantime?”

At that time, a hand stretched out from behind Evelia and tightly grabbed Lionel’s wrist.

“Let it go, Prince.”

It was Cassis. Lionel let go of his hand after looking at Cassis, who was in a ferocious mood.

“Okay, I overdid it this time.”

“It’s okay.”

Evelia smiled slightly and continued.

“It just keeps bothering me.”

“I will keep a close eye on the queen. And, I will do my best to be able to have an audience with His Majesty the King.”

“Thank you.”

After that, Evelia spent her time waiting for a letter from Samuel.

Meanwhile, Cassis occasionally vomited blood. At first he seemed fine, but as time went on, his complexion worsened.

Moreover, the color of the pattern on his back became increasingly darker. Evelia could not shake off an ominous feeling, as it was like the shadow of death cast over Cassis.

‘I’ll have to do something quickly…’

But there was nothing that could be done. Since the possibility could not be completely ruled out, Erin was looking into the poisonous plants in the Kingdom of Cesia, but no clear results were obtained.

One day, as time passed, stamping her feet like that, the maid assigned to her at Cesia Palace spoke.

“Duchess, we have a guest from the Empire.”

“Ah, finally! Guide him to the drawing room.”

Evelia, thinking that Samuel had sent someone, hurriedly headed to the drawing room. However…

“Sister Eve!”

As soon as she entered the living room, little Aria ran up to her, hugged her waist, and clung to her. Evelia looked blankly at the child clinging to her.

“A-Aria?”

When I raised my head with a look of need for understanding, I saw Samuel smiling with an embarrassed face.

“It’s been a while, Duchess.”

“How did this happen?”

“That is….”

Before Samuel could answer, Aria chattered like a sparrow.

“I came because I missed Eve and Ruth!”

Samuel agreed weakly.

“Yes, that happened.”

I don’t think it’s time to end the explanation with ‘Yes, that’s what happened.’

Evelia was embarrassed, but she called Ruth who was in the room. Ruth, seeing Aria, rubbed his eyes hard and immediately hugged Aria.

“Aria!”

“Oh, what is it? So stuffy!”

Aria, who had been missing Ruth just a moment ago, pouted her lips primly.

“Oh, I’m sorry.”

When Ruth stepped back, Aria hugged him again.

“Well, it wasn’t that I didn’t like it.”

“Yes.”

“Nice to meet you!”

“Me too!”

“You’ve got some burnt!”

“I guess it’s because the sunlight is strong here.”

Aria burst out laughing. Evelia looked at the two bright children and asked Samuel.

“So what really happened?”

“That’s it.”

Samuel’s explanation was as follows.

While researching Queen Clarisse, he said he discovered something strange.

“Forbidden magic?”

“Yes. It was called black magic in the past….”

It seemed that the Queen was using black magic, which was banned in the Empire and the Kingdom of Cesia because it was dangerous. The reason black magic is banned is because the medium for black magic is human blood.

“Then Cassis vomited blood…”

“Yes. It is most likely a curse using black magic.”

At first, Samuel tried to send holy water containing the high priest’s blessing along with the items used by Aria, as Evelia said.

However, Aria was so upset that she had to go, so I had no choice but to bring her.

“The tantrums were different from usual. Even though Aria is stubborn, she is a child who listens when I say no. But this time, she just couldn’t give in.”

“Did she feel something?”

“Maybe so.”

“But it might be dangerous if the Queen really uses forbidden magic.”

“Yes, of course. That’s why I brought the high priest.”

“Yes? You said you brought the high priest?”

When Evelia unconsciously raised her voice, Aria, who was looking at Ruth and the elephant doll, shouted brightly.

“Yes! Grandpa came too!”

“Ugh, that’s good.”

“Right?”

The child smiled and played with the trunk of the elephant doll again.

Samuel looked at his younger sister with satisfaction and then stood up.

“Instead of doing this here, let’s go see the Duke. After hearing the story, it seems like it’s urgent.”

“Oh, I see.”

“Come on, Aria. You have to greet the Duke.”

“Yes!”

The four people go out to find Cassis. Cassis was teaching the Empire’s swordsmanship to the knights of the Kingdom of Cesia at the training hall.

As the four people entered, people’s eyes turned to them.

In particular, many people looked at Aria with interest, who was as white and pretty as a doll. Among them were children in their early teens.

Ruth, who was looking around, blocked Aria’s path with a dissatisfied look on his face.