I Wish My Husband Were Dead - Chapter 157



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Side Story 2. If You Love Me
2024.04.05.

Lisa Vindorman was really famous. If Matilda hadn’t written her a letter, she would have been so busy that it would have been next year before she could finally meet him.
Cordelia had so many appointments that she realized for the first time that there were so many couples in this world who had difficulty having children.

“Please sit over here. Um, Madame Latos.”

Unlike the other members of the council who usually visited the mansion upon the call of the nobles, Lisa invited the nobles to her mansion instead. Furthermore, in order to keep their secrets, she didn’t ask for their real names but called them by appropriate aliases.

Lisa was a woman in her early to mid-forties with a somewhat strict appearance, but her expression softened after carefully reading the letter from Matilda that Cordelia had brought.

“I have been greatly indebted to you before, Matilda. I will do my best to help you.”

“Thank you.”

“In the letter, you said that you are Matilda’s most beloved disciple. So are you a wizard?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“That’s unusual. “It’s very rare for a wizard to come to me.”

Of course, wizards don’t usually get married, let alone have children, so there probably aren’t many who have the same concerns as Cordelia.

“I looked over the Q&A you wrote in advance, but there’s nothing that stands out. In fact, these cases are a bit more difficult. I have to find the cause from all angles.”

“Is that so… …”

Cordelia’s shoulders slumped. Her expectations were lowered after hearing from the beginning that it would be difficult. Lisa adjusted her glasses and asked.

“It says that there’s a medication that I take regularly. What is it?”

“Yes. I’m taking an antidote.”

“An antidote?”

Lisa asked, furrowing her eyebrows. Cordelia explained it vaguely.

“I used to have to take it every ten days, but now I only have to take it once a month.”

This was possible because of Leonard’s hard work.

He was extremely stressed out by the fact that Cordelia had to take the antidote every ten days, and he obsessively checked his schedule.

In the end, Leonard gathered the famous doctors and herbalists from Ershe and even studied poison himself.

What is not surprising is that in just one year, he absorbed all that knowledge and developed a better antidote than the one that Elector Embly had. As a

result, Cordelia’s lifespan, which had been extended once every ten days, was extended to once a month, a whopping three times.

“What is the ingredient in that antidote? Do you have it now?”

“No. I don’t have it now, but I’ll bring it next time I come.”

“That would be a great help.”

That was the end of the first consultation. Lisa gave advice on various foods that are good for pregnancy, as well as other things.

“Immediately is not helpful at all. Always take it easy and spend a lot of time with your husband. But don’t overdo it.”

“A lot of time?”

“Yes. A lot of time.”

“… … Ah. Yes.”

Cordelia realized belatedly what Lisa meant by ‘a lot of time’ and her face turned a little red.

Compared to the newlyweds, Leonard was a little quieter, but he was always active. Lately, Cordelia had been avoiding him more often, saying she was tired.

She clenched her fists and steeled her resolve. It wasn’t that her body was tired right now that was important.

‘A lot of time. A lot of time.’

After leaving Lisa’s mansion and returning to the magic alliance, Cordelia hurried to the lab.

“Master!”

“Your master isn’t here.”

Candias answered for Cordelia, although it was rude.

“Where did he go?”

“I don’t care. He must be somewhere, I guess.”

Leaving the demon behind, who was completely useless, Cordelia searched for places where Leonard might have gone. The magic alliance wasn’t that big, but today, she couldn’t find her husband.

“Cordelia!”

At that moment, someone approached her from afar, waving his arms widely. Cordelia squinted her eyes for a long time, trying to identify the other person’s face. Soon after, he quickly approached her.

“Ilias.”

“How long has it been? How have you been?”

He had approached Cordelia without fear, saying that they wanted to have a ‘good relationship’ as soon as he met her, but now they had become quite close and were conducting research together.

“I guess I’m similar.”

“You look nice. What are you doing? Are you busy? It’s been a while since we last met. Do you want to have a meal together? I discovered something amazing in the Argen Forest… … ”

“Ah!”

While I was eavesdropping on the conversation of a friend I hadn’t seen in a while, a piece of platinum hair passed by behind me. Even though it was much farther away than when I first saw Ilias, I could recognize him at a glance.

Cordelia lifted her toes and opened her eyes wide. Ilias flinched at her short scream and looked around.

“Why? What’s wrong?”

“Sorry, I’ll see you later. I have to go see the Master.”

“Really? Then I’ll do that.”

“I’ll contact your lab later.”

After hastily greeting him, Cordelia hurried after the platinum hair. Since she had found him at a considerable distance, she couldn’t catch him even though she was walking hard.

Finally, she confirmed that he was going into a certain room. Cordelia opened the door with a joyful heart.

“Master!”

As soon as she opened the door and went inside, several pairs of eyes focused on Cordelia. Several Sirius, including Matilda, were gathered at a round table, perhaps in a meeting.

Cordelia was flustered and froze when faced with so many people, and then quickly apologized.

“Uh, um. I’m sorry.”

“Why? What’s going on?”

Leonard, who was sitting in the middle, got up and approached her.

“It’s nothing.”

There was no way she could reveal her purpose for desperately looking for her husband here. Cordelia tried to leave the room, trying to make up for it. At that moment, Leonard grabbed her wrist with a worried look on his face.

“What’s so urgent that you came running here with sweat dripping down your forehead?”

“It’s not urgent at all. Really. I, um. I’ll be waiting in the lab.”

She pulled away from his grasp, apologized again, and hurriedly left the room. As she

was walking back to the lab, someone grabbed her shoulder.

“Come with me.”

“Master.”

Of course, it was Leonard.

“The meeting… …”

“No problem. It’s just something old people talk about when they get together, so what?”

“I came here to talk about something obvious.”

“Everything you say is refreshing.”

Cordelia had a feeling that her husband was probably really into it, but she didn’t want to take it off. So she quietly grabbed Leonard’s hand. He smiled and held her hand.

“So, what’s that obvious story?”

“Hmm. I’ll tell you when I get to the lab.”

“What? Just tell me a little bit. I won’t tell anyone.”

“Just.”

“Just?”

“It’s nothing, I just wanted to have some time together as a couple after a long time.”

“What’s that out of the blue?”

Cordelia stopped and looked around. Fortunately, no one was watching them.

Seducing her husband was the easiest thing in the world. Leonard was more than halfway there just by lowering his eyes and fluttering his eyelids shyly. Then she lifted her heel and kissed his cheek, and she felt a strong grip on her hand.

“Do you want to die, or kill me?”

“We’ll see who dies when we try.”

“Okay. Let’s see.”

Cordelia headed to the lab with him. Leonard’s footsteps got faster and faster, so Cordelia had to run halfway.

Candias was standing by the lab door, watching the people passing by, and when she saw the two people coming, she said,

“Here they go again,”

and opened the door wide.

“Don’t you have any time to spare!”

“Shut up and get out of the corner.”

Leonard untied Cordelia’s dress ribbon with one hand and waved the other. Candias cursed something in a small voice and disappeared into the distance.

Without anyone looking, Leonard placed Cordelia on the desk and kissed her deeply. His busy hands had already completely peeled off her shell.
“Did I say I love you today?”

“But I want to hear it again.”

“I love you.”

Cordelia pressed her lips to his beautiful hair that sparkled when it was exposed to light. Leonard hugged his wife tightly as if he couldn’t stand it anymore.

* * *

For a while, the two of them stayed in seclusion. They were stuck together as if they were newlyweds, and they couldn’t think of leaving.

Day or night, there was no sense of time, so when she was hungry, she would go downstairs and get some food, and then go back to bed.

Usually, when things got this crazy, Cordelia would stop her husband in the middle and go back to her daily routine, but this time she didn’t even do that.

Eventually, when Cordelia’s stamina was completely depleted and she was groaning, the flames died down.

“Ugh.”

“What? Where does it hurt?”

“Huh, I think it’s a cold.”

Cordelia covered herself with the blanket and slowly crawled into bed.

How long had she slept since then? Cordelia opened her eyes again at the hand that gently shook her body.

“Get up, take your medicine, and go to bed. Have some soup.”

“I don’t have an appetite… .”

“Eat it anyway.”

He brought a spoon and blew on it himself, putting it to her mouth. If Baron had seen this, he would have been shocked.

Cordelia obediently took a few bites of the soup, swallowed the overly bitter cold medicine, and went back to bed.

“Get some sleep. I won’t bother you anymore.”

“Huh?”

“But you need to build up your stamina. You’ve passed out in just a week. Aren’t you too weak?”

“Aren’t you too fine? Your face even looks more radiant.”

“It’s clear who died.”

Cordelia quickly stopped him as he tried to kiss her habitually.

“You’ve caught a cold.”

“If you were going to catch it, you would have caught it already.”

He then firmly kissed her forehead. The cold medicine seems to be working very well. He is already falling asleep.

Cordelia caught him as he was about to leave the room.

“The antidote I take.”

“Why?”

Leonard reacted sensitively when the topic of antidote came up.