I Wish My Husband Were Dead - Chapter 4



Only Krnovel

The Awakened Husband
2023.11.04.

“How are you today?”

“It’s a mess.”

He muttered with a sneer.

Because he had been lying down for a long time, Craig had a very hard time moving.

The congressman described his ability to speak and move his upper body as a miracle, but this man seemed unsatisfied.

“What did I tell you to do?”

“I did it.”

“Hmm.”

He nodded arrogantly. He

didn’t say thank you or thank you for your hard work. It seemed natural, as if he was receiving a report on something he had asked of his subordinate.

This was also clearly different from Craig. Comparing it to the past when he was frivolous and had no dignity, she became more certain.

She sat down on the chair and pretended to be worried and said a few words.

“You should get better soon.”

“This damn body won’t be much different even if it gets better. What good is it if your face is shiny?”

“That was your great pride.”

Craig was a man who knew that his only joy in life was using his handsome face to swindle women.

“Why this… … .”

He looked down at his hands in annoyance and omitted the rest of his story.

Somehow Cordelia could guess what he had swallowed.

‘You must be annoyed that you came in like that.’

She smiled as kindly as she could and said.

“Have you eaten?”

“That crappy soup? You call that food? The people of this castle seem to have lost their sense of taste.”

“Even if it doesn’t suit your taste, eat something. That way, you can get up and leave quickly.”

At that, Craig waved his hand as if it was annoyed.

“No problem. Why did you come today?”

“Come to think of it, I think I haven’t told you all about your past.”

“Oh, right. Past. Tell me quickly. I’m tired.”

Cordelia swallowed her saliva and slowly recited the story she had prepared.

Craig was leaning back against the headboard with his eyes closed.

“You first learned to write when you were three.”

“Hmm? You’re smarter than I thought. “Fell from a tree when you were four?”

“And when you were five, you first developed magical powers.”

“What? This body, or rather, me?”

He couldn’t hide his surprise. It was understandable. This wasn’t Craig’s past.

Cordelia continued calmly.

“When you were twelve, your teacher had already stopped teaching you, saying he had nothing left to teach you.”

“… … .”

“At seventeen, you became the youngest head of the household.”

Yes. This was the past of Leonard, the leader of the White Snake Attila.

His genius was so well-known that he didn’t even need to find out through his attendants.

“What an incredible past. Enough to become the leader of Attila.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Craig’s expression instantly turned terrifying.

The moment she confirmed it, Cordelia realized that her guess was right.

“Are you sent by Maximilian?”

The air that had suddenly changed stung her skin.

“Damn it. I didn’t know he would do this.”

Craig, no, Leonard, tried to somehow raise his body, but it was too much for his body that hadn’t recovered.

Instead, he gritted his teeth and used the magic power in the air. Several flames rose threateningly.

Cordelia opened her mouth in surprise when she saw that.

“How can you use magic when your body has changed?”

“Even though your body is like this, it’s not like you forgot how to use magic. I have the power to kill you.”

He answered with a cold face. With just a light flick of his fingers, a fireball flew quickly toward Cordelia.

She ducked her head in surprise and dodged it. It was possible because she could see the trajectory of the magic power flying.

Leonard’s eyes widened slightly.

“Damage?”

“Wait! Tell me. Tell me. Why do you think I’m your enemy?”

“If I were your ally, you would have already knelt before me and revealed your identity.”

Several more threatening fireballs poured down after that.

Cordelia barely managed to dodge them, but she couldn’t dodge the last one properly, burning part of her clothes.

“Whoa!”

“Who are you? How on earth do you evade my magic?”

“Well, I can see it.”

“Can you see it?”

“That’s how I found out you were the leader of the White Snakes. I threw the letter and saw Attila’s emblem.”

“Ha, you have to lie to some extent.”

“I’m not lying!”

she said urgently before Leonard could try another spell.

She would die before they could even negotiate.

“I’ve been able to see magic since I was little. It’s true!”

“… … Seeing magic? Only one in ten thousand people can sense magic. Does that make sense?”

“You can test me. I’ll try to guess the magic form you created.”

Leonard looked at Cordelia with suspicious eyes.

Then, without warning, he gathered his magic from his fingertips and created a shape.

“Hmm. Deer.”

“… … .”

“Rabbit!”

“… … .”

“Oh, um. What is it? Goat?”

“Not a goat, it’s a sheep.”

Surprisingly, her talent for ‘seeing’ didn’t seem to be a lie. Leonard’s eyes trembled slightly. It was a

talent that even Leonard, who was called the most powerful wizard in the country, didn’t have.

When he got it right three times in a row, he had no choice but to admit it.

“I can’t believe it. With such a talent, why didn’t you learn magic?”

“When I was young, I didn’t know it was a talent, and when I got older… … .”

When I was thirteen, my family’s fortunes fell into a tailspin after my mother passed away. I couldn’t

even pay my servants’ salaries, so I had to sell my household goods.

In such a situation, learning magic that required a huge amount of money was something I couldn’t even dream of.

Furthermore, there was the fundamental question of whether my father would have allowed me to learn.

“There were unavoidable circumstances.”

However, she didn’t want to reveal her shady past to a man she had just met. Cordelia tried to explain it away.

“Can you trust me now?”

“You really think I’m not the one sent by Maximilian?”

“No. If I’m Maximilian, I think he’s the younger brother who killed you?”

Leonard’s guard, which had been softened by the casual question, soared again.

Before he was hit by another fireball, Cordelia quickly added.

“Rumors have already spread throughout the capital.”

“What rumors?”

“The head of Attila was murdered and the culprit was probably his younger brother. Attila’s second son has already requested the succession to the throne at the council.”

“Huh, succession? Who dares?”

“That’s right. The head of the family is still alive and well here with his eyes wide open.”

Cordelia nodded.

“And think about it logically. Did Maximilian bribe me to marry Craig a year ago, knowing that the head of the family would wake up in Craig’s body? That doesn’t make sense.”

She protested vehemently.

Considering that he had asked who she was as soon as he woke up, Leonard must not have predicted that he would wake up in Craig’s body either.

“So?”

“Yes?”

“So what do you want, a divorce?”

“Don’t you think that the head of the family’s health and a mere divorce don’t add up?”

“… … Hah.”

Leonard swept his bangs in annoyance as he repeated what he had said a few days ago.

Cordelia swallowed the saliva that had gathered in her mouth and tried to relax her tense body.

Divorce. Of course it was very important to her.

But if he was really Leonard Artiles, she could ask for something much sweeter than a divorce. She could get the divorce papers signed at any time.

“We made a promise anyway. I’ll help you four more times. And four letters don’t add up. I want to add one more thing.”

“What?”

“It’s not much I want. It’s just symbiosis. Symbiosis.”

“Symbiosis? Symbiosis is something you can do with someone you can trust. How can I trust you?”

“Didn’t you send that letter because you trusted me?”

Cordelia blinked her big, round eyes. Leonard

couldn’t understand why the servants were pitying her, calling her “poor, naive madam.”

She was surprisingly meticulous, bolder and more cold-hearted than anyone he knew.

It was as if he had known in advance that he would wake up in Craig’s body.

That made him even more untrustworthy.

“Did it take so much faith to send the letter? “It would be easier to just kill you here and keep your mouth shut.”

“… … Of course, that’s an option.” “

What is this person? He’s so vicious.”

He spoke so calmly, as if he were squashing a bug, that goosebumps ran down my back. Cordelia tried to act calm and crossed her legs.

“But is there anyone you can trust in this castle?”

“… … .”

“With that beggarly body, you must have a lot of limitations on your activities.”

“… … .”

“Isn’t that the reason you didn’t kick this mansion out right away?”

Cordelia stayed up most of the night before to come up with the most plausible reason.

If he was the real head of Attila, why did he come into Craig’s body and why did he stay here?

No matter how much she racked her brain, there was only one answer.

This man was clearly in a state where he couldn’t move rashly without the help of others. That’s why he must have sent that important letter through her.

“It’s hard to get through this tough and difficult world alone. Let’s do it together. We.”

She smiled and spoke in the most relaxed tone possible.

“It sounds like you’re definitely going to help me.”

“That’s right. I’ll help you in every way I can until you safely return to Attila. But I won’t do anything dangerous that could endanger my life.”

“That’s quite generous, yes.”

Contrary to his words, Leonard’s smile was sharp like that of an animal.

“What’s the condition?”

“Okay. Just do this.”

Cordelia suppressed her cheer and controlled the corners of her lips that were trembling.

“There’s only one thing I want.”

“What is it?”

“I want to be your disciple.”

“Disciple? You want to learn magic? Something like you?”

He looked her up and down with extremely arrogant eyes.

“Do you think magic is funny just because you see a little bit of magic? Magic is difficult even when you start training at a very young age.”

“You haven’t even taught me yet.” Leonard

felt offended by the attitude of ignoring him without even knowing him. When she immediately retorted, Leonard snorted.

“Are you sure you’ll follow along if I teach you?”

“Even so, when I was young, people called me a genius.”

“Oh, really? A genius? Did you study a lot in the countryside?”

He raised one corner of his mouth and openly sneered. It was annoying, but Cordelia tried to suppress it.

“If I become your disciple, I’m confident I’ll learn more diligently than anyone else. “Really?”

“What are you going to do with learning magic? If you start at that age, you’ll probably achieve much later than others anyway?”

“… … Actually, my father, my father is very ill.”

She pinched her thigh secretly and tried hard to suppress her tears.

Fortunately, a single teardrop formed on her right side.