The Earl’s Bad Wife

Meet Helmina von Roethlingen fifteen years ago. I remember clearly for some reason, even though I didn't have a heart.

By that time I had just been taken over by the Marquis, and I couldn't blend in with my surroundings.

That would be a story I have no choice in either.

The adults scorned me as a mistress's child, and the children who saw such an attitude perceived the air and did not try to get close.

I guess I didn't know how to deal with a nobleman who had a completely different atmosphere than the people in Lower Town at the time.

One day there was a gathering of nobles and my father told me to play outside with the children of the other houses. Naturally, they're out of company.

He became lonely and hid in the shadow of a garden plant to avoid being found by other adults.

From all around, I hear voices that sound fun.

If I had listened to that, I would have felt terribly sad.

In the meantime, unexpected things happen.

"Look - I want to put it on!

If you think someone came running from behind you, you can hug them all the time.

Looking back, a pretty girl with blue eyes in her dark hair looked at me with her little neck tilted.

"- Oh, and you?

……

"Sorry, I made a mistake with you."

Apparently, he made a mistake and hugged me.

Back then, I had long hair, and if I saw it from behind, I might only look like a woman.

She smiles and apologizes. She was the Helmina von Rotlingen.

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To my surprise, Helmina pulled my hand and pulled me in with her.

The surrounding children were being treated in an irresistible manner, but time solved that as well.

Thanks to Helmina, she was able to blend into the circle of children.

I didn't know that was the reason, but she's always been special in me.

One day, I want to be able to protect Helmina. Sooner or later, he begged his father to become a knight.

It was a surprise when I saw Helmina coming to the gathering, even though I was finally supposed to learn the sword technique by asking her in.

I'll protect her, so you don't have to hold the sword. I don't remember saying it that way, but I do remember saying something and making hermina cry.

I didn't think the sword would suit poor Hermina. I don't think it's the wrong decision.

Then a few years, I get desperate to become a knight and acquire sword moves.

He also passed the exam to become an obedient knight and was blessed by his family.

If you finish your morning training and lean against the tree and rest, you will hear the sound of cutting the wind and something stabbing at the tree, and you will return to me for good.

When I looked over my head, an arrow with paper tied to the tree was stinging.

- This is a fulfillment letter!?

If you pulled the arrow out of the tree and opened it, the sender was an amazing figure.

Ignaerts von Signake

Tomorrow (just after sunrise), in the garden of the Roethlingen family, apply for a duel.

From Helmina von Roethlingen

Why would she do that to me?

I had no idea why.

I'm also surprised by the fact that I was learning the sword.

Nevertheless, when was the last time you saw it in Helmina?

After being alone, I feel in a hurry in the face of unexpected events, even though I was going to go see him.

While I was trying to grate, I had a duel day.

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The condition sucked that day.

I couldn't sleep at all, I didn't have an appetite and I was flustered.

I reluctantly head to the Rotlingen family because I don't want to point a sword at Helmina, but I'm not allowed to escape a duel with formal formalities.

I haven't seen her in a while. She was dressed like a man, but she was really pretty, and I couldn't look straight at her.

There was no way I could fight such a hermina, and I was lightly defeated.

More than remorse, why the hell would I be bothered by the reason they applied for a duel?

Then a few more years later.

Fifteen years later, I became an official knight.

On the day of the medal ceremony, I will tell my brother, who has been the head of the Marquis family, the thoughts I have held for many years.

It was that I wanted to welcome Helmina as my wife.

I was born in Lower Town and never thought about becoming a knight. I worked so hard to protect her.

I appealed the thought to my brother.

But the words returned were spicy.

- Ignatz, your efforts are great, but it will be difficult to welcome Miss Helmina as my wife. It's hard to say, but your mother is a civilian. Drawing the blood of the royal family, she will be married to a thick house of noble blood.

When I hear about it, I'm struck like I've been struck by a lightning strike from my head.

I didn't think so.

I don't know how noble society is.

The unspoken anger creeps up.

If you're holding your fist from repentance and biting your back teeth off, your brother will talk to you.

It's too early to give up, he said.

If you ask what that means, if you come out in the Knights, maybe you'll be allowed to marry.

But in order to do so, he said he needed to be promoted to the captain's class because platoon would be fine.

When I heard that, I would focus even more on my duties as a knight from that day on.

The familiar nobles looked down at me, the knight, and scoffed at me.

It was like saying that sweat and labor were not recognized by the Marquis. I guess they know I was born.

The security of the nightclub venue was desperately tolerated, with the participation of such unfavourable nobles.

When it came to the hardship of guarding the venue, my gaze would go to those in similar circumstances.

To the aristocracy from the countryside, to the emerging aristocracy of the gold, to the poor aristocracy on the verge of falling.

They looked like they had no place in the venue and participated.

It's like being just taken over by the Marquis, driven by a sense of impatience without meaning.

A year later.

It was the year of Helmina's social debut.

She was breathtaking.

Naturally, there's no way you can speak up.

However, if you look at it from a distance, you will be surprised at the change in Helmina.

I thought she was a dear daughter, but at some point she grew up to be a lady with a strong heart.

She makes all sorts of noise everywhere. I was supposed to hold my head when it happened, but some things remained the same.

Helmina, whoever she was dealing with, couldn't get into the atmosphere of the night club and pulled them into her circle.

Deeply relieve yourself of that appearance.

Helmina had not changed at all from when we met.

Then a few years, to get promoted, I even worked hard.

I check with my brother to see if Helmina's marriage story has gone up, hear the reply, "I haven't decided yet," and spend every day relieving him.

In his sixth year as a full knight, he finally decided to promote himself to deputy captain of the education unit.

Almost there, I can sign up for a marriage! That's what I thought, but I was supposed to get unexpected news from my brother.

- Helmina's getting married, he said.

The opponent is the second son of the Count Veimar family.

I never thought I'd be taken hostage now.

I begged my brother and begged him if there was anything he could do, but this marriage was decided by the king and he tells me that nothing can be done about it.

My brother told me to give up, but it seems like a difficult thing.

At the very least, I regretted that Erich von Veimar was a decent man.

He's a man who's floating in the social world, a woman who likes to hide things, and he can't help it.

But with a royal life, I can't do anything about it, as my brother said.

I lost my purpose, and I'm going to spend every day halfway out.

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Helmina married Erich von Veimar.

I hate to admit it, but it was true.

My brother and his wife also have a child, surrounded by a festive mood.

One day in that, I hear an inexplicable story from a merchant entering and leaving the Marquis house.

I heard that my brother had four children, but I only ordered three items for the baby.

One of the four children was taken over by Helmina.

Somehow I wonder, and do my own investigation of whether there are any back situations.

I paid a fortune to stop the merchant from leaking information.

If you look around a lot, you'll discover something terrible. The child she took away was not a Marquis child.

The child Helmina took away is blue-eyed with dark hair. It had taken over the characteristics of the royal one.

Given that Erich von Veimar was part of the Kingsguard unit of the Second Prince, he would be right to predict that he was the Prince's son.

I have such critical information that I can come up with a plan.

I was wondering if we could tear up Helmina's friendship with Erich von Veimar in exchange for keeping the matter quiet.

In the middle of working out a plan, the relocation destination is formally decided.

Oddly enough, that was the unit captained by Erich von Veimar.

The next day, we meet face to face.

My intestines were about to boil back while I was talking to him looking at his face.

I was still planning on meeting the plan, but I didn't think I could stand it, so I decided to move on to implementation.

Before you do that, get yourself together, and then we'll meet her.

If you think so and go shopping for gentlemen's supplies, you will happen to meet Hermina again at the store.

As soon as I saw her, I almost dizzied.

That's how beautiful Helmina was.

I realize I haven't seen it close in over a decade since I was a child, and I'm impressed.

He called out in a light tone to hide the upset.

But Helmina completely forgot about me.

From there, the memories that follow have become quite vague.

She comes to repeated calls with a diagonal fit of anticipation, reacts like she has a fondness for her husband, or is struck with a tight attitude.

I never had any good thoughts.

Besides, we face a difficult situation.

Erich von Veimar found me in close contact.

He glares at me with an awesome face.

And as you can see here, I've been holding Helmina's body, and I've been looking at her all the time to tell her that I'd be jealous.

She looked relieved when she saw her husband, who came, and how she was letting herself be.

It was my assumption that he was married to a lightweight, feminine husband and was feeling unhappy.

And then I'll be alone with Erich von Veimar and start discussing it.

When I asked about the child, including the meaning of confirmation, I discovered that it was the son of the second prince who took it away as I thought.

But if you talk about it, they'll let you know that not only me, but the Marquis will be in trouble.

Of course, I had no intention of saying anything around me, but I was horrified that I held dangerous information without knowing it.

What should I do with this drop?

Awaiting the judgment of Erich von Veimar.

Thought he would be expelled from the Marquis' house and stripped of his knight's identity, but an unexpected disposition was said.

We told them to keep this a secret.

When asked what the hell he meant, Aerich von Veimar said he expected me to work as a Marquis person.

He says with a frightening smile.

"If you don't want to be rosed by your brother, work like a carriage horse in my unit"

I didn't know I would be threatened the other way around.

Erich von Veimar thought he was a hell of a belly-black man.

Afterwards, they call it training, and they call it prolonged.

His strength was considerable.

Perhaps there are blue moles all over his body and he won't be able to stand up tomorrow due to fatigue.

And they wrote one pledge in the middle of a snare.

Don't go near Helmina in the future, I won't allow you to see it.

It was written that if you break it, you will make amends for your death.

I had no choice but to sign it.

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If you look back, all you can say is you deserve it.

In the first place, I didn't know that I wanted to welcome Helmina as my wife.

I totally woke up about this one.

I guess I should thank Erich von Veimar.

From now on, I wanted to look forward and live seriously.