Dear Contract Husband, I Didn't Know You Were Like This? - Chapter 50
Kendrick had spent a long time with Maya, yet he still could not understand even a smidgen of her strength.
A sense of superiority crept into Tristan.
“Lady Maya told me that no one should follow her. She said that if she doesn’t come out after three days, that’s the only time help should be on the way.”
“What? So it’s been three days already?!”
Using his own magic to track her had taken some time, but he hadn’t realized that Maya had been in there for three whole days!
“Leaving Maya alone there is madness! I’m going in, so let me!”
Deciding that arguing with the boy in front of him was futile, Kendrick moved to step forward.
But he was quickly blocked by the boy, who was now pointing a scabbard at his neck.
“Must I keep repeating myself?”
“Because I’m not the one she told to stay, I can do this! Do you know what kind of madness it is to just wait like this? What would you know, having only hidden away?”
The harsh words he had been holding back because of Maya, whom the Grand Duke’s lineage depended on, burst out.
“You don’t know how desperate I am for Maya.”
Hostility seeped from his fiery gaze.
“If you think I’m doing this because I’m not involved, you’re mistaken.”
Tristan swallowed his anger and judged coldly.
He was wrought with fear.
Even now, he thought hundreds of times a day whether Maya hadn’t come out because she was dead.
“I’m doing this because I want to.”
Tristan did not go inside.
Because Maya had wanted him to trust her.
He didn’t want to betray the smile she showed when he praised her well done, the face she made saying she could do it.
“If you don’t want to see that neck of yours fly off right now, put away that sword.”
Kendrick muttered in a low, sinking voice.
Sssssk.
Just then, a sound of something crawling on the ground rang out.
Both men turned around startled.
***
Though Tristan wasn’t by her side anymore, Maya still had the wyvern and the rope.
She greatly benefited from the wyvern’s pathfinding ability and the rope she had brought.
Letting out the rope prevented us from repeatedly visiting the same places, which was a relief.
Even while quickly circling the area on the wyvern, we struggled for a long time.
‘Coming here alone was indeed madness.’
It was because of the mountain peaks, but the inside of the mist was eerily silent.
As if nothing else existed.
The wyvern hesitated as if frightened, but Maya bravely led it. Gradually, we approached the sound.
“Foolish human, to come seeking me.”
It seemed the creature knew Maya was looking for it.
Creak… The wyvern slumped its body, realizing the strength of the monster before us.
“You… You used to just scoff at me.”
Maya, who had been laughing mockingly, dismounted from the wyvern.
Riding on the wyvern’s back would definitely make movement faster, but it was dangerous not being able to move as desired.
“Do you intend to fight me?”
The lurking snake revealed its tongue.
“Even though you shall perish?”
The snake had said the same thing the first time they met.
At that time, Maya, overconfident in her abilities, attacked first.
And was brutally defeated.
‘Let’s stay calm.’
Maya grasped her sword and took a deep breath.
‘The weakness is the eye.’
She had to perfectly thrust her sword into that vertically slit pupil.
Any deviation would mean instant death.
The eyes are naturally protected. Even more so, getting close to the eye of a giant snake meant exhausting one’s stamina.
‘I can do it.’
Tristan’s face flashed through Maya’s mind.
Those who had long wielded swords could produce sword energy, but aura was different.
Maya poured out power she had gathered from the abyss.
A bright white light emanated from Maya’s sword.
Swoosh.
Maya swung her sword at the snake.
“Hooh.”
The white snake laughed. Its gentle smile seemed like bait thrown to the weak.
“This will be fun to kill.”
As soon as the soft voice was heard, the snake lunged at Maya.
It tried to coil around Maya’s body.
Maya stepped onto the bulk of the white snake.
“Not bad.”
The white snake moved to constrict Maya again, twisting its body here and there.
Its body hidden in the white mist was not easy to distinguish.
If invisible, focus on hearing and touch.
Maya closed her eyes and concentrated her aura, becoming one with her sword.
She knew. Her swordsmanship could only inflict a tiny scratch on the snake’s body.
But those tiny scratches accumulate and create change.
‘May you return safely.’
As she was thinking of Tristan, the corners of her lips curved up.
