I Abandoned the Male Lead Who Cheated with the Villainess - Chapter 106
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There was no reason why a victory once seized couldn’t be grasped again.
‘But it’s puzzling. Since the conquest of Osbloom, there hasn’t been a rebellion.’
As soon as Herix sat down, the carriage started moving. Through the window facing the driver’s seat, he could see Johann driving the carriage. It seemed urgent.
Herix turned to glance back at the hill where the Tens mansion was located.
‘Yes. With Ivonne back, it’s no surprise if a few variables come into play.’
The word ‘variables’ suddenly appealed to him. Indeed, everything is attributed to variables. Ivonne’s return and her inability to forget and continue loving Blitzen, and her forgiveness of him, are all due to variables.
‘Since Blitzen arrived, Ivonne has been avoiding me. It seems they have reconciled.’
Perhaps they had confirmed their feelings for each other once more.
‘Did everything revert to the way it was as soon as that Celestia character disappeared?’
The thought made his stomach churn and his chest burn, as if boiling oil was poured on it. But Herix endured it as well.
‘It’s alright. It’s still alright.’
Ivonne was at the Tens mansion, not returning to the Count Ulfest’s residence. Moreover, she had said something to Rix this morning.
— Rix, do, do you not like it… when I care…about you?
Just recalling Ivonne’s voice was intoxicating. His heart, which had been painfully torn, now beat steadily, as if it had been mended. When it raced towards Ivonne, it was oblivious to the pain.
— Can’t I care about Rix? I’m fine with Rix caring about me too…
His mind was filled entirely with Ivonne’s voice. Just hearing it made him feel parched.
A kind person, like spring itself, no, she was spring itself. Even while holding onto Herix Glacien Questiago, she was trying to control even his breath, his very life. And so, she was the only one who made him devoted and loved unconditionally.
‘To love Blitzen and yet speak such words to me, to rescue me again and then cast me aside with ‘that wasn’t my intention’—’
Despite this, he loved her so much that he couldn’t control himself.
The world was miserable and he felt pathetic, but he couldn’t help it. Just as the seasons endlessly cycle and winter yearns desperately for spring, Herix craved Ivonne. He desired Ivonne like bread and wine, like nectar and ambrosia.
Without her, Herix could not live.
So Herix endures. As long as Ivonne remains by his side, as long as she hasn’t yet used her small, loving lips to slice his heart with the cold blade of ‘I love Blitzen’.
“Ha…”
With a sigh, Herix leaned his head against the carriage window. The clattering carriage, magically enchanted to be still, did not cause motion sickness. Yet the feeling of his insides churning, as if he might erupt at any moment, was overwhelming.
‘What should I do… how can I make Ivonne look at me?’
Perhaps it was the dizziness from love that made him feel this way.
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Herix’s decision to set out once again to end the Osbloom war had been confirmed. Consequently, the fearful epithets that had adorned Herix’s name were consolidated into one.
The Purple Hero.
This was partly because Herix had taken less than five minutes to declare his intention to assess the scale of the Osbloom kingdom’s rebellion and lead the campaign. But also because of the rumor that Arnold had been asleep while Herix reorganized the knights and prepared for departure.
“To even open the imperial treasury to aid a fallen town—”
“But can the Crown Prince really just open the treasury like this?”
“I heard from an acquaintance working at the palace that there was a huge argument with His Majesty the Emperor over this!”
“It’s said that the Crown Prince insisted on opening the treasury for the sake of the people.”
Given the situation, public sentiment had clearly shifted towards Herix, who bore the Emperor’s mark. But they did not know that Herix’s decision had been influenced entirely by one woman’s words.
— What will happen to the people who lost their homes due to the war? There won’t be any insurance… or something like that.
She had made a slight frown when mentioning the word ‘insurance’, but soon continued to discuss its definition with unabashed confidence. The woman in question was Ivonne.
And now, this very woman was staring in shock with her mouth agape at the Crown Prince, who was now in the role of Rix.
“No, don’t go! How can you go there, Rix? To that place!”
Her face had gone pale with horror, and she shook her head vigorously. Ivonne clutched her own head with her small, loving hands and cried out.
“That’s a battlefield! It’s a place where people die and die again! Without conscription, why would Rix go there!”
This was because Rix was supposed to accompany Herix on a military campaign.
