Because She Had A Time Limit, She Became The Villain's Daughter-in-law - Chapter 135
Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi
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Chapter 135
“Evan.”
Laria never knew about her own illness.
“Don’t like me too much.”
However, one day, she spoke to him seriously.
“Let’s just get along in moderation. I think that’s better.”
Saying that her complexion was getting worse day by day, she continued to cough, “Somehow… my body is getting worse…but I still want to live a little longer. There are so many things I want to do.”
“What do you want to do?”
As Evan asked as he swept through her hair, she smiled brightly.
“I want to live until your birthday.”
“…Huh?”
“I want to say happy birthday to you on your 21st birthday.”
“….”
“Come to think of it, I never said happy birthday to you. Even though you didn’t do it to me either.”
“Ah. Never mind my birthday.”
Evan said quietly.
“Ever since I was little, I personally instructed no one to celebrate my birthday.”
“No. I want to congratulate you.”
Laria said fiercely.
“I’ll gather all the vassals, invite the music troupe to the gathering of all the family members, and say happy birthday.”
“When you say that…”
He buried his face in her body.
“How can you just say let’s get along in moderation? Are you stupid?”
Laria lived just two more months after that.
In the meantime, the office was burned because of a sudden attack. Taking advantage of that gap, a man named Seymour discovered the books of Lolide, the first head of the house, and took a gold mine that had just been discovered.
Evan was unmoved by all of that. He just always stood by Laria. He wasn’t even interested in following up on the terror attack since every day with Laria was more precious.
It was the day of the imperial banquet.
Her condition deteriorated rapidly. Although Laria herself didn’t know much about her own condition, she seemed to feel that her body was unusual today.
“What a shame.”
Laria looked up at Evan’s muddy face and uttered.
“If I were healthy, I would have had my first dance with you, right?”
“…Then, who are you going to dance the second dance?”
“Well, anyone?”
“I definitely won’t let you go.”
“…You are a bit obsessive. You can’t do that. Are you going to stop your wife’s entire social life?”
“Then, I’ll kill you inside.”
“….”
“A hundred times?”
Even though Laria tried to say something, she coughed before laughing helplessly and lost her consciousness. After coming to her senses after several hours, she called Evan’s name in the same posture as before.
“Evan.”
Evan held her hand tightly.
“Thank you for all this time.”
“…Don’t say that.”
His voice was hushed.
Taking a few breaths, she wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth.
“I…I’ve been indifferent to you for too long. I don’t deserve to hear that.”
Evan spoke in a seething voice and replied in a sad voice, but Laria shook her head.
“It was the same for me.”
She rolled up Evan’s sleeve and touched the deep scar.
“I really, really should have stopped this…”
“If I could just live one more time, Laria.”
Evan uttered quietly.
“Don’t meet someone like me.”
“…What?”
“Meet someone who takes good care of your illness since you were little and likes you all the time.”
“Can I do that?”
“And I will kill him in hell.”
“….”
Laria looked at him in bewilderment, then she smiled.
“If you can live one more time, you do that.”
“….”
“I don’t need another man.”
And soon, she fell into a deep sleep again.
That morning, she managed to leave the world with just one word, ‘Goodbye,’ and she passed away in her sleep. Evan didn’t shed a single tear… because he didn’t intend to live his life long without her anyway.
Elanie was the first in line for the throne, but the Emperor was so young that the beautiful Princess did not know when to inherit the throne.
Kallaudin had no intention of persuading the Emperor to release the black magic seal.
This was because the Emperor did not desire anything special besides his own trivial act of power. So, it was a plan seven years ago to connect Elanie and Evan by marriage and somehow get the imperial family seal.
Time passed like that, and Elanie also came of age. And after hearing all the circumstances from Kallaudin, Evan frantically clung to something after Laria passed away.
The night after Laria’s funeral, Evan went straight to Kallaudin and spoke lowly.
“I think I can get permission even if I don’t have to get married.”
“…What?”
Kallaudin saw his son with the same expression he had when he was young.
He couldn’t even say that Evan had to get married and somehow seduce Elanie with his face or body and then ask him to get permission for the black magic. However, Evan came up with a completely different solution.
“Princess Elanie was more eager about the divorce law than I thought. Our cooperation is essential to get that law passed.”
Now that Duchy Icard was the de facto head of the noble faction. After hearing all the facts from Kallaudin, Evan was stepping up his efforts to lead the execution of black magic.
Kallaudin couldn’t help but watch without saying anything to his son, who had grown more walls somewhere. Still, every time he saw his son getting thinner and thinner, he bitterly regretted his choice.
After all, Evan must have felt the pain Kallaudin had felt.
“However, Princess Elanie is not the kind of person who would allow black magic on the condition of passing a law like that.”
“She has agreed to eliminate Prince Ronald’s right to succession. She says that currying favor with the Emperor is terrible because of the Prince.”
“…What? Evan, that’s not something you can do…”
“I decided to make him unable to inherit—either make him unable to function as a human or kill him if that is difficult.”
Even though he was young, Evan, who was much more intelligent than Kallaudin in many ways, ended up having a discussion with Elanie.
They compromised by releasing the seal of black magic and permitting the summoning of demons, with the position of Emperor, and the passage of the divorce law. Kallaudin, who did not know that Elanie’s aspirations were so great, was surprised inside.
‘Of course, I thought she hated black magic like the Imperial Family.’
Moreover, since she was known to be the Emperor’s courteous daughter, he did not know that her desire for the throne was so great.
“Princess Elanie had a grudge against Prince Ronald. I heard that he arbitrarily put up the belongings of her deceased ancestor at auction.”
To be precise, Elanie’s hatred for her father and half-brother was deep, though somehow Evan had uncovered her true heart.
“But how do you plan to directly kill the imperial family…”
“It’s a promise that I won’t have to keep if time goes back anyway, so I just hung Icard’s seal.”
In other words, Evan had hit her multiple times. He made a compromise by putting Duchy Icard on something he couldn’t accomplish regardless.
In fact, Elanie was very distressed for promising permission for black magic.
“My beliefs are more important to me than the welfare of the Empire or the authority of the Imperial Family. I have all Icard anyway, so I won’t do much harm to the Empire.”
“I am going to show my mother’s face to my father only once. It will not disturb the world at all.”
“Is there such black magic? Well, I know about Duke Icard’s pure love. I will believe you.”
Evan noticed that before Kallaudin did.
He could understand the feeling. If Laria had left a will, Evan would have tried to listen to it, even if it meant turning the empire upside down.
“For Princess Elanie, it was simply black magic to see her mother again. I never bothered to talk about going back in time.”
In a word, the story completely deceived Elanie. Consent of the nobility and approval of the imperial family… it was achieved by Kallaudin over twenty years of foundation and the latter by Evan through negotiations and fraud.
Only a few people knew that it was possible to turn back time and revive a person at the same time, so even Elanie couldn’t imagine it.
Finally, deep underground in the imperial palace, the altar of darkness was opened for the first time in several hundred years.
As Evan and Kallaudin stepped up to the altar alone, Evan calmly chanted the spell and split the holy relic in half in the middle of the magic circle, according to the old books Kallaudin had studied.
― It’s been a while since I came to the human world. Was it over a thousand years?
There was no demonic entity, and only a majestic voice rang through the altar.
― You who dared to summon the devil, what kind of contract do you want to make with me?
“I want to turn back time and change cause and effect to bring the dead back to life.”
— Huh… if you turn back time, even you would live a new life without knowing the fact that you had returned.
“I don’t care.”
― Besides, black magic isn’t magic that’s beneficial to humans, so you have to pay a pretty high price.
“Save my wife. And in return, take my life or my soul.”
With Evan’s calm words, Kallaudin immediately grabbed his arm.
“…What do you mean?”
The devil’s voice cut off Kallaudin’s devastated words.
― Hmph, you used your brain a bit, but the devil doesn’t trade like that. Cause and effect and one life are unconditional.
Evan put on a look of dismay.
It was because he thought that Matilda could also come back to life if he became a being that didn’t exist in the first place. Nonetheless, the devil seemed to have noticed Evan’s calculation right away.
―Matilda Lalilash Icard. The only way to revive her is for you not to be born because she was not supposed to give birth to a child in the first place. There is no other way.
The devil’s voice continued.
― So, saving both of them is not profitable. Your life depends on the cause and effect of saving your mother…
It was Kallaudin who immediately cut off the words.
“No, devil. I am not here to bring Matilda back to life.”
“Father?”
Evan’s eyebrows furrowed at the unexpected words. Up until now, he had no doubts that his father would choose Matilda over him, obviously.
For Kallaudin, he was always the cause of Matilda’s death, the wrong child. So Evan thought that if he could disappear from the world and bring Matilda back to life, then of course, it would end well for everyone.
“Why…”
Kallaudin gazed at Evan quietly and took his hand in surprise. It was the first physical contact between father and son.
“Evan, I messed up your childhood because I wanted to bring Matilda back to life. And yet, I never stopped in the hope that everything could be reversed.”
“….”
“That doesn’t mean I didn’t love you. I just wanted to give you complete love. I became obsessed with black magic as if I had been driven to a dead end, even more thinking I had ruined it once.”
Therefore, he chose to do his best to restore the already ruined father-son relationship rather than recover it from the middle. The more he regretted the past for not paying attention to his son, the more he wanted to start over, so the vicious cycle of him working hard was repeated.
He added grimly.
“If I had to choose between you and Matilda, I already made that choice.”
“….”
“When you were conceived… Matilda said she would give birth to you no matter what, and I decided to respect her wishes.”
“But…”
“I’m sorry, Evan. It was my first time as a parent, so I didn’t know what to do. This is how you pay for it.”
Evan was so confused that he couldn’t answer. It was an unexpected situation.
“So, devil…”
Kallaudin said lowly.
“Take my life.”
There was not the slightest hesitation in his voice, as if he had been thinking for a long time. It was probably something he had been thinking about ever since Evan said he grew attached to Laria.
“I want you to bring back my daughter-in-law, Laria Rose Icard.”
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kuroneko_chan
😭😭
Blysse
this is so heartbreaking 😭
our laria is actually the OG laria in the novel, right?
this js just my speculation
after laria died, her soul maybe got transfered to modern world for a while. reading that novel in particular (that i’m sure is the work of devil), and ended up knowing the cure for her illness before coming back to this world.
Yunie Yun
No, this story is heartbreaking 😭😭
HeathBar
Is this why Kallaudin is sick? It’s not the occlasia fruits at all – the illness is being transferred from Laria to Kal?