My Villainous Husband

48

It was already autumn before I knew it.

'Time flies so fast…'

As I thought so to myself, I closed the book and swept my face. I still couldn't find any answers in this book either.

'I think I've skimmed through almost all the witchcraft books in the library…'

Since there was no concept of forbidden books, I could just take dangerous books without raising any warnings from the Actilus Imperial Palace library. Nevertheless, even in such a place, the magic that Eden spoke of couldn't be found.

As expected, the accessibility of this field was very poor in this world.

'There's no mention of something similar in this world, let alone the content of transplanting someone else's souls.'

While I had hope for the necromancy part, the descriptions were very lacking. Most of them were focused on bringing the dead back to life, and even that was followed by this description…

'There are no stories about people that came from another world to this world.'

It seemed that Eden and I were unique and unprecedented.

So, my reasoning was now leaning towards the idea that it was an accident that he and I were possessed into this world. Even if someone's witchcraft intervened, the possession of Eden and I might not have been what the person intended. Either there was a huge error in the spell, or the spellcaster did something wrong…

If so, Eden's grand dream of finding the magic that brought us here, dispelling it, and returning to the original world was tantamount to burning away.

'Uggh…'

I would have to talk to him.

'Though he won't give up his hope.'

I also remembered Eden's mentions of the great archives of the abandoned sanctuary. Still, I was skeptical because if it were bordering the land of demons, it would've been the area of influence of the Temple of Tunia in the past. Even if it was in the past, would it have been free to bring witchcraft-related books to the temple?

Common sense tells you it wouldn't have been.

Still, it wouldn't be bad to try to find it at least once in the sanctuary.

There was only one thing…

I would only be sending Eden and letting go of all the information I was curious about. Besides, Eden would feel like a burden if I went with him.

Anyway, the day of the subjugation was approaching.

Preparations for the expedition were also going well. The 1,000-strong punitive force directly commanded by Raniero, and the goods to be consumed by them were procured frighteningly quickly. I was supposed to have four separate bodyguards attached to me, but I declined. It was because I thought their presence would hold me back in an unexpected situation since I still couldn't abandon the plan that if Raniero ever met Seraphina and fell for her, I would need to run away.

Recently, he suddenly brought up the topic of Seraphina, and I was on edge.

'…But why is he talking about the Saint all of a sudden?'

Even just thinking about it, my heart dropped.

I sighed.

Although he said he wouldn't be interested in the Saint, the Emperor periodically brought up her story. In fact, I had to act resolutely to pretend that it was no big deal so that he would draw attention from the Saint, but whenever he mentioned Seraphina, I was dizzy and almost cried, especially since I couldn't control such things at will.