Because She Had A Time Limit, She Became The Villain’s Daughter-in-law

“Young Duke. I want to meet Baron Litshua.”

It was the first time since the banquet that she had seen Evan’s face in person. Elanie was very surprised that a person’s face could depreciate so much in such a short period of time. Only the red eyes were shining like a madman on a face that was so rough and exhausted.

“…May I ask why the Princess is looking for him?”

His voice was very cracked.

‘He’s a real beast.’

Elanie thought with a slight smile.

‘He doesn’t even think about hiding the kidnapping in front of the Princess.’

At the same time, in her mind, the hypothesis that Laria was confined somewhere in the Duke’s mansion began to gain more and more conviction.

“He’s my precious money line, so let him go.”

“I’ll just uncover a few facts and send him out.”

Elanie sighed inside. She didn’t think Evan would let go of him easily just by looking at the atmosphere he was exuding.

‘Still, I’m the only one who can save him from this ordeal so I’ll have to do my best.’

In the end, it seemed that she had no choice but to be uncharacteristic and somehow appease him well.

Evan didn’t even hide his indifference to her, he said nonchalantly.

“Don’t worry, go back. I know very well that he is not to be killed.”

“Of course, when Seymour confessed to Laria during the imperial banquet was very wrong. But…”

At those words, his indifferent face turned scary in an instant.

“…Did that bastard confess to Laria at the banquet?”

‘Ah. I guess he didn’t know.’

Elanie’s eyes seem to turn white.

‘I drove the money line to the ordeal myself…’

She quickly prayed for Seymour’s peaceful rest. At the same time, she had another surge of curiosity. This was because her hypothesis that Laria was being confined after getting confessed to by Seymour was broken.

Then, why was Laria imprisoned? Why was Seymour kidnapped…?

Elanie’s thoughts, which had already solidified the idea of ‘that guy is crazy’ after seeing Evan’s madness, were driven to more and more extremes.

‘You locked her up just because of your heartache, you horrible bastard.’

Seeing the beast in front of her eyes, she clenched her teeth.

“I don’t know why the Princess is so obsessed with Laria.”

“…Chess.”

“What?”

“She has to finish playing chess. She was the only opponent who seemed likely to beat me!”

Evan’s complexion turned even worse upon hearing those words.

“Laria… is good at chess?”

“She plays it incredibly well.”

Elanie answered immediately and gazed at Evan’s face.

Judging from the way he sighed, it seemed that he had no idea that Laria was good at chess. If so, he was a very vicious bastard who locked her up with no proper interest in her. It was not for nothing that Laria asked to quickly enacted the divorce laws.

“Young Duke, let me give you some advice.”

“I will refuse…”

“Even if you are a husband, you have no right to force someone to dislike you.”

“What are you talking about?”

“That dirty, nasty thing you’re doing to Laria.”

For an instant, Evan’s eyes narrowed. It seemed that he was trying to gauge how much Elanie knew.

‘I know he’s doing dirty and nasty things.’

Seeing that he didn’t flinch, it seemed right that he was doing bad things to Laria.

Evan’s mouth opened slowly.

“So in secret, without anyone knowing…”

‘Oh, my gosh! I couldn’t believe it, but it was true! He’s like that Olivia Livienne!’

With the mention of ‘secret,’ the reason in Elanie’s head suddenly snapped. Her fighting power flared up, like when she had a fight with Olivia at the masquerade ball.

In fact, Evan was referring to his background investigation, but Elanie completely misunderstood. Although she was intelligent and good at enterprises, she had the disadvantage that once her eyes turned upside down and her attack power became very strong.

Elanie, whose eyes had already turned, yelled at him, banging the table.

“Does that make sense? You punk, all I have to do is pass the divorce laws. Laria will divorce you right away!”

“…Divorce?”

Evan murmured as if he was dumbfounded.

“Did you just say divorce now…?”

“Yes!”

“Haa… Do you think I will let Laria go?”

“If you commit a crime like confinement, I will make sure you get divorced!”

Saying so, she got up from her seat and even started pointing fingers at him.

“I guess I know why Laria supported my dream of the divorce law. Now, I know why she asked me to proceed quickly.”

Her loud voice resounded.

“You’ll see, I will definitely get Laria out of the abyss of crazy people…”

Elanie’s words, which had been randomly uttered based on Seymour’s words, could not continue.

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“…Now, did you say that Laria asked you to speed up the legislation on divorce?”

It was because Evan looked up at her and asked her eerily.

“Th-that…that, that’s right…!”

Only then did Elanie realize that Laria was still in the clutches of this madman. However, no matter how hard she thought of it, she couldn’t think of a justification to take Lady Icard, who was at Duke Icard’s residence.

Nathan’s mouth, who had been listening to all this, guarding the entrance to the parlor, opened slowly. The appearance of Kyle Dart Ravonis, the man who had a crush on Laria, whom she had a relationship with, and the word ‘divorce.’

…The combination of the two was terrifying.

Nevertheless, something more terrible awaited.

“What?”

Elanie’s voice was so loud that even Olivia and Kallaudin came. She glanced at Kallaudin, who had turned into a ghost-like appearance, and took another breath. What the hell was going on in this mansion that made the two Icard men look like living corpses?

“So, you mean that Laria asked you to legislate the divorce laws, and then she slapped us in the back of the head since it seems difficult?”

Olivia clapped and shouted.

“Bravo!”

She finally smiled broadly as if she was relieved.

“Yes! This is enough to hit the darn family who tried to take advantage of her death! I was worried because she was so kind, but it was worth teaching! As expected, she is my goddaughter…! The last letter was a trick, the truth was another man! I knew she would!”

“…That darn family is Icard, aunt.”

Kallaudin spoke lowly, and Olivia quietly stopped clapping.

“Ah, it was so exhilarating that I forgot. sorry. Thinking from a godmother’s point of view is so admirable…”

Even though Elanie quickly noticed that everything was upside down because of her, she decided to hold on brazenly for now.

“It’s rude to eavesdrop on someone’s conversation, Duke. Of course, Mrs. Livienne is fine. I knew she was rude.”

Kallaudin bowed to Elanie in a half-hearted manner, then turned to Evan.

“Evan, is everything the Princess said true?”

“…Unknown for now. I haven’t seen Laria yet.”

“If she wants a divorce… could it be that the guy you locked up is Laria’s hidden man?”

With ‘hidden man’ getting mentioned, Evan’s expression became even more terrifying while Elanie jumped up and shouted.

“No…! Not Seymour! Don’t kill my money line!”

“Then who is it, tell me.”

As Kallaudin’s chilling question was directed to Nathan, he answered, grieving that such an ordeal had come to him.

“A-a, a baron named Kyle Dart Ravonis, Hanua’s…”

“Kyle Ravonis?”

Kallaudin, who gritted his teeth and responded reflexively, raised his eyebrows as if he remembered something only after speaking.

“Wait. Hanua? Iron one? Damn it. Was that also related to that guy?”

Olivia quickly interjected.

“You have to understand Laria. That’s how much Icard had done wrong with her, so her heart went to another man for a while. Still, get rid of him.”

Evan’s expression got visibly worse at the expression ‘her heart goes.’ At the same time, Kallaudin glanced at his son and uttered terribly.

“I even heard that you were getting divorced from someone else. How long are you going to act like a gentleman?”

“….”

“I don’t think it’s time to relax.”

His meaning was simple. It meant that he should no longer use passive methods just because he thought he would be hated by Laria. That meant…

“If you want to see her, do whatever you can, Evan.”

Kallaudin looked up at Evan, who looked just like he did in his youth.

He also had a lot of things he wanted to say to Laria. The more he thought about the past, the more he felt grateful and sorry. Laria was one of the few people in the world whom he would have nothing to say even if she laughed at him for being a fool because of Matilda.

“And… family members don’t think that way. Lady Olivia, Evan, and I were all just sorry, but I never considered father to be lacking.”

However, even though Laria knew everything, she protected him up to the end. He had to somehow beg her forgiveness and express his gratitude if he ever saw her again. But now was the time for him to observe Evan’s choices and decisions rather than indulge in his own regrets.

“Because I’ve always done that in front of my beloved wife.”

Evan’s and Kallaudin’s eyes met. It was the first father-son conversation they had since Evan declared that she would find Laria.

“…All right.”

Evan left the parlor without even bowing to Elanie, then glanced around and spoke.

“Ah, it is still difficult to release Litshua. However, I will not kill him because I’m considering the Princess’ face. I hope you will be satisfied with that.”

“Yes, I will be completely satisfied!”

Elanie noticed and quickly nodded her head. She somehow thought that the man called Baron Ravonis would suffer more humiliation than Seymour.