The Ugly Lady’s Secret Pouch

Lucas stepped out of the guest room and quickly moved his feet. It was only after Theobald, who had been pressing him down, finally fell over that he came out.

“Wife.”

In order to find Lila, he hurriedly climbed the stairs. He desperately hoped she would be in the room.

Lila filled the spot he had just left. She walked and stood in front of the guest room in the opposite order of his exit.

Having heard from the servant where Lucas was, Lila softly knocked on the door and tried to enter the room.

“Lila!”

At that moment, Michael appeared from the opposite corridor and called her. At the same time, the doorknob she was holding turned.

Theobald, who had been trying to follow Lucas and pour out whatever he could, reached out his hand upon seeing Lila standing in front of him.

He instinctively realized that this was his chance. If not now, there would be no opportunity.

Everything appeared in Michael’s eyes like a slow-motion scene. Gold began to sparkle in his pink eyes as he watched her large hands fall to his head, smiling up at him.

“Michael…”

A large hand blocked Lila’s slowly opening lips. Cobalt-colored eyes widened in surprise as they met crimson eyes like blood.

At the same time, the tool in his hand activated. And as he approached, Michael cast a spell.

In an instant, their traces were erased.

“Lila!”

Michael called out to Lila, who had vanished with Theobald.

* * *

Lila woke up feeling disoriented. Her lips trembled in the cold that penetrated her skin.

“Ugh.”

She heard a man’s voice right beside her. Lila thought he was Lucas.

“Lucas…”

But she closed her mouth as she smelled the thick scent of another man.

“Ugh, what the…”

Theobald slowly looked around where they had fallen and swallowed his curses. It wasn’t the location he had designated.

Although he didn’t know what went wrong, he was embarrassed. The place where the northern snowstorm raged was the coldest mountain in the north.

The two people who were stranded on the top of the mountain struggled to warm their bodies.

“Lila.”

Theobald hurried to support Lila.

Thwack!

She fiercely hit his hand away and glared at him with angry eyes.

“What the hell is this?”

Lila couldn’t bear his absurd behavior. She was furious that he tried to drag her along without her permission.

It didn’t matter where they were. She hated him for trying to separate her from Lucas.

“Lila…”

Theobald, who was rejected until the end, burst into tears. He couldn’t understand why she made him so miserable.

“Why are you ignoring me? Don’t I deserve a chance? Are you going to get angry without even listening to me?”

Theobald shouted in the cold that penetrated his skin. Despite trembling as much as he did, Lila stood firmly on her own.

Only Theobald’s voice echoed in the snowy field where their feet sank.

“I have nothing to say to you, Your Highness.”

Lila, who didn’t want to talk to him anymore, took out a communication magical artifact from her fingerless glove.

As soon as she tried to connect, Michael answered right away.

—Where are you?

Lila tried to answer Michael, who was screaming and shouting as if he was running somewhere, but she was blocked by Theobald.

He belatedly noticed the purpose of the magical artifact Lila was holding and slapped it with his hand. Then he grabbed her wrist.

“What do you think you’re doing!”

Lila tried to pull her wrist out of his grasp while glaring at him as he shouted, but it wasn’t easy. Even if she didn’t learn swordsmanship, a man’s strength was something she couldn’t shake off.

“Let go of this!”

“Lila, please!”

“Your Highness!”

“Listen to me! You and I were lovers in the disappeared future. We were happy in the disappeared future!”

Lila laughed bitterly at his desperate words.

“It’s true. We were happy. So we can be happy again this time. You just have to accept me, Lila. Please.”

While forcing her into his arms and restraining Lila, who was struggling desperately, Theobald trembled with ecstasy.

He missed her. Her slender shoulders and sweet scent. Theobald closed his eyes and lowered his head to her while recalling the old Lila that he could no longer see even in his dreams.

SLAP–!

Theobald, who was trying to taste her lips, suddenly turned his head involuntarily.

“What the hell….”

SLAP, SLAP!

Lila didn’t stop with just one hit. She couldn’t easily calm down her anger, which she had never experienced before.

He looked down at her with an expression of disbelief as he tried to stop her from hitting him again.

Lila’s body trembled. Not only because of the unbearable cold, but also because of her anger.

Theobald grabbed her shoulder, which was trembling uncontrollably as he tried to pull his grabbed wrist out of her grasp. He tried to embrace her again to calm her down, but…

“Don’t touch me!”

He froze like a broken doll at her rough voice, which was shaking uncontrollably.

Hot tears were streaming down her cobalt-colored eyes. A white breath flowed between her red lips. Her eyes looked more poisonous than her reddened cheeks, which looked pitiful.

“Happy? You and I were happy?”

Lila felt like her insides were turning over when she heard his lies. The original Lila had committed suicide for what reason, and he was packaging it like this?

She hated herself for turning him away without realizing it. This is how it should have been. It would have been a way to repay the original Lila, who gave up her regression and chose death.

“You didn’t love Lila! You just wanted to possess her! But you lie that you and Lila were happy?”

Theobald was lost in thought by her words and took a step back without realizing it. Of course, she shouldn’t have known about the disappeared future.

As he retreated, Lila, who followed him, grabbed Theobald’s collar. Her thin fingers looked like they were about to break.

“You killed her!”

A rough, low voice that she wouldn’t have thought was hers flowed out hoarsely.

Her transparent cobalt eyes, in which the swirling snowflakes were clearly visible, slashed at him like a blade.

“You killed Lila! And yet, how can you lie like that! It’s disgusting. You don’t deserve to love anyone. If you truly loved her, you wouldn’t have said such lies.”

In front of Lila, who cruelly denied his love, Theobald shrank. He definitely loved her. That was an undeniable truth.

But she wasn’t her. Moreover, he unknowingly retreated as she spoke as if she knew everything about the disappeared future.

Lila was dragged along as she grabbed his collar, not letting go even when he pushed her away.

Instead, she reached out and hit him on the head.

“Wake up, you bastard!”

Regardless of whether he was a prince or from a different class society in Korea, nothing was visible in her eyes right now.

Only the selfish and extreme Theobald was visible to her.

Lila, who barely held onto the black hair at the tip of her fingers, scratched his face with her nails.

A red streak began to appear on his handsome face.

“Selfish bastards like you should die. You should have killed yourself, not Lila!”

Theoabald’s body trembled at her words, which were more severe than her painful fingertips. Although her face was still the same as the Lila he loved, she seemed like a stranger.

“L-Lila?”

Theobald froze in shock as he recalled the smile of the Lila he loved.

At that moment, Lila flicked her hand. Unfamiliar and bizarre behavior made Theobald push her away without realizing it.

She didn’t seem like the woman he loved. Something was definitely wrong. This wasn’t right.

“Kyaaa!”

The girl who stumbled and fell screamed in horror. He unknowingly reached out to her urgent voice that he was familiar with, but stopped himself.

His head was spinning and he couldn’t think straight. He couldn’t tell if the girl in front of him was the one he knew.

Lila, who fell while holding onto Theobald, didn’t take her eyes off him while trying to get up with all her might. She still hadn’t calmed down. She thought she wouldn’t stop even if her fingertips froze and the cold wind seeped into her lungs.

She had to finish the original Lila’s revenge.

“I hope you become as unhappy as Lila.
I hope you become as unhappy as her!”

A fierce northerly wind blew in.

The snow piled up on the tree was swept away by the wind.

Lila, whose hands and lips were stained purple, tried to raise her body that wouldn’t move as she wanted.

Then a voice echoed in the distance.

“Lila!”

“Ah…”

Lila, who recognized the familiar and friendly voice, let out a sigh and tears.

‘Lucas is here.’

He promised to protect her even if it cost him his life, and he came. Lila finally took her eyes off Theobald and began to look for the direction where the voice was coming from.

Theobald, who was holding onto his head, turned his head as if he had regained his senses when he heard Lucas’s voice.

“No.”

It didn’t matter if she looked unfamiliar.

Theobald moved his feet as soon as he regained himself from the moment of shaking.

He approached Lila with a body that was staggering from the wind and cold. She tried hard to get up while holding onto him, but her frozen body wouldn’t listen to her.

“Lucas!”

Instead, she called him out loud.

“Lila!”

Lucas, who heard her voice, ran towards her from afar.

Behind him were the knights of the duchy and the imperial knights.

As soon as Lucas spotted Lila, he growled fiercely with anger.

“Theobald Vassium Ivrenia!”

As soon as he saw his companion lying pitifully on the ground, he thought his heart would burst.

The sound of the wind and his heartbeat made him dizzy, but Lucas hurriedly moved his feet.

The red eyes of Theobald, who was approaching Lila, blazed like flames.

He didn’t want to lose to that guy.

As the two men moved in unison, so did the knights. They had come this far together, but not now.

The Duke’s Knights attacked the Imperial Knights first. The Imperial Knights gritted their teeth as the Duke’s Knights stood in their way.

“Lucas!”

The sound of swords clashing began to spread.

The white snow was flashing with light everywhere.

Lucas, who was only a little closer, suddenly fell to the ground because of Theobald’s sudden push.

After rolling for a moment, Lucas quickly attacked Theobald. He hit him in the stomach with his fist and kicked him in the side.

“Ugh!”

Unable to resist the power of Lucas, Theobald fell onto the snow. Lucas did not stop kicking him while looking down at him.

“How dare you!”

He couldn’t forgive Theobald for trying to steal his mate like an object. He wanted to kill this guy who brought her to such a place even though he cherished her so much that it wasn’t enough.

“Ahh!”

The roughed-up Theobald screamed and vomited blood. While gasping for breath lying on his back, he took out another magic tool from his chest.

He tried to throw it at Lucas without hesitation, but rolled to the side due to his disobedient arm.

“Ugh…..”

Lucas’ eyes looked strange as he saw the small cylindrical magic tool rolling next to him. It was an attack-type magic tool that only made five at the company.

“This bastard….”

Lucas, who was about to attack the desperate and pitiful Theobald, paused and pondered as he checked the direction of the rolling magic tool.

There was Lila, struggling to hold on.