Pardon the Abduction, Holy Knight - It's an Emergency - Chapter 3.14

And why does his tone seem so sharp again?

I looked at Adriel strangely, then decided to just ignore it and eat.

“Anyway, don’t do that, Sir Knight.”

“Do what?”

“That stupid thing of being so blinded by love that you’d give away even your soul.”

Adriel’s thick eyebrows curved as if I was stating the obvious.

“Why would I do something that only men who can’t distinguish right from wrong would do?”

At his firm words spoken with a serious face, I chuckled and lowered my head.

“That’s true.”

Unless it was for revenge.

Adriel blinded by love.

Thinking it was truly an incompatible combination of words, I took a spoonful of the now-cold soup. The taste of the cold soup was still sweet.

***

“Master said Wit can do whatever Wit wants. Kekeke.”

Having finished the task Rosemary had given him, Wit transformed into a small fairy and hid behind a tree placed in the restaurant.

Wit’s mischievous gaze turned to a corner of the restaurant.

There was a man handing a ring box to a woman.

Fun thing. Fun thing.

As Wit giggled, covering his mouth with his small hand, it happened.

“Emily, I love you. Please accept me…”

“Honey.”

At the familiar voice that shouldn’t be here, the man froze like a stone.

The man’s head turned slowly, his face as pale as a death row inmate waiting for execution.

“Y-You?!”

“George. What on earth is this…”

“H-How did you…”

The man’s complexion turned blue at the appearance of his parents following his wife.

“Uh, Mom? Dad too?!”

The woman sitting across quickly noticed the situation was not normal and hurriedly put the ring in her pocket, fearing someone might take it away.

The man’s wife coldly looked over the two of them.

“Didn’t you say you’d be having dinner out with Father for Mother’s birthday?”

“That was today?”

“Yes. You said you couldn’t take even a day off because you had to provide for our family. But… what are you doing here when you said that?”

“Well, that’s….”

Cornered, the man unconsciously pictured his future. He was divorced by his wife, cut off from his parents’ financial support, and homeless on the streets.

The man jumped up as if struck by lightning.

“Honey, it’s a misunderstanding!”

“A misunderstanding?”

“Yes, a misunderstanding! I don’t know what you’re thinking, but it’s all a misunderstanding!”

“Then, you telling that woman you love her? Is that also my misunderstanding?”

The man’s mouth, which had been searching for excuses, snapped shut.

At that sight, the wife’s strength drained away, and she burst into tears.

“George. How could you do this? How could you, to your wife….”

“Uh, Mom!”

“And here I was wondering where all the money you borrowed for business went… Was it to buy that ring?”

“No, no, Dad!”

“You really… I thought you’d grown up after getting married. But you disappoint us in the worst way possible.”

While attention was focused on the man, the woman tried to sneak away with just the ring.

However, she had to sit back down due to the customers who had gathered after hearing the commotion.

Some of them were even faces the woman recognized.

In this small neighborhood where commoners lived, how quickly rumors spread.

The woman’s face flushed red with shame.

“From now on, we won’t listen to anything but what our daughter-in-law and granddaughter say. Don’t even think about reaching out to us again.”

“Dad!”

The man’s parents clicked their tongues as if they couldn’t bear to look anymore and left the store.

“This, this isn’t….”

“How could you do this to us? To me and our daughter….”

At his wife’s reproach, the man suddenly felt a surge of anger. He thought his wife was the root cause of all this.

“Did you investigate me? Did you follow me?”

“Is that what you should be saying to me right now? I came here because I received a mail about a special event. I didn’t follow you.”

“Stop lying! I’m sick and tired of it! It’s because you’re this kind of woman. Is it my fault that I fell for Emily because I was tired of your behavior?”

“Oh my God. George. You’re going to blame me till the end, aren’t you? I doubted my own eyes when I saw you with that woman. I even blamed myself for doubting you….”

“So this is all…!”

“You said you loved me….”

“What, what?”

“You trash!”

Slap-!

The man’s face turned from the sharp blow.

The man, who had been blinking in confusion, soon glared and raised his hand towards his wife.

“You, you dare…!”

“You bastard!”

But the wife’s foot was faster.

Just as the wife’s foot was about to hit the man’s thigh.

Wit snapped his fingers.

At the same time, a strong force was applied to the wife’s foot.

Whack!

“Urgh…!”

Hit squarely in the middle, the man fainted without even being able to scream.

For a moment, silence fell in the store.

“What was that sound just now?”

“I don’t know. It sounded like something exploding.”

The spectating customers’ mouths fell open.

“George…?”

The man’s bewildered wife looked around, her gaze unfocused.

Then her eyes met with the woman who was trying to sneak away.

“Gasp…!”

The woman, who had witnessed the brutal kick up close, panicked and quickly took out the ring to return it.

“He-here! I’ll give it back, so please spare me!”

The inside of the store was in utter chaos.

And Wit, who had been watching this whole process, burst into laughter.

“Kekeke! Kekekeke!”

An employee passing by looked around at the sound of laughter, but seeing nothing but trees, continued on their way.

“Fun. Fun. When I’m with Master, only fun things happen. Kekekeke.”

Suddenly, Wit recalled the day he first met Rosemary.

It was the day he was looking for his second contractor.

Wit’s first contractor was a human who wanted to have 100 lovers.

Who met a futile end, stabbed by the 99th lover.

“Humans are weak, huh? To die from being stabbed by something like this.”

“Save me….”

“Huh? Why should Wit?”

“You said, you’re bound to my soul. So if I die, you’ll die too….”

“Huh? Huh? Master, are you stupid? Master is indeed bound to Wit’s soul, but Wit doesn’t die just because Master dies.”

“What… did you say…?”

“Master, since you’re about to die, your hearing seems bad, so Wit will speak loudly, okay?”

Wit laughed innocently.

“If Wit dies, Master dies, but if Master dies, Wit doesn’t die!”

“Ah, no….”

“Stupid! Stupid! Kekekeke!”

Just as Taro said, humans are stupid. Kekeke.

As he was flying through the sky, recalling the face of his first contractor who had fallen into despair.

In the backyard of the temple.

A woman caught his eye, gazing passionately at someone.

The man receiving that gaze was looking down at the woman with a cold expression.

One-sided love.

It was a scene Wit had seen so often it was boring.

Yet Wit stopped.

This time, something was different.

“Huh? There’s nothing?”

Wit, being a love fairy, could see invisible letters above people’s heads.

But there was nothing above the head of the human with pink hair.

Curiosity was piqued.

“Pink human, do you like that human man?”

“Wh-who?”

“Shall I help you? Kekekeke.”

At Wit’s offer, Rosemary accepted the contract without hesitation, saying she could even give her soul if she could have Adriel.

And so Wit helped Rosemary kidnap Adriel.

And came to love Rosemary.

“Huh?”

Wit tilted his head.

“When did Wit start liking Master?”