She too hadn’t told Ivlik about her regression. It’s true they had both deceived each other. But. Even so. Thinking that she must have looked naive and foolish in Ivlik’s eyes who had his past memories, she felt angry. While feeling angry, she also felt satisfied thinking that his heart had been hers from a very long time ago.

“Is that it? So from the hotel on our wedding night… Ah, you must have wanted to send thank-you gifts to those trashy senior officers and colleagues at the Army Ministry. For preserving such a filthy custom as if it were some precious cultural heritage.”

“Cedine, that’s—”

“I suspected that you might have killed Karen in my previous life.”

Cedine finally succeeded in shocking Ivlik Wintermore. His face, which had been stained with lust, hardened in an instant.

“The reason I had such suspicions was because of what you said right after I closed my eyes.”

“W-What did I say?”

He seems really surprised. Was his way of talking suddenly got so informal?

“I’m sorry, Cedine. It’s my fault. This happened because of my greed.”

Ivlik didn’t seem to understand what was wrong with those words. So Cedine Liere had to provide additional explanation.

“Ivlik, who had never shown emotion before, cried for the first time. You shed tears and expressed regret. And then you said I died from being shot by thugs because of your greed… No, your nickname is Bluebeard to begin with. Who is Bluebeard? He gives his wife a bunch of keys and tells her not to enter the forbidden room…”

“Cedine, I know who Bluebeard is too.”

“A serial wife killer, right?”

Cedine looked at Ivlik with eyes seeking an explanation.

“That’s why I thought you were being nice to me out of guilt for killing my sister.”

“……”

“You were unreasonably nice to me. But it wasn’t like the rumors going around that you took me as your mistress. We lived in the same house for 6 years, but you never once entered my room… Who lives their whole life keeping the younger sister of a deceased fake marriage partner like you did?”

“That’s right.”

Ivlik closed his eyes.

“It’s understandable that you misunderstood, Cedine. You… didn’t know.”

If his hands were free, he would have rubbed his face. He wore a complicated expression as if not knowing where to start. He opened his mouth but closed it again without making a sound, repeating this several times. Cedine wanted to strangle him, demanding he say something, anything, right now.

“Lieutenant Liere… cared for you. And hated Duke Crotsfield.”

That’s where he started, at least.

“It was about five months after our fake marriage. I heard the Duke assigned a mission to the Lieutenant.”

“My sister said it wasn’t a very difficult operation.”

“It was a mission to blow up a school in a city called Hemberton, disguised as terrorism by foreign forces. About 300 young children were expected to die. The Duke’s reason for ordering this was just one. To divert everyone’s attention there so he could touch the excavation-prohibited area.”

“……”

“If she refused, you sisters would face retaliation from the Duke, but Lieutenant Liere couldn’t bring herself to obey. So the Lieutenant faked her death. Foreseeing that the Duke who lost the Lieutenant would thoroughly monitor your surroundings… I’m sorry, but she said even Cedine had to be thoroughly deceived. I cooperated with that until the end.”

When Cedine heard that Duke Crotsfield was behind sending the thugs, she jumped up from her seat.

“Ouch!”

She had hit her head on the roof. Fortunately, the convertible roof of the car they were in was made of waterproof canvas, so Cedine didn’t hurt her head. Cedine sat down on the car floor, rubbing the spot where she had hit the roof.

“My sister wouldn’t have stayed quiet, would she?”

“Neither did I, you know?”

Cedine’s face gradually filled with worry. Karen, who felt deep guilt towards her only sister. And Ivlik, who fell in love at first sight but lived hiding his feelings. If these two people who lost Cedine joined forces for revenge….

“Oh no.”

Everything went dark before her eyes.

“You must have made the Duke beg to be killed…”

“That bastard who deserves to be torn apart didn’t even beg. How infuriating.”

Ivlik’s gaze and voice turned chilling. People who call him Bluebeard must have only seen this side of Ivlik. The cold, cruel, merciless Lieutenant Colonel Wintermore. However, Cedine wasn’t afraid of Ivlik at all. What was sending chills down Cedine’s spine now was something else.

“Karen doesn’t seem to remember her previous life at all. It looks like my sister didn’t regress like us. What do you think, Ivlik?”

He said he agreed with Cedine’s words. Cedine felt relieved that her judgment wasn’t that far off, but at the same time thought it would have been better if Karen had regressed too. If she had, Karen would have been wary of the Duke from the moment of regression.

“Ivlik, Duke Crotsfield remembers his past life.”

An unpleasant anxiety began to spread inside Cedine like a bad odor.

“When he came to our house last time, the Duke said he should start managing his diet considering his age. And then he casually mentioned insulin.”

“Insulin?”

“A person from 1917 couldn’t possibly know about a diabetes treatment that won’t be developed for another 5 years from now.”

Cedine said she pretended not to know, thinking for a moment that the Duke might be testing her on purpose. It seems the Duke was fooled by her nonchalant act.

“Why did he try to test me… He must have tested Karen too, right? Oh… what should we do. I didn’t know why the Duke had regressed until now. But now I understand what his purpose is. It seems he wants to take revenge for his past life.”

“How interesting. It’s me, though.”

Ivlik replied indifferently.

“In the last life, after losing you, I wasn’t in my right mind, so I couldn’t quite… enjoy the torture. But now that Crotsfield has his memories too, that’s great. This time I’ll do it properly.”

“I don’t care how you kill him, Ivlik.”

Cedine untied the belt that was binding Ivlik’s wrists.

“The person at the biggest disadvantage in this fight is Karen. I need to go see her.”

He grabbed Cedine’s wrist as she hurried to get out of the car.

“Cedine, wait a moment. We should finish what we started.”

“…Is this really the time for that?”

“It’s exactly the time for that.”

“No, seriously.”

“You’re trying to go to the fourth floor apartment. But even if you go now, the Lieutenant won’t be there. She’ll only come back after 9 PM tonight.”

“How do you know my sister’s schedule?”

“We have to share it. We’re team members.”

Suddenly feeling upset, Cedine hit Ivlik’s shoulder. She hit him hard enough to leave a bruise tomorrow, but it still didn’t relieve her anger.

“…Again, just the two of you leaving me out! How is this any different from before the regression?”

“It is different. Now you know the circumstances too, Cedine.”

“If I hadn’t used extreme measures, you would have kept your mouth shut forever.”

“Personally, I really like your extreme measures.”

After making such a brazen statement, Ivlik pulled Cedine closer. Her soaked panties were torn off with a ripping sound by his hand. Ivlik’s movements were very urgent as he took out a condom from his back pocket. Neither of them needed any more f*replay. As soon as he found the entrance, Cedine’s breath caught at the pressure of his c*ck pushing in.

Every time Ivlik thrust his hips forcefully, the heavy car body shook. Cedine’s body, now accustomed to s*x with Ivlik, eagerly accepted the pleasure her husband gave. Just as she thought it would be nice if he was a bit rougher, the thick tip of his c*ck stabbed at Cedine’s sensitive spot, scraping against her inner walls.

“Hah…!”

An org*sm that curled her toes arrived, but Ivlik said he wasn’t finished yet and continued to thrust roughly. Each time their bodies collided, wet squelching sounds could be heard. After that, Cedine experienced two more orgasms before she could finally get off Ivlik.

When she stood on her two legs on the ground, thin fluids flowed out from inside Cedine, trickling down her thighs. Seeing this, Ivlik said he might need to have the driver clean again, while wiping up the fluids with his fingers. Cedine’s face flushed red at the thought that there couldn’t be a more scandalous test drive than this.