My Husband Hid His Regression, So I Hid Mine Too Chapter 67

The magic circle did not react to Odely’s purifying power at all.

The beams of blessing hanging from the ceiling did not waver, either.

There was no sign of any energy waves, backlash, or distortion.

The guests simply watched the ceremony calmly, as if they were enjoying a scene from a sacred ritual.

“……?”

Gavin could not hide his confusion. His eyes widened as he held back a curse that nearly slipped out.

Had something gone wrong? Was there a mistake in the setup?

Gavin narrowed his eyes.

No, this was something the Cardel family had risked everything to prepare.

There was no way they had made a mistake with something so important.

Meanwhile, Veloa hurriedly studied Odely’s face, her own expression stiff.

She was calm.

Far too calm.

Even though she was the bride at her own wedding, there was not the slightest sign of nervousness.

Not even while standing where the eyes of the Imperial Family, the Church, and the nobles were all fixed on her.

There was no way she felt no tension at all.

That was impossible.

But……

……The holy relic remained silent.

The magic circle did not move an inch.

There was no whispering, no strange reaction.

Even the more sensitive priests seemed to feel nothing at all. They simply focused on the ceremony.

‘Was she not nervous at all?’

Had she controlled her emotions that perfectly?

‘……That can’t be.’

While the Cardel siblings remained confused, the High Priest’s prayer of blessing filled the cathedral.

 

 

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Odely did not even need to look toward the guests to know what expressions Gavin and Veloa were wearing.

They were probably trying hard to hide their shocked looks.

The only unexpected factor they had considered was that Odely might get a little nervous. Had they ever imagined that the magic circle would not activate at all?

‘Too bad for you. You put so much effort into preparing this.’

The Cardels had left not a single trace.

Under normal circumstances, Odely should have been on edge, with no idea when or where they would strike.

Like a rabbit trembling in fear, unable to tell which direction a beast hiding in the bushes might leap from.

But……

‘That would only be true if I hadn’t seen Ludville’s memories.’

The memories of someone who had returned to the past after living through the same moments thousands upon thousands of times.

There was only one reason the holy relic was not reacting at this very moment.

‘Because I changed everything first.’

Odely knew exactly.

She knew how Veloa had brought her down.

Within the setting of the Grand Cathedral, she knew what methods Veloa had used, in what order, and at what moment she had attacked.

‘Because I was summoned to the Grand Cathedral countless times for my purification ability.’

She had even become a saintess, been imprisoned, been interrogated, and been burned at the stake……

Over her thousands of lives, Veloa had tampered with the barriers dozens of times just to bring Odely down.

There were also about twelve different patterns Veloa had used to disrupt the wedding.

For example, she had used contact poison placed within reach to paralyze Odely. She had also tried to trigger memory-erasing magic, and had even used the choir.

Odely retraced every spot in the Grand Cathedral where Veloa had attacked her.

She sent Freya under the pretext of inspecting the interior decorations.

Freya had once been the head maid of the Imperial Palace and had long-standing connections with the official in charge of ceremonies at the Grand Cathedral.

In the end, they discovered that the Cardels had tampered with the barrier and disabled it.

She also knew that Ludville had created the opportunity for them to do so.

A few days earlier, Ludville had sent a document to the Church.

It was a request made under the excuse that, since the ceremony had been approved by the Imperial Family, they would need to carry out a final inspection of the interior decorations.

On the surface, it was just a simple inspection. In reality, it was a move that allowed Odely and Freya to investigate the inside.

“Odely.”

Just then.

Perhaps he had noticed that her attention had briefly drifted toward the guests behind them. Ludville quietly called her name, letting her know that the ceremony was coming to an end.

The High Priest’s voice rang out.

“O God, bestow Your blessing upon the vow these two are making. May this promise never be stained with blood or shaken by power and greed. May they share joy on peaceful days and find strength in one another through the fiercest nights. These rings shall be the symbol of their vow.”

Edwin came forward, holding a tray.

As for why the Grand Duke’s aide was doing this himself, it was because he had stubbornly insisted on doing it.

“……”

In any case, a pair of rings rested on the tray.

The gemstones set into the finely crafted rings were almost colorless.

When the light touched them, a faint sky-blue hue appeared. At first glance, they even looked like pieces of carved ice.

Their color was like that of a clear, transparent lake, condensed into a single stone.

They were the legendary gemstones known as Fielite. They had once been mined only in the northernmost part of the continent, but the entire vein had long since run dry.

Odely recognized what they were and flinched in surprise.

‘How did he……?’

……How did he get these?

In one of her thousands of lives, Ludville had managed to obtain these gemstones.

But that had only been possible because he was someone who had returned to the past with his memories of his previous life intact.

So when had he started preparing these rings that he had managed to get them in time for the wedding?

“Your Highness, what you asked me to prepare some time ago has finally……”

Odely suddenly remembered when Edwin had visited Ludville just the day before.

The urgent matter he had mentioned…… Could it have been?

Had he been searching for the rings right up until the day before the wedding?

When she turned her head, Ludville was right in front of her.

He had been watching her intently the entire time, and Odely suddenly felt as if she could hardly breathe.

He was still silent.

But his eyes held emotions that even he could not explain as he looked at her.

While Odely stood frozen, Ludville reached out first.

He slipped the ring onto the ring finger of her left hand.

“I thought they looked like your eyes.”

Even so, this……

It wasn’t something he could simply get just because he wanted it, was it?

And if he had started looking for them when he first decided to enter a contract marriage with Odely, she could not even begin to guess what he had done to obtain them.

Odely stared down at the ring, which fit her ring finger perfectly, her face still dazed.

“Please put mine on, Odely.”

At the sound of Ludville’s whisper, she suddenly came back to her senses.

In her previous lives, they had skipped the exchange of rings, so the moment felt strangely unfamiliar.

Odely picked up the ring and slipped it onto Ludville’s ring finger.

The band was thicker to fit his finger, giving it a slightly rougher appearance than hers.

But anyone who looked at the two rings side by side could tell that they shared the same craftsmanship, the same pattern, and the same glow.

They were clearly rings made for each other.

“……”

A thought suddenly crossed Odely’s mind.

If she had not disabled the holy relic planted by the Cardels in advance, she might have lost control by now.