Honey, Why Can’t We Get a Divorce? Chapter 167 - Side story 20

The wind from the snow-covered mountain blew through. Carrying cold snowflakes, it harshly swept across the faces of Sylvester, me, and Largo, who had been sneering. 

 

And the wind surged upwards like a whirlwind. Even the monsters were terrified and retreated, but I was quite familiar with this wind.

 

It was the moment when Sylvester’s mother, and my mother-in-law, appeared. 

 

Sylvester noticed this and turned to me and shouted.

 

“Ophelia, you really… …!”

 

“Ah, why! This is the best way!”

 

“I could have handled it all myself!”

 

“What if you got seriously hurt? Are you planning to make our child grow up without a father?” 

 

“That’s…”

 

I deliberately squinted my eyes as I looked at Sylvester, who had stepped back slightly.  

 

“And! Didn’t you bring the magic circle because you thought this might happen?”

 

Sylvester kept his mouth shut. His face, which was being swept by the rough wind, was distorted with anger, but I tried hard to pretend not to know. 

 

Oh, well. What are you going to do?

 

“Go back and talk.”

 

I pretended not to hear this either.

 

“Hey! You guys!”

 

At that moment, Largo, who was behind me, shouted.

 

“What did you do! What is this!”

 

His hair was sticking up toward the sky because of the swirling wind. It felt refreshing to see his face, which was infinitely uglier than Sylvester’s, even though it was being hit by the same wind. Yep. My husband is the best. 

 

“What did you do?”

 

I looked up at Largo and grinned.

 

“I just used one of the magic circles you had.”

 

Largo’s face quickly turned pale. He started to twitch his lips. 

 

“I, it can’t be…” 

 

“Yes. That’s right.”

 

At that very moment.

 

The whirlwind that had soared high into the sky came to a sudden halt. 

 

And then, from the gap in the air, a figure began to step out. 

 

“Mother-in-law!”

 

Would it be too much to say that I felt a bit familiar with it, since this was the second time I had seen her? 

 

In any case, I warmly welcomed Angela, my mother-in-law, the savior who would save us. 

 

“Please help us!”

 

Despite my urgent cries, Angela was incredibly calm. She slowly opened her closed eyes and slowly looked around.

 

She looked around at all of us—me, with a desperate expression; Sylvester, ignoring the situation; Largo, trembling with rage; and the monsters charging toward us. 

 

“So…” 

 

Angela slowly pulled her lips away.

 

“Are you saying he’s trying to kill you?”

 

“Yes! That’s right!”

 

Angela hesitated slightly at my lively answer, then raised her hand. 

 

Whoosh! At the same time, all the monsters surrounding us were sent tumbling backward. A fierce wind rushed toward us. But Angela, standing in midair, remained utterly composed. 

 

“You guys, stay back.” 

 

I had thought that the monsters, intoxicated by our scent, wouldn’t back down so easily. But that was a misjudgment. Before Angela’s words had even finished, the monsters turned and fled! 

 

“As expected, mother-in-law. The best.” 

 

I gave her a thumbs up, and Angela stared down at me intently. I couldn’t understand the meaning in her eyes, so I couldn’t help but smile awkwardly and step back. 

 

“You…” 

 

Angela, who had come down to the ground, looked at Largo.

 

“The Prince of the Empire, huh?” 

 

Largo didn’t answer. No, it’s more accurate to say he couldn’t answer. He looked like he was on the verge of suffocating from the dark magic Angela was emitting. 

 

“Strange. I thought you were walking the same path as my son.”

 

“…No.” 

 

Sylvester turned his head after a short reply.

 

Ugh. Is this all you can say to your mother, whom you haven’t seen in a long time?  

 

“What do you mean by the same side? Not at all.” 

 

So I started telling her everything Largo had done to us. 

 

How Largo had tormented us, how he had used Sylvester under the pretext of the magic circle, and what his intentions were to kill us.

 

Angela listened to me with a blank expression, so it was hard to guess what she was thinking.

 

“So that’s what happened.”

 

Angela tilted her head and stared at Largo.

 

“So you blackmailed my son using me as a hostage.” 

 

My son, she said. I never imagined I would hear those words come out of Angela’s mouth. When I looked at Sylvester, he, too, had a shocked expression on his face, just like mine. 

 

“You’ll have to pay the price.” 

 

“What do you mean…! Aagh!” 

 

Largo instinctively sensed danger and drew his sword, but it was a futile resistance. As Angela raised her hand once more, his body collapsed to the ground. 

 

“Heu, ugh, ugh…” 

 

Largo, lying on the ground and foaming at the mouth, had his eyes half-open. 

 

“Heh heh, what… What’s in this world? There’s me, there’s you, and everyone else, but why is it only me who has to be like this? Heh, hehe. Hehe!”

 

And that wasn’t all? He started rambling nonsense.

 

I already thought he was crazy, but he really is. I covered my mouth.

 

“I didn’t kill him because it would be boring. I made him a fool instead. Just touching him will make him spill everything he knows.” 

 

Oh my.

 

You can make an idiot out of someone so easily.

 

I felt it when she made the monsters retreat, but Angela truly seemed like an extraordinary demon. I began to think that she might even hold a high position in the demon realm. 

 

Angela’s gaze, which had been looking down at Largo pitifully, moved to Sylvester. She opened her mouth to Sylvester with her still expressionless and insensitive face. 

 

“Don’t you say thank you?”

 

“….” 

 

Sylvester’s cheek puffed out. It looked like he was clenching his molars tightly. 

 

“…Thank you for your help.” 

 

He still didn’t look at Angela and answered.

 

“But even if you hadn’t come, I would have taken care of it myself.”

 

“That’s absolutely not true.”

 

“I could have taken care of it myself.”

 

I wanted to say absolutely not again, but I couldn’t because of Sylvester’s glare. I covered my mouth obediently.

 

“Anyway, thank you.”

 

Sylvester thanked Angela again and wrapped his arms around my shoulders.

 

“We’ll be heading back now…” 

 

“Do you think you can just leave after knowing where this is?” 

 

Angela asked, genuinely curious.

 

“I wonder if you’ll freeze to death before you can go back. Is that your goal?”

 

Sylvester’s face suddenly distorted.

 

“You don’t care whether I die or not. I’ll go back on my own, so stop interfering.”

 

“You called me to save you, and now you’re telling me to stop interfering? How did you turn out like this, only able to speak like that?” 

 

“Who do you think taught me that? Put your hand on your chest and think about it.” 

 

“I’m sorry, but the demons have no conscience.”

 

“Are you proud?”

 

Oh… 

 

I quickly stood between Angela and Sylvester. I thought I had to stop them before they got too heated.

 

“Stop! Stop!”

 

I covered Sylvester’s mouth as he tried to add, “Stop what?” and spoke to Angela again.

 

“So, what you’re saying is, you want to take us home, right? Because we’re in danger!” 

 

“…Well, I don’t want to let you die here since I saved your life.”

 

Now I know for sure.

 

Angela just can’t express her feelings properly.

 

Maybe she was even more worried about Sylvester than I thought.

 

So I smiled brightly and said,

 

“Then come with us!”

 

To make things better between mother and son,

 

“Aren’t you curious about your only daughter-in-law?”

 

Because the daughter-in-law had to step forward.