「I'm Having a Baby」So My Husband Told Me
Does That Mean the Reward for This Job is High?
Translated by: S3
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The noisy rattling and vibration disturbed my pleasant sleep.
Then, as the carriage wheel hit a pothole in the road, the sudden, large jolt was the final blow, and I woke up.
「Hmm... where am I?」
At first, I thought I was still dreaming, because I should have been at the Duke's mansion. But now I was in a carriage. Black curtains were drawn over the windows, and the interior was quite dark. I couldn't even tell if it was day or night.
「Uh, why am I here again?」
I lightly shook my groggy head, which felt like it was covered in a mist, and retraced my memory. I remember telling Arthur the story of how Lord Cloud and I first met after the kidnapping incident. After seeing Arthur, who had immediately fallen asleep, I went to my own bed.
Then, despite wanting to sleep in, I mobilized all my willpower and guts to wake up at the usual morning time. After breakfast, I went to check on Arthur, and he was still fast asleep. So I told Mira to 「Let him sleep as much as he wants.」
「Yes, I remember.」
I remember, but I don't remember. I couldn't find the answer to the crucial question: Why am I currently in a carriage?
「Hmm, what was it... Ah, I'm starting to remember a little. I think I went back to my room to change. Then I looked for Mira because I planned to go shopping in town...」
I looked for her? What happened after that? Did I find Mira?
But no matter how hard I tried to pull the memory forward, I couldn't remember anything past that point.
In other words, my memory cuts off abruptly while I was looking for Mira.
「What does that mean?」
Just as I muttered that.
「Finally awake, are you?」
「Who!?」
A voice suddenly rang out in the carriage, which I thought was empty. I cried out in alarm and, with maximum caution, looked toward the source of the voice.
She was sitting in the corner of the carriage, on the edge of the seat opposite me.
「It was a fast-acting sleeping draft... but I didn't expect you to sleep for this long. It makes things easy.」
「That voice...」
I thought I recognized it. In fact, not enough time had passed to forget it.
Suddenly, the owner of the voice moved and opened the curtain on the window beside her. With a shhh sound, the sunlight streaming in made me instinctively squint.
Beyond my narrowed eyes... the face I recognized as soon as my eyes adjusted to the brightness made me let out a voice, 「It was you after all.」
「Nonnalie.」
When I said that, the person who had kidnapped Arthur gave me a sly smile.
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The carriage rattled onward. In this situation where I didn't know the destination or my current location, I couldn't do anything reckless like jumping out.
(How many hours was I asleep? Where are we now? Could we have already entered a foreign country... ?)
When I tried to look outside, the curtain was immediately closed by Nonnalie's hand, so I still couldn't figure out our current location.
I tightly clenched my fists. I didn't have any weapons. Even if I did, I probably couldn't defeat her. There was no way I could beat someone who had lived in the underworld I knew nothing about in a sword fight.
I could probably escape using Light Magic, but I couldn't jump out blindly without knowing my location. Moreover, I absolutely didn't want people in this kind of world to know about Light Magic.
For that reason, staying quiet for now was the only option.
「What is your goal? Is it to use me as a bargaining chip to get Arthur?」
「Haha, no way.」
My assumption, which I thought was likely, was casually denied. Then what is her goal?
「First of all, how did you get inside the mansion?」
「That would be Dark Magic, of course.」
The magic she used that time to disappear in front of us.
「I was thinking, if you used that, you could have kidnapped Arthur much more easily, right? Why did you use such an obvious method for the kidnapping...」
「Well, this relating to the employer is probably why.」
Saying that, Nonnalie made a circle with her thumb and index finger.
「Money?」
「Yep. Dark Magic is quite a difficult magic to use. If I use that, I need to get a decent reward, or I'll be operating at a loss. But the client for that boy's kidnapping was stingy about that. So, I did that ordinary kidnapping to cut costs.」
「But because of that, you were easily found, and your subordinate was captured. Doesn't that make it a loss?」
「The only job I accepted was the kidnapping. The management of the child afterward was done by the guards and the mansion provided by the employer. I was planning to scram right after receiving the success fee. But you guys showed up surprisingly fast, and I didn't have time to escape.」
So that's how it was.
Then, if they search for the owner of that mansion and the employer of the guards, they should easily find the mastermind of the Arthur kidnapping incident. If that happens, they can get information about Nonnalie from that mastermind.
...Yes, I'll be fine.
Lord Cloud and Lord Rauldo are brilliant people. They will surely find me. I just need to stay put and wait for them to come.
It's alright, I am absolutely safe... I told myself.
I tightly clenched my fist over my chest.
It's not that I felt no anxiety, nor that I felt no fear.
Nevertheless, my absolute trust in Lord Cloud anchored my heart.
「You're surprisingly calm for someone who's been kidnapped.」
「Well...」
I started to say something, then closed my mouth. I won't say any more.
(I can't tell her that this isn't the first time I've been kidnapped.)
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