Ah.
This was Lennox's style. Cowardly and resorting to tricks behind the scenes. The shoulder he was pushing was aching. But I didn't want to show my pain.
I asked him, my eyes wide open, "What kind of rudeness is this?"
At that moment, Lennox grabbed me by the collar. He blocked off the space with magic, gritted his teeth, and looked at me with dark eyes. Immediately, a hasty accusation flew to the point.
"Did you gain power? Or did you hire a wizard? Why did you interfere with what I was doing?"
He was even half-hearted, showing not the slightest respect for his ex-fiancée. I glared at him. From the past, he always wanted me to be incompetent.
"You are nothing without me, Meldenik."
He pretended to be a lover while constantly undermining Meldenik's abilities.
"The business will fail because it's not marketable. Close it down moderately and get ready for marriage."
Meldenik, skeptical at first, truly believed his words. As she did, she sank lower and lower. Oh, when I remembered that memory, I felt as disgusted as if I had stirred up filth.
"People say that you have manifested illusion, that you are an alchemist. It can't be."
"Ah, alchemy…" I squinted and looked at him. "I don't know what you're talking about, right?"
I couldn't tell him yet. I laughed slyly. There are two reasons why people get most angry: one is not to speak to the end, and the other is to keep the words going!
"Tell me right away."
He quietly put a small device to his mouth.
Beep—.
With a disturbing noise, Lennox and I were surrounded by a round, opaque membrane. I looked around with bewildered eyes at the unexpected situation.
What is this? Is it subspace?
I tried to take a step back in a hurry, but it was in vain. The subspace he created bounced me wildly into the middle. Lennox whispered to me with a sinister smile.
"Anyway, it's just you and me here."
He attacked me with a ferocious momentum, as if encircling me. His brows furrowed. "You don't want to die either, do you?"
I slammed into him sharply. "Where is the person who wants to die?"
At that moment, the size of the subspace swelled and then became smaller. I couldn't explain it, but it seemed that the phenomenon was because Dominic was looking for me outside the subspace. He probably felt something threatening the contractor's safety.
I heard a sound that seemed to distort the subspace, a continuous cacophony of strange and eerie sounds. However, the opaque curtain around us only tensed and swelled. All access to the surrounding area was completely blocked.
Lennox's powerful magic was being activated. Something suddenly blocked my vision. In the original "Enchanted Lover," Duke Hesmann would suddenly become stronger. This intense force that was pressing on my breath now must have been a sudden opportunity for him.
"Are you trying to destroy the subspace?"
"Well?" I didn't do it, but I didn't mean to give a hint. I kept my mouth shut and smiled.
"No, it will be difficult." He grabbed my collar and lifted me up gently. I frowned in pain. I felt like I was going to be strangled. He intimidated me with a strong grip on the hand that held my neck.
"Meldenik Babyloa. I'll show you your hidden power right now." His face looked anxious and urgent.
"What kind of power?" I gasped for breath, but I screamed. Although I was now in a disadvantageous position due to my body structure, I didn't want to succumb to an adulterous man.
Lennox, who was looking at me, screamed angrily. "Whatever it is, show me the ability that comes from your bloodline."
Bloodline?
Strangely, he said something that was overly obsessed with my abilities. I don't know why.
Do I have an ability in my bloodline? What does that have to do with that child?
He strangled me, and blood splattered on my face, but I smiled at him.
"…Are you out of your mind?"
Then Lennox frowned and muttered, "I didn't go out of my mind."
I quietly pulled one leg back, full of strength.
"If you had been in that state, I would have married you."
He looked at me and spoke with good intentions, so he didn't know that my legs were moving. You couldn't see the pointed stiletto heels under the thin Empire dress. No, he may have thought that his body was like steel in the first place.
Now, get ready…
Even as I was secretly struggling with my legs, he was swearing, blood on his temples.
"If you have a special ability, you are no longer useful to me."
"I, I am useless because I have the ability, and I lost?" Even when he heard my strangled voice, he just smiled sinisterly.
"If you can't be tamed, it would be convenient to just kill you."
"Keh, keh…"
"…If I can't get you my child."
Child?
As a result, this human was obsessed with Meldenik, saying that if he got married, he should have children right away.
Is there a relationship between the ability you mentioned earlier and the child?
In my hazy mind, I remembered the words Lennox was saying: Ability. Bloodline. Child.
What does it matter?
"Don't you want to leave your last will?"
Anyway, now that I had manifested my new abilities, this man seemed determined to kill me in the end.
Now it's clear. I have nothing more to say.
He strangled me with all his might. My face was flushed with fever, and my throat was tightening.
The time is now.
I lifted my leg and kicked his heart with all my might.
Thwack!
"Ugh!"
"That's why."
Thump!
I couldn't relax my hand, so I kicked him again.
"I should have let it go when I was about to let it go."
"Ugh!"
Only then did the strength quickly release from his hands. At the same time, my body quickly fell vertically to the ground.
"Ugh."
I slammed my butt on the floor, but I quickly rolled to the side and got away from him.
"Why are you swearing?" I shook my palms and stood up.
No matter how strong a wizard, as long as he is a man, he cannot withstand a kick to the heart. He would not have known that all of this was my plan.
I looked down at him with a cold face and calmly reviewed what had happened so far. Just before entering the ballroom, I had hurriedly sent a message to Dominic. This was because the faces of some of the masked men around the ballroom were familiar. In fact, it was difficult to memorize the faces of Lennox's entourage. However, in the past, Meldenik had suspected Lennox of infidelity and began to memorize the appearance of all the people around him. What I did during that period, which was close to stalking, had helped me now.
I touched my neck and thought seriously.
I was suspicious because it was impossible for Moodsela Maxson, a member of the Emperor's faction, to invite the entourage of the Duke of Hesmann, who was her opposite.
According to common sense, if I was seriously injured at this ball, it could have harmed the honor of the Maxson family. So Dominic and I had a constant conversation.
'Mel, he might be trying to attack you when you're alone.'
'I think he's going to call me. So what should I do?'
'Do you remember what you did to the Red Leader Pirates?'
I felt Dominic's power on my toes. Was this the privilege of the contractor?
"Throw away the car." (This appears to be a mistranslation or idiom. Given the context of kicking and Lennox's reaction, it might mean "Strike him hard" or "Take him down." I will interpret it as a command to strike.)
I chuckled as I remembered Dominic's words.
Apparently, unlike the Red Cult Pirates, I didn't receive power directly, but there was damage… I'm satisfied.
Because I hit him properly.
It was a crisis caused by the stupid Lennox. Even though he knew that I had awakened my abilities, he looked down on me.