The Son-In-Law Of A Prestigious Household Wants A Divorce-Chapter 6: First Writing

Recently, certain rumors had been spreading wildly at the Malidean Wall. It was to the point no days passed without any gossip.

Thanks to this, the soldiers could forget a little about the cold.

Time passed quickly even while they were guard duty.

Unusual sights of soldiers chatting to each other became more frequent.

There were two main topics.

The first one was, of course, about the Demonic Beast’s Hive.

“This hive is holding out longer than expected...”

“There are some Demonic Beasts we’ve never seen before too. They aren’t particularly threatening, but we should call in beast scholars from the capital to investigate...”

“Wall repairs are being carried out daily, but we might need to change its schedule. There have been cases when the Demonic Beasts were launching surprise attacks during repair times.”

It wasn’t uncommon for Demonic Beast’s Hives to form outside the Malidean Wall.

However, this hive in particular lasted longer than usual. This was why they requested the other nobles’ support.

As for the second topic, naturally it was...

About Helmont’s son-in-law who would soon arrive in response to the support request.

“Helmont? You mean, that Helmont is really coming?”

“I thought they were busy with their Sword Dance Festival, but they are really coming?”

“Heard it’s their son-in-law that they sent. Probably just for show.”

“Oh wow, they’re using that kind of cheap trick, huh? Really, those orcs are all just muscles.”

Inside a small tavern within Malidean’s castle.

This tavern, personally owned by the margrave, was his consideration for the frontline soldiers guarding the wall.

In fact, this place served as both a break room and a strategy meeting room for the Malidean Front.

Among the knights, sipping juice instead of beer, was the tavern’s owner with her snow-white hair.

The margrave’s only daughter, Silverna Cardias. Clicking her tongue with a grin, she...

“What a shame. I was hoping that the eldest daughter would come.”

“Ooooh!”

“As expected of the young lady!”

“Even Helmont’s Blood Rose would have fallen to her knees before the young lady’s spear in one strike!”

Cheers echoed from every corner of the tavern.

Silverna extended her hand to calm them down, then picked up her spear beside her.

Anna, her adjutant sitting across the table, also hurriedly stood up to follow.

“It’s my time to be on duty!”

“Have a safe duty!”

“Young lady, good luck for today too!”

“Yeah.”

Responding nonchalantly, she stepped outside.

“Achoo!”

The chilly wind made Anna’s cloak flutter, tickling her nose as she followed the young lady.

“Whew, it’s so cold even though it’s April.”

“It’s always like this here.”

The moment they stepped outside, the massive wall came into view.

As long as this wall, the Malidean Wall stood, this abnormal cold would never disappear.

The two of them walked together towards the wall, and Anna kept on talking.

“But young lady, do you really need to stand guard?”

The margrave, as well as the lord of this land, Uldiran Cardias.

Silverna was his only daughter, so in truth, she didn’t really need to stand guard like the ordinary soldiers.

“I’m also a soldier, I have a duty to guard the wall, so of course I need to! Also, Anna, you’re just saying that because you don’t want to follow me while I’m on duty, right?”

“...”

Caught red-handed, Anna blushed with embarrassment.

“I told you to just stay as a maid. Why did you insist on learning the spear and following me?”

“Because it’s my mission to assist you. It’s been that way since we were young.”

“Still, you don’t need to follow me all the way to join the military.”

With a faint smile, Silverna and Anna arrived at the wall, braving the biting wind.

After receiving the handover from the on-duty guard, they climbed up onto the wall.

Unlike with the front wall, the duties of the rear wall guards were more relaxed.

The Demonic Beasts wouldn’t attack from this side.

Hence why the personnel here were kept to a minimum.

“Rear wall duty is a bit boring.”

“The others are happy when it’s their turn for rear wall duty. They said it’s comfortable.”

“But it’s boring. There’s nothing to do.”

Silverna yawned as she flipped through the passage list she received during the handover.

Most of the names on the list were nobles.

Which meant that those nobles had responded to their support request, sending all those people here.

“Tch.”

Silverna clicked her tongue skeptically.

“Look at this, Anna. Drakemoor, Highlander, Blackthorn, Silverbrook. All the great families only sent nobodies I’ve never even heard of.”

“A-Ahaha...”

“Did they think the frontline is a training ground for their promising greenhorns?”

“Well, there’s no safer place to gain real combat experience than here... Also, by coming here, they probably think they can learn some spearmanship as a bonus...”

“Tch, they’re all useless. Why did we call for their support anyway? If it’s like this, we’ll just end up helping those nobles who don’t care for anything other than their self-interest!”

“It can’t be helped... The kingdom’s law stated that if a Demonic Beast’s Hive persists for 3 months, we need to rally the nobles to mobilize their forces...”

“That’s just ridiculous! In the end, we’re the only ones going out to fight! Besides, we are the guardians of the wall! We just need to smash the head of those Demonic Beasts until the hive dissipates! Just because it takes a little longer, doesn’t mean—-!”

“Yes, yes, I get it. Everyone knows that, but what can we do?”

“The royal family is intentionally not abolishing that law. They want to use us to raise other families’ young nobles!”

“That means we’re contributing to the kingdom. Isn’t that great?”

“...Anna, aren’t you a little upset after hearing what I’ve said earlier?”

Instead of answering, Anna silently checked the list. Everyone who was supposed to come had arrived, but the most important family was missing.

“Helmont hasn’t arrived yet?”

“If they had, rumors would have spread already.”

Since this place was so remote and everyone here had been living together for years, rumors spread quickly.

Though they were steadfast soldiers who wouldn’t take a single step back when guarding the wall...

Their mouths were lighter than the falling snow.

“Rianna’s husband... I’ve never seen him.”

“Ah, right, you didn’t go to Lady Rianna’s wedding because you lost to her back then.”

Silverna bristled for a moment.

“No I didn’t! I was just exhausted after facing the eldest son!”

“Wasn’t the eldest daughter much stronger than the eldest son?”

“Yes. To the point that it’s laughable to make such a comparison.”

Silverna clicked her tongue before making her mind wander.

“That woman’s heart is colder than even the North... Although, if I say that I’m not curious about the commoner who managed to melt that woman’s heart, I’d be lying...”

“I heard that he’s a ferryman. A popular ferryman with a handsome face and smooth tongue.”

“A ferryman?”

“Yes! Back when they first married, everyone was in an uproar, calling it the marriage of the century that transcends social status. It’s quite romantic, isn’t it?”

“Romantic, huh?”

As someone who had seen Rianna Helmont in person, Silverna thought there wasn’t a woman who suited the word ‘romantic’ the least.

“Helmont’s carriage is approaching!”

At that moment, a soldier’s shout could be heard, prompting Silverna to run out with a grin.

“Ah, young lady?! Don’t do anything rash! They’re still guests bearing the Helmont’s name!”

“If they’ve come to the Malidean Barrier, they have to honor the Cardias’ name. Romantically.”

Her grin turned into a mischievous smile.

While her eyes were fixed on Helmont’s luxurious carriage.

*   *   *The main gate opened with a noise that resembled a giant’s cry.

Isaac, walking alongside the carriage, cautioned Jonathan.

“Don’t be so scared, Jonathan. The moment they notice you cowering for no reason like that, you’d be looked down upon by them even more.”

“R-Right. I’m the great rose of Helmont after all.”

That wasn’t a bad mindset to have.

After all, right now, he was out here representing Helmont whether he liked it or not.

“Welcome to Malidean.”

As they entered the gate, a soldier greeted them with a mocking smile.

Essentially, everyone here was pretty much Cardias’ private soldiers.

In other words, they couldn’t help but view those from Helmont in unfavorable ways.

Even Silverna made those disrespectful remarks openly.

It isn’t hard to think that the other soldiers would treat us the same way too.

I guess this is why the family head didn’t want to send anyone.

Imagine if it was the eldest son, Lohengrin, who had come here.

The moment the gate opened, he would’ve probably drawn his greatsword and started making a fuss.

Then, Silverna would subdue him and with that, a perfect hierarchical relationship between them would be formed.

“The lodgings for the dispatched nobles are in that building over there. If you find it uncomfortable—“

The soldier pointed to a shabby building, subtly testing them.

There were probably some immature nobles who were displeased with this arrangement and just straight up refused it.

But in the end, they all probably meekly entered the lodgings.

After all, this wasn’t a place where ill-mannered young nobles could act up.

“I don’t. Let’s go, Jonathan.”

“Yes, Sir!”

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Together with Jonathan, who was forcibly trying to broaden his shoulders to look more confident, Isaac headed towards the lodgings, pulling the carriage behind him.

“Huh?”

The soldier, well aware of Helmont’s characteristic arrogance, was dumbfounded by this unexpected response and could only stare blankly at Isaac as he left.

*   *   *“They didn’t cause a scene?”

“On the contrary, they were acting very gentlemanly. I-It was quite surprising”

On the wall.

Silverna, who had been waiting with her spear in hand, completely certain that Helmont’s son-in-law would cause a disturbance by claiming that he was being insulted by their treatment, wore a perplexed expression.

“The provocation didn’t work.”

“He seems to have some self-control. Is it because of his commoner origin?”

They thought he would have a similar temperament to the average Helmont because he had become one of them.

“I really didn’t expect him to endure being called a little punk.”

“So, what are you going to do now? You know things would turn troublesome if they cause a disturbance in the noble lodgings, right?”

“I know. I’m not some thug. If they’ve acted gentlemanly, I don’t intend to treat them roughly.”

“Then-“

“However.”

Silverna, with her spear on her back, grinned and added.

“We still should let our great guests from Helmont know what kind of place this is.”

“Young lady?!”

Just as she was about to leave the wall and head to the noble lodgings...

She suddenly stopped, returned to her place, and muttered.

“Right, I almost forgot. I’m still on duty.”

“...”

“I’ll go after my shift ends!”

*   *   *The noble lodgings actually weren’t as bad as Isaac had expected.

At the very least, he had all the space to himself.

Because assistants like Jonathan were assigned to the next building.

Before coming to the lodgings, he saw that they all stayed together in a large room that looked similar to a barracks.

“Compared to that...”

Though it wasn’t much, this room had everything that he needed.

A bed, a desk, a chair.

It wasn’t much different from the guest room he was staying at back at Helmont, so he didn’t feel uncomfortable in the slightest about this.

After unpacking roughly, he took out the paper, ink, and pen he had brought.

Fortunately, they didn’t freeze.

Sitting at the desk, he started writing.

Wielding a sword through writing.

Ink Sword Isaac.

Many called him by that title, showing their respect, but Isaac himself never desired such a title.

Hence why...

The first book he wanted to write in this world was none other than...

My sword.

A sword manual just for himself.

He had written nearly dozens of books in his previous life, but...

Not a single passage of those books was for himself.

It’s fun.

He had pondered hundreds, thousands of times in his mind.

Sentences he had given up on bringing to the world due to his damaged right leg begin to pour out from his pen.

It’s so fun.

His theories, blocked by the walls of reality, now unfolding across the barriers of time.

The black letters, the flowing handwriting, the sound that the tip of the pen made...

It’s so, so much fun!

As his heart pounded faster, his pen also moved faster before he could realize it.

[You’re like a child wishing upon a star. Even knowing it’s impossible, you keep reaching out until the end.]

Grandmaster, you were right.

Back then, he had denied it.

He didn’t want to acknowledge the tragedy that had befallen him. His longing to wield a sword, but only able to hold a pen.

I never gave up for a single moment.

Hence why he was so excited to utilize all the knowledge in his head for his own sake—for the first time in both his lives. It was to the point that he didn’t notice the time passing.

The sun had already set.

But, even though the outside had already grown dark, it couldn’t be said the same inside his room.

Because his eyes were shining more brilliantly than all the stars out there.