The Girl Who Was Forced by Her Stepsister to Marry the Cursed Duke

aled.

　『Eating the seafood brought forth by the curse together with the person who love you back.』

It was so simple yet so hard.
But for Jubak, he wasn’t even the least concerned about the countess who complained to him in order to make him clean up the trouble she had caused.
The countess was not only stingy with her payment, she also ignored the precautions he had explicitly told her before. 

“Now if you’ll excuse me.
I wish you will not summon me for this reason anymore.”

“Wha-?! …… Humph.
You really think you can talk to me, a countess, like that? You’re already entangled with me now.”

Thud.
One gemstone was presented toward Jubak. 

“?!”

It was one of gemstones that once adorned the 『cursed necklace』.

“Duke Lönnrot himself left this behind to us.
He said this gemstone was dislodged from the necklace when he overwrote the curse….
This gemstone didn’t match with the price when I first bought the necklace, didn’t it? If it’s you, surely you know, right? Jubak….
You know what this means ….”

This time, it was the sorcerer called Jubak who turned pale. 

There was no way Jubak, the creator of the cursed necklace would mistake this gemstone for anything else.
With this gemstone, even a person with only a little knowledge about magic could easily find several pieces of information from the remaining magic power.
Things like 『when it was made』『where it was made』『the habit of the magic power’s owner』… Those pretty detailed things could be easily extracted. 

Out of the four jewels that had been attacked into the necklace, one was here.
Two gemstones were still attached to the necklace that Sistana wore.
Which brought the question, where was the last one?

Griiiit! 

Jubak gritted his teeth hard. 

Making a cursed tool was against the law in itself but there were several loopholes he could utilise.
But he couldn’t afford to get himself captured over such trivial and silly business that worthed nothing more than a mere pocket change. 

He was connected to a Dark Order that worshipped the demon king.
Moreover, some information that resided in the gemstones that he used to make that cursed necklace, could be used as a clue leading to that cult. 

Fortunately or unfortunately… The stone that contained the information to that cult was not lost yet.
That gemstone was still barely lodged on the necklace that Sistana wore.
..
Or to be precise, buried within Sistana’s neck. 

In a sense, Sistana’s foolish action had barely saved Jubak from losing his own neck but … He couldn’t say he was grateful for that fact.
If by any chance he ended up getting captured, there was no telling what kind of execution the cult would toy Jubak with before Jubak atoned for his crime lawfully. 

For this reason, Jubak needed to remove that necklace from Sistana’s neck and destroy the evidence. 

“……..
Tch.
You leave me with no choice.
I will lend you a hand…”

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T/N: So this is it! The new problem our MC and ML needs to solve! Damn Bavalein, why can’t she just eat some shrimp or oyster together? She’s making things harder for herself… But that’s to be expected since she’s a villain after all.
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