TDATD

XVl

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Derrick looked a bit astounded with her unexpectedly calm response. He then cleared his throat.

Ahem.

“Well, like I said earlier, when I leave, once the soul that is sustaining this body, disappears, your husband will return to being a corpse. When that time comes, there won’t be anything strange with ‘going back inside the coffin’.”

So, if he, a devil, leaves her husband’s body, Judith would return to her ‘widowed’ status like that day when the funeral was being carried out.

Judith felt anguished for a moment. She tried to organize all the information that she had heard from him in her head. While thoughts ran through her mind, Derrick savoured his tea in a manner so natural that one couldn’t possibly think of him being a ‘devil’.

Perhaps helping him regain his power wouldn’t be something terrible to Judith. No, rather, it could be the same as killing two birds with a single stone.

The only problem she had was the issue of a successor, which she lacked because of her husband’s death. Fortunately, or not, Derrick Vaisil was revived. Even if what resided inside of his body was a devil, to her eyes and to others, Derrick was a human brought back to life, not a devil.

‘I might get pregnant if I keep sleeping with him.’

What if she became pregnant from sleeping with him constantly, and Derrick, who regained his power, got out of her husband’s body?

Judith would once again become a widow, but would have the successor she wished for. Though she was only considering things, it was a perfect plan.

“I’ve been curious since before.”

All of a sudden, the space next to her on the sofa sank. While she was pondering with her thoughts, he had at some point moved from his couch, for when Judith raised her head, he was at her side.

“Wife, didn’t you love your husband?”

It was quite an abrupt question. When he saw that Judith just stared at him without a word, Derrick added quietly, his gaze overlapping with hers.

“Just like that. Your reaction when I first woke up in this body, it had been just like that as well.”

What was my reaction when he was revived? Judith thought. She was sure that for some time, she was cold to him, and upon realizing that he had memory loss, she had laughed at him sardonically, as though dumbfounded.

Surely, it couldn’t be seen as the appearance of a wife who was overjoyed that her beloved husband had returned to life.

Love, the so-called ‘love.’

After repeating that useless feeling as if she were skimming over a book, Judith nodded her head without any hesitation.

“I did not love him. I’ve told you that I wasn’t on good terms with my husband in the first place.”

“What happened between you two?”

“We weren’t… We did not feel anything for each other, even before we were married. From our personalities to other aspects, we didn’t match.”

Derrick tilted his head to the side, frowning as he was unable to understand those facts.

“Then why did you marry? Isn’t ‘marriage’ a thing you humans do as a sign of a ‘relationship’ between people who love each other?”

Because he was a devil, what he knew about the system called ‘marriage’ was based on a collection of assumptions. In fact, if one tried to peel off the layers, what they would see inside was something worse than the exterior called ‘marriage’.