I Sought the Villain But Ended Up with a Husband

Chapter 5

“...Looks like the wounds have healed considerably.”

The man murmured to himself as he took off his clothes to inspect his condition.

Certainly, the injuries were still severe, but considering the initial state, it was a significant improvement in just a day.

Moreover, his skin color, which should have turned dusky due to the monster’s poison, was normal.

Although the slightly discolored skin around him indicated a past encounter with monster venom, at least for now, it had to be assumed that the poison had been neutralized.

Having finished examining the wounds, the man buttoned up his shirt as if nothing had happened.

Then, his eyes met with Leciel’s.

“...My apologies.”

The man suddenly realized that he just took off his shirt in front of a child.

It was an inconsiderate act to undress so casually, even if she was just a child.

“Please apologize to my heart.”

Her heart raced at the unexpected attack.

“I’ll be careful from now on.”

“It’s okay. It’s something that can happen as people live long.”

If one mistake led to another, two mistakes would turn into three, providing good entertainment. It wouldn’t be bad from Leciel’s perspective.

The man looked at her with a strange expression, albeit briefly.

“Did you only apply ointment for treatment, or did you do anything else?”

Doubts arose because the monster venom had been detoxified by simply applying the ointment.

“Before applying the ointment, I wash the wound with water and disinfect it?”

“And?”

“I applied the ointment.”

“You mean... did you not do anything else besides that?”

“No.”

“Then can I see that ointment?”

The man asked, thinking that perhaps there was something special about the ointment, or maybe it had detoxified the demon’s poison.

In response, Leciel obediently brought the ointment.

However, contrary to the man’s thoughts, it was just ordinary ointment.

With this kind of ointment, it would only be effective for minor wounds, and it wouldn’t have much effect on deep wounds like the one he had.

“Did you really just apply ointment?”

The man asked again to dispel his doubts, but instead, the situation only became more puzzling.

“If Sir ask if I did something more afterward, then yes, I did.”

“What was that?”

The man looked at Leciel with a brightened gaze.

“I gave my sincere devotion.”

“....”

The man was momentarily speechless.

He didn’t know how to react to such an unexpected answer.

For a moment, he thought that she was making fun of him, but Leciel’s expression was serious.

“...How did you give that devotion?”@@@@

The man asked, perhaps fearing that he might have missed something.

“I put my hand on the wound and prayed for it to heal, like I was praying for a miracle. But why does Sir ask?”

Curious about the man’s persistent questioning, which seemed to be prying into something, Leciel asked.

“Before collapsing, I was in a state of poisoning from the monster venom. But it seems to have been detoxified.”

“It won’t be easy, but it’s not impossible to leave the monster forest.”

The reason he collapsed after being attacked by monsters here was because he was already exhausted from dealing with them before.

So, if he recovered his strength, there should be some hope.

“Um, should I help you, sir?”

“I’m not stupid enough to kick away the opportunity given to me.”

Understanding what the child meant by help, the man replied with an indifferent expression.

Certainly, if the child helped, it would be possible to safely leave the monster forest.

As long as the child was by his side, the monsters in the forest would not easily attack him.

But even if that was the case, the child wouldn’t be able to accompany him beyond the outskirts of the forest.

Because if they got too close to the boundary, the monsters would interpret the child’s attempt to leave the forest as an attack and come after them.

However, even that alone would be a considerable help.

Therefore, the man also thought about whether he should ask the child for help.

But he didn’t feel like it.

Even though the monsters didn’t attack the child, it wasn’t necessarily a good idea to take it lightly.

Just because the child was with him didn’t mean that the monsters wouldn’t attack them at all.

So, in those moments, the child would have to block the monsters one by one, causing unnecessary trouble.

Especially since she had spent a lot of time in the monster forest, encountering many of them, even though facing them might be familiar, facing them all day would be difficult and burdensome for her.

Since the monster forest is vast, she would have to walk quite a long way to see him off.

The man didn’t want to ask the child for such a difficult task.

Saving his life was enough of help.

But he wasn’t such a selfless person as to refuse when the other side offered to help first.

“Alright. I’ll make the final decision on whether to help Sir or not.”

The man chuckled as Leciel spoke boldly.

“But...”

“Yes?”

The man made a sudden serious expression and spoke with a low voice.

Even his voice was so impressive that Leciel admired it for a moment before looking at him with wide eyes, wondering what was going on.

She looked so harmless, like a curious squirrel, and it was almost as if he felt something he rarely felt, even from his own son, a sense of loveliness.

“I wonder until when you’ll call me by that strange title?”

The title ‘Sir’ that Leciel used to call him was as strange and awkward to him as Gulliver in the strange world.

“It’s like a sense of respect.”

Well, if she thought about it again, people in Korea didn’t really call someone ‘Sir’ all the time during a real meeting.

“I don’t need you to call me so formally. I’m not so stubborn as to make it difficult even for those who saved my life.”

The man was someone good enough to not be picky about such matters when he was already in debt.

“I see. Then do you have any preferred title?”

“...Not particularly.”

Although there were titles familiar to him, he didn’t want to be called by them, especially hastily revealing his true identity to a child without deciding carefully first.

“Then can I just call you whatever I want?”

If anything, his response was just as frustrating as the word ‘nothing’; Leciel spoke with grumpy expression.

“... As you wish.”

“Alright, then I’ve decided.”

“Have you?”

“Yes. Please take care of me in the future, uncle!”

Leciel said with a lively voice.