If you wish for a married couple's duties (LK adaptation)

Chapter 87: Night Of The Festival (7)

"Yes, my Lord."

After giving orders to James and the accompanying knights, Jungkook walked over unhesitatingly.

He approached Lalisa with an indignant look on his face.

"Oh, about that..."

Lalisa tried to come up with an excuse to placate him, but it was to no avail.

"Have you gone out of your mind!"

Jungkook grabbed her arms tightly and chided her.

"Didn't I tell you to wait for me! Why the hell did you act like that!"

He had an ominous feeling from the moment the drug distributor that should've appeared didn't appear, and the person that said she'd wait for him obediently wasn't at the promised location.

His heart sank when the assigned escort knight was discovered in a remote alley with a wound on the back of his head.

When he spotted the dagger that Lalisa seemed to have used before in the alley, his vision spun for a moment.

When he couldn't find any traces of Lalisa even after searching through the streets that were filled with countless people, his hands and feet turned cold.

Then, when a small child that seemed to be a beggar appeared and told him about her whereabouts, he became furious.

When he discovered that the amount of money in the bag the child gave him was the same as the prize money he'd won at the arm wrestling competition, he was rendered speechless.

"A stranger asked you for help, so you followed him without any doubt, and was abducted in order to save that child, but what if something happened to you?"

"...When a child asks for help, I can't not help."

Lalisa said what she had to say with a rather dejected face.

"And Paul used the child in order to kill me. I can't let a child die because of me."

"What..."

"Also, I can't turn a blind eye when I'm aware that Paul was the distributor of the Devil's Nap."

After listening to her reply, Jungkook took a deep breath to calm his anger.

"Alright, fine. Then, ignoring that."

He asked back in a tone that's calmer than before.

"Then you could have escaped with the kid that you'd saved. Why did you have to fight with them?"

"That's..."

Lalisa replied matter-of-factly.

"I was afraid that they'd run off."

"What?"

Paul and his subordinates were already aware that the duke was searching for them when they were in the castle. .

Even if the transaction date was delayed and they'd remain in their hideout until then, they would have left the Esbaden territory immediately if Lalisa had fled with the kid.

"If I ran away, these guys would have packed up and escaped immediately. Can they remain in place when the location of the hideout was discovered, and the fact that they abducted the Duchess was also exposed?"

"So you mean that..."

Jungkook's head tilted stiffly.

"Do you mean that you acted so recklessly in order to buy time to catch them?"

"Well, it doesn't seem to be that reckless. You're also aware of my capabilities..."

"Yes, I know. My wife is stronger than most knights."