If I Throw Myself into His Sea - Episode 1.32

“To talk about protective magic when you were just pointing a sword at her.”

“Ha, are you really worried?”

“It’s different outside the barrier. There’s no way she’d be in danger inside the underwater kingdom.”

After lightly retorting, Sipri threw a jagged reply at his friend before him.

“In this sea, the most dangerous being to that woman is you, Pereian.”

Just then, Sipri sensed the Queen using the magical artifact. Having recovered his magic, he said softly to Pereian,

“She’s just returned. Go see for yourself.”

Hoping to calm Pereian, he moved with Pereian to the bedroom where Irene would have arrived. However, only magical formulas were inscribed in the coral palace, and there was no trace of the Queen’s return anywhere.

“This can’t be…”

He had definitely told her it was for one-time use, and she had nodded her head several times. There was no way the Queen would misuse it.

“A mistake, it must be a mistake…”

Sipri looked at Pereian with trembling eyes. Pereian seemed busy grasping the situation as well.

“The last place she went.”

Pereian summoned a horse made of water and muttered,

“Tell me, where was the last place that woman went?”

A cool air enveloped Sipri. Now that the magical artifact had been used, the Queen would not be able to return to the Coral Palace alone. At my uneasy confession of the border’s coordinates, Pereian cursed.

Pereian, who had mounted his horse in an instant, crossed the sea like air in Deltia. Shops and private houses were clearly visible below. Irene Iphraim must have visited one of those places with the head lady-in-waiting.

He frowned at the irritating feeling. Even as he rode, he felt resentful. The fact that she had not returned to this palace even after receiving Sipri’s magical artifact was interpreted as only one thing to him.

She had run away, that woman.

Then the same question followed.

‘Why?’

When did she beg so pathetically to just let her live in this sea, in my underwater palace?

“How dare you run away.”

She shouldn’t have. That woman should not have left the underwater palace without my permission. Even if she wasn’t the princess he had proposed to, Sipri’s magic recognized her as the princess of Epin. So, breaking the marriage was impossible.

Even if the Queen ran away, it was the same. The position was already Irene Iphraim’s, so even if she disappeared, it would not become vacant.

So until I find Ruine, I have to keep that hateful woman by my side and make her miserable.

I had to wait until she begged to be sent back to Epin. I had to make that woman give up this marriage. That woman couldn’t leave, she shouldn’t have. She shouldn’t tie me up with this damn marriage and then easily get a new life like that.

‘I thought she was dull.’

To think she would try to escape like this, she was truly a cunning woman.

He drove the horse even harder, letting out a burst of angry, hollow laughter. The horse stopped at the place Sipri had confessed to—the border. Sure enough, he could see traces of Sipri’s magic circle.

So she had been nearby, but the Queen was nowhere to be seen. Reluctantly, Pereian unleashed his magic. The only way was to reverse-trace the breathing magic formula he had etched on her forehead when he first met her, using this magic.

It was a costly spell, one he hoped to avoid using if possible. As he spread his magic, he could see at a glance where the woman had gone.

Enduring the dizziness from the sudden drain of magic, he followed Irene’s trail. Pereian stopped abruptly after a short distance.

Before him was the boundary with the general seabed area. Irene’s trail ended abruptly there.

Reverse-tracing magic to locate someone was only possible in Deltia, where he reigned as lord. As it was already a vast underwater kingdom, he would not be able to find her trail if she went out into the wider sea.

“She went outside, did she.”

Pereian scoffed, thinking she seemed to have escaped with a plan.

But Irene Iphraim had missed one thing. Unlike the peaceful underwater kingdom, the area outside the boundary was the deep sea, teeming with demonic creatures.

“Asking to be saved, only to go out and die.”

If she were caught by seaweed demons or demons hiding in underwater caves, she wouldn’t be able to escape, let alone save her life.

To safely escape from demons, she needed to have magic like his or be protected by a divine creature.

‘She wouldn’t have known anything.’

He felt a little triumphant thinking about the woman, terrified and fleeing from the demons.

‘Don’t die.’

But I hoped she wouldn’t die. That way, I could see her terrified face, and she would come to fear this sea too. She would want to return to land. Pereian leisurely unfolded the magic circle.

This was the last resort to track down Irene Iphraim.

With a pop, bubbles formed, and a whale emerged. Whether it was bewildered by the sudden summoning or rebelling more strongly than usual, Pereian put a bridle on the whale.

“Find the woman you liked.”

He commanded, never dreaming that the whale had been with the woman until recently, protecting her from the demonic beasts.

***

The whale, which had been swimming so well, disappeared from Irene’s side in an instant. Irene witnessed that moment.

Bubbles definitely formed, just like when Pereian had summoned the whale. It was an unnatural sight, so she sensed it intuitively.

Pereian must have called the whale. She wondered.

Sipri had assured her that there would be no problem if she used the magical tool. But the magical tool had already been used, and the whale was her only means of returning to the Coral Palace.

Perhaps Pereian had deliberately taken the whale away.

‘Ian hates that I’m in this sea…’

She didn’t know how it happened, but Pereian could summon the whale.

‘Maybe he heard that I went outside Deltia with the whale and deliberately took the whale away.’

Irene remembers Pereian, who held a knife to her throat. His cold eyes were filled with hatred and murderous intent. Yet, he failed to kill Irene, and she survived, opening her eyes once more like this.

Knowing she was with the whale, he might have summoned it to isolate her. Considering Pereian’s past actions, this was the most plausible suspicion.

If Pereian summoned the whale knowing everything, it could mean she shouldn’t return to Deltia.

Irene sighed with a half-resigned expression. Her mind was a mess. Suddenly becoming lost outside Deltia, and the whale that protected her from the monsters disappearing, leaving her vulnerable at any moment.

The seaweed monsters that seemed ready to snatch at her feet at any time also threatened her.

Everything plunged Irene into confusion. She wanted to live. To survive, she had to escape the monsters unharmed. Even if Pereian was preventing her return, she intended to go back to Deltia.

She had already endured her husband’s disgusted gaze countless times. She couldn’t help it if she was hated even more. She had to live. She didn’t want to die in this sea.

Even outside Deltia, this was Pereian’s sea. A part of the vast ocean ruled by the undersea lord.

She didn’t want to be torn to shreds by monsters and die in his sea. She didn’t want Pereian to see her dead body during a later reconnaissance mission and find it gruesome. Irene bit her lip. She had to strain her legs to move, avoiding the grasping tendrils of the seaweed monsters.

“…!”

Irene, who had been walking straight ahead, retracing her path back to the reef, suddenly stopped abruptly. Five paces ahead were an underwater cave. A warm light emanated from within.

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