Saving His Wife
Nonetheless, Ichika didn’t beg for mercy. Instead, she bit her lip and endured the pain.
Seeing that, her father—Giichi—grew all the more livid.
“You’ve still got some backbone in you, huh? Continue hitting her without holding back! I never knew
that you’re such a vicious person that you’d even attempt to kill your own sister, Ichika!”
He ordered the temple staff to hit his daughter harder.
In truth, that was the rule there.
When the descendants of the noble families committed a mistake, they would be sent to such a place
to be punished. On the one hand, it was to repent to their ancestors who were enshrined there.
And on the other, it was so that the descendants would see the error of their ways.
However, it was clear as day that Ichika hadn’t any intention of admitting her wrong. Tied to the post,
she was struck more than ten times successively that even blood was trickling out of her mouth, and
she was close to losing consciousness.
But still, she kept mum.
Giichi was really enraged to the point of speechlessness.
Just when he was about to order for a more severe punishment to be meted, a figure abruptly sprinted
in from outside.
“Ichika!”
The instance the man saw the horrifying scene in the temple, his expression immediately changed
drastically. When the nun raised the joss stick and brought it down again on the young girl tied to the
post whose back was already a bloody mess, he flew over and grabbed the joss stick.
“Buzz off!”
With a roar, the joss stick snapped into two in his hands.
The nun, on the other hand, was kicked to the ground.
When Giichi saw that, he sprang to his feet at once. “What are you doing, Akiyama? I’m educating my
daughter!”
Indeed, that man was none other than Solomon.
Unfortunately, he acted as though he couldn’t hear his father-in-law. Tossing the joss stick to the
ground, he swiftly untied the girl bound to the post and had been beaten to within an inch of her life. He
scooped her up into his arms right away.
“Ichika? Are you okay?”
The bright red blood stung his eyes, and even his voice shook when he spoke.
Ichika’s eyelashes fluttered against her petite face that was drained of all color before she slowly
opened her eyes in the man’s embrace.
“D-Darling…”
“I’m here. Don’t be afraid. I’m here to take you away.”
Shrugging off his jacket, Solomon wrapped it around the girl who had been beaten so badly that not an
inch of her was unmarred. After that, he made to take her away with his eyes blazing scarlet.
Unexpectedly, the girl shook her head in his arms at that exact moment.
“I-It’s okay, Darling. I-I really did wrong. I-I don’t deserve-”
“What did you do wrong? If dealing with a person who should’ve long since gone to hell is wrong, then
my time in this world ought to have expired ages ago. After all, I have too much blood on my hands,”
the man rectified sharply.
As he clutched at the jacket wrapped around Ichika, unprecedented rage and hostility brewed in his
eyes behind his glasses.
Clocking the look in his eyes, Giichi seemingly lost the confidence within him for some inexplicable
reason.
He was certainly well aware of his son-in-law’s background and knew that the man was indeed
notorious for his ruthlessness in Sinch Enterprise. For that reason, he had no doubts about the veracity
of his declaration right then.
Ultimately, his weathered face paled a shade.
“Akiyama, she’s still a member of the Minamoto family. Now that she did such a thing, I’ve got to give
the family an explanation.”
“What explanation? Since she has married me, she’s no longer a part of the Minamoto family. The
women here go with their husbands after marriage. Thus, her name is now Ichika George! She has
nothing to do with the Minamoto family.”
“How dare you?!”
Giichi was so incensed that his face flushed bright red.
But that wasn’t all, for that son-in-law of his proceeded to whip out several things and throw them at
him.
“Look at the wonderful things that eldest daughter of yours did. If you really attach such great
importance to the family rules and customs of the Minamoto family, you should take a good look at
everything she did. Is it enough to warrant the death penalty in your family rules? If the answer is yes,
then Ichika merely fulfilled her duties as the head of the family in advance by doing so today!”
Spatting out those few utterances in a steely voice, he left with the girl in his arms without an ounce of
hesitation.
Behind him, Giichi picked the things up from the ground after a moment’s stupefaction. When he
finished going through everything sometime later, his blood pressure shot through the roof. He was so
infuriated that he passed out.
Meanwhile, Solomon finally brought Ichika back to the hospital.
Naturally, the Hayeses who had only returned to the hotel a short time ago caught wind of it.
When they learned that Ichika was beaten to within an inch of her life, everyone went back to the
hospital other than Lance and Sebastian, who stayed at the hotel to take care of the children.
“How is she? Is she okay?” Sasha inquired frantically.
“I don’t know. She was just wheeled into the operating theater a moment ago,” Solomon answered.
He has been standing outside the operating theater for such a long time, and this is the first time I’ve
ever seen him so frantic that his voice has turned hoarse.
Sasha and Sabrina waited anxiously there with him.
Fortunately, after waiting for a little over an hour, the doctor came out and told them that Giichi didn’t
really go for broke, so Ichika’s injuries were superficial despite looking gruesome.
Only after hearing that did everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
After swaying on his feet for a moment, Solomon finally sat down on the bench while supporting himself
against the wall.
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