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Feeling both desire and sacredness in the touch of the woman who held his hand at the banquet, Michael avoids seeing her off, shuts himself in the prayer room, and though he takes amethyst from the rewards and writes a letter, he receives no reply and realizes it is now too late.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"My Husband Is Definitely a Paladin Chapter 37 tells, from Sir Michael's point of view, the shock and guilt of his first encounter with Irene Rodiam. Feeling both desire and sacredness in the touch of the woman who held his hand at the banquet, Michael avoids seeing her off, shuts himself in the prayer room, and though he takes amethyst from the rewards and writes a letter, he receives no reply and realizes it is now too late.","key_events":["Michael follows golden light to a woman who asks him for a pair contract","Michael realizes the person who waited at same spot daily has disappeared and it is too late","Michael takes amethyst for personal use and worries about Irene's thin clothes","Michael feels simultaneous coolness and burning heat when touching her hand from hall to carriage","Michael asks Lady Irene to stop seeing him off as it delays his expedition departure","Michael sends letter asking after health and visit permission but receives no reply","Michael feels disgust for mistaking ordinary woman for Goddess and secludes in prayer room"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"A CLUSTER OF LIGHT, LIKE GOLDEN GRAINS OF SAND...\nFOLLOWING ITS FLOW LED ME TO A WOMAN.\n\nIS THERE A KNIGHT HERE DISCUSSING THE POSSIBILITY OF FORMING A PAIR WITH HER?\nSHE LOOKS...\n...RATHER TROUBLED.\n\nWONDERING IF SHE'D FOUND HERSELF IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION,\nI WAS JUST ABOUT TO APPROACH HER WHEN—\nE-EXCUSE ME, SIR MICHAEL!\n\nPLEASE FORM A PAIR CONTRACT WITH ME!\nSHE TOOK MY HAND.\n\nFROM THE MOMENT WE LEFT THE BANQUET HALL TO SPEAK IN PRIVATE\nUNTIL WE REACHED THE CARRIAGE,\n\nI WAS CAPTIVATED BY A STRANGE, INEX- PLICABLE SENSATION.\nWHERE HER HAND HAD TOUCHED MINE,\n\nA PLEASANT, REFRESHING COOLNESS, LIKE DIPPING MY HAND INTO CHILLED SEAWATER,\nAND A BURNING HEAT AND ACHE, AS THOUGH I WERE BEING SCORCHED BY FLAMES,\nPLEASE, GET IN.\nAH, YES.\nSURGED THROUGH ME ALL AT ONCE.\n\nDESIRE AND SANCTITY...\nHOW COULD TWO SENSATIONS SO UTTERLY INCOMPATIBLE\nEXIST WITHIN ME AT THE VERY SAME TIME?\nCOULD THIS WOMAN TRULY BE, AS THE SCRIPTURES DESCRIBED,\n\nTHE GODDESS'S INCARNATION?\nYET ALL I DISCOVERED THROUGH OUR CONVERSATION\n\nWAS THAT SHE WAS NOTHING MORE THAN AN ORDINARY HUMAN WOMAN...\nONCE I REALIZED I'D FALLEN PREY TO A FLEETING DELUSION,\n\nI FELT A PROFOUND DISGUST WITH MYSELF.\nEVEN IF ONLY FOR AN INSTANT,\nHOW DARE I MISTAKE A MERE HUMAN WOMAN FOR AN AVATAR OF THE GODDESS?\nESCORT THE LADY IN THE CARRIAGE TO THE PURIFIERS' QUARTERS.\nYES, SIR.\n\nTO THE GODDESS,\nAND TO THAT WOMAN AS WELL,\n\nWAS THAT NOT AN UTTERLY PROFANE THOUGHT?\nUNFORGIVABLY PROFANE...\n\nSIR MICHAEL,\nYOU'RE LEAVING THE FORTRESS FOR YOUR FIRST SUBJU- GATION TODAY, AREN'T YOU?\nYOU SAID THERE WAS NO NEED FOR ME TO ACCOMPANY YOU TO THE DUNGEON,\nBUT I WANTED TO AT LEAST SEE YOU OFF...\n\nPLEASE TAKE CARE AND RETURN SAFELY. DON'T GET HURT.\n\nIF I WERE AN ORDINARY KNIGHT...\nWOULD SHE PURIFY ME?\nCOULD SHE BE GRANTING ME PURIFICATION?\n\nKISSING HER FAIR NECK,\nLIFTING HER SLENDER LEGS OVER MY SHOULDERS,\nSINKING TO THE DEEPEST DEPTHS,\n\nBURYING MYSELF...\n...AS I'VE TOLD YOU BEFORE,\nYOU NEEDN'T CONCERN YOUR- SELF WITH ANY OF THIS,\n\nSO PLEASE DON'T GO OUT OF YOUR WAY TO COME HERE.\nPARDON?\n\nIT'S FINE. IT REALLY ISN'T ANY TROUBLE-\nIT IS A TROUBLE TO ME.\nLADY IRENE'S SEEING ME OFF CAUSES UNNEC- ESSARY DELAYS TO MY DEPARTURE.\nSO PLEASE, I ASK YOU TO STOP.\n\nEVER SINCE I MET YOU, I...\nYES...\nHAVE FOUGHT WITH ALL MY MIGHT TO KEEP MYSELF FROM LOOKING\nAT EVEN A SINGLE STRAND OF YOUR SILVER HAIR SWAYING GENTLY IN THE SPRING BREEZE,\n\nYET, NO MATTER WHAT I SAID,\nWHETHER BENEATH THE BLAZING SUN,\n\nAMID TORRENTIAL RAIN POURING OVER FALLEN AUTUMN LEAVES,\nON DAYS FILLED WITH CRASHING THUNDER,\nOR IN BITTER BLIZZARDS THAT CUT TO THE BONE,\n\nEVERY SINGLE DAY I DEPARTED, YOU CAME OUT WITHOUT FAIL—\nTHE SOONER I LEAVE,\nTHE SOONER SHE'LL GO BACK INSIDE...\n\nSTANDING IN THAT EXACT SAME SPOT TO SEE ME OFF,\n1 FORCED MYSELF TO 1GNORE YOUR SILHOUETTE...\n\nSiR MiCHAEL!\nAND WHENEVER,\n\nBY SOME CHANCE, OUR SKIN BRUSHED AGAINST EACH OTHER—\n...LOOK DOWN UPON ME, O GODDESS...\n\n...AND PROTECT ME FROM THE PROFANE DESIRES WITHIN ME...\n...GRANT ME THE STRENGTH... TO RESIST THEM...\nAND... PLEASE...\n...DELIVER ME FROM THESE DESIRES...\n\nLOCKING MYSELF INSIDE THE PRAYER ROOM,\nRECITING PRAYERS IN AN ABYSS OF SHAME AND HELPLESSNESS,\n\nPRAYING THAT THE GODDESS MIGHT GRANT MY WISH,\n\nEVERY SINGLE DAY, I WISHED TO BE MARTYRED ON THE SPOT.\nSIR MICHAEL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK ON THIS SUBJUGATION.\nWE'LL PROCESS YOUR REWARDS PROPERLY AND DELIVER THEM TO THE GREAT TEMPLE.\n\nIS LADY IRENE ALSO RECEIVING HER SHARE OF THE REWARDS AS SHE SHOULD?\nPARDON?\nI MEAN MY PAIR, LADY IRENE RODIAM.\nAH, YES.\nYOU MEAN THE LOWEST-TIER PURIFIER WITH WHOM YOU FORMED A NOMINAL PAIR.\n\nOF COURSE. SHE COLLECTS HER SHARE FAITHFULLY EVERY TIME, WITHOUT FAIL.\nGIVEN HOW SUBSTANTIAL THE REWARDS YOU BRING IN ARE, SIR,\nSHE MUST HAVE AMASSED QUITE A FORTUNE BY NOW.\n\nI HAVE A PERSONAL USE FOR IT,\nSO I'LL TAKE THIS AMETHYST.\nWHAT? AH...\nOF COURSE, SIR MICHAEL.\n\n...WHEN WE ENTERED THE DUNGEON TOGETHER PREVIOUSLY,\n\nI'D TRIED SO HARD TO AVOID LOOKING AT HER\nTHAT I ONLY NOTICED HOW THIN HER CLOTHES WERE\nTHAT I ONLY NOTICED HOW THIN HER CLOTHES WERE\n\nHER SHARE OF THE REWARDS SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED PROPERLY WITHOUT ANY ISSUES,\nSO COULD HER CIRCUMSTANCES BE SO DIRE THAT SHE COULDN'T EVEN AFFORD PROPER WINTER CLOTHING?\nTHE PURIFIERS' QUARTERS SHOULDN'T BE THAT IMPOV- ERISHED, EITHER.\nALTHOUGH I'D NEVER VISITED THEM MYSELF,\n\nI'D BEEN TOLD THEY WERE AS COMFORTABLE AS NOBLE ESTATES.\nI'D PUT MY MIND AT EASE, BELIEVING SHE WAS WELL TAKEN CARE OF, AND YET...\nAS HER NOMINAL PAIR,\n\nSURELY THERE'D BE NO HARM IN SENDING A BRIEF LETTER TO INQUIRE AFTER HER WELL-BEING...\n\nI HOPE YOU'RE DOING WELL.\nSIR MICHAEL!\nWHAT BRINGS YOU TO THE PURIFIERS' QUARTERS?\n\nPLEASE DELIVER THIS LETTER TO MY PAIR, LADY IRENE RODIAM.\nAH, YES. RIGHT AWAY.\nALONG WITH A BRIEF INQUIRY ABOUT HER HEALTH IN THE BITTER COLD,\nI SENT A LETTER ASKING WHETHER I MIGHT VISIT HER QUARTERS,\nYET EVEN AFTER CLEARING MORE THAN TEN DUNGEONS,\n\nI NEVER RECEIVED A REPLY FROM HER.\nRATHER, BY THE TIME I REALIZED THAT SHE,\nWHO HAD ALWAYS STOOD IN THAT EXACT SAME SPOT, WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND.\n\nIT WAS ALREADY FAR TOO LATE.","bubble_count":120,"pages_count":43,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"My Husband Is Definitely a Paladin Chapter 37 tells, from Sir Michael's point of view, the shock and guilt of his first encounter with Irene Rodiam.","spoiler_summary":"My Husband Is Definitely a Paladin Chapter 37 tells, from Sir Michael's point of view, the shock and guilt of his first encounter with Irene Rodiam. Feeling both desire and sacredness in the touch of the woman who held his hand at the banquet, Michael avoids seeing her off, shuts himself in the prayer room, and though he takes amethyst from the rewards and writes a letter, he receives no reply and realizes it is now too late."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/my-husband-is-definitely-a-paladin-54041nrv/chapter-37-3guyzw","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — My Husband Is Definitely a Paladin #37","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-29T01:16:29.872Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/my-husband-is-definitely-a-paladin-54041nrv"}}