I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 142

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Chapter 142

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“B-but, Your Highness.”

 

“Good girl.”

 

The moment she tried to object, Alice felt as if her tongue had been cut off and couldn’t continue speaking.

 

Lyos whispered soothingly as if coaxing her.

 

“Listen to me.”

 

He drove the final nail in.

 

“You’re a good woman, aren’t you, Alice.”

 

After that, she truly couldn’t say anything at all.

 

At Lyos’s words to go back now, Alice walked trudgingly to her bedroom with her swollen eyes downcast.

 

“Alice!”

 

There, her mother was waiting.

 

“Alice! My goodness, what’s wrong? Why are you crying like that?”

 

“Mother…”

 

Seeing Sandra, tears burst forth again. Alice threw herself into her mother’s arms, crying as she confessed the conversation that had just taken place.

 

“My goodness! How could the Crown Prince do such a thing!”

 

Sandra shouted in indignation.

 

“Absolutely not, Alice! You must never grant the Crown Prince’s request!”

 

“But. But Mother.”

 

 

 

Good girl?

 

Good girl? Good girl? Good girl?

 

 

 

That whisper of Lyos echoed in her ears. It bound Alice like shackles.

 

“His Highness said that since I’m a good woman, I should listen to him. If I don’t listen to His Highness, he’ll hate me…”

 

“Come to your senses!”

 

Sandra gripped her daughter’s shoulders tightly.

 

“Do you think the Crown Prince will cherish you forever? Even when you age, until the day you die, do you think he’ll love only you?”

 

Hiccup. Alice hiccupped. Sandra shouted passionately, as if vomiting out her words.

 

“He loved Danae like his own life too. But look now!”

 

“B-but.”

 

“Going mad trying to hold onto a man’s heart is meaningless! That’s certain! At least that much…”

 

Sandra’s voice finally mixed with sobs.

 

Alice stared blankly at her mother.

 

Had something happened with Father? Why that expression…?

 

“Love isn’t everything. What would you do if you became pregnant with His Highness’s child?”

 

A child? A child?

 

At those words, Alice was drawn to look down at her own belly.

 

“It has always been the Empress’s child who inherits the throne.”

 

“…”

 

“If you don’t become Empress, your child will forever lose the chance to become Emperor.”

 

“…”

 

“Alice. Don’t you want to give your child good things?”

 

Wiping away Alice’s tears, Sandra pressed her lips to her daughter’s forehead.

 

“Alice, my most precious daughter in the world. Mother would rather you live a life standing firm alone without love than a life swayed by a man’s love.”

 

Unlike me. Sandra swallowed that sentence and continued.

 

“So think carefully.”

 

With that gentle comfort, Sandra left.

 

For a long time after that, Alice sat blankly, lost in deep thought.

 

It was dizzying. All the words her mother had left behind raced through her mind.

 

 

 

“What would you do if you became pregnant with His Highness’s child?”

 

 

 

At that moment, as if responding to her earnest feelings, her chest suddenly churned.

 

Alice sank to the floor and retched violently.

 

“Urgh, urgh!”

 

How long did she retch like that?

 

When the retching finally stopped, Alice gasped for breath while supporting herself on the floor. Sour saliva dripped from her mouth.

 

‘Could it be.’

 

Could it be. Could it be. Could it be.

 

‘Could I really be pregnant?’

 

Does pregnancy happen that quickly?

 

Do pregnancy symptoms appear this fast?

 

Common sense doubts welled up, but they disappeared like sandcastles before the enormous maternal love.

 

She might be pregnant.

 

Not as a joke, but really, truly!

 

‘Right. We didn’t use any contraception at all…’

 

Though she wasn’t well-versed in such matters, Alice still knew.

 

That a child could very well have been conceived from that night.

 

She unknowingly placed her hand carefully on her belly.

 

‘Right. Maybe a child is being formed here right now.’

 

With that thought, strength entered her grip.

 

“My baby.”

 

I must protect my baby.

 

I can’t block my baby’s future.

 

But.

 

 

 

“Good girl?”

 

“You’re a good woman, aren’t you, Alice.”

 

 

 

What should I do? What should I do?

 

Alice agonized fiercely at the crossroads, deliberating again and again. Conflicted between her good nature and tender maternal instincts, conflicted again and again—

 

Finally, she leaned toward one side.

 

 

 

* * *

 

 

 

6 days before the divine trial.

 

 

 

“Any word from Lumiere yet?”

 

Dana asked Lete. The secretary shook her head.

 

“No, not yet.”

 

“Then he might not have received the letter I sent?”

 

“Well, I wouldn’t know that much.”

 

Right, how would Lete know.

 

Being anxious seemed to make her keep asking.

 

She had sent a letter to Lumiere as soon as she arrived in the capital, but there was still no reply.

 

Now the divine trial was truly about to begin.

 

She had to prove that Lyos had lost his purity for the annulment verdict to be rendered. If she failed.

 

‘Then I’ll have no choice but to give up my own purity.’

 

In that case, Dana had Lumiere in mind.

 

It was something she had decided that day in the cave on Saint Grave Island. If the moment came when she had to do it, she wanted to lean on this person.

 

Because at that time, the feeling was….

 

What was that feeling like?

 

Dana laughed emptily.

 

Though it had now disappeared without a trace, still.

 

 

 

“Call my name, Dana.”

 

 

 

It was certain that Lumiere’s name had been sweet when she pronounced it then.

 

‘So, I hope he comes here quickly.’

 

If she chose to give up her purity, Dana wanted to carefully select that partner.

 

She hoped it would be someone she knew well, who was gentle, skilled, and above all, someone she could enjoy without resistance, someone like Lumiere….

 

‘When will he return?’

 

Unfortunately, there wasn’t even any news from Lumiere.

 

 

 

* * *

 

 

 

5 days before the divine trial.

 

“Your Highness!”

 

Count Cedric came running with urgent news.

 

“The results from examining Your Highness’s blood from that day have come in.”

 

Lyos roughly snatched the report.

 

Recently, he had lost consciousness after drinking tea that Alice had given him.

 

He had no memory of what happened after that.

 

What had happened to him that day?

 

He needed to know what Alice had put in the tea.

 

So he had sent his blood to the Barbarian Shamans, requesting them to identify the potion he had consumed the previous day—

 

“Fortunately, they say they succeeded in identifying it.”

 

Count Cedric said with a pleased expression.

 

The moment Lyos saw the identity of the potion in the report, he was certain.

 

That nothing had happened with Alice that night. That it absolutely could not have happened.

 

“Hahahaha!”

 

Finally, he felt refreshed as if a weight had been lifted from his chest.

 

With this, even the slightest anxiety disappeared.

 

There would be no annulment with Dana.

 

Absolutely, such a thing would not happen.

 

 

 

* * *

 

 

 

4 days before the divine trial.

 

Dana tried to use Divine Sight to read the future in advance.

 

Hadn’t she used Divine Sight as she wished on Saint Grave Island before?

 

‘Yes, perhaps I might be able to read the future I want.’

 

So she tried to peek at the trial results, but.

 

‘That’s strange.’

 

Divine Sight wouldn’t activate.

 

‘It worked fine on the island.’

 

No matter how many times she tried, Dana couldn’t peek at anything.

 

 

 

3 days before the divine trial.

 

Alice declared to Lyos her intention not to attend the divine trial as a witness.

 

 

 

2 days before the divine trial.

 

Dana received a long reply letter from Lumiere.

 

 

 

1 day before the divine trial.

 

Dana sent a short response to Lumiere.

 

 

 

And finally, the day of the divine trial approached.

 

 

 

* * *

 

 

 

The divine trial was held not in an ordinary court but in the Grand Chapel of the Temple.

 

Dana headed to the Grand Chapel early.

 

She thought she would surely arrive earlier than anyone else.

 

‘What?’

 

Lyos had already arrived at the Grand Chapel first.

 

He was standing with his hands in his pockets, looking up at the mural hanging at the entrance.

 

‘How annoying.’

 

Just as she was about to pass right behind him without a word.

 

“I like this painting.”

 

Lyos suddenly spoke to her.

 

“Did you say you disliked it?”

 

What nonsense. When did I ever say such a thing?

 

Dana glanced up at the mural.

 

It was a famous fresco painting.

 

It depicted the demon that Sun God Ramun had sealed—a seven-headed serpent withering and losing power under intense sunlight.

 

“They say each head of that serpent represents one of the seven deadly sins of demons.”

 

Lyos muttered while looking at the serpent’s heads in order.

 

“Pride, greed, envy, wrath, lust, avarice, sloth….”

 

Did he come here after drinking? I don’t know why he’s spouting such nonsense.

 

Just as she was about to walk away, ignoring him.

 

“Which of these sins do you think you’re tainted with?”

 

“What did you say?”

 

“It’s obvious. You’re tainted with lust.”

 

She absolutely couldn’t just pass by.

 

“Lust? Me? Isn’t that you?”

 

“That’s right.”

 

He let out a dry laugh as he turned to look at her.

 

“What about Lumiere Windsor caught your fancy?”

 

Dana was suddenly at a loss for words.

 

“His pretty face?”

 

“….”

 

“Or is it because of his masculine body, unlike that beautiful face? Do you perhaps like such contrasts?”

 

Lyos laughed as if finding it absurd.

 

“If I had been born with delicate features like him, would your love have remained unchanged?”

 

“You must be mad. Stop talking nonsense.”

 

She responded calmly, but her heart ran cold.

 

How did he know?

 

Had he seen the letters she exchanged with Lumiere? Had he intercepted and censored them?

 

Fierce suspicion flared up, but she feigned ignorance.

 

“There’s nothing you won’t say about my cousin Brother.”

 

With those words, she walked past him. Click-clack, the sound of her shoe heels echoed in the massive chapel.

 

However, she couldn’t go far before stopping abruptly.

 

‘Why should I.’

 

Anger boiled up furiously.

 

‘Why should I have to listen to such criticism?’

 

Dana immediately spun around and approached Lyos like lightning.

 

“Is that something for you to say to me?”

 

You were the one who cheated first.

 

Yet you dare spout such accusations?

 

“You’re the one who exchanged love with my cousin sister behind my back. After doing that, what business is it of yours now who I happen to like?”

 

“So tell me.”

 

Absurdly, Lyos shot back as if he’d been waiting for this.

 

“What is it about Lumiere that you like so much?”

 

His eyes burned like black flames. Dana was completely disgusted by his face stained with betrayal.

 

This went beyond being shameless.

 

Lyos was truly acting like a lover betrayed by her!

 

“I like that he’s mature.”

 

Whatever.

 

Go ahead and indulge in your tragic emotions alone.

 

If my words hurt you, then be hurt.

 

“Ah, if I’d known it would be like this, I should have dated an older man from the start. Brother Lumiere is always composed. Unlike you.”

 

Lyos’s face contorted.

 

Pleased by this, Dana deliberately shot back viciously.

 

“Now I’m truly sick of men younger than me, Your Highness. It’s a prejudice I developed thanks to you, so feel free to be happy about it.”

 

Lyos’s jaw twitched slightly. It was a reaction as if he were genuinely hurt.

 

How disgusting that was.

 

Dana turned away coldly. She wanted to put a bullet through her own head for having truly loved such a bastard.

 

‘Fine. It’s all over now.’

 

So let’s stop the self-blame.

 

Today, at the divine trial, her relationship with Lyos would end completely.

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