I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 146

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Chapter 146

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘Right. There’s no reason he should do that. Why would he do such a thing?’

 

So everything Yoris said is fake. Or maybe the medicine is fake. His Highness’s words can’t be lies. So—

 

I don’t know! I really don’t know!

 

“Wake up, wake up!”

 

Alice approached Lyos and slapped his cheek.

 

It was something she could never normally do, but perhaps it was the alcohol. Alice grabbed his hair and shook it as if tearing at it.

 

“I said wake up!”

 

But Lyos was still in deep sleep. Even his eyelids didn’t flutter, and her fear only grew.

 

“Wake up, wake up. Fool, idiot!”

 

Slap! Slap! Slap!

 

How long had she been hitting Lyos like that?

 

Knock knock.

 

At the sound of knocking on the door, Alice startled and lifted her head.

 

Knock knock.

 

Alice swallowed hard. Who could it be…?

 

At that moment, knock knock, another knocking sound came.

 

“Open the door.”

 

It was a familiar voice.

 

“Quickly.”

 

Alice sniffled and hung her head. Then, staggering, she barely managed to move her drunk body to open the door.

 

Creak—

 

The door opened.

 

“What’s wrong?”

 

Alice looked up with bloodshot red eyes.

 

Brilliant hair like it was painted with gold. A man with the young and beautiful appearance of a youth his age…

 

“Former Emperor.”

 

The Former Emperor, Wilhelm, was looking at her with worried eyes.

 

“Have you been drinking?”

 

“Hic, y-yes, yes.”

 

“Something bad must have happened.”

 

The Former Emperor looked back and forth between his son sleeping on the bed and Alice crying while drunk.

 

“What about the Crown Prince?”

 

“He’s, he’s sleeping. He’s sleeping so deeply, he won’t wake up.”

 

“Is that so?”

 

Then Wilhelm entered the bedroom quite naturally.

 

He entered as if it were his natural right, so Alice instinctively stepped back.

 

“I’d like you to tell me what happened.”

 

Click. The Former Emperor closed the door.

 

“Why are you crying like this? And Lyos, why is that pathetic fool lying there unconscious when his fiancée is crying?”

 

Alice felt nauseous.

 

When the man, beautiful as an angel statue in the Great Cathedral, asked kindly, her head became confused.

 

Alice finally sniffled and confessed as if enchanted.

 

“A-actually… I wanted to spend our first night with His Highness… but I was ignored.”

 

“Oh my.”

 

“A-after drinking, he got drunk and said he was t-tired, and he’s sleeping, but he won’t wake up.”

 

Tears flowed down like a bursting dam.

 

Fear and misery, suspicion, confusion—all those emotions mixed with intoxication and became distorted in her head.

 

“I-it was for His Highness, that’s why.”

 

Perhaps because she was drunk, Alice lost her reason and poured everything out frantically.

 

“I, I love His Highness more than anyone, so I hated that he was continuing his engagement with Sister Dana, whom he doesn’t even love, so, so, waaah.”

 

“Yes, I understand what you mean. You wanted to help break the engagement vow in preparation for the Divine Trial.”

 

“Waaaah.”

 

“How kind of you.”

 

Before she knew it, Alice was crying in Wilhelm’s arms.

 

How long had she cried like that?

 

“Lady Alice.”

 

“Sniffle, yes?”

 

“This seems like something I can help with.”

 

“…Yes?”

 

Wilhelm lifted Alice’s chin.

 

The golden hair, no different from a symbol of the Imperial Family, was so dazzling that Alice was momentarily entranced.

 

“The Crown Prince is drunk and sleeping deeply.”

 

The Former Emperor nodded his chin toward his son.

 

“If he’s that drunk, he might not remember what happened tonight.”

 

“What do you mean…?”

 

“It means he might even forget that he held Lady Alice.”

 

“…”

 

Alice immediately understood Wilhelm’s meaning.

 

She understood it precisely.

 

“F-Former Emperor.”

 

Alice’s eyes opened wide.

 

Wilhelm’s golden hair sparkled like starlight in her crimson pupils. It slowly drew closer. Closer and closer…

 

Close enough for their breaths to touch.

 

After hesitating for a moment, Alice closed her eyes and conveyed her consent.

 

The shadows of the two overlapped.

 

A moment later, flash, Wilhelm lifted Alice up. He laid her down next to his deeply sleeping son.

 

Alice stammered in confusion.

 

“W-what if His Highness wakes up?”

 

“It would be even better if he wakes up.”

 

Wilhelm smiled as if the very thought was delightful.

 

“I enjoy seeing my son suffer.”

 

He enjoys seeing His Highness suffer?

 

At the incomprehensible words, Alice stared blankly up at the Former Emperor. Then she soon turned her head toward Lyos, who was sleeping with his eyes closed beside her.

 

Crown Prince, whom she loved so much.

 

Lyos Grants, whom she loved to death, loved to madness.

 

My man whom I’ve had a one-sided love for since I was very young.

 

Before Sister Dana loved you, no, before Sister Dana appeared, from long, long ago, I loved only you.

 

But why on earth do you…?

 

“Me too.”

 

Alice murmured with lips dyed pitch black.

 

“I hope His Highness wakes up too.”

 

 

 

However, no matter what happened afterward, Lyos never woke up.

 

Exactly twelve hours.

 

That time when he wouldn’t wake up even if the world collapsed.

 

Lyos only opened his eyes after that time had passed.

 

 

 

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Crazy bitch.

 

“Lady Danae Windsor!”

 

“My lady, are you alright?!”

 

Crazy bitch. Crazy bitch. Crazy bitch!

 

Dana had collapsed in her seat at some point, gasping for breath. She felt like vomiting and dry heaved.

 

“What are you doing! Hurry and call the physician!”

 

Then a gentle woman’s hand touched her shoulder. Dana was startled and convulsed.

 

“S-sister. Are you okay?”

 

Get away, you’re really disgusting!

 

She wanted to shake off that hand.

 

Crazy bitch, Alice Windsor, you’re really out of your mind—she wanted to unleash fierce criticism.

 

What nerve.

 

How could she do such a thing.

 

How could she stand here so brazenly. How.

 

You’re not in your right mind, really—

 

‘—So what?’

 

Then, a cold voice questioned from within her mind crushed by confusion and chaos.

 

‘So what? Save the shock for later and think about your next move first. What are you going to do now?’

 

Dana breathed roughly and barely managed to grasp the thread of thought. She continued calmly.

 

Lyos would return soon.

 

And he would undergo Soul Judgment.

 

When that happens.

 

‘Lyos’s purity will be proven. And.’

 

Breaking off the engagement would become impossible.

 

The engagement with Lyos would continue.

 

If that happened, ascending to the deputy head position would also be impossible, and obtaining the Deputy Head’s Ring would become even more distant—

 

‘No!’

 

She couldn’t let Lyos undergo Soul Judgment.

 

She had to stop this trial. Right now, somehow.

 

So Dana.

 

“Kyaah, sister!”

 

Chose to faint completely just like that.

 

It was an easy thing to do. She just had to stop the effort to maintain consciousness, that effort alone.

 

The trial couldn’t continue if the party involved fainted.

 

It would be suspended for now and later rescheduled for a second trial.

 

Until then, somehow, somehow.

 

Somehow, damn it, even if I have to lose my purity, I must make this broken engagement happen…

 

“What’s going on?”

 

That’s when it happened. With the creaking sound of a door opening, Lyos’s voice was heard.

 

Had he finally returned?

 

‘Lyos Grants, you’re not in your right mind either.’

 

I have no idea what you’re thinking as you live…

 

“Dana!”

 

Lyos’s scream-like cry pierced her ears. With that as the last thing she heard, Dana completely lost consciousness.

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