I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 2

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Chapter 2

 

 

 

Lyos.

Only Lyos.

“Dana?”

With a scraping sound, Lyos pushed his chair back and stood up.

“What’s wrong all of a sudden?”

In that moment, Dana was overwhelmed with self-loathing and let out a hollow laugh.

Good heavens, how could I be so foolish!

For a moment, I had suspected Lyos. I thought he might be doing something improper in his office!

“It’s nothing, Lyos. Actually…”

The moment I was about to confess everything.

“…”

My words trailed off. Because a certain fragrance brushed past my nose.

The fresh scent of freesia flowers.

…The smell of a woman’s perfume.

“Since you’re here, let’s have a meal together.”

Lyos spoke nonchalantly as he grasped her shoulder.

“I was just getting hungry anyway, so this works out well.”

Dana stared intently at Lyos’s face.

Silently, quietly, without a word.

“Dana?”

Come to think of it…

His black hair was disheveled.

He was always a man who kept it neatly swept back.

Why?

“Dana? Why are you looking at me like that?”

When Lyos grabbed her arm to pull her along, Dana roughly shook him off. It was an instinctive, animalistic rejection that came without any calculation.

“Dana? What’s wrong?”

The back of my neck feels stiff.

Starting from my fingertips, slowly, very slowly, it felt like I was freezing. My throat felt dry as I swallowed hard.

Dana had a premonition.

‘She’s here.’

In this room. Still. The owner of this fragrance.

“Dana!”

There was no thought, no rational thinking. I just searched the room half out of my mind.

The sofa, side table, bookshelf, and.

“Dana! What’s wrong with you!”

And… the desk.

“Stop it!”

When I headed toward the desk, Lyos quickly approached.

“Dana, what the hell is wrong with you! Are you crazy?”

“Let go.”

“Calm down! Just calm down first—!”

He tried to turn my body around, but it was already too late.

Because I had found that woman.

Under the desk.

The woman was crouched down, trembling while clutching her dress that had fallen down to her chest.

When our eyes met, I let out a bitter laugh.

“What are you doing there, Alice.”

Alice Windsor. She was my cousin.

“D-Dana, sister, w-well, you see…”

That’s when it happened.

“Move aside.”

Lyos pushed my shoulder.

Dana collapsed right there on the spot. And I was stunned by that fact.

Pushed?

Lyos pushed me?

“Get up, Alice.”

“Y-Your Highness the Crown Prince. But…”

“It’s fine, just get up. Quickly.”

In that moment, Dana thought.

‘Ah, I see. This must be a dream.’

Otherwise, this couldn’t be happening.

There’s no way Lyos would push me aside and help Alice up, smoothing her disheveled hair.

In front of me— how dare he, right before my eyes!

“Go back for now, Alice.”

“But Dana, sister…”

“I’ll handle it. Go back and take care of yourself.”

Click.

Alice left and the door closed. In that moment, Dana snapped out of her shock.

“Explain, Lyos.”

I stood up. My legs were shaking, but I could stand.

“Explain this situation. Right now—”

“Don’t corner me.”

Suddenly my words were cut short.

“I’ll explain without you nagging at me like that.”

What… did Lyos just say?

Lyos let out a deep sigh and swept back his disheveled black hair.

“Why did you come without any notice?”

Suddenly, chills run down my spine.

“I’m sure I told you I was busy.”

The black eyes I met were surprisingly fierce.

“I’m truly sorry for not being able to inform you in advance. I was planning to tell you soon.”

Was it because of that calm voice? Dana couldn’t grasp any sense of reality.

He wasn’t making excuses. He wasn’t flustered. He was just, just acknowledging it. Despite betraying me, so nonchalantly, so calmly—.

‘Ah.’

Suddenly, a heart-splitting agony washed over me.

Breathing became difficult, and I let out shallow, panting breaths.

“How could you, with Alice, have an affair.”

“This isn’t an affair.”

Lyos firmly cut off her words.

“This is love.”

In that instant, the accusations that filled my mouth scattered.

“I truly love Alice.”

How pale must I have looked?

“…You held me back crying when I was trying to return to my world, and now you say you love my cousin? Lyos, you’re my fiancé!”

“I have no intention of breaking off my engagement with you.”

Lyos spoke slowly.

“However, I also intend to marry Alice.”

“What… did you say?”

“I said I’ll marry both you and Alice. It’s common for cousin sisters to share one husband as—”

Smack—!

His face turned to the side.

“Lyos Grants.”

Her voice trembled. Her hands trembled too.

“Get your head on straight. Do you realize the words coming out of your mouth are nonsense?”

Lyos, his head turned at an angle, slowly looked at her.

“…How dare you.”

The eyes that met hers blazed so fiercely.

“How dare you raise your hand against the Crown Prince?”

He roughly grabbed her chin. Lifting it forcefully, he stared down at her oppressively.

“A mere possessor who’s taken over someone else’s body.”

In that instant, Dana’s breath caught in her throat.

“I showed you affection and you became arrogant, climbing all the way to the top of your head.”

“…”

“Even after acting so insolently, do you expect my feelings to remain unchanged?”

“…”

“Don’t blame me. My change of heart is something you brought upon yourself.”

The next moment, Dana heard a thunderous roar.

It was the sound of the entire world shattering and crumbling to pieces.

 

* * *

 

I don’t remember well what happened after that.

Ah, right. Lyos and I shouted at each other and argued.

 

“The Dimensional Gate has closed. You know that? You can’t go anywhere now!”

 

Recalling it makes my mind grow hazy again.

Because the person who said those words felt so unfamiliar.

 

“Dana, you are a person of this world, and my subject!”

 

As if a complete stranger had taken over the shell of the man I loved.

 

“So obediently follow the Empire’s laws, Danae Windsor!”

 

I fled from the room, got in a carriage…

When I came to my senses, I was walking through the garden of the Windsor Estate.

“Dana.”

Then someone grabbed her shoulder.

“Be careful. There’s a pond in front of you.”

It was her cousin brother, Lumiere.

After checking her face, he asked in surprise.

“Dana, why are you crying? What happened?”

Before she could answer, Lumiere pulled Dana into his arms. He patted her back and gently comforted her.

“What’s wrong? Hmm? Why are you crying?”

Ah, finally I’ve met someone on my side.

Seeing him made grief surge up within her.

“Brother Lumiere. Lyos…”

“Yes?”

“Lyos… is having an affair with Alice.”

At that moment, his hands stiffened.

But it was only for a moment. Lumiere let out a sigh.

“An affair, you say.”

Gripping Dana’s shoulders tightly.

“How can you say such nonsense?”

He pushed her away.

“They’re simply in love with each other.”

…What?

“But to condemn love as an affair, isn’t that rather vulgar?”

Dana looked up blankly.

A face as delicate as a glass doll. Clear silver hair. Ruby-like eyes.

This is strange.

This face is definitely Brother Lumiere’s…

“In this world, that’s not a problem at all. You’re also a person of this world, so you should adapt.”

But why is he speaking like a different person?

“How can you say such things?”

Dana’s voice cracked as it came out.

“Brother Lumiere saw it too. When I was about to leave for my world, you saw Lyos holding me back and making vows. But now—!”

“My goodness, Dana. That’s enough.”

Lumiere laughed as if troubled.

“Your compensatory psychology is suffocating.”

“…”

“That’s one thing and this is another. Did anyone forcibly tie you up to prevent you from leaving?”

“…”

“A man having multiple women, that’s normal in this world.”

Lumiere stroked her hair.

His touch was so affectionate, which made it all the more bizarre.

“Now you can’t even return to your world.”

“…”

“What will you do? You have no choice but to adapt.”

He smiles brightly, as beautifully as usual.

Then he leaves cheerfully.

Dana stared at his retreating figure in bewilderment.

That’s Lumiere?

That person who speaks so sarcastically, is he really the gentle Lumiere who always, always took her side?

Dana found herself muttering unconsciously.

“That’s not right.”

The Dimensional Gate opens once every hundred years.

But that’s just the natural cycle…

‘The Dimensional Gate can be opened again.’

There’s a way to open it through human power.

And she knew how to do it.

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