Instead of My Beloved Sister, I Married a Monster - Chapter 16

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Chapter 16

In the suffocating silence, Evnia cautiously raised her hand.

“This can be undone, right?”

“Kids these days have no concept of sacred vows.”

Seven clicked his tongue as if he was hearing all sorts of nonsense.

With an expression of annoyance, Seven pulled out his pipe, put the mouthpiece to his lips, and lit the end.

He took a long drag of smoke, exhaled, and continued speaking.

“A sacred vow is literally an oath. Once completed, it becomes an absolutely unbreakable promise. Marriage through a sacred vow means you must stay together ‘until death do us part.’ If you don’t want that, you can just go to a church and write some feel-good marriage certificate.”

“But we didn’t actually get married… This was just fraud.”

“The sacred vow that Ram exchanged with your family was originally about you two getting married. That fish-brain just completed it through a loophole. Shared rings, bride and groom, a banquet-style ceremony with guests, and even a toast. My goodness, it was such a perfect small wedding!”

Seven shrugged his shoulders as if genuinely impressed.

Only then did Evnia snap to attention and examine Ram’s left hand.

Could that wedding ring he had been wearing all along be the match to the item she received from Giyermo?

Evnia clutched her ring finger with a stunned feeling.

The ring that had definitely felt like a perfect fit earlier was now gripping her finger so tightly that it seemed impossible to remove.

At this moment, only one thought filled Evnia’s mind.

‘I shouldn’t have trusted someone who uses people as ignition devices.’

Just because he acted a little kind on the surface didn’t mean his heart was good too.

It wasn’t like she was completely unaware that he was such a dangerous being.

Evnia couldn’t believe her own careless behavior.

Hadn’t Hanna, Seven, and Ram all warned her without hiding anything? That Giyermo was not someone you could reason with, and that he even had a history of committing great wrongs in the past.

“There’s no way to reverse it? No matter what?”

Evnia asked again with a pale face. Rather than truly expecting another solution, it felt more like denying a reality she didn’t want to believe.

Just as everyone was answering with silence, Ram returned to his original spot, leaving Levi behind, and waved his hand to douse Seven’s pipe with cold water as he spoke.

“No, it can be broken.”

Seven, who had suddenly lost his well-burning tobacco, criticized Ram with personal resentment.

“Talking about divorce right after marriage. Wow, what trash…”

“Oppose divorce! Caw! Absolutely oppose! Caw!”

“What are we going to do about poor Lady Evnia? A new bride being abandoned by her groom on her wedding day is so pitiful…”

“Since it’s come to this anyway, why don’t you just try living well together.”

“You shut up, Giyermo!”

Ram, who had been ignoring even Levi and Hanna’s interference, couldn’t contain his anger only toward Giyermo and raised his voice sharply.

Ram wore the same expression of craving cigarettes as when Evnia first came to this manor, but instead of looking for tobacco, he kept biting his innocent lips until the end.

He spoke with an extremely troubled expression.

“‘Until death do us part.’ That means we can separate if we die.”

“You’re saying you’ll die for us?”

Giyermo asked back with sparkling eyes.

He had planned this hoping Ram would let him go. For Giyermo, freedom gained through his master’s death also seemed like a decent alternative.

There was no way Ram couldn’t read the intentions that Evnia had understood.

Ram spoke through gritted teeth with an even more heated expression.

“If we temporarily create a state of death, the soul will be freed from the sacred vow’s binding. We can break the vow then.”

“You crazy bastard, it sounds easy but what if you actually cross over to the afterlife? Just live with her for a while! Nina will need to wait another few hundred years to reincarnate anyway!”

Seven foamed at the mouth and stood up to oppose his friend’s suicide declaration.

It didn’t seem like a method with guaranteed success despite Ram’s confident attitude.

Considering the danger of actually dying, it was certainly more rational to quietly wait for time to pass as Seven suggested.

If Evnia, an ordinary human, left this world first, he would naturally escape the married state.

If there was one problem with that perfect plan, it was the fact that Ram could meet his real wife not sometime hundreds of years later, but right now at any moment.

Ram didn’t have time to wait patiently for Evnia’s death.

If this was a matter of choice, rather as it had always been…

“I… I can die.”

Everyone stopped moving at Evnia’s tentative suggestion.

Only then did Evnia realize she had skipped too much logic and blurted out the conclusion first.

While it was a judgment she had reached through rational reasoning, to those who didn’t know her sister was alive, her volunteering must have seemed somewhat out of the blue.

Feeling the piercing stares, Evnia hastily elaborated.

“Uh… not right away. But what if, just what if Nina reincarnates faster than expected? If that happens…”

“So what, when the time comes you’ll die in her place, so we should applaud and thank you?”

Ram cut off Evnia’s words with a cold voice.

While applause might not be necessary, she thought it would be enough if they were happy about it.

She wasn’t an important person anyway, and not much time had passed since she had been prepared to die.

It was a life she had already offered once even for family members who were no different from strangers.

Evnia felt she could truly sacrifice herself gladly for Ram’s sake.

Evnia answered with a much calmer attitude.

“This happened because I accepted a ring I shouldn’t have received.”

“No one here thinks that’s your fault.”

“By that logic, you’re not at fault either, Lord Ram.”

“No, I’m more than guilty. According to your words, I’m an irredeemable bastard who would push a girl who’s not even an adult yet into danger and feel relieved about it.”

Evnia tried to clarify that wasn’t what she meant, but he stopped her with a cold gaze.

Was it because she had only seen his warm and caring side?

Evnia was inwardly surprised that his red eyes could shine with such a chilling light.

Ram didn’t express his anger in a rough manner.

Instead of scolding Evnia, he passed by her with a cold attitude.

Stopping in front of Giyermo, he immediately reached out toward him and spoke.

“Giyermo, you need to truly reflect on this incident.”

“Wait…!”

Giyermo, who had been urgently trying to dissuade his master, flinched and covered his mouth.

As if he wanted to speak but something was blocking him from making any sound.

Giyermo, who had been coughing repeatedly with a pained expression, began vomiting something up after several dry heaves.

‘…Fish?’

Evnia doubted her eyes for a moment.

What Giyermo was spitting out was definitely a living fish.

A strangely shaped aquatic creature with turquoise-like blue scales was crawling out of his mouth as if flowing backward.

What was even stranger was that as the creature revealed itself, Giyermo’s body was gradually shrinking.

It looked exactly as if Giyermo was being swallowed in reverse by the creature emerging from his mouth.

Finally, the fish that had lost its support fell to the floor with a splashing sound.

Ram briefly glanced at it struggling on top of Giyermo’s clothes, then disappeared without a trace.

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