I’m Trying to End This Possession Chapter 105

Dana grabbed his hair and bit down hard on his lips. This madman! And yet, Raios didn’t move an inch. If anything, his passion only seemed to burn more fiercely.

 

At that moment, Dana realized that Raios had completely lost his mind, consumed by an incomprehensible passion. Had he gone so long without seeing Allice that his lust had blinded him mad?

 

Dana quickly reached out. Her fingertips brushed against something on the table. It was a glass cup. She seized it tightly and struck it against Raios’s head. Crash!

 

“Huff, huff…”

 

Only after blood streamed down from Raios’s head did he slowly withdraw. It seemed the pain had finally brought him back to his senses.

 

“…”

 

Raios’s eyes, which had been raging like turbulent waves, gradually settled. A stream of blood running down his face dripped onto her cheek.

 

“Let go.”

 

Dana shook off his arms and stood up. Fortunately, Raios didn’t try to hold her any longer. With a thud, his arm fell limply like a scarecrow. It was dumbfounding. But he looked even more shocked by what had happened than she was. He’s the one who did this, so why is he even more shocked?

 

Dana slapped his cheek with all her might. Slap! “You’re trash.” She spat the words out, trembling with rage. “Men like you are the worst. Lower than even a dog…”

 

Dana thought Raios would be furious, just like when she slapped him before or when she dared to lay a hand on the crown prince. But it was different from what she expected. Raios just helplessly let his head droop and stared at the floor. Drip, drip. Drops of blood falling from his head soaked into the carpet.

 

Dana found his slumped appearance disgusting. What’s with those utterly dejected shoulders? As though he were despairing over his own inability to restrain his desires, and over the consequences he himself had brought about!

 

“…Still,” Raios mumbled, having been staring blankly at the floor. “Even if I’m worse than a dog, you’re still my fiancée.” He lifted his face. Drenched in blood, his face twisted into a bizarre smile. “It doesn’t matter how much you hate me.” As though he found those words pleasing, he let out a quiet laugh. “Because we’ll never part.”

 

A chill crawled up from Dana’s ankles. She instinctively took a step back.

 

“I told you. Even in death, you’ll be buried beside me.”

 

At that moment, Raios’s black eyes were like the universe. No, like a pitch-black hell. No, like death itself.

 

“We will end up like that, Danae Windsor.”

 

Feeling as if she would be swallowed by that darkness, her legs moved first. Dana immediately turned around and fled the room. It was an instinctive escape.

 

He’s insane. Crazy. Not in his right mind. Completely mad! Only that thought rang in her head like a warning alarm.

 

After running for who knows how long, crossing the hallway in haste, Dana encountered a familiar face. It was Count Cedric. As soon as their eyes met, he recoiled in terror and turned away. It was as if she was Medusa, someone whose gaze alone could turn a person to stone. And Dana… Crazy. Muttering a curse between her breaths, she walked past Count Cedric.

 

Count Cedric’s little finger. The same little finger Dana had once curled up…

 

Raios Geranze is completely insane.

 

It had been cut neatly in half, as though sliced with a knife.

 

* * *

[Set a wedding date.]

 

Dana immediately returned to the Windsor Mansion. Surprisingly, the messenger sent by Raios had arrived before her. The letter he sent through the messenger was even more shocking.

 

[Since our prolonged engagement doesn’t look good, I plan to hasten the wedding. Besides, I must marry you, my first fiancée, so that I can marry Allice, my second fiancée. Even if it’s just to marry Allice as soon as possible, I must get my marriage to you out of the way first. Let’s make it no later than next summer. Tell me your preferred date. If you don’t decide, I will pick the date myself.]

 

Dana tore the letter to shreds. Don’t make me laugh. Get our marriage out of the way just to marry Allice as soon as possible? Anger coiled deep within her heart, twisting into a shape far better suited to the word hatred. Dana genuinely hated Raios Geranze to the point of being unable to bear it.

 

So he summoned me just to tell me this. And yet, he called me there and did that? Kissing me with lips that kissed Allice, and holding me with hands that embraced Allice. Her fingertips trembled violently with fury. Sc*mbag. B*stard. Trash. Womanizer!

 

Unable to endure the surging heat inside her, Dana abruptly stood up and summoned her secretary. “Lethe, find out where the emperor is.”

 

That man. Why on earth is he taking so long? By now, he should have determined whether the scripture is genuine or fake. But why hasn’t there been any news yet?!

 

“Can you do it?”

 

“I’ll give it a try.”

 

“Right. Give it a try. I don’t care how much money it costs…” Suddenly feeling drained, Dana collapsed onto the sofa.

 

Only the emperor could push forward with breaking her engagement with Raios. Because annulment and divorce among the imperial family could only be done in the holy trial.

 

Right. Once the holy trial takes place… then I can break our engagement.

 

Only the imperial family had authority to convene the holy trial.

 

So it’s only the emperor. Without his cooperation, my engagement annulment will be impossible.

 

All that mattered was that the holy trial took place. If it were held, breaking her engagement with Raios would be more than possible.

 

That b*stard broke the vow of chastity.

 

When they got engaged, they had included a premarital chastity clause, promising to remain chaste for each other. It was Viego’s suggestion at the time. Looking back now, it was a stroke of absolute genius.

 

Raios violated that clause in the engagement contract. He slept with Allice. Doing that made him violate the vow of premarital chastity.

 

In this world, it might not be an issue for a man to mingle with multiple women. But breaking the clause recorded in a contract is a problem. It was more than enough grounds to annul the engagement as a penalty for breaking the vow. Of course, Raios would never imagine that a holy trial would be held.

 

The holy trial required the presence of the pope and three cardinals. In other words, it involved pulling in immensely influential figures. That’s why there were hardly any precedents in history where a holy trial had ever been held.

 

But the emperor will keep his promise. He’s a man overflowing with faith, to the point that it bordered on obsession. If he became certain that the scripture was real, he would keep his word.

 

Alright. So, the emperor just needs to verify the authenticity of the scripture. Then… I can annul my engagement with that b*stard Raios.

 

Dana wanted to break her engagement with Raios right away, quickly, as soon as possible. She really wanted to cut all ties with him. Up until now, it was only to become the deputy head, get her hands on the deputy head’s ring, the holy relic, and leave this world.

 

“We’ll never part.”

 

Now, the desire to shatter his belief had grown stronger.

 

“Even in death, you’ll be buried beside me.”

 

Raios’s face, beaming with certainty as if he had seen the future, was something Dana desperately wanted to crush.