I’m Trying to End This Possession Chapter 275

“Black hair, black eyes.” The old woman spoke firmly, then soon frowned and corrected herself. “No. Golden hair and bright blue eyes.” She said that, only to immediately change her words again. “No, that’s not right. Black hair and black eyes. No, blond hair and blue eyes. No…” After revising herself several times, the old woman muttered in confusion. “How can one person have two different hair colors and eye colors?”

 

Black eyes and black hair. Blue eyes and blond hair. There was someone who came to mind.

 

“To be honest, Rumie.”

 

Because there was one man who possessed both appearances inside this crystal sphere.

 

“I find myself angrier at you than at my own sister.”

 

It was Emperor Raios.

 

* * *

Before he knew it, midnight had passed. Troubled, Rumie still could not return to his bedroom. He wandered through the castle’s hedge maze garden while staring into the crystal sphere. At that moment, the crystal sphere showed Raios with blond hair and blue eyes.

 

“I loved my sister, but I never trusted her.”

 

Unlike reality, the blond-haired, blue-eyed Raios cherished Rumie greatly and regarded him as more than someone precious. He considered him a close friend. That was why he had entrusted him with the protection of Princess Danae Geranze, his lover and sister.

 

“But Rumie Rolland, I trust you.”

 

Yet the Rumie in the vision betrayed the emperor’s trust. In the end, he helped Princess Danae Geranze escape the imperial palace, since she repeatedly said how desperately she wanted to run away.

 

“Tell me where you’ve hidden my sister.”

 

“I’m sorry. I cannot tell you.”

 

“Rumie. Don’t do this to me.”

 

To his surprise, the emperor broke down in tears. Thick streams of tears ran down his handsome face.

 

“I miss my sister so much to the point I can’t bear it. Rumie, I beg you.”

 

“Dana doesn’t want it.”

 

“…Dana? Did you just call her Dana?”

 

Yet the one watching the emperor, the Rumie Rolland in the vision, wore a calm expression.

 

“Your Majesty. She’s your older sister.”

 

Then Rumie Rolland drove a dagger into the emperor’s heart.

 

“Do you not consider those feelings irreverent? Even if Her Highness is not related to you by blood…”

 

Raios’s eyes shook with shock. It truly looked as though a blade had pierced him.

 

“Aren’t you siblings? If you continue harboring such feelings, God may punish you.”

 

Even as he stared directly at the Raios’s pain, Rumie smiled gently while wielding his tongue like a knife.

 

“Having sexual feelings for your sister is a bit… Pardon me, but it’s disgusting. So please cast aside that filth.”

 

For some reason, anger surged within Rumie. He could not bear to listen any longer. So he hurled the crystal sphere away. He hoped it would shatter, but instead it buried itself deep within the bushes of the maze garden.

 

It was at that moment.

 

“Kyah!”

 

“…”

 

A woman’s scream rang out briefly. It was the voice of a woman he knew.

 

Damn. Rumie let out a sigh. For some reason, the contents of the crystal sphere had shaken his reason. Perhaps that was why…

 

“Ru-Rumie…?

 

He had failed to notice. That his wife was enjoying a secret tryst.

 

“Rumie!”

 

From a gap in the narrow wall of bushes, Ingria hurriedly straightened her clothes. Meanwhile, a man wearing a hooded robe quickly got to his feet.

 

“W-Why are you here?”

 

And Rumie… wasn’t surprised. Because he already knew. It was long before Danaena ever told him.

 

“Y-You said you had bu-business to attend to and wouldn’t be back until tomorrow after at the earliest, didn’t you?”

 

“…”

 

“You said you wouldn’t be coming back tonight. So why did you come back so e-early?”

 

So he merely watched with indifference.

 

His wife had a lover. A longtime lover she had been seeing since before marrying Rumie.

 

“I-I just fell, and he helped me. My clothes… got torn on a garden tree. Really, this isn’t what it looks like.”

 

Had Danaena witnessed scenes of infidelity like this as well? It was truly ridiculous. She herself met all sorts of men and was so sexually promiscuous. Yet she had insisted that her brother was not that kind of man. What did she even know about me?

 

Then again, the way that girl thought was far from normal. She was insane. She had to be. Lowering her clothes and exposing all of her pearl-like skin was shocking enough, but then she had pulled his hand toward herself and made him touch her. She even let out moans as if enjoying his touch and tried to drag him deeper into the alley. What would she have done if he had simply followed her? Of course, that never would have happened, but seriously, that girl…

 

“…Rumie?”

 

Ah.

 

“Rumie. Why aren’t you saying anything?”

 

Only then did Rumie focus on the wife before him. For a moment, he had completely forgotten her existence.

 

“Yes.”

 

“I already told you, it’s all a misunderstanding.”

 

“Yes. Please continue.”

 

“I mean…” At first, Ingria looked frightened. But as if she gradually realized something, her expression slowly twisted. “Rumie, you… you’re not interested in this situation at all, are you?”

 

Has she noticed? Perhaps because of the crystal sphere, his emotions had been badly disturbed. Controlling himself was harder than usual at this moment. No, in truth, maybe even earlier than that. His mood had been foul all evening.

 

“I’m sorry. It was a joke.”

 

That damned joke.

 

“Was it amusing?”

 

Wretched b*tch.

 

“Are you even listening to me?”

 

Rumie rubbed the space between his brows. Only then did he admit that his mood was in an unprecedented state of ruin.

 

“I am your wife.”

 

Meanwhile, the now-angry Ingria had begun venting her frustration at him instead.

 

“Your wife is here with another man. How can you not be angry?”

 

“I already knew.”

 

“What?”

 

“I’ve known for some time.”

 

“…How?”

 

“…”

 

“Who told you? What did you hear?”

 

Rumie had a bad feeling this conversation was about to become very long. So, he wanted to tell her everything.

 

How much do I know? I even know that you were a regular customer of Red Ship.

 

Three months ago, Ingria had tried to stop him from going to Red Ship. Acting completely unlike herself, she had even taken off her clothes and resorted to bizarre seduction in order to stop him. Rumie found that suspicious, so the moment he returned, he began investigating. What he discovered exceeded all expectations and left him astonished.

 

Ingria was a VIP guest of Red Ship. That in itself was extremely bizarre. Though the Lucile Kingdom bordered the North, wasn’t Red Ship an entertainment vessel meant for the northern barbarians? One where even brutal human trafficking took place. He had heard that some members of the Western Continent’s upper class occasionally frequented the Red Ship. But for his own wife to be one of them.

 

Rumie had intended to investigate further, but all the intelligence agents he dispatched vanished, forcing him to stop. They were all elite operatives with military backgrounds, not the sort who would fall victim to ordinary tricks…

 

Just as he was thinking he would have to investigate personally, Danaena had insisted on going to Eldiva Island. And since he could not send her there alone, he came as well.

 

Rumie intended to investigate his wife further as soon as he returned to the capital, but he had no intention of revealing that. So he decided to redirect her attention elsewhere.

 

“I also know that the reason you’re trying to obtain holy water from the sanctuary is to regain your virginity. And that you’re doing it so I won’t discover you’ve had relationships with other men.”

 

That was indeed the case. Rumie deliberately framed his words in a biased way so that she would focus only on the issue of her relationships with men.

 

“I also know that the man from earlier is a longtime lover of yours.”