CH 28

Chapter 28

“Is it a luxury?”

“Yes.”

‘Come on, let him admit it was a luxury…’

Because she wanted him to reconsider accepting her as his bride, who couldn’t even do embroidery or even spend too much luxury.

However, Damon’s voice didn’t show any signs of answering.

“If that was a luxury, then Grand Duchy Raphael would have already disappeared from memory. Do whatever the wife wants, even if it’s buying the Imperial Palace.”

It was even overly favorable. At his attitude, Elysia sensed that something was wrong with him.

…Did he just tell her now that she can even buy the Imperial Palace?

“Uh…”

“So, put aside the thoughts about being luxurious… I hope you use as much as you like. After all, it is money that rots and overflows in Grand Duchy Raphael anyway. Now, that there’s someone to spend the money, everyone will be happy.”

She was treated too much for a bride he was forced to get because of the five-year rule, especially Damon’s attitude.

“And, if you want to do the veil, leave it to the Marchioness. If not, it doesn’t matter if you leave it to anyone.”

“Though the bride’s veil is made by the bride herself…”

“Whether the bride made it herself… No one knows, right?”

Like he said, even if someone made the veil for her, it was unlikely that the secret would leak as Estelle said at that time.

“If rumors spread that someone was married with a veil made by someone, it would have a bigger impact—”

“Don’t worry. No one will ever know that the veil was made by someone else. Elysia knows that, too, right? What I’ll do…”

Now, Damon was talking about killing the person who made the veil because there was no silence and a secret as eternal as death…

Elysia’s body trembled at the psychopathic aspect of him, who casually said that he would kill people.

“I don’t, I don’t know….”

“Of course, I’m going to give them a lot of money to keep their mouth shut. Did you ever think I would do something else?”

“Oh, no! No…!”

This was him testing her. The dizziness she had felt before was still not due to her mood—Damon Raphael was suspicious of her.

“I don’t want my wife that I am fond of to be hurt.”

How would he have felt fondness for her when he just saw her…? No, did Damon Raphael know how to like someone in the first place?

Thinking of lying made her exhausted.

“So, you won’t?”

“I…”

If she said she wouldn’t do it here, he might kill someone. It might have been better for her to make it herself. At least, he wouldn’t kill her if he needed a bride.

“I will make it myself. The Marchioness decided to help.”

“Ah, as expected…”

“Your Grace?”

Elysia was puzzled to see Damon suddenly burying his face in her hands and his shoulders shaking while he was talking.

‘What? Is he crying?’

Damon Raphael could never have cried, yet it looked like he was sobbing even in her disbelief.

But then…

Kik, kik.

It was a small, but unforgettable sound. He wasn’t crying.

…He was laughing out loud.

Damon laughed on only two occasions. He usually never laughed since he was constantly tormented by madness to even laugh. Nonetheless, there were times when he laughed like that, just before he killed someone.

Before and after killing someone—only on two occasions did he laugh.

‘I will die. I will die…’

The only thought in her mind was that she was going to die. No one survived to see his laugh. Elysia wondered if his laugh was nicknamed the murderous laugh. Of course, it also meant beautiful though the real meaning was different.

It really meant murder.

He got his nickname because he would laugh every time he killed… However, right now, she was seeing it with her own eyes!

‘There is no way to survive. Perhaps, the problem was the fact that Damon had come this evening.’

Damon wouldn’t move for nothing. He only moved when there was a definite purpose. Its purpose, of course, was nothing other than murder. It must have been expected when he came to her today. He might be thinking that now she didn’t mean anything anymore.

“Ah…”

Elysia resolutely closed her eyes at the approaching death.

Leastwise, in the end, she seemed to have no regrets about dying rather than doing this or that.

‘…No, actually, there are a lot of regrets. Nothing has been resolved yet, and I have to die here.’

Although she sniffled and felt the tears welling up, Elysia shut her eyes tightly to prevent the tears from leaking out. She wouldn’t cry and beg for help this time.

‘Come! Come on, kill me…!’

She could understand the mind of a general who went to war. Was a general in front of the enemy like this?

“Wife?”

“Ugh…”

Has her body been pierced already? But, strangely, she didn’t feel any pain. She was, at least, the woman he could have married so he might have been showing her mercy. The last mercy to send her on her way in peace—

“Closing your eyes like that, what are you doing?”

“Ah… Your Grace?”

She wasn’t dead…?

Does that mean she’s alive and witnessing Damon Raphael’s murderous laugh? In the unbelievable reality, Elysia’s mind was dazed.

In fact, she was still alive.

“Are you sick?”

His act of lovingly putting his hand on her forehead made her unable to come to her senses. He wasn’t killing her with his hand, he was checking to see if she was sick.

‘Isn’t this the Damon Raphael I know? No… Surely he’s Damon Raphael.’

She certainly wasn’t mistaken.

“As expected, you need to rest. You have a little fever.”

“Fever…?”

When she heard that she had a fever, Elysia narrowed her eyes. As she listened to his words, it seemed that she really had a fever on her forehead.

“No, I’m not sick…”

“You look sick. There is fever.”

“Not really… It doesn’t hurt.”

Elysia made a small protest at Damon’s action to lay her down because of her illness. Although she was feeling a little feverish, it was not enough to rest just because she was sick.

“No.”

“What?”

Damon responded firmly to her saying that she was not in pain, and Elysia was stunned. She lost her words at the sight of him replying as if he knew everything about her body.

“It’s just that… It’s just a few stabs on a finger…”

“It’s not just a finger. My wife’s body is precious to me, every drop of the wife’s blood and every single strand of the hair.”

At the words drop of blood, she stiffened her body.

Even though it wasn’t a big deal, what he said made him feel so much more dangerous. She was especially afraid of the part where he said blood.

“So, please, go to sleep now.”

“Oh, no, I still…”

She still had a lot of things she wanted to say to him. Elysia couldn’t ask why he came all of a sudden or what the meaning of his laughter was, but she was slowly falling asleep. Her eyelids became extremely heavy and gradually closed.

“Good night.”

***

In the end, he couldn’t stand it and left to see her.

In fact, it was amazing that he had been able to endure so far. The only reason he could endure not to come to her was because he knew Elysia would not welcome him. If not, he would have come over and over again.’

…No, he would have already taken her to a place where he could not stop seeing her.

“My wife…”

“Ummm…”

Damon burst out laughing at Elysia’s frowned brow in her sleep.

When he saw a woman named Elysia Caitlyn, his laughter burst out like a broken doll. It was a feeling he had never experienced before. Before, the only time he could laugh at someone was when a person faced death.

Struggling to live. The way they roll their head to live. Those things made him excited and made him laugh. In the end, it was fun to confirm that humans were such weak and ugly beings.

“It’s very strange… Even if you seem scared, you’re not afraid again. So, it’s even more fun.”

A feeling he felt for the first time in his life…

Damon let out a hot breath as his whole body felt numb from head to toe.

“Ahh…”

A sensation that calmly cooled the body, which had always been sensitively heated.

His whole body trembled at the peacefulness that gently embraced him. The feeling of being comfortable was rather a stimulus and pleasure that he couldn’t handle. His body trembled at the unfamiliar sensation and it felt like he was going to lose his mind.

The existence of Elysia Caitlin was so stimulating and intense for him.

It was difficult for him to even breathe at the strange sensation touching and filling his shortcomings. Although he was trembling, Damon did not think to withdraw the hand that was touching Elysia’s cheek.

‘…I want to touch you more. I want to feel more.’

This alone was not enough. He wanted to feel her more. In spite of all the things he did, he had never once thought of wanting to eat a person, but in front of this woman in front of him, things were different.

If he swallowed the woman in front of him, for the first time in his life, he would feel full. His stomach seemed to fill up so thickly that he felt a satisfying feeling of satiety.

…Yes, that would be how it felt.

“Ha…”

A groan of satisfaction escaped from deep in Damon’s throat.

Even just touching her like this made him go crazy, and his body trembled from the excitement of having her.

Just thinking about it made him feel a great sense of pleasure running through his body.