The Story Is Not Over Yet - Chapter 163
Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi
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Chapter 163
“Looks like you want to kill me right now.”
Chises smirked.
“It’s good that humans are quick-witted, that’s correct. I want to crush your heart right now.”
Zagnac, whose true identity was caught, did not even bother to speak respectfully to him.
Such trivial things were fine. It was because Chises knew that there would be many more people who would support him when he announced everything.
“I gave you a chance to pretend you didn’t know, but you blew it.”
“….”
“Are you saying you want to die?”
Hearing his sincere voice, Chises unknowingly took a step back. The sincerity also meant that Azela was important to Zagnac.
He wrinkled his brow in a bad mood. When he was a devil, not a human, how dare he cross him?
“If you kill me, your identity will be exposed.”
“It doesn’t matter.”
“It doesn’t matter? It might be so for you. However, to Azela, who announced her marriage with you, it will.”
Yes, poor Azela, who almost married the devil without knowing anything about it.
Zagnac flinched at his words.
Seeing that, Chises furrowed his eyebrows again. This leech-like creature should have been removed right away. He didn’t want to see him hiding his murderous intent for fear of harming Azela without knowing his place.
Chises, who shook his hands, tried to keep his composure, but he, too, was always emotional when he spoke of Azela.
“Leave Azela.”
He didn’t mean to say this originally.
After grasping Zagnac’s weakness and putting him under his feet to suffer various humiliations, he planned to reveal his identity in front of everyone and execute him. However, as soon as the matter about Azela came out, he forgot all those plans.
“Don’t that mouth dare.”
The moment Zagnac heard his words, he also lost his temper. The two men couldn’t be rational because of Azela. He jumped up in front of Chises and grabbed him by the neck.
Although there were a lot of people watching, he didn’t care about that.
“Speak Azela’s name.”
Zagnac, who had come closer, growled through his teeth.
As the hand that gripped his neck tightened, Chise’s face turned red in an instant. With his back turned, people couldn’t see his face.
“Kuhk.”
Chises, unable to breathe, drooled through his parted lips. He glared at Zagnac with red bloodshot eyes.
“If, I, die, here… kuhk. Aze, la.”
Azela would be in danger. Zagnac, who had managed to understand the words Chises couldn’t finish, released his hands from Chises’ neck. As his neck loosened, his face reddened, and he coughed.
“Cough, cough!”
“Your Highness the Crown Prince? Where are you uncomfortable?”
As the sound of his cough drew the people around him, Zagnac took a step back through the crowd. Chises looked at Zagnac with red eyes. Was he going to say that the duke everyone looked up to wasn’t human?
A mischievous smile spread across his face.
‘Not now.’
If his identity was revealed at this place where the marriage was announced, even Azela could be misunderstood as a devil and hurt in the process. He didn’t want that… because Azela was the woman who should have come to his side safely.
Today was a warning.
A warning that he knew his identity and could spread it at any time.
While Chises mingled with the crowd and moved away from him, Zagnac just stared at him.
Chises, who had been grooming himself in front of the mirror while humming, brushed his hair.
“Where are you going?”
“No. Perhaps there will be a visitor soon. I never know when they will come, so I should always be prepared. In this day and age, a well-prepared man is loved.”
“…Who did you say is coming? There are no scheduled appointments.”
The Marquis’ son asked.
Chises, who prepared everything nicely, looked at the mirror and smiled.
Duke Ferial had disappeared. Did his threats work? Perhaps Zagnac left to protect Azela. If he, who was rumored to be a devil among people, stayed with her, she too would not be able to escape the suspicion that she was a devil.
Azela was guarding the mansion alone… so now was his chance.
“My love will come.”
Zagnac was gone…
That fact broke Azela. She only lost her consciousness for a moment and opened her eyes, but then her world had changed. No one knew why he left.
‘…Zagnac.’
According to the butler, Baharf, and Livia’s story, after she lost consciousness prior to her suicide attempt, he changed from human form to his devil form. No, no one knew exactly what the devil looked like. They were just sure he wasn’t human.
‘Where in the world…’
As he carried the injured Azela to the mansion, they said that he looked at her for a long time. He stood back and watched while the doctor treated her before he disappeared.
When she opened her eyes, Zagnac was already gone.
‘…Why on earth.’
Azela covered her face with her hands.
He must have disappeared only for a while, and he would come if she waited. She tried to hold her crumbling heart. Still, he didn’t come. She hadn’t even heard of him. She visited Lane’s cabin to find Zagnac, who didn’t come, but no one was there.
Lane, her last hope, also disappeared.
“Master, it’s time to go to bed.”
“….”
Time passed so helplessly.
Lane told her to die now. In other words, her soul was now ripe, but Azela was still alive. She was breathing and alive day by day with her eyes open.
‘…If I’m alive, what about Zagnac?’
Even though there were times when she held up the knife, wondering if it was right for her to die even now, she couldn’t bear to stab herself. She thought that Zagnac, who was supposed to be alive somewhere, would show up tomorrow morning and say, ‘Everything is fine, don’t worry. It’s all settled.’
Azela has been waiting for tomorrow.
‘…But what if I’m alive now, and Zagnac is dying?’
It was difficult for her to live and breathe every day, and she couldn’t decide whether it was right for her to stay alive or for her to die. Every night, as she went to bed, she wished that tomorrow morning, she would just be dead naturally.
When Azela woke up in the morning, she started the day with tears.
“Madam.”
After Zagnac disappeared, she stood firm in the empty place on her own. She did not have a wedding, but on the papers, Azela was Duchess Ferial, Zagnac’s wife. With the butler, Baharf, she managed all of his possessions.
Even though she wanted to throw everything away, she wanted to make sure he didn’t have any problems when he came back, so she did her best.
All kinds of rumors about Zagnac spread, but she ignored them.
“Madam, are you all right?”
“…Baharf.”
Instead, she sought out alcohol night after night. It was too much to last a day without alcohol. She felt guilty for going through the day without him.
“…Did you take your medicine?”
On days when she couldn’t fall asleep even after drinking, she had to take sleeping pills. The doctor had told her never to take sleeping pills after drinking alcohol, as it would be the same as attempting suicide, but she couldn’t help it.
It was because if she didn’t take the sleeping pills, she would blame herself for being alive, scratching her chest with her sharp nails until they bled.
“You haven’t taken it?”
Azela slowly shook her head at Baharf. Bahar took two sleeping pills from the medicine cabinet on the table and handed them to Azela, along with water. Azela lowered her hand that was covering her face and looked at the sleeping pill he held out.
“Baharf.”
“Yes, Madam.”
“…Will Zagnac come back?”
“….”
Bahaf could not answer her question. Whether or not his master would return was something that even an old man like him, who had years of experience, could not know.
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