[Flashback]
"I am dying." The woman with yellow hair inserted her hand between the gaps of buttons on his shirt and touched his skin. "Let me see your abs once."
"..." Dante Scheledrus Wyrm, who was more than two thousand years old, had never met a woman with such last wish. There was no way to save her. But she was the first woman who was able to break the first part of the curse.
"Please." Blood trailed from the corner of her lips while her eyes shone with perverse desire. "This is my last death. After this, I am gone forever. The least that you can do is let me touch your eight packs."
"Behave." An odd woman and her odd wish. Dante Scheledrus Wyrm didn't know what to do. He wasn't supposed to feel anything. But the first feeling that he felt because of this woman was sheer anger. The second feeling was certainly frustration when she kept using her intense vocabulary on him. The third was… H
"You called my boobs smaller than your balls." He still asked me why I don't want to marry him. "You forced me to dye my hair red."I could list a hundred reasons why he was bad husband material."I didn't call your boobs smaller than mine. I said that you should eat more." He glanced at my chest and then, looked away. "It's the truth though."This hateful man! Why did he have such a beautiful face? He didn't deserve it. "You are going to remain single for the rest of your life."Dante stared at me. After a long pause, he said, "Your reasons aren't good enough.""I have standards." I crossed my arms and stared back. I wanted to challenge him. "Show me your ball and then, I will decide whether I can marry you or not.""So, I have to prove that my balls are bigger than your boobs," He mumbled, looking away. "It was less difficult before."
Dante didn't laugh. He knew that the woman would find him suspicious. She was already acting differently.The deity did warn him about this. Even if the book was restarted from her revival point and everything was repeated, it didn't mean that things would go the same way.She didn't fall for his abs at first sight.Did she lie to him on her deathbed?It was possible that she lied. Savina had that personality. She knew how to make him mad.Not falling for his abs? Then, what did she fall for? She said that she wanted something, but she died before she could finish her words. Savina broke his first curse. The least that he could do for her was fulfilling her wish. But it was possible that she wouldn't have the same wish after her revival.They must follow the rules of the book. This game had to be played again. The only difference was that he remembered everyt
"I will ask you for the last time." Dante had enough of this chatterbox. He didn't want to hear about the man she had been with. It felt like an insult since she always claimed that she loved him from the depth of her heart. If she had already loved someone before, how could she love him with the same heart? It didn't make sense to him. "Do you want to be my wife or my attendant?"The woman knitted her brows, deep in thought. She must have been thinking about her options. He knew that she was smart. If she was anything less than smart, she couldn't have broken the first curse.His first curse was that he wouldn't be able to feel anything. Whether it was anger or love, his heart was unable to feel emotions. It was a nearly two-thousand-years-old curse.Dante didn't believe that something ludicrous as love could break that curse. The woman might have loved him, but it w
After I 'helped' him wear the clothes that he could have worn himself (he had hands), he dismissed me. "Leave."I returned to my room. I decided that I wouldn't be affected by the emperor's looks. I had seen more handsome men in my life. Even Syphilis, my cheater ex was handsome.And someone with looks like mine was obviously immune to beauties. How could I get swayed by that man? "Hmph!"Someone knocked on the door. I wondered if it was Dante. But I had a feeling that Dante wasn't the type of person who would knock.When I opened the door, I realized that my prediction was right. Annie beamed at me. And she brought food.She was officially my favourite person in this book.We ate and chatted. Annie knew gossip related to the royal families. She would lower her voice whenever she talked about them. It was strange to hear the royal scandals from a young girl, but I needed information."Basically, the empress wants her son to be the nex
I blinked my eyes hard, trying to see any resemblance between the Emperor and Dante.Dante looked like he was personally sculpted by the god of beauty, but his father seemed to have been trolled by the same god.The Emperor's nose was fat, round, and reddish; his salty grey beard was longer than my hair. A sparkling gold crown with a huge ruby in the centre adorned his mass of dry grey hair.Next, I studied his clothes. He was wearing a red cloak, black silk tunic and trousers, with gold armour and red leather boots.He squinted his cataract eyes, trying to take a look at me.And then, I looked at Dante who was standing only ten feet away from the Emperor. He was wearing simple black clothes, brown leather boots, and a vibrant blue cloak with a golden eagle sigil. I wondered why his sigil was
[Flashback]He studied Savina's face. She looked like she was sleeping.Although he told her to die, the silence that followed after her death pricked him.As grief came to him like an old friend whom he rarely missed, Dante didn't know what to do.Feeling sadness meant he cared for her. It bothered him deeply.He didn't believe in love. It was a luxury that he could enjoy after he had received freedom; however, he was stuck inside a book for ages.The person who sent him to this place was the woman he had shared a bed with.That woman had betrayed him.Not only him.Dante understood humans and he also understood himself. He wasn't going to be prejud
The way to the Northern Kingdom was not smooth.Dante kept directing them to change the routes. We seemed to be avoiding the forests and mountains, mainly taking the roads through the villages. I heard many soldiers grumbling that the prince was acting strange.In my eyes, Dante's whole existence was strange.He kept me close to him. I wasn't allowed to be out of his sight, going as far as making me eat in the carriage.And when we were alone in the carriage, he would either ignore me or give me one-word replies.If Dante's personality could be explained in accordance with the text messages, he would be the person who would either leave your messages at 'seen' or reply with only 'K'.I held my stomach tightly. There was a chamber pot in the carriage that we hadn't used. I was pretty shameless, but I couldn't even think of using it whether Dante was present or
[Present]I let out a loud cough, feeling like someone is squeezing my windpipe. Leaning forward, I open my mouth wide and inhale sharply. Harvey comes behind me and pats my back with his gloved hand, telling me to take slow deep breaths.After a moment, the feeling goes away. I look at Harvey, wide-eyed. "What the fuck just happened?"My throat is still stinging with pain as if a porcupine is crawling through it.Harvey looks sideways at particularly nothing but the black glass wall. "It's nothing. Don't think much about it.""Huh?" I scowl at him. While I feel like I am dying, this dude is saying that it's nothing. I realize that Harvey is single because of his careless attitude. "Harvey, I felt like someone was choking me.""Then, you probably have Covid19 symptoms," He says shamelessly. "You should get tested."I shake my head at him.
[Interlude]I stop and glance at Harvey. Sitting in his office again, I have a tornado going inside my heart. Sensing that I have paused my narration, he raises his head and meets my eyes. I look away, recalling the moment when Dante had left the room that day.Why do I still feel bad?I am not Dante’s wife. I am not his lover. I am not his woman. I belong to myself. I am self sufficient. I do not deserve men like Dante, Alphonse, or Kaige.But there is still an ache in my chest that won’t go away.So I don’t understand why I still want to cling on to Dante. Is it similar to the time I had clung on Raymond?
[Dante]However, the tumultuous ache didn’t leave him.Noises seemed to have blurred in the background like a lost ray of light that was trailing down from the sky. Kaige was furiously yelling at Alphonse who was looking at his feet and sighing. Savina shrugged, avoiding his eyes.Dante saw guilt in her eyes. Although she had owed him nothing, she was still feeling guilty. He could read human’s emotions easily, especially when he wanted to focus. Right then, she was in his focus. The ache was annoying in his chest, an evidence that he was indeed in love with the crazy woman.It was better if he said nothing. Dante left the room. He didn’t want Savina to see any strange emotions in his eyes. A
[Dante]“I didn’t expect this from you, Alphonse,” Kaige spoked before Dante could say a word.Dante rolled his eyes, but he remained quiet. Something was stirring in his heart. Something that felt better after Savina got off Alphonse’s lap. That ‘something’ was both familiar and unfamiliar. He had experienced it once, but it had never stayed with him for long. Was it love? He didn’t bother to cling to the feeling, and he hoped that the strange feeling would leave him. But it was impossible.His curse was slowly lifting. His heart was thawing, and he was feeling. When did he start feeling for this strange woman? To be honest, he could still pretend until the end that he didn’t feel anything for Savina. At the same time, the for
[Savina]When Dante came into the room, I had an urge to push Alphonse away and beg for mercy.The position was bad.I was sitting on Alphonse’s lap with my arms coiled around his neck. My skirt was lifted, thighs showing, and Alphonse’s one hand was right on it.His lips were close to mine, almost touching. Actually, he was quite stubborn, and it took me a while to seduce him. He was just about to kiss me when Kaige and Dante entered the room.They didn’t even knock. There was no gentlemanly bone inside them. And just why Kaige was looking at me as if he wanted to kill me? I could understand if Dante was offended since I was still his ‘wife’. Kaige
[DANTE]She was there. Alive. Too alive to his liking.Dante wished that he would have preferred it if she was dead or sitting in the same room with the undeads in the next room. If it was possible, he would love to gouge his eyes out by himself. Maybe the book should reset itself, or maybe he should forget everything.But he knew that forgetting was impossible unless Savina could fail again. Since it wasn’t possible, he let out a heavy sigh.Savina didn’t move. She looked at him with annoyance. Her sharp brows shoot up as if she was challenging him while sitting on Alphonse’s lap. Oh, only if she knew who Alphonse was or what kind of crimes he had committed.Nevertheless, he hated remembering how she had loved him while she couldn’t remember
[Dante]Dante rushed into the mansion, trying his best to steel his heart. He couldn’t smell blood except for the dead rotten blood of the undeads. Savina’s blood was too familiar to him. She had died three times
[Dante]As he had expected, Aloisia’s lair was right where it was previously. He knew that she would move to the lands of undeads soon. If his guess was right, there were undeads in the co
[Savina]Alphonse pushed me down on the bed. His body pressed against mine. His hands were on my waist, squeezing them hard as he delved his tongue into my mouth and sucked on my tongue. From a hesitating adult, he had turned
[Savina]I leaned closer and cupped his face, pressing my lips against his. Before I could continue, Alphonse broke away the kiss as he laid his hands on my waist and held me still. I couldn't move. He stared into my eyes and