Rose, sensing that Erina could not stab any further, laughed maniacally to provoke her.

“Why? Can’t you do it?”

Rose’s face, filled with madness, somehow looked terrified.

Seeing this, Erina boldly pulled out the blade embedded in Rose’s arm and threw it aside.

“Argh! S-See! That’s all you can do! Hah!”

Rose struggled desperately to free herself from under Erina, but didn’t stop screaming.

Erina, quietly looking down at the flailing Rose, suddenly asked calmly.

“Even if you realize that all the prophecies you know are false… would you remain the same?”

Erina suddenly had such a thought.

If Rose had never had the prophecy, would none of this have happened?

Would they have lived like ordinary noble ladies, like noble wives?

But all those thoughts vanished with Rose’s single word.

“Are you crazy?”

They were all useless thoughts.

“The prophecy is false? No! That’s impossible.”

It wasn’t even funny that she had doubted again, even after realizing through death before regression that Rose was this kind of person.

“Even if so, I’ll make the prophecy come true!”

Seeing Rose writhing and screaming until the whites of her eyes turned bloodshot, Erina let out a laugh mixed with a sigh.

“Right, I must have been crazy for a moment.”

“Yeah! You crazy…!”

Before Rose could finish her curse, Erina raised her hand high and struck her cheek mercilessly.

‘Slap-!’

The blow was so hard that Rose’s face turned instantly.

Rose froze with her face turned, as if she couldn’t believe she had been hit.

“No matter how many times I face you, you’d be the same. I must be crazy.”

“You, you just, to me…”

The moment Rose turned her creaking neck to look at Erina.

‘Slap-!’

Once again, Erina’s fiery palm struck Rose’s cheek.

“Ugh!”

As Erina kept hitting the same spot, the pain intensified.

“You’re now!”

‘Slap-!’

Erina, with an expressionless face, continued to strike every time Rose opened her mouth.

Rose’s face started to swell and bruise.

Though Erina’s hand also began to ache, she ignored it and continued striking.

“Aaaaaargh!”

Enraged, Rose flailed and screamed to leave.

“Move! I said move! Move! Aaaaaargh!”

As Rose resisted to the point where Erina could hardly restrain her, she grabbed the bruised cheek and whispered in her ear.

“I can’t strangle you like you did to me then. I have to do this at least. Don’t you agree?”

Rose was annoyed by Erina who occasionally uttered incomprehensible words like this.

She was so furious that her vision blurred as Erina pressed her nails into the spot that already felt like it was on fire.

“Why? Ah! You’re too stupid to do it! You don’t have the courage to kill someone!”

Erina applied more force with her hand, met Rose’s eyes, and said.

“If you die, the pain ends. That won’t do.”

“What?”

Erina’s face, smiling brightly as if facing the happiest thing in the world, filled Rose’s vision.

Erina’s dark purple hair flowed down onto Rose’s neck.

“You should suffer as much as I suffered, as much as others hurt.”

Rose felt the hair flowing down her neck like a rope tightening around it, at those words sharp enough to make her skin crawl.

“You shouldn’t die, you should live to the end and be miserable, Rose.”

“You, crazy…”

“Yes, I’m crazy.”

Rose’s eyes, rippling with anger, and Erina’s eyes, full of killing intent, glared at each other as if to kill.

Then, voices calling Erina began to be heard from behind.

“Erina!”

“Countess!”

Barun and Terik hurried towards Erina, who was straddling Rose.

As Barun and Terik stood beside her, Erina glared at Rose before getting up.

Although freed from restraint, Rose couldn’t get up and just glared at Erina while lying down.

“Lord Barun, tie her up and lock her with Peiron. She’s the owner of the poison who ordered my assassination to the Iolls Count.”

“Understood.”

Barun answered and approached Rose.

Then Rose slowly raised her upper body and shouted towards Erina.

“Even so, you can’t kill me! Because I’m carrying his child!”

“I know. I don’t want you to die either.”

“What?”

“You should survive to the end and suffer while watching my happy days until you die. That’s what I’m going to make happen.”

Seeing Erina speak with a bright smile, Rose sat up, biting her lips and carefully feeling the floor.

Barun and Erina didn’t pay much attention to her actions, thinking she was trying to stand up.

Just as Barun was about to grab Rose’s arm, Rose opened her eyes fiercely and shouted.

“I won’t die alone!”

Then she suddenly slammed her hand on the floor.

Suddenly, there was a sound of glass breaking, and Rose pressed on the floor and lunged towards Erina.

Rose grabbed Erina’s exposed ankle with her hand stained with blood and black poison.

Rose, fallen and gripping Erina’s ankle, laughed grotesquely and said to Erina.

“Got you.”

Erina felt a stinging pain in her ankle.

Rose had broken the poison vial in her hand and smeared the poison on her skin onto Erina’s flesh.

Knowing that her own body was immune to the poison, Rose deliberately held the poison in her hand to attack Erina.

She used herself, thinking the chance of hitting was low if she threw it with Barun and Terik nearby.

“Countess!”

As Barun’s shocked voice was heard, a terrible pain began to surge from the ankle.

“Ugh!”

At Erina’s painful groan, Barun quickly pulled Rose’s arm away from Erina.

Feeling that what was on her hand was the same as the poison on the blade, Terik took off his jacket and wrapped Rose’s hand.

Fearing the poison might get on someone else, he quickly handed the wrapped part to Barun.

“Lord Emkil!”

Barun, just in case, quickly tied Rose’s jacket-wrapped hand and the hand he was holding with the rope he had brought.

“Erina!”

The pain rising from her ankle was so terrible that Erina felt her whole body stiffening.

As Barun tied up Rose and made her kneel on the ground, Erina collapsed to the side, unable to bear the pain.

Terik, who was nearby, quickly caught the falling Erina.

“Huh, haha! I finally succeeded!”

Rose burst into laughter with a maddened face and twisted her whole body.

“Die! Die already!”

Terik carefully laid the collapsing Erina on the ground and quickly examined the part Rose had grabbed.

Dark blue spots were slowly spreading from around the wound where small glass shards were embedded.

Realizing that Erina had been poisoned by the extreme poison Rose was carrying, Terik quickly picked her up.

“Lord Emkil, we need to give her the antidote quickly!”

Terik shouted to Barun and moved quickly into the mansion.

“Ahaha! Finally, finally you’re going to die!”

Leaving Rose’s cries behind, Terik, holding Erina, urgently passed through the mansion’s main gate.

The people who had come out to the front of the mansion due to the commotion caused by Peiron were shocked.

“Countess!”

Bertrel, who was managing the chaotic situation, was surprised to see Erina being carried in by Terik.

Bertrel quickly moved with Terik and said.

“Baron, I will call for a doctor and an herbalist.”

“And quickly contact Lady Bentel and Duke Kerenik as well!”

“Yes, understood.”

Bertrel confirmed that Terik had taken Erina into the room, then hurried away.

Terik carefully laid Erina on the bed.

After carefully laying her down and examining her, he saw that the dark blue spots that had started from her ankle were now all over her arms.

Terik urgently asked Erina.

“Erina! Where did you put the antidote given by Viscountess Ratsha?”

“Office, room…”

Terik ran to the office as soon as he heard those words.

Erina found it difficult to breathe due to the pain consuming her entire body.

She felt as if something was tightly gripping her heart as her body gradually stiffened.

Her hands and feet were slowly becoming numb, making it impossible to even toss and turn.

It was even difficult to continue her thoughts, as if her brain was hardening.

“Erina!”

Terik, who had brought the pouch containing the pill known as the ultimate antidote given by Viscountess Ratsha from the office, quickly took it out in front of Erina.

“Erina, you need to eat this.”

At Terik’s words, Erina forcibly moved her immobile face to open her mouth.

When Terik put the pill in Erina’s mouth, strangely, it melted as soon as it touched her tongue.

Instantly, the spots spreading throughout her body alternated between fading and intensifying.

Then the dark blue spots slowly began to disappear.

Terik let out a deep sigh of relief as he saw the spots visibly disappearing.

“Ah… thank goodness.”

“…Terik, elder brother.”

At Erina’s weak voice, Terik asked worriedly.

“Erina, are you alright?”

Erina answered by nodding slightly with a faint smile towards him.

Strangely, the pain gradually disappeared with the antidote given by Viscountess Ratsha.

Her stiffening arms and legs began to loosen bit by bit, and the feeling of pressure on her heart slowly faded.

Terik also felt relieved as the dark blue spots were no longer visible to his eyes.

“I’m really glad, Erina.”

Terik, seemingly relaxed from the tension, sat down on the floor beside the bed, holding Erina’s hand.

“What about, Rose and Count Iolls?”

Terik smiled at Erina, who didn’t forget to ask even while in pain, and answered.