I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 129

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Chapter 129

 

 

 

If this arm lets go of me.

I’ll surely die.

“But if we keep going like this, you’ll be torn to pieces!”

“Then you should be happy about that.”

“What did you say?”

“You hate me terribly, don’t you?”

What are you saying in this situation!

Exasperated, she tried to push Lumiere away, but he had wrapped the curtain so tightly around them that she couldn’t move at all.

Dana stopped her meaningless resistance and used all her strength to regain her composure.

‘There must be a way.’

The dead priests had awakened and were moving. They must be those who died and were buried long ago, in ancient times.

Even the giant, whose existence she hadn’t believed in, had awakened from its tomb.

All of this was absurd, but it was reality.

She didn’t know what Ignis had done or how he had done it, but—

‘It must be the Barbarian Tribe’s shamanism.’

Now she had no choice but to believe it, even if she didn’t want to. That such shamanism from those tribes could create this kind of anomaly.

Were they really worshipping demons or something—

Wait, if that’s the case.

Couldn’t I eliminate the shamanism with my purification power? Just like how I erased Danael’s shamanism earlier!

But there were far too many skeletons.

They came rushing like a wave of bones, making it seem impossible to grab each one and purify them individually.

‘Then what should I do?’

Dana glared at the skeleton that was sinking its teeth into Lumiere’s nape.

Seeing.

Yes— seeing.

Seeing, wasn’t that her strength and specialty? So then.

“…!”

At that moment, Dana trembled as if having a seizure. Lumiere’s flesh was torn away.

The shock felt like her head had burst open. No, it felt like the sky had opened. Through that splitting sky, a giant eye seemed to reveal itself and look down upon the earth.

With that eye, Dana looked down at the earth. She scanned it thoroughly.

Where is it?

Where is the source that awakened those things?

That eye, tracking ominously, finally captured a scene.

‘Forest.’

Dense trees.

‘Rock cliff.’

And the black cave within it.

A massive magic circle drawn on the cave floor.

‘That’s it!’

Dana opened her eyes again and shouted.

“Brother, please go to the eastern forest!”

“What?”

“If you follow the rock cliff, you’ll find a valley. There’s a shamanic circle that awakened these things drawn there! If we purify that—”

At that moment, Dana felt a massive dizziness. It was the all-too-familiar aftereffect of Divine Sight. However, Dana forcibly suppressed it.

Not now!

“If we purify that, the power that awakened those things from their tombs will be broken!”

“Are you certain?”

“I’m certain!”

“Good.”

The next moment, Lumiere stopped running and spun his body around.

“I’ll need to break through a path, so from now on I’ll only hold you with one arm. But I won’t drop you, so don’t worry.”

With those words, Lumiere finally raised his right arm.

From then on, it was rapid advancement. Before Lumiere with his right arm free, the skeletons simply shattered, broke, and crumbled to pieces.

Around that time, Dana finally succeeded in pulling both arms out of the curtain that had been wrapped tightly around her.

And she drew the pistol from the holster at Lumiere’s waist, which she had spotted earlier.

Bang!

She fired at a skeleton charging at Lumiere’s back. Then she heard Lumiere’s laughter.

“You’ll get those pretty arms bitten off, Dana.”

Suddenly irritated, Dana shouted back.

“You should protect that pretty face of yours so it doesn’t get bitten!”

“Do you like my face?”

“Who wouldn’t?!”

“I didn’t know you felt that way too.”

What are you joking about in this situation!

She didn’t have the luxury to keep bantering. Aiming, firing, aiming, firing, and again aiming, firing. She concentrated on shooting at the charging skeletons.

The frenzied time continued after that.

It felt like one minute, and it felt like a hundred years.

When the bullets were completely exhausted, Lumiere set Dana down in the cave. Ripping apart the curtain wrapped around her body, he said.

“I’ll make sure nothing can get inside here.”

Then he walked toward the entrance, crushing the head of a skeleton that had followed them in by pressing it against the wall.

“Do your work without worry, Dana.”

She did as he said.

Dana crawled over and sat down on the shamanic circle. Violent noise came from behind her, but she didn’t look back anymore.

What she could do was here.

Dana concentrated.

The eerie shamanic circle burning with red light. As if drawn with blood, the scent of blood stung her nose. It looked terrifying just to see, but.

‘It’s possible.’

Dana was certain.

‘This shamanism, I can purify it.’

 

“Amazing. This thing called purification power is truly amazing.”

 

Suddenly, the words of Danael— that dead child— flashed through her mind.

Yes, that’s what I can do.

White light burst from her fingertips and filled the entire black cave. At the same time, all her energy seemed to be sucked into the shamanic circle, making her feel dizzy.

Someday I might die doing this. A strange premonition struck her.

How long did she pour out her strength like that?

Dana slowly opened her eyes.

Had she briefly lost consciousness? Before she knew it, she had collapsed with her face against the stone floor.

‘What happened?’

The red shamanic circle had disappeared. So had that terrible noise coming from outside the cave.

It was all over.

“Dana, good work.”

Then came Lumiere’s voice from behind her. Dana struggled to raise her body.

“Is it all over?”

“Right now the skeletons are crumbling to dust. It’s not a pretty sight, so don’t look back.”

However, Dana slowly turned around. Then she swallowed a scream.

Lumiere’s body revealed in the dim moonlight was…

“I told you not to look, Dana.”

His body below the face was in tatters.

Flesh and muscle had been torn away, revealing white bone here and there. Like a chunk of meat gnawed by a school of piranhas…

“Don’t worry. My face is unharmed.”

Dana looked up at Lumiere. Indeed, his face bathed in moonlight didn’t have a single scratch.

Dana swallowed her sobs and asked.

“How is only your face unharmed?”

“You said you like my face.”

“I never said I liked it…”

“You said it was pretty. Isn’t that the same thing?”

Lumiere smiled and slumped down. Then he leaned his head against her shoulder with a thud.

“Let me rest against you for a bit.”

“Just don’t die.”

“I won’t die. Don’t be surprised.”

Don’t be surprised? What did he mean by that…?

However, Dana soon realized why he said that.

His flesh was gradually healing. It was an incredible recovery ability unbelievable for a human.

Yet somehow it wasn’t surprising.

Only a sense of “as expected” came out.

As expected, the Windsor Family men were not ordinary humans.

But just because he wouldn’t die, just because he would recover again, didn’t mean there was no pain.

‘How much must it have hurt.’

Dana could be certain.

If Lumiere had been alone, he wouldn’t have had a single scratch.

Like herself right now.

He wouldn’t have been hurt at all.

‘Why…’

Dana quietly looked down at his face leaning against her shoulder. His shining silver hair was soaked in blood.

‘Why did you protect me to this extent?’

She was curious but didn’t ask.

She felt like she now understood Lumiere’s heart.

He probably…

“Brother.”

“Yeah.”

“…”

“What?”

Dana hesitated for a moment, then moved her lips.

“Lumiere.”

His name seemed to emit a smooth light.

This time Lumiere didn’t answer.

However, Dana clearly saw it.

His calm face with eyes tightly closed becoming taut with tension. And his earlobes gradually turning bright red.

That was surprising.

He had mocked her so skillfully in bed, yet he was this shaken just by having his name called.

‘It’s true. He really does…’

Had his emotions infected her? Dana’s heart also beat rapidly.

She thought it was a natural reaction.

When such a beautiful man had saved her by sacrificing his own body, no woman would be indifferent to this.

But that was all.

‘So what?’

Her mind was frighteningly cold.

Even if Lumiere loved her. So what?

What meaning would that have?

Lyos had also loved her.

So what remained in the end?

Love really was nothing at all.

The emotion called love was just a temporary feeling that would disappear when it passed.

One of the people who taught her that fact was Lumiere himself.

When she was betrayed and deceived by Lyos, Alice, Lumiere, and Karl, her love for them completely ended.

So whether Lumiere loved her or not, that emotion wasn’t important.

What was important was the truth that he was a human who could deceive and toy with her at any time.

‘But, if it’s now…’

Unlike her heated heart, Dana thought with dry reasoning.

Perhaps in a moment like this when she might fall in love.

Couldn’t she deceive Lumiere?

That she had come to like him.

Until now, he had never once fallen for that lie.

After this brief rest ended and they escaped the island to return to reality, he wouldn’t be fooled then either.

But in an unrealistic moment like now…

Dana carefully moved her hand. Gently grasping his hand on the cave floor—his pinky finger—she whispered.

“When we’re alone, I want to call you by name.”

Even to her own ears, it was the voice of a woman in love.

“Would that be okay?”

What that implied was clear.

If Lumiere intertwined this finger with hers right now…

‘Karl and Lumiere’s relationship will end.’

Karl’s proud adopted son would fall to become his competitor.

He would become a rival threatening her inheritance rights that he so coveted.

When Karl lost the Deputy Head’s Ring and fell, his strongest supporter would disappear.

That wasn’t all. Even if something unexpected happened, she would have insurance to break off the engagement with Lyos too.

Because Lumiere could be used in various ways as a very powerful card.

If only Lumiere would be mistaken.

If only he would misunderstand that she liked him.

Throwing out her hand like bait, Dana waited.

How much time passed like that?

Soon after, she felt a warm sensation slip between her fingers.

“Call me.”

It was like a sigh, like a moan. As if surrendering, he answered.

“Call my name, Dana.”

Dana opened her lips.

Lumiere.

The tip of her tongue was sweet.

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