I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 131

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Chapter 131

 

 

 

“I was coming on a rescue ship, but it was too slow.”

Karl muttered as he swept back his soaking wet platinum hair.

“So I came ahead in my urgency.”

Dana was dumbfounded. He really swam here?

“The rescue ship is coming over there.”

That’s when Lumiere spoke.

Only then did Dana spot the ship that looked as small as a fingernail at the edge of the horizon.

A rescue ship was coming.

“It looks like it’ll arrive in a few hours. You should have just come comfortably, Father.”

Lumiere said with a smiling face as if worried.

“You’re getting on in years too.”

“….”

Silence fell.

After a moment, Karl grumbled back in protest.

“Anyone listening would think I’m an extremely elderly person. There’s only a seven-year difference between you and me, Lumiere.”

“But the recovery ability of someone in their twenties and thirties is different.”

“….”

“I’m in my twenties, and you’re in your thirties, Father.”

“….”

“You should take care of your body considering your age.”

Lumiere asked with a blindingly bright smile.

“Right, Dana?”

What’s he asking if I agree with? What are they talking about right now?

No, more than that.

“Uncle, what were you thinking?”

Dana was angry at Karl.

“It’s dangerous.”

Why doesn’t this man take care of his body at all?

“What if something went wrong?”

What if something happened to my sacred relic?

No matter how much Karl possessed monster-like recovery ability, Ignis’s corpse proved it.

That they weren’t immortal.

“Don’t ever do such dangerous things again. Do you understand?”

Then a smile slowly spread across Karl’s face.

“Yeah.”

“….”

“I’ll do as Dana says.”

As if pleased even after being scolded, he was smiling as if he’d regained his energy.

“Anyway, I’m glad you’re both safe. Could you explain what happened?”

At Karl’s question, Lumiere began explaining. In the middle of it, Dana, who had casually turned her head, frowned.

What?

Come to think of it, that distant horizon. The ship getting closer…

‘It’s not just one ship?’

Two ships were approaching.

 

* * *

 

A few hours later, the two ships finally arrived.

One was a rescue ship, and the other was a warship…

“Deploy immediately?”

Lumiere had received deployment orders.

It was the Crown Prince’s command to defeat the barbarian faction that had invaded their territorial waters.

Lyos, how ruthless like a sword. Dana shuddered as she recalled those cold eyes.

‘Evil man.’

Lyos must have heard about the accident on the island, yet he’s sending him straight to the battlefield without any time to rest?

‘It’s not like Lumiere is the only soldier!’

He needed rest.

Although he had recovered perfectly now, until dawn yesterday his entire body had been covered in wounds.

“It’s okay, Dana. This is my job.”

“But…”

Dana hesitated, then grasped Lumiere’s fingers. Then she pulled at his collar.

“Lower your head a bit, brother.”

Lumiere raised one eyebrow.

His expression seemed to ask what she was up to, but he soon obediently bent his waist and lowered his face.

Dana whispered secretly by his ear as if telling a secret.

“You have to come back safely… Lumiere.”

Last night.

The magical moment in the cave had passed.

But now Dana was proving to him that it hadn’t been a dream.

“You understand, right? Promise me.”

“….”

Lumiere looked down at her quietly, then let out a deep sigh. Like someone who had given up, he rested his forehead against her shoulder.

“Alright.”

He muttered with a smile.

Then he slightly turned his resting head to look at her.

“I’ll do as you wish.”

Dana flinched at the eyes that met hers at close range. A strange elation seemed to be cast in his eyes.

This seemed closer to liberation rather than resignation…

“How is it. Are you happy?”

At his question, Dana cleared her voice.

“I’ll be happier when you return safely, brother.”

More than that, he looks even more handsome up close.

His silver hair and smooth face gleaming, as if crafted from glass.

“Don’t get hurt and come back as quickly as possible.”

You must return before the divine trial is held.

In case there are problems with breaking the engagement with Lyos, I might need you.

Swallowing those words, Dana smiled sadly. She had the face of someone seeing off a man she loved.

She knew that’s how it would look.

To Lumiere, and also to Karl watching from afar.

So she deliberately made such an expression.

“I’ll be back.”

Lumiere stroked her head, then suddenly pressed his lips to her cheek with a quick kiss. Then he smiled mischievously.

“I should at least get this much. Don’t you think?”

“….”

Dana stroked her cheek with a shy face, then nodded.

He was right.

This much was natural, of course. It actually seemed like a modest request.

‘Surprisingly, he’s playing along well.’

It didn’t seem like he was completely fooled though.

Still, he wasn’t breaking this flow.

Until now, he had never once gone easy on me, but now he was obediently letting himself be deceived.

‘Is he letting me win because he loves me…’

Love.

That word stirred surprisingly little emotion in her.

At least in the cave, perhaps intoxicated by the atmosphere, her heart had ached and her breath had grown hot.

Sure enough, once that moment passed, she became surprisingly numb.

And in that instant, Dana had a premonition.

That the day she would fall in love would never come again.

 

* * *

 

The warship departed first, carrying only Lumiere.

After things were somewhat settled, Dana immediately boarded the rescue ship.

“Kyaah!”

However, upon witnessing something loaded on the deck, she couldn’t help but scream in horror.

“U-Uncle? Why on earth!”

Why are they loading Ignis’s corpse along with us!

Did they drag it out from under the wreckage?

The servants were loading Ignis’s mangled corpse onto a stretcher.

“Can’t we just leave him here? He’s dead anyway, isn’t he?”

“Yes. You killed him quite splendidly.”

Karl couldn’t take his eyes off Ignis’s corpse, as if he found it fascinating that Ignis was dead.

“What on earth could have possessed Ignis to end up like that?”

“…”

“How curious.”

Since it was a question she couldn’t answer, Dana changed the subject.

“Are you perhaps recovering the body to hold a funeral?”

He had once been a man of the Windsor Family, and above all, he had once been like a brother to Karl. She had heard that the two had once been very close.

“A funeral. Well…”

Karl trailed off, then soon smiled faintly.

“I’m not really sure about that.”

“Pardon?”

“Actually, Viego made a request. If such a day ever came, he asked me to be sure to recover Ignis’s body.”

Viego Windsor did?

‘It can’t be for a funeral.’

There was no way her brother would hold a funeral for that terrorist. That would be an act that would bring shame to the Windsor Family.

Then what was it for?

Out of lingering affection for someone who was once an uncle? Or for a clean conclusion?

Or perhaps…

At that moment, Danael’s voice flashed through her mind.

 

“So that’s why they expelled him from the Sanctuary?”

 

‘…Never mind.’

Dana shook her head.

Ignis, who had tried to kidnap her several times. That criminal had died by her hand. It was finished.

That was enough.

Whatever happened after this.

She was going to leave anyway, leave this world, so let’s not dig too deep.

Whatever the Windsor Family did at the Sanctuary.

‘Right. It’s none of my business.’

Dana decided not to lift the curtain that flickered before her eyes. She felt like something very strange was lurking beyond that curtain.

She didn’t want to know.

 

* * *

 

How much time had passed?

Ignis de Windsor had been suffering from a very long, endless nightmare.

 

“Excellent.”

 

In his childhood, when he first caught Duke Windsor’s eye.

 

“You’re superior to any genius I’ve ever seen.”

 

When he finally became that man’s adopted son.

 

“Go to the Sanctuary, my son. There you will become even stronger than you are now.”

 

At that Sanctuary where he was forcibly sent, he became a monster.

 

“You want to be disowned? Who gave you permission?”

 

No, he became a weapon.

 

“You’re the finest weapon Windsor has ever created. And now you dare try to escape Windsor?”

 

Damn it.

The curse came out automatically. His head hurt like it was going to split—

No, that’s not right.

It did split, actually.

Shattered by a bullet, crash…

“Are you awake?”

Ignis barely managed to open his eyes.

Or not. Is this just a dream?

He didn’t know.

Only one thing was certain: his head hurt like it was splitting.

“Don’t worry, Lord Ignis. All the pain will disappear soon.”

Someone was looking down at him…

It was a familiar face.

The face of someone who sometimes appeared in his nightmares.

A face he had seen at the Sanctuary in his childhood.

“You still hate the Windsor Family. Actually, I think we should dispose of you as you are— but there were many opposing opinions.”

One of those who had made him into a monster.

“The conclusion was that you’re too excellent to dispose of like this.”

It really is a nightmare.

“But to eliminate that deep-rooted hatred, it seems we’ll need to erase Lord Ignis’s memories.”

It has to be a nightmare.

How could I have come to this hellish place again.

“Please forget all your memories and become a person of the Windsor Family once more, Lord Ignis.”

No.

Just kill me instead.

“The Previous Duke Windsor would be pleased as well.”

Kill me, kill me. Just kill me instead!

“Welcome to becoming Ignis Windsor once again.”

But that was the end. A hand wearing surgical gloves suddenly approached before my eyes—

Blackout.

Everything was buried in darkness.

All of it, everything.

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