I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 150
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Chapter 150
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Ignis headed to Count Labes Estate in Rimt together with Dana.
To put it simply, it was a wild goose chase.
“This is unfortunate. I heard that Count and Countess Labes emigrated long ago.”
The estate where Count Labes and his wife supposedly lived was occupied by a new owner.
“I heard it was an empty estate for a long time, but I purchased it a few years ago.”
He was a wealthy merchant named James, who treated Dana and Ignis, who had arrived without notice, with utmost hospitality.
“Haha, it’s an honor to be able to serve you through this connection. If I had known you were coming in advance, I would have prepared everything perfectly. How embarrassing.”
The table was filled with all kinds of delicacies, but the host kept expressing his modesty.
“If there’s anything you need, please feel free to tell me. I’ll prepare anything.”
Lacking? Rather, there was so much that it was overwhelming to the point of making one’s head spin.
‘Why the hell are there so many forks and knives?’
Ignis was flustered.
Until now, while at Windsor Estate, he had eaten alone because he disliked bumping into people.
As a result, he hadn’t yet learned the dining etiquette of nobles.
‘Which fork should I pick up?’
It seemed like each fork and knife had a different purpose, but Ignis couldn’t distinguish between them at all.
“Hmm? Is there perhaps some problem?”
When Ignis froze, unable to do anything, James asked worriedly.
He couldn’t even imagine that his guest wouldn’t know upper-class dining etiquette.
That’s when it happened.
“Excuse me, but…”
Dana, who had been quietly watching Ignis from beside him, picked up one fork and one knife.
“Could you please clear away everything except these?”
“Pardon?”
“I’d like to dine simply.”
“Pardon me?”
“Would that be troublesome?”
“N-not at all. Please do as you’re comfortable.”
James called the servants with a bewildered expression. When the servants approached, Dana added,
“Please do the same for Lord Ignis.”
“…”
“That’s alright, isn’t it, Lord Ignis?”
Ignis didn’t answer.
Shortly after, the confusing cutlery that had been placed in front of him disappeared. What remained was just one each: a knife, fork, and spoon.
Dana had noticed.
She knew he didn’t know anything and deliberately did that.
Ignis’s lips naturally tightened.
They called her a saint. She really was acting like a saint. To sacrifice herself by stepping forward to show consideration for him.
The noble saint miss had a noble heart as well.
However, he wasn’t grateful at all. Instead, his face burned with intense shame.
‘What am I doing here right now?’
To think he was shamelessly sitting at the same table when he wasn’t even worthy of dining together.
He had come this far hoping to find clues about the past, but there were none.
Count Labes, who had been disguised as his biological father, wasn’t at the estate.
They said he had emigrated, but that was probably a false setup too.
He probably didn’t even exist in this world.
It was fake. It was fabricated.
Someone had fabricated it to make Ignis’s background seem plausible.
‘I already suspected all this, so why did I come here?’
Ignis suppressed the urge to kick back his chair and run away immediately.
“Does the food suit your taste?”
He didn’t know.
It was as uncomfortable as chewing sand.
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They decided to stay there that night.
“Lord Ignis.”
While heading to the room given to him, Dana caught up to him from behind.
“Are you alright?”
“About what?”
“You looked upset, so I was worried.”
“My expression is always like this. Don’t worry about it.”
His own voice answering sounded extremely gloomy and harsh even to his own ears.
A kind woman like Dana probably couldn’t just leave it alone.
“Wait a moment.”
Sure enough, soft-hearted Danae Windsor couldn’t just let him go.
“You’re disappointed that your parents left, aren’t you?”
What?
Looking down at her in disbelief, Dana was gazing at him with eyes full of concern.
“Your biological parents left the Empire without you, so you might feel empty, but I’m sure they had their reasons.”
What is she saying?
Could she possibly be mistaken? That I’m depressed because my parents emigrated without saying anything?
‘Fool, those people don’t even exist in the first place.’
Then Dana hesitantly took his hand.
“I’m sorry for speaking carelessly. But family can be chosen and created too. So…”
Ignis silently looked down at her hand, then roughly shook it off.
“So, that would be you?”
“It could be.”
“Ridiculous.”
You and me?
It was laughable. It felt as horrible as mixing muddy water with holy water.
“Lord Ignis?”
Ignis passed by without any further response.
Ignoring the voice calling him from behind, he just walked and walked, kicked open the estate’s door and walked outside.
‘Let’s leave.’
This really wasn’t his life after all.
Neither Danae Windsor nor Viego Windsor knew that he had been a fighting dog.
They welcomed him with open arms, wanting to become family again because they thought he was of noble birth.
But what if it was discovered later?
Then things would spiral out of control. So it was right to leave before that happened.
Ignis went straight to the village and bought a horse. The payment was sufficient with the cufflinks he removed from his clothes.
Riding his horse, Ignis thought.
Where should I go now. What should I do with my life from now on.
One thing was certain.
He never wanted to meet Danae Windsor again.
That woman was so kind that he became pathetic in front of her. He never wanted to feel so miserable again.
When he left the village and entered the forest entrance, the light raindrops that had been falling gradually grew heavier.
In an instant, his entire body was soaked with rainwater, but Ignis didn’t care. Rather, it felt familiar.
‘Right. This is it.’
This suits me.
A life like a stray dog that gets rained on when it rains, and snowed on when it snows. This was the world he belonged to.
He had finally returned to his original place.
With the relief that washed over him, his breathing finally became comfortable.
How long had he been riding like that.
“Ignis!”p>
Ignis heard a woman’s voice through the pouring rain.
“Ignis, wait a moment!”
This voice, could it be.
He stopped his horse and turned the horse’s head back. He hoped he was wrong, but…
“Wait!”
As expected. Danae Windsor was riding a horse and chasing after him.
“Where are you going without even saying a word to me!”
He was dumbfounded.
Looking at her now, Danae Windsor seemed to have rushed out in such a hurry that she wasn’t even wearing a raincoat or coat.
In other words, she was only wearing a white dress, and soaked from the rain…
Ignis hurriedly averted his gaze from her body. Running through the rain in an outfit that was practically like being naked!
“Are you crazy?”
He took off his coat and threw it toward her.
“Put this on and go back quickly.”
“Where are you going? Why are you leaving without saying anything to me?”
“Wherever I go, why should I have to tell you.”
“Of course you should!”
“I haven’t signed the adoption nullification documents yet. And I won’t in the future either.”
Then Dana frowned.
“Why?”
“…”
“Did I make some mistake? If you tell me…”
Ignis found himself blurting out.
“I’m not a noble.”
He hurriedly avoided the woman’s gaze and lowered his eyes.
“I was a slave, a gladiator in the arena. You know what a gladiator is, right.”
He quietly spoke in a flat voice. Even though it was buried in the sound of rain, it rang out so clearly.
“How about it. Now that you’ve heard it, you’ve changed your mind too, haven’t you?”
“…”
“So come to your senses and go back.”
Afraid to see the woman’s expression after learning of his origins, he hurriedly turned around. He wanted to run away.
However.
Splash!
He heard the sound of mud splashing. Looking back, Danae Windsor was getting off her horse.
Then she slapped the rump of the horse she had been riding. The horse neighed loudly and began to run away.
Ignis was stunned as he watched the retreating figure of the horse.
Sending the horse away, but why on earth…
“It would take about an hour to walk from here to the village.”
Ignis looked back at Dana.
Whoosh. The pouring rain was fiercely beating against Dana’s face.
“If you leave like this, I’ll have to walk for a long time through the rain on this night. If I’m lucky, I’ll just end up suffering from a cold after all the hardship.”
Dana threw the coat Ignis had given her to the ground as well.
“If I’m unlucky, I’ll collapse from the cold, or if I’m really unlucky, I’ll meet bandits on the way.”
Surprisingly, she was making what amounted to a threat using her own safety as leverage.
All for his sake.
“Either come with me, or abandon me here and just go.”
Ignis was momentarily stunned.
Dana was holding onto him.
Even after he had told her what he was.
“You seem to be mistaken about something.”
For some reason his throat stung, so Ignis swallowed and spoke.
“Why do you think I would worry about you? I’ve lost all my memories. I don’t even know who you are.”
“So what?”
“So whether you freeze to death in the cold or meet bandits, it’s none of my business.”
“Then go.”
“…”
“Go.”
Right.
Let’s go.
Having made up his mind, Ignis gripped the horse reins tightly. He lifted them up to strike down, but—
“…”
With a sigh, he let them drop weakly.
He couldn’t leave.
He turned his horse’s head and approached Dana. Then he took off the last piece of his upper clothing and draped it over the woman’s head.
He was now bare-chested, but it didn’t matter. He was used to being rained on.
But this miss wouldn’t be.
Ignis didn’t know Danae Windsor well.
But it was certain that she was a woman who shouldn’t be rained on.
She didn’t suit the rain.
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