I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 161

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Chapter 161

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Uncle.”

 

Viego clasped his hands together and looked at Karl.

 

“Since you’ve stepped down from the deputy head position, you should return the ring.”

 

“Ah, about that.”

 

Karl smiled broadly and leaned back in his chair.

 

“That would be a bit difficult, Viego.”

 

“….”

 

“I’ll keep this ring.”

 

It was a surprisingly shameless answer, but Viego wasn’t surprised. He simply looked at his uncle with calm eyes.

 

Karl Windsor had a gentle smile on his face right now, but….

 

“That should be fine, right?”

 

It wasn’t a joke.

 

Viego tapped the armrest with his fingertips. Karl really didn’t seem to have any intention of handing over the ring.

 

He decided to test how far that resolve went.

 

“That would be difficult.”

 

So he refused.

 

“The Deputy Head’s Ring should belong to Danae Windsor.”

 

While quietly observing the other’s expression.

 

“So please cooperate obediently.”

 

“Ah….”

 

Then Karl sighed as if feeling sorry. Then he smiled.

 

“What should I do.”

 

As innocently as a boy.

 

“I don’t want to cooperate.”

 

Having said that, Karl straightened his back that had been leaning against the backrest and slowly bent forward. The distance between their gazes narrowed. Karl’s face, which had been bathed in a ray of sunlight all along, was buried in dark shadows.

 

“I don’t like that, Viego.”

 

That alone changed his green eyes. Like a beast in hiding.

 

“I can give Danae anything, but this ring is an exception.”

 

Karl whispered low as if telling a playful secret.

 

“So it would be better if I kept this.”

 

“If I were to say I must retrieve it by all means, what would you do?”

 

“Then you’d have to forcibly take it from me.”

 

That gentle voice even sounded like a joke at first glance.

 

“I would probably try not to let it be taken.”

 

However, Viego knew very well what that sentence meant.

 

He knew very well.

 

The meaning of having to forcibly take the ring from Karl Windsor.

 

“….”

 

Viego Windsor thought for a very long time.

 

Karl waited leisurely until Viego made his decision.

 

Karl already knew what conclusion his calculating nephew would reach.

 

After a moment, Viego’s lips opened.

 

“Please keep the ring, Uncle.”

 

“Yes. Thank you.”

 

As if he had expected it, Karl lightly got up. Just before turning around, he asked.

 

“Is Noah doing well at the Sanctuary?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“I wonder if he’s growing well. I’d like to go see that child.”

 

“Adult men of Windsor.”

 

Viego cut him off sharply. As if this was something he could never compromise on.

 

“Are forbidden from entering the Sanctuary. Especially you, Uncle, can absolutely never enter.”

 

“The Sanctuary is a place full of memories from my adolescence, so I really wanted to visit again.”

 

Karl laughed heartily.

 

“Not being able to enter as an adult, how romantic.”

 

Really romantic. He muttered with a smiling face.

 

 

 

* * *

 

 

 

Crash!

 

The glass cup that slipped from her grip shattered into pieces. Yet Dana didn’t notice that she had dropped the glass.

 

“What?”

 

Because what she had just heard was so shocking.

 

“Abolishing the custom of passing down the Deputy Head’s Ring?”

 

“Yes. His Grace the Duke told me to convey this.”

 

From then on, she couldn’t hear the secretary’s words. Only a ringing sound echoed in her ears.

 

Abolishing that custom?

 

Suddenly?

 

Why.

 

If that happens, then I….

 

“Miss, and we’ve decoded part of the letter that the eagle brought last time.”

 

“Later.”

 

Dana cut off Lete’s words and immediately rushed out of the room. Her head was spinning.

 

Why? Suddenly? Why?

 

Bang bang! Dana knocked on Viego’s office door. However, no voice could be heard.

 

She opened the door with a bang.

 

Viego wasn’t there.

 

He had left his post again.

 

After making such a radical bombshell declaration, so selfishly!

 

A maddening rage surged up.

 

This couldn’t be happening.

 

How had she come this far to obtain the Sacred Relic.

 

But giving her only the deputy head position without the Sacred Relic!

 

‘I don’t need something like the deputy head position….’

 

Dana, who had been standing there dazed and trembling, turned around. She ran with all her might. With each step she took, memories from a few days ago came flooding back.

 

 

 

“I can give Dana a finger.”

 

 

 

Karl’s face, firmly refusing her when she had demanded the Deputy Head’s Ring.

 

 

 

“The ring would be difficult.”

 

 

 

That man who would grant all her other requests, but refused to give her that one thing.

 

Karl must have refused.

 

Viego must have chosen not to take the ring after calculating.

 

He would have known that not clashing with Karl would benefit the Windsor Family!

 

‘Karl Windsor, this detestable bastard.’

 

What on earth was he thinking? When he refused last time, she thought it was to protect his position as deputy head.

 

But that wasn’t it.

 

Karl wanted the ring.

 

He had readily given up the deputy head position, but wouldn’t give up the ring.

 

But why?

 

‘Could it be.’

 

Her footsteps came to an abrupt halt. Just considering the possibility made her head freeze with a chill.

 

Could he know?

 

Did he know the ring was a sacred relic?

 

If so, then I— what should I do?

 

Lost in thought, Dana walked slowly. And finally stood before Karl’s bedroom door. She felt so hopeless that everything seemed to go dark before her eyes.

 

If he knew it was a sacred relic and wasn’t giving it for that reason, what should I do?

 

“Dana?”

 

With a creak, the bedroom door opened at that moment.

 

“Why are you standing there without coming in?”

 

Karl greeted her with a pleased expression.

 

She hadn’t even knocked yet…

 

“Come in quickly.”

 

He grabbed her arm and pulled her inside. Click. He closed the door with a bright smile.

 

“Did you come because you missed me already?”

 

Karl walked toward the nightstand with a cheerful expression.

 

“Would you like some tea? I was just brewing that chamomile tea you like.”

 

For a moment, Dana wanted to slap his cheek. She wanted to grab his hair and scream.

 

To hand over the ring. That it was hers.

 

“Uncle…”

 

Dana barely swallowed down that fierce, burning desire.

 

She couldn’t do that.

 

Because she knew that man wouldn’t be swayed by such petty threats.

 

“Why won’t you give me the ring?”

 

“Hm?”

 

“I heard. That you’re going to abolish the succession custom for the Deputy Head’s Ring…”

 

“Ah.”

 

Karl smiled as if troubled.

 

“I’m sorry. I can give you everything else, but this ring is difficult.”

 

“Uncle, do you hate me?”

 

Instead of screaming furiously, Dana whimpered. Tears flowed down her cheeks. Because she knew very well that Karl Windsor was weak to such displays.

 

“You hate that I became deputy head, don’t you? Is that why you’re tormenting me like this?”

 

“How could that be? You know how much I…”

 

Karl suddenly stopped speaking and let out a low sigh. Then he apologized as if regretful.

 

“I can’t give you the ring. I’m truly sorry. Please forgive me.”

 

Slowly, certainty washed over her like a rising tide.

 

If he thought it was an ordinary ring.

 

Karl Windsor wouldn’t refuse this adamantly.

 

That man who acted as if he’d give her his liver and gall bladder wouldn’t be this resolute. So.

 

‘He knows it’s a sacred relic.’

 

A tremendous shiver swept down her spine.

 

He knew. He definitely knew.

 

“…I understand.”

 

Dana’s mind raced quickly.

 

Even tears, her most powerful weapon, didn’t work on him.

 

Then there was only one method left.

 

Something he valued as much as the sacred relic.

 

For instance.

 

‘My fortune.’

 

“Uncle.”

 

“Yes?”

 

“If you give me the ring, I’ll give you everything I have. Anytime, whenever you want.”

 

Without you needing to commit murder.

 

Without going through complex and difficult inheritance procedures, legally.

 

“I’ll give you all my fortune.”

 

Of course, he was probably planning to kill her in two months to get her fortune anyway.

 

But murdering his niece to inherit her fortune would be inconvenient for him too. If possible, he’d want to claim it legitimately.

 

“So will you give me that ring?”

 

Then Karl looked at her quietly. His green eyes sank endlessly dark.

 

After staring at her for a long while, Karl asked slowly.

 

“What makes you think I want your fortune?”

 

“You need it in the current situation.”

 

Because he was truly bankrupt.

 

“Uncle, don’t you need my fortune?”

 

If he said he didn’t need it, if he kept acting to the end.

 

She would threaten to revoke his guardianship.

 

Then he wouldn’t be able to inherit her fortune even if she died.

 

So she would threaten him to hand over the ring.

 

Yes, threaten.

 

It had really come to this point.

 

For a man who wouldn’t be swayed by requests, tears, or pleas, only raw threats remained.

 

She knew it was a gamble, but she was standing at the edge of a cliff now.

 

There was nowhere left to retreat.

 

So she mustn’t be afraid.

 

However, Dana’s resolve quickly became hazy.

 

“Just one thing…”

 

Because the smile disappeared from Karl’s face as he answered gently.

 

Just that alone made Dana feel as if the color of the air surrounding him had completely changed. From something soft and clear to something very dark and heavy.

 

“There is something I want.”

 

Karl’s tone, his gaze, were still as heart-flutteringly kind and sweet as always.

 

“The navigation chart.”

 

Could removing just one smile from his face make him this intimidating?

 

Karl asked smoothly with unsmiling lips.

 

“The navigation chart to Treasure Island, it’s in your vault, isn’t it?”

 

“…Yes.”

 

This was a well-known fact.

 

Treasure Island, which her father Demian Windsor had found.

 

It was famous that he had passed the navigation chart to Danae Windsor.

 

“Dana, do you know that Treasure Island is the Sanctuary?”

 

Treasure Island was the Sanctuary?

 

She didn’t know. She had no memory of seeing treasure in the Sanctuary either. Her memories of awakening in the Sanctuary were all hazy.

 

“I, didn’t know.”

 

But what did that matter?

 

Whether Treasure Island was the Sanctuary, or the Sanctuary was Treasure Island, she had no interest in it whatsoever.

 

“If you want, I’ll give you the navigation chart… So please.”

 

“Dana.”

 

One step. Karl took a step forward. And soon he began to approach her closely.

 

“There’s something you don’t know.”

 

A beautiful face that wasn’t smiling.

 

It was so frightening.

 

“The navigation chart has shamanism cast on it.”

 

Please, if only he would smile.

 

“Ownership of the navigation chart can only be transferred through death.”

 

No, rather, if only he wouldn’t come closer.

 

“Do you know what that means?”

 

However, Karl neither smiled nor stopped. He finally approached right in front of Dana.

 

“It means that even if you give me the navigation chart to the sanctuary, as long as you’re alive, it’s nothing more than a worthless scrap of paper to me.”

 

And he raised his hand, looking down at her with deep observation as if meeting her for the first time. He caressed her cheek.

 

“Moreover, only the owner of the navigation chart can break through the barrier and enter the sanctuary. Anyone else cannot enter without the Diana Cult Leader’s permission. Nothing can break through the barrier.”

 

Ah….

 

Had she been crying again without realizing it?

 

She hadn’t intended to shed any more tears. His thumb reverently collected her tears as if they were jewelry.

 

“So stop making such frightening proposals. Okay?”

 

Karl smiles.

 

Only then did Dana’s breathing ease.

 

The overwhelming pressure that felt like someone had been strangling her finally disappeared. When Karl turned around, she felt even more like she could live.

 

“Oh, but.”

 

He stopped right there. He looked at her again.

 

“Now I understand.”

 

He smiled slightly, narrowing his brow.

 

“I was actually a bit confused.”

 

“…What?”

 

“About the reason you want to become the deputy family head. I was uncertain about what that reason was.”

 

“….”

 

“But seeing how much you want this ring, now I know for certain.”

 

Karl smiled, his eyes crinkling gently.

 

“It was to return to Yeon Dana, wasn’t it?”

 

Her breath stopped for a moment.

 

Even time seemed to stop.

 

In the frozen space-time, only Karl moved. He tilted his head and asked as if genuinely disappointed.

 

“Didn’t you promise not to leave?”

 

No.

 

I never made such a promise.

 

However, all words boiled up in her throat. Only the most fundamental question arose.

 

Yeon Dana.

 

She had never told Karl that name. No, she had never told anyone in this world….

 

“You’re trying to return to Yeon Dana, aren’t you?”

 

How do you know my name?

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