I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 167

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Chapter 167

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The next travel destination was a region famous for its winery. Dana enjoyed the experience of making wine directly at the brewery.

 

“That was so much fun!”

 

It really was.

 

Since it was quite an enjoyable time, Dana kept smiling and asked him.

 

“What about you, Uncle? Did you have fun?”

 

“The cutest living creature on earth…”

 

“Pardon?”

 

“No. Huh? What did you say?”

 

“I asked if you had fun today, but what did you just say?”

 

It seemed like he muttered something strange.

 

However, Karl feigned ignorance and smiled.

 

“Ah, I answered that I enjoyed it too.”

 

That’s not what you said.

 

Dana looked at him with suspicious eyes but soon let go of her doubts.

 

That wasn’t what was important right now.

 

“Uncle, did you know there’s Arenne Lake in the neighboring village?”

 

“Yes, I know.”

 

Arenne Lake was famous for being the most beautiful lake in the Empire.

 

“Today is the day when the full moon rises.”

 

There was a superstition that if you made a wish at the lake on a night when the full moon rises, it would come true, which is why many tourists visited on full moon nights.

 

“How about we drink some wine while looking at Arenne Lake tonight?”

 

In other words, it wouldn’t be strange at all to insist on going at night.

 

Of course, they would never actually arrive at Arenne Lake.

 

‘Today’s the day.’

 

The entire journey up until now had existed for this very moment.

 

The travel route for the past month, the dates they stayed. Everything had turned like precisely crafted gears to naturally align with this moment.

 

Today she would cut off Karl Windsor’s finger.

 

Not at Arenne Lake, but in the forest they had to pass through to reach the lake.

 

A carriage accident was scheduled to happen there. During the delay caused by the accident, Karl would have his finger cut off.

 

If everything went according to plan, that’s what would happen.

 

‘No, it absolutely must go according to plan.’

 

If she failed this time, there would be no next opportunity. Dana steeled her resolve.

 

Everything depended on tonight.

 

“Alright. Let’s do as Dana wishes.”

 

Karl accepted as he always did.

 

 

 

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After that, everything flowed smoothly according to plan.

 

“Kyaah!”

 

The wheel of the carriage traveling through the deep forest path cracked and broke, causing the carriage to tilt sideways.

 

“Dana!”

 

Karl quickly pulled Dana into his arms.

 

Thanks to that, even though the carriage overturned and its corner was damaged, Dana wasn’t hurt in the slightest.

 

“Oh my! Are, are you alright?”

 

Then the coachman she had bribed came over in a panic. And he delivered his lines according to the script.

 

“I’m, I’m sorry! Be, because it’s late at night! I have poor night vision and took the wrong path. Th, this isn’t the right road!”

 

That coachman would definitely be fired when he returned.

 

However, in exchange, he had received enough money from her to live comfortably for three generations, so it was a profitable deal.

 

“How can you call that an excuse…”

 

Dana was startled. Karl had gotten angry, which was rare.

 

“Dana almost got hurt, and now you’re saying it was a mistake?”

 

This wasn’t part of the plan.

 

Seeing Karl’s face freeze frighteningly, Dana quickly stepped in. It would be troublesome if they wasted time here.

 

“Uncle, I’m fine.”

 

When she took his hand, the tension finally left Karl’s face. His now gentle eyes looked back at her.

 

Dana said soothingly.

 

“For now, let’s send the coachman to the village to bring a new carriage. Okay? That’s the priority right now.”

 

Yes, there’s no time!

 

Karl eventually sighed and nodded.

 

“Alright. Let’s do that.”

 

So the coachman rode the horse back to the village. Along with his promise to get a new carriage as quickly as possible.

 

Fortunately, he exited within the planned timeframe.

 

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

 

Of course, the coachman wouldn’t return.

 

Karl, who had no idea of this fact, only worried about her. He held her cheeks and examined her from various angles.

 

“Let me see. Hmm?”

 

“I’m fine.”

 

“You’re not hurt anywhere? Nothing hurts?”

 

“I’m fine, Uncle.”

 

“Poor thing. What should we do.”

 

What exactly was so pitiful? There really wasn’t a single injury.

 

Karl seemed to be heartbroken by the mere fact that Dana had experienced being roughly thrown around in the carriage.

 

‘What a ridiculous person.’

 

While planning to kill me.

 

While planning to kill me to take the navigation chart.

 

While those feelings will never change.

 

“I’m glad you’re not hurt.”

 

Yet he continues to look at me with such loving eyes until the very end.

 

‘He’s probably being nicer because the day I die is approaching.’

 

I won’t be fooled.

 

Dana repeated this to herself over and over. She had to.

 

Because Karl was so beautiful and so gentle that she felt like she might be fooled for a moment if her resolve wavered.

 

She wouldn’t be deceived by that fake affection. Absolutely not.

 

“I’m thirsty.”

 

Dana muttered while swallowing down her hatred toward Karl.

 

“Hmm?”

 

“I guess it’s from the shock. Uncle, do you have any water?”

 

“Ah, yes. Just a moment.”

 

Karl approached the broken carriage. Dana waited leisurely.

 

She had loosened the water bottle cap well before the carriage overturned. By now, all the water would have spilled out.

 

“Oh no. All the water has spilled out.”

 

As expected.

 

“What should I do?”

 

What indeed.

 

Karl wasn’t the type to just leave Dana alone when she said her throat was parched.

 

“Ah, right. There was wine.”

 

So naturally he would think of an alternative.

 

“Dana, would you like some wine instead?”

 

That’s right. Just like this.

 

Dana smiled faintly.

 

“Yes, that would be good.”

 

The wine bottle was carefully stored in Karl’s travel bag, so there was no chance of it breaking.

 

Karl personally took out his travel bag and brought the wine.

 

“Uncle, would you like some too?”

 

“Yes, sure.”

 

Karl, who listened well to her words, obediently drank the wine this time as well. Dana watched intently as the red liquid flowed into his mouth.

 

‘I did consider putting poison in it.’

 

Both Karl and Ignis didn’t respond well to ordinary medicine.

 

Before, hadn’t she used an enormous amount of strong sleeping drug that could put an elephant to sleep on Ignis, only to make him sleep very briefly, just for a moment?

 

The Windsor men clearly had resistance to such poisons and drugs.

 

Moreover, if she poured in a large amount, Karl might smell the poison. Just because Ignis had been caught off guard didn’t mean Karl would be the same.

 

‘So it has to flow naturally, everything has to flow naturally.’

 

She had to make Karl step forward himself and walk toward the pit with his own feet.

 

Dana pretended to drink the wine, then suddenly got up as if she had just remembered something.

 

“Uncle, come to think of it, I brought sandwiches. Let’s eat them together.”

 

“Ah, then I’ll…”

 

“No. They’re in my travel bag, so I know where they are.”

 

It was a natural excuse, so Karl, who had been about to get up, sat back down. Dana took out her travel bag from the broken carriage.

 

“Heave-ho.”

 

The yellow daffodil spot.

 

After placing her travel bag at the designated spot, she rummaged through and pulled out a sandwich. The sandwich was all torn up with juices dripping from it.

 

“Oh no. This is inedible…”

 

Dana was extremely tense.

 

It was gradually approaching.

 

The bushes behind the travel bag.

 

A swarm of spiders drawn by the scent of the juices was coming. She got goosebumps but barely held it in.

 

She had to be bitten by that.

 

The poisonous spider that went crazy for this juice scent.

 

Living in the forest, with paralyzing venom.

 

And she had scattered thousands of them here in advance through her collaborator.

 

“Dana! Be careful—!”

 

“What? Kyaah!”

 

A red spider instantly bit her juice-stained finger.

 

It hurt. As expected, it was notoriously painful.

 

“Dana!”

 

Karl hurriedly ran over, knocked the sandwich from her hand, and stomped on the spider. Then he quickly carried her away to a distance.

 

“My goodness, are you okay?!”

 

“U-Uncle.”

 

Karl frantically examined Dana’s hand. As if bitten on the finger, there was a drop of blood on Dana’s right middle finger joint.

 

He quickly examined the spider’s identity. A red spider. It was something he knew about too.

 

The moment he confirmed it, he felt relieved.

 

Fortunately, it wasn’t a spider with deadly poison.

 

Of course, it was dangerous all the same, seeming to cause immediate paralysis.

 

But it posed no threat to life.

 

“M-my body won’t move.”

 

However, Dana was frightened and tearful. Karl believed this without doubt.

 

Naturally, Dana couldn’t be expected to know much about poisonous spiders.

 

“W-what should I do? My body won’t move. If I die…”

 

“It’s okay. Dana, it’s okay.”

 

Karl carefully seated Dana on his thigh. He let her rest her face against his chest and comforted her.

 

“The red spider is poisonous, but it’s not deadly poison. Your life isn’t in danger.”

 

And he explained as gently as possible.

 

“But your body will be immediately paralyzed, so it’ll be hard to move for a while. Still, the paralysis will naturally wear off within four or five hours, so don’t panic too much.”

 

That won’t do either.

 

Dana swallowed those words and dutifully shed tears.

 

“Hic, hiccup, I’m sc-scared, scared.”

 

But she had no intention of calming down at all.

 

“M-my body won’t move.”

 

For an ordinary noble lady, this would be cause for panic. When your limbs suddenly won’t move, how could you maintain composure?

 

“I’m scared. What should I do?”

 

Drip, drip. As she shed tears like chicken droppings, Karl’s face contorted.

 

It was a face that didn’t know what to do from pity and sympathy.

 

‘That’s right. So do something.’

 

You wouldn’t just leave me crying.

 

Dana deliberately sobbed pitifully. She whimpered like someone who couldn’t bear the anxiety.

 

Then Karl frantically grabbed her hand and lifted it up. He brought it to his mouth.

 

He probably intended to suck out the poison.

 

However, Dana knew.

 

Karl probably knew too.

 

Sucking out poison with your mouth in situations like this actually had little effect.

 

That didn’t mean it was completely ineffective.

 

If even a small amount of poison could be extracted, the paralysis would progress a bit more slowly.

 

Finally, it seemed Karl had the thought that he should comfort her while performing such an act.

 

“N-no, you can’t.”

 

But if she let him do it obediently, it might arouse suspicion.

 

Dana shook her head, turning pale like someone who had belatedly realized what he was trying to do.

 

“Then, U-Uncle could also be poisoned.”

 

Then Karl seemed moved. Did he think she was worried about him even in this moment?

 

“It’s okay. Poison doesn’t affect me easily.”

 

I know that too. If poison worked easily, I wouldn’t be doing this troublesome thing.

 

“R-really?”

 

“Yes. You know I’m sturdy. I can promise you. I’ll be fine, so don’t worry.”

 

With those words, Karl put Dana’s finger in his mouth.

 

This was what Dana had intended. Karl sucking out and spitting the poison. In that process, he would inevitably ingest a small amount of poison.

 

Then…

 

‘Ah.’

 

For a moment, Dana bit her lip.

 

Her finger slipped smoothly inside his lips.

 

Karl’s mouth was warm.

 

And surprisingly soft and moist. When he held her finger in his mouth and sucked strongly once, in that instant a moan almost escaped through her lips. So she clenched her lips to hold it back.

 

“Are you okay?”

 

After spitting it out once, Karl looked at her with worried eyes.

 

Perhaps judging that the frozen state meant paralysis was progressing, he brought her fingers to his lips once more.

 

Her fingertips, her fingers, each joint of her hand was being wrapped and sucked by his soft tongue.

 

Dana almost instinctively pulled her hand back.

 

The sensation was disturbingly sensual.

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