I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 171

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Chapter 171

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ignis got to his feet.

 

And the shadows who had their stomachs pierced were also getting up.

 

They were truly disgusting creatures.

 

Dressed entirely in black clothes so their faces couldn’t be seen, and they wouldn’t die even when their limbs were torn and stomachs pierced.

 

Just like real shadows.

 

No— just like Ignis himself.

 

‘There must be a weakness.’

 

There definitely had to be a weakness. So he needed to find it. The weakness was…

 

What is my weakness?

 

“Ignis…”

 

Just then, a voice like a wailing ghost called out to him.

 

“Ignis.”

 

Someone was approaching unsteadily through the reeds.

 

When they got close enough for him to see their face, a chill ran through him.

 

Disheveled platinum hair. A man’s face ruined with tear stains.

 

It was Karl Windsor.

 

“Where’s Dana?”

 

The man staggered closer, as if he couldn’t even see the shadows surrounding him.

 

“Ignis, where’s Dana?”

 

“…”

 

“Is Dana very angry?”

 

“…”

 

“Does she hate me?”

 

“…”

 

“Does she dislike me?”

 

Is he insane?

 

Just then, one of the shadows rushed at him. Karl’s eyes welled up with tears as he reached out and grabbed its head.

 

The next moment, the shadow’s head exploded in Karl’s grip.

 

The shadow with its head crushed died instantly. As it collapsed with a thud, Karl wiped the blood that had splattered on his cheek.

 

“You haven’t gotten all your memories back yet. The weakness is the head. Just crush the head, Ignis.”

 

And once more, Karl grabbed the head of another shadow rushing at him and smashed it.

 

“I told you, so now you tell me. Is Dana very angry?”

 

Dana.

 

Ignis gritted his teeth. Right, Dana.

 

He immediately turned around and ran.

 

Whatever those shadows were, he left those persistent creatures to Karl Windsor. It looked like a disgraceful escape, but it didn’t matter.

 

Dana was alone right now.

 

Dana was in danger.

 

 

 

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At this moment, Lyos actually felt relieved. He truly did.

 

Dana was looking at him with eyes full of hatred. She had remembered her previous life.

 

The memories of when he had been cruel to her.

 

So he no longer had to try so hard to look good. In other words, he could now do as he pleased.

 

“I’ll admit that I’ve been acting childish all this time.”

 

Perhaps because of this, he felt more relaxed. Thanks to that, he could speak in such a gentle, soothing manner.

 

“You must have been hurt by what happened with Alice too, Dana. I understand that feeling better than anyone. I’ve felt the same pain.”

 

The pain you gave me, he added with a smile.

 

“I’m sorry, but I can’t break up with Alice, Dana. Alice is…”

 

Lyos stopped speaking. He had no intention of rambling on about everything.

 

So he simply stated his conclusion.

 

“You should find another man too.”

 

This was a problem he had been pondering ever since the engagement was broken.

 

“If you really can’t stand Alice, then you should find another man and take your anger out on me. I can at least endure that much.”

 

There had been so much internal conflict before he could say these words. But in the end, he had mustered the courage to make this decision.

 

“Any man is fine. If you want, I’ll even accept Lumiere.”

 

He had decided to accept that bastard.

 

“But meet him in secret like a rat. Just don’t let me see it.”

 

There was no response.

 

Dana seemed to be in a daze. Lyos casually threw out another comment.

 

“How about we come to that agreement, Dana? I don’t want to act like I used to either.”

 

Like before.

 

At those words, Dana looked at him with terror-stricken eyes. She looked exactly like a cornered lamb.

 

It was a pitiful and sorrowful face, but he felt no sympathy. Instead, a strange thrill rose up, making his lower body throb.

 

He loved that expression on Dana’s face.

 

The expression of being driven to the edge of a cliff, having no choice but to hope for his mercy alone.

 

More. He wanted to make her more desperate.

 

He wanted to give her greater pain.

 

He wanted to defile that pure face with tears. He wanted to humiliate her thoroughly and ruin her completely. He wanted to make her cling to his feet, begging and pleading.

 

Just like before, as he said.

 

Just like back then, when all she could do was cling to him, begging him not to do this.

 

His lips went dry with twisted desire. To calm the rising heat, Lyos rubbed his face with his hands.

 

“Decide quickly, Dana.”

 

Lyos loved Dana deeply, but he hated her just as deeply as he loved her. Sometimes there were days when all of this felt like nothing but hatred.

 

 

 

“I love you, Lyos.”

 

“Can you promise? Swear that you’ll love only me forever.”

 

“Of course. I’ll swear to God. You’re the only one for me.”

 

 

 

Because she was the woman who broke her vow with him.

 

 

 

“Stop it, Lyos! I told you I love Lumiere now!”

 

 

 

Because she was the woman who betrayed him and changed her heart.

 

 

 

“Please, I’m begging you, stop acting like a child. I’m really sick and tired of it. Lyos. To be honest, the way you keep acting like this… it’s really disgusting and makes me nauseous.”

 

 

 

Every time such a woman was revered as a saint, he felt disgusted. He felt like he might vomit.

 

A saint? Don’t make him laugh.

 

That was a witch. A liar and a fickle woman, and moreover, a traitor without any integrity.

 

So he too could act like a demon.

 

Just as Dana had cruelly trampled on him, he could do the same to her anytime.

 

“Decide quickly, Dana. If you don’t decide, I will.”

 

He truly didn’t care either way.

 

No, actually he hoped Dana would reject everything and refuse him to the very end. Then he would really act like he used to again.

 

Last time he had been too soft.

 

He had been so shocked by Dana pointing a gun at her own head that he got swept away too easily.

 

Thinking about it, that couldn’t be right.

 

Dana would never kill herself.

 

Dana was a woman who hid a blade beneath her gentle, soft face.

 

She would survive to the end and point a gun barrel at his head, but she would never do something like suicide.

 

But last time he had been too shocked, too scared, and acted hastily.

 

Lyos had no intention of repeating the same mistake twice.

 

“I said decide quickly, didn’t I?”

 

Dana didn’t answer. She just stared up at Lyos blankly.

 

In truth, Dana wasn’t listening to a word of what he was babbling about.

 

‘The sun has risen…’

 

Finally the sun had come up.

 

And she had the Sacred Relic in her pocket.

 

But right now Lyos’s eyes were following her every move. There were no openings. If she suddenly reached into her pocket now, he would find it suspicious.

 

Did Lyos know about the Sacred Relic?

 

‘He might know.’

 

If she was caught, he would take it away.

 

So she absolutely couldn’t be caught. Never.

 

‘There needs to be an opening…’

 

Even just for a moment, if only a gap would appear.

 

If only Lord Ignis would come back.

 

“Hey!”

 

That was the moment. Dana turned around, seized by a sensation as if salvation was descending.

 

Ignis, covered in blood, was running toward them.

 

“Igni…!”

 

Just as she was about to call his name with delight, Dana’s eyes widened.

 

“Stop!”

 

At her scream, Ignis came to an abrupt halt.

 

Dana urgently looked down at the ground.

 

“…!”

 

It wasn’t her imagination.

 

Something dark, something pitch black, was slowly spreading across the ground like waves.

 

This was.

 

‘It’s getting corrupted!’

 

The ground was rotting.

 

Dana slowly turned her head in the opposite direction from where the corruption was spreading. Toward the source where the Corrupted Land was beginning.

 

Below one man’s boot…

 

“Lyos.”

 

She couldn’t believe it.

 

“Lyos.”

 

Then Lyos looked down at her. He smiled broadly.

 

“What?”

 

He asked with surprising gentleness. It gave her chills.

 

“What’s wrong?”

 

Dana’s fingertips trembled.

 

Beyond Lyos’s smiling face, the forest, the trees, the bushes were all turning black and rotting away. They were dying.

 

The corruption had started from Lyos.

 

From beneath his feet, according to his will.

 

“How…”

 

Lyos was making the ground rot.

 

“Is this your doing?”

 

She could tell.

 

That with each breath Lyos took, destruction was being scattered. That this was his Divine Authority.

 

“Isn’t it romantic?”

 

Lyos spread both arms wide and spoke as if savoring the moment.

 

“I corrupt, and you purify… Don’t you think we’re a perfect pair?”

 

“…”

 

“Like the sun and moon, you and I are bound together by fate, Dana.”

 

At that moment, realization struck her like a blow to the head.

 

This was it.

 

The Special Ability that Lyos supposedly didn’t have – this was it.

 

Making the ground rot. Making life rot. Destroying existence itself.

 

Of course he would have had to hide it.

 

His Special Ability was evil itself. It was nothing short of pure evil.

 

“Lord Ignis.”

 

Wisely, Ignis had sensed the danger and was retreating outside the corruption.

 

“Lord Ignis, run away…”

 

Touching this would mean death. Dana shook her head at Ignis.

 

“Run away. Quickly.”

 

Then she grabbed Lyos’s ankle. Desperately, with the will for him to stop.

 

“What’s wrong, Dana?”

 

Then Lyos tilted his head. He gazed at her face as if appreciating it, then licked his dry lips with his tongue. He whispered with an intrigued expression.

 

“Should I stop?”

 

This crazy bastard…

 

Instead of trying to persuade him, Dana hurriedly placed her hands on the ground.

 

As she drew up her Purification Power, the earth turned pure white. For a moment the ground seemed to become completely clean, but.

 

“I’m asking you, Dana.”

 

It got dirty again.

 

Even with purification, it kept getting corrupted.

 

Because the source, the inexhaustible spring of rotten water, was flowing right in front of her.

 

“Stop it?”

 

Dana looked up at Lyos with disgusted eyes.

 

Lyos knelt on one knee and met her at eye level. He reached out and lifted Dana’s chin.

 

“Then tell me you love me. If you say it, I’ll stop here.”

 

Lyos smiled brightly. It was the boyishly innocent smile she had once loved so much.

 

“And tell me you’ll marry me, sleep with me, bear my children, and live with me forever.”

 

It was a proposal that made her want to vomit just thinking about it. Dana spoke with a trembling voice.

 

“You’re insane, Lyos.”

 

“As I said before, I’m not insane.”

 

He whispered softly while stroking Dana’s cheek. He pressed her lower lip gently with his thumb and parted it.

 

“I’m in love.”

 

Just as he was approaching as if to kiss her.

 

Thud. The sound of something falling was heard.

 

The body heat that had been crawling across her cheek like an insect disappeared in an instant.

 

And something warm, a fishy liquid, splattered onto her cheek.

 

Dana lowered her gaze.

 

Lyos’s hand was there. The same hand that had been stroking her face just moments before.

 

Cut off at the forearm, fallen onto the black Corrupted Rock Bottom, scattering blood everywhere….

 

“…!”

 

Lyos let out a low groan and staggered back.

 

His hand, his arm, had been severed in an instant!

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