I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 172

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Chapter 172

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In that frozen moment when everyone was paralyzed, Ignis moved.

 

He scooped Dana up as if snatching her away. Dana instinctively wrapped her arms around his neck.

 

And at that moment, Ignis felt it.

 

Darkness descended upon his head.

 

Brief but unmistakable.

 

But paying it no mind, he ran away carrying Dana just like that.

 

“Lord Ignis!”

 

Dana screamed in horror.

 

“Lord Ignis, stop!”

 

Ignis had stepped on the Corrupted Land and severed Lyos’s arm. But that wasn’t all.

 

Dana saw it clearly.

 

“Lord Ignis, please stop!”

 

Lyos’s remaining hand had touched Ignis’s head. Dana clearly witnessed something pitch-black rippling in that instant.

 

Ignis’s head had been corrupted.

 

Where was it, who was it.

 

She had heard somewhere that Windsor’s weakness was the head…

 

“That bastard, is he your stalker?”

 

Ignis didn’t stop. Instead, he ran even faster while sneering.

 

“You have a lot of stalkers. Karl Windsor, and some demon that corrupts the ground.”

 

Then he chuckled and added.

 

“I was thinking of following you around too, but then your life would have become really troublesome.”

 

Dana felt like her breath was stopping.

 

Ignis was rapidly rotting away starting from his head.

 

His red hair turned black, his forehead turned black, his eyebrows turned black. Soon even his nape began to rot away in black.

 

She didn’t try to persuade him further. She didn’t speak to him anymore either. She simply reached her hand toward his head. She poured out her Purification Power.

 

But…

 

‘It’s not working.’

 

Dana bit her lips until they burst.

 

She had never seen corruption this vicious. She had never seen corruption that spread this rapidly.

 

It was on a completely different level from any corruption she had seen before.

 

Especially his head was already completely rotten…

 

“Stop it. It’s too bright.”

 

Ignis knew too. He could tell instinctively. From the point where Lyos’s hand had touched, he was rotting from the inside out.

 

Am I going to die?

 

If so, it can’t be helped.

 

That was truly the extent of his sentiment. He really didn’t care at all.

 

To cherish life, there was nothing precious to him.

 

Ignis had nothing.

 

He was a penniless wretch with nothing to his name. Nothing he wanted to do, nothing he had to do. Nothing precious, nothing valuable, nothing he wanted to protect.

 

He truly had nothing at all.

 

If there was one single shining thing for such a person, it was only the woman in his arms.

 

And the memory of that night. Only the memory of one night spent with Dana was the sole precious thing he possessed.

 

So I’ll use my life to protect this, that’s all.

 

Ignis thought of it as nothing significant.

 

It wasn’t bad. Wasn’t it much better than dying as the Red Dog, becoming someone’s entertainment?

 

Ignis simply hoped Dana would achieve her goal. He hoped she would escape to where she wanted and live well. Beautifully and gracefully, just like now.

 

It wouldn’t be bad to become the foundation for this precious miss’s life.

 

“Lord Ignis.”

 

But why so quickly…

 

“Lord Ignis, stop now!”

 

Why am I becoming useless so rapidly.

 

Ignis didn’t want to stop, but his legs gave out on their own and he had no choice but to halt.

 

He collapsed as if crumbling.

 

“Stay conscious!”

 

Dana frantically placed her hands on Ignis’s chest and poured out her Purification Power.

 

“Stay conscious, Lord Ignis.”

 

Looking at him submerged in pure white light, Dana whispered.

 

“You’ll be fine.”

 

No.

 

“Everything will be fine.”

 

It can’t be fine.

 

The cruel truth struck Dana’s mind.

 

The corruption had already consumed him down to his toes.

 

Once it reached this point, recovery was impossible. That he was still alive even now was a miracle…

 

“Stop.”

 

Did he know his own condition? Ignis grasped Dana’s hand and lowered it.

 

“The light is too strong… I can’t see your face.”

 

At those words, Dana withdrew her power. Tears had begun flowing at some point, and her breath came out raggedly.

 

Now Ignis was pitch-black like a corpse burned to a crisp. Even from his breath, ashen dust began to flow out.

 

Dana finally couldn’t hold back and sobbed.

 

“I’m sorry.”

 

It felt like her heart was being crushed. Tears shattered and fell onto Ignis’s black cheek.

 

“I’m sorry, I’m really sorry, really…”

 

“Where to.”

 

Ignis asked with difficulty. He looked up at her with eyes rotted black.

 

“Where will you go now.”

 

He seemed genuinely curious.

 

So Dana swallowed her sobs and grasped Ignis’s black hand.

 

“I’m going back to my real home.”

 

She wanted to tell him. Everything, absolutely everything.

 

“This is a secret but… actually, this isn’t my real body.”

 

So that Ignis, who was losing his senses, could hear clearly, she lowered her face to his ear and whispered.

 

“My real body is somewhere else. Now I’m going back to my body, to the world where I live.”

 

“Far?”

 

“Yes. Very far.”

 

“Then go quickly.”

 

Perhaps for the last time, Ignis takes a deep breath.

 

“Name…”

 

His blackened lips moved ever so faintly.

 

“What’s your real name.”

 

A voice smaller than her breathing, so small it couldn’t be heard. But to Dana, who was concentrating with all her might, it was clearly audible.

 

So she answered.

 

“Yeon Dana.”

 

Did he hear, or did he not hear.

 

“My name is Yeon Dana.”

 

I cannot know.

 

Ignis had already stopped breathing.

 

His lips parted slowly. Even his tongue visible inside was completely blackened with corruption.

 

And finally, Ignis’s body began to crumble.

 

With a gust of wind, his corpse turned to ash and scattered away. It dispersed like dust.

 

Eventually, only blackened, rotted bone fragments remained as Dana wept.

 

“I’m sorry…”

 

Her heart ached so much it was hard to breathe.

 

But she couldn’t stop here.

 

She had to go. As Ignis had said. Quickly.

 

This was an opportunity Ignis had created by sacrificing his life.

 

Dana slowly stood up.

 

Thanks to carrying the Sacred Relic, she wasn’t tired at all. Dana looked up at the sky.

 

Now the sky was dyed a pale orange color.

 

Finally, it was the Solar Domain.

 

Dana took out the Sacred Relic with her tear-stained face. It was time to leave.

 

‘No…’

 

No, that’s not right.

 

I can’t just disappear so obediently.

 

I have to give him a gift.

 

An unforgettable farewell gift.

 

 

 

* * *

 

 

 

Lyos tied his severed arm tightly with his necktie to stop the bleeding.

 

And he walked.

 

“Dana.”

 

With each step he took, the ground rotted away. Lyos walked defiantly, corrupting all the earth his feet touched.

 

“Dana.”

 

Where are you.

 

Come out quickly.

 

Lyos muttered as he walked.

 

“If you’re not by my side, I’ll corrupt all of this land…”

 

Don’t act like a child. Dana’s scolding seemed to echo like a hallucination, but he didn’t care.

 

“Dana.”

 

This power was terribly dreadful and tremendously useful.

 

The Corrupted Land was a naturally occurring disaster, but some of the Contaminated Areas were deliberately created by Lyos.

 

When he wanted to spend time alone with Dana.

 

Each time, he would deliberately corrupt the land.

 

As a member of the Grants Imperial Family blessed by the Sun God, he was unaffected by corruption.

 

That’s why Dana always traveled with Lyos whenever she went on purification journeys.

 

‘Ah, those times were really wonderful…’

 

The time traveling together with Dana, just the two of them.

 

Those days were as beautiful as heaven itself.

 

Thanks to those purification journeys they shared alone, they were able to become lovers.

 

Thanks to Lyos creating additional Contaminated Areas to spend time with Dana.

 

Yes, they finally became lovers that way.

 

He absolutely couldn’t give up.

 

How could he, after coming this far.

 

Dana doesn’t know. How Lyos won her. How he became her lover.

 

If she knew about those long efforts, she could never abandon it so easily.

 

Originally, Dana was a woman he could never have. That’s how it was at first. Lyos muttered that name with bloodshot eyes.

 

“Danae Grants…”

 

Her first name.

 

When they first met, she was Danae Grants, not Danae Windsor.

 

Yes, that’s right. Our first meeting—in the first meeting I remember, you were Princess Danae Grants. My sister, known to everyone.

 

Back then, the me from long, long ago had to endure the humiliation of calling you sister.

 

 

 

“When you let your bangs down, you look just like a baby, Lyos. So cute.”

 

“Sister, please don’t tease me.”

 

“How can you be so adorable?”

 

 

 

It was a painful past.

 

Those moments had passed long ago, and he couldn’t be more pleased that Dana couldn’t even remember them.

 

Since it ended up like this anyway.

 

Dana became Danae Windsor instead of Danae Grants and began her life here. Her time as Danae Grants had completely disappeared, so now almost no one remembered it.

 

‘It’s because it’s fate.’

 

Lyos muttered. Fate. Yes, fate.

 

This is what fate means, sister.

 

I seized this destiny, Dana.

 

“Dana!”

 

Finally, Lyos found her.

 

Was it because of the sun piercing his vision? She seemed dazzling, wrapped in light.

 

But Lyos soon realized.

 

“Dana.”

 

No, no.

 

It wasn’t because of the sunlight.

 

Behind Dana, a massive gate of light was open.

 

At that moment, Lyos felt a shock as if heaven and earth had turned upside down. He knew what that was.

 

That was a Dimensional Gate.

 

One that opens once every hundred years. One he believed would never open again in his lifetime…

 

“Dana!”

 

A scream burst out like vomit.

 

“Dana!”

 

Dana, standing before the blazingly bright gate, looked at him and smiled. Lyos shuddered at that radiant smile.

 

How?

 

Why?

 

How could this be?

 

“Don’t go!”

 

He didn’t know. But one thing was certain.

 

“Don’t go, Dana!”

 

Dana was trying to leave him.

 

Again, again, again!

 

Lyos was running toward Dana when he saw her turn her body, and he froze in terror.

 

“Stop!”

 

He screamed as if having a seizure.

 

“I won’t come closer, so stop, Dana!”

 

Then Dana stopped for him. She even carefully turned around as if showing mercy.

 

Their eyes met.

 

Ah, those eyes from back then.

 

The day the Dimensional Gate opened several years ago.

 

Those eyes that had resolved to leave me.

 

Those eyes that abandoned me and chose another man.

 

Your cruel eyes that could throw away someone like me like trash at any time.

 

In the end, it was those eyes. This time too, it was those eyes. Always, always, at the end of their relationship, those blade-like eyes waited for him.

 

“Ah, really? You’re going to leave this world?”

 

But I won’t be abandoned again. Lyos forced out a malicious laugh and shouted.

 

“Fine! Let’s see you try!”

 

Ahahaha! He deliberately laughed like a villain and ranted.

 

“If you leave, I’ll corrupt this entire land. I’ll make that secretary you’re so fond of rot to his very bones!”

 

Then Dana tilted her head. Lyos shuddered at the coldness revealed on that clean face.

 

“Don’t you understand? I’ll corrupt everything. Not just the Empire, but every piece of land in this world, I’ll corrupt it all so no living thing can breathe!”

 

So what?

 

That was Dana’s expression.

 

As if she was no longer interested in the affairs of this world. As if the affairs of this world could handle themselves.

 

It was the perfect gaze of an outsider.

 

Lyos realized.

 

Threats wouldn’t work.

 

Dana had truly resolved to abandon everything and leave.

 

“Don’t go.”

 

His knees buckled on their own. Lyos supported himself on the ground with his remaining hand and cried out.

 

“Don’t go, Dana! I was wrong.”

 

One more step, and Dana would cross the Dimensional Gate.

 

Then it would be farewell again.

 

His whole body trembled with fear. No. She couldn’t cross the Dimensional Gate. This couldn’t happen. How had they come this far?

 

Then, Dana smiled brightly.

 

And raised her slender arm high. Waved it left and right. Like a joke. Like a prank.

 

But Dana knew.

 

She knew how much of a wound her brightly smiling face, that gesture meaning farewell, would be to him.

 

The face of a demon who acted despite knowing…

 

“Don’t go!”

 

Evil woman.

 

“Don’t go!”

 

I knew you’d abandon me someday.

 

I knew you’d abandon me like this. Damn woman. I’m nothing to you!

 

But you’re everything to me…

 

“Don’t go, don’t go, Dana!”

 

He screamed as if going mad. Like a young beast that had lost its mother, terrified, as if shrieking.

 

“Don’t go. Please don’t abandon me. Please…”

 

 

 

That day, Lyos cried very much.

 

Even after Dana finally crossed the Dimensional Gate and left this world, for a long time, for ages.

 

He wailed for a very long time.

 

 

 

* * *

 

 

 

6 years and 11 months since possessing Danae Windsor’s body.

 

The possession had finally ended.

 

 

 

 

 

―End of Part 1

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