I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 180
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Chapter 180
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Finally, the nightmarish night had passed.
The bodies of the villagers were collected by the Holy Knights, and the matter was concluded.
Just before departing for the Grand Cathedral.
“The priest has awakened. What do you want to do?”
The man who had been stabbed in the back by Lumiere and lost consciousness. Nelt Priest had regained his senses.
“Could I speak with the priest alone?”
Fortunately, Lumiere was actively cooperative.
“Fine. I’ll tie him up so he can’t move, then you can talk.”
The location was ‘Danaina Rolland’s’ house.
Lumiere tied the priest tightly to a chair as she requested.
“Nelt Priest. Please tell me about what you did to me today.”
Dana asked gently.
“What exactly did you do?”
However, the priest only glared with defiant eyes and didn’t move his lips once.
‘Even in this situation, he’s not afraid of me.’
Well, I do look gentle and kind, as if I couldn’t kill even an ant.
So Dana brought a knife from the kitchen. When she approached holding it, Nelt Priest’s face hardened.
“What? Are you going to stab me with that?”
The priest twisted his lips and sneered.
“Don’t put on airs. Does hurting people look easy to you? A woman like you—”
Stab!
“Aaaaaahhh!”
“Priest, please tell me.”
Dana asked quietly.
“What exactly did you do to me?”
She smiled brightly and pressed deeper. Firmly.
“Ahhh, aaahhh!”
“Please tell me quickly, Priest.”
“You, you, you crazy bitch!”
“If I were crazy, I would have stabbed somewhere other than your thigh, Priest.”
Actually, she really wanted to do that. She was gradually reaching her limit.
It wasn’t just because of anger. Right now, old memories kept surfacing.
‘What the hell is this?’
Amazingly, there were even memories she hadn’t experienced in this life.
The rewound timeline. Even memories from erased lives were sporadically emerging.
“Ah, I got it! I’ll, I’ll talk, so put, put the knife away!”
“You’ve made a wise decision.”
Dana lowered the knife. Finally, the priest had surrendered.
“To, today is… once a year, the day when the, the door opens.”
“You mean the door to the Frozen Lake?”
“Yes.”
When she escaped from that lake, she had heard the villagers talking.
The Frozen Lake. They said it was just before the door to that place opened.
“The Frozen Lake is the twin lake of Mirror Lake. They’re connected to each other. And you.”
He said with his jaw trembling.
“You are the sacrifice that opens the door to the Frozen Lake.”
A sacrifice.
She wasn’t even surprised. As expected, the humans in this village had used her as something like a key to open doors.
They must have been waiting for today all along.
Fearing she might escape, they had deceived her while wearing the mask of kind villagers. Including that bastard Karl Windsor.
“Why did you choose me specifically as a sacrifice?”
“To open the door, there must be a connection point with the Frozen Lake. You are that medium. Because.”
Nelt Priest let out a sigh like a sob.
“Your original body is sealed in the Frozen Lake.”
“…”
“It’s the strongest connection medium of all.”
Then he raised the corner of his lips with a bloodless face.
“You’re one of the replicas created by copying that original body.”
Dana read malicious anticipation in that voice.
Did he think she would be shocked?
However, Dana wasn’t surprised. She had vaguely sensed this too.
‘So that’s how it was.’
Danae Windsor and Danaina Rolland.
And that girl, what was her name again.
The girl she saw on that strange island. The one who died at Ignis’s hands. Even that young girl who looked like a mix of Ignis and Dana.
‘Was her name Danael?’
They all had identical appearances as if they were copies. Only their hair color, eyes, and the feeling they gave off were slightly different.
Unless they were twins, they must be artificially created beings.
They were all replicas of ‘Yeon Dana’—the body that priest called the ‘original.’
“Why is that original body in the Frozen Lake?”
“Why, you ask?”
Hehehe, Nelt Priest let out a weak laugh.
“Do you know the reason why the Diana Church grew so dramatically?”
What are you talking about all of a sudden?
She didn’t answer, but he rambled on as if energized by spite.
“The Diana Church sold something called holy water to the power holders of the continent. That’s how they gained power.”
“Holy water? What’s that?”
“When you drink it, incurable diseases are cured, disabilities are healed, youth is restored, and the body becomes healthy. It’s so effective that it even makes severed arms grow back!”
Dana frowned.
Come to think of it, when she saw the Diana Church believers worshipping, they had said such things.
‘A better body. A stronger body. A more beautiful body.’
She thought it was just simple cult propaganda, but it was actually a benefit they provided to believers…
“I’m not interested in stories about holy water or whatever. Talk about the original body.”
“No, you need to know. The water of the Frozen Lake, that’s the holy water.”
What?
“And your original body is sealed in the Frozen Lake. Do you know what that means?”
Nelton Priest looked over her entire body with gleaming eyes. It was a gaze rippling with greed.
“Your original body is the ingredient for the holy water.”
“…”
“It means your original body is the source of the holy water. Do you understand?”
She understood.
She understood immediately.
However, it was too disgusting to answer. Nausea welled up.
‘What the hell….’
What the hell did the Diana Church do to my body?
“That main body thing, isn’t it just an ordinary woman’s body? How can it become an ingredient for holy water?”
“I don’t know either.”
The priest spat out without hesitation.
“I just heard they conducted some kind of experiment.”
An experiment?
What kind of experiment could have made such a thing possible? And above all—
“How and where did you get that main body?”
“I don’t know that either.”
I thought he was pretending not to know. So I raised my sword again to stab his thigh.
“I really don’t know! Really!”
Then the priest shouted frantically.
“I don’t know! Really! All experiments related to holy water production are classified— Aaaaah!”
When I stabbed the same spot as before, the priest convulsed as if having a seizure.
“The Holy Mother Chapel in the Grand Cathedral!”
He burst into tears and begged desperately.
“That building is the research facility! That’s, that’s all I know! That’s everything!”
At this point, it seemed to be true.
Dana moved on to the next question.
“Karl.”
I needed to know about that bastard.
“Karl? Did Karl have the same intentions as you people?”
“Yes.”
“Do you happen to know the reason?”
“He probably wants to live….”
“Excuse me?”
“That guy will die soon.”
“….”
“He probably doesn’t have much time left to live.”
What are you talking about.
That’s such nonsense….
“Don’t lie. Karl Windsor’s fingers grow back even when cut off. You think that’s all? He’s a monster of a human who can completely regenerate even when caught in an explosion and has all his skin peeled off.”
“It’s not a disease of the flesh. It’s a disease of the soul….”
Perhaps thinking she was disturbed for the first time, the Nelt Priest drooled and sneered.
“Do you know what the Devil Worshippers worship?”
Dana frowned. What’s that supposed to mean all of a sudden?
“Those bastards worship the seven-headed serpent.”
“I know.”
Of course I know.
The seven-headed serpent.
The symbol of the seven deadly sins. The being called by all kinds of evil names—demon, devil, demon lord.
Who wouldn’t know about that evil serpent sealed by the Sun God Ramun?
“Karl Windsor is cursed by that thing.”
…What?
“The lifelong wish of the Devil Worshippers is to awaken that serpent, that demon. Karl, that bastard, tried to do just that. The serpent with seven heads. Karl Windsor tried to awaken it when he was young, failed, and was cursed instead….”
“….”
“So he’d want to live too. He’s looking for holy water to somehow find a way to survive, isn’t he?”
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