I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 217

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Chapter 217

 

 

 

 

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Justio brought her to a strange place.

And there, Dana witnessed a truly horrific scene.

‘Karl Windsor. This insane bastard…’

High above the Game Arena’s ceiling, on the wooden support beam. Dana was looking down from there with Justio.

And she saw everything Karl had done.

“Aaaahhh!”

“Th-the door is locked!”

Committing murder, turning the Game Arena into chaos, locking the door and escaping by himself – she saw it all.

Karl Windsor was truly out of his mind.

“Your Holiness…”

Dana was startled. Justio’s face was frighteningly hardened.

He wasn’t looking at Karl.

His gaze was fixed entirely on the Holy Knights of the Ramun Order.

The brown-haired Holy Knight had already been shot in the head by someone and died – only the blonde Holy Knight remained…

‘Wait. That knight, he looks like that guard from back then.’

A few years ago, when she was still Danae Windsor.

The Emperor had suddenly come to find Dana, asking her to go somewhere together.

At that time, Dana followed the Emperor, and that guard was waiting there.

Just like now, having lost his reason and become a mutant corrupted.

‘Right. That’s definitely the guard from back then.’

But now he was wearing a Holy Knight’s uniform.

That meant Justio had dragged him out from the Imperial Palace and brought him to the Order. In other words, he must be one of Justio’s close associates.

Then Justio asked bluntly.

“Can you purify him?”

No.

She had never saved someone so thoroughly corrupted before. Never, but—

“I’ll try.”

“If it’s impossible, there’s no need to try.”

“Please don’t say that.”

Dana said carefully.

“Isn’t he someone important to Your Holiness?”

“…”

“So I’ll at least try.”

Justio didn’t answer. After a brief silence passed.

“Then, excuse me for a moment.”

Without giving her time to stop him, Justio suddenly threw his body downward.

“Your Holiness!”

What are you doing!

She hastily reached out her hand, but Dana’s fingers only brushed against his golden hair. She saw Justio land lightly in the middle of those corrupted beings.

Immediately, the corrupted who had lost their reason rushed toward Justio like a pack of dogs that had found meat.

“Get away!”

Dana shouted.

No matter how much that person doesn’t get corrupted, still!

“Grrrrr!”

The corrupted swarming like cockroaches rushed toward the single normal person. Dana covered her mouth with both hands.

He’s going to be bitten and devoured—!

However.

‘Huh…’

Dana realized she had worried for nothing.

Was this what fireworks were like.

Suddenly she remembered those brilliant colored flames that had decorated the sky in her world long ago, the endless bursting fireworks.

Now, that’s what it was like down there.

Wherever Justio passed, brilliant red explosions decorated the air.

The corrupted rushing at him, the Barbarians turned into beasts, all of them burst apart without form the moment they touched Justio.

Dana was shocked by that surreal scene.

Destroying and exploding anything that touched his hands. She knew that was his special ability, but.

‘It’s not just his hands.’

Justio – they exploded the instant they touched his body. As if his very existence was a weapon.

How much time passed like that. Finally, everyone who had rushed at him burst apart, and only the blonde Holy Knight and Justio survived.

“Grr, grrrrr!”

Justio wrapped the Holy Knight’s body with iron chains and tied him to a pillar. Then after removing his blood-soaked robe, he approached Dana again and extended his arm.

“…”

Dana forced down her reluctance to touch that hand and let him lift her up.

Shortly after, Dana stood before the Holy Knight bound in iron chains.

“Then I’ll attempt the purification.”

Dana placed her hand on the chest of the knight struggling against the iron chains. Light burst from her fingertips and soon filled her vision.

And she immediately realized.

‘As expected, this won’t work.’

She couldn’t save him.

She absolutely couldn’t save him, but…

The more she poured out her purification power, the more reason gradually returned to the Holy Knight’s bloodshot red eyes.

His beast-like struggling movements gradually subsided. As if— he had become human again.

But that was all.

Though she had succeeded in purifying his corrupted mind, it was accelerating his body’s death even faster.

Did Justio sense it too. He gazed intently into the Holy Knight’s eyes.

“Ah…”

The Holy Knight, like someone awakening from a dream, stared blankly at Justio with eyes that had just regained focus, then.

“I’m, I’m sorry, Your Holiness.”

He immediately began apologizing.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Sorry…”

“It’s alright.”

There was no time. His body, whose physical life had ended, was crumbling like dust.

Perhaps sensing the approaching scent of death, the Holy Knight spoke quickly.

“However, the, the mission was completed. Finding one copy of the prophecy book from them was successful.”

“Report.”

“Yes. But…”

The Holy Knight seemed concerned about Dana’s presence even in this situation, but Justio commanded firmly.

“It doesn’t matter. Report.”

Only then did the Holy Knight begin his report. His voice was endlessly fading away.

“The serpent’s fragment that came up to human land… is so absorbed in pretending to be human that it doesn’t know it’s a demon…”

That was just one sentence.

What could that mean.

However, Justio seemed to understand immediately and nodded his head.

“I understand.”

“I’m sorry….”

“No. You’ve worked hard all this time.”

Justio spoke calmly.

“I will take care of your younger brother until the end. So.”

Then, a single tear rolled down from the Holy Knight’s eyes.

“Now rest in peace, Sir Clito.”

That was the end.

The Holy Knight’s head dropped as if broken. Soon his body began to crumble and fall like ash.

He was dead.

Dana held her breath. Seeing how he called him by name and even knew their family relationship, they were indeed very close….

“Dana.”

That was the moment.

Dana whirled around at the voice that reached her ears.

“….”

For a moment, it felt like her throat was being squeezed tight.

Ignis was….

No, the fake Ignis was there.

That fake whose face was melting down like candle wax.

“Did you, take the mirror.”

He approached her staggering. Dana’s heart beat rapidly.

“The mirror to the Frozen Lake, I asked if you took it.”

As he drew threateningly closer, Dana unconsciously touched her earlobe.

This. This black earring.

This was a Black Core that she had miniaturized very small.

If she detonated this Black Core to cause corruption….

‘Wait. Justio.’

Would it be okay to show that ability to this person?

To the Inquisitor who could kill me at any time, that ominous ability?

While she hesitated for a moment, fortunately Justio tried to pay the price for purifying the Holy Knight. That is, he pulled her behind him to hide her.

The fake’s eyes became bloodshot at being obstructed.

“Step aside, Your Holiness.”

Drip, drip. His eyelid melted down and covered his left eye. Was there no time? He urged.

“Step aside. Please.”

Dana realized.

The soul and body were incompatible, so the soul was trying to bounce out of the flesh. That’s why the body was collapsing.

“You.”

Dana asked sharply.

“Rodrigo Windsor.”

The person who adopted Ignis and ultimately prevented his disownment. The bastard who raised him with the plan to take over Ignis’s body.

“It’s you, isn’t it.”

Then he seemed to smile.

“Dana. You’re still beautiful.”

“What?”

“I missed you very much.”

What nonsense.

When she glared at him with a frown, Rodrigo smiled even more deeply. Even his lips were flowing down, so she could only guess that he was probably smiling.

“You, stop it right now.”

Dana said to that monster.

“Experimenting with Lord Ignis’s body. Coveting that person’s body, stop it.”

“If I stop?”

He laughed out loud. That laugh had a metallic sound.

“If I stop here, Ignis’s sacrifice becomes worthless.”

His voice began to tear hoarsely.

“I made a great contribution to the experiment that made you— a great human with Purification Ability. It would have been impossible without my brain, my courage, my determination.”

He spat out passionately as if proud.

“If I hadn’t succeeded in creating you, humanity would have perished. This continent would have been corrupted by the Corrupted Land and met its end long ago!”

Then he pounded his chest, and his hand completely fell off.

“Therefore my life must continue for a long time. For that, I need a young and excellent body. But….”

Sighing, he looked at his melted body regretfully and said.

“So for Ignis’s sake too, help me. To complete this experiment, I need you, your power, more Holy Water.”

Dana didn’t budge.

As expected, there was no reasoning with him. No, there was no need to even have a conversation.

At this rate, he would completely melt down soon.

She just had to wait.

“Don’t tell me you’re sympathizing with someone like Ignis?”

Was he getting impatient at the lack of response? He ridiculously tried to sincerely persuade her.

“That bastard was vermin. The son of a whore from a Commoner Village. I was the one who picked up that trash and invested in him so he could contribute to humanity.”

“….”

“If it weren’t for me, that bastard would have become a male prostitute, or would have been trampled to death like a bug early on. I just used that commoner who was worse than a dog preciously.”

Bullshit. Nonsense. She didn’t even feel it was worth refuting. However.

“Do you know why I chose Ignis as my new body?”

Rodrigo’s words continued.

“My daughter-in-law.”

Heh heh heh, Rodrigo laughed lowly and stared at her piercingly.

“My son Demian’s wife was fond of Ignis.”

“What kind of nonsense is that?”

“If you’re curious about the reason, come to me. Then I’ll tell you. So—”

The next moment, Justio approached in one step and grabbed Rodrigo’s face. And immediately he crumbled to pieces.

“How vulgar.”

He muttered irritably and shook off the blood on his hand. As if it were more filthy than other blood.

“Let’s go.”

Dana nodded. Even as she hurriedly followed him, somehow Rodrigo’s words stuck to her stickily.

‘Demian’s wife?’

Demian Windsor. The Previous Duke Windsor who left a huge inheritance to ‘Danae Windsor’.

He was Viego and Noah’s father.

His wife would mean Viego’s mother, wouldn’t it?

The Previous Duchess of Windsor— who died while recuperating in the Sanctuary.

And also the woman who was Lyos’s birth mother.

‘The Duchess of Windsor was fond of Ignis?’

What on earth did that mean?

 

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Karl was in a panic.

‘Where did she go?’

Dana was gone.

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