I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 228

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Chapter 228

 

 

 

That was when it happened.

“―!”

Dana saw a massive shadow behind Karl. A pitch-black form submerged at the bottom of the frozen lake…

A chill ran through her.

‘That must be the seven-headed snake…’

…But is it injured?

Why does its body look like that?

Her eyes stung from the water, but she mustered courage and stared wide-eyed.

She hadn’t seen wrong. The coiled snake’s body was indeed half-destroyed.

Perhaps it was because only the multi-branched heads remained on that wretched body.

Somehow, it didn’t seem as frightening as she’d expected…

‘Wait, hold on.’

What’s that?

Fidget fidget fidget fidget fidget.

Dana slapped away the hand touching her cheek and stared intently down below again.

The coiled snake’s body.

A woman lying beside it.

‘That’s―’

Yeon Dana!

It’s me!

That’s my body!

‘That’s mine!’

I’ll get it back. This time I’ll definitely get it back!

Intense desire struck her. The moment she flailed her limbs to reach that body.

Twitch.

One of the snake’s heads convulsed.

The moment she thought the stone-sealed head was moving creak, creak, creak, slowly.

“…!”

It suddenly charged like lightning.

At Dana― at her.

‘Wah!’

Bubble bubble bubble. As she screamed, foam poured from her mouth. The snake opened its jaws wide and lunged toward her.

‘It’s going to bite me!’

―The moment she thought that, her body flipped around.

Dana’s eyes widened. Karl had twisted his body to shield her.

Like a shield blocking the way, the snake bit Karl’s shoulder instead of Dana!

‘Eek!’

However, she wasn’t completely unharmed either.

Her hand. The back of her hand that was gripping Karl’s shoulder grazed those fangs.

Though it was a brief contact, the pain was tremendous. It felt like massive flames had consumed her entire body through the back of her hand.

‘It hurts!’

The terrible shock struck even her soul.

Her reason vanished instantly, and a child’s thinking completely dominated her mind. The young girl fell into panic and thrashed wildly. She squeezed her eyes shut and screamed.

I’m scared. The snake bit me and Karl. I don’t know. I want to get out!

When her vision blurred and her lungs ached as if being squeezed, something suddenly grabbed her waist. Then it shot upward with almost charging momentum.

Up, up, up, up―

“Puha!”

Finally her face burst above the water surface. Dana coughed violently and burst into tears.

“Cough, sob, ugh, cough cough!”

“It’s okay, it’s okay. You’re safe now.”

“Cough cough!”

“Were you very scared?”

A boy’s gentle voice scattered by her ear. He held her and swam toward shore.

“You can’t swim, can you.”

“Hic, hiccup.”

“Well, what could you do with those sausage-like limbs.”

“Sniff, sob, sob.”

“Ah, sorry. I won’t tease you.”

Dana sniffled and stretched her arms around his neck, clinging to him. The boy chuckled softly and patted her back.

“Hold on tight. We’ll get out soon.”

Clinging desperately to the swimming boy’s body, Dana thought. What happened? Is it okay now?

‘Right, I’m saved now.’

She was safe now. Dana panted, breathing rapidly.

And she was filled with déjà vu.

Strange.

It felt like this had happened before. Long ago.

When was it.

When I was an adult―

Someone had trapped me and thrown me into a lake, then pulled me out again.

Her head was dizzy.

The snake’s power, the strong force that had penetrated through the back of her hand, seemed to be stirring her body and attacking her brain.

‘I can’t remember well…’

To be precise, she couldn’t concentrate enough to pull out memories. The conflicting forces inside were clashing bang bang and clashing again, making it very noisy inside.

‘Right. That’s right. Justio cast memory preservation holy magic on me.’

That was now precariously close to being severed due to the snake’s power that had penetrated her body.

Instinctive crisis awareness flooded in.

She had to endure.

She couldn’t let it fly away.

If she let go of this thread of memory once, it would be really hard to grasp it again!

“Heave-ho.”

The next moment, the boy wrapped around her waist and climbed up to the lakeside. Dana dangled from his arms while sniffling.

‘I can do it. Let me pull myself together. Let me get my memories together too!’

Scraping together the handful of adult thinking remaining, Dana looked around. And she was shocked.

‘Are they all dead?!’

The priests who had been conducting the ritual were all dead.

They were terrible corpses covered in blood.

All had their heads burst open or chests pierced through. They were corpses that seemed to have been torn and pierced by something very powerful.

That wasn’t all.

‘What is that.’

Two snake heads were floating on the water surface.

Who did that? They seemed fine just a moment ago?

Becoming very very scared, Dana clung tightly to the boy’s side. The boy muttered blankly.

“Baby koala…”

That was when it happened.

“Karl Windsor!”

Rodrigo’s roar echoed through the air.

“Right now, put Dana down this instant!”

He was walking out from the blazing light portal in mid-air.

‘Oh! That’s the portal I opened!’

It hasn’t closed yet!

“Karl Windsor, you—!”

Then Rodrigo’s mouth went rigid.

His gaze fell upon the still-sealed ancestor and the dead priests around him.

Finally, it reached little Dana, who was pale as a sheet and held captive by Karl.

“You bastard, what the hell have you done!”

Rodrigo turned deathly pale and screamed.

“Don’t tell me! You tried to make a contract with a demon by offering the priests’ souls as sacrifice!”

“Huh?”

“I knew you would pull such wicked tricks someday! You evil bastard! Put Dana down right now!”

“Ugh, my ears hurt.”

Karl held Dana tightly and grinned wickedly.

“Hey. Little one.”

“Y-yes?”

“I’m going to run away now, and I’m taking you with me, okay?”

“…”

Taking me with him?

Is this a notification?

“You’re incredibly cute. I’ve wanted something like this for a long time. I’m taking you.”

Dana stared blankly up at the boy. What did I just hear?

Sparkle sparkle. The boy’s eyes shone like green stars. Innocent and pure, crystal-like pupils…

‘Scary!’

His eyes are too clear!

Dana was completely overwhelmed by the bizarrely clear gaze. She couldn’t even answer.

“Well, shall we go?”

And Karl began running with her tucked under his arm, just as he had declared. The tremendous speed nearly snapped her neck in an instant.

Rodrigo’s screams echoed behind them.

“Nooooo! Dana!”

That was the moment.

‘Ah.’

Suddenly, massive fatigue struck her head.

Was it because of the snake’s power? Or was this just how a child’s body normally was?

Her eyelids grew heavy at an incredible speed due to the enormous drowsiness that suddenly hit her.

‘I want to sleep… I’m sleepy.’

Dana began nodding off just like that. And she thought.

To be able to sleep suddenly in this situation, a child’s body was truly amazing.

‘I really hate this child’s body.’

I want to return to my adult body quickly…

If I lose my memories, I’ll really become a child.

And most importantly.

‘Ignis…’

He’s waiting for me in the room.

With that final thought, Dana truly fell asleep.

 

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A while later, Rodrigo’s eyes were completely swollen. It was from crying for days on end.

“Who knew the Cult Leader was a crybaby… I thought he had no blood or tears…”

“Shh. Be quiet. He’s still crying now.”

The priests’ gossip couldn’t even be heard.

The frozen lake where Karl and Dana had disappeared. Holy Knights and priests who arrived late were collecting the corpses.

Staring blankly at that scene, Rodrigo thought.

‘Dana barely opened her eyes in a new body.’

Her soul entering the body of young Dana—the clone he had named ‘Danayu’—was probably because Danawin was hovering between life and death.

He had barely managed to extract the child that Danawin had conceived through surgery.

Rodrigo was certain.

‘Danayu’s body will die soon too.’

Because Karl will kill her.

When Danayu dies, Yeon Dana’s soul will be ejected again.

Then which body will she enter this time?

Right now, the only bodies complete enough for her to enter were Danayu and Danawin. Many other bodies were still incomplete.

‘Danayu will soon die at Karl’s hands.’

In preparation for that time, he had to hurry and heal Danawin’s body.

Only then would there be a place for Dana to return. Back to him again…

“It does seem like Karl’s doing.”

Then, a Holy Knight who had been examining the priests’ corpses approached.

“Eight out of fifteen died with their jaws torn off. It’s a method Karl usually uses.”

“…”

“As if killing was bothersome, attacks with no consideration or passion for life whatsoever. I’ve never seen such indifferent murder except from Karl.”

And the rest died with their heads burst or chests pierced. Crushed to death in an instant by bare hands.

Certainly, it wasn’t murder that just anyone could commit.

Among the people at the scene, only Karl was capable of…

‘…Well.’

There’s one more.

Rodrigo looked at the sealing stone.

The sealing stone that had remained unchanged for 200 years.

Having watched this sealing stone his entire life, Rodrigo could tell.

The posture of the sealed ancestor had changed.

The position of the fingers covering the face was different.

Rodrigo was certain.

The sealing stone had moved.

‘The seal was temporarily broken and the ancestor definitely moved.’

Could it be.

Could it be that the ancestor…

“C-Cult Leader.”

Then, a Holy Knight’s trembling voice was heard.

“Please look over there.”

As if shocked, he stared somewhere with widened eyes. With trembling fingertips, he pointed at the frozen lake.

“The snake’s head.”

“…”

“The head… there are two, two of them.”

What are you talking about?

Rodrigo turned his head toward where the Holy Knight was pointing. And he froze in place.

It was just as the Holy Knight said.

Two snake heads were floating on the frozen lake.

All thought stopped.

How?

How was the snake’s head severed?

That wasn’t just an ordinary snake.

That was a demon.

One that had existed since the beginning, that had opposed Ramun.

A being similar to a god.

However, defeated by Ramun, it fell from godhood to become a demon.

The body of that great being—that fragment which must surely be the essence of immense power—was floating in the frozen lake.

Cut as if someone had forcibly broken it.

To shatter a demon’s body. That’s impossible with human strength. Even Sun God Ramun wouldn’t dare do such a thing.

Yes, because he couldn’t do it, he imprisoned it in this frozen lake. So it couldn’t rise to the ground.

The snake becomes strongest on land.

So to prevent it from touching the ground, he confined it in the lake to remain buried in water forever!

How. Who. Why.

—No.

It doesn’t matter.

“Quickly.”

Rodrigo’s cheek twitched with spasms.

“Immediately retrieve that head and… move it to the research laboratory. We begin experiments at once.”

Ecstasy washed over him.

‘A gift… I’ll give her a gift.’

He would extract the demonic power and give it all to Danae.

All precious things in this world should belong to her.

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