I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 234

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Chapter 234

 

 

 

 

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Rumors spread.

“…filthy whore….”

Danae quickly turned her head sharply.

However, among the countless nobles in the party hall, she couldn’t tell who had said those words.

No, perhaps everyone was cursing her like that.

Rumors spread that Danae shared a bed with Lyos. Danae knew that countless fingers were pointing at her from behind.

Not only that, but the experiment was also stagnating.

“Progress has stopped at the final stage.”

Rodrigo said that just before completion, they lacked crucial materials.

“We need holy water from the frozen lake to complete it. But we can’t access the sanctuary….”

Danae became anxious. Wilhelm was at the sanctuary. Moreover, half of the sanctuary was owned by the Ramun Church Papal Palace.

Could she secretly smuggle Rodrigo in there?

At a time when she was gradually feeling suffocated,

 

[My dear Danae.]

 

A letter arrived.

 

[I miss you.]

 

It was a letter sent by Former Emperor Wilhelm.

 

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From the day she received the letter, Danae had nightmares every day.

Dreams of Wilhelm licking the back of her hand like a dog while raping her.

Everything was exactly the same.

The experiment had stopped at the final stage, and Wilhelm was still threatening.

The nobles even whispered that they should report her to the Ramun Church for incest.

They cursed that the dirty blood of someone from Diana’s faith couldn’t be hidden after all.

They condemned her as a witch of Diana’s faith, saying she was indeed from a devil-worshipping group.

Afterward, scenes of being burned at the stake were added to Danae’s nightmares.

‘What if I’m really branded as a witch?’

What if—just what if something happened to Lyos? If he unluckily fell ill and died, or had an accident and died. If he disappeared from her side in any way.

‘Everyone will brand me as a witch and kill me.’

Or Wilhelm might drag her away then.

Unable to bear it, Danae consulted Rodrigo about this problem.

“Flee from the Imperial Palace.”

Rodrigo suggested.

“Rather, come hide with me and live that way.”

“…Flee?”

“Yes. Let’s think of a way to complete the experiment together.”

But to do that, she would have to leave Lyos….

‘I don’t want that.’

Danae didn’t want to leave him.

One day while she was lost in such worries.

“Elder Sister, a letter has come from Father.”

Lyos handed her Wilhelm’s letter.

That horrible thing, directly with his own hands.

The next day, Danae fled from the Imperial Palace.

 

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The escape didn’t last long.

A week later, Lyos found the hideout.

“Why did you run away?”

Lyos’s face had become remarkably haggard in just a week. He looked as gaunt as someone who hadn’t seen light for years.

“Let’s go back together.”

“…I don’t want to.”

“Why on earth are you doing this?”

Lyos knelt down. And he shed tears. Thick teardrops poured down his cheeks without cease.

“Did I do something wrong?”

“….”

“I will apologize. Whatever it is, I will never do it again.”

“…It’s not your fault.”

Her resolve wavered at his crying appearance. She crumbled before his fragile state as always.

“I’m sorry for hurting you, Lyos.”

At those words, Lyos pulled her into his arms. His body was trembling finely.

“Please tell me the reason. If there’s a problem, I can solve it all.”

“….”

“If there’s something you want, I can give you everything. So please.”

Danae bit her lips and then blurted out.

“His Former Majesty….”

In the end, she confessed everything about that day while sobbing.

How Former Emperor Wilhelm had molested her hand.

How he had spread his legs wide to show off his erect body through the gap in his bathrobe.

The suffocating fear she felt then and the nightmares that continued until now.

Lyos listened to her words without saying anything.

“And.”

He asked with a resolute face.

“And what else are you afraid of?”

Danae really told him everything.

That people were branding her as a witch from Diana’s faith. That she was scared of being burned at the stake someday.

And.

“Lord Rodrigo said he needs holy water.”

That Rodrigo, the former cult leader of Diana’s faith, was experimenting with snake fragments. But that he couldn’t complete it without holy water.

Lyos neither criticized nor was surprised. He just asked seriously.

“What do you want to gain from that experiment?”

“I want to have power.”

“….”

“I’m scared. That Diana’s faith has been branded as a devil-worshipping group, that I could become a witch at any time because I’m from there….”

With those words, Danae, completely drained, collapsed into sleep.

“If I were to… do that.”

When her mind was growing hazy, Lyos asked.

“Would you never leave again?”

Danae answered drowsily.

“Yes.”

 

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Several days later.

Former Emperor Wilhelm was found dead.

He had fallen into the sea and drowned.

Everyone questioned this sudden death, but Lyos concluded it as an accidental fall without any additional investigation.

Danae was overjoyed, but at the same time felt uneasy. Some were raising suspicions that the Former Emperor had been assassinated.

‘Could Lyos have killed him?’

But she soon shook her head.

That couldn’t be.

Lyos was kind and righteous. No matter how much he loved her, he wouldn’t commit such an unfilial act as murdering his own father.

She thought it was just a coincidence.

The day after the Former Emperor’s funeral was held.

Lyos gathered his close associates with her and commanded them.

He would send Rodrigo, the Cult Leader of the Diana Church, to the Sanctuary. So they should escort him and assist him.

“Your Majesty! How can you send that evil man back to the Sanctuary!”

Fierce opposition arose.

Especially Duke Lancaster, the army commander who had led the extermination of the Diana Church, strongly opposed it.

“He is a Demon Worshipper who conducted anti-human experiments!”

Lyos replied with a gentle smile.

“Rodrigo was merely preparing for the prophecy that the Sun God’s blessing would end and the land would become corrupted and perish.”

“That was a demon’s prophecy!”

Duke Lancaster shouted with veins bulging in his neck.

“The Diana Church fell for the demon’s temptation! They listened to the demon’s whispers and fell to the demon’s seduction!”

“But a prophecy is a prophecy. Someone had to prepare for destruction. The Diana Church did what needed to be done for humanity.”

Duke Lancaster trembled violently, then turned his head sharply. He glared murderously at Danae sitting beside Lyos.

“It’s because of Imperial Princess Your Highness!”

Danae shrank her shoulders. Duke Lancaster shouted thunderously.

“Rumors are spreading that His Majesty’s sister warms His Majesty’s bed every night!”

Lyos said nothing and just looked at the duke.

With no restraint, the duke thought he had seized an opportunity and poured out all the words accumulated in his heart.

“Your Majesty! As Your Majesty’s loyal subject, I will speak. Your Majesty has fallen for the first woman you experienced and temporarily lost sight of current affairs!”

“….”

“I can guess what kind of pillow talk there was! But Your Majesty, please do not forget that woman is from the evil Diana Church!”

Lyos looked at the finger pointing at Danae and then stood up. He approached slowly.

Duke Lancaster flinched in surprise and lowered his hand. But the Emperor grabbed and raised the hand he was trying to lower. It was the finger that had accused Danae.

At that moment, Duke Lancaster’s body exploded into pieces.

Thud, bones and flesh and blood scattered in all directions. Pieces of his corpse were sprayed and stuck to the carpet, walls, and windows.

Lyos slowly turned around. He smiled at the subjects who were looking at him in horror.

“Don’t you dare point fingers at my sister.”

Everyone fell silent in terror.

Lyos returned to Danae.

He knelt on one knee before her. He lifted the back of Danae’s hand and kissed it respectfully.

“I apologize for showing you such an unsightly scene.”

Danae was frozen.

The audience chamber was covered in shock and horror.

She was more surprised than anyone else.

 

* * *

 

Lyos sent Rodrigo to the Sanctuary and supported his experiments.

Everything proceeded secretly, but this matter soon reached the ears of Pope Justio of Ramun Church.

Viego Windsor had quickly obtained the information and leaked it.

Justio warned.

Half of the Sanctuary belonged to Ramun Church.

If they continued to keep the Diana Church in the Sanctuary, war would break out.

But Lyos ignored it.

Instead, he now openly supported Rodrigo’s experiments without hiding it, and gave power to the Diana Church.

And he spread holy water among the people.

The Empire’s citizens were ecstatic about the miracle of holy water they had tasted once. Swept up in madness, most converted to the Diana Church.

The Diana Church’s power grew abnormally large.

And Lyos officially declared the Diana Church as the state religion.

This rapidly intensified the conflict with Ramun Church—

Eventually, she heard that battles broke out between Ramun Church Holy Knights in the Sanctuary.

Once became twice, twice became three times.

In the seventh battle, using the death of a successor from a prestigious Empire family as justification, Lyos declared a religious war.

“Lyos. Think about it again.”

That night, Danae tried to dissuade him.

“A war, Lyos. Think again. This doesn’t make sense.”

“Don’t worry. We will win.”

He thought Danae was trembling from fear and embraced her.

“This is the only way.”

Lyos said quietly.

“That night, I decided to do this.”

That night. The day he found Danae who had left.

Lyos had already thought this far ahead.

“Sister, you are from the Diana Church, known as a demon-worshipping group. Everyone on the continent knows that fact.”

“….”

“When I thought about it, that could become your fear. In reality, someday that fact might put you in danger.”

“….”

“I should have done this long ago. I was thoughtless. I’m sorry.”

He smiled while kissing Danae’s cheek.

“I will eliminate everything on this land that you might fear.”

Only then did Danae perfectly recall.

What Lyos had said that night.

 

“If I were to make this continent into Diana Church’s land, would you never leave again?”

 

He had been harboring a plan to drive out Ramun Church.

 

* * *

 

On a day when fierce battles were raging in the Sanctuary.

An incident occurred where a Noble who thought Danae was the cause of the war tried to assassinate her.

Fortunately, it ended as an attempt, but Lyos, now anxious, assigned powerful guards to Danae. They were soldiers who had performed brilliantly on the battlefield.

“This is the warrior I trust most.”

Lyos personally introduced him.

“From now on, this man will protect Elder Sister.”

A silver-haired soldier in a pristine white uniform bowed at the waist.

“It is an honor to serve you.”

He raised his head. Smiled brightly.

“I am Lumiere Roland.”

 

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‘Oh no.’

Inside ‘Danae Grants’, Dana sighed deeply.

‘This is trouble.’

If it were me at this time. If it were ‘Danae Grants’ at this moment, she might even have an affair…

That’s when it happened.

‘Ah.’

Inside Danae’s body, Dana’s soul trembled violently.

What is this feeling?

Am I mistaken? It felt like something was pulling her toward it.

No, it wasn’t just a feeling. She was actually being forcibly dragged by some power.

She was being pulled away from ‘Danae Grants” body—from this first timeline.

‘No. Not now. I need to see more.’

Because even after reaching this point, the Sun God still hadn’t cursed Lyos.

Lyos’s Divine Authority remained intact, and he still had his brilliant golden hair.

Despite committing such shocking atrocities, he still hadn’t been cursed.

That meant Lyos would commit something even more, more vicious than what he had done so far—

‘No. I have to see that!’

What could possibly be worse than driving out the Ramun Church!

As she tried to hold on longer inside ‘Danae’s’ body, a violent collision of forces struck her soul. She felt Justio’s Holy Magic twisting and contorting once again.

Then ‘Danae’ smiled and said,

“Nice to meet you. May I call you Lumiere?”

At the same time, an undeniably intense force pulled Dana toward it like a magnet.

‘No.’

I need to see more.

What happens next, how it turns out, I need to see more—

“Wherever you go, travel together with Lumiere, Elder Sister.”

However, with Lyos’s earnest entreaty as the last thing she heard, Dana was ejected from ‘Danae Grants” body, from this timeline.

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