I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 236
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Chapter 236
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“You’re here?”
“….”
“Did you have a good trip?”
“….”
“I was waiting for you.”
The light was so bright that Dana frowned.
She saw a beautiful boy.
Platinum blonde hair like morning sunlight. His smooth cheeks and spring-green eyes captivated Dana.
She just stared blankly and muttered.
“An angel….”
—No, he’s not!
Dana slapped her own cheek. Then she was startled.
It didn’t hurt at all.
And her palm was so tiny…!
‘Right. I was in this child’s body at the end!’
I came back in this body again!
As soon as she was certain, she steeled herself.
‘I can’t get swept up in a child’s way of thinking!’
There’s no time to get swept up. So I’ll endure with willpower and determination!
Dana bolted upright from the bed.
“Where is this place?!”
“Our house.”
Where is “our” house… No, who decided it was “our” house?
This was the place she had last seen in this little one’s body. It was a small mountain cabin.
But was it her imagination? The interior looked more abundant than before….
“Are you hungry? I was just baking bread.”
Karl was even wearing an apron.
“It’s freshly baked bread. Eat up.”
He held out warm bread.
A savory and delicious smell wafted up….
“Here. Say ah~”
“Ah~”
Dana instinctively took a big bite of the bread. Chew chew.
It’s delicious!
‘No!’
Ptooey!
When she immediately spat out the bread, Karl turned pale as if shocked.
“D-doesn’t it taste good?”
Dana ignored him and stared into mid-air. She thought she might have seen wrong, but she hadn’t.
Numbers of light were floating there.
23 hours 59 minutes 12 seconds.
23 hours 59 minutes 11 seconds.
23 hours 59 minutes 10 seconds.
‘That’s… could it be a time limit?’
Did Justio show consideration for her?
He must have attached a clock visible only to her eyes using holy magic.
‘There’s not much time left!’
Dana suddenly clung to Karl’s floral apron.
“I have to go back to the Grand Cathedral!”
“Huh?”
“Take me there, quickly! Fast, now, hurry!”
“No.”
“What?”
“I said no.”
Karl refused flatly with a smiling face.
His smile was so pretty that Dana realized she had been rejected a beat too late.
“B-but I have to go.”
“Really?”
“I-I have a reason I must go!”
“I see.”
“….”
What kind of conversation is this?
Karl was just smiling cheerfully. In other words.
‘He’s not listening to a word I’m saying!’
While she was flustered, knock knock, a knocking sound came from outside.
“Um, Karl? May I come in?”
Dana quickly turned her head toward the door. This is a woman’s voice?
“Yeah. Romy. Come in.”
The door opened and a girl with her hair braided in two came in.
Maybe seventeen or eighteen? A woman who was clearly older than Karl smiled shyly and held out a fruit basket.
“Um… these are apples I just picked from the orchard. I wanted to share them with you too.”
“Thanks. Romy. I’ll enjoy them.”
Starting with that, female visitors came pouring in from behind.
“Here, this is fresh milk from our farm!”
“I brought a cotton blanket in case Karl gets cold at night!”
“Here, you said your nephew needed clothes and hair ties, right? I bought some.”
“This is ointment for wounds in case you get hurt. It’s precious, but for Karl….”
“These are gold coins I saved up, in case you might need seed money….”
….
….
In an instant, all kinds of household goods were brought in. Even several bags of gold coins came in.
Karl responded with a smile as if accustomed to this treatment.
“Thank you so much, Romy, El, Tonya, Seily, Masha, Charlotte, Eleiza, Rene, Tami, Reina, Kate.”
This… this….
Dana trembled and burst into tears.
“Waaaah!”
She should have endured with determination, but she couldn’t. Sharp emotions that young Dana could never handle surged up, and she cried pitifully.
Then Karl leaned against the wall and chuckled.
“My nephew is jealous.”
“Waaaah!”
“Look at him crying. How cute.”
What is he saying!
Far from comforting her, he was leisurely enjoying the spectacle, which was shocking. Dana hiccupped as she breathed. Young Karl was awful! He had such a bad personality!
Karl smiled as he saw the women off.
“Thank you all. Get home safely.”
Click. The door closed. Dana immediately flared up in anger and criticized him.
“You playboy! You womanizer! You gigolo!”
“Yeah. Right, right.”
Karl answered carelessly as if humming. Dana fumed.
“I’ll go to the Grand Cathedral by myself!”
“Really? How?”
“What?”
“How are you going to get down this mountain alone, little Dana?”
“Th-that’s…!”
“Toddling along? Hopping around?”
As if the thought amused him, he burst into clear laughter like a bell.
“Ahaha. That would be cute though. Like a rabbit.”
“…”
“Though you’d be a bit less cute when the black bears living on this mountain tear your body apart.”
Her back suddenly went cold, and Dana hunched her shoulders. Black bears? Really?
‘B-but.’
23 hours 44 minutes 33 seconds.
32 seconds, 31 seconds, 30 seconds.
Tick-tock. Time was passing.
“Please help me.”
Growing anxious, Dana sniffled and cried.
“I have something I must do. I have to save Ignis, I have to save Ignis.”
“Is what you have to do helping Ignis escape from the Sanctuary?”
“Yes. Yes.”
Then Karl stroked his chin and rolled his eyes.
“I like that. Good. I’ll take you there.”
“R-really?”
“In exchange.”
Karl tapped his cheek and smiled mischievously with his eyes.
Dana held her breath.
The gesture pointing to his cheek could only mean one thing.
Toward Karl who was waiting leisurely, Dana approached hesitantly. He waited relaxedly with amused eyes as Dana drew closer.
Dana gave his cheek a little kiss.
“Good job.”
Karl smiled with satisfaction and gently patted her head.
Dana fidgeted with her fingers. For some reason, his breath tickled. Somehow, young Karl had a strangely bad personality…
“H-hurry, let’s go. There’s no time!”
“Yeah. Wait just a moment. I’ll get ready to leave right away.”
While Karl gathered his things, Dana somehow found it difficult to stay in the same space and quickly went outside the cabin. Only then could she breathe freely.
‘How many days have passed? What happened to Lord Ignis? He must be safe.’
Growing impatient, she was randomly kicking stones when.
“Ah!”
Throb, she felt a sharp pain in her ankle.
Something had bitten down on her ankle.
Something long and thin— that is.
“Kyaaa!”
A mountain snake!
“Kyaaaaaaah!”
Instinctively, like a young girl, she let out a piercing scream. Then Karl came running urgently.
“What? What’s wrong!”
“A sn-snake, a snake!”
Karl hurriedly grabbed the mountain snake and snapped it right off. He threw it away and quickly examined Dana’s ankle.
“This is serious.”
She expected him to panic, but the boy surprisingly examined her wound calmly.
“Bear with it a little. There’s a village below, we can get an antidote there.”
“No!”
Dana tearfully grabbed his collar tightly.
“I’m fine, so let’s go to the Grand Cathedral! There’s no time! Hurry!”
“Then you’ll die within a few days.”
“I don’t care if I die, so hurry! Hurry! There’s no time!”
“That’s problematic.”
Karl quietly examined her ankle where the snake bite marks were clear, then lowered his face.
“Try to bear with this.”
Dana sniffled. Bear with what, what was he talking about?
What was he trying to do…
“Ah!”
The next moment Karl bit down hard on her ankle.
“It hurts, it hurts!”
She struggled, but Karl didn’t release his grip on Dana’s ankle.
“It hurts…”
Dana sobbed. He wasn’t even a vampire, what was he doing! What—
‘Huh?’
Dana suddenly stopped struggling.
Something was seeping into her ankle.
A very rough power, but one with no intention of harming her at all. A very gentle but very wicked power—
“…”
Blink blink.
Dana blinked her eyes.
Her vision, which had been blurry just moments ago, was becoming clear. What was this?
‘And why am I lying down?’
She was lying on that same grassy area from before. When did I lie down?
“Are you conscious?”
“Yes?”
“You fainted for a moment. About 2 minutes?”
I had fainted?
The moment that power entered her body, this weak flesh must have been unable to endure it and collapsed.
Fortunately, it seemed everything was finished during that time. Karl was no longer biting her ankle.
He wiped his reddened lips with the back of his hand and glanced at her.
“How is it? Are you better now?”
No. She wasn’t fine. Her body felt feverish.
However, she felt like she had more energy than before— and most importantly, her ankle was completely fine. Completely healed without even a trace of the snake bite.
“What, what did you do?”
“I don’t know. I just felt like I could heal you somehow, and it actually worked.”
Dana knew what Karl had done. She also knew what that power that had flowed into her was.
‘Karl just used demonic power to heal me…’
Right.
Come to think of it, Karl was bitten by a snake at the frozen lake not long ago. He said demonic power seeped in then…
‘No way, how long has he had this power that he’s already figured out how to use it like that?’
Just then, Karl seemed to choke and coughed roughly.
Suddenly, he spat out black blood.
Then he wiped it away with his handkerchief and stood up.
“Shall we go now?”
“….”
Did he just brush that off like it was nothing?
“W-wait a moment.”
Dana had never seen Karl cough up blood before. She asked, trembling.
“Why, why did that happen?”
“Probably from using this power. It feels like my heart is being torn apart.”
“….”
“Hmm. I shouldn’t use it carelessly from now on. I might die if I’m not careful.”
“….”
“But this much is fine. I’ll recover quickly.”
“….”
“Let’s go.”
Pat pat. He tapped her round head from behind.
The demonic power had been killing Karl. Soon it would completely destroy him.
A sentence that had seemed like a joke, something she’d never truly felt before, now stung. For the first time, it did.
However.
“Y-yes. Let’s hurry.”
There was no time.
Right now, let’s focus only on what needs to be done here—what can be done here.
‘Wait for me, Lord Ignis. I’m coming now!’
23 hours, 32 minutes, and 22 seconds remained.
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