I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 238

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Chapter 238

 

 

 

 

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Time remaining: 18 hours and 3 minutes.

Dana arrived at the Capital of the Holy Land while being carried on Karl’s back.

“Well done! Karl Windsor!”

“Wow. Thank you.”

“Go to that mountain over there! To the mountain!”

“Mountain?”

“Yes! Go to that mountain you can see over there!”

The mountain she had climbed with Noah in the future.

Countless Black Cores were buried in that mountain. She had personally dug them up and detonated them in the future.

Dana dug up the Black Cores one by one from that place—their latent Corruption.

“What are you doing?”

“It’s a secret. You’ll be in big trouble if you touch them. Go stand over there.”

“Okay. Got it.”

Karl seemed to find it amusing watching Dana dig up the ground like she was harvesting sweet potatoes, giggling as he followed behind her.

Time remaining: 15 hours and 11 minutes.

“Now let’s go to the Grand Cathedral, Karl Windsor!”

Dana rode piggyback on Karl and grabbed his hair like Horse Reins.

“Hurry up, hurry!”

“Okay, okay. I’ll go, I’ll go.”

Karl seemed to find this situation entertaining and played along.

13 hours and 38 minutes.

They succeeded in infiltrating the Grand Cathedral.

A battle was raging there.

“Execute all the traitors!”

“Filthy Demon Worshippers!”

A fight had broken out with the Barbarian Radical Priests.

‘What are they saying! They’re Demon Worshippers themselves in the end!’

She wanted to jump in and give them a piece of her mind, but Dana moved through the building’s crevices while being held in Karl’s arms.

And at 13 hours and 1 minute.

They finally arrived at Danawin’s Bedroom.

Ignis wasn’t there.

‘He’s not here!’

Where is he? Where is he?

Dana fell into a panic. He should definitely be hiding here!

‘Was he discovered after all?’

Dana racked her brain with all her might.

‘If Ignis was captured—he would have been dragged back to the Laboratory!’

Right to the Holy Mother Chapel!

Sure enough, Karl spoke up then.

“He was probably captured and taken to the Holy Mother Chapel.”

That’s where he was! Dana grabbed Karl.

“Let’s go there!”

“Hmm.”

Karl scratched his cheek.

“I don’t want to.”

“Huh?”

“I’ll play until here.”

At that moment, Dana realized the interest had disappeared from Karl’s eyes.

“The Holy Mother Chapel is unpleasant. I hate that place.”

“But I have to go there?”

“Then do that.”

Karl seemed to have completely lost interest now, suddenly stretching and yawning.

“Good luck.”

“Huh?”

“Bye. It was fun.”

He’s leaving like this?

Dana was flustered. She thought Karl would naturally stay with her until the end!

“H-how can you leave a child behind?!”

When she shouted, he twisted his lips into a smile.

“Why are you a child?”

“What?”

“You’re originally an adult.”

“…”

Karl tilted his head and rolled his eyes.

“I remember everything. When you were an adult, your height was about this much, your neck was this slender, and your eyes and lips were round like now…”

Dana was shocked by his detailed description.

The day this person would acknowledge me as an adult has come!

“Well, since your mental age and body are both childish now, it makes sense you’d need help. Right?”

Dana looked down at her short arms and legs. His words were right. There were limits with a child’s body.

“You’re right.”

She abandoned her pride. There was no time to be stubborn, as time was passing.

Dana grabbed his collar and clung to him.

“Please help me.”

“…”

Then Karl seemed to ponder, tilting his head.

“If I help you, in return.”

He suddenly reached out his hand.

He grabbed both her cheeks with one hand.

“Will you follow me around?”

Dana’s cheeks were squeezed in the Boy’s grip. A gentle but rough touch. Dana held her breath.

Karl Windsor spoke softly.

“I’m getting married next year. I have a fiancée chosen by my family.”

Marriage.

Fiancée.

It must be Sandra…

“But she has a son, you know? I’m planning to accept him as my son and put him on the family register.”

Son.

It’s Lumiere.

“So let’s say you’re my daughter. Then she won’t be able to say anything and will have to accept it.”

“…”

“Stay by my side like that and become useful to me when I need you. How about it?”

Dana couldn’t answer immediately.

His smiling green eyes were like flames, making her breath freeze involuntarily.

‘Young Karl is strangely frightening indeed….’

Overcoming the overwhelming pressure, Dana barely managed to ask.

“What kind of usefulness?”

“I want to have the Sanctuary.”

The Sanctuary?

This ominous land where the seven-headed serpent sleeps, and where my body sleeps—why on earth would he want it?

“But I don’t want to become the Diana Cult Leader. That’s too filthy. So I’m considering various ways to obtain the Sanctuary.”

Squeeze. His grip on Dana’s cheek tightened. His eyes flashed.

“You, the treasure of the Sanctuary, have value for use in many ways.”

“….”

Value for use.

At those words, Dana’s nose stung.

Her heart ached. This was the first time he had spoken his true feelings so openly.

‘A child is still a child. He doesn’t hide his true intentions.’

Though her lips trembled, Dana pulled herself together.

“Why do you want the Sanctuary?”

“I have things to do.”

“What things?”

Then Karl smiled brightly.

“Who told you to keep asking questions?”

“….”

“What you need to do is answer. Not ask questions.”

“….”

Look at that temper… He really is frightening….

Dana felt miserable. Adult Karl would never touch her so roughly, never say such harsh things.

He always touched her gently and spoke only sweet and kind words that made her ears melt….

“Fine.”

Dana answered falsely.

“I’ll do that.”

Anyway, she just needed to leave this world within the remaining time. She didn’t care what happened after.

“I understand, so get me a ship. So I can escape to the Empire!”

Then Karl tilted his head.

“Then how will you get to the Holy Mother Chapel?”

“Don’t worry! I can go by myself.”

“How? Are you going to pretend to be an acorn and roll around?”

“I am not!”

I have my ways! Dana exclaimed primly.

“Just prepare the ship!”

Rattle. The Black Core rolled around in her pocket.

 

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After Karl left to get a ship.

“The prophecy…!”

Dana detonated something more terrible than a bomb at the center of the Grand Cathedral.

She had detonated the Black Core.

“The prophecy has been fulfilled!”

This was the moment when the first Corruption of this world began.

The Priests who stepped on the Corrupted Land began rotting and dying. Yet they rejoiced.

“The land is rotting! The world is becoming corrupted!”

“The Sun God’s Blessing has ended!”

“We were not wrong!”

It was a grotesque scene.

The Priests, who had received proof through death that their lives, efforts, and lifework were right, rotted away in fanatical ecstasy. They died.

‘They really are insane….’

However, thanks to that frenzy, Dana was able to sneak into the Holy Mother Chapel without much difficulty.

This body was so small that hiding behind a pillar provided perfect concealment.

‘Being small does have its advantages.’

As she ran triumphantly and turned the corner.

“―!”

Bang!

She collided with a huge man and tumbled.

That man is…!

 

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Demian Windsor thought.

The Windsor Family, the Diana Cult, had gone completely insane.

‘Crazy bastards.’

The land was beginning to rot, the harbinger of destruction was starting.

Yet they were rejoicing as if they had received divine grace. They should be afraid instead!

Demian could no longer live as one of them.

‘Let’s run away.’

He had failed before, but if he escaped during this chaos, he could succeed. No one would pay attention to him right now.

‘Let’s go. Let’s go live happily with her.’

Demian hated Windsor. He hated the Sanctuary.

He just wanted to live an ordinary life.

He wished for a normal life—meeting a decent woman and building a decent family.

So a few years ago, he chose to willingly fall in love with a woman he met by chance during a voyage, and had a son, Viego.

However, he couldn’t bring himself to love his son. Viego was also a being with Windsor blood flowing through him.

‘The Windsor bastards have madness flowing in their blood. They’re all insane.’

So let’s escape quickly!

He swept glass bottles containing Holy Water into his bag and ran swiftly.

As he turned the corner.

Thud! He kicked something.

“Waaah!”

Something rolled around. It was a young girl.

Demian was startled.

‘That woman.’

The one woman who possessed numerous bodies.

The woman he had met as ‘Danawin’ not long ago.

Dana.

“I heard you entered a child’s body this time. I guess that was true.”

Intense disgust washed over him as he sneered.

“It must be nice having multiple bodies? You’d never have to worry about dying no matter how many times you die.”

Dana asked sharply while lying face down.

“Where are you going now?”

“You don’t need to know.”

Then the little girl’s eyes became fierce.

“Running away again? Like a coward? Last time you abandoned your son pretending not to know him, and now you’re abandoning him again?”

The girl’s accusation made Demian surge with anger. What do you know about anything!

He was about to kick this insolent woman right then and there. But.

‘Damn it.’

He couldn’t put any strength into his foot at all.

Rather, the more their gazes met, the more his aggression and disgust gradually disappeared like air leaking from a balloon.

And sympathy began to fill that space.

Demian thought helplessly. He knew this would happen. Looking at this woman for too long makes his heart weak.

‘It’s because I was brainwashed when I was young.’

All Windsor men go to the frozen lake at a very young age.

 

“Look. That woman is the reason we live our lives.”

 

His father, and his father’s father must have done the same.

Just as Rodrigo did to his two sons, Demian and Karl. Just as he did to his grandson Viego.

 

“Look closely at that woman’s face. It is the face of the most pitiful and noble being in this world.”

 

While listening to such whispers.

 

“There is nothing more precious than that woman anywhere.”

 

And they witness the woman sleeping in the lake.

For this world, imprisoned in this world.

The beauty sleeping eternally in the lake.

 

“Isn’t she beautiful.”

 

It was so.

 

“Dana is our everything.”

 

For over 200 years, that woman struck countless Windsor boys as a life-splitting shock. Like lightning splitting the earth or a flash blinding their vision.

Their first wonder, first shock, first mystery…

The woman of impact.

Unforgettable.

That’s why. That’s why he was afraid. He wanted to avoid her. Because that woman was someone who touched his very core.

“Please get up.”

However, Demian found himself helping the girl to her feet without realizing it. He asked gruffly.

“Where are you going?”

“I’m looking for Ignis.”

“Why are you looking for such a lowly fellow?”

“He’s not a lowly fellow!”

Slap!

He was struck on the cheek by the girl’s small hand.

Far from hurting, it felt as lovely as being hit by a kitten’s paw, so Demian felt terror.

Indeed, childhood education is dangerous.

Extremely, tremendously dangerous. So he must flee quickly!

“Do you know where Ignis is?”

“Move aside. I must go…”

Then the child jumped up and hugged his waist tightly.

“You can’t run away this time. You coward!”

“Let go of this!”

However, crawling and clawing, Dana used all her strength to grab his collar and climb up.

Demian trembled his lips helplessly.

“D-don’t do this. Let go of this…”

Each time the child climbed up little by little, Demian’s complexion grew paler.

It was as if a witch, a demon was crawling up from a hell pit. To devour everything human, everything of the human world…

“Got you!”

Finally, it wrapped its arms around his neck.

Demian gasped for breath.

Face in front of face.

Eyes before eyes.

He was caught.

“Where is Ignis?”

Demian Windsor found himself holding Dana so she wouldn’t fall, while feeling deep despair.

If he ran away now, he would surely succeed.

He could leave for the ordinary life he so desired, the life where the woman who bore his son was waiting.

Yes, that’s all I want—

At this moment, the most brilliant desire in the world instantly lost its light and became meaningless. Became worthless. Like realizing that what he had believed to be jewelry was just a common stone.

The moment he held Dana, all of Demian Windsor’s desires faded away.

And something completely different bloomed.

Something that had been holding its breath for so very long from his very roots…

“Tell me!”

In that moment, Demian was completely certain.

This woman is the Windsor Family’s curse.

“Ignis. Where is he?”

The moment he looked into the frozen lake, then.

The woman trapped in the lake for over 200 years cursed us.

“…I will escort you there.”

We are all cursed by this woman.

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