I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 24

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Chapter 24

‘Miona, what should I do? Huh?’

As soon as she came home, Alice frantically searched for Miona.

However, Miona wasn’t at the estate right now. She had left to visit Grandmother at the sanatorium.

“Miss, don’t you have any good ideas?”

Eric, the practical manager of the Moonlight Flower business, asked with a haggard face. His eyes held expectation.

“There must be a breakthrough somewhere. Please share your wise opinion.”

“Y-yes…”

“You can do it, Miss. You are a wise person.”

Eric’s eyes were full of doubt as he said this.

Just a few days ago, he used to look at her with respect.

‘What’s that look? She has no ability to handle situations at all.’

That’s how he was looking at her!

‘No. That’s not right.’

This is something I built with my own strength.

But how could it all collapse so quickly?

‘F-first, let me stay calm and assess the information.’

Miona had said that ‘information gathering and field investigation’ were the most important in business.

‘I should go see the black market.’

The place where the first illegal transaction took place.

It’s said to be a large tavern called ‘Red Boots’ in the Holy Capital back alleys.

Since it was scary to go alone, Alice quietly went to find Karl’s room.

She was planning to ask Dad to go together—

“How could you do this!”

A heart-wrenching scream echoed from inside the room.

It was Mom’s voice!

“How could you banish Juan from the Windsor Family! How!”

“Do you know what that bastard Juan did?”

Dad, who usually only tried to appease Mom, fought back unlike usual times.

“Juan is the one who caused the Moonlight Flower to crash, Sandra.”

“D-don’t be ridiculous. Do you have evidence? Do you have proof!”

“You should hope we can’t find that evidence. If evidence comes out, not only Juan but we’ll also be in trouble.”

Alice was shocked.

Mom and Dad fighting this much?

And Uncle Juan was the culprit who crashed the Moonlight Flower price?

Though confused by the sudden situation, Alice composed herself and turned away.

‘F-first, let’s pretend I didn’t hear what I just heard.’

She considered taking the Royal Guard but decided against it.

If she worked this hard but couldn’t achieve any results—

“You are a wise person, Miss.”

Eric’s doubt from that moment would solidify into certainty.

Everyone would be disappointed, thinking she only got this far by luck.

If that happened, she would surely face tremendous humiliation—.

‘N-no. I’m not scared of being humiliated. I just want to prevent people from losing hope.’

Alice resolutely pulled the hood of her robe down deep.

Yes, she had to show courage to protect their hope.

‘It’s scary, but let me go to the tavern alone. I can do it.’

I can reconcile my parents later.

As for Uncle Juan’s matter… she decided to remember it for now.

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A few hours later.

Alice regretted coming out alone so boldly.

“What are you doing! Spin the roulette properly!”

‘Red Boots’ wasn’t an ordinary tavern.

It was a bar, an illegal trading post, and a gambling den.

“Wahaha. I’m going to sweep this round clean!”

“Damn bastard. Cut off that guy’s wrist!”

And everyone was thoroughly drunk.

‘S-scary.’

Alice frantically rolled her eyes while clutching her robe tightly.

She heard that the first transaction that started the Moonlight Flower crash happened here. So if she wanted to gather information, she had to do it here…

‘Maybe the person who crashed the Moonlight Flower price is here right now.’

As she was looking around, checking each person’s face one by one.

“Alice?”

Someone grabbed her hand firmly. Just as she was about to shake it off in surprise.

“…Uncle Juan?”

It was Juan, the uncle who had disappeared for several days.

“Uncle? What are you doing here…”

Alice’s words trailed off.

Juan was a mess. His face was swollen like someone stung by bees, and two front teeth and two bottom teeth were broken.

Alice was shocked by his miserable appearance.

No, I heard Dad only hit him three times.

Did just three hits make him this much of a mess!

“Your father made me like this and kicked me out of the Windsor Family.”

Juan spat and muttered in a voice mixed with the smell of alcohol.

“He said he’d kill me if I approached Danae one more time. How could my brother-in-law do this to me. Huh?”

“U-Uncle.”

She knew he was kicked out, but she didn’t know he was beaten to a pulp like this.

‘That can’t be right. Our Dad isn’t a violent person.’

But…

‘Dad hit me too.’

With a rod.

Because of Sister Dana.

‘Right, Sister Dana.’

Only then did she realize the answer.

Dad became violent because of Sister Dana.

Didn’t he beat Uncle because of Sister Dana, and use the rod on me because of Sister Dana?

‘Maybe Sister Dana deliberately made it that way?’

Maybe she was jealous that Dad cared for her and wickedly manipulated things from behind.

‘Why would Sister Dana do such a thing?’

Suddenly, her sister’s calm face came to mind.

At the engagement ceremony, and at the celebration for the Moonlight Flower business success.

Dana’s face, always so composed and leisurely.

‘Denying reality… and now trying to destroy it in the end?’

She must have decided to shatter that unacceptable reality—the reality where Alice Windsor had become the protagonist.

“Your business will fail within a month.”

That’s why she could spout such malicious words so confidently.

Alice’s lips trembled with tears in her eyes.

“It’s because of Dana…”

“What?”

“Dana… she’s jealous of me…”

“Huh? That’s completely ridiculous.”

Juan looked at Alice with an expression as if he’d heard something absurd.

However, he soon grinned. Nodding his head as if he’d realized something.

“I think so too, Alice.”

“R-right?”

“Yes. And that’s not all? My brother-in-law has clearly gone mad over Danae’s wealth. Danae is ruining my brother-in-law.”

Juan whispered slyly.

“So wouldn’t it be better to remove Danae from the Windsor Family?”

“What?”

“Don’t worry. I’ll take good care of Danae. You bring Danae to me.”

“B-but how could I…”

“For the family! Danae is ruining everything!”

Alice hiccupped.

“My brother-in-law, your father, only did this to me now, but later he might do the same to you! My brother-in-law has completely lost his mind!”

“No! L-let go of this!”

Then Juan’s eyes began to glitter with rage.

“Take responsibility and do something, Alice! If you hadn’t interfered with the Moonlight Flower business in the first place, it wouldn’t have come to this!”

He must be crazy!

Alice used all her strength to shake him off and ran away.

Then a flustered Juan chased after her and grabbed her firmly.

“I’m sorry. Don’t go, Alice! I misspoke for a moment!”

“Let me go!”

“Forget what I just said. Okay? That wasn’t what I meant in my heart, Alice.”

Juan dropped his shoulders pretending to be weak and spoke pitifully.

“If I disappear like this, Sandra will be deeply hurt too. You know that. You know your mother cares for me.”

“B-but!”

“At least let me say goodbye to her. Alice, please? I’m begging you like this.”

“…”

“Or let me apologize to my brother-in-law. They’re the only family I have left, and I don’t want to be cut off like this.”

Alice bit her lips. Anxiety and confusion mixed together and surged through her.

‘What should I do?’

Then Juan’s eyes welled up with tears as he grabbed Alice’s hand. And then.

“You’re a good child, aren’t you, Alice.”

“…”

“I know everything. You’re not wicked enough to make your aunt and me part forever.”

Uncle’s words were right.

She wasn’t such a bad child.

That had always been the problem.

Being too kind.

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