I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 249

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Chapter 249

“V-Viego. N-no, no. I, I don’t want to go mad.”

Viego wrapped one arm around her, holding her tightly in his embrace. Dana, trembling with anxiety, sobbed.

“I don’t want to, to become like that, *sob*, I don’t want to, no, like that man said, becoming like that, ugh, it’s scary.”

“It’s okay. I’ll somehow—”

Somehow.

Viego’s words, meant to comfort her, were cut short. He pressed his lips tightly together.

Somehow?

What, and how?

What can I possibly do?

Viego’s throat burned hot. Sharp emotions seemed to tear his chest and throat to shreds.

“Once madness begins, there’s no way to stop it.”

The priest he had met today had said.

“The only option is to transfer to a new body, Lord Viego.”

No. I will definitely cure it.

I will definitely cure Dana’s illness.

“A n-new body.”

Dana gasped for breath.

“What does it mean, that there’s a new body?”

Had she been listening carefully to the conversation with his uncle?

Dana was fixated on that story.

“Can I, can I transfer to a body without madness?”

“…”

“C-can I?”

Viego cracked his horse whip quickly and muttered.

“Yes.”

“L-let me go.”

“Then you’d have to die.”

“Th-then, k-kill me…”

Viego bit his lips. It felt like his vision was going dark.

Kill you?

Suddenly, countless words clamored in his mouth.

Dana. If I grant that request of yours.

You’ll live a new life in a new body.

Everything with me will be forgotten as if it happened in a dream. Like a past life. It will mean nothing to you.

That’s not all. You’ll be captured by the sanctuary again. You’ll fall back into grandfather’s grasp. You’ll become a plaything once more.

Will I be able to save you from grandfather again?

The moment his thoughts reached that point, Viego suddenly realized.

‘No…’

The premise was wrong.

That shouldn’t happen.

He had been thinking all this time that he needed to help Dana escape from grandfather. That he needed to help her flee the sanctuary and create even a fake paradise for her.

What a foolish goal that had been.

‘I should have made it so she didn’t need to run away.’

I should have just killed grandfather.

From the beginning, so Dana wouldn’t need to run away.

‘I should have made this world into a paradise…’

The sanctuary. No, the empire. The entire continent.

I should have made this entire world into a comfortable land where she could live safely.

Why didn’t I do that from the start?

“Wait just a little.”

At this very moment, Viego made a fierce resolution. Even if it took all the time given to him, he would do it.

“I’ll create a safe world for you.”

What should I do first?

I should go to the sanctuary and kill grandfather first. Then I’ll usurp the cult leader position.

Then, if I take control of the sanctuary’s laboratory, I might be able to find a way to cure Dana.

“Dana. I’ll cure you. So.”

Please endure until then.

He was about to make that plea.

But he stopped speaking at the throbbing pain he felt in his shoulder.

Crunch, crunch, crunch…

Viego looked down.

Dana was biting him.

Completely dominated by madness. Having become a beast.

“…”

However, Viego didn’t push her away; instead, he pulled her even closer. Deep into his embrace.

And for the first time, he thought it was fortunate to have a body with fast regeneration. Because he wouldn’t die from having flesh torn off by her.

Viego gently stroked Dana’s back and whispered.

“Yes. Just endure like this for a little while.”

I’ll save you soon.

* * *

One year from that day.

Viego finally drove out Rodrigo and ascended to the position of Diana Cult Leader.

And on that day, he examined every single experiment of the Diana Church without exception.

And came to completely accept that there was no way to restore Dana.

“Please.”

And as if she had been waiting for that day, Dana regained her sanity.

It was the first time she had regained complete sanity since the day they fled from the sheep ranch a year ago.

“Please, Viego.”

Unfortunately, Dana remembered every moment of suffering from madness for the past year.

Dana pleaded while being held in Viego’s arms.

“Please…”

It was almost like praying.

“I’m begging you.”

“…”

“I don’t want to live with these memories.”

“…”

“I want to forget everything.”

“…”

“Please let me do that, please…”

Viego embraced Dana.

The woman in his arms was pitifully withered.

After the outbreak of madness, nothing she ate could become nourishment. So she was violently tormented by endless hunger.

For the past year, Dana had been no different from a monster.

Behind him, the priests whispered among themselves.

That the cult leader was raising a monster in his bedroom. That he was in love with a monster…

‘So what if she’s a monster.’

She’s my Dana.

It doesn’t matter. Really, it didn’t matter in the slightest.

“You might feel that way.”

Suddenly, his uncle’s words from a year ago came to mind.

“But would Dana feel the same?”

Viego let out a low sigh.

His uncle had been right. He had truly been right.

Even though he had known all along, Viego had stubbornly persisted until now. It was all his greed and his sin.

So now it was time to pay for his sins.

“Dana.”

“Viego. Please.”

“Dana. Listen to me.”

Viego rested his chin on the head of the woman clinging to him. Holding her tightly without any gaps, he whispered.

“Do you remember that night?”

“Viego. I’m scared.”

“You asked me. Whether I liked you.”

It’s still vivid in his ears.

That night in the small cabin on the green pasture.

“I like you most in the world.”

Her voice whispering words of affection without pause.

“What about Viego? You like me too, don’t you?”

That moment when he couldn’t give any answer was a night as deep and dark as now.

Recalling that moment, Viego spoke in a low voice.

“The time in my life when I didn’t like you is very short. So I don’t really know what it means to like you.”

“Kill me.”

“Because it’s already become my life.”

“Please.”

“You said you wanted to forget everything.”

“Please…”

“I’ll help you forget.”

The trembling gun barrel touched her head. Viego sighed.

“You just had a bad dream.”

He closed his eyes.

He pulled the trigger.

Did the gunshot ring out?

He didn’t know.

All his senses felt so distant. Everything seemed fake and unreal. Only Dana was real. Since he could only feel her…

That’s why he knew the movement in his arms had stopped.

That the pleading had ceased. That the sobbing had disappeared.

Even the last heartbeat, everything.

Had vanished.

An emptiness as if his heart and soul had been torn out by the roots washed over him. Viego muttered with an expressionless face.

“This is a nightmare, Dana. So forget it.”

Thud. He dropped the gun. And feeling her last warmth, he whispered.

“I’ll be the one to remember…”

He would.

He would remember everything, all of it, without exception.

All the time spent with Dana. The breathtakingly beautiful times and now, even this moment of despair as if the world had ended.

“I’ll remember everything, so you forget it all.”

At last, Dana stopped forever.

But Viego didn’t let her go for a long time. Until the body temperature in his arms grew cold, until she became stiff.

Finally, the first rays of sunlight pierced through the dawn.

Viego looked at the window with empty eyes.

It was bright and clear light, like the smile a woman had worn on some summer day.

Viego. I like you. I really like you. It was the same sun as that day when he had savored those beautiful sleep talks all night long, but…

I can never meet you from that day again.

My Dana.

My beloved, so beloved lover.

“Goodbye.”

Viego kissed Dana’s blood-stained cheek.

“Rest in peace. My love.”

The scent of lily of the valley still emanated from Dana.

It was the fragrance that had dominated him ever since that summer.

―Continued in Part 3

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