I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 273

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Chapter 273

At her words about being cold, Lumiere took off his jacket and handed it to her.

“….”

What is he trying to do?

But since it was actually quite cold, Dana clutched it tightly. She draped it over her shoulders. Then she could feel Lumiere’s body warmth lingering on the clothes.

Perhaps it was thanks to Lumiere’s gentle scent.

Very slowly, she felt her reason clearing. Her clouded judgment began to return.

‘I….’

What am I doing right now.

Dana squeezed her eyes shut and opened them.

Let me pull myself together.

I can’t do this.

I decided to distance myself from Lumiere.

What am I trying to accomplish by seducing him.

“I’m sorry. It was just a joke.”

Then she could see Lumiere’s cheek stiffen rigidly.

“A joke?”

“Yes. Was it fun?”

“You joke around like that?”

“Don’t scold me, Brother.”

Dana pulled up the corners of her lips.

“I was wrong.”

“….”

“I won’t do it again. Okay?”

Lumiere didn’t say anything more. He just looked at her with contemptuous eyes, then spoke as if giving up with a sigh.

“Don’t ever play such jokes on anyone again.”

“Yes. I’m truly sorry.”

He looked utterly exhausted, as if he wanted to leave right away.

“Why on earth are you wearing something like that?”

“….”

“I saw Adma stuck to the carriage glass window. Don’t tell me Adma bought you clothes like this?”

“What?”

“Answer me straight. If Adma gave my younger sister clothes like this as a gift, I’ll challenge Adma to a duel.”

“….”

He’s really persistent.

What he just said was tantamount to declaring he’d kill Adma. There were few people who could beat Lumiere in a duel.

‘I’m going to kill Demian myself. I won’t let anyone else take that role.’

In the end, Dana gave her answer first.

“I asked Adma to buy it for me. As you know, my taste is frivolous, so I like clothes like this.”

“You really….”

“Brother, you were with a woman earlier too, are you cheating?”

Lumiere’s breath, which was about to become a sigh, was cut short.

“Do you know that Ingria is cheating?”

The moment she spoke those words, her insides felt painfully twisted. Perhaps because of that, her mind became crystal clear.

Right, no one should hurt Lumiere.

Whether it’s me, or his wife.

Dana hesitated for a moment before speaking.

“If… just if Ingria gets pregnant, I strongly recommend you request a paternity test from the Holy Mages.”

This should explain what I saw.

However.

“You must have seen wrong.”

Lumiere’s voice was calm.

“Or you’re telling me distorted information.”

“…What?”

Dana slowly raised her head. Don’t tell me he’s denying it?

“Do you think I’m lying right now?”

“Well.”

“No. I really saw it, with another man!”

“Aren’t you thinking based on your own standards?”

“What?”

“Danae, you seem to have a hobby of somehow trying to shake up any man you see.”

Just like you did to me just now.

Lumiere swallowed those words, but she knew even without him saying it.

“Since your conduct is like that, you might be looking through tinted glasses.”

Lumiere spoke very calmly. It was even more miserable because there seemed to be no intention to disparage her in those words.

“I am.”

Dana clutched Lumiere’s jacket tightly.

“I’m saying this because I just want Brother to meet a good woman. Brother must, absolutely must meet a good woman.”

Lumiere chuckled softly as if that determination was somewhat absurd.

“Why do you think that?”

“Because Brother is a good man.”

Dana looked down at his feet.

“Because you’re a good man….”

No answer came.

Only the loud voices of drunkards from beyond the alleys filled the empty silence.

For some reason the air felt heavy, so Dana slowly looked up at Lumiere.

What did that sentence just scratch past? His red eyes were looking down at her obliquely, as if terribly offended by something.

He asked quietly.

“How would you know what kind of man I am?”

Because I’ve experienced you as a man. But she hadn’t lost her reason enough to blurt out those words.

“I just, I feel that way. That Brother seems like a really good man….”

At that moment, it was as if wind suddenly blew into Lumiere’s eyes. Like a weak candlelight being extinguished, they finally darkened. No, they became fierce.

He grabbed Dana’s arm.

“Whatever kind of man I am.”

A crushed voice scattered through his teeth. It was a voice she’d never heard from Lumiere before.

“It’s none of your business.”

“….”

“And don’t interfere needlessly in matters with my wife.”

“….”

“Do you understand?”

Dana realized anew.

I… really succeeded.

“I asked if you understand, Danae.”

I wanted to make Lumiere hate me.

I wanted him to despise and scorn me, to find me detestable.

“Yes.”

I really succeeded.

Something that had never succeeded even once across all timelines….

After Lumiere released her arm, he turned his back and left through the narrow alley. Then he spat out irritably.

“Adma Roland. Stop peeping and come out to take Danae away quickly.”

Somehow hearing that, Demian who had been waiting in the distant carriage opened the door and came out.

However, Dana couldn’t see him. She couldn’t hear whatever words Demian was saying as he approached.

She could only see Lumiere’s retreating back.

‘Thank goodness.’

Thank goodness that Lumiere hates me.

That was truly, truly great fortune for Lumiere.

Because in every timeline he.

Without a single exception he.

Always he….

‘Let’s go back.’

Dana composed herself. She grasped onto her reason with all her strength.

This was enough.

So let me focus on my own work.

Don’t I have so many things to do.

‘Right, let me hurry back first and tell Duke Roland that it’s been decided I’ll become the priestess for the spring water ritual.’

As Lumiere said, further interference would be unnecessary meddling. So I’ll just focus on my own work.

Get the sacred relic from Spring Water Island, extend my lifespan first, then regain my sanity.

Demian opened the carriage door and escorted her inside. The moment she sat on the chair, Dana frowned deeply.

What is this….

“Why, what’s wrong?”

Something, there’s an unpleasant smell.

Dana looked down at the carriage floor. It was clean but… something was… suspicious….

“What did you do by yourself?”

“I was just waiting for you.”

“So what were you doing while waiting?”

“I, I was meditating….”

“I won’t forgive you if you lie.”

“…I’m sorry. I, I was just so lonely.”

Perverted bastard.

As the carriage started, Dana silently leaned her head against the wall by the window.

‘Quickly, I need to quickly find the sacred relic and kill Demian.’

Then I’ll really feel better.

I should think about how best to kill Demian.

I absolutely won’t let him die peacefully. He needs to suffer plenty before dying….

Thinking such thoughts on the way, Dana dozed off.

Perhaps because her mind was full of thoughts of Lumiere. She dreamed of Lumiere.

A different time than now.

A cozily distant time.

Lumiere from the first timeline.

When she was Princess Danae Grants.

A dream of the time when Lumiere was her guard.

“Disgusting. Stop following me around!”

When she found guard Lumiere, who followed her like a shadow, disagreeable.

“I apologize, but this is my duty.”

“Then what about my feelings? Don’t you care about my feelings having to have you with me all the time?”

“I wasn’t ordered to consider Your Highness’s feelings. Therefore, yes. Not caring would be correct.”

That face speaking kindly with a gentle smile was so irritating.

Danae Grants tormented him.

“You said protecting me was your duty, right?”

Smack. She once threw a raw egg at the guard’s body.

“Then let’s practice from now on. While protecting me, someday you’ll surely have a day when you’ll get hit with raw eggs instead of me.”

It was a dream of those times.

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