I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 292

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Chapter 292

Lumiere held his breath as memories crashed over him like a tidal wave.

That was all he could do. Stop everything, breathe, and simply accept it all…

And naturally, he realized.

[Come here and brush my hair again, Lumiere. It looks strange when I do it myself.]

Everything he had seen in the crystal ball until now.

What he thought was fake had all been real past events.

All of it was his memories.

My past.

[How could you betray me?]

Ah, yes. I remember.

[I may not trust my sister, but I trusted you.]

That’s right.

Lumiere flushed under the pouring water.

When I was Lyos Grants’ loyal retainer, when his hair was golden.

I betrayed him.

Because I fell in love with her.

[Choose me in the next life, you bastard.]

And the life that ended with his execution.

Shouldn’t that have been the end?

“Ha, haha.”

Laughter escaped him.

But life continued even after that.

As if the clockwork had been rewound, returning to the beginning, but with different relationships, life began once again.

In the next life, she was not Princess Danae Grants.

Danae Windsor. The young lady of the Windsor Ducal House.

And she was his cousin.

In those days, she was engaged to Lyos Grants. But when it was revealed that they were siblings-

“Brother. I don’t know how to persuade Lyos. No matter how much I tell him we’re siblings, he won’t listen.”

Dana demanded to break the engagement, but Lyos wouldn’t let her go, so Dana often came to vent to me, leaned on me.

“Don’t go, Brother.”

“What?”

“I want to stay together all night tonight.”

She seduced me.

She came to me.

And hid behind me.

To escape from Lyos…

“Haha…”

The laughter kept coming.

I know.

She chose to love me because she needed a place to hide.

Even knowing this, I gladly accepted it. Whatever the beginning, it was love in the end, and even if it wasn’t love, he wanted her.

The intimate scenes he saw in the orb were all events from that time. The life where I dated her, promised to marry her.

And what happened to me in that life.

Did I marry her?

‘No… I couldn’t.’

It came back immediately.

The burning estate.

“I’m fine, so get out quickly, Dana. If we stay like this any longer, the estate will collapse.”

There they parted forever.

That life ended like that.

And another life began…

Leading to the present time.

Now, this moment. This time I’m living in.

Lumiere blinked his eyes. The ice-cold water flowed down like tears.

Finally, the memories of the past few years he had forgotten came back.

The memories of his cousin, Danae Windsor, that he had forgotten as well.

They returned.

[I miss you.]

The moment he ran like an excited dog to that roughly scrawled letter she sent.

But you weren’t there.

You were nowhere to be found.

After that, I was imprisoned for violating military law.

Dismissed from my captain’s position, stripped of my medals, robbed of my uniform, everything taken away until only bones remained.

During that time of downfall when the life I had built crumbled, you never, not even once, came to find me.

When I went to find you again, you greeted me with a smile as cold as ice.

“You called for me, Dana.”

“I did.”

“What did you call me for?”

“I had business, but it’s fine now.”

“Fine?”

“Yes. It’s all over. So you don’t need to worry about it.”

You spoke so casually.

“If it’s alright with you, I’d like to offer you financial consolation.”

You mocked me.

Lumiere rubbed his throbbing eyes.

Yes. That’s right. When Danae Windsor said she would compensate me with money, I was so hurt, so angry.

What did I do next?

“You should call my name, Dana.”

I entered her room.

Closed the window. Entered the bedroom.

I don’t know what I was thinking. I just knew for certain that I couldn’t leave like that.

And after that….

“Then would you hold me?”

That girl sneered as she took off her chemise.

“If you don’t want monetary compensation, I’ll compensate you physically.”

“Haha.”

Lumiere laughed. He kept letting out bitter chuckles.

“Ahahaha.”

I was quite the fool back then too.

Because she was beautiful, because I was blinded.

I rushed at her, thinking even that humiliation was good.

“Now… are you satisfied?”

But the wretchedness that washed over me at the end of that act was indescribable.

“Or is once not enough?”

The woman I loved with all my breath-choking heart, lying beneath him, panting.

“Then let’s do it as much as you want.”

As if throwing food to a beggar. As if telling him to leave now that he’d finished eating, looking at me with those eyes….

“If you’re done, then leave now.”

My eyes burned hot.

Just remembering it again made my chest ache as if being squeezed. Lumiere covered his stinging eyes with his damp hands.

“With this, the price has been fully paid. So I hope we never see each other again.”

And I, so I.

“I’m sorry. I was wrong.”

I begged.

“I’m sorry for everything. So please don’t say we should cut ties.”

I pleaded.

“No, I don’t want to. I never want to see you again, Brother.”

That girl was like a blade.

“How’s that. I’m really bad, aren’t I? Forget a bad bitch like me. Consider it being bitten by a dog.”

I felt like I was being murdered by that blade.

“I never want to see you again so just leave, please stop being clingy and just go, it’s annoying, I really hate you terribly!”

And finally, the path back alone.

Did I cry the whole time? Or did I laugh….

I don’t remember that well.

Only the memory of being in deadly pain all night long was vivid.

“Ahaha….”

And what’s certain is that I’m laughing now.

Or am I? Am I crying?

I still don’t know.

Whoosh. Under the pouring stream of water, Lumiere simply covered his face.

How much time passed like that?

Lumiere finally turned off the faucet. Drip, drip, only the remaining water trickled down his chin.

After drying his body, he put on a robe and headed to the bedroom. On the bed, that selfish, witch-like woman lay in dazzlingly beautiful form, deep in sleep.

“Dana.”

He called quietly.

“Yes?”

She doesn’t wake up.

What was I going to say if she woke up?

I don’t know.

A subtle sense of unease flows.

Lumiere pulled up the blanket that had slipped down and warmly covered that girl’s body.

Then he slowly turned his head and surveyed the room.

First, let’s dispose of the bodies of Maternal Grandfather, Wife, and Father. And let’s erase their bloodstains.

She would surely be shocked to know she was held in such a place. If she knew I held you despite all this, she would find me repulsive.

So that Dana tomorrow would be at peace.

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