I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 297

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Chapter 297

“Oh, right.”

Just then, Lumiere, who was about to leave, suddenly stopped. He turned to look at her and smiled as if troubled.

“I won’t be at the estate for a while, so it’ll be hard to see me. If you need anything, just tell my secretary.”

“Where are you going?”

“Yeah. I’ll attend your engagement ceremony, so don’t worry.”

“….”

“Prepare well. Take care.”

Click. The door closed.

Lumiere had left.

Dana quietly stared at the door he had exited through.

Her heart ached terribly, but her current emotions weren’t important.

This was enough. Now he would never again be hurt or sacrifice himself because of her.

Never again would he be hurt because of me….

‘…But he’s already been hurt, hasn’t he?’

Dana leaned back against the chair and crossed her legs. She moved her toes back and forth, then smiled.

He’s already been hurt, Lumiere has.

Setting aside the previous life as a timeline that’s already ended.

Even in this life, he’s already been hurt and lost his memories like that, hasn’t he?

The only person who can carry out the revenge that Lumiere can’t even remember is me, isn’t it?

Dana slowly reached out and picked up a knife. Her face reflected on the silver surface.

Only I can do it.

Only me.

* * *

Alice stared blankly at the sky outside the window.

‘The sky is so clear.’

Clear without a single cloud, just like.

Just like Number 66’s clear, milky-white skin without a speck of dust.

Tears streamed down from Alice’s eyes.

“Ugh, this is annoying….”

It had been several months since she was kidnapped by the red ship and then rescued.

Though she had returned safely, Alice had been suffering from depression ever since.

How could she not? The prince who saved me that day was my father. And I tried to seduce him without knowing!

It was truly the greatest humiliation of her life.

‘Father wouldn’t tell anyone, would he?’

She wanted to explain, but she hadn’t been able to meet her father since that day.

Since there were nobles who witnessed her father in the capital, it seemed he had safely escaped from the red ship.

‘What on earth is Father doing, wandering around?’

Father had always been like that. Always busy.

When I was young, Father was a soldier, so it was hard to see his face.

Back then, he rarely came home, and even when he did, we only exchanged greetings. It was perfect indifference.

“You must be Aliza. You’ve grown so much?”

He even got my name wrong until I was six years old….

Of course, he always treated me kindly with a smile, but Father was originally gentle to the maids too. Maids or daughters. To him, they were all the same.

‘That’s why there was a time when I thought I might not be Father’s real daughter….’

But at some point, Father changed. Precisely, after Father retired from his military position. After Father became the vice head of the Windsor Family.

‘Yes. That was the best time.’

Karl Windsor, who became the vice head, was truly gentle. Father was really like cotton candy—I made such an innocent comparison at a young age.

He cherished me so much that each day was sweet.

Alice remembered when that affection changed direction.

‘Ever since Sister Danae came to the house….’

The day Danae Windsor was supposed to come.

From that morning, Father was strangely odd.

Alice remembered his serious face as he hummed while carefully combing his hair, carefully choosing the color of his cravat, and finally pondering whether or not to apply perfume.

‘He bought a bunch of perfume he never usually used and pondered over it for a long time.’

But in the end, he didn’t apply the perfume….

…No, wait a minute.

Alice suddenly sat up from where she had been half-lying on the sofa.

Now that I think about it, isn’t that a bit strange? An uncle trying so hard to make a good impression on just his niece?

Did such a thing really happen?

‘Did I dream it?’

Yes, maybe I’m mistaking a scene I saw in a dream. It couldn’t have really happened like that, right?

But it was definitely from that time.

From that day, his affection was cut off completely. All of Karl’s attention, every bit of it, was poured onto Sister Danae. As if all the tenderness he had given Alice was just practice. As if it had been a preparation stage for the real thing….

‘It’s really too much.’

It wasn’t just Father.

Noah was the same. The boy who had been like a fierce cat that followed no one, followed Sister Dana around like a duckling.

Brother Lumiere was the same. Even though I was his real younger sister, he cherished and loved Sister Dana more. Crown Prince Lyos, whom I had a crush on for so long, became Sister Dana’s lover….

Thinking of those times felt suffocating, like being trapped in a pitch-black night.

Sister Dana sparkled so brightly that all the brilliant light in the world seemed to pour only on her, and I felt like I alone was buried in deep darkness.

If Lyos hadn’t reached out his hand saying he had fallen for me, I might have suffocated, consumed by that darkness.

However, recently Alice felt as if that darkness was gradually creeping back.

Lately, I keep thinking of Lyos from that time.

Lyos, who was crying alone, prostrate before the statue of Sun God Ramun after the divine trial ended and he broke off his engagement with Sister Danae.

Remembering that silent weeping made me feel like the ground beneath my feet was collapsing.

And yet he says he loves me?

Is it really true? Does he really love me? Is his love real?

That wasn’t the only reason for her depression.

“Pathetic thing.”

Alice covered her face with both hands.

“Just how did you conduct your prenatal care that my child has a disability!”

Alice and Wilhelm’s son.

The prince named Knox was determined to be abnormal.

She had felt something was strange because he didn’t cry or laugh much.

“Sandra also slept around with various men while pregnant. Tell me honestly. Did you also do such things during pregnancy and pass a disease to my child? Is that why my child has a disability!”

Wilhelm Grants, the child’s biological father, only blamed her, causing all sorts of chaos, breaking furniture and even smashing vases.

“Tsk, I should have seen my child from Danae Windsor, not from something like you…”

At the end, he always throws out words comparing me to Sister Dana before leaving.

Alice hugged her knees together. Tears poured down, and an uncontrollable depression washed over her.

‘I really hate it. I really hate it!’

Every time Wilhelm hurled such abuse, Alice would look around her surroundings. And she would find them.

Sharp things. Like fountain pens or candlesticks. She would unknowingly stare at such things and think.

If I stabbed him with that, that man wouldn’t be able to run his mouth so carelessly anymore!

‘No, I shouldn’t think such bad thoughts.’

Why does Sister Dana corrupt me like this?

Eventually, at Lyos’s recommendation, Knox was sent to some island of the Diana Church. They said he might be able to be healed if he went there.

The day Knox was sent away like that…

Sister Dana returned.

She had been severely injured in the red ship explosion accident and fell into a coma, but now she had awakened.

When I heard the news, fear came rushing over me. Because Sister Dana brings misfortune. Always, always, she only makes those around her unhappy.

Look, as soon as she woke up, didn’t Maternal Grandfather and Ingria die!

Even that day Knox left me. And above all.

Sister says she’ll hold her engagement ceremony and wedding one after another soon.

That day is, that day is my birthday.

“Huuuuuung.”

It’s my birthday! Why are you getting engaged on my birthday!

“Your Highness the Empress.”

While I was crying like that, a maid knocked from outside the door.

“His Majesty the Emperor is calling for you.”

“Sob, yes, I understand. I’ll go.”

Alice wiped her tears and stood up. While walking dejectedly down the corridor, soaked in gloom.

She unknowingly stopped. That man walking toward her from the opposite side right now is…

Not Father.

However, he was a man who resembled Father quite a bit, and was as beautiful as Father. Silky platinum hair, delicate and beautiful features, as tall as Father with an imposing build, long legs striding forward…

“Noah?”

Then the man’s gaze flew over briefly.

They were eyes like a blood-soaked blade. The moment they met, it felt like being cut, so Alice unknowingly stepped backward.

That was all. The man coldly passed by her without even a greeting.

‘I think that was Noah?’

The last time I saw Noah was three years ago.

At that time, Noah’s body had grown tall, but his face still retained some boyish innocence, but that man…

‘Now he really looks like a man…’

Her heart pounded thump-thump. To think he had grown into such a beautiful man while I hadn’t seen him.

But why was he coming out of His Majesty’s room?

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