I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 299

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Chapter 299

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“How is it? Do you like my gift?”

At Dana’s question, Karl Windsor remained silent for a long time.

It was a long, long silence.

Since meeting him, Dana had never seen him lost in thought for so long.

“Are you serious?”

After a moment, Karl finally asked. His face wore a smile, yet was quite serious.

“Yes.”

So Dana nodded with innocent eyes.

“Why? Don’t you like it?”

Then Karl smiled, lifting the corners of his mouth.

That gentle smile I love so much— no, hate so much.

“Don’t like it?”

He wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her into his embrace like trapping her, and pressed his lips to the crown of her head.

“How could that be.”

Breath scattering from her forehead.

“It’s a gift from Dana.”

And then, fingers.

Karl’s fingers ran through her soft hair, sliding down long before dropping off at the ends. Then immediately, without hesitation, he placed them on her back.

“How could I refuse that?”

Karl slowly stroked Dana’s spine with his fingertips. Smoothly as if climbing a ridge, yet carefully as if handling a girl.

Just that alone was so skillful it made Dana tingle down to her toes. His fingers, those fingertips, left a trail like flames. So vividly hot it throbbed.

“I like anything Dana gives me.”

He whispered in a voice tinged with laughter. His breath gently grazed her ear like a caress.

“Anything at all.”

Dana realized she was focusing all her nerves on his breath, on his fingers stroking her back— yes, on just a few fingers.

On that shallow, light contact that was nothing special, never crossing any lines.

Her head grew dizzy.

But Dana just smiled clearly like stubbornness.

“I’m glad you’ll accept my gift. Then please treat it preciously. You understand, right?”

“If that’s what Dana wants, of course I should try to do so.”

“If I want it, will you remarry too?”

“If that’s what Dana wants from me.”

“Then remarry. How about getting married at my engagement ceremony?”

“At your engagement ceremony, you want me to marry Miss Miona?”

“That’s right. I’ll get permission from Viego Windsor. Why? Don’t you want to?”

“If Viego and Miss Miona agree, I don’t mind.”

The voices exchanged quickly, without hesitation from either side, were just endlessly gentle. There seemed to be no blade-like edge anywhere.

“I’ll do as you tell me.”

Karl lightly bumped his forehead against hers and rubbed gently. Platinum hair scattered across her vision.

“Just say the word.”

Don’t smile like that.

“Cute Dana.”

Her breath, her breathing grew heated.

Just… rather just.

“Why do I like you so much?”

Just like this, I want to kill this man.

Pull him close, knock him down, grab that neck, squeeze it tight. Just like this.

“I, I like you too.”

Just like this…

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“What did you say?”

Sandra shouted.

“Miona and Karl, what happened with them?”

After being driven away by Lumiere, Sandra had only one place left to go.

Rodrigo Windsor. He was the only one left she could lean on.

Of course there was Alice, the Empress, but Sandra didn’t want to show such weakness to her beloved daughter.

“What on earth does that mean!”

Sandra yelled at Rodrigo. Then Rodrigo seemed thoroughly cowed by her energy, hunching his shoulders and slyly avoiding her gaze.

“Well, Miona said she’s going to marry Karl next week. She sent word through a communication bird.”

“So what!”

“So she said she’s cutting ties with us now…”

“You just listened to that?! You should have talked her out of it! You should have somehow stopped her and pulled her back in!”

“She’s not really worth going that far for…”

“You said you liked how smart she was!”

“Still, Miona has no convictions, only greed. She’s like a migratory bird swayed by desires that change constantly. Such people are bound to betray eventually, and we’ve used her as much as we could anyway, so this is a good opportunity to— ugh!”

Thwack!

Rodrigo got hit in the head by a book Sandra threw and hunched over.

“Still! You should have said something! That it’s morally wrong to be joined with Karl Windsor, you should have at least said that!”

Sandra pointed accusingly while fuming.

“Karl is Miona’s friend, Alice’s father! At least that’s what people know! But marriage!”

“Morality, Sandra? I have some shame, how could I say such things?”

“Shame, my foot! Since when have you cared about such things!”

Rodrigo looked tearful. He really felt like crying.

Taking care of Sandra was no ordinary task.

Not long ago, his old acquaintance Anton Roland had died. Corrupted by the Corrupted Land, they couldn’t even recover his body.

It was understandable that Sandra, Anton’s daughter, was so agitated.

“I know you’re heartbroken about what happened to Anton, but I was your father’s longtime collaborator and friend. You can’t be so ill-mannered.”

Rodrigo made an effort to revive his authority as an elder.

“So shouldn’t you respect me as you would your father, Sandra?”

“…”

At those words, Sandra’s eyes welled up with tears.

Her father’s friend. Those words made her vulnerable.

“Sob, I’m just so upset. Lumiere, that unfilial bastard tried to kill me and finally drove me from the family, but now even Karl, even Karl…”

“There, there.”

“Sniff, surely Miona won’t really marry Karl? It must be a lie, right?”

“Right, she won’t do it. Don’t worry.”

Rodrigo said that, but his thoughts were different.

‘She will, won’t she?’

If he married Sandra, why couldn’t he marry Miona? Of course he could and would.

His son Karl has been utterly bizarre since childhood, so one must not think of him within the category of ordinary humans.

While marriage would be a momentous occasion for ordinary people, to Karl, marriage would be a more trivial matter than deciding that morning’s menu.

“No way….”

And Sandra seemed to vaguely sense this as well.

“Karl could do it. He really could do it. That man is so unpredictable, I can never figure out what’s going on in his head….”

Sandra gnawed at her nails with a grinding sound. Then she muttered with a face full of hatred.

“Miona Cruzer, that vulgar thing, how dare she target her friend’s father, how could she. When that girl was struggling, I took such good care of her, and she doesn’t even know gratitude…. Does she think I’ll let her marry Karl? I’ll never let it slide….”

Rodrigo stealthily tiptoed out of her room. After closing the door with a click, he hurriedly ran to his own bedroom.

“Oh my.”

Upon reaching his room, Rodrigo let out a sigh of relief.

Truly, Sandra was far too wicked. How exhausting it was to deal with her torment….

“Gasp!”

He carelessly lifted his head and let out a scream.

“Wh-what are you doing here?”

“….”

In the dark room. Next to the fluttering curtains, a beautiful man was staring at him with an expressionless face.

“Duke Windsor’s wedding is next week.”

The man spoke.

“Are the plans proceeding as scheduled?”

Rodrigo pressed his lips tightly shut.

Originally, Rodrigo had planned to retrieve Danae from Godom Island. He intended to bring that child back and cleanse her corrupted mind.

But it failed.

The thought entities of Anton and his son Demian had failed to kidnap Dana.

‘No, Demian didn’t fail to do it—he chose not to do it.’

That bastard Demian was never trustworthy from the start. He was a vile creature who only knew his own desires and never gave a damn about greater causes.

But now he couldn’t just sit idle with his hands folded.

‘Corrupted Land has occurred on Godom Island.’

And around the same time, the black cores buried and sleeping throughout the earth began to stir.

Rodrigo had created a magical device to detect corruption flowing through the ley lines for this day, and it had been shaking unstably recently.

The black cores had begun writhing as if they would sprout at any moment.

‘It was like this before too.’

Several years ago. After the flow of ley lines became twisted, corruption erupted explosively from lands everywhere.

At that time, countless lands rotted and countless people died.

During that great disaster, ‘Danae Windsor’ had saved this world by purifying the land.

But would the current ‘Danae Rolland’ willingly purify the land?

Perhaps she might even hate this world?

A saint filled with hatred is no longer sacred. She is nothing but a witch fallen to evil.

The current Dana was a witch.

So there was no choice. He had to kill the witch and reclaim the saint.

The time had come to wash her memories, cleanse the hatred staining her heart, and make her into a clean blank slate.

Though Danae Rolland’s body was already nearing the end of its lifespan—with the ley lines raging now, every moment was urgent.

“Kill her.”

Rodrigo spoke like a sigh.

“As planned. Kill her then.”

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