I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 302

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Chapter 302

 

 

 

On the morning of the wedding day.

Karl sat on the sofa, staring intently at the wedding dress uniform hanging on the wall.

 

[Do you like the dress uniform?]

 

It was a dress uniform that Dana had sent.

 

[I picked it out myself.

I do hope you like it.]

 

She had sent a congratulatory card along with that dress uniform.

 

[I’m so happy to think that you’ll remarry and build a stable family.]

 

Karl stared intently at the letters on the card, then traced them with his fingertips.

 

[Please be a good husband to Miona.]

 

It was such a lovely handwriting that suited that child so well. The handwriting matched Dana’s characteristic calm and beautiful voice so perfectly that it seemed as if she was whispering in his ear.

 

[Congratulations on your marriage.]

 

Right beside him.

 

“Congratulations on your marriage.”

 

“What brings you to smoke a cigar?”

Karl slowly turned his head. Lumiere was leaning against the wall, watching him as if observing.

“I remember you quit long ago.”

That was right.

Karl sucked on the cigar in his mouth and shrugged his shoulders.

On the day he stepped down from his position as Army Commander, he had quit cigars.

At that time, while waiting for Danae Windsor to come, he had bought many books to study, and in [30 Types of Men That Women Avoid as Lovers], men who smell like cigarettes ranked 12th.

A man who smells like cigarettes wouldn’t make a good uncle.

With that thought, he had quit cold turkey and never smoked once. Until this very moment.

“You must be quite troubled.”

“No, not at all.”

“…”

“Why do you think that?”

Instead of answering, Lumiere looked at the crystal ashtray piled with several cigars. However, he didn’t bother to point it out.

“It’s not like this is your first time wearing one.”

Lumiere was right. Karl had worn such dress uniforms before.

At fifteen, at his wedding with Sandra.

Back then, he had no feelings whatsoever about getting married. Political marriages were common for noble men, and he had no fantasies or ideals about marriage.

“You should prepare now.”

Just then, a servant cautiously approached and spoke to him.

“The ceremony will begin soon.”

Karl nodded while smoking his cigar very slowly. As Lumiere said, this was a marriage he had already experienced once. The second time was easier.

It wasn’t a difficult matter.

 

* * *

 

10 minutes before the wedding ceremony, in the bridal waiting room.

“It suits you well.”

“You look truly beautiful.”

Alice pouted her lips.

She stood in front of the mirror wearing a wedding dress. The dress she actually wore was truly prettier than she had imagined, but—

The face was Miona’s face.

 

“If you put Miona’s hair into this potion and drink it, you’ll be able to maintain Miona’s appearance for just one day.”

 

The magical potion that the maid Nita had given her. After pulling out one of Miona’s hairs, putting it into the potion and drinking it, she had truly transformed into Miona’s face.

‘It would have been prettier if I wore it with my own face.’

But the loyal maid Nita had advised her while disposing of Miona’s corpse.

 

“It would be better to pretend to be Miona and get married.”

“Huh? Why? I could just say that Miona asked me to be her marriage proxy?”

“Then people would question Miona’s whereabouts. Her Imperial Majesty the Empress might become suspicious, so for now, pretend to be Miona.”

 

It made sense.

‘Anyway, this is all because Miona was too greedy.’

If Miona had been moderately greedy.

If she had obediently made me her marriage proxy, she wouldn’t have received heaven’s judgment and died like this, right?

Strangely, there was a candlestick stuck in that dead child’s stomach. It seemed like the Sun God was angry and directly punished Miona.

‘I knew it. Greedy women always get punished at the end.’

Doesn’t she read fairy tales or novels? She was truly a pathetically foolish friend.

Women with many desires and selfishness. Their endings are always the same. At the end of the story, they always receive great punishment and fall.

The role of becoming happy belongs to obedient and kind women who know how to give up greed.

‘Right. We grow up reading such fairy tales and learning from childhood, how foolish. Not even knowing such things.’

It was truly a pitifully unfortunate fate.

But if she carelessly pitied a child who died from divine punishment, God might become angry. So Alice decided not to be sad.

‘Right, and I can’t be gloomy at a wedding.’

She had sent word to Lyos that she felt unwell and wouldn’t be able to attend the birthday party. He told her not to worry and to rest well.

With this, her alibi was perfect.

‘It’s a bit disappointing that people won’t recognize that I’m today’s protagonist.’

It’s okay.

In the end, it was me who wore this dress and married Father!

‘No wait, is it older brother now?’

Brother Karl.

Alice, who muttered that sentence, twisted her body in embarrassment.

To think I had such an incredible secret of birth!

For now, I’m marrying in Miona’s place because I really, really wanted to wear a wedding dress.

But what should I do after the wedding ceremony?

The wedding night is waiting right away…

‘Pretending to be Miona might have worked out well. Father, no, older brother didn’t want to become my lover.’

If he knows I’m Miona, there’s nothing he can’t do, right?

But is it really okay to do that?

My conscience does hurt, but it would be strange for a bride to refuse the wedding night, wouldn’t it?

Just imagining it made my heart race. I felt scared but also a thrilling excitement washing over me.

Perhaps I’ll spend a secret night that I’ll keep as a lifelong secret. No one would ever find out. Not even Dad, no, not even Karl.

‘Right, even Mother won’t know. That Miona was me, no one will ever know.’

It would become a memory for me alone, only mine.

‘I wonder what he’s like in bed?’

He’d definitely be incredibly gentle… Kyaa… Am I allowed to imagine such things…?

I was lost in such dangerous yet sweet fantasies when it happened.

Bang! The door opened urgently, and a maid came running into the room.

“T-terrible news!”

What? Alice frowned. The maid cried out tearfully.

“Terrible news, Lady Miona!”

Ominously, why is she making such a fuss? Alice asked irritably.

“What on earth is it?”

“He’s disappeared!”

“Huh?”

“The groom…!”

The maid burst into tears and shouted with a trembling voice.

“The groom has disappeared!”

 

* * *

 

That late afternoon.

Around the time the red sunset began to set, Sandra arrived at the Great Temple.

When she showed her invitation, the Holy Knight guarding the Great Temple hesitated.

“Ah. This wedding is…”

Right, I am quite late. Sandra didn’t want to hear more and snapped sharply.

“Open the door quickly.”

“Well, the thing is.”

“Quickly! I’m in a hurry!”

Not wanting to get further involved, the Holy Knight obediently opened the door without another word.

Sandra entered the Great Temple, got out of her carriage, and walked quickly.

Throughout the journey here, it was hard to stay sane due to hatred and anger.

Miona.

I felt sorry for her losing her father early, grateful that she got along well with Alice, so I treated her well all this time.

‘Right, you were the only one who became Alice’s friend.’

Alice had been a person of bizarre character since childhood. So not only her own brother Lumiere, but even her father Anton avoided Alice.

The only one who stayed by Alice’s side was Miona. So I treated her well. I did.

‘To think she was targeting my husband!’

Who knows. Maybe she endured Alice’s personality and played the friend just to see Karl often!

Sandra couldn’t stay sane at all.

Losing her father, being driven out of the house by her son, and now even her beloved ex-husband stabbing her in the back.

As if betrayed by the entire world, she was now at a cliff’s edge.

At that edge, Sandra made a decision.

She would absolutely not fall and die alone. Absolutely not!

“Mother.”

Just then. At the voice calling her, Sandra stopped in her tracks.

“…Danae.”

She had encountered Danae.

Though she was a girl she hated endlessly, at this moment she felt no emotion whatsoever.

Sandra asked with a trembling voice.

“Did Miona and Karl have their wedding?”

Dana looked at her quietly for a moment. Then nodded.

“Yes.”

At that moment, a heart-tearing pain struck. In pain, Sandra gasped for breath.

They did it. They really got married.

They did it, leaving me behind.

“There was a bit of commotion, but the wedding finished safely.”

Danae said with a calm face.

A face smiling gently as usual. But why was it? She felt very chilly and cold, as if looking at a grim reaper.

“Right now, the two are probably spending their wedding night.”

At those words, everything was swept away.

Wedding night.

Wedding night!

At that word, maddening hatred bubbled up, then snap, something broke in her head.

“Do you know which room that is?”

“Well, but the door would have decorations blessing the newlyweds hanging on it. According to the Empire’s tradition.”

Right, it would.

The fruit that hung on the door during my and Karl’s wedding night would be hanging on those bastards’ room.

Her breathing became labored. Sandra walked without even saying goodbye. As she passed by Danae, the girl muttered.

“Don’t you have any regrets about Lumiere?”

Regrets? Of course I do!

I regret not selling that bastard Lumiere to the slave market long ago. No, I regret not strangling him to death when he was born!

With each breath, hot hatred and murderous intent surged like flames. It hurt so much that tears streamed down.

Walking through the Great Temple like a mad woman, she finally found it.

The bedroom with walnuts hanging in clusters.

Bang, she turned the doorknob without hesitation.

The doorknob turned easily. Someone seemed to have deliberately broken the lock – but anger paralyzed reason. She couldn’t think of anything.

“Ah!”

The moment she entered, Sandra let out a scream of shock.

The room reeked of sexual activity. It was so familiar that Sandra could immediately recognize it – the smell of male bodily fluids.

At that moment, Sandra’s heart collapsed. Even the ground beneath her feet crumbled.

She took one step forward, then another. The more she did, the more she seemed to sink down, down into a dark, terrible, hideous world…

This place was her hell.

“Mmm.”

She could sense stirring from the bed.

It was Miona.

Only Miona.

Had Karl stepped away for a moment?

A strange laugh escaped her. Had Karl Windsor been quite urgent? Had he no leisure to even remove the bride’s dress?

Miona was sleeping still wearing her dress.

But her peacefully sleeping face was red and swollen. Tear-stained as if she had wailed for a long time. Ah, to think my ex-husband had such vile tastes!

While he treated me like stone! While he looked at me as if caring for a stone!

Resentment violently swirled and shattered her heart to pieces.

Making me lonely throughout our entire marriage.

If you hadn’t neglected me like that, I wouldn’t have had so many affairs.

But how could you make your daughter’s friend cry until she was such a mess?

Who knows. Maybe they were having an affair throughout the entire marriage.

Come to think of it, Karl was so excessively ascetic it was frightening. Perhaps he was satisfying his sexual desires elsewhere.

With Miona.

 

“Oh my. Karl, what if Sandra finds out?”

“It’s fine. My wife doesn’t know anything.”

 

Where I couldn’t see, while pretending to visit Alice. Behind my back, kissing Miona, caressing Miona’s body, holding Miona.

 

“Ah, I love you so much, Miona.”

 

Maybe that’s why he divorced me!

My thoughts became tangled and twisted in chaos until they finally turned black. When I came to my senses, Sandra was picking up the pillow next to Miona.

And at that moment.

“Mmm…”

Miona’s eyelids fluttered as if waking from sleep, then her eyes snapped open.

Our eyes met.

Looking startled, Miona’s lips moved slightly.

“Mom…?”

Before she could finish speaking, Sandra pressed the pillow firmly against the child’s face. So she couldn’t breathe, couldn’t get air, suffocating her.

“…!”

Miona struggled desperately. Her arms and legs thrashed wildly, letting out choking, gasping moans over and over again.

Sandra pressed the pillow down hard with bloodshot eyes. She poured out words like a curse.

“Die! Something like you should never have been born! Die!”

How much time passed like that?

Eventually the child stopped moving.

Stopped forever.

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