I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 312

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Chapter 312

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“If you won’t follow the Great Temple’s wedding procedures, I can no longer officiate this ceremony!”

Cardinal Dominic left in indignation, and the priests followed the cardinal out of the Grand Chapel.

Among the crowd rushing out all at once, there was one man who stood motionless and upright.

Their eyes met.

‘Ah.’

It was Noah.

For a moment, a chilling sensation washed over her as if her heart had suddenly stopped, and Dana instinctively took a step back.

He looked at her with eyes like black mist—darker than darkness, lower than shadows, nothing like the Noah she knew that she could even imagine…

Then he turned away.

He left with the priests.

Just like that, the Grand Chapel was instantly emptied.

Her heart was beating rapidly. Perhaps it was because she had heard there was an assassin.

Right now, it felt like he might rush at her to kill her.

But now wasn’t the time to worry about Noah.

Dana turned around.

Viego Windsor was still standing there, looking down at her.

As if he had never roughly struck the wine cup just moments ago, as if he had never ruined this wedding.

“Why did you do that?”

“…”

“Why did you stop me from drinking the wine?”

There was no answer.

Soon he turned his body sharply and left the Grand Chapel. Dana started to chase after him but hesitated.

No, not now.

But she couldn’t let him go like this.

“Viego Windsor, don’t go anywhere and wait in your room!”

Instead, she shouted at his retreating figure.

“If you leave first, I won’t let it slide!”

He didn’t even stop walking. Annoyed for a moment, she shouted once more.

“I told you to wait, answer me!”

Then Viego sighed and looked back at her.

“I understand, so stop being angry.”

“…”

“I’ll wait.”

Then he turned around again and walked away.

His compliant attitude was suspicious, but Dana decided to trust his words for now. There was something more urgent at hand.

Dana hurriedly ran to the now-empty guest seating area.

There, Lyos was slumped down.

He was breathing heavily with a face that had turned deathly pale. Gasping, gasping, as if he might collapse at any moment. And…

Thick tears were flowing down his face.

Dana knew what this phenomenon was.

‘Right now his timelines are tangled and his mind is confused.’

She had experienced it too.

After living as Danawin for 10 years and drifting through countless timelines. But fortunately, when Justio brought her back to reality.

At that time, she too had been confused, constantly shedding tears. Just like Lyos now.

He was probably even more dizzy than she had been.

As she quietly watched Lyos, she was reminded of that time.

The moment she first met Crown Prince Lyos as ‘Danae Windsor.’

That day was Justio’s coronation ceremony.

Originally, Lyos, who was the crown prince, was supposed to become emperor, but a divine oracle came down saying to make Justio emperor, so the emperor changed.

That day, Dana saw Lyos hiding alone at Justio’s coronation ceremony.

“What are you looking at.”

Lyos was crying just like now.

Covered in cold sweat, with a face white as paper, shedding thick tears.

She had thought he was crying in sorrow from having the emperor’s crown taken away.

That’s what she had thought.

But that wasn’t it.

‘That was also after creating a new timeline.’

Now she knew.

That divine oracle for Justio to ascend to the throne was also fake. The Sun God could no longer send divine oracles to this land.

It must have been a fake divine oracle that Lyos had fabricated.

Dana now knew why Lyos had done such a thing.

Now she really knew so many things.

Dana whispered the name of the man she had once truly loved.

“Lyos.”

He slowly raised his head.

The eyes that met hers were sharp like a honed blade, and his face resembled a defiant beast. However, his reddened, swollen eyes and flowing tears looked as fragile as glass, ready to shatter easily.

“Are you okay?”

Come to think of it, she had fallen for this gap back then too. The sight of him shedding tears with a face that looked more arrogant than anyone else’s.

When she was Danae Windsor, she was the one who fell in love at first sight.

“When you…”

Then Lyos muttered in a low, cracked voice.

“Went to the Papal Court as a hostage.”

Dana realized. Right now, his confused mind was deeply dwelling in that moment. When she was Danae Grants, the moment she left him to become a hostage of the Papal Court.

“In the end, you died a year later, and your urn and belongings were delivered to me.”

A year after living as a hostage of the Papal Court, she had died.

She had been killed.

“Among your belongings was a diary you had kept while living as a hostage.”

Dana silently looked at his face.

Large teardrops continuously fell along Lyos’s sharp jawline. He glared at her with hateful eyes and spat out.

“Lumiere…”

“…”

“All Lumiere, Lumiere, Lumiere, Lumiere.”

“…”

“Yes, there were occasionally other names too. But.”

His voice was so choked it was impossible to tell if it was sobbing or cursing.

“Me.”

“…”

“What about me?”

Dana gave him no words in return.

She had also recovered most of her memories from that time, so Dana remembered it too.

The diary she had written while living as a hostage in the Papal Court.

She had densely recorded her guilt and longing for Lumiere, who had died while bringing her to the Papal Court.

She had deliberately not written a single character of Lyos’s name.

Not even one letter.

Dana could now understand better than anyone what Lyos must have felt when he saw that.

“Back then, I was madly envious of you. I wanted to become like you. I wished I could change my heart as easily as you did, and abandon things as easily. If I could have done that, then I too, I also.”

“Lyos. I am….”

When Dana reached out her hand to him, Lyos grabbed her hand forcefully. He pulled her close.

Then immediately let go as if shaking her off.

As if confusion came again, he gritted his teeth and muttered.

“Lumiere….”

“What?”

“Lumiere!”

Lyos shouted as if he could no longer bear it. The veins in his neck bulged.

Then someone gently grabbed her shoulder.

“Dana.”

It was Lumiere.

He smiled as if troubled.

“Let’s save the conversation for later.”

Lumiere grabbed the staggering Lyos’s arm and put it over his shoulder. Supporting him like that, he turned his head and smiled at her.

“You should go inside and rest too. Understood?”

“…Yes.”

Dana nodded.

She also had someone waiting for her.

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While heading to Viego Windsor’s room, Dana slowly organized her thoughts.

Just a moment ago, one timeline had ended and a new timeline had begun.

Dana had clearly witnessed with her Divine Sight the scene of one timeline dying and a new timeline being born. In that process, she had also glimpsed Lyos’s past that flashed by.

‘This is different from simply having the ability to move through time.’

In the first timeline, Lyos had the Divine Authority to move through time, but….

In the end, that was an ability to travel between past and present within one timeline. It only worked within that timeline.

But now Lyos had ended one timeline and created a new one.

Moving through time within one timeline.

Ending a timeline and starting anew.

These two abilities were clearly different.

That was a Divine Authority that Lyos originally didn’t have.

No, was this an ability a human could possess?

Dana now completely understood why he had received the Sun God’s Curse, when he had received it, and what he had paid as the price. That was-

“Ah!”

At that moment, Dana, who was turning a corner, crashed into something with a bang. She almost fell, but fortunately a strong force grabbed her and held her upright.

“…Your Holiness the Pope.”

It was Justio. He stood like a pillar in the corridor in front of her bedroom.

“Were you waiting for me?”

“….”

Justio looked down at her without answering. It was his usual quiet face, but Dana strangely felt as if his mood was twisted.

‘Is it just my imagination.’

Well, in the previous timeline, she had heard him shout not to drink the soul-killing poison. That must be the influence.

‘He did shout. Come to think of it.’

Finding it hard to believe, Dana cautiously observed his mood.

She had ignored that and swallowed the soul-killing poison in one gulp.

Since it was from the previous timeline, he probably doesn’t remember.

“Your Holiness. I, for now….”

Then, Justio opened his tightly closed lips.

“Please guide me to where Rodrigo Windsor is.”

He spoke slowly in a very low, suppressed voice.

“Since we agreed to go immediately after the ceremony.”

Dana was startled. Did we?

‘Did I promise to go right after the ceremony?’

She didn’t think she had made such a definite promise, but Dana nodded for now.

“Ah. Of course. First, this….”

It would be nice if you let go.

Why won’t he let go.

Justio didn’t let go of her arm. Rather, he gripped it even more tightly and walked forward. Dana stumbled along after him, almost as if she were about to fall over.

She blinked, unable to believe it. What?

Right now, somehow, it feels like he’s dragging me along with a leash so I can’t do anything foolish…?

‘But I didn’t do anything wrong this time?’

Does he think I won’t cooperate and will run away?

Well, this man was originally like that. Despite looking so noble, Justio was more violent than anyone she knew.

Remembering when he had strangled her, Dana hurriedly said.

“Your Holiness, wait a moment. I have some things I need to prepare first.”

“Cardinal Dominic has fled with very dangerous holy relics.”

“Pardon?”

“Not only that, but the Cardinal has colluded with the anti-cult faction. He must be heading to Rodrigo Windsor now. We cannot let him fall into that man’s hands.”

As expected.

Cardinal Dominic was the one who put soul-killing poison in the wine glass. That man was no joke even when I was Danae Grants….

Then thud. The sound of striking the floor was heard.

Both Justio and Dana stopped and turned around.

Had he come out after hearing the commotion? Viego Windsor stood there leaning on his cane.

“I don’t have time.”

He spoke without hiding his displeasure.

“How long do I have to wait for you?”

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