I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 320

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Chapter 320

 

 

 

 

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When Demian and Danawin had stayed in this place.

Saying he would show her something good, claiming it was a place others didn’t know about, Demian had once taken her out very secretly.

‘Here it is.’

The wall of the chaotic corridor, where a portrait of a woman wearing a ruby necklace hung.

Teleportation magic had been cast here.

Bumping into screaming people, Dana bit down hard on her finger. Then she stamped and smeared the blood like a seal onto the woman’s ruby necklace.

“Ah!”

Instantly, a powerful force sucked her in.

Dana squeezed her eyes shut and grabbed Lete’s arm. The spatial movement sensation. This feeling of her entire insides shaking was truly terrible. Yes, even when she was Danawin, she had hated this sensation—.

And after a moment.

‘Did it work?’

When she opened her eyes, she was in a spacious laboratory, different from where she had been moments before.

It had worked. However.

“…!”

There’s someone here!

Dana quickly grabbed Lete and hid behind a shelf. At the same time, someone collapsed noisily.

The fallen man was a researcher from the Diana Church wearing a white coat.

“Cough!”

Was he injured? The man suddenly coughed up blood. Dana held her breath tightly and hugged Lete.

What was happening?

“P-please, save me.”

A woman approached from behind the researcher. And then.

“-!”

She ruthlessly stabbed a knife into the researcher’s throat.

The researcher struggled a few times and then stopped moving.

He was dead.

He had been murdered.

Dana checked the face of the person who had killed the researcher from behind the shelf. And she doubted her own eyes.

‘Nettie?’

Fortunately, Nettie didn’t seem to notice them.

Nettie took out a bundle of keys from her pocket and placed them in the dead researcher’s hand.

Then, just as Dana had done, she placed her blood-stained hand on a portrait hanging on the wall. This time it was a man’s portrait.

After a moment, Nettie smoothly disappeared as if being sucked in.

Only then did Dana get up. She then examined the researcher with a disgusted expression.

What on earth had happened?

What was this bundle of keys?

Seeing that there were dozens of keys, they seemed like keys to the iron cages where the test subjects here were confined.

‘Could it be that Nettie opened them so the test subjects could escape?’

Why?

Dana began pushing the largest bookshelf in the laboratory. While doing so, her eyes scanned the tools and strange equipment scattered throughout the laboratory—.

She gasped and opened her eyes wide in surprise.

‘That’s a magic core.’

On the desk, inside an iron box. That black sphere with numbers decreasing in real time was definitely a magic core.

Dana pushed the bookshelf with all her strength while thinking.

179 minutes 50 seconds, 179 minutes 49 seconds, 48 seconds….

Approximately 3 hours from now. The magic core would explode.

Just as it had in the past.

‘Could it be that the incident 15 years ago when the magic core exploded and Nemoras was completely destroyed was Nettie’s doing?’

Had she released the test subjects to deliberately create chaos in this place, and used that opportunity to kill the researcher in charge of the magic core and activate it?

But why?

Thud. Finally, when the bookshelf fell over, a small side door hidden behind it was revealed.

“Come here, Lete.”

Dana affectionately called Lete’s name, knowing he couldn’t hear, and led him to the side door.

She didn’t understand.

Nettie should be a researcher from the Diana Church, so why was she doing such things? No matter how you looked at it, this would harm the Diana Church.

Did Viego know that such things had happened?

“Let’s go.”

—Don’t think about it now.

What was important right now was getting Lete out of here.

 

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The passage through the side door soon connected to a rough natural cave. The path was extremely treacherous, and Dana even fell down hard once.

After walking for about thirty minutes like that.

Finally, when they emerged from the cave, a dense nighttime forest spread out before them.

If they continued straight ahead, they would reach a cliff, and below the cliff was a lake.

Strangely, it was a heart-shaped lake.

Demian had brought her here to show Danawin that lake. And he had confessed while blushing like a boy.

I love you, he had said.

‘That bastard. Making his partner into an idiot and then filming his own romance.’

But thanks to that experience, she had been able to escape.

“Lete.”

Dana belatedly checked on Lete. When she had fallen earlier, he had fallen with her, but she had been too anxious to check on him.

“Oh no, you hurt your face. I’m sorry.”

She stroked the boy’s cheek where he had gotten scratched.

There was no answer. Of course, since he couldn’t hear.

However, he clearly felt the stimulus touching his skin, as the boy slightly tilted his head.

And very carefully, he reached out his hand and gently touched her cheek. As if her soft skin texture was fascinating, he hesitantly but gently began stroking it. It was a gesture like a curious young animal.

‘He’s copying exactly what I did….’

That was proof that he had never had human-like communication with others before.

The moment she realized this, her eyes grew hot, and Dana hugged Lete tightly.

Then the boy copied her again. An awkward imitation of an embrace. From his clumsy arm movements, he seemed not to know what this even was.

‘How pitiful.’

Lete. An orphan from the sanctuary. A test subject of the Diana Church and Lyos’s shadow.

That was all Lete had told her.

So she had guessed. He had probably experienced something truly terrible. But she hadn’t expected it to be to this extent—.

“Miss.”

Dana gasped in surprise and looked up.

And she witnessed this boy’s future.

Grown into a young man with beautiful and refined features….

“Lete?”

“….”

Lete from reality was standing in front of her.

It felt like a dream, so Dana muttered in a daze.

“How are you here.”

“Step away, Miss.”

But for some reason, Lete warned her with a sharp voice.

“Please step away quickly. That thing is filthy and dangerous.”

Filthy, dangerous.

But this is you.

“It’s a beast that doesn’t know what restraint is. So please step away quickly.”

At that dissuasion, Dana obediently pushed the boy away. Lete wouldn’t say something for no reason.

However.

‘Why won’t he let go?’

The boy in her arms wouldn’t release her.

“Hey, could you let go for now?”

She tried pushing his shoulders, but the child only burrowed deeper instead. He seemed to have taken a liking to the warm body temperature he was probably feeling for the first time in his life.

Perhaps that’s why. He began putting desperate strength into the arms that held her.

As if he didn’t want to let go. No. As if he wanted to possess her.

He began hugging with all his might.

“Wait, wait a moment.”

Gradually, she couldn’t breathe…

Just as her windpipe felt like it would be crushed, Lete strode forward and extended his hand. Light burst from that hand and struck the boy’s head violently, and only then did the strength slowly drain from the boy’s arms.

“Are you alright?”

Dana burst into coughing, gasping breaths. She was flustered. Because it had happened so suddenly, without any warning.

For a moment, she thought she was going to die. Really.

“I’m sorry.”

“No, it’s not something you did.”

Though it was something you did when you were young…

“I told you, didn’t I. That it doesn’t know what restraint is.”

Lete said calmly.

“If left alone, that thing would have eventually broken you, Miss.”

Then he tore the unconscious, limp boy away from her as if peeling him off.

“If you happen to meet this version of me again next time, just pretend you didn’t see and pass by. This thing is very dangerous.”

Dana looked at Lete with a bewildered face.

Still, this is you, yet you’re criticizing your childhood self like some barbarian.

No, more than that.

‘What is this?’

After delivering the letter to Lyos, he had decided to chase after her to Nemoras. That was the plan.

But how did he find my location so quickly?

And why isn’t he surprised to see his past self? What the—

“And Miss, someone is walking out from inside that cave right now.”

At that moment, her mind snapped back to attention.

Dana turned around.

The pitch-black entrance of the cave. The exit she had escaped from.

It was obvious who would be chasing after her.

Lete asked.

“What should we do?”

Dana looked at Lete again. The moment she met his black eyes behind his silver-rimmed glasses, a lightning-like realization struck her.

Dana had spent a very long time with Lete. Yet she still couldn’t quite understand what kind of person Lete was.

However, one thing was certain.

“Lete.”

Lete is my person. He has been for a long time.

So no one can destroy Lete.

“Listen carefully to what I’m about to say.”

 

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Shortly after, Justio emerged from the cave.

At that time, Dana was sitting slumped against a tree root in front of the cave. Examining her bleeding knee from falling.

And the moment she met those blue eyes.

“Ah!”

She was startled and ran away.

She did it on purpose.

‘He’ll follow me, right?’

Dana limped on her injured leg as she ran, then glanced back.

Fortunately, Justio was following her. He was walking calmly enough to seem leisurely, but the look that briefly crossed his eyes held cold anger.

‘Yes, you should be angry at me. Keep following.’

And during this time, Lete—that is, adult Lete—would be taking boy Lete and leaving this village.

Time regeneration only occurs in the vicinity of this Nemoras.

So if they went to an area beyond the reach of the Sacred Relic’s power, the past Lete would disappear.

She just had to hold out until then.

“Huff, huff…”

How long had she run like that? Dana stopped, panting with rising breath.

She had finally reached the end of the path.

Far below the cliff, she could see the heart-shaped lake she had viewed with Demian Windsor.

There was nowhere left to go.

Dana steadied her rough breathing and turned around very slowly. Swallowing the surging fear.

She faced Justio.

Again, about five steps away. Maintaining that distance, Justio asked in a surprisingly calm voice.

“Is this enough now?”

“…What?”

“I’m asking if you’ve stalled for enough time.”

Dana bit down hard on the flesh inside her mouth.

No way.

“I don’t know who you’re hiding, but by now they should have escaped quite far.”

Shock ran down her spine.

You knew?

You knew everything, yet still chased after me?

Justio stared through her and demanded.

“I’ve done as you wished, so you should give me the answer I want.”

This is probably what he wants to ask.

“Since when?”

“…”

Dana realized what he was asking.

“Since when have you been deceiving me?”

While he was coming here…

Walking through that dark, long cave, Justio must have retraced all the numerous deals and cooperation they had exchanged.

The times when they had built trust, big and small.

Dana had always kept her word without fail. Naturally enough that he would judge her to be a woman who could be trusted.

But witnessing her betrayal right before his eyes, he realized.

That perhaps he had been deceived for a long time.

“Are you that curious about it?”

Dana tilted her head.

Anyway, she and House of Justio were destined to never be on the same ship.

It would have come to this eventually.

“If I said from the beginning, you’d be quite hurt.”

And the more his anger was directed at her, the better Dana felt. Because Lete would be able to go further away.

So Dana smiled more brightly than ever before.

“You seem to have forgotten that I’m a person of the Diana Church, Your Holiness.”

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