I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 332

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Chapter 332

Silver hair. Deep emerald eyes.

And a face identical to her own, as if looking in a mirror.

Dana stared blankly at the woman’s face.

However, Dana’s gaze soon passed over her and reached the boy.

‘Who is that child?’

The boy on the bed, struggling while tied with rope. That boy naturally captured her attention. A very ominous yet familiar aura was emanating from the boy.

Something very dangerous that she knew well.

As if entranced by that something, she walked over. When she approached and reached out her hand, the woman who looked exactly like her shouted sharply.

“What are you doing! If you’re not going to help—”

Ignoring her, she pulled open the boy’s shirt.

His sweat-soaked chest was revealed. Above it were mottled black spots, which were indeed something she knew well.

‘Early stage corruption?’

She had seen such spots before in Windsor Territory.

Count Cours, who had taken charge of Windsor Territory.

That count’s son had pretended to be the lord of Windsor and caused a rebellion.

At that time, such black spots had bloomed on the unconscious count’s body as well.

‘It’s definitely early stage corruption.’

Contagion hadn’t started yet, but if not purified quickly, it would become irreversible.

Dana hurriedly reached out her hand. Soon pure white light burst forth and enveloped the man’s body, and the spots began to gradually fade.

And when the light disappeared, the man no longer struggled.

He had calmed down as the corruption was purified.

“…”

Only then did Dana turn to look beside her. And seeing the face of the woman looking at her, she held her breath.

Before… she couldn’t understand anything.

“Rodrigo.”

But now she seemed to know.

“Did Rodrigo create you?”

Then the woman laughed helplessly.

“You’re Dana.”

Wonder, shock, and fierce jealousy flashed through her emerald eyes. The woman asked sharply.

“That just now, was that purification ability?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“I see. That’s the purification power. The purification ability that Rodrigo so desperately wanted to implant in us.”

The woman laughed emptily.

“Nice to meet you. I’m your failed creation, called Diane.”

* * *

When Rodrigo was the cult leader of the Diana religion.

Rodrigo hadn’t simply cloned Dana’s empty physical body. He had truly done everything he possibly could.

‘He collected my genes and created life through artificial insemination.’

The woman, Diane, said calmly while fidgeting with a warm teacup.

“Lord Rodrigo said I was a failure. Unlike you, Dana, he treated me like a parasite because I couldn’t awaken purification ability.”

Diane continued speaking while observing Dana’s face as if dissecting it.

“I always wanted to meet you, the successful creation, someday, and it’s an honor to meet you like this.”

Dana felt awkward.

‘Why did you leave just the two of us and go away, Karl Windsor.’

After making stew for two people, Karl had gone out saying he had something else to buy.

Seeing how he left just the two of them alone, Karl seemed to trust Diane.

In other words, the two already knew each other.

“May I ask what kind of relationship you have with Karl Windsor?”

At her question, Diane stared at Dana’s face intently, then raised the corners of her mouth.

“We’re lovers.”

“…What?”

“Just kidding, we’re just ordinary bed partners.”

“…”

“You know well how amazing Karl is, right?”

I don’t know…

How would I know that…

“We meet regularly at this cabin. Instead of meeting often, we just have relations for days at a time whenever we meet.”

“…”

“And that boy, he’s actually Karl’s son. A hidden child born between the two of us.”

Diane pointed to the boy who was still unconscious and lying on the bed.

“Go look at his face closely. He’s handsomely good-looking, resembling Karl.”

Dana didn’t answer. No, she couldn’t answer.

If it were before, she wouldn’t have believed it.

‘Contraceptives…’

In Karl’s bag, there are dozens of condoms.

Could he have prepared them to use with this woman? To enjoy themselves in this cabin, on that bed?

With a woman who looks exactly like me but isn’t me?

While I rejected and pushed him away like that?

At that moment, something very hot surged up. Dana gritted her teeth while forcibly swallowing it down.

‘I don’t know. What do I care.’

Whatever they do.

Whether those words are true or false, I’m not interested. I absolutely won’t ask anything more here.

Dana firmly changed the subject.

“Are there more people like you?”

Then Diane shrugged as if uninterested. She seemed to have expected a more passionate reaction.

“There was one more, but I’ve never met her directly. I lived in a laboratory in Nemoras, and that child grew up in a different laboratory.”

Mockery appeared on Diane’s face.

“Though she’s just a failure like me anyway.”

“…”

“That child’s name is Danael.”

Danael.

Dana finally remembered that girl’s name.

“Dana, have you ever met that child? Danael would have worked pretending to be Viego’s subordinate.”

“…Pretending to be a subordinate? What does that mean?”

“She was Lord Rodrigo’s spy.”

Diane spoke with obvious sarcasm.

“She tried to spread Lord Rodrigo’s radical ideology and recruit believers into the anti-cult leader faction, but well, she ultimately failed and died a dog’s death.”

Is that so?

That child, did she die a dog’s death?

‘How did she die again?’

The girl named Danael had tried to kill Dana and steal Dana’s body. However, she failed and was killed.

Perhaps because she had completely forgotten about that existence until now.

She couldn’t recall how that child had died.

‘I didn’t kill him though…’

No matter how much she thought about it, she couldn’t remember, so Dana gave up and changed the subject.

“When you mention Rodrigo’s radical doctrine, are you talking about things like orgy rituals?”

“That’s right. Orgy rituals, human sacrifice, advancing through filthy acts. That’s the ideology of the anti-cult leader faction led by Lord Rodrigo.”

Diane made a disgusted expression as if she felt nauseous.

“It’s completely opposite to the moderate doctrine of the current cult leader, Viego Windsor. The current cult leader has strictly forbidden such things.”

As expected.

Though she already knew this fact, hearing it from someone else’s mouth made her feel good.

“Viego believed that indiscriminate bestial mating without any emotion not only wasn’t very helpful, but actually corrupted the soul. He believed that only sexual experiences based on mutual attraction or affection could extremely strengthen one’s power.”

That was quite a romantic claim. To think that emotions and attraction toward one’s partner were more important than physical pleasure…

“What do you think about it, Diane?”

“Does my opinion matter? I’m just a failure who failed to imitate you.”

Though Diane answered curtly, she obediently shared her opinion.

“Results don’t lie. Rodrigo was defeated by Viego and driven from the cult leader position, right? So I guess Viego’s doctrine must be correct.”

A strange sense of satisfaction lingered on Diane’s face as she said this. She seemed to secretly enjoy Rodrigo’s downfall.

“So, what are you doing here, Diane?”

“I am.”

At that moment, the heat that had been lingering on Diane’s face suddenly disappeared.

“I… ran away.”

She laughed self-deprecatingly.

“I didn’t want to live hearing myself called a failure anymore, so I fled to the Northern Continent. Though I ended up settling in a place like this…”

A place like this.

This place was an Imperial Colony.

To think the place she fled to was somewhere like this. That woman’s life was truly unfortunate.

“Can’t you escape from here too?”

“Even if I wanted to escape, I can’t leave.”

Diane rolled up her sleeve to show her forearm.

“The Ramun Church Priests who rule this place have branded the people of Shalom.”

A bright red brand mark was clearly visible on her forearm.

“I hid here without even knowing this place was a colony and ended up like this. Whether you’re born here or come from elsewhere, the moment you set foot on this land, you receive this brand. And.”

Diane glared at the brand with hateful eyes.

“If you refuse the Ramun Church’s orders, burning pain spreads from the brand. It hurts enough to make you want to die, but you don’t actually die.”

“…”

“As long as the Ramun Church has the magical device that controls this brand, escaping is impossible to even dream of.”

Dana doubted her own ears.

Was the Ramun Church really ruling through such cruel methods? Of course, it was a religion with very strict doctrine, but…

“You don’t seem to believe it, but do you see that boy lying behind there?”

Diane gestured with her chin toward the boy lying on the bed.

“Actually, it’s a lie that he’s Karl’s son. Karl is very thorough about contraception. He absolutely won’t do it without contraceptives.”

“…I’m not curious about such things, so just continue explaining.”

“That child was the boy who first found me when I came here. He gave food to me when I was starving and even gave up his bed so I could sleep comfortably. That child had no family either, so we decided to become family for each other. But.”

Anger gradually filled Diane’s eyes.

“But do you know why that child is still sleeping? He’s been working like a dog without getting proper sleep all this time.”

“…”

“Do you know what happens if he gets sick and can’t work even for a day? He gets captured by the Ramun Church Paladins.”

“…”

“They’re dragged to the Red Castle where they’re stationed… and everyone returns with black spots like that. Just like that child.”

Everyone returned in such a state?

Dana’s face darkened.

That meant their corruption wasn’t accidental.

“What happened to the people who returned like that?”

“They fall into a coma and suffer, then eventually the Ramun Church Priests take them back to the Red Castle, claiming they’ll treat them.”

“…And no one ever returned, right?”

“That’s right. We didn’t even get their corpses back.”

Diane’s eyes reddened as if recalling painful memories.

“Those bastards. They must have dumped the bodies in some garbage dump so we couldn’t even make graves.”

The more she heard, the more suspicious it became.

Those dragged away by the Ramun Church Priests all returned infected with early-stage corruption.

That meant.

‘The Ramun Church Priests are corrupting people…?’

A chill ran down her spine.

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