I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 338

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Chapter 338

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Diane had been forcibly given life milestones from the moment she was born.

“Awaken your purification power. That is the path to saving this world from corruption.”

She had constantly heard stories about Dana from Rodrigo Windsor.

“You too can become like Dana.”

However, Diane, who failed to awaken purification power, became a failure.

Should she call it a blessing in disguise? There existed another failure in the same situation.

Danael.

[I will definitely gain Lord Rodrigo’s recognition someday. I’ll do something far, far greater than that woman Dana.]

Though she had never met Danael directly, they often chatted through communication devices.

[Diane, what kind of woman do you think Dana is?]

[Well, she probably looks exactly like us.]

[What kind of personality does she have?]

[Probably similar? We are blood relatives after all.]

[Dana, that woman probably has a bad personality, right? She must be bragging about having purification ability. She’s definitely arrogant and conceited and will look down on failures like us.]

[Danael, you clearly have personality problems.]

[Someday I’ll definitely kill that woman’s soul and steal her body. I should have been born as Dana!]

[Danael, you seem to have mental issues, so go get some counseling.]

That conversation was the end. Afterward, she heard news that Danael had failed in her attempt to forcibly steal Dana’s body and died.

Though her corpse was mangled from falling from the collapsed spire, the cause of death lay elsewhere.

A bullet lodged in her forehead. Someone had shot that girl in the head with a gun.

It was simply regrettable.

If Danael were alive, if she had survived until now.

She could have had a proper conversation with the real Dana, not the imaginary one.

“Don’t call us failures or successes like that.”

You could have heard the words Dana said to me.

“Anyway, I’m also Rodrigo’s test subject just the same. No, rather, being a success meant receiving more attention, but I don’t need that perverted lunatic’s attention.”

The moment she heard those words, Diane found herself liking Dana a little. Not wanting to admit it, she deliberately spoke sarcastically.

“Why? Dana, you’re a noble Saint, aren’t you? Pure and virtuous and great, you don’t know how much Lord Rodrigo worshipped you.”

The answer that came back was astounding.

“I’m neither virtuous nor noble nor pure. Besides, isn’t it ridiculous how they arbitrarily attach labels like witch or saint? I’m just me.”

That girl hated being called a saint more than being called a witch, and the reason was amusing.

“It gives me goosebumps. What is a saint, really. Ah, I really hate it.”

It’s embarrassing. That’s why she hates it.

“Anyway, I’m neither a witch nor a saint. I have too much lust to be called a saint, and I have too much conscience to be called a witch.”

Danael should have seen her say that seriously. Diane really doubted her own ears.

“Dana, what did you just say? Lust is, what, how much?”

When she asked in amazement, Dana tilted her head and answered with clear eyes.

“Why? What’s wrong with that?”

“No, that’s not it, but I thought you’d be more modest.”

Was it because she had lived her whole life hearing only words of praise for Dana from Rodrigo?

Diane had thought Dana would be a typical saint. She had assumed she would be a prudish woman who was noble and virtuous, considering lust impure.

“Modest? I’ve never been modest even in my previous life.”

“….”

“Instead, I often hear that my face looks modest and innocent. That’s the same for you too, isn’t it? We look exactly alike.”

Dana was quite quirky, contrary to imagination. And she really wasn’t saint-like. Of course, she wasn’t witch-like either.

Just… just a human woman like herself. An imperfect human with strengths but also weaknesses, not perfect but not a mess either.

Danael. It would have been good if you had known that too.

That Rodrigo’s saint we had aimed for our whole lives, that perfect woman, doesn’t exist anywhere.

‘We should have run away from Rodrigo long ago.’

Diane had run away when she heard the news that Danael was dead.

Everything had become disgusting, and she wanted to escape. And of all places, the place she arrived at after fleeing was this colony.

There was a moment when she thought that perhaps living as a slave might be her fate.

“Alright, now everyone hurry back home!”

That too is now over.

Diane looked around at the dozens of Northerners who had participated in this work.

“Now everyone go home, wash off the gunpowder smell from your bodies and sleep. And if Holy Knights come looking and interrogate you, pretend you don’t know anything.”

“Wi-will it be okay? Won’t we get caught?”

A man tightly holding his wife’s hand asked in a trembling voice.

Diane smiled bitterly.

“No. We’ll get caught.”

Among the Ramun Church Priests, there are many Holy Mages. If they begin a full investigation, it will be revealed.

However.

“They act while following principles and rules, so they won’t kill us immediately.”

In the meantime, Karl Windsor will destroy the magical device that controls the brands.

“Really? Really, that magical device that controls our brands, he can destroy that?”

“Yes. I’m certain.”

Karl, that bastard might rebel against me someday. There’s no way to stop him. Lord Rodrigo’s grumbling was still vivid in her memory.

So if it’s him, he could do it.

“When the magical device breaks, we’ll all escape from this place. We’ll live freely! So please go back now, hurry!”

After parting with them, Diane also hurried back to her house.

Running through the dark night alleys like sliding, she kept laughing with anticipation.

Now I can really live a free life.

Not as Dana’s failed creation or a colonial resident, but my real life!

‘And, and I want to talk more with Dana.’

She was a woman she’d been curious about her whole life. Moreover, that girl wasn’t as picky as expected, so that brief conversation they shared was very fun and interesting.

After all, the blood in my body is the same as that girl’s blood.

‘No matter how much I was born in a laboratory, in the end I’m blood relatives with that girl, right?’

So just a little, just a little more, she wanted to talk with that girl. And-

“Ah!”

Just as she was turning the corner, Diane crashed into something hard.

The moment she staggered and almost tumbled backward, something shot out and grabbed her wrist.

Diane’s spine stiffened.

A touch like iron.

It was a man’s grip.

“You should be careful.”

A voice fell from above her head.

Though it seemed deliberately gentle, it was a voice that couldn’t hide its underlying savagery and wildness.

Diane, overwhelmed in an instant, held her breath.

And very slowly raised her head.

The opponent’s face was completely submerged in the deep darkness of night. However, only the gleam of his eyes shone fiercely like a wild beast.

“Hello.”

Red.

Eyes like flames burning in the darkness.

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Just as infiltrating the castle had been easy, everything afterward was surprisingly easy too. Diane had properly performed her role.

“Someone detonated a bomb in the north!”

“What? Don’t tell me the Northern Region sent troops?”

“I don’t know! Gather all the Holy Knights for now!”

“The church-owned ranch in the west is on fire!”

“What? What about the livestock?”

“All the livestock escaped outside! It seems someone deliberately released them!”

“A bomb exploded at the southern monastery!”

“The eastern farm is also on fire!”

With major incidents occurring in all four directions – east, west, south, and north – the Holy Knights and Priests stationed at the castle all rushed out.

Taking advantage of that chaotic moment, Karl and Dana moved stealthily to find the stone door leading underground.

“Is this the right door?”

Karl, who had once invaded this castle, found the stone door very quickly with his terrifying memory.

“Yes, that’s right.”

They quickly descended the stairs together. At that moment, the conversation she’d had with Diane that afternoon flashed by.

“You know what, Dana?”

“What?”

“The moderate faction’s doctrine is more interesting. The deeper the emotions, attraction, fascination we hold toward each other…”

No. Shut up. Be quiet. Dana shook her head vigorously.

“Here it is.”

Finally, where the staircase ended. A massive cave identical to what she’d seen in the boy’s memory was revealed.

“Dana, wait.”

As she continued moving forward, Karl grabbed her elbow and pulled her behind a rock.

“There’s someone over there.”

He was right.

Under a large blazing torch. A black robed figure was visible.

‘That person.’

That was the one who had created the black cores.

And behind that figure’s body, black corruption pooled like a lake.

“That’s the corruption I told you about.”

Dana’s breathing became unsteady. Even though she knew about it, it was so shockingly massive that her fingertips trembled.

Wait… but.

Dana narrowed her eyes. Next to the black lake, she could see something.

‘That looks like an altar?’

It was an altar she’d seen before. It looked similar to the altar on Godom Island where the Somora Church offered human sacrifices.

Karl whispered.

“They’re Ramun Church Paladins.”

Dana was shocked.

He was right. Those lying on the altar were wearing Ramun Church Paladin uniforms. And among them was someone Dana knew.

‘That’s Sir Leo?’

Why are those people here?

Moreover, Sir Leo wasn’t normal right now.

“Keu, keureuk, keureureu…”

He was showing symptoms of a Mutant Corrupted!

Not just Sir Leo. The faces of the Holy Knights lying on the altar also had black spots blooming on them.

They were all corrupted.

Surely that black core creator did this! Which means.

“As expected, those who rule this place Shalom must be impersonating the Ramun Church!”

Perhaps they’re the Somora Church!

Joy surged because her prediction was right. As expected, it wasn’t the Ramun Church. They were ruling this place while pretending to be the Ramun Church!

So the oracle wouldn’t be from Ramun either!

“No, it’s not impersonation.”

Then Karl quietly denied it.

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