I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 343

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Chapter 343

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It was when she was Danae Windsor.

“You really won’t go, Father?”

That day was when the Imperial Shooting Competition was being held.

Shooting was extremely popular among nobles, so much so that royalty and nobles from the entire continent would gather in the Imperial Capital to watch the competition. For this reason, even among the Empire’s high-ranking officials, there were countless who couldn’t obtain tickets.

“It’s the front row seats, the very front!”

An invitation to the VIP seats had come for Karl, who was a former Army Commander, but Karl himself didn’t go.

“Honey. Are you really not going?”

“Yeah, I’ve had a headache since morning. I think it would be better to rest at the estate.”

“Father, then there’s one ticket left over. Can I go with Miona?”

“Of course.”

Then Alice’s friend, Miona, turned bright red.

“C-can I really go?”

“What reason would there be for you not to? Thank you for always being so good to Alice, Miona. Have fun watching.”

Dana watched that scene quietly from behind.

A loving couple, an affectionate daughter. A father who was even kind to his daughter’s friend.

It really was a beautiful scene like a painting.

‘What a harmonious family indeed…’

At that time, Dana had only recently become ‘Danae Windsor’, and she had great fantasies about loving families.

Then Karl, who had seen off his wife, daughter, and daughter’s friend, turned around. And his eyes met with Dana, who was hiding behind a pillar with only her face peeking out.

“Dana, what are you doing there?”

“Ah.”

Dana panicked. She had unconsciously been watching in a daze. Wouldn’t this make it seem like she had been secretly spying?

“Uncle, I was…”

Dana blushed and watched his expression carefully. During this period, everything was still awkward and she was extremely shy.

“I was on my way to take a walk in the garden.”

“A garden walk?”

Karl tilted his head.

“Then shall we go together?”

“Pardon?”

“Dana, you haven’t been here long, so you don’t know the estate’s layout well yet. The garden is large, so you might get lost. I’ll guide you.”

“But Uncle, you…”

Didn’t you say you had a headache?

She was about to ask, but stopped. It wouldn’t be right to admit she had overheard someone else’s conversation.

“I would be grateful if you did.”

“Good. Then shall we go?”

Karl extended his arm as if to escort her. Dana carefully placed her hand on his arm and was startled. It felt like a lump of metal.

“What kind of flowers do you like, Dana?”

“I like roses.”

“I see. What color roses do you like best?”

“White ones.”

While walking through the garden, Karl didn’t stop asking questions. Dana thought he was being considerate on purpose. Asking her various things to prevent awkward silence for his shy nephew’s sake.

“Do you like flowers in full bloom, or flowers before they fully bloom, or flowers that have just started blooming, or flower buds that haven’t bloomed yet?”

“…”

Otherwise, why would he ask about such trivial, even useless things? Every question he threw was persistently, almost perversely digging into a person’s preferences.

However, Dana wasn’t unpleasant at all. Rather, she thought it was quite kind of him to continue the conversation like this.

“Ah.”

It was while they were continuing their walk.

Dana’s shoe heel got stuck deep in the grass field. As she lost her balance and staggered, Karl quickly grabbed her shoulder.

“Are you alright?”

“Ah…”

Dana was flustered. She tried to lift her foot but couldn’t. Her shoe heel was stuck deep in the ground.

“Oh my, the gardener must have made a mistake.”

It was absurd. That’s right. Only the soil in this spot she had stepped on was sticky mud.

‘Did the gardener make a mistake while tilling the soil? It would seem harder to make such a mistake.’

It would be more plausible if it was intentionally set as a trap.

In any case, thanks to that, her heel was completely ruined and she couldn’t walk properly. Karl, who had been looking thoughtfully, gestured to an employee who happened to be passing by.

“Could you go back to the estate and bring some shoes that Dana can wear? We’ll be waiting in the glass greenhouse.”

“Yes. I understand.”

Fortunately, the glass greenhouse was right in front. Dana limped into the greenhouse with Karl’s support.

“Shall we play chess while we wait?”

There happened to be a chess board on the table in the greenhouse.

“Yes. That sounds good.”

So Dana began playing chess with Karl.

Whether he was concentrating, Karl didn’t say much. Dana felt a bit awkward, so she asked while moving her knight.

“Um, Uncle. Aren’t you disappointed about missing the shooting competition today?”

Well, since Uncle had been asking questions continuously, it was about time for the nephew to ask some too.

Then Karl shook his head firmly.

“No. Not at all.”

“Why not? I thought you’d be very interested. Uncle, I heard you were once a soldier.”

At those words, Karl looked at her carefully.

“You see, Dana. This is a secret.”

“Yes?”

“Actually, I’m terribly, terribly afraid of guns…”

“Pardon?”

“A weapon that can kill people at any time, isn’t that truly hideous and terrible? Being a soldier didn’t suit me at all. You don’t know how hard it was to endure while being scared.”

“Oh, really?”

“Mmm. Thanks to that, I got all kinds of aftereffects. I really hate and fear guns and swords, so sometimes I even have nightmares.”

“I see. It must have been really difficult.”

While having such conversations and playing chess, Dana soon noticed.

‘This person is doing this on purpose?’

Karl’s chess style was very suspicious – he was making various moves to see how Dana would react.

In other words, it wasn’t a game to win.

‘This seems like he’s trying to see what kind of personality I have.’

It was a method that professional players might use. To find out what kind of habits and tendencies a rival they’d have to compete with for life had, they would even lose on purpose outside of official games to gather information.

‘We’re not even players, and we’re only going to play a few games at most, so why is he putting in so much effort?’

However, Dana soon changed her thinking.

Come to think of it, this person was once a soldier. So maybe he has a habit of understanding his opponent rather than focusing on immediate wins and losses.

You need to know your enemy to devise strategies.

“What do you think, Uncle?”

“Hm?”

“You’re not really interested in winning or losing right now. You’re trying to see what kind of personality I have, aren’t you?”

At those words, Karl looked at her quietly. He seemed to be gauging her reaction.

“Did I perhaps make Dana uncomfortable?”

“What? No, not at all. I was just curious. I’m also curious about how Uncle judged me.”

Thud, Dana laughed as she knocked over his pawn.

“Hmm, you won’t get angry after hearing this, right?”

“Yes.”

“The Dana I think of has a more aggressive side than expected…”

Karl smiled as he moved his chess piece.

“You have quite a competitive spirit and seem to like controlling the flow, so you might even have dominant tendencies.”

“What? Not at all!”

“Well. Originally, there might be aspects within oneself that even you don’t know about.”

Dana burst into giggles at his joke.

Karl laughed mischievously, saying “Actually, I just randomly copied what a romance advice astrologer said in Alice’s magazine.”

“But why aren’t they bringing the shoes? It feels like an hour has already passed…”

“That’s true.”

The state of Windsor Estate’s employees was terrible. A spaced-out gardener and an unreliable servant.

‘Maybe the employees’ discipline is a bit lacking…’

Dana furrowed her brow. Moreover, she hadn’t noticed at first, but as time passed, her ankle was throbbing.

“What’s wrong, Dana?”

“My ankle hurts a little. I think I twisted it slightly earlier…”

“May I take a look?”

“What?”

“I can do simple first aid.”

Was there coincidentally a first aid kit? Karl, who had taken out a box from under the greenhouse table, came in front of her and knelt down on one knee. Dana was flustered.

“U-Uncle…”

“Hmm?”

Karl looked up at her.

His eyes were endlessly clear and gentle, reminding her of a flower deer on a spring day. Dana’s heart sank at his gaze that seemed like he would follow whatever she told him to do.

“Are you perhaps uncomfortable?”

“No. I was rather worried that Uncle might be uncomfortable… Since it’s feet… just in case…”

“I like anything that has Dana’s scent.”

“What?”

“Huh? What did I just say?”

Dana burst into laughter. To try to ease my embarrassing feelings with such a mischievous joke. She really thought he was a kind uncle full of consideration.

‘Really so caring…’

Karl kindly examined not only her ankle but also each toe and toenail, the top and bottom of her foot, and even her ankle bones thoroughly, without missing anything, with concentration.

“Fortunately, there don’t seem to be any injuries other than your ankle.”

After he wrapped a bandage around her ankle, he sat in front of her again. That’s when it happened.

“Here, I brought snacks.”

How did she know to come? A maid came carrying cake and tea. Dana said.

“Um, there’s a servant who went to get shoes…”

“I’ll look into it.”

With those words, the maid retreated very quickly. Dana frowned. Feeling it again, the employees’ condition is really poor.

A spaced-out gardener who makes mistakes, a servant who hasn’t brought shoes for an hour, and a maid who runs away as if afraid of being asked more questions.

‘And why did she bring all types of cake?’

Dana pondered for a moment in front of the cakes, then picked up the least sweet-looking cake with her fork.

Karl, who had waited until she chose, must have been hungry too as he ate cake, and seeing the whipped cream on his lips, Dana chuckled.

He seems a bit more absent-minded than expected…

‘Still, he’s cute so I shouldn’t say anything.’

But is it okay for a niece to think her uncle is cute?

Dana thoroughly enjoyed watching the pretty man who had whipped cream on his lips, then told him much later.

“Uncle, you have cream on you.”

“Huh?”

“On your lips.”

“Ah.”

Karl’s face turned red.

“Y-you should have told me earlier. How embarrassing.”

Karl embarrassedly licked his lower right lip. Dana smiled and told him it was the other side, and he hurriedly stuck out his tongue to lick away the whipped cream.

And now that very tongue of Karl’s was licking every corner of Dana’s body.

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