I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 344

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Chapter 344

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Deep into the night. Alice woke up from her sleep.

“Miona, could you bring me some warm milk? With lots of honey…”

…She’s not here?

Alice rustled around in bed and sat up. Miona wasn’t there. She had been chattering about Karl Karl Karl beside her until bedtime.

‘Where did she go?’

The earthbound spirit who had been constantly clinging to my side had disappeared.

Alice felt a strange emptiness and blankly looked around the bedroom. That’s when it happened.

“Your Imperial Majesty the Empress. Are you awake?”

Sensing movement, there was a knock and a maid’s voice from outside the door. It was Nettie.

“Mmm. Come in.”

Then, as if she had been waiting, the door burst open and Nettie entered. Her steps looked very urgent.

“Perfect timing. Bring me a cup of warm milk, Nettie. I originally had insomnia, and though it’s gotten much better, sometimes…”

“Have you told His Majesty the Emperor that you might be a saint?”

Alice frowned. What kind of nonsense was that all of a sudden?

“What saint? Do you think I’m stupid? I don’t even have purification abilities like Sister Dana, so who would think of me as a saint?”

“That Dana woman is not a saint. If she were a saint, she wouldn’t do such things with someone who was once her uncle.”

“What on earth are you talking about?”

Alice was puzzled. Why was she barging in in the middle of the night saying such random things?

“Please, take this.”

Nettie held out something to Alice with trembling hands.

What is this?

It was a fragment of a broken mirror. But…

Something could be seen very faintly beyond the fragment.

Alice took the mirror piece and brought her face close to it.

“What is… this?”

It was foggy as if covered with frost, so it wasn’t clearly visible.

But it looked like Sister Dana. Sister was lying there with her naked body, panting…

‘Woooow Sister… totally…’

Just as she was admiring with flushed cheeks, Alice felt something was strange.

The appearance of the man doing strange things with Sister Dana seemed familiar somehow.

That back. That back of the head. Those shoulders.

Familiar.

At that moment, Alice clearly confirmed the man’s face. It was Karl Windsor, her legal father and biological older brother.

Karl Windsor with Sister Dana…

‘Huh?’

Alice’s fingertips trembled at the scene that seemed to destroy common sense.

Huh?

Huh? Huh? Huh?

Huhhhhhhhhhhhhh?

‘Wh-what exactly are they doing right now!’

Just as she was about to look more closely.

Then, Father suddenly turned his head. And looked directly. No, glared.

At Alice in the mirror.

“…!”

The moment she felt their eyes met, crash! The mirror shattered into pieces.

Alice was startled and dropped the mirror fragment to the floor.

“Wh-what is this?”

“…It’s broken.”

“I, I didn’t break it!”

“Of course. It was broken by someone other than Lady Alice.”

Thump thump thump, her heart was beating.

It broke at the moment when it seemed like Father and I made eye contact… surely not, it must be a coincidence, right? How could he notice when I’m beyond the mirror?

No, more importantly right now.

“What is this? G-give me another mirror! I need to see more of what those two are doing!”

“It’s impossible now. That was the only mirror fragment… and since he noticed, it’s now impossible to see that place.”

It was all incomprehensible words. What is this mirror fragment that allows me to see such things? Who noticed?

And most of all.

“Is this real? What exactly is this?!”

“Yes. Right now, those two people are doing such things in a northern land called Shalom.”

Shalom. They said Sister had hidden herself there.

Alice’s face turned pale.

“That’s a lie.”

Before she knew it, tears welled up in Alice’s eyes. But a premonition washed over her. A premonition that maybe this might be real.

Long ago, after Mother divorced Karl, she had said while crying.

“Your father’s divorce was all because of Danae Windsor. Your father was bewitched by his niece and decided to divorce me. Because he wanted a new start with another woman, not me…”

Ugh! That was because Mother got caught cheating with forty-seven men! Mother is hopeless!

-is what she thought to herself, but.

‘Was what Mother said really true?’

Tears poured down her cheeks.

Father. Is it really true? Did you really divorce because of that?

How could you do this? You divorced Mother to do such things with Sister Dana? So you abandoned your wife of over ten years and your daughter too? So you abandoned us?

Alice burst into tears.

“Th-these filthy adulterers, that bad woman who destroyed a harmonious family! That bad man who fell for her and, dominated by lust, abandoned his wife and child!”

“Please calm down, Your Imperial Majesty the Empress.”

Fiery tears dripped from Alice’s eyes.

“Would you be calm if you were me?! D-do you know how close our family was? How harmonious we were, how much Father loved and cherished me and Mother, and Sister destroyed it all!”

Alice lay prostrate on the floor and cried for a very long time. It was agonizing as if her insides were burning up.

It was an emotion she had forgotten since becoming lovers with Lyos.

The feeling that Sister had taken everything away.

Sister shining brilliantly, and me hidden in Sister’s shadow.

This loneliness as if buried alone in darkness, solitude, and the heart-tearing hatred and jealousy began to come alive again.

“Huuuuuuung!”

She could hear the sound of the armor that had protected her heart thanks to Lyos’s love breaking piece by piece.

It wasn’t only because of her own shock.

‘How can he do that? He rejected me saying I’m like a daughter so it’s awkward, saying I’m too young so he doesn’t even see me as a woman!’

-This was Miona’s thought.

Perhaps because Miona had been chattering so much about Karl Karl Karl, her yearning heart toward Karl Windsor lately. As if hypnotized, Miona’s memories felt like her own experiences.

“Huu, uuung…”

Her own shock, Miona’s jealousy, her own jealousy, Miona’s shock, Miona and my hatred, my and Miona’s anger. Everything mixed together chaotically, tangling her mind.

After a long while, Alice lifted her tear-stained face.

“Trial… I’ll testify at the trial.”

Sir Leo, was it? That Holy Knight said so. That he would capture sister and hold a trial.

“When the witch trial is held, I will become a witness and testify that sister committed a crime.”

The relationship permitted on the continent started from cousins.

Anything closer than that is treated as a very filthy original sin.

Everyone already knows that Danae is Danae Windsor anyway.

If it’s revealed that she had an affair with her uncle Karl Windsor, who was her uncle when she was Danae Windsor, no one would be able to call that filthy witch a saint.

Perhaps it might even become one of the pieces of evidence to officially recognize her as a witch and hang her on the execution pyre!

“But there’s no evidence, is there?”

“C-can’t we put these mirror pieces back together? Can’t we show this again?”

“No.”

“…”

Alice bit her lips. However, it was too early to give up. If those two had that kind of relationship, there would definitely be traces.

“…I need to find out how she lived with Father when she was Danae Windsor. I heard they even went on trips together…”

Now that I think about it, it’s very suspicious.

Yes, back then. Sister had just broken off her engagement with Lyos not long ago, and Father had just divorced Mother.

A niece who broke off her engagement. An uncle who divorced his wife.

Those two went on a trip together, just the two of them, as if commemorating that.

The more she thought about it, the more outrageous it became. Now that she looked at it, they were completely openly advertising that there was something between them!

‘I need to find evidence. Evidence!’

But how? She needed to use people, but she only had the ghost Miona.

Moreover, that ghost was nowhere to be seen right now. She had been singing “Karl Karl” in her ear, but to disappear at such an important moment!

Then Nettie subtly made a suggestion.

“If you need it, I can assign some useful people to you.”

“…You?”

“Yes. Instead, please just grant me one small request.”

“A request? What is it?”

Alice took a defensive stance. However, fortunately.

“I want to meet His Highness the Prince.”

It wasn’t much of a request.

“The Prince? My son, Knox?”

“Yes.”

“Why him?”

“Just once… if I could meet him just once and stroke that young lord’s hair, I would have no other wishes.”

“…”

There was a superstition that stroking the head of a young royal could share in the Sun God’s Blessing.

But Knox?

He was a prince who was expelled from the Imperial Palace and was recuperating due to being born with disabilities.

Everyone treated him as a non-existent prince, and honestly, Alice had completely forgotten about him too. If left like this, he would probably live abandoned without anyone looking for him until he died.

But she was asking to be allowed to stroke the hair of such an abandoned prince?

‘Well, it’s not a difficult task.’

But if she brought the prince, the child’s father- that is, her father-in-law, Wilhelm would throw a fit…

Her head was throbbing, but.

“Fine.”

That’s not what’s important right now. It’s not like he’s only thrown a fit once or twice.

“I’ll let you meet Knox and stroke his hair. So assign investigators to find evidence that those two had an affair. Danae Windsor, Karl Windsor, investigate everything about both of their activities!”

I won’t let you off, Father.

I’ll make sure you pay the price for abandoning Mother and me. I won’t consider Father as my older brother. And sister.

‘I’ll make sure sister pays the price for destroying a family.’

Alice burst into tears again as sorrow welled up. And she thought.

‘All men are beasts blinded by lust!’

Lyos was the same. Even though he had a wife, he masturbated while thinking of sister Dana. But even Father was like this too!

She felt like she could never trust men again.

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