I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 346

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Chapter 346

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Dana sat quietly on the grassland, waiting for Karl and Noct. Meanwhile, she watched the people passing by around the house.

“There’s going to be a liberation celebration festival tonight!”

“Wow, this is my first festival!”

“What’s a festival, sister?”

Children excited about their first festival.

“My goodness, how long has it been since we had a festival!”

“Don’t stop me. I’m going to have so much fun tonight and sleep in late tomorrow!”

“Th-then shall we have a drink after so long? We’re allowed to drink now, right?”

Adults excited about the lifted prohibition.

People who had escaped the cruel rule of the Ramun Church and regained their vitality. Watching that excited atmosphere naturally brought a smile to her face.

Indeed, places where people live are all the same.

This place had almost completely rotted away.

Thinking about that time made her chest feel cold. If they hadn’t been able to purify that Black Corruption Lake, truly tremendous disaster would have occurred…

‘…Huh?’

It was while she was having these thoughts.

That man appeared far too naturally then.

“Hey. Young man. Did you cut down that many trees?”

“How are you going to carry all that by yourself?”

He was an extremely tall man.

A physique that stood out even from a distance. His prominent red hair was like flames, making Dana’s vision sting from the moment she spotted him.

The bright red man walked along the trail.

“You should carry it on an A-frame! What if you hurt your back?”

“If you get injured once when you’re young, it lasts a lifetime!”

The villagers passing by that man offered their advice.

It was quite a sight to behold.

Firewood was piled high on both of the man’s shoulders. It was an amount that an ordinary person couldn’t even lift, let alone carry.

“Are you planning to use it for tonight’s burning ceremony?”

“That amount would be enough to burn the Ramun Church Holy Knight!”

A very suspicious sentence had just passed by.

But it didn’t register in Dana’s mind.

It was that surreal. Like a midday dream, it felt unreal.

What is this? What is this?

What am I looking at right now?

The man carrying the wood walked right up to Dana and glanced at her.

At that moment, Dana thought her heart would stop.

Sharp eyes. A gaze that seemed to cut the moment they met, sharp and savage…

The man looked at Dana with those eyes and opened his lips.

“Hey.”

And passed by.

“…”

Hey?

He said hey?

Did he just say ‘hey’ to me and casually pass by?

Dana was completely dazed as she watched the man’s retreating figure. The man dumped the firewood next to Noct as if pouring it out.

Then Noct exclaimed in admiration.

“Wow. This much wood should be enough for tonight’s burning ceremony, right?”

A burning ceremony, what on earth is that…

“You’re not even a bear, why are you so strong? How did you carry all that?”

Then the man replied curtly.

“What a fuss. Can’t you lift this much, being a man?”

“It’s not just me who can’t lift it! I’ll be able to lift it when I get older too!”

“Then hurry up and grow, kid.”

The man roughly tousled the boy’s hair. Then he turned his head toward Karl.

“Brother.”

Brother?

Brotherrr?

“Is she the one?”

The man glanced at Dana and asked Karl again.

“Diane’s sister? The one who’s a year older?”

“That’s right.”

“They said she looked the same. She doesn’t look that similar, actually. She’s a bit… different from Diane…”

The man looked Dana over from head to toe once and chuckled. It was blatant mockery.

“She still looks like a child.”

What?

What is he saying…?

She was completely dazed, just staring, when Karl smiled awkwardly, grabbed that man’s shoulder, and brought him over to her.

“You should introduce yourself. Dana. This is…”

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Dana dragged Karl deep into the deserted forest. Then she pushed Karl forcefully against a tree and pressed her hand against it beside him.

“Now please tell me.”

She spoke threateningly, intending to look as scary as possible.

“When exactly were you planning to tell me? You know very well how hard I tried to revive Ignis, so you should have mentioned it to me when we first met, shouldn’t you?”

At that moment, Karl’s lips twitched and spasmed. Dana frowned.

‘Did I push too hard and scare him?’

No. That wasn’t it.

Karl hurriedly averted his gaze, but Dana had read all his emotions.

A look as if watching an angry chick chirping and pecking with its beak. He was failing to contain that emotion, looking at her so lovingly right now.

And Dana became even angrier at the nature of that emotion.

‘Is he treating me like a child again?’

After doing all sorts of lewd things to me, now he’s treating me like a child again?

Dana, even more angry, spoke clearly.

“I’m angry right now. Can’t you see that I’m angry?”

“I wasn’t trying to deceive you on purpose, Dana. I just didn’t know how to tell you.”

“What’s there to think about? You just have to say it!”

Karl was silent for a moment, then answered bluntly.

“Because I wasn’t certain…”

“About what?”

“Because I wasn’t confident.”

“…”

About what exactly?

Dana glared at Karl with suspicious eyes. However, Karl kept his mouth tightly shut, seeming to be conserving his words.

There were suspicious aspects to this series of events, but he seemed unable to grasp the full picture yet.

Was there something fishy going on?

‘Diane said she was the first to discover Ignis.’

At that time, Ignis supposedly only knew his own name. But after encountering Karl’s face upon his return from the Red Castle.

“…Are you my brother?”

He said this, apparently remembering Karl.

And only the very good memories at that.

“I remember you treating me well.”

Brother, huh.

It was quite an ill-fitting title, but she had heard that the two actually got along quite well when they lived as brothers.

Karl was supposedly the only one in the Windsor Family with whom Ignis maintained a good relationship.

‘Though even that apparently fell apart in the end.’

Right now, Ignis couldn’t remember the Sanctuary, Rodrigo, or anything else at all.

‘Strange. Noah definitely said that all of his memories would return.’

Perhaps there had been an error. They had to flee without finishing the process of awakening Ignis.

Was it fortunate or unfortunate? Should she feel relieved or disappointed? Dana couldn’t sort out her feelings.

“I’m still not sure, so I think it would be good for Dana to maintain some wariness as well. If by any chance Ignis has all his memories, he’s surely disguising himself with some plan in mind. Can you do that for me?”

“…”

Be wary of Ignis?

Karl had reason to say such things. His last memory would be of Ignis conspiring with Dana to cut off his finger.

Dana changed the subject.

“…What exactly is this Holy Knight burning?”

“I just heard the news myself. It seems there’s a surviving Holy Knight from the Ramun religion. They’re going to burn him at the stake today…”

“…”

Weren’t all the Ramun followers who ruled this place supposed to be dead? For evidence destruction, the castle should have been designed so they would die when it collapsed…

Ah. Could it be.

‘The Holy Knights sent from the Papal Court would be exceptions, I suppose. Could it be one of them?’

Those who had fled with Sir Leo.

Could it be they weren’t able to escape this place?

She was lost in such thoughts when Karl hesitated for a moment, then grabbed her shoulder.

“Dana.”

At that moment, Dana felt her heart drop with a thud. All her nerves focused on where his hand touched her. And memories and sensations flashed by quickly. The trajectory of this hand flowing over her body, that depth, that flame-like pleasure…

“Don’t we seem too close?”

In that instant, Karl pushed Dana away very gently, carefully.

Only after stumbling back a step from that force did Dana belatedly realize.

She had been too excited to notice – her chest had been touching his very slightly. Just like. Just like that time. Like when she had seduced him.

“…”

Dana glared at Karl sharply, dumbfounded.

Acting like this now? After doing such things, pretending like nothing happened?

Anger bubbled up inside her. So she deliberately snapped at him.

“I see. I’m sorry. I must have been mistaken.”

“Huh?”

“When you were on my stomach, you were much closer than this. So I thought this much would be okay.”

“…”

And Dana watched with spiteful satisfaction as Karl’s pale, firm nape turned red.

Seeing his immediate reaction, he clearly remembered it vividly. Yet he was acting like nothing had happened. What a brazen man…

That’s when it happened. A rustling sound came from behind. Dana startled and turned around.

Ignis stood there blankly, holding an axe.

“Hey.”

Ignis stared piercingly at her face and muttered.

“You slept with me.”

“…What?”

“I slept with you. Right?”

At those words, Dana thought her breath would stop.

Ignis muttered as if entranced, memories apparently surfacing.

“We bathed together too.”

“…”

“In a narrow bathtub, I was bathing first. Then you came in after taking off your clothes.”

Ignis muttered blankly as if talking about someone else’s business.

“And you seduced me, asking me to wash you.”

That’s right.

Because for the annulment with Lyos, she had to prove in the Divine Trial that she had lost her purity. Every day, no, every hour was urgent.

‘Besides, I thought it was a body I’d abandon and leave anyway…’

Normally she would have responded calmly. It wasn’t something that particularly needed to be hidden.

But why was she suddenly feeling so anxious? She was reluctant to turn around.

“Don’t even think about lying. I’m remembering what I did with you. Three times… no, four times. Maybe more. Ah, damn it. This is crazy. I don’t think we had any contraceptives either.”

Ignis clutched his head as if feeling a headache from the confusion.

“Did you like me?”

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