I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 347

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Chapter 347

 

 

 

Did you like me?

Did you like me?

Did you like me?

Those words echoed in her head. Dana felt like she was sinking into a swamp.

Did I like him.

To suddenly ask such a question…

However, Ignis was staring at her intently. In other words, he was waiting for an answer.

Dana felt her mouth go completely dry. Her back, the back of her head throbbed terribly.

What should I do here right now? What on earth should I answer?

“I… Ignis-nim…”

That was when it happened.

“What kind of talk is that, Ignis.”

Karl’s voice from behind her back gently cut off her words.

“Although her status has changed now, Dana was originally my nephew. That means she was your nephew too. So what strange words are you saying?”

“That’s exactly why I don’t understand it even more.”

Ignis glared at Dana with an expression that said he absolutely couldn’t understand.

“She seduced me, her uncle.”

“…”

“It wasn’t ordinary, I tell you. Damn it, don’t blame me. There wouldn’t have been a man who wouldn’t have fallen for that. Even you would have fallen for it, brother.”

“…”

Dana and Karl simultaneously closed their mouths.

Ignis didn’t notice that the atmosphere surrounding the two had become strangely suspicious and pressed on.

“Hey, Dana. You tell me. Men are everywhere, so why did you do that to me? Did you like me that much? Huh?”

Stop it… please…

“Your memory must be wrong.”

Fortunately, Karl was a much more shameless person than Dana had thought. He played dumb on her behalf and began stroking her head.

“You need to say something that makes sense, Ignis. What nonsense are you spouting? That Dana came into your bathtub, that she asked you to wash her body, that she liked you…”

Once, twice, three times, the touch flowing from the crown of her head to the ends of her hair was very gentle. The low laughter that flowed as if amazed was the same.

However, Dana felt uneasy for some reason, as if flames were passing by.

“Would Dana do such a thing?”

“…”

“Isn’t that right, Dana?”

“…”

“Isn’t that so?”

Stop asking, you know everything…

When she couldn’t say anything, Karl’s voice became even more affectionate.

“Look. Dana must be so dumbfounded that she’s speechless. Ignis, you’re probably mistaking some impure dream you had.”

However, Ignis didn’t look convinced. He stared at Dana with strange eyes, looking very suspicious.

“Hey. You.”

“Yes.”

“Do you have a mole on the inside of your thigh?”

“…”

“On the inside of your left thigh, deep inside…”

“Anything more than that is harassment, Ignis. Such words and actions are inappropriate.”

“…”

Harassment. At that word, Ignis seemed to realize it could be seen that way and shut his mouth tight. Then he soon apologized gruffly.

“I didn’t mean it that way. I apologize.”

“…I’ll accept that apology.”

Dana answered while avoiding Ignis’s gaze.

Come to think of it, there might not be a need to deny the relationship with him.

But somehow, it had become something that never happened.

Karl had made it that way.

“Uncle Ignis! Where did you go!”

That was when it happened. Noct came running, panting as if he had chased after them.

“Why did you take my axe! I was helping you cut firewood!”

“Ah.”

Only then did Ignis notice that he had an axe in his hand and scratched his cheek awkwardly.

“I brought it without realizing.”

“Do you know how surprised I was when you suddenly ran off with the axe?!”

“Surprised about what? Don’t be such a coward.”

“Wh-who’s being a coward! There’s so much work to do, why are you slacking off here?”

“You little thing talks too much. Hey, I can just do it all for you.”

Dana quietly watched Ignis’s back. Ignis seemed to find the chattering Noct cute, as he was messing up the boy’s hair like a bird’s nest.

‘…It’s the first time I’ve seen him smile like that.’

So Ignis could smile like that too. Without any shadows, so brightly.

I’ve never seen such a face before.

“Shall we go too?”

“…”

Dana carefully turned around. Karl was smiling. They quietly walked behind Noct and Ignis. It was Karl who broke the silence.

“But Dana, can I ask you something?”

“Yes…”

“Don’t take this the wrong way. Do you usually do it without?”

“…”

Here it comes. I wondered why he wasn’t asking.

From the position of being firmly rejected with the excuse of no condom, it was naturally a question worth asking once.

Dana’s face heated up. She couldn’t bear to look at Karl’s expression. She barely managed to reply with the feeling of becoming a tattered target.

“It’s just that… there wasn’t any then, but I did well with contraception in other ways.”

“I see.”

Fortunately, Karl seemed to understand. He nodded as if he understood, then.

“Did you think I couldn’t do it that way?”

“…That’s not it.”

The more she spoke, the more she felt like digging her own grave, so Dana shut her mouth tight and hurried her steps. When would they reach the house?

“Uncle Leta!”

That was when it happened. Noct, who was walking ahead, waved his hand excitedly. It was a greeting to the hunter walking from the opposite side.

“It’s Noct. Is Diane doing well?”

“Yes! Uncle, are you coming to the festival tonight?”

“I’m busy today, but I’ll go to tomorrow’s festival.”

“Aww. Why aren’t you coming today?”

“I have to catch meat to eat at the festival, you brat. They say there will be festivals all week, so don’t rush me.”

The hunter patted Noct’s head and then looked at Ignis. His eyes asked who he was.

“Ah, this is Sister Diane’s relative.”

“I see. You came at a good time.”

The hunter exchanged a light handshake greeting with Ignis. And very naturally, he casually glanced at Dana and Karl standing behind them.

At that moment, the hunter’s eyes widened.

Shock, amazement, fear, intense emotions swept over the hunter.

“You, you, you…”

Would someone make such a face when encountering a tiger while hunting? Trembling, stepping backward, he quickly raised his bow with the instinct carved into his body. And.

He shot an arrow.

“…!”

Ah.

Dana parted her lips. The Hunter’s aim was very hasty, and as hasty as it was, it was shoddy. Dana looked at the arrowhead rushing toward her.

Very fast, with no time to dodge at all, flying toward her face…

“What, what are you doing, mister!”

The arrowhead.

Dana let out the breath she had been holding for a moment.

The arrowhead was right in front of her eyes. It had stopped.

With its sharp blade raised, glinting as if it would pierce through her at any moment.

The arrow shaft was caught in Karl’s grip. He had reached out from behind her to catch the flying arrow and stop it.

Her heart beat wildly. If he had been even a little, even a little late, this arrow would have hit my eye…

“That, that guy is him!”

However, the Hunter showed no sign of remorse. Rather, he hurriedly pulled out a new arrow from his quiver and shouted.

“That guy, that demon, that Imperial Soldier, that’s him! Noct, you go quickly and call Lürto, hurry-!”

“He’s Diane’s relative!”

Noct clung to the Hunter’s waist and shouted.

“Besides, he’s the person who helped us destroy the magical device that controls our brands this time!”

“…What?”

“He’s the person who saved us!”

At those words, the Hunter’s face hardened. The movement of his limbs, which had been frantic to shoot the bow, also stopped.

“Diane’s relative, what nonsense!”

“Look! That lady next to him, the woman you almost killed just now! She looks exactly like Diane!”

At those words, the Hunter finally shifted his gaze toward Dana’s face. And when their eyes met, he was startled.

It was too clear that the woman he had almost killed was related by blood to a woman he knew and knew very well.

“Oh, oh my.”

The Hunter belatedly put down his bow and began to fidget restlessly.

“I, I… I was mistaken. It’s such an old memory. I must have gotten confused. Oh dear, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I made a mistake.”

It was when Dana, who had been tense, was letting out a sigh.

“A mistake?”

An ice-cold voice came from behind her.

Dana unconsciously turned around. And she stiffened with a start.

A man with an unfamiliar face was there.

“Dana almost died, and it’s a mistake?”

Crack. The sound of the arrow shaft he gripped breaking instantly could be heard.

No. Dana hurriedly grabbed his hand.

“Uncle.”

The moment her fingertips touched, she could feel his tensely hardened hand relaxing gently like ice melting under sunlight.

He turned his gaze away from the Hunter and looked down at Dana.

“Don’t do that.”

“…”

“Don’t be angry. Okay?”

“I’m not angry, Dana.”

Karl immediately smiled lightly.

“I was just worried about you. I’m not angry, so don’t worry.”

Before long, his green eyes were as warm as a spring day. Dana felt greatly relieved. Yes, this is Karl. This is my Karl Windsor…

“I’m truly sorry about what happened.”

As they returned to the house together, the Hunter apologized several times, then sighed and confided.

“That guy still appears in my nightmares sometimes. A soldier in a black uniform… Over ten years ago, that demon-like bastard mercilessly massacred Sharom’s military forces. At that time, Sharom’s soldiers and Holy Mages all raised white flags and surrendered, but he didn’t accept it. The only soldiers who survived were me and Lürto, just two people who couldn’t participate in the battle because we were sick at the time.”

It was a voice that trembled with rage just thinking about that time.

Dana just listened quietly.

As far as Dana knew, it was Sharom that first provoked the local war at that time.

The land of Sharom, where mineral veins flowed, had barren soil and frequent food shortages, and whenever the situation became difficult, they would invariably invade the Empire’s territory.

‘That’s the problem with the Northern Region. The lack of exchange and cooperation between them. It would be good if they communicated actively with each other and complemented their weaknesses.’

The Northern Region lost its god in the distant past.

The ancient sacred empire that ruled the Northern Region at that time also fell, and after that, it was said to have been reduced to a cluster of large and small city-states.

The peoples who lost their center and scattered could not cooperate easily, so even in crisis situations, they could not properly coordinate.

For that reason, they were always at a disadvantage in war. Even though northerners had much stronger innate military power than westerners and had more excellent shamans, giving them superior military strength.

‘That’s why they couldn’t even solve the food shortage and tried to break through with invasion.’

Former Emperor Wilhelm, who was the Emperor at the time, sent Karl Windsor, who was the Empire’s commander.

‘Make sure those barbarians can never invade the Empire again, make it the Empire’s land entirely and return.’ That was the order, and the commander carried out that command.

-Or so Dana knew, but.

Hearing it from a Sharom person’s perspective, the feelings were certainly different.

“Sharom at least ended at the occupation level, but the mountain village up there became a complete wasteland, a wasteland.”

Boy Noct, who had been listening to those words, carefully asked.

“There was a mountain village up there?”

“Yes. It’s a place that doesn’t even appear on maps, but if you go just a little from here, there was a small village. That place was completely burned down and not a single survivor remained.”

“Eek…”

“Do you know what’s even more ridiculous? There was a small sheep ranch there, and he spared all the sheep there without harming them.”

“…”

“Damn it, he’s a crazy bastard… He killed all the people, but spared only the sheep, only the sheep!”

The Hunter trembled as if just thinking about that time made him burst with rage.

“That Imperial Soldier had platinum blonde hair and green eyes, and despite his vicious personality, he had a very pretty face, which is particularly vivid in my memory, so I must have been mistaken. I apologize once again.”

The Hunter looked closely at Karl’s face, then sighed and shook his head.

“Looking closely, your impression is completely different from that guy. You’re very different from that evil spirit… I really made a terrible mistake. I’m truly sorry.”

At that moment, Dani had a premonition. No, she was certain.

While listening to the Hunter’s words, she kept…

‘That’s the place.’

In her heart… from the very depths of her heart.

‘That’s exactly the place.’

Someone kept whispering.

‘That’s exactly the place.’

‘I was there.’

She had a very hazy memory.

A memory from her time as Danawin Windsor. Some place where Viego had kidnapped and taken her. The memories from that time were hazy as if someone had forcibly covered them, but there were a few things that came to mind.

The feeling of being very happy and cozy as if enjoying paradise…

Green fields rippling like waves, the sound of sheep bleating in her ears, the faint scent of lily of the valley moistening her nose, and, and.

And.

Karl Windsor’s gun barrel pressed firmly against my forehead.

Dana carefully watched Karl’s reaction.

‘Perhaps.’

Dana hoped he couldn’t hear her thoughts.

‘If I go there, other memories might come back.’

Memories of the lost paradise.

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