I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 349

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Chapter 349

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“Eva!”

Danawin Windsor spun around sharply. Norta from the clothing store was waving her hand and calling out to her.

“Come here, quickly!”

At that gesture, Danawin ran over with excitement. Could it be.

“Eva, the dress you ordered last time is finally finished!”

“Really?”

“Of course! Come in quickly and try it on!”

Danawin went into the clothing store and tried on the dress with the woman’s help.

“My goodness, it looks so wonderful on you, Eva!”

It looked good to her too. Danawin looked at herself in the mirror with a flushed face.

The dress made from light sky-blue fabric was Danawin’s first new outfit since leaving the Sanctuary. It was also the first dress she bought with money earned from selling goat milk.

“Honey, you came at the perfect time. Look at this. Doesn’t this dress suit Eva perfectly?”

Nelparath, Norta’s husband, widened his eyes in amazement.

“It’s more than just suitable! Eva, I really thought an angel had descended!”

Those words lifted Danawin’s spirits. Would Viego think the same?

‘I need to hurry and show him!’

Danawin ran out excitedly, still wearing the dress.

“Eva! My goodness, that dress is so beautiful!”

“Be careful, Eva! What if you fall while running?”

The villagers called out to her as she passed. Danawin greeted them with nods as she ran. Then she unconsciously stopped.

She was in front of a store that sold gentlemen’s accessories.

Danawin pressed her face against the window and stared intently at the gentleman’s canes on display.

‘Viego would look good with something like that.’

When Danawin lived at the Sanctuary, Viego visited the Sanctuary once each season.

Each time, Viego wore military uniforms or formal suits, and when he was younger, he wore his Military Academy uniform.

He had the perfect appearance of an heir who would one day inherit the leadership of the Diana cult, the Sanctuary, and even the Windsor Ducal House. Such attire truly suited him well.

If things had gone as planned, he would have obtained all of that and carried around gentleman’s canes like those.

Like Demian. Demian always carried such canes around too…

‘But because of me, he gave up everything.’

She wanted to buy him a cane, but when she saw the price, she could only droop her shoulders dejectedly.

It’s incredibly expensive. Why on earth would they sell such things in this small mountain village?

“Eva.”

Just then, an elderly man opened the door and came out of the shop. He was the store owner.

“Come in and browse comfortably.”

Danawin jumped back from the glass window in surprise. Was I staring too desperately?

“I, I’m just looking. I don’t have enough money to buy anything…”

“Of course you don’t. Who in this small village would buy such things?”

“…”

He knows that. Then why did he open a store here?

Seeing her curious expression, the old man answered gently.

“I have a hobby of collecting such items. I’m happy if anyone appreciates their value.”

“…”

“You don’t need to buy anything, so come in and look around.”

Danawin hesitated for a moment, then shook her head.

Although she had become quite close with the villagers, she was still quite shy around strangers.

The owner smiled kindly at this.

“Come and browse comfortably anytime, Eva.”

And now.

Dana stared blankly at a building that was completely destroyed, looking like only bones remained.

That store. The gentlemen’s accessories shop where the canes had been displayed.

The glass window was shattered to pieces, and the interior had collapsed beyond recognition. Vines and moss covered the corpse-like remains grotesquely.

Dana entered the store as if entranced, then stopped when her foot touched something. She froze in shock.

“…”

A cane.

It was a gentleman’s cane.

Charred black, broken in half, covered in dust.

The expensive cane that Danawin had wanted to buy for Viego back then…

“Ugh.”

Feeling nauseous, Dana covered her mouth. As she swayed while dry heaving, Ignis grabbed her shoulder.

“Are you alright?”

“…I’m fine.”

With Ignis’s support, Dana fled from the store. She crossed the mountain village with great difficulty.

Memories had been surfacing since she entered this village.

It wasn’t time she had seen through her divine sight.

These were memories rising from within her.

Perhaps because she had come to the place where Danawin once lived. The voice that had been whispering inside her became more intense than ever.

I know, I know where this place is.

That resounding voice touched the egg of memories that had been sleeping in her heart. It was breaking the shell that had firmly locked away her memories.

‘Yes, I remember. I remember…’

With each step she took, the memories began to hatch, breaking through their shell.

“Eva, come down to the village often with Adam. Don’t you get bored staying only at the ranch?”

This street I used to walk frequently.

“Here, here’s the lily of the valley scented soap you requested, Eva. I bought it at a high price from the city, so use it sparingly.”

The people who lived alongside me.

“Eva! The bread turned out delicious today. Take some and give it to Adam too!”

The bakery run by three sisters together. The bakery where Danawin regularly delivered goat milk was also completely destroyed, with tomb-like bushes growing over its ruins.

Where had they all disappeared to?

‘Of course they’re all dead.’

She knew it.

It was a fact she already knew well. But…

‘I feel like throwing up.’

It was so different from just knowing it intellectually. Completely different.

That gap felt disgustingly real.

Until now, it had felt like just a line of information read in a book, no different from the invasion that the people of Shalom had experienced, but.

Realizing deep in her heart that this was truly ‘her’ story, that it was the story of Danawin Windsor who had once been a member of this village, really.

I can’t breathe properly…

Dana gasped for air.

I know. These are Danawin’s emotions. The shock of that woman carved deep into her soul.

But in the end, I am Danawin, aren’t I?

Dana walked through the ruins of a life that had met its end over a decade ago, lost in thought.

The bodies?

What happened to their bodies?

‘Could I find out if I went back to Karl and asked?’

If I asked him what happened to the corpses of the people he ordered killed, those who lived alongside me, whether he properly buried their bodies…

What would he tell me?

No, wait.

Did Karl really do such things?

Of course I knew, but still.

My thoughts became tangled. My reason seemed to crumble.

My Karl Windsor. My gentle and beautiful Uncle whose lips tasted so sweet. That man who intensely captivated me. The man with absinthe eyes who finally made me drunk.

Dana wanted to possess Karl. Whether this feeling was possessiveness, sexual desire, love, or all of the above, she didn’t know, but Dana wanted him. At least the yearning to want him was clear.

And the moment she revealed that desire, Karl Windsor obediently became hers. Like a gentle golden bird that softly alighted on her palm.

But to think that man and the monster who so cruelly trampled this village were the same person.

‘I can’t believe it at all.’

Dana walked like a ghost, completely dazed. How far up had she climbed like that?

Finally, she arrived at that place.

A wooden fence showing traces of time.

Lush pasture grass growing beyond it.

That ranch.

The ranch was surprisingly undamaged, making it recognizable at a glance. Dana slowly climbed over the fence and entered. And at that moment.

“Hey. Dana.”

Ignis called to her from behind.

“I can’t get in.”

“…What?”

When she turned around, it was really true.

When Ignis tried to enter inside the fence, a translucent barrier flashed and blocked his way.

Ignis tapped the barrier with his fingertip and frowned.

“It’s a barrier. Someone set up a barrier so no one could enter this ranch carelessly.”

“…”

“But how did you get in?”

“…”

Right. How did only I get in?

Though she didn’t know, Dana quite naturally thought of a possibility.

A medium.

‘Perhaps there might be a medium in this ranch.’

Like the spatial movement mirror they tried to obtain from the red ship, and like the twin mirror lakes that could lead to the frozen lake.

Might there be an identical medium in this ranch that connects space to space?

Something identical to the current me.

Since this is where Danawin lived.

Perhaps a part of Danawin—a part of me—still remains here.

“Hey, stop.”

When Dana tried to continue going in, Ignis tried to dissuade her.

“Do you know what’s in there? It looks like a hundred-year-old ghost might appear.”

“…”

“Looking at the barrier, it’s not an ordinary ranch. Don’t go.”

“It’s okay. This place is…”

Dana paused and looked around the ranch.

“This place is safe.”

This ranch—especially this village—was a safe refuge more than anywhere else in the world. It was a harmonious village where not even a single common fight had ever broken out among the villagers.

Until the disaster named Karl Windsor came.

“I’ll be back soon, so please wait a moment.”

At those words, Ignis no longer held her back.

Dana left him behind and slowly crossed the ranch. With each step she took, she somehow felt the blood draining from her body.

The feeling that my body was gradually becoming transparent.

Yes, like a ghost, I felt as if my flesh was faintly disappearing.

‘Perhaps the ghost living in this ranch is me…’

Is that why? The memories of that ghost keep flooding in.

That tree. I used to nap with the sheep under the shade of that tree.

And that flower garden. Lily of the valley used to be planted there in abundance. So the ranch was always filled with the scent of lily of the valley.

I really loved that fragrance. But actually, there was a scent I loved even more than that…

Finally, Dana stopped in front of the door of a log house in the middle of the ranch.

And she instinctively knew.

This is as far as I go.

If I go any further, it might truly become irreversible.

Dana knew who she had lived with and what she had done in this ranch. Walking through Viego and the Hall of Repentance, that dimensional space, she had witnessed many things and come to surmise much from it.

So she knew with her head. She had known all along what had happened to this village.

But if I open the door and regain those memories and emotions, I will…

I will change.

Perhaps I might come out as a completely different person.

Who knows. The ghost of the past might completely dominate me.

Dana hesitated for a moment. Would it be better to go back even now?

That was the moment.

“What are you doing not coming in.”

His voice comes from beyond the door.

“Dana.”

The voice I loved so much, like moonlight on a quiet night.

Dana could not resist.

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