I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 352

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Chapter 352

With those words, Lyos took out an amber-glowing jewel from his chest. Viego looked down at the jewel placed on the desk with a hardened face.

“It’s a sacred relic from the First Grants Emperor’s coffin. From now on, you’ll use this sacred relic to go back about 200 years.”

Lyos, who casually said something absurd, took out a cigar from his chest and put it in his mouth. His face looked tired like an old man.

“About 200 years ago, Dana is summoned to the frozen lake in the sanctuary. Go back to that starting point and establish an experimental system in advance. That way, when 200 years later – now – comes, she’ll be able to have multiple bodies.”

Though absurd words poured out, Viego judged very coldly.

That was sincere and true. And he also clearly understood what the other party wanted and demanded.

He understood.

“I refuse.”

However, he couldn’t accept it.

“You refuse?”

Lyos laughed as if dumbfounded. He seemed not to have expected his rejection.

“Duke Windsor. I don’t know everything either. I don’t know much about the sanctuary. I know almost nothing about her true body, and I’m completely ignorant about Diana’s experiments. But you’re different.”

However, he didn’t look impatient. As if he knew very well what choice Viego would make anyway.

But Viego couldn’t suppress the rising feeling of rejection.

Hadn’t he thought of a new possibility today?

What if someday Dana wanted to return to her original world. He had been thinking about that.

In the midst of that, to go back 200 years and become the one who summons Yeon Dana – he had no choice but to refuse.

As if reading his thoughts, Lyos clicked his tongue.

“Dana was summoned to the frozen lake. Even if you don’t do it, she’s destined to be summoned anyway. As I said, what happens at the frozen lake becomes unchangeable fate. Her summoning can never be prevented or changed.”

“…”

“You can believe it. I also tried many attempts to change what happened at the frozen lake, but they all failed.”

Lyos spoke lowly and exhaled cigar smoke.

“So you go and properly organize Diana’s messy experimental system. The Diana cult 200 years ago was so pathetic that if left alone, they’d only manage to make one body for Dana at most.”

It wasn’t the face of someone trying to persuade.

It was just the face of someone who already knew well what would happen, repeating a boring play.

“Of course you must have many concerns too. I know. Do we really need to make multiple bodies like this? Must we absolutely prevent her death? Shouldn’t we let death be death? You’re thinking such thoughts.”

That was right.

It would have been absolutely impossible to think if Danawin were alive, but now that Danawin was dead anyway, he was no longer greatly afraid of her another death.

His lover was already dead anyway.

Danawin Windsor died and appeared as Danae Windsor.

They were the same person but completely different people. Like liking different flowers and loving different people, they were now different beings.

How was that different from dying and being reincarnated?

They say when people die, their souls fall into the cycle of reincarnation. Forgetting all of their past life, they’re bleached into different people and reborn. Like Danawin Windsor became Danae Windsor.

So wouldn’t it be right to let her meet the natural order of death instead?

“I swear I had moments when I thought like that too. After you gave me Princess Danae Grants’ urn long ago… and I saw her diary, which was her relic.”

Lyos wore a self-deprecating smile.

“After seeing the diary that Princess Danae Grants left as a relic, I was quite annoyed with her.”

Lyos’ black eyes became dim as he recalled those times. Those eyes even showed traces of subtle hatred.

“So I thought then. Yes, let’s stop now, I’m sick of this too, now just die for real, woman like you…”

The voice flowing through his teeth seemed to have old anger crumbling away.

“But do you know why I’m still doing this foolish thing?”

All expression disappeared from Lyos’ face.

Anger, hatred, lingering attachment, even mockery, all disappeared.

What remained was only pure white fear.

“I saw something very frightening…”

“…”

“I saw two of them.”

Saying that, Lyos placed two more orbs on the desk.

“Choose just one. If you see both, you’ll have a very hard time.”

“…”

Viego pondered for a moment, then reached for the right orb. And he broke that orb.

At the same time, it felt like the ground sank.

“…!”

In an instant, everything under his feet disappeared. And he fell. Down, down, down, wrapped in the sensation of falling endlessly.

And echoing in his ears, a strange man’s voice.

Farewell, Yeon Dana.

Endlessly repeating fall, and the voice that continued.

Farewell Yeon Dana, farewell Yeon Dana, farewell Yeon Dana, farewell Yeon Dana, farewell Yeon Dana, farewell Yeon Dana, farewell Yeon Dana…

“Gasp!”

A moment later, Viego quickly gasped for breath and jerked his head up. His whole body was drenched in cold sweat.

It was terrible as if he had experienced eternal fall, but in reality, had only a few seconds passed? Still in the dark office, across from him, Lyos was looking at him with pitch-black eyes.

“What did you see?”

“…Fall.”

“Ah. You saw that. That’s somewhat better.”

“…”

Viego’s complexion turned pale.

What was the memory he just saw? It was truly terrible. Endlessly, endlessly, down, down, this sensation of seeming to repeat the fall eternally…

“This is Dana’s memory.”

Lyos spat out in a dry voice.

“When Dana dies, she goes to purgatory.”

Purgatory.

The eternal prison of punishment where painful memories repeat…

“What you just saw is Dana’s experience when she was trapped in purgatory. After Princess Danae Grants died by burning at the stake… she was trapped in purgatory.”

That meant.

Dana cannot reincarnate.

When she dies, she suffers eternally in purgatory.

At this truth more terrible than anything in the world, Viego became completely rigid.

And Lyos had become haggard at some point. He lowered his head and clutched his black hair as if tearing it. He began muttering like a drunk person.

“Damn it, that’s why I can’t let that woman die. I really hate that woman. I really despise her. But, still, I can’t leave her alone…”

Viego agreed. He agreed painfully in his heart.

“Whether in this world or that world, whichever world she goes to, her soul will definitely go to purgatory after death. So not yet, not yet here, in this world, she must live longer. Not yet…”

So she must not die yet. In this world, without dying, she must live longer.

Until they achieve their purpose of preventing her from going to purgatory.

Viego’s recollection ended there.

He had an even longer conversation with Lyos after that, but he forcibly ended the recollection. It wasn’t time to be lost in memories anymore.

He looked at Danawin’s tomb.

Now it was time to act.

Having made his choice, Viego no longer hesitated. He thrust the shovel in his hand into the tomb. With his own hands, he damaged the temple of the goddess he had worshipped and praised all his life.

“You’ll be able to create more of Dana’s bodies than any other timeline.”

Viego roughly scooped out the dirt shovel by shovel. The tomb he had carefully tended and cared for over the past three years was quickly becoming a mess.

“There happens to be excellent experimental material available.”

With each shovelful of dirt he removed from the tomb, a sensation like something breaking in his head washed over him. The terrible feeling of his soul being damaged, ruined, destroyed.

“There’s a specimen abandoned in the tomb.”

Ah, yes. It was a feeling similar to that time.

When he had aimed the gun barrel at Danawin’s head. When he was preparing to kill her. Right before pulling the trigger.

It was exactly the same feeling as then.

“That woman’s bones would be quite suitable as experimental material.”

Viego threw down the shovel.

Finally, the coffin was revealed. He calmly caught his breath, tied the coffin with rope, and pulled it up.

The woman he had buried with his own hands, hoping she would rest in peace. The moment he brought her corpse back to the surface, he suddenly remembered kissing his lover’s cheek long ago. That cheek that was still warm, that red cheek soaked with blood.

“Rest in peace. My love.”

It would have been good if that had been the end.

It would have been good if that had been the conclusion.

Viego roughly tore off the coffin’s lid. Then a skeleton in a sky blue dress, lying asleep, was revealed.

The moment he saw those clothes after so long, he heard a thunderous sound as if something was collapsing. His heart was breaking into pieces.

“Dana.”

From when she was Father’s wife, to now when she had become a sister who loved another man, the woman he had loved his entire life without rest for even a moment.

Viego coldly declared to that woman.

“I’m taking your corpse and going to the past.”

His voice was cracked and dry beyond measure.

“I’ll damage you and use you as experimental material.”

Viego, I really love your voice—he remembered his lover’s words.

But well. Would she say the same if she heard this hideous scoundrel’s voice now?

“If our plan proceeds smoothly, someday in the distant future Dana will see all of this.”

Lyos declared with certainty.

If their plan, if everything flowed successfully, someday she would see this scene.

With her great eyes. With those Eyes That See Through Time, with that omnipotent power she would gain from the experiments of the Diana cult that Viego would establish.

“She’ll see everything you’ve done.”

Right now, she would see all of this sordid scene of him tearing open the coffin and stuffing his lover’s skeleton into a bag.

“Dana might not like our methods. Even if she understands intellectually, she won’t be able to hide her disgust. Honestly, aren’t the things we’re doing rather terrible?”

He was right.

If she saw this nauseating act of digging up his lover’s tomb and desecrating her corpse, even a thousand years of love would turn cold.

Even Viego himself could barely bear the revulsion toward this deed.

“I’m prepared to bear that disgust, Duke Windsor. What about you?”

Dana.

Are you watching?

Are you watching from the future what I’m doing now?

Viego cruelly suppressed his burning emotions and grasped her bones.

If you’re watching, then resent me. You may feel disgust. Toward me, who destroys your rest that I had hoped would be peaceful.

I’d rather you hate me.

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