I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 353

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Chapter 353

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Dana opened her eyes amidst terrible dizziness.

‘My head hurts.’

How long had she been unconscious?

Dana looked around with blurry vision. She had collapsed next to the coffin, sprawled out.

“….”

Dana stared blankly at the coffin.

The coffin where Viego had taken all the bones from the body, leaving only the skull behind.

And she realized once again.

‘I see….’

Viego was Edam Windsor.

The one who summoned me back then was Viego.

They were the same person, so why couldn’t I recognize him?

‘Well… back then he only said a few words at first and then kept quiet.’

If he had talked a bit more back then, I might have suspected he was Viego.

I didn’t notice because the woman who looked exactly like Nettie, who was by his side the whole time, did all the talking instead. I just thought she was a remarkably similar blood relative.

Perhaps it was because of the shock. Her heart was frighteningly calm. Her mind was so coldly rational that even Dana herself was surprised.

The boiling emotions toward Lyos and Viego—she suppressed them for now. For now, she did. For now.

‘So… if I die completely, I’ll go to Purgatory?’

No matter which world she was in, she would go to Purgatory after death.

Even if she reclaimed Yeon Dana’s body and returned to her world. It meant that when she eventually died, she would go to Purgatory.

So what?

Dana gripped the coffin tightly. So what? So what? So what?

So what exactly were Lyos and Viego trying to do?

There seemed to be a way to avoid going to Purgatory. They were spending time on it. And Dana thought she could somewhat guess what it was.

The only thing that had changed as time passed was this.

‘My ability getting stronger….’

Dana looked at the mirror.

Through countless timelines, she always had the same face, but her power was growing stronger and stronger… And though it might be her imagination, her hair was also becoming whiter.

This power was accumulating in her soul.

She probably could no longer be considered an ordinary human soul.

If this went beyond a certain degree, it could become some kind of defense that would prevent her from going to Purgatory.

She suddenly laughed. Purgatory. That’s not a place just anyone goes to.

“It’s a place where souls truly stained with evil go.”

Right, hadn’t Justio said that?

Dana remembered that conversation clearly.

“Ah… Demian would be there….”

“No, he would have entered the cycle of reincarnation. No matter how great his sins, those are by human worldly standards.”

“….”

“There are almost no human souls that go to Purgatory. That place is a prison for demons.”

It was absurd. So my soul is now no different from a demon’s soul?

Because I’m the only soul that can purify Corruption and use the demonic ability to look down on time? So they’ll judge me by standards similar to demons?

It was truly unfair.

Am I evil enough to go to Purgatory?

No, I’ve done many good things too. Didn’t I save so many people by purifying Corruption?

‘Ah, right. They said not to judge by human worldly standards.’

Come to think of it, ‘that thing’ said the same.

The Black Abyss at the bottom of the Black Corruption Lake in the Castle Underground. Even the corpse of the Grants Imperial Family member that was spewing Corruption.

“Do not try to fathom God’s will with human thinking.”

At that moment, Dana realized. The hypothesis she had been predicting ever since she saw that corpse of the Grants Imperial Family member.

The reason why the Sun God persecutes just one individual human to this extent.

It was such a terrible speculation that she couldn’t carelessly be certain, but now, at this moment, that certainty was gradually gaining strength.

‘And Lyos’s second orb….’

The orb Viego didn’t choose.

She thought she knew what memories that orb contained, the one Lyos had frightened her about, saying it held something truly terrible.

She thought she knew. Now she did.

Now….

Dana clenched her fist. Anyway, what was important now was doing what she could do right away.

‘First, this body absolutely cannot die.’

Right now she knew so many things. If she moved to another body, she would forget everything.

She had the great eye, so she would remember everything again, but it would take a very long time.

‘Besides, they said if I die in this body, my soul would be trapped in a bottle so I couldn’t go to the next body….’

But strangely, that didn’t worry her much. Because Noah said he would prevent that. Dana realized for the first time that she trusted and relied on Noah this much.

So I need to do something too.

Anything to protect this memory, this body.

“You know what you need to do, don’t you?”

At that moment, Dana was startled by the voice and looked up. She almost screamed.

“You know, Dana.”

She was there.

She, Dana, was looking at her.

Her heart pounded so loudly it seemed like it would burst out of her chest. Afraid a moan might escape her lips, Dana swallowed hard.

And soon she quickly regained her composure.

It’s not me.

That wasn’t the current me.

“Right? You know well, Dana.”

Danawin.

It was Danawin Windsor.

Danawin was sitting on her coffin with her bottom perched on it, propping her chin with both hands and smiling brightly. Wearing the sky-blue dress she had loved so much in life.

Danawin said to Dana very cheerfully.

“You just need to find the holy relic. Dana.”

Dana slowly reached out her hand. Her trembling, convulsing fingertips. Those fingertips passed right through Danawin’s body.

The tension instantly released.

‘As expected.’

This is a thought-form.

The knowledge and information that Viego had planted in her mind before. This time it appeared with Danawin’s face.

Did they say it appears with the face of the person you most want to see?

‘Does this mean the person I most want to see right now is Danawin?’

Finding this amusing, Dana chuckled and replied.

“I know. That’s why I was planning to go look for Edam Windsor’s coffin tomorrow… but as you can see, there’s no sacred relic in the coffin. Viego probably has it.”

Or maybe not. Maybe he already used it all up. Or maybe he returned it to Lyos.

Suddenly, her vision went dark. The location of the sacred relic had become uncertain. She only had about ten days left to live, and there was no time!

Then Danawin smiled the exact same smile as her.

“Then why don’t we look somewhere closer?”

“Somewhere closer?”

“Yes. Right next to you.”

“…Next to me?”

“You know it too, Dana.”

Danawin bent down and brought her face close. Then she whispered mischievously.

“You know that Karl Windsor is deceiving you.”

Whoooosh—

The sound of pouring rain could be heard. The raindrops pounding loudly against the window were very thick.

When did… it start raining again?

For some reason, it was a moment when her thoughts drifted elsewhere. Danawin looked straight into her eyes and smiled.

“Or do you really believe that Karl Windsor lost the sacred relic?”

Slowly, her throat began to burn with thirst.

This wouldn’t be information planted by Viego.

The reality she lived in, the facts she knew, the truth she had discerned. The thought entity wearing Danawin’s face sharply spat it out.

“That person has been guarding the sacred relic for a very long time without even using it.”

“…”

“Maybe at first he used it to lure you out. He has great interest in you, after all. But seeing how he never gave it to you in the end, Karl Windsor himself is saving it to use somewhere.”

Dana lowered her eyes. Each of Danawin’s words pierced her heart like a dagger.

“So he deceived you and hid it where you couldn’t see. Because he knew you’d pester him for the sacred relic.”

To the very depths, to the bottom of the abyss she had buried because she didn’t want to know.

“That person will never give you the sacred relic. Even if you die in that body, even if you forget all your memories with him, yes, even if you forget everything that happened in that cave, he still has no intention of giving you the sacred relic.”

CRACK!

The sound of lightning striking very close by rang out ear-splittingly. The thunderous sound of heavy rain followed.

Dana thought blankly.

Yes… that’s right.

I actually know too.

I know there’s no way he lost the sacred relic.

Even though I knew, I pretended not to.

I was completely intoxicated by that person, and that intoxication was so blissful that I wanted to stay drunk like this.

“He didn’t want to be betrayed by you again, didn’t want to have his fingers cut off by you again. That’s why he’s lying and hiding the sacred relic.”

The more the words continued, the deeper Dana looked down at the bottom.

“Right now he’s on very good terms with you, so he’d want you not to die. But he’d think it’s better for you to die than to have the sacred relic stolen.”

“…”

“After all, even if you die, you’ll appear again in another body, but the sacred relic diminishes the more it’s used.”

“…”

“You know, right? That person tried to kill me too.”

No, now there was no bottom.

There was nowhere to hide, nowhere to escape.

“What will you do? Will you keep being deceived?”

All that remained was the coffin.

“If you keep being deceived, you’ll end up in a coffin like me, won’t you?”

The coffin where Danawin slept deeply.

Now that was truly the only future left for her. Getting into a coffin. Like Danawin, rotting away into a skeleton and forgetting all memories.

Dana slowly but firmly shook her head.

No, absolutely not.

I will never become like that again.

“Karl Windsor wouldn’t keep something as precious as a sacred relic far from his body. He’d hide it somewhere invisible, but very close. Where would that be?”

Danawin quickly reasoned through it. She voiced all the thoughts flowing through Dana’s mind right now.

“Karl Windsor’s pants pocket.”

His pocket.

“Wouldn’t that be the safest storage place in the world?”

Yes. That’s right.

Who could touch Karl Windsor’s pocket? His pocket was no different from a vault guarded by the world’s most powerful gatekeeper.

No one in this world could pick his pocket. Even if it were her, as long as Karl was on guard, absolutely never…

Then wouldn’t it work to break down his guard?

“Absinthe.”

Danawin quickly found the answer.

She discussed the knowledge Dana knew well, the plan Dana was frantically devising in her head right now, as if they were consulting and deliberating together.

“Make him drink absinthe. That person is terribly weak with alcohol. Then his judgment will be impaired, and after that his pants…”

Danawin laughed as if it were terrible.

“Since you’ve taken them off once, the second time will be easier.”

It was a laugh somewhere between disgust and mockery.

“You just have to do what you did in that cave again. Then he won’t suspect anything either. Right?”

Danawin spoke in a voice holding back nausea as if the mere thought was revolting.

“You’ve even taken off his drawers, so you can’t take off one pair of pants?”

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