I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 361

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Chapter 361

Dana sat down across from Karl and smiled brightly.

“It would be boring to just drink, so would you like to make a bet with me?”

“A bet?”

“Yes. You know the truth game, right?”

Dana slowly poured absinthe into her own glass as well.

“The rules are simple. Ask each other questions we’re curious about, answer the questions, and take a sip every time we can’t answer.”

“….”

“But we absolutely cannot lie. How about it?”

Karl looked at her face and eventually nodded.

“Good. That sounds fun.”

“Ask first.”

“Thanks.”

Karl placed his clasped hands on the dining table. Then he asked with complete composure.

“Did you sleep with me to take my ring?”

“….”

Ah.

Dana was slightly surprised and stiffened her fingertips. But it was only for a very brief moment.

Well, of course.

Of course he would have noticed.

It wasn’t just anyone, but Karl Windsor. Even if he seemed careless, how quick-witted he was – there’s no way he wouldn’t know.

“Yes. That’s right.”

“I thought so.”

He didn’t seem heartbroken. He just nodded as if he had heard the answer he expected.

“Now it’s my turn to ask. Did you know I was going to take the ring?”

At those words, Karl lifted the corners of his lips and smiled.

“I expected it.”

“But why did you leave your pants off and go into the bathroom?”

“I forgot.”

“….”

You expect me to believe that now?

When she glared at him with suspicious eyes, Karl smiled awkwardly as if it were really true.

“It’s true. Of course, it was only for a very brief moment…”

“….”

“I did remember again the moment I entered the bathroom.”

Karl paused for a moment and let out a bitter laugh tinged with slight emptiness, like someone who had failed at gambling.

“I just left it alone.”

“…Why?”

“There was something I wanted to confirm.”

“….”

It was an answer with many words omitted.

But Dana seemed to understand. What he had wanted to confirm.

He must have wanted to see how Dana would react. So he deliberately left the sacred relic there like setting a trap.

Dana asked slowly.

“Were you disappointed?”

“Just a little bit.”

Karl laughed playfully.

“I’m usually not easily fooled by others, but I seem to be fooled by you every time.”

Dana snorted. That’s exactly what I want to say.

“Is it my turn now?”

“Yes. Go ahead and ask.”

“Did you deliberately wear the sacred relic conspicuously in front of me? From the moment you got the sacred relic on Godom Island until now?”

“Yes.”

As expected…

A strange elation washed over her. It was pleasure rather than shock.

“Since you’ve been using the sacred relic as bait to make me follow you around all this time, isn’t it time you gave me some compensation?”

“Compensation?”

“You know, right? I really followed you around for a long time. Even when I really hated you, I pretended to like you because of the sacred relic – you know that well.”

“I know.”

Karl let out a quiet laugh and swept back his wet hair.

“I know very well.”

What do you know? Dana held back her urge to snap at him and said.

“Since I made such an effort, don’t you think about giving me the sacred relic as a gift now?”

“I’m really sorry.”

Karl answered without a second’s hesitation. He comforted her as if he truly felt sorry.

“I have no intention of giving this sacred relic to anyone else. Not even if it’s you, Dana.”

“I quite like you right now. If I die in this body, these memories and feelings will disappear, and I might never recall them again – don’t you care?”

“….”

The immediate response that had been coming until now didn’t return.

Karl pressed his lips tightly together. He just stared at her silently.

At that moment, his gaze looking at her was very deep and very clear. As always. As usual. Like an endless green sea…

Finally his lips opened.

“I’m sorry, but I’d like you to return the sacred relic.”

That was his answer.

In that moment, Dana realized.

‘He doesn’t believe me.’

Karl doesn’t believe her words right now. He thinks it’s a lie.

Just as she doesn’t believe him.

Suddenly it seemed ridiculous. The time of deceiving and being deceived, testing and being tested, betraying and being betrayed had been long. Really, far too long.

“It’s your turn. Ask a question.”

“Do you have any intention of returning the sacred relic to me of your own will, Dana?”

“If you tell me what you’re going to use it for.”

“….”

“That’s my answer, and that’s my next question too. So please answer.”

Karl hesitated for a moment, then picked up his glass.

He tilted it to take a sip, wetting his tongue with the green liquor.

Just from that, Dana saw his white nape gradually turn the color of rose petals.

It was a change that always greatly stimulated her.

The fact that she found it attractive even at a moment like this proved that she had definitely become thoroughly addicted to that man.

‘It’s okay. If I’m addicted, I can detox.’

If I know it’s bad for my body, I just need to stop consuming it.

So now, enough.

“You lost this bet.”

“It seems so.”

“I’m tired of it. I want to stop now.”

She spoke with the intention of leaving her seat now. But then.

“Then it’s my turn to make a bet I want, right?”

Unexpected words reached her ears.

Dana looked at Karl with slight surprise. Karl was smiling gently.

“It’s simple. Someone will come to this house shortly, and that person will call for you.”

As if a slight intoxication was beginning to set in, Karl spoke while slowly rubbing his face with dry hands.

“Don’t follow that person. Then it’ll be your victory, Dana.”

“…If I win? What do I get in return?”

“I won’t take the Sacred Relic from you.”

It was arrogance as natural as breathing, as if he could take the Sacred Relic back whenever he wanted. But Dana knew that was the truth.

“What if I lose?”

“I’ll take the Sacred Relic. And.”

Karl tilted his head, drawing out his words. Then he looked at her sideways with strangely languid eyes.

“Next time, will Dana accept me completely?”

Dana didn’t understand that sentence immediately.

For a few seconds, just briefly mulling over those words, she belatedly realized their full meaning.

Her face flushed hot.

This person really… at such an important moment, suddenly saying something so absurd?

“Fine. I’ll do that.”

Then Karl rubbed his eyes with his fingers and smiled faintly.

“Right… I’m sorry.”

“…”

Dana felt somewhat confused by that response. Sorry? For what? Why say that already? Besides.

Why are you so certain I’ll lose the bet?

Who exactly is coming shortly-

That was the moment.

Knock knock.

Dana turned around in startled surprise. At the same time, the sound came again.

Knock knock

Someone was knocking.

Just as Karl had said, someone had really come.

‘Who is it?’

Dana instinctively tensed up and held her breath.

It wasn’t Diane and Noct. If it were them, they would have opened the door or spoken first without bothering to knock.

Does Karl know who it is?

It doesn’t matter who it is. Whoever it is, I absolutely will never…

“Dana.”

But the next moment, Dana’s mind went completely blank.

“Dana.”

Her instincts, her body reacted first.

Blood rushed upward, then cooled coldly, then heated up intensely in an instant, boiling and bubbling within her blood vessels. In that shock, her body seemed to be reconstructed anew.

Into that woman, into her past self sleeping peacefully in a sky blue dress…

“I’m going to open the door now.”

A voice like quiet moonlight on a night came from beyond the door. It seemed to seep into her body. Deep into her body, reaching her soul.

This was a voice she loved so very much.

“Come outside.”

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