I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 364

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Chapter 364

“That’s enough.”

The Pope warned in a sunken voice.

However, Dana had no intention of stopping. She shot back at him with contemptuous eyes, her words sharp and cutting.

“I’m really curious just how terrifying Karl Windsor must be for you to go this far. Are you that scared? You have less courage than I thought, Your Holiness.”

The Pope looked down at her coldly. His blue eyes seemed to drop to sub-zero temperatures, sharpening like razor-sharp ice shards.

Those eyes were so utterly cold that the humiliation that had flared up like flames moments before was nowhere to be seen.

Well, of course the Pope wouldn’t be emotionally swayed by such childish provocation. He would merely find this woman who dared block his path to be insolent.

It doesn’t matter either way. Whether he finds me insolent or not.

Right now, I’ve achieved my purpose.

‘It’s done.’

Finally, the Sun God’s spear had turned completely black. The Pope seemed to have just realized this as well, furrowing his straight brow.

“Your Holiness, so please reconsider.”

At this point, Dana gradually softened her tone and spoke coaxingly.

“Karl Windsor is unconscious right now anyway.”

Karl was still collapsed, his entire body pierced and bound by golden chains. It was clear he had temporarily lost consciousness.

“Didn’t you say the consciousness seal wasn’t perfect? But is that really such a big problem? Since he’s collapsed anyway, we can just take him like this.”

“He might wake up on the way to the Papal Court.”

“Even if he wakes up, Karl Windsor won’t resist.”

Dana’s tongue tasted bitter as she said this.

“He won’t do anything like resist, so please be at ease, Your Holiness.”

Because Karl had chosen to go to the Papal Court’s torture chamber himself.

He had participated in the deal between Viego and the Pope.

By drinking all the absinthe Viego had poured for him, he had expressed his consent. As a sign that he would become the sacrifice instead of Dana, he had drunk all the green liquor.

‘Viego didn’t leave without regrets for no reason…’

Viego was certain that Karl wouldn’t resist. That’s why he left immediately.

“Summary execution like this without proper interrogation is wrong. Of course I know this way is easier and safer, but choosing only the easy path corresponds to sloth among the seven deadly sins, doesn’t it?”

Dana spoke very softly and gently, unlike someone who had just lashed out fiercely moments before.

“I’ll take responsibility. I’ll make sure Karl Windsor doesn’t cause a disturbance even if he wakes up. So please give him the chance to undergo proper interrogation, not summary execution.”

“Why should I listen to you?”

“Because I’m the only person in the world who can purify that corrupted holy relic you’re holding.”

Dana pointed to Ramun’s blackened, rotted spear.

“If you leave it like this, there’s a risk the corruption will spread and start corrupted lands.”

“…”

“Your Holiness the Pope. Surely you’re not planning to leave this seed of disaster as it is?”

“…”

The Pope knew it too.

As Dana said, the rotted spear was itself a spark that could spread into a terrible wildfire at any time.

“Absolutely not!”

That’s when it happened. A thunderous shout erupted from behind.

“Your Holiness, do not listen to that wicked woman’s words!”

A very large man – Cardinal Dominic – pushed through the Holy Knights and strode forward. He pointed at her with reddened eyes.

“You must not lend your ear to the witch’s whispers!”

Dana glared at the man with bewildered eyes.

Why is that person still alive?

He was someone who tried to sacrifice the Pope’s Holy Knights as offerings – shouldn’t that man have been the one to receive summary execution?

“Do not be bewitched by the witch, Your Holiness!”

However, the Sun God’s stigmata still shone clearly on Cardinal Dominic’s forehead. Dana gritted her teeth at that distinct golden pattern.

As long as the stigmata existed, the Cardinal was still the Sun God’s messenger.

Therefore, no matter what he did, at least he wouldn’t be executed by the Ramun Church. That would be the same as harming the Sun God’s representative.

Dana raised her voice, angry at this reality.

“Who’s calling whom a witch? If it weren’t for me, the Cardinal would have died long ago in the Red Castle!”

“That too is the witch’s deception to seduce men!”

Cardinal Dominic glared at her with eyes of hatred and shouted fervently.

“Your Holiness! Originally, a witch’s whispers are sweet as honey, and a witch’s red lips are luscious as fruit! Do not forget the Sun God’s teaching that corruption begins the moment one bites the apple a witch offers!”

Dana went beyond anger to bewilderment.

What disgusting nonsense is that fanatic spouting now? When did I ever seduce anyone?

‘And what? My whispers are what and my lips are what?’

Dana felt like she was being harassed rather than just criticized. It was extremely unpleasant.

“…”

Fortunately, the Pope wasn’t swayed by Cardinal Dominic’s words. No, he seemed to have become even calmer.

“Very well. Purify the spear.”

“Your Holiness!”

“Be quiet.”

“…!”

At the Pope’s single word, Cardinal Dominic clamped his lips shut. The Pope held out the spear to Dana.

“What are you doing? Purify it.”

“…”

Dana ignored Cardinal Dominic, who was trembling with a reddened face, and looked up at the Pope with suspicious eyes.

“Will you promise not to kill Karl Windsor here?”

“Yes. I promise.”

At the Pope’s acceptance, Dana quickly reached out her hand.

The Pope had given his word. Since it was a promise made even before the Holy Knights’ eyes, he would surely keep it.

Dana quickly purified the spear before he could change his mind.

Soon brilliant light poured from her hands and enveloped the rotted spear. The corruption disappeared as if the black stains were being washed away, and it regained its original golden color.

Dana removed her hands from the spear.

“It’s done.”

Several Holy Knights who had watched this scene looked at her with amazed eyes. They seemed to be seeing her purify something for the first time.

“It’s all purified, so please check.”

“…”

The Pope examined the spear, then nodded as if satisfied.

“The purification was done well.”

…Wait.

What is the Pope doing right now?

Justio was infusing divine power back into the spear. Then golden flames began to burn sharply at the spear’s tip.

“Your Holiness. What are you doing right now?”

The Pope didn’t answer.

Instead, he looked straight into Dana’s eyes.

The moment she met those sapphire-blue pupils directly.

Justio drove the Sun God’s spear down into Karl’s back.

“…!”

The sound of Karl’s bones breaking could be heard.

The sound of his very soul being pierced through could also be heard.

Perhaps because she was quietly meeting those calm blue eyes, Dana couldn’t believe what the Pope was doing now – his betrayal, his brutality.

The Pope calmly met her eyes while driving the spear of light deeper. Piercing through Karl’s back, crushing his spine and ribs, deeply, very deeply… while splitting even his soul… this moment of quietly gazing into her eyes…

Seemed almost like mockery.

It felt like an insult.

How much like a lie it seemed.

A moment later, the Pope pulled out the spear.

And he turned his gaze away from Danae. He turned his head back. At his signal to the Holy Knights, the knights who had been watching brought over a long wooden box.

The Pope placed the spear in the box and commanded the Holy Knights.

“Bring the Sealing Coffin and move Karl Windsor. Then we withdraw from here immediately.”

“Yes, Your Holiness.”

Now.

What are you doing now.

Dana’s lips trembled violently. She finally released the breath she had been holding.

Soon the knights brought a large coffin. They began moving Karl’s unconscious, limp body into the coffin.

Karl Windsor was covered in bright red blood.

The thick smell of blood was enough to give her a headache.

“Why.”

Thud. The heavy coffin lid closed.

Then light burst forth from the Sun God’s emblem carved on the lid. It began to wrap around the coffin like golden chains. So that even if the person inside awakened, they could never escape…

“Why on earth.”

Dana let out a grinding breath and fiercely grabbed the Pope’s collar.

“Why did you break your promise?”

“Who says I broke a promise?”

The Pope brushed off her hand as if annoyed.

“If I truly intended to kill him, I would have driven the spear into his head, not his back.”

“Don’t play with words! Why did you do such a thing!”

“Such a thing?”

Suddenly the Pope’s blue eyes pierced through her face. He spoke slowly in a voice low and dark as shadows.

“It was to prevent him from regaining consciousness midway, so why is that.”

In that moment Dana was certain. The man before her was feeling extreme irritation toward her.

Did the Pope also become aware of his own mood? He breathed low once and cast his eyes downward.

“Have I ever promised to take him safely?”

“…”

“You seem to have forgotten, but the Divine Oracle given to you is still in effect. So now it would be better to worry about your own safety rather than others.”

The Pope turned his body sharply and spoke coldly.

“Follow me. You’re coming with me.”

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