I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 37

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Chapter 37

Dana stared at him intently.

‘He’s back.’

She had heard that he returned after finishing the naval battle with the Barbarian Tribes who invaded the Territorial Waters.

She had only heard about it but never encountered him until now…

“You’ve gotten even prettier since I last saw you, Dana.”

But why was he speaking to her so familiarly?

What conversation had they shared right before he left for the expedition?

“Your compensatory psychology suffocates people.”

“Did someone forcibly tie you down to prevent you from leaving?”

Right. He had spouted those words.

And now he had the shameless audacity to speak to her as if nothing had happened.

Dana glared at him, then turned around sharply without a word.

Then she immediately stopped.

“…”

Her hair and back were damp.

Lumiere had splashed fountain water at her.

When she turned around, sure enough, Lumiere was smiling mischievously as he flicked his fingers to spray fountain water.

“…Right now.”

Dana wiped the water from her face and glared at him coldly.

“What are you doing?”

“Getting your attention.”

Lumiere swept back his wet silver hair and grinned.

“Don’t ignore me, Dana. My heart aches every time you ignore me.”

Dana was seized by a violent urge to push him into the fountain.

Because he was exactly the same as before.

‘Is he playing a prank on me right now?’

Acting like nothing happened, just like before?

After spouting those words at me?

“Then you shouldn’t have done things worthy of being ignored.”

Dana replied coldly and turned around. Immediately.

Splash!

“…”

Drip, drip. Dana slowly looked at him with her back completely soaked.

“I told you not to ignore me.”

Lumiere dipped his finger in the fountain with a smiling face. Dana snapped fiercely.

“What are you doing.”

“As you can see, I got you wet.”

“So why exactly?”

“Because you were trying to just leave.”

Lumiere smiled like a sigh.

“I hate being ignored.”

At that moment, Dana realized for certain.

‘This person hates me.’

Back then, when she had come after confirming Lyos and Alice’s affair.

When Lumiere defended Alice, she thought he was just taking his sister’s side.

She thought he was putting himself down to protect his sister.

But that wasn’t it.

‘This has nothing to do with Alice.’

Lumiere Windsor hated her.

Otherwise, why would he pick a fight like this?

“Why…”

Why do you hate me?

Since when have you hated me?

If you dislike me, why did you stop me when I was about to leave?

Was it a prank like Noah’s?

Then why did you hide those feelings until now? Why reveal them now?

“…”

She wanted to ask. But she couldn’t utter a single word. Her tongue simply wouldn’t cooperate.

She had no drive, no motivation.

‘There’s no need to know anyway.’

Right, there was no need to know.

A world she would leave anyway. A person she would part with anyway. What did she care about that person’s inner thoughts?

‘But I can’t just let this humiliation slide.’

Dana strode toward him and pushed his shoulder with all her might.

The moment Lumiere tilted backward.

“…!”

A strong force pulled her toward him.

Lumiere had pulled her in!

Splash!

Dana floundered in the fountain, having tumbled in together with Lumiere.

In the process, her nose bumped into his chest.

‘Ow!’

Why was his chest so hard! Her nose stung and tears welled up.

“Let go of me!”

“Ahaha!”

What was so funny? Lumiere laughed while still in the fountain.

Dana barely managed to crawl out of the fountain and glared at Lumiere.

The moonlight falling over her soaked clothes revealed her pale skin brazenly.

And Lumiere was staring intently at her disheveled state. Most ungentlemanly indeed.

“Is this funny to you? I’m not laughing.”

“Ah, it’s fine. I find it amusing.”

“What a nasty personality. Why did you hide it until now?”

“I wasn’t particularly hiding it.”

“You rotten bastard…”

“You’re the rotten one.”

What?

What did he say?

When she glared at him in disbelief, Lumiere smiled crookedly and spoke sarcastically.

“I finished a quite dangerous battle and returned alive, yet you show no sign of being glad to see me, no sign of worry, and you don’t even ask if I was injured anywhere. Isn’t that too much?”

“…”

“I’m hurt, Dana.”

What was he saying…

No, wait a minute.

‘Why am I even listening to this right now?’

Suddenly feeling absurd, Dana no longer bothered to respond and turned around sharply.

Fortunately, Lumiere didn’t splash water on her this time.

‘I’m an idiot. I’m such a fool.’

Her anger seeped through her relentless steps.

To think she had followed such a character-flawed person, considering him a good cousin! It wasn’t like she had her eyes attached to the soles of her feet!

But….

He really had been a good brother.

In the past, that is.

When she thought of Lumiere, her memories were filled with bursts of laughter.

His pranks, his jokes, all those trivial light conversations.

She had loved all of those things.

Sometimes it was nice when he seriously gave her advice on her troubles. How many times had he listened to her romantic concerns about Lyos?

They had been close enough to open up completely to each other.

Lumiere was even the first person she had confessed the fact of her possession to….

“I don’t care who you are.”

Back then, Lumiere had embraced her warmly.

“I love the you who laughed and chatted with me. Whether you’re Danae Windsor or not, that doesn’t matter to me.”

Because Lumiere had said that to her.

That’s why she had been able to gather courage and confess to others as well.

The person who had been so much on her side….

‘No. Calm down.’

Dana took deep breaths as she walked like a storm.

‘Don’t get swept away. All my energy should be used to get the Sacred Relic.’

With that thought, her turbulent heart gradually calmed down.

‘Right, let’s manage my condition for tomorrow’s sake.’

Hadn’t she agreed to have a meal with Viego tomorrow? He would surely talk about the Windsor Bank check matter.

It was a very important occasion.

She needed to appear decent enough that he’d want to make her deputy head.

“Good night, Dana.”

She deliberately ignored the voice she heard from behind.

* * *

“I heard you resolved the Ritten Bank matter.”

The next day, Viego spoke his first words as he began the meal.

“But you were excessively aggressive. You completely trampled on Marquis Ritten’s pride and made him an enemy.”

“That’s right.”

“Viscount Manus expressed that your methods were rough.”

“People naturally fear rough individuals.”

Dana smiled as she neatly cut her steak with a knife.

“No one fears weak people, brother. Isn’t that right?”

She stabbed the steak with a silver fork and put it in her mouth. After chewing and swallowing lightly, she smiled.

“I’ll handle the work of being criticized and condemned. So when it’s time to be strong and rough, leave it to me.”

She could do anything. Whatever it was, whatever role it might be.

‘As long as I can leave this world quickly.’

As long as she could get that damn Deputy Head’s Ring, as long as she could get the Sacred Relic.

She was truly prepared to do anything.

Perhaps because of encountering Lumiere yesterday, Dana found the air of this world even more unbearable.

‘If this gets delayed any longer, I might not be able to resist cutting off Karl’s finger.’

So she was determined to do everything in her power to win Viego Windsor’s heart.

“Brother. I’ll become Windsor’s shield.”

Then Viego’s smooth lips curved into an arc.

Ah. He’s smiling.

“You?”

Though it was a mocking smile.

“I’ll do all the dirty work. You’ve seen what I can do, haven’t you, brother?”

“You’re quite arrogant for having been helpful only twice.”

“Then I’ll prove it further.”

Dana looked at Viego’s expressionless face and smiled brightly.

“Give me any task. I’ll do anything.”

Dana spoke in a gentle, softer voice than ever before.

“I want to continue living in the Windsor Family, assisting you, brother.”

Unlike before, uttering such lies didn’t bother her at all.

Surely last time there had been some lingering attachment or hesitation.

Now she was surprisingly calm. As if some part of her heart had worn away.

“So, yes? Brother.”

Dana was confident that the trailing end of her voice was sweet.

“….”

However, no answer came.

In the silence, Viego lifted his wine glass. Unusually, he moistened his lips with wine from the morning.

Then he began to speak.

“Have you heard news from Windsor Territory?”

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