I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 46

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Chapter 46

“How can a direct descendant of Windsor speak such improper words!”

What a shock!

“Someone else’s house! This castle belongs to the Windsor Family! No permission? There’s no need to ask for permission! This castle belongs to the Windsor Family!”

“Why, why, why are you getting angry…”

“Because you spoke words unworthy of Windsor’s direct line! Alice’s words have degraded Windsor’s dignity!”

Alice was shocked by those words.

I spoke words unworthy of Windsor’s direct line?

I degraded Windsor’s dignity?

“Mark Cours. What are you doing not apologizing right now!”

Count Cours turned his gaze away from Alice as if he didn’t want to speak with her anymore. Then he struck the floor with his cane with a bang!

“Kneel down and apologize immediately!”

“…”

Mark’s face turned bright red.

He didn’t want to apologize. He couldn’t understand what he had done wrong at all.

However, he could do nothing more in front of his tiger-like father.

“…I’m sorry.”

Slowly, slowly he knelt down.

It felt like a corner of his mind was breaking from the humiliation.

“I’m sorry. Please forgive me.”

And Count Cours knelt beside his son. He bowed his head down with a thud.

“I also apologize! Please forgive us!”

Alice stared blankly at the scene.

The sight of Mark and Count Cours kneeling and submitting.

The woman quietly watching this scene—

Danae Windsor.

* * *

Count Cours had awakened.

This meant that Mark Cours had returned to three months ago again.

As a powerless young master who had nothing.

No, it was even worse than before.

“When the direct descendants leave, I will properly educate you.”

Count Cours, who had learned what happened while he was unconscious, was filled with murderous intent.

“Lady Danae has specially forgiven you. However, I will never pass the family to you!”

“Fa, Father. But I’m your only son!”

“I will adopt someone and pass the family to them.”

“Father!”

“You foolish bastard! To think such a person is my son, how shameful!”

Mark collapsed in despair and sat down on his knees with a thud.

Not being able to inherit the family.

Not being able to inherit this castle.

Not being able to inherit Windsor Territory.

‘This doesn’t make sense!’

No matter how deep one’s loyalty, how could he abandon his own son!

It wasn’t only Mark who was in trouble.

“How can you be so foolish when you’re Duke Karl’s daughter.”

Alice also had to be scolded by Count Cours.

“Instead of punishing a subordinate who committed insubordination, you helped him! This is behavior that tarnishes Duke Karl’s reputation!”

“I never helped him.”

Alice was genuinely upset. She felt so frustrated and wronged that she thought she might go crazy.

“Listen to me. I was thinking of reconciling them. It’s not always necessary to suppress everything with force, right?”

“Reconciliation? Did you just say reconciliation?”

Hahaha. Count Cours laughed as if he had heard nonsense.

“Reconciliation is done between equals!”

Then he shouted angrily again.

“The Cours Family are vassals of the Windsor Family! They are subordinates! Yet you tried to seek reconciliation, how could you have such servile thoughts!”

“I, I had good intentions.”

“The better your intentions, the more firm you should have been!”

Count Cours was so frustrated that he wouldn’t even listen to Alice’s words.

“You should have punished them! Then after receiving their submission and loyalty again, only then should you have forgiven them! But reconciliation?!”

“It was going well! Mark was opening his heart to Windsor’s direct line again! Look, he offered me this necklace as a gift!”

Count Cours looked at the diamond necklace and let out a deep sigh.

“Are you now admitting that you accepted a bribe?”

“What?”

Alice was startled and protested.

“A, a bribe! That’s not it. I received it as a gift!”

“That necklace was bought with Windsor’s assets! It was bought with the territory management funds that Duke Windsor provides!”

Count Cours seemed to be burning inside. He glared at her with eyes that looked at the most pathetic person in the world.

“Yet a direct descendant of Windsor gladly accepted it, how is that different from accepting a bribe and condoning embezzlement!”

Alice burst into tears.

She couldn’t understand what he was talking about at all.

Embezzlement, bribery, she didn’t know about such things.

She just wanted to get along well in the future, so she accepted a gift that was given to her.

But…

“I will report this matter in detail to Duke Windsor!”

But why did it turn out like this?

* * *

“I apologize once again.”

“I understand, so stop it.”

Hearing the apology for almost the hundredth time was getting tiresome.

‘He was unconscious until recently, yet he’s so energetic.’

Perhaps because he was a warrior who had guarded the border his whole life. Count Cours’s recovery speed was frighteningly fast.

“But… was I really contaminated by the Corrupted Land?”

“Yes.”

“That’s strange. There’s no Corrupted Land in Windsor Territory…”

Count Cours seemed a bit embarrassed.

“Actually, since I’ve lived only in the territory my whole life, I’ve never seen Corrupted Land directly. As you know, Windsor Territory’s land has never been corrupted.”

“That would be so.”

“Black stains appearing on the land and all living things dying… I heard that this is the phenomenon of Corrupted Land.”

“That’s right.”

Dana’s face naturally became serious.

“All life on Corrupted Land dies.”

It’s not just humans.

“Every blade of grass on the ground, every passing ant, every butterfly perched on a flower. Everything gets contaminated and corrupted.”

“…How terrible.”

“That’s right. And the Count was in the early stages of contamination.”

That was exactly what was strange.

Humans contaminated by stepping on the Corrupted Land die from decay within a week at the fastest, or within a month at the longest.

But to endure for a full three months in the early contamination stage….

‘That’s not all. It’s also strange that only Count Cours was contaminated at the memorial ceremony.’

Something was off. Very off.

‘Of course, I don’t know everything about the Corrupted Land.’

The Corrupted Land first appeared about twenty years ago.

Without warning, without signs, parts of the earth suddenly began to rot.

The Imperial Family made those lands into a Restricted Zone so no one could approach them.

But six years ago.

After Dana realized she had purification abilities, those lands regained their vitality.

Because Dana had sought out and purified all the Corrupted Lands.

After all that hard work, she thought all the Corrupted Lands had disappeared….

‘Perhaps there were dormant Corrupted Lands that I failed to discover.’

A headache was coming on.

This was something she absolutely couldn’t pretend not to see or ignore. If handled wrong, it could become a massive disaster.

No matter how fed up she was with This World… she still didn’t wish for innocent people to die.

“I need to go see the Guardian Tree.”

* * *

The Guardian Tree was located deep within the Territory Forest.

“It’s a sacred tree that’s 2,000 years old. It’s the Guardian Tree that protects our territory.”

The Guardian Tree was massive enough to suggest those long years.

“Look. There are no signs of the Corrupted Land, are there?”

“….”

That was true. The forest was literally green, and there were no black stains that were symptoms of the Corrupted Land.

Then where exactly had Count Cours been contaminated?

“The Kurus Family offers sacrifices to this Guardian Tree once a year, correct?”

“Yes.”

“Was there anything special this year? Something different from usual?”

“Well. There wasn’t anything particularly unusual.”

Count Cours stroked his beard and pondered for a moment.

“Though I did get my hand pricked by a thorn on the Guardian Tree.”

“…A thorn?”

“Yes. It was just enough to draw a single drop of blood. Other than that, nothing special happened.”

At that moment, an ominous thought flashed through Dana’s mind.

No way.

“Lady Danae?”

“Wait, stay here for a moment.”

Dana immediately jumped down from her horse. Count Cours tried to follow, but she firmly stopped him.

“Don’t approach the Guardian Tree. Wait there.”

As she approached the tree step by step, Dana was seized by a strange sense of déjà vu.

When was it. She felt like this had happened before.

When she was Yeon Dana. When she was nine years old. No, was it when she was ten?

When she couldn’t bear her relatives’ pressure and huddled in a cramped attic room.

Right before opening the wardrobe door where she could hear mice squeaking.

‘Yes, it’s similar to that time….’

Dana slowly placed her hand on the Guardian Tree’s trunk. And at that moment, she was completely certain.

The tree was rotting from within.

From the inside, gradually.

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