I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 5

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Chapter 5

Dana picked up the flower vase from the side table. It happened to contain forget-me-nots that suited Alice well.

Holding the vase, she walked steadily toward Alice.

“Alice Windsor. Don’t your knees hurt?”

“Huh?”

“You’ve been kneeling there crying your heart out. Isn’t your throat hoarse?”

“Oh, sister? Are you worried about me?”

Alice smiled brightly, her eyes sparkling.

“Thank you, sister. I knew you would…”

The next moment, Dana poured the water over Alice’s head. With the same smiling face.

Splash. The transparent liquid soaked Alice’s hair as flowers scattered down.

As if she couldn’t believe it, Alice looked up at her.

“Sister… just now…?”

Drop. As the last drop fell, Alice’s lips trembled.

“H-how could sister do this to me?”

“You’re one to talk.”

Dana tilted her head.

“Alice, how could you do such a thing to me?”

Then, as if choked up, Alice looked up pitifully with tears in her eyes.

“I, I didn’t want to hurt you, sister. But love isn’t something you can control!”

“Neither am I.”

Answering smoothly, Dana grabbed Alice’s hair and twisted it.

“Ahhh! S-sister?!”

“Neither am I, Alice. I don’t want to hurt you either. But anger isn’t something you can control, is it?”

Saying this, she glanced toward the door.

‘Why aren’t they coming?’

It should be about time now, she thought, when suddenly.

Tap tap tap! The sound of urgent footsteps began to approach.

‘Finally coming.’

Dana raised her hand with a calm expression. And then.

Smack—!

She slapped Alice across the cheek.

“Kyaah!”

At that exact moment, the door burst open.

“What are you doing!”

A man rushed through the open door.

A platinum-haired man as handsome as a sculpture. Danae’s uncle, Karl Windsor.

“A-Alice! Good heavens, how could you do such a thing!”

Following behind, Aunt Sandra also came running.

Dana smiled and greeted them.

“Uncle, Aunt. You’re here? Good morning.”

While gripping Alice’s wet hair.

“Have you had breakfast?”

Shaking it back and forth.

“Kyaah!”

A scream burst from Alice. Then Sandra turned pale and shouted.

“Let go of my daughter’s hair right now!”

“Yes.”

She obediently let go. Then Alice burst into tears and ran to embrace Sandra.

“Sob, sob, mommy, daddy.”

Dana quietly watched the scene.

She didn’t particularly like violence either. In fact, she disliked it. Moreover, this kind of one-dimensional revenge was exactly what she hated, but…

‘Those two had to see this scene.’

She had expected them to come looking.

‘Alice had been crying loud enough to shake the room since entering my room.’

One of the servants must have gone to inform them. But she hadn’t expected them to be this late.

“You!”

Sandra was completely furious as she shouted.

“Are you insane, Danae!”

“Your daughter is the one who’s insane, Aunt.”

“What?”

“How else could she have been hiding naked under my fiancé’s desk?”

Sandra stared at Dana with a dumbfounded expression.

It was Danae. Always smiling, kind and gentle Danae.

Such words were something that Danae would never say…

“Dana, you seem to have lost your reason.”

Then, Karl Windsor’s low voice was heard.

“To do such a thing so unlike yourself. I can’t believe it.”

Dana suppressed a laugh.

So you can make that expression too.

This was the first time Uncle Karl had looked at her with such disappointed eyes. Why wouldn’t it be? He had never once frowned at her before.

He had always shown her only a smiling face and spoken with a gentle voice.

‘Well, I deliberately showed him the scene of hitting Alice hoping for exactly this.’

Wanting Karl Windsor to be angry with her.

“That’s too much.”

So she could use that as an excuse to sulk.

“Uncle, you may be Alice’s father, but you’re also my guardian.”

Guardian.

At that word, Karl Windsor’s expression hardened. Dana expressed her grievance with the most sorrowful expression possible.

“When I suffered an injustice, I thought Uncle would be angry alongside me. Since you’re my guardian.”

At those words, she could see Karl Windsor’s reproachful gaze completely fade away.

In the past, she would have thought he was empathizing with her, and that his anger had subsided because of that, but…

“If you won’t take my side even in a situation like this, why do I need a guardian?”

“…!”

“And you still call yourself my guardian?”

Now she knew.

How desperately he wanted to maintain his guardian status.

Looking at Karl Windsor’s face, completely at a loss for words, Dana swallowed her laughter.

‘What will you do, Karl Windsor?’

I hit and humiliated your daughter right before your eyes. But if you take my side here…

‘You become a pathetic father.’

An incompetent father and husband who can’t protect his daughter.

But if you pressure me here.

‘You’ll lose your position as my guardian.’

And then you’ll have no chance of getting my fortune.

The role of family head. And Danae’s enormous fortune.

Which would Karl Windsor abandon?

Dana waited with a joyful heart.

Whichever he chose, Karl Windsor’s downfall would begin.

He was a man who absolutely had to be brought down.

‘Only then can I obtain the Sacred Relic.’

Dana looked at Karl.

To be precise, she was observing his left middle finger.

A ring set with a large amber gemstone.

That was the Windsor Family Heirloom, a ring passed down to the deputy head. And…

‘That’s the Sacred Relic.’

The ring that Karl Windsor had never once removed from his hand since becoming deputy head.

No one knew, but that was the Sacred Relic. The very item that would help her return to her world.

And Dana intended to claim it.

Even if she had to cut off Karl’s finger.

“…Dana.”

After intense silence, Karl opened his lips.

It seemed he had made his decision.

“I think there’s been some misunderstanding.”

Then he laughed heartily.

As always, like a kind uncle.

“That’s not what I meant.”

“…!”

In that moment, lightning-like shock flashed in Alice’s eyes. Sandra felt the same.

Ignoring his daughter and wife, Karl soothed Dana.

“Don’t misunderstand. It hurts my feelings when you say such things.”

“A misunderstanding? Alice deceived me, Uncle.”

“Yes, yes, Alice was wrong. I’ll scold her properly, alright?”

Karl embraced Dana and patted her shoulder.

“You’re very angry, aren’t you? Calm down now.”

“…”

“I’ll scold Alice properly, alright?”

Dana stared directly at Alice and her aunt while being held in his arms. They were trembling with a sense of betrayal.

She wanted to sneer, but pretending to sulk, she suppressed it and pushed Karl away.

“No, will scolding be enough?”

“Dana.”

“Alice doesn’t even know what she did wrong. So.”

Dana said while looking at Alice’s completely dazed face.

“I think we need to follow the Windsor Family’s traditional disciplinary methods.”

“…!”

The traditional disciplinary method of the Windsor family, a deeply rooted military household.

That was Corporal Punishment.

‘Corporal Punishment for Alice?’

Karl’s gaze wavered violently.

Alice, his youngest daughter, Corporal Punishment?

“We need to let Alice know this was wrong too, Uncle. For Alice’s sake as well.”

“…”

“You are Alice’s father… and also my guardian, aren’t you?”

Yes, guardian.

Karl swallowed hard.

I am that child’s guardian. The guardian who will become the first in line for inheritance in just one year…

Karl squeezed his eyes shut. And after a moment.

“…You there, bring me the Rod.”

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