I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 64

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Chapter 64

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“Of course.”

That evening at dinner, Dana requested his escort. Karl smiled brightly and accepted.

“I’m glad you suggested it to me, Dana.”

However, Sandra looked displeased.

“You… you retired because of aftereffects. Will you really be okay?”

“I’m fine, don’t worry.”

“But…”

Dana could roughly understand Sandra’s feelings.

‘She’s probably afraid I might say something reckless.’

Since she had thrown out words that would make her anxious before.

Sure enough, Sandra didn’t give up and made another suggestion.

“Don’t go and stay by my side. Lumiere has gone on a campaign, and Alice has left for the monastery… I’m all alone here, Karl.”

“Then how about staying at the Roland Mansion for a while.”

“What?”

“You wanted to go to the Roland Family. Take this opportunity to stay there and come back.”

Karl said this without any malice. However, Sandra seemed to take it differently and clenched her fists tightly.

‘They’re going to have another marital fight.’

Dana quietly got up from her seat and left the banquet hall.

Sure enough, as soon as she came out and closed the door, Sandra’s shouting could be heard.

“Are you going to send me away alone? You come with me too! Let’s quit everything and go to the Roland Family together! We can just leave Windsor!”

“I told you to stop talking about that, Sandra.”

“What’s so great about being vice head! What’s so important about that trivial thing that you’re being so stubborn!”

“That trivial vice head position? So you’ve been thinking of me as a man who only holds some trivial vice head position all this time.”

“Yes! You came down from the army commander position blaming aftereffects, and do you know how ill-suited you look sitting at a desk!”

Yes, yes, fight with vigor. Dana hummed a tune as she walked.

But then.

‘Aftereffects?’

He doesn’t seem to have any though?

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That night Sandra came to visit.

“Behave yourself and come back safely.”

Without any explanation, she suddenly handed her a box.

“I’m praying for your safe return.”

“What is this?”

“A gift.”

A gift?

Suddenly, why?

When she opened the box, there was a necklace shining inside.

“I hope you won’t engage in useless chatter while you’re with Karl.”

Ah. So this is a bribe.

“Take it back.”

“What?”

“I’m sorry, but Aunt.”

Dana whispered in Sandra’s ear.

“If you want to shut my mouth, you’ll need to give me something better than this.”

“…!”

Sandra’s eyes trembled finely. From shock, her face instantly began to turn pale as a sheet of paper.

Is it that surprising? Dana chuckled.

“So think carefully, Aunt. What could there be that would shut my mouth.”

That previous conversation. The sentence where she had mentioned ‘Alice’s biological father.’

The word ‘biological father’ of Alice must have bothered her that much.

“Please leave, Aunt.”

“…”

Sandra didn’t say a single word. She just left the room with an expression as if she had poison in her mouth.

‘Well, I just essentially confirmed that I know her biggest secret.’

She’ll try to shut my mouth somehow.

Just now, since she wasn’t swayed by bribery…

‘She’ll prepare to do something harmful to me.’

Of course, that was what Dana wanted. The more Sandra tried to harm her, the more her relationship with Karl would go awry.

Dana hoped Karl Windsor’s marriage would fall apart.

“Lete, please keep a close watch on Sandra while I’m away.”

So Dana made a special request to her secretary.

“She’ll definitely plot something. Don’t miss what she does and investigate in detail.”

“…I understand.”

Hm?

The response was a beat late?

But that was all, the secretary soon continued with another report.

“Miss, that person is coming soon.”

“That person?”

“Ignis de Windsor, sir.”

At that moment, Dana unconsciously let out a groan.

“Ignis de Windsor?”

“Yes.”

Dana couldn’t close her mouth.

Ignis, that man is coming.

‘Why suddenly?’

Ignis, that man was once an adopted child of the Windsor Family.

‘Though he decided to break the adoption himself and left.’

He was adopted by Danae’s grandfather—that is, the previous duke—but kicked away that position himself and ran away from the family.

However, Grandfather did not allow his disownment.

Since Windsor had fed, taught, and raised him, he shouldn’t abandon the Windsor name—that was Grandfather’s will.

‘So there was a lawsuit and chaos.’

After a long lawsuit.

Ignis succeeded in being disowned from Windsor, but failed to completely abandon the family name.

The court sided with Windsor, a great noble family.

Leaving the Windsor Family was acknowledged, but abandoning the Windsor family name was not.

That was the court’s verdict.

So his name was given the middle name ‘de’ meaning belonging.

‘In the end, it means he’s a Windsor person.’

“Why is he suddenly coming back? He had a big fight with Uncle Karl before and left saying he’d never return.”

Ignis was the only one among the Windsor Family members who maintained contact with Karl, but even that ended a few years ago after a big argument, as far as I know.

He left shouting that he would never set foot near the Windsor Estate again.

So why is he coming back?

“I don’t really know that much either.”

“Well, I suppose…”

Who could understand Ignis’s heart? Dana let out a deep sigh.

That scoundrel is coming back…

“Well then, Miss. Please be careful on your trip to Kaltusa Territory.”

“Ah. Yes.”

The secretary left the room after a brief farewell.

His expression, drier than usual, bothered her.

‘Is he perhaps feeling hurt?’

In the past, she would have taken him along. Lete had always accompanied her wherever she went as both guard and secretary.

Actually, she could have assigned Sandra a different professional surveillance agent instead of Lete. Alice also had a surveillance agent assigned to her now.

But.

‘I should gradually distance myself.’

Not for her own sake, but for the secretary’s.

So he could live well even after she left this world.

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The next day, Dana headed to Kaltusa with Karl.

It was about a week’s journey by carriage, but an unexpected incident occurred just before their arrival.

“I’m sorry, but I can’t go.”

The coachman had declared a strike.

“I’m sorry, my lord. I’m sorry.”

Karl looked extremely troubled.

“Look here. We’ll arrive if we just travel one more day, and now you’re saying you can’t do it?”

“B-but… it’s Kaltusa.”

The coachman spoke firmly, as if he had made up his mind resolutely.

“All five thousand residents of Kaltusa Territory died from contamination. They say ghosts still appear there!”

“What kind of nonsense is that?”

“It’s true! Even among my friends, there’s someone who went there out of curiosity and never came back!”

The coachman trembled with a pale face.

“Besides, more than a few people have seen ghosts. I myself have heard screams when passing near that area at night. The kind of screams people make when they’re burning to death.”

“Screams, my foot. It was probably just deer calls.”

“I’m sorry. Please forgive me. I can’t go. Even if it means losing my job, I can’t go…”

Inside the carriage, Dana sighed. What could they do when he refused so adamantly?

“Uncle, let’s go by ourselves.”

Karl looked displeased but didn’t try to detain the coachman any longer.

“Hmm, I’ve never driven a carriage before.”

In the end, Karl took the coachman’s seat.

“Dana, won’t you be scared alone inside the carriage?”

“Of course not.”

Scared? Just imagining you arriving at Kaltusa and going completely mad with self-destruction makes me feel great.

Dana swallowed those words and smiled.

“Then I’ll drive the carriage, so rest inside. We’ll arrive if we just travel one more day.”

However, Karl’s prediction was wrong.

The wheel of the carriage driven by novice coachman Karl Windsor got stuck in a deep puddle.

“Damn it!”

The carriage swayed greatly and toppled to the ground.

“Kyaaah!”

With a loud crash, the carriage was completely destroyed.

Neighhhh!

When the horse reins came loose, a disaster occurred as the two horses ran away vigorously.

“Dana!”

Karl didn’t chase after the fleeing horses. Instead, he came to rescue Dana who was inside the broken carriage.

“Dana! Are you alright!”

Dana was gasping, trapped under the debris of the broken carriage.

Karl barely managed to clear the wreckage and pull Dana out.

“Uncle.”

Blood trickled down from Dana’s head.

She looked around with a hollow laugh.

The dark forest, the broken carriage, the two horses that had already disappeared.

Herself, badly injured, and that damn Karl Windsor who was beside himself with worry.

‘Don’t tell me this man is trying to kill me already?’

No way.

He hasn’t even completed the five years as guardian yet. If I die now, he can’t inherit my property rights, can he?

So this was really all an accident?

“Dana, are you okay? Huh?”

Do I look okay, you fool?

Dana blinked in pain.

“Dana, huh? Try to say something. Dana?”

What is this supposed to be?

I was the one trying to ruin you, leading you into a trap…

“Uncle.”

“Yes? That’s right, I’m here!”

“Uncle, you’re really not helpful at all.”

“Huh?”

What do you mean ‘huh,’ you incompetent fool?

Dana slowly closed her eyes.

“Dana, no. Stay conscious! Nooo—”

The desperation in his scream was comical.

It would be really funny if I died here.

With that last thought, Dana lost consciousness completely.

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