I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 7

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Chapter 7

“Noah Windsor.”

Then she smiled like a bright sun.

“Anyone who saw you now would mistake you for a younger brother who cares for his sister.”

“L-let go of this!”

She didn’t let go. She gripped it even tighter.

“If there had been a soul in Danae’s body, she would have said this to you right now.”

“What would she say?”

“Don’t pretend to be a good younger brother now. You’re such a hypocrite.”

“…!”

Noah Windsor’s eyes wavered. Dana continued gently.

“If you truly considered Danae your sister, you should have visited her at least once.”

“You….”

“Danae spent 17 years recovering at the Sanctuary. Not a single person, not even once, came to visit her.”

“…!”

“You locked away your sister who had doll disease in the Sanctuary for life and treated her as if she didn’t exist.”

Noah Windsor’s complexion turned pale. His lips trembled.

Like someone whose conscience was being torn apart.

Yes, she must have hit the mark.

“Now that she’s moving around fine, you find it unpleasant?”

The previous Duke Windsor had sent his daughter Danae to recover at the Sanctuary.

‘It wasn’t just him. All the Windsors who contracted doll disease ended their lives at the Sanctuary.’

Doll disease.

That eerie illness of being born with only a body and no soul was a hereditary disease that existed only in the Windsor Family.

Every few generations, there would be family members born with doll disease.

Whenever that happened, the heads of the Windsor Family would send them to recover at distant sanctuaries.

It was called recovery, but it was no different from abandoning them. To places where they couldn’t be seen.

‘Yes. It was no different from abandoning them, so why was I trying to turn a blind eye to that fact?’

Danae’s empty shell of a body had spent 17 years lying at the Sanctuary, being ‘cared for’ by priests.

In those 17 years, family had never once come to visit.

In other words, they treated her as if she didn’t exist.

“When this body was an empty shell, you treated it as if it didn’t exist. Now you’re acting like a brother with great affection….”

Dana wore a mocking smile.

“It feels a bit, deceptive.”

Noah Windsor was completely speechless. He seemed broken by shock that went beyond bewilderment.

‘I should have done this from the start.’

With an emotionless face, Dana shook off his fingers that she had been gripping.

“So please leave my room now, Noah Windsor.”

I’ll be leaving this body soon too.

* * *

“Karl, how could you!”

As soon as she returned to the bedroom, Sandra Windsor screamed.

“How could you do such a thing!”

It felt like her heart was breaking. Her body trembled with rage.

“How could you take Danae’s side in that situation!”

Alice, her daughter, had been hit.

She had been assaulted right in front of her parents!

Yet he protected and defended the girl who committed the violence?!

“Dana’s guardianship position was at stake. I had no choice.”

However, perhaps feeling embarrassed himself, Karl couldn’t look Sandra straight in the eyes.

“Just bear with it for one year, Sandra. Just one year.”

“You really!”

“Think of it as Dana’s fortune becoming ours after one year. You know how enormous my brother’s fortune is.”

My brother’s fortune.

At those words, Sandra bit her lips tightly.

Karl’s brother, Demian Windsor, had discovered Treasure Island and instantly became the continent’s greatest tycoon.

“But!”

“My brother left all his fortune to Danae as inheritance. Aren’t you tempted by that?”

Sandra glared at Karl, but couldn’t refute him.

Because his words were right.

Originally, the Windsors were a prestigious military family.

‘And soldiers can’t make big money.’

However, the Windsor Family had now transformed into a wealthy family that surpassed even the Imperial Family.

All thanks to Treasure Island.

Thanks to the gold from Treasure Island that Karl’s brother, Demian Windsor, had found.

‘Of course, his son Viego Windsor is also said to be succeeding as a businessman….’

Without the gold discovered on Treasure Island, he wouldn’t have been able to start such a large-scale business in the first place.

All of Demian’s vast fortune was inherited by Danae.

Demian Windsor had left it to a girl who merely had doll disease!

“If we endure for just one year, Dana’s inheritance rights will come to me, honey.”

“I know! Who doesn’t know that?!”

“So please bear with it. Why am I doing this? It’s all for our family.”

Gradually, Sandra’s anger subsided.

It wasn’t just because of the inheritance. The reason was.

‘Why is my husband so handsome!’

It was because of her husband’s beauty.

Her husband Karl Windsor, who was ten years younger than Sandra, was excessively handsome.

Who would see Karl as a man with two children?

Karl, in his thirties, still looked like he was in his twenties, still devastatingly handsome. And he was one of the most popular gentlemen in high society.

‘Looking at that face, I just can’t stay angry!’

Though it was frustrating, her anger had long since melted away like spring snow.

“Still, there was no need to go that far for Danae.”

“Hm?”

“Throwing your real daughter aside like that while tenderly comforting your niece is too much. Was it really necessary? You could have just talked to her!”

“I understand. I won’t do that next time, so please calm down, Sandra.”

Looking into her husband’s clear eyes like green shade, Sandra felt deep helplessness.

Yes, this is all the sin of having a handsome husband.

“One year. I’ll only endure until then.”

Karl let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, his wife seemed to understand.

“But where’s Alice? Where did she go?”

“She went to see His Highness the Crown Prince.”

Sandra muttered with a face full of resentment.

“I hope His Highness the Crown Prince will resolve Alice’s grievances.”

* * *

Alice shuddered with grief.

‘How could Father do that to me?’

She didn’t know the details, but she had heard that maintaining the position as Dana’s guardian was necessary.

But even so, still.

‘And how could Sister Dana do that to me?’

I even got down on my knees and begged.

But how could she not forgive me?

‘I thought Sister Dana would naturally understand.’

Dana had always understood Alice until now.

Even when they wanted the same dress, she always yielded to Alice, and when she got beautiful jewelry, if Alice showed any sign of wanting it, she would give it as a gift without hesitation.

It was always like that.

Not once had she failed to do so.

So I definitely thought she would understand this time too…

But instead, she spilled water, slapped me, grabbed my hair, and even manipulated Father into making him use the rod!

I never knew Sister Dana could be so petty!

“Sob, sniff, sob.”

On the way to meet Lyos.

Alice couldn’t stop crying the entire time in the carriage. Her situation was just too miserable.

The tears didn’t stop even after meeting Lyos.

“Alice, why are you crying?”

“I’m, I’m sorry, Your Highness…”

“What’s wrong. Tell me quickly.”

“It’s nothing. It’s all my fault.”

“What?”

“I just… I feel so sorry to Sister Dana. How hurt must she have been to do such a thing to me…”

At those words, Lyos’s face hardened.

“What did Dana do to you?”

“What? Oh, nothing. She didn’t do anything!”

Alice was startled and shook her head frantically.

This would make her look like someone who was tattling!

She would never do such a cowardly thing.

She didn’t want to make Sister Dana look like a bad person either!

“I, I absolutely, absolutely, absolutely didn’t!”

Oh, but I’m so bad at lying.

Stuttering like a fool like this.

“It’s nothing. Really, it’s not like that, hicc…”

And crying like a fool like this.

“What on earth happened to make you like this, Alice.”

Really, she didn’t want to say it. She wanted to cover up the bad things Sister Dana had done.

She really wanted to do that, but…

‘It’s wrong to deceive someone who trusts me.’

So for Lyos who trusted her, it would be right to confess the truth.

“Actually…”

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