I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 72

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Chapter 72

“Dana.”

Karl placed his hand on her shoulder.

“Why are you suddenly acting like this?”

Dana flinched for a moment.

Karl’s hand.

His grip was so frightening that Dana repeated to herself with all her strength.

‘I can’t let him know I’m scared.’

The moment he finds out everything. This man will notice. Just like in the memory—.

“Why is your heart beating so fast?”

However, Karl had already read her pulse from their close contact.

“Why are you so terrified?”

No.

He can’t find out. If he discovers that I’m afraid of Karl, if he finds out…

“How much did you hear?”

Suddenly her mind snapped to attention. She knew exactly what she had to do, with crystal clarity. It was an action close to pure survival instinct.

“I was scared…”

Dana let out her trembling voice as it was, and lifted her head.

“Uncle, are you okay?”

She expressed her desire to cry as it was, no, even more intensely. Until her eyes became moist with tears.

“That person hit you.”

“Huh?”

“He hit you, Uncle. What should we do…”

When she met Karl’s eyes, her voice naturally began to tremble.

But fortunately.

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

Fortunately, Dana was able to perfectly disguise it as worry.

“What should we do.”

Then she stroked Karl’s reddened cheek. His cheek that had turned bright red from Nathan’s blow, while tears streamed down.

“What should we do. It hurts, doesn’t it. What should we do…”

Tears poured down steadily.

They looked like tears full of worry and sadness.

“*sob*, *sniff*, what should we do. What should we do…”

She sobbed as if those were the only words she knew how to say. She wept.

As if she couldn’t bear to see someone who had suffered such violence, as if she couldn’t stand the pity of it.

And Karl stared down at Dana in a daze.

How long did that silence flow? After a moment, he barely managed to speak like someone being strangled.

“I’m fine…”

Karl had a bewildered expression. As if entranced, he wiped away Dana’s flowing tears drop by drop with his hand.

“Haha.”

Suddenly he laughed.

“My goodness. Haha.”

He propped his head up with his hand.

“Ah, sorry. Ah, hahaha.”

“…”

He suddenly laughs. As if he can’t contain the laughter that keeps bursting out.

“Oh my, I’m sorry, Dana.”

After laughing for a while, he pinched her cheek.

“It seems you’re the only one who worries about me after all. My goodness… Ah, I’m sorry.”

Karl seemed to be holding back another burst of laughter.

“It’s because you’re so cute. I’m sorry.”

“…”

Dana roughly understood what he was saying.

Right. Who would worry about someone like you. They’d worry about your opponent instead!

“Thank you so much for worrying about me, Dana. But don’t cry anymore. Okay?”

Karl pulled her into an embrace and patted her back.

“It hurts my heart when you cry.”

Don’t be ridiculous.

Don’t say words you don’t mean.

“How much did you hear?”

In the end, you’re going to kill me anyway…

* * *

“Now, stop crying and let’s think about what to do.”

A little later, after the situation had somewhat settled.

Karl smiled brightly and pinched Dana’s cheek again. He’d been pinching it whenever he got the chance.

“My cute nephew caused trouble and ended up having to attend the ceremony.”

Suddenly, she felt a surge of anger.

I caused trouble? I prevented you from causing an enormous disaster!

“What exactly is this ceremony? Tell me now.”

Karl also acknowledged that he could no longer hide it.

“Dana, do you know how babies are made?”

“…”

What?

Dana stared at him in disbelief.

“I thought you wouldn’t know.”

Karl nodded as if he’d expected as much.

“How babies are made is.”

“…I know.”

“Huh?”

“I said I know.”

Then Karl opened his mouth wide as if shocked.

“H-how do you know that?”

“…”

“Who told you?”

He’d probably faint if I said I’ve done it myself.

Dana realized this man saw her not as an equal adult woman, but completely as a young girl.

‘The age difference isn’t even that much, why is he acting like that. How annoying.’

Anyway, Karl belatedly came to his senses and explained.

“That… anyway, it’s adding a community ritual to that… that, that kind of thing.”

“I see.”

Karl certainly had good reason to try to hide it.

‘So this guy heard all that while sleeping with me at the mill yesterday?’

With such a calm face? Using those bizarre sounds as background music, he even patted my shoulder telling me to hurry up and sleep?

He really wasn’t an ordinary human after all.

“So what are you going to do?”

“What else? We obviously have to run away.”

He smiled gently and grasped Dana’s shoulder.

“I’ll steal a carriage and leave it in the forest, so just wait a moment.”

At those words, Dana politely said this:

“Be careful. What if you get hurt?”

Of course, she wasn’t worried at all. She just pretended to be concerned, so she felt she should say such lines for the sake of plausibility.

However.

“Hmm, I’m actually a bit scared of that too.”

Karl ridiculously nodded his head seriously.

“But I did learn some basic Self-Defense Arts in the Army. So I should be able to come back alive somehow.”

“…”

Dana just watched his incredible act in bewilderment.

After Karl left like that, Dana finally relaxed and slumped down. Her mouth was completely dry from how anxious she had been.

‘Crazy bastard. Insane bastard.’

She had heard rumors a few times that Karl Windsor from his military days was very vicious.

However, Dana thought those rumors and legendary tales of valor were probably inflated to some degree for Army propaganda.

The usual Karl Windsor was soft like whipped cream, and sometimes even had clumsy aspects.

Honestly, she couldn’t imagine him as a soldier…

‘Really, it was so terrifying.’

It was the first time in her life she had seen such a frightening scene. She never, never wanted to see such a scene again.

At that moment, Karl seemed like a completely different life form, not the same human. Like a monster that could kill humans as much as it wanted if it set its mind to it.

And she realized from this incident.

Karl Windsor was truly a very threatening enemy, and…

‘I must not let him find out that I’m his enemy.’

Absolutely, no matter what happens, he must not find out.

Dana made that resolution and let out a deep sigh.

Karl would definitely bring the carriage without any problems. So now she just needed to return to the Windsor Estate.

That’s all she needed to do, but…

“Please save me!”

No, why does that voice come to mind even in this situation?

Despite having just witnessed that terrible scene of slaughter, the girl’s voice hadn’t disappeared. Rather, now that it was time to leave, it became clearer and clearer.

‘Is it really okay to leave that child like this?’

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