I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 87

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Chapter 87

Crash, bang bang bang!

Amidst the deafening explosion that seemed to tear her eardrums, Ignis pulled her head tightly into his embrace.

Even in the sensation of the world collapsing, Dana knew. That at this very moment, he was protecting her.

That thanks to him, she was still alive.

“Huff, huff, huff.”

How long had the world shaken like that? Ignis’s madly beating heart made her cry as if it would break her.

Dana realized she had briefly, very briefly, lost consciousness.

“Fuck… This is really like shit.”

Cough, Ignis spat out a dry cough as he spoke. Then he slowly released Dana.

Only then did Dana see.

Somehow, they were in a deep forest.

A half-destroyed carriage and horses that had disappeared somewhere. And.

“Hey. You, stay here…”

The moment Ignis got up and moved to the side.

Bang, bang bang bang!

Dozens of bullets flying at him from somewhere. Even in the dizziness, Dana could tell. This was precisely gunfire aimed only at Ignis.

Not a single shot, truly not a single shot was flying toward her.

“Wow, hey. Danae, did you see that? I almost died.”

Ignis, who had hidden behind a wooden post, suddenly burst into laughter.

Bang bang bang!

The bullets flying toward him embedded themselves completely in the wood.

“Hey! Danae Windsor!”

Ignis shouted loudly. It was a shout tinged with laughter.

“Lyos Grants is indeed a crazy bastard!”

Yes. That’s right.

I think so too.

Instead of answering like that, Dana got up.

Surprisingly, she was hardly injured at all. Was this also part of the attacker’s calculation? Or was it Ignis’s consideration?

Probably both.

Therefore, what she needed to do now was all too clear.

“—!”

Dana moved forward.

She stepped over the carriage debris and walked toward Ignis.

Toward him who was barely hiding behind a tree, avoiding the madly pouring bullets.

She walked straight in a direct line without hesitation.

“Hey, Danae!”

Then Ignis shouted in shock.

“It’s dangerous, don’t come! Are you crazy!”

What’s he saying, that guy.

Is he really an unexpectedly naive type?

“Hey! You’ll get shot like that, you idiot! Hey!”

Bang, bang. Bang bang bang, bang bang.

With each step, each step closer to Ignis, Dana felt it clearly.

The madly pouring bullets gradually, gradually, gradually, like thinning raindrops.

They subsided like that.

Everything was so ridiculous that Dana smiled brightly at Ignis. While walking like that. Ignis’s eyes, which met hers, opened wide. They trembled.

Dana staggered and stood right in front of Ignis. Then…

It became quiet.

The bullets that had been pouring like a downpour disappeared.

Not a single shot flew over.

Dana was thrilled by how miraculous it was.

Thus thousands of arrows passed by, avoiding only me.

What a sensation, as if she had become the protagonist of that myth.

The meaning of the rain of bullets that had stopped like a lie was clear.

It was so funny that Dana laughed without restraint.

* * *

When was it that I first met Lyos?

“What are you staring at.”

Seventeen.

When it had only been two months since coming to this world. When everything was unfamiliar.

Lyos Grants and Dana first met at an imperial banquet.

It was at Emperor Justio’s coronation ceremony.

At that time, Dana found everything unfamiliar and difficult, so she quietly slipped away during the coronation ceremony.

Then she got lost in the maze of the huge Imperial Palace.

There she saw a boy crying.

“I said what are you staring at.”

Drip drip drip, a boy shedding thick tears over his sculpture-like beautiful cheeks.

“If you tell anyone, I’ll kill you.”

“…”

“Answer me. If you tell, I’ll kill you.”

Black eyes burning with anger, resentment, and sorrow. The boy who threatened while wiping his moisture-soaked eyes.

“I’ll kill you if you tell…”

Stubborn eyes flashing with lofty pride.

“I won’t tell.”

Dana answered as if enchanted.

It would be a bit strange to say she fell in love at first sight then.

Lyos often came to find Dana after that. Then he frequently monitored whether Dana was going around telling that secret or not.

“Did you tell?”

“I didn’t.”

“Really? Can you swear?”

“Yes. I can swear.”

“Good. I’ll trust you. But remember. If you tell someone, I’ll kill you.”

“…”

That secret was very important to the boy. That he had secretly hidden and cried during the emperor’s coronation ceremony.

“I am a man who will become emperor. Tears don’t suit me.”

Those words were funny, but the boy seemed sincere.

“So if you tell that I cried, I’ll kill you.”

“I won’t tell.”

“No, just forget about it too.”

I learned the reason the boy cried much later.

That the person who should have held the emperor’s coronation ceremony that day was Lyos Grants.

But suddenly an oracle came down, and the imperial throne was taken by his uncle.

Moreover, his uncle didn’t even want that imperial throne.

The pride of a boy who had his lifelong dream of the throne stolen by someone who didn’t even want it was as withered and twisted as bare bones.

Perhaps that’s why.

Three years ago, when Lyos grabbed her with tears streaming down his face in front of the Dimensional Gate, Dana might have already known.

That she couldn’t go anywhere, leaving behind a man who could only cry in front of her.

She should have just abandoned everything and left.

* * *

“Miss! Are you alright!”

When they returned to the estate, the employees were in an uproar.

“Miss! Are you alright!”

“I’m fine.”

In fact, Dana was quite alright. Her hair was disheveled and her clothes were torn, but she had barely any injuries.

However, the problem was Ignis.

“Ah, damn it. I broke my arm.”

Since he had embraced and protected her when the carriage overturned, one of his arms was shattered.

“Take responsibility. Take responsibility by marrying me.”

She ignored those words.

She had only sustained minor scratches.

Viego Windsor showed an extremely furious reaction externally to this news. He was the picture of an ideal, exemplary brother.

“Who did this.”

And in front of her, he asked with frightening composure.

“Who do you think did this.”

Wow. Look at that man, not a single crack in his expression.

Dana was so dumbfounded that she laughed. Viego’s face was no different from usual, which was almost miraculous.

‘He’d be more surprised if a pet hamster got hurt than this.’

But she decided not to particularly care. Dana spoke calmly.

“I’m not sure.”

“You’re not sure?”

Viego raised his tone at the end.

“Why do you answer like that?”

“Pardon?”

“It’s different from Ignis de Windsor’s answer.”

“….”

“I heard Crown Prince Lyos gave a warning before the carriage accident. Is that right?”

Dana stared at Viego intently.

Come to think of it, she found exactly one thing. Something different.

His hair, which was always perfectly swept back, had three strands, no, five strands disheveled over his forehead.

“Who did Ignis say it seemed like?”

“You know that well too.”

Viego’s voice was colder than ever. That much was certain.

Ah, could he possibly be angry at me?

“You are….”

At that moment, crack.

The gentleman’s cane that Viego was gripping tightly split. Dana was startled, but Viego didn’t seem to notice even that.

“You’re still protecting the Crown Prince even at this moment?”

Did a cane fragment pierce him?

Blood from his grip flowed down along the cane.

That must hurt.

“It’s not like that.”

Dana carefully reached out her hand. The large back of his hand, white and pale, yet with thick veins protruding.

The moment her fingertips touched.

Viego shook her off very roughly.

Then he retreated at a rapid pace, so rapid that it could only be described as such.

One step, two steps, three steps, four steps.

After hesitating for a moment, he finally took one more step back.

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