I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 91

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Chapter 91

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That night, very late at night.

‘I really don’t know if this is okay.’

Alice walked down the corridor of the estate, pressing down firmly on her wig.

Right now, Alice was on her way back from the monastery.

It was to keep her promise with Miona.

‘What’s so great about that thing that makes her so happy?’

She had brought what Miona requested last time. And how delighted she had been.

Alice felt like her maid had become a completely different person.

“Can you bring me a new one every week?”

Miona had even made such a suggestion.

“Life at the monastery is more exhausting than I thought. But if I have Karl’s clothes, I think I can endure it.”

So she had agreed to bring clothes that still held her father’s warm body heat once a week.

‘Shouldn’t I keep my distance from her?’

Her evaluation of Miona had changed a little.

First of all, not being able to adapt to the monastery meant her conduct wasn’t proper.

And on top of that, she had lustful thoughts.

Even toward another woman’s man!

‘There really seem to be a lot of strange people in this world.’

Trudge, trudge. Her footsteps slowed down.

No matter what else she tried to think about, the flow always led to one place.

‘But why isn’t the Crown Prince looking for me?’

Miona had said that no one from the Imperial Palace had come to visit during this time.

Lyos wasn’t looking for Alice—for her.

‘He must surely miss me. But why?’

As she walked secretly through the estate feeling troubled.

‘Huh?’

Alice stopped in her tracks.

It was Dana.

Dana was walking down the corridor.

Alice held her breath and followed behind her. Where was she going at this late hour?

Don’t tell me she was going to enter Viego Windsor’s bedroom again?

‘Gasp.’

But the next moment Alice was shocked. The room Dana entered was—.

‘Why is she going to Ignis’s bedroom?’

It was obvious.

What else could a man and woman do together in a bedroom at this hour!

‘My goodness! How could she do that?’

First Viego Windsor and now Ignis! It was shocking. Did the Crown Prince know that she was this kind of woman?

‘While going around being called a saint by people!’

To fool around with other men while having a fiancé.

She was the one who should be repenting at the monastery!

Alice made a firm resolution.

‘I have to tell the Crown Prince.’

While I’m at it, everything including what happened with Viego Windsor.

Either way, she was His Highness’s fiancée, so doing such things was no different from cheating.

‘Deceiving people is wrong, sister.’

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“I’m here.”

When Ignis opened the door, Dana was standing there.

“I’m coming in.”

Dana brushed past his chest and walked into the room.

At that moment, Ignis immediately realized.

Dana knew.

She had come knowing what would happen in this room tonight.

“Um… I brought wine.”

What kind of expression had he been looking at her with? She lifted up a wine bottle with a slightly nervous look.

“Let’s drink together.”

Ah, right. Of course she’d be nervous.

Ignis understood Dana.

He was overflowing with composure, but his partner was a much younger inexperienced kid, so she might need the help of alcohol.

“Sit over there.”

He brought two wine glasses and sat on the sofa. As he poured the wine, she who had been watching from beside him spoke carefully.

“Ignis? Are you alright?”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

“Um, didn’t you pour too much?”

Ah.

Ignis noticed belatedly.

That he had just poured wine all the way to the rim of the wine glass, almost to the point of overflowing.

‘Huh? Am I nervous right now?’

That was right. He was nervous to an unusual degree.

“Didn’t you know? Wine is best when you fill a whole glass and down it in one shot.”

He spouted nonsense without realizing it, but fortunately Dana smiled brightly.

“Is that so? I didn’t know.”

She believed that. She was so innocent.

Ignis tried to think about why he was so nervous.

The answer came quickly.

It seemed to be because of his conscience.

‘To think I have something called a conscience.’

While waiting for Danae in the room, one scene kept coming to Ignis’s mind.

The day the carriage accident happened.

When bullets poured down like a torrential rain.

Against the backdrop of gunshots tearing through the air, Danae approaching gracefully as if walking on water.

Ignis remembered the thrill he felt then.

‘She could have died if she had been hit by a grenade.’

But still, Dana had approached without hesitation to save him. To protect him. To guard him.

That kid risked her life to protect me.

‘Not even a soldier, but an ordinary noble lady.’

Thinking that made him sigh.

In truth, it was all a lie.

The carriage attack incident. It was a staged act orchestrated by the faction he belonged to. Ignis already knew the scenario and was prepared for it.

They would attack the carriage.

They would put Danae Windsor in danger.

Then Ignis would throw his whole body to save her.

Thus gaining her trust and winning her heart.

In the end, he would completely get his hands on Danae Windsor’s vault.

Of course, unexpectedly, another faction that actually attacked the carriage got involved at that time…

It would be the Crown Prince, or Viego Windsor.

He deliberately pushed Viego as the prime suspect. He made her harbor suspicions about the Windsor Family.

So that Dana would leave Windsor and come to him. So she could hand over that vault where enormous wealth lay dormant.

And that strategy worked.

‘But is it really this easy?’

It was so easy that his conscience pricked him.

I deliberately put you in danger, yet you tried to save me from that very danger.

What should I do with this stupidly kind girl?

“I want to hear about you, Ignis.”

But should I really be doing this with her?

“What were you like as a child, Ignis?”

Am I not defiling her?

“Tell me about when you attended the Military Academy. Were you a scoundrel even as a student?”

It was as if he had before him a meadow covered with pure white first snow, something dazzlingly white and clean. And he felt like he was about to defile it.

He was about to trample that clear and clean thing with his own dirty boots.

“I was a model student back then. I broke the shooting record that Karl left at the Military Academy.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. What’s with that look of disbelief?”

He pinched the bridge of Danae’s nose.

“That hurts.”

Then Danae furrowed her brow in displeasure, which was cute. No, beyond cute…

It made him imagine other expressions.

Like her face on a bed, for instance.

“So that old man, your grandfather, started taking interest in me. Because I surpassed the record of his most beloved son.”

“Ah, I’ve heard that story before.”

“So I must have seemed useful. Your grandfather was obsessed with collecting talent. Annoyingly collecting people and causing a fuss…”

It was strange. Why was he now so freely speaking his inner thoughts that he would never reveal to others?

Perhaps it was because the person before him was too harmless.

For the first time in his life, Ignis hesitated about sleeping with a woman.

‘Well, taking her and running away is one thing.’

Right, it would be better to sleep together later. What would I do with such a young girl? When she grows up a bit more…

However, rip.

The front of his pants tore.

“…”

Ignis calmly looked down at the torn area.

Though reason and desire are always separate things.

There had never been a moment when that gap felt so heavy.

In fact, he was slowly reaching his limit. Danae’s distinctive body scent was vibrating, and it was so stimulating.

And he wasn’t the type to hold back in the first place.

No, why should I hold back? She’s an adult too, and she came here to do it with me, right?

“Danae.”

“Yes.”

“Shall we go?”

“Pardon?”

“Over there.”

Ignis nodded his head. His chin pointed toward the bed.

“I… would like to talk more.”

Was that too hasty?

Well, if we go straight there like this, it would rather be difficult for her. It would be good to cool down the heat a bit.

And above all.

“Talking is good. I like talking.”

“…”

“But I’m in a bit of a hurry. As you can see.”

“Y-yes?”

“I’ll take care of my problem myself, so we can talk while doing it, right?”

Above all, he was also curious.

I’m such a vulgar bastard,

Does she really know this?

He wanted to test her.

“Talking is… good too. What should we do. Hurry up and say something…”

Danae’s face turned red.

Then she managed to stammer something while trying not to look downward.

Ignis leaned back comfortably against the sofa, looking at her languidly while concentrating on his own business.

Occasionally he seemed to answer Danae’s questions. Meanwhile, with his free hand, he also drank wine. From some point on, his breathing became rapid and he couldn’t remember well.

The moment his vision flashed white, Ignis closed his eyes tightly and threw his head back. Amidst the tingling in his head, he barely managed to think.

This must be quite a shocking scene for her.

But it can’t be helped. This is the kind of man I am.

Would she still like me even after this?

Would she still try to run away with me even after this?

Since he had saved Danae from that fake carriage accident, she might have fallen into a fantasy about the man who saved her.

If it was just such shallow emotion, it would be completely shattered by this.

Even after displaying what a lowlife human being he was.

But if she still looked at him with eyes full of affection like now, then something would begin within him too.

Something he had never once tried before.

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