I’m Trying to End This Possession Chapter 247

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Viego rode his horse while holding Dana in his arms. Within his embrace, Dana endlessly murmured his name.

 

“Viego, Viego…”

 

“Don’t worry,” Viego said, astonishingly calm. “I’ve already secured an escape route.” He had long thought that a day like today might come someday. Another identity for her, a new place to live, he had prepared everything. Though she would not be able to live as comfortably as she had here. She wouldn’t be able to live freely among people.

 

From the beginning, Dana was someone who could not live that kind of life. The Daiana church and the Windsor family would be scouring the entire continent in a frenzy for her. There was no way she could live openly. The only place where she could live comfortably was this village, the village that Viego had manipulated.

 

From the village’s design to the selection of its residents, everything had passed through Viego’s hands. For a very long time, he carefully selected easily controllable barbarian death-row prisoners and built this village. All of them were his people. Only because he wanted Dana to experience a peaceful and ordinary life. A fake paradise he had created.

 

“Viego!”

 

It was the moment when they sped along the mountain path.

 

“Halt right there!”

 

A man’s shout rang out.

 

Viego obediently stopped the horse. He slowly turned around.

 

“How dare you, how dare!”

 

Demian Windsor. His enraged father stood there.

 

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For the past several months, Demian Windsor felt as if his insides were rotting away. His wife had disappeared. She had been kidnapped. And yet the kidnapper, could it really be…

 

“Viego Windsor!”

 

Demian had never imagined it would be his own son. When he saw Viego holding Dana in his arms, it felt as if the blood in his body surged backward.

 

“Put Dana down immediately!”

 

Demian had heard that Viego had been sent overseas by the military on a long-term mission. Carl Windsor himself had supposedly sent him. But now he realized that Carl had been covering for Viego all along. Who knew? Perhaps the two of them had been in it together!

 

“Viego Windsor! I said put Dana down right now!”

 

“I refuse.”

 

“You filthy, unfilial wretch…” Demian spat out the words through a voice crushed by fury. “Are you out of your mind! Even if you don’t share a drop of blood, Danawin is part of the Windsor family—!”

 

“I know, Father.” Viego curled his lips into a blatant mocking smile that didn’t suit him at all. “After all, I’m the one who will inherit the family, am I not?”

 

“What?”

 

“So I might as well inherit the mistress of the Windsor family as well.”

 

“You… You’ve truly lost your mind…”

 

Demian knew his son was deliberately behaving insolently, trying to get a rise out of him. Even knowing that, it was difficult not to be shaken by the provocation. Because…

 

“Dana!”

 

Dana. She was still in Viego’s arms.

 

“Dana!”

 

Dana was clinging to his son’s neck with all her strength, as if he were her only lifeline. As if he were her only salvation…

 

“Dana! I’m here!” Demian shouted desperately. “Your husband is here. Come here! Quickly!”

 

“…!” Dana glared at him with eyes on the verge of tears, then her lips quivered. She shouted, “No!”

 

“What?”

 

“I hate you! I really hate you! Just die!”

 

For an instant, dizziness struck Demian. He couldn’t believe it. She hated him? How could she say something like that? She couldn’t refuse him. But…

 

“I hate you! I really hate you!”

 

How could she say such cruel words?

 

Ah, right. They said her mind would eventually break. Perhaps it was the aftereffect of that. It seemed even the device that made her ‘unable to refuse’ had broken. His father, Rodrigo, had said it. That Danawin’s mind would soon collapse, and she would die. And then she would return in another Dana’s body. So there was no need to search for her.

 

Demian had come to find her as soon as he obtained that information. Because the one he wanted was his wife, Danawin. However…

 

“I hate you!”

 

In the end, that must be her true feelings.

 

Demian’s eyes reddened. “I love you.” And this was his true feeling. “I love you.”

 

Demian had abandoned a new life for that woman. On that day ten years ago, he could have run away. He could have escaped the Windsor family, whom he had wanted to flee from his entire life. Instead, he walked back into it himself and became an accomplice of the disgusting Daiana Church. He put a leash around his own neck and placed the chain in Dana’s hands. Only to be with her. Dana.

 

“You foretold that I would die young, didn’t you? Then please stay by my side until that day!”

 

At that moment, Dana glared at him, then whispered something into Viego’s ear. Viego tilted his head and smiled. “She says she doesn’t want to.”

 

“…”

 

“She’s asking me to hurry and take her away. So I will.” Viego immediately lashed the reins and began to flee again.

 

“What are you doing! Capture that b*stard immediately!” At his signal, the paladins surged toward Viego like a flood. Demian also spurred his horse with all his strength. “Dana! Dana!” Like a fanatic, he shouted her name again and again. “Dana! You can’t do this to me!”

 

After capturing me, you can’t just throw me away like this. I never wanted to desire you either. Do you know how long I lived trying to turn away from you?

 

“Dana!”

 

But in the end, it turned out like this. He felt so miserable that he might cry.

 

Demian truly had not wanted things to end up like this. He wanted to live well, an ordinary life. That was the only thing he ever wished for.

 

“Got you!”

 

It was the moment Dana caught him.

 

“You’re not running this time, you coward!”

 

The moment Dana clung to him. At that moment, everything was ruined. Every path he had walked toward an ordinary life had been trampled and shattered because of her. So how could she try to leave now?

 

“Dana, please—!”

 

It was the next moment.

 

“—!”

 

Demian saw the ground surge upward like a tidal wave. At the same time, the knights charging ahead were violently flung into the air. And then, booooom! With a massive explosion, the earth burst apart.

 

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“Father, what is that?”

 

“The most sacred existence in the world.”

 

Demian thought blankly. Is this a hallucination before death?

 

“Isn’t it beautiful?”

 

“It’s so beautiful.”

 

“Yes. Beautiful.”

 

His childhood memories surfaced. It was the time when his father, Rodrigo, took him and Carl to the Ice Lake. Passing the ancestral sealing stone that guarded the lake, they looked down below together with their father. Deep within their hearts, they had been overwhelmed with awe.

 

“Very… very beautiful.”

 

They weren’t supposed to see it. They shouldn’t have seen it.

 

“Brother.”

 

Demian slowly opened his eyes.

 

“You’re alive.”

 

A man stood over him with the sharp sunlight behind his back. A man wearing a jet-black uniform.

 

“Carl.”

 

Cough! Blood burst from his mouth. But Demian was alive. Fortunately, he had survived even that enormous explosion.

 

“Carl, hurry, Dana.”

 

“…”

 

“Cough, chase, Viego, quickly.”

 

But Carl didn’t answer. He merely stared at him silently with his hands in his pockets.

 

“Carl, hurry!”

 

“That will be difficult.”

 

“What, did you say?”

 

“In truth, my objective was you.”

 

What? Demian struggled to look up at Carl. His younger brother was smiling as if troubled.

 

“I didn’t expect it to be this easy.” His younger brother pulled a pistol from his waist. While checking the magazine, he spoke indifferently. “To think you’d rush here without even confirming the source of the information that the woman was here…”

 

“…”

 

Click. Carl chambered a live round. Then he knelt down on one knee beside him and pressed the barrel of the gun firmly against Demian’s temple.

 

Demian’s lips stiffened. Could it be… “You… lured me here?”

 

“That’s right.”

 

“Why?”

 

“Because here, I can kill you without anyone knowing.” Carl smiled gently.