My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 102

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Chapter 102
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Moments later, Claude Azel returned, dragging the unconscious High Priest behind him.
“My face wasn’t exposed, was it?”
“Don’t worry. He’ll think he was kidnapped by a middle-aged woman.”
“What?”
“I altered my voice.”
“….”
Though countless questions bubbled up in my mind, I suppressed them all.
“What should we do with him? Should we beat him?”
“Please stop suggesting we beat him.”
I let his jest pass through one ear and released a small groan.
“Is there anywhere on the Island we could hide him?”
“Hmm, I spotted an abandoned cabin in the Forest today. Shall we hide him there?”
“That’s a good idea.”
I paused to consider, then spoke.
“Fill the place with rye bread and lock him inside.”
Claude Azel blinked rapidly.
“Rye bread?”
“Yes. Rye bread.”
Rye bread, of all things? Claude Azel’s expression betrayed his bewilderment.
“And release him around the time we conduct the purification ceremony a few days from now.”
“Understood.”
Claude Azel couldn’t contain his curiosity and asked.
“The villagers you shared food with today—they have no money, so they primarily eat foods made from rye, don’t they?”
“Yes, I’m aware.”
“Is there a connection?”
There is. A very significant one.
But instead of explaining, I smiled enigmatically.
“Look forward to it, Claude Azel. You’ll witness something quite entertaining at the purification ceremony in a few days.”
My eyes gleamed with malicious mischief, spite, anticipation, and arrogance as I spoke.
Claude Azel fell momentarily silent at my childlike expression, then uttered a single remark.
“It’s good.”
“What?”
“I made the right choice entrusting you with my protection.”
“What do you mean?”
“I’m grateful to Kalen.”
Claude Azel chuckled softly.
“It’s amusing. Very much so.”
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Even after several days had passed, the memory continued to haunt me.
“I want to go home.”
Home.
“Please, let me go home!”
Home.
Orsini tore through the tall grass, his mind replaying that night.
In truth, since that evening, there had been scarcely a moment when I didn’t revisit it.
Kanna Adis—that stubborn woman—weeping, sobbing desperately as she chased after something.
That scene played on endless loop, from beginning to end, again and again.
Perhaps because it was so shocking, that moment felt as though a branding iron had seared itself into some corner of my mind. Every time I recalled it, a dull ache throbbed.
Repulsed by the terrible unease, Orsini spat out a curse.
“Why the hell am I thinking about that woman….”
The Black Mist. That damned phenomenon demanded his full attention, and yet.
“Damn it.”
Reviewing the sightings so far, the Northern Forest showed the highest frequency. That was why Orsini had been keeping watch there primarily. Just as I was now.
I knew Kanna Adis had recently found herself in danger, but I scoffed at the notion.
‘What do I care? She can drop dead for all I know.’
That woman had never wanted my help anyway. Hadn’t she refused my offer to release her from the Prison back then?
“I want to go home!”
But then why.
“Please, let me go home.”
Why couldn’t I stop thinking about it….
“Ah, damn it all.”
Orsini came to an abrupt halt.
What exactly had that damned woman been saying?
Home?
She wanted to go home?
No matter how I turned it over in my mind, that home didn’t seem to be any place I knew. Neither the Adis Mansion nor the Valentino Mansion.
The home Kanna Adis spoke of was somewhere I was unaware of.
‘There’s a place I don’t know about?’
It must be somewhere beautiful enough to make that stubborn woman weep.
‘This is ridiculous.’
Kanna Adis couldn’t possibly have such a place. She’d spent her entire life being treated poorly wherever she went.
Wasn’t the Adis Mansion the most welcoming place she’d known in recent times? Kalen was probably wagging his tail after her like a loyal dog.
‘And yet? She wants to go home?’
Where could this home possibly be?
Where did she want to return to?
What place was worth pursuing so desperately, even as everything fell apart?
And.
“Wait, brother!”
At that thought, laughter burst forth. Displeasure ignited like wildfire within him.
Anyone hearing that tone would recognize it as how one addresses a lover. And perhaps—that damned brother of hers was not Silvien.
‘She’s involved with someone other than Silvien?’
Everything shattered.
The Kanna Valentino, Kanna Adis he had known for so long—her face fractured into countless shards.
The ruined portrait of her was no longer someone he recognized.
“Lord Orsini, you’ve returned?”
The Lord of Paelon greeted him as he entered the Valentino Estate. Orsini attempted to pass by without acknowledgment.
“The purification ceremony is scheduled for tomorrow.”
The Lord of Paelon spoke from behind him.
‘As if I care.’
Orsini sneered. He did not even slow his pace.
‘If things go wrong, I’ll be hanged upside down from a tree and burned.’
Kanna Adis hanged upside down from a tree?
‘That would be worth seeing.’
He thought of Kanna Adis.
The recent Kanna Adis. That insufferable girl who mocked and insulted and toyed with me. Truly, she was unbearable.
Yet why.
“What is it, Orsini?”
“….”
“Why did you come?”
Eyes brimming with annoyance.
Even knowing she would regard him with such a look, he could not understand why he had come.
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‘What is this? Why did he suddenly come?’
Kanna Adis made no effort to conceal her displeasure.
She had been about to sleep when Orsini suddenly burst through the door.
“What hour is it that you come calling?”
“….”
“Where did you learn such manners, entering without even a knock?”
What is this? Why won’t he answer?
He merely glared at her menacingly, his lips sealed. What could possibly be the matter?
‘How irritating. Why is he like this?’
To be honest, she was not even curious about his purpose.
“It’s late. I’m going to sleep. If you have something to say, tell me later.”
Yet he remained motionless, only staring.
Fearing she would have nightmares if left alone with him, Kanna Adis rose from her bed and pushed his shoulder with her palm.
“Leave.”
At least pretend to budge, would you.
‘Is he a stone statue?’
No matter how hard I pushed, he remained as immovable as a stone statue.
“Orsini, you seem unaware, but I’m pushing you backward with all my strength. Do you understand what that means?”
Kanna Adis laughed brightly.
“It means get out of my room.”
That was when Orsini seized the arm Kanna Adis was pushing with.
Was he trying to wrench it away? I tensed my arm to resist, but it was a futile effort.
Orsini wrapped his hand around my wrist and lifted it effortlessly upward.
The motion was so fluid and natural it felt like he was simply brushing away a stuffed doll that had fallen onto his shoulder.
Then he opened his fingers and let me drop into the void.
….
I lowered my arm, steeped in a peculiar humiliation. Well, this was the man who bent iron bars like taffy, after all.
“Hey.”
Finally, Orsini’s lips parted. I responded curtly.
“What?”
“You.”
….
Go on, then. I crossed my arms and waited for him to continue.
‘But why isn’t he saying anything?’
What on earth was he doing?

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