My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 126

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Chapter 126
Yet Orsini didn’t even twitch an eyebrow.
“I will leave, but only after I’ve reclaimed Kanna Adis.”
“Did you not understand my words?”
At the Divine Spirit’s words, Orsini responded with cutting sarcasm.
“It seems Your Divinity is the one who fails to comprehend. Have your ears grown dim from all those centuries of existence?”
“How dare you insult the Divine Spirit!”
The Enforcers drew their blades in unison. To insult the Divine Spirit was the gravest sacrilege imaginable.
“Very well then. Sending Alexandro his son’s head as a gift wouldn’t be such a terrible idea.”
Just as he did to me, the Divine Spirit muttered indifferently.
“Sever the head of Orsini Adis and send it to House Adis.”
How amusing, Kanna thought with detached indifference, watching the scene unfold.
At this point, it seemed as though she ought to play the role of crying out “Stop!”, but she wouldn’t.
She had no intention of doing so whatsoever.
Whether Orsini lived or died was his own fate to bear.
She truly believed that. She had decided to remain here, at least for now. She hadn’t even asked for help, much less hoped for it.
‘So whether he dies or not has nothing to do with me.’
Farewell, Orsini. She turned her head away, bidding him silent goodbye in her heart.
But in the next instant, Kanna realized she had been utterly mistaken.
“Tsk. Like father, like son, I see.”
The Divine Spirit clicked his tongue one last time, his tone suggesting he had half-expected this.
In the blink of an eye, the Enforcers surrounding Orsini crumbled. They collapsed simultaneously, like puppets whose strings had all been cut at once.
And in the next moment, Orsini shot forward like a bullet. He moved so fast that Kanna only realized he had hooked his arm around her waist after he’d already done so.
“Ack!”
He was far too swift, and she had no time to brace herself. Her neck bent sharply backward, and a cry tore from her lips.
“Are you an idiot? Won’t you hold on properly?”
The rebuke came from beside her ear. Heat flared through her in an instant.
“You’re the one who asked for help! Let me go!”
Though she meant every word, Orsini treated it as mere petulance and didn’t even respond. Instead, he held her firmly against him with one arm.
“Release me! I’m staying at the Divine Temple!”
“Shut up and stay still, you fool!”
“Let me down, let me down!”
As she clawed at his hair without mercy and screamed, she saw it.
Orsini’s blade meeting the Enforcer’s sword, shattering it, and continuing its arc to cleave the man’s body clean in two.
Her stomach lurched, and Kanna bit her lip. Unable to watch any longer, she buried her face in his shoulder. She stopped clawing at his hair.
I don’t care. Do as you wish.
“I’ll be waiting, Kanna!”
Surprisingly, the Divine Spirit did not intervene directly. He simply stood with his hands clasped behind his back, watching as Orsini fled with Kanna in his grasp, and called out loudly in farewell.
“I’ll be waiting!”
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“At last, I can breathe.”
How many hours had passed?
After a frenzied flight, Orsini Adis had managed to escape the Divine Temple. He had fled deep into the Forest, and only then did he finally come to a halt.
“Put me down.”
Orsini Adis set Kanna Adis down. She couldn’t stand properly and collapsed onto the ground with a thud. For hours, she had been jostled roughly in an unstable position. The world spun. She felt as though she might retch.
“Are you all right?”
“Do I look all right?”
Kanna Adis glared at him with fierce eyes. In truth, Orsini Adis looked far worse.
He was drenched in blood.
Most of it belonged to others, but some was his own. She had witnessed an Executor slash his back with a sword.
“What are you?”
“What?”
“I never asked for your help. Why are you acting on your own?”
At that, Orsini Adis’s face froze with a terrible coldness. He knelt down, bringing himself to eye level with Kanna Adis.
“You damnable woman. Not a word of gratitude, and instead you question why I acted of my own accord? Is that what you have to say?”
“Did you expect me to thank you?”
Kanna Adis met his gaze directly, her laugh sharp and cutting.
“Did you think I would be grateful to you?”
She had never asked for help. Yet he had rescued her anyway, suffering wounds in the process.
Not someone else. Orsini Adis.
Why?
“Stop wasting your effort, Orsini Adis. It’s repulsive.”
Orsini Adis clenched his teeth tightly. Humiliation, shame, and rage crashed over him, and his eyelids trembled.
Even when the sword had cut him, his expression had not wavered.
Yet with a single word from Kanna Adis, he found himself helplessly swayed.
“I had no intention of fleeing. I planned to remain in the Divine Temple. You saw the Divine Spirit too, didn’t you? I—”
Kanna Adis paused, then spoke as though expelling poison.
“I am not the daughter of Adis.”
Now that she had spoken it aloud, she could truly be certain.
Alexandro Adis. He and she had no connection whatsoever.
Back then, in Duke Adis’s Secret Room, she had pointed to the Divine Spirit’s portrait and asked if this being was her parent.
“If that is what you believe, then so it is.”
Kanna Adis, who knew Alexandro Adis’s manner of speech intimately, understood that as an affirmation.
At the time, she had assumed it was her mother and asked accordingly. She had never imagined it was her father.
Of course, Alexandro Adis must have known of her misunderstanding. He had known, yet left it untouched. He had toyed with her.
How amusing it must have been.
Kanna Adis laughed softly. Strangely, the laughter continued. She did not know which of the Divine Spirit’s words were truth and which were lies.
There was only one thing of which she could be certain.
“Alexandro Adis is not my father.”
That much was truth.
“Orsini, we aren’t siblings either. I don’t share a single drop of blood with House Adis.”
Then why did I grow up as a daughter of Adis?
Perhaps Alexandro Adis’s words about raising me, about his hatred for Seon-hee—perhaps they were all true.
Doesn’t it make sense?
All this time, I suffered at Adis as though being tortured. Maybe I received the brunt of Alexandro Adis’s hatred meant for Seon-hee in her stead.
That was when it happened. A cold sensation tapped sharply against the back of my hand.
It was the beginning. Raindrops fell one by one, then suddenly intensified into a downpour. My body was drenched in moments.
This is the worst.
Pathetic.
“So I’m not going. You go alone.”
“…Where are you going?”
“That’s none of your concern.”
I don’t know. I truly don’t know.
I haven’t yet decided where I want to go or what I want to do.
There is only one thing I know.
My world has shattered into pieces. Because of that, I need time to collect myself.
I suppressed the vertigo and pushed myself up with effort. Then I looked down at Orsini, who still remained on the ground.
“So you go back to Adis alone.”
Raindrops poured down onto Orsini’s cheeks. Blood washed away. He parted his lips.
“I refuse.”
Somehow, I had sensed he would say exactly that.
That he would refuse.
That he wouldn’t let me go so easily.
That’s why he went to such lengths to pull me out from the Divine Temple.
When I recalled those strong arms that held me firmly, as though protecting treasure amid falling blades, my stomach churned. I couldn’t suppress the curse.
“Disgusting bastard.”
“Go ahead. Say whatever you like.”
When he smiled, lifting the corners of his mouth, my insides flipped. He’s smiling?
“Don’t smile.”
I lifted my foot and trampled his thigh. It was hard as stone, so I twisted my heel against it, pressing down roughly.
“Don’t smile, Orsini.”
I grabbed his sharp jawline roughly and lifted it.
“I hate seeing you smile.”
Hatred surged fiercely.
I wanted to hurt him. I wanted to tear apart that composed smile. And I quickly found the way to do it.
“You actually want my forgiveness, don’t you?”
In that instant, Orsini’s jaw tensed in my grip.
I let out a bitter laugh.
I had suspected as much, but it was true. How despicable this hope is.
“Shameless creature.”
More, more, more.
I want to wound him.
So deeply that it can never be erased—just as he had done to me—I want to inflict a pain so searing that even after ten years, it would remain unforgettable.
“Then you should have just died back then.”
And it was absurdly easy.
“Who knows? If you had died protecting me, I might have pitied you even a little.”
A few words were all it took.
As anguish bloomed in Orsini’s eyes, I felt a cruel exhilaration wash over me. It was so effortless—simpler than twisting a child’s wrist.
“So the next time the opportunity comes, just die.”
I struck his jaw and stepped back, turning away. Wherever this place was, I would leave it.
Anywhere without House of Adis.
“Hey.”
But he grabbed my shoulder and turned me around.
“Calm down and listen to me.”
Orsini spoke in a measured voice, and I could see plainly how hard he was struggling to maintain his composure.
“I’m coming with you.”
“What?”
“You can’t go alone. It’s dangerous.”
I couldn’t help but laugh. Dangerous? Those words coming from Orsini’s mouth?
“You’re the most dangerous thing to me. Who knows when you’ll strangle me or beat me if something goes wrong?”
“Back then.”
Orsini’s voice cracked. Even beneath the torrential downpour, his agitation was unmistakable.
“Back then, I was….”
“Shut up.”
I cut him off coldly.
“I don’t want to hear anything. Whatever it is, nothing.”
“Kanna.”
“Don’t say my name!”
My voice cracked as I shrieked, and Orsini’s lips went rigid.
“Call me filth instead. Treat me violently like you used to.”
The more I spoke, the more my mask shattered. My true self was laid bare—a face stained only with rage and resentment.
“You must remain garbage forever. Don’t you dare become anything else now.”
A deep resignation settled over Orsini’s face, which soon twisted into mockery.
“Fine, hate me all you want. Say whatever you please. But you’re not going alone.”
“What gives you the right to permit or forbid anything?”
“It’s not permitted. It’s dangerous.”
Fury surged through me in a blaze. My eyes burned with rage. How dare Orsini, how dare he worry about me. How dare he!
“My lady.”
At that moment, a soft voice rang out.
I turned my head. And in that instant, I doubted my own eyes.
In the downpour, a priest in black stood motionless.
He swept back his drenched hair, and droplets cascading down his forehead shattered at the edge of his jaw.
“…Raphael.”
At the sight of him, Kanna felt her mind drain of all thought, as though bleached white. The fury that had burned in her chest crumbled to ash in an instant. She stood paralyzed.
“Do you require assistance?”
His deeply sunken eyes fixed upon Orsini Adis’s grip—that hand clutching Kanna’s shoulder with obsessive intensity.
“If so, command me. I shall obey.”

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