My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 13

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Chapter 13
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Unlike before, Lucy Adis obediently pulled back her blankets. And then—
【Thank you for telling me you could heal me, Sister. I trust you.】
She handed me a card written in crooked, clumsy handwriting.
How adorable. I smiled after gently stroking Lucy’s hair.
“Lucy, you’ll recover soon. But you must trust and follow everything I do for your treatment. Understood?”
She nodded eagerly.
“Good. Tie your hair back so your nape is visible, then lie face-down for me, would you?”
While Lucy did as instructed, I examined my acupuncture needles. I selected the fine needles used for most treatments and spoke quietly.
“Now then, let’s begin.”
Lucy’s delicate, exposed nape. The upper part of her neck—just as I was about to insert the needle at the Fengchi point—
“What are you doing!”
Kalen grabbed my wrist with a sharp snap.
“I’m in the middle of treatment. Let go.”
“Treatment? Have you lost your mind? You call stabbing that sharp thing into living flesh treatment?”
In that instant, Lucy flinched in fear. At her reaction, my eyes narrowed dangerously.
‘How could you frighten her like that!’
When tense, muscles stiffen. That means pain could occur when the needle enters.
That’s why relaxing the patient is the most crucial part of treating children…
‘And this fool is interfering with it.’
I set down the needle, then placed my hand over the back of Kalen’s hand that was gripping my wrist.
“Should I not?”
I asked back with terrifying composure.
“Should I stop everything? Should I do nothing and halt here?”
Kalen’s words caught in his throat.
He’d grabbed me because it looked dangerous, but he hadn’t decided whether he actually wanted me to stop.
“…I’ve never seen such a treatment method anywhere.”
“I told you. It’s a healing technique I discovered while researching alchemy. You trusted my words and entrusted me with her treatment. Didn’t you?”
“….”
“Either do it or don’t. Choose one. There’s nothing in this world that succeeds through such half-hearted attitudes.”
Kalen clenched his teeth. Something felt wrong. Too many things.
‘How can she be so confident?’
Right now, I radiated such certainty my face seemed to glow. Without absolute faith in my abilities, without unwavering conviction, this would be impossible.
Perhaps that’s why I seemed right.
My hand overlapping his felt as though it knew the answer, and he wanted nothing more than to grip it tightly. Almost losing himself, Kalen clenched his fist instead.
Yet—
‘To pierce Lucy with something so sharp.’
Of course, merely holding this restores vitality—it’s made from a healing magic stone.
Besides, it’s finer than a needle, so it seems difficult to even cause a wound. There’s no danger of Lucy being harmed by this.
Still, where in this world does such a treatment method exist?
It’s an absurd approach!
‘But why?’
Why doesn’t Kanna Adis look like a charlatan? How is that possible?
A moment later, Kalen’s lips parted.
“I….”
“….”
“I will trust you. Please continue.”
“Then step back so you won’t get in the way.”
Her voice carried the distinctive authority of a physician.
Kalen hesitated for a moment, but soon complied with her words.
The nuisance had finally disappeared. I exhaled silently and gently touched Lucy Adis’s tense shoulders.
“Lucy, you said you trust your sister, didn’t you?”
Nod, nod. At Lucy’s response, I smiled softly.
“Thank you for saying that. Once you’re all better, we should go out somewhere fun together.”
I continued kneading her neck as if loosening tension, speaking on.
“Where would be nice? The weather is lovely, so shall we go on a picnic?”
Speaking as gently as a breeze, I tapped an acupuncture needle into a pressure point on her neck. Lucy showed no sign of realizing what had happened.
In the meantime, I placed another needle with a soft tap.
“We’ll all go play in the Forest together. There are rabbits in the Forest, and squirrels too.”
I drew her attention with words I didn’t truly mean.
As I placed one more needle with a tap, I heard Kalen stifling a groan behind me.
‘Is that really….’
I shot him a warning glance. At that, Kalen clamped his mouth shut and turned his face away.
“Shall we close our eyes and imagine what fun games we could play with the rabbits and squirrels?”
I began the acupuncture treatment in earnest.
The Hegu and Zusanli points—I methodically placed needles in sequence at the pressure points on her hands and legs. Then I let time pass while they remained in place.
A tranquil span of time, peaceful enough for Lucy to drift off to sleep.
After removing the needles, I woke Lucy and had her turn to lie on her back.
Now came the critical moment. From here on, I would place needles on Lucy’s facial pressure points—her face—so the key was to calm her fears.
“You did wonderfully, Lucy. While you were imagining with your eyes closed, the treatment was almost completely finished.”
At that, Lucy’s eyes widened in disbelief.
“It’s all because you did so well. Now there’s really just a little left, and you won’t feel anything, just like before. So keep your eyes closed like you have been, imagine going out to play once you’re all better, alright?”
Nod, nod. As Lucy nodded her head, I smiled brightly.
“You’re such a good girl, Lucy. Really so good.”
Meanwhile, Kalen was watching me with a displeased expression.
His worry had naturally subsided now that Lucy wasn’t in pain. Instead, a strange dissatisfaction welled up in its place.
‘Does my sister have a split personality?’
Toward him, she was either very cold, indifferent, or dismissive—one of those three.
Yet now she was treating Lucy with the gentleness of an angel.
‘His attitude is completely different.’
…But what does it matter to me? Why am I wasting mental energy on such pointless thoughts?
Kalen clicked his tongue belatedly and shook his head.
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“Remarkable.”
Changes had appeared after just a single treatment.
Lucy’s lips, which had been rigidly stiffened, had softened beautifully—now capable of forming a perfect pucker.
“I didn’t expect the effects to manifest so immediately.”
At Kalen’s reaction, Kanna Adis let out a scoff.
“I told you. I knew it would turn out like this.”
Truth be told, I hadn’t known. That the results would appear this quickly!
Though I was playing it cool, internally I was practically screaming with elation.
‘The efficacy surpasses my expectations.’
It was all thanks to the acupuncture needles I’d crafted from healing magic stones.
“Just a few more days of treatment and she’ll be completely cured. And those medicinal herbs I’ve portioned out for you—you need to brew and drink them faithfully every single day. Understood?”
“Understood.”
“Then I’m going to bed.”
“Sister.”
“Hmm?”
Kalen was looking at me with an expression suggesting he wanted to say something.
“What is it?”
But Kalen exhaled deeply and stepped back.
“It’s nothing. Please rest.”
What? How anticlimactic.
But I didn’t wait any longer and turned away immediately. Though it seemed he had something to say, I had no desire to press him for it.
Truth is, I’m not particularly curious.
‘Right. Not curious at all.’
There’s nothing I’m curious about.
Not what Kalen wanted to say, not House of Adis, nothing.
I’m simply using them as needed.
‘Besides, he dislikes me anyway. I have no interest in making an effort to get along with someone like that.’
When I was younger, I wanted to be seen favorably.
By my siblings, by my father, by my mother. So I followed their every word.
“Sister. Can’t you just stay buried in the basement like a little mouse? You’re embarrassing me.”
“Get lost, you filth!”
“Please remain out of sight, sister.”
My family members who had cursed me countless times to disappear, to get out of their sight.
So I buried myself even deeper in the Research Laboratory. It was really an escape.
I wasn’t hiding because my family hated me—I was alone because I loved alchemy. I comforted and rationalized myself this way.
‘Fools. How could they dislike someone as wonderful as me?’
Everyone in this house is a fool, an idiot.
Kanna no longer desired their affection. Instead, she scoffed and sprawled across the bed.
Exhaustion, accumulated like a tidal wave, crashed over her.
‘I wish no one would wake me until I rise of my own accord.’

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