My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 136

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Chapter 136
I can barely recall how I returned.
The moment Kanna Adis arrived at the Valentino Estate, she descended into the Underground Laboratory. Then she stopped abruptly.
“…?”
Before the laboratory door, a massive shadow leaned against the wall at an angle.
“Kalen?”
Kanna Adis stared at him in surprise.
The man in the darkness was Kalen. Still dressed in his formal attire from the party, he stood with a decidedly displeased expression.
How long had he been waiting here?
“Where have you been?”
Kanna Adis gazed up at him for a moment, then exhaled a weary sigh.
I was exhausted.
I was drained.
I had no desire to speak with anyone right now.
“Later.”
“….”
“Let’s talk about it later, Kalen.”
I moved past him and opened the laboratory door.
But in the next instant, a long arm stretched out from behind me. It grazed my cheek lightly as it pushed the door shut.
Click. It closed.
“Later?”
Kalen murmured in a low voice.
“When exactly will that later arrive?”
“….”
“You’ve been avoiding conversations with me in this manner for some time now.”
His voice drifted across my hair.
Kanna Adis stared helplessly at the door, then slowly turned around. She pushed against Kalen’s chest directly before her.
“Go back, Kalen.”
He yielded a single step.
But that was all.
“No, sister. Not today.”
He gently lowered the hand with which Kanna Adis had been pushing him away.
“You disappeared in the middle of the party. Where did you go?”
“….”
“There are rumors that you had a secret meeting with Prince Argon. Is it true?”
I didn’t know how to respond.
No words came to mind. My head felt utterly empty.
Men and women disappearing together from a party venue was hardly uncommon.
Most would slip away to secluded corners of the Garden, empty rooms, or dark corridors. What happened between a man and woman in such desolate places was predictable.
“Yes, it’s true.”
I couldn’t be bothered inventing a lie, so I answered as such.
He would certainly misunderstand.
It didn’t matter. Let him think what he would.
“It’s true, Kalen. I spent time alone with Prince Argon.”
I answered while fixing my gaze on his shoulder.
Yet I could feel his eyes sharpen with unmistakable ferocity.
A brief silence fell between us.
“Pardon?”
The temperature around us plummeted.
“What did you say?”
“I met Prince Argon in secret and slipped away. Father caught me on the way back in.”
“Why on earth would you involve yourself with such a dissolute man?”
Surprisingly, his voice remained composed. So eerily calm it bordered on ominous.
“Prince Argon is a man beneath your station, sister.”
….
“Has the heartbreak from your divorce wounded you so deeply? Or perhaps you were simply lonely?”
I answered with a sigh.
“Yes.”
….
“My heart aches, and I was lonely. And Father’s interruption has left me in a foul mood. So I want to be alone.”
As I muttered these excuses, I came to a realization.
This wouldn’t work.
I couldn’t survive like this. I had to flee, no matter the cost.
From this place. From Adis.
As long as I remained bound to this place, stained with misfortune beyond imagination, I could never find happiness.
‘The method for creating hell is simple. Hate those close to you.’
A phrase I’d heard somewhere suddenly surfaced in my mind.
A hollow laugh caught in my throat. The words were true.
My world was hell. I trusted no one around me, loved no one.
Nothing but hatred, hatred, hatred.
I was tired of this too.
I no longer wanted to live this way.
‘I’ll run away.’
I would leave this place.
And never encounter Adis again in the remainder of my life.
“Sister, please raise your head. Look me in the eye and speak.”
The moment I resolved this, every knot unraveled. The tightly bound cords began to disappear one by one.
I no longer needed Kalen Adis.
The pretense of being a dutiful sister was finished.
“Too bothersome.”
A scornful laugh spilled from her lips, thick and deliberate. Kanna Adis tilted her head as he desired, and showed him everything.
Her face, and her true heart.
“Stop bothering me and disappear, Kalen Adis.”
Kalen witnessed that moment with perfect clarity.
Beautiful Kanna’s face—that painted mask—fractured across its surface like spider-web cracks. It crumbled to ash. Beneath the disintegrating shell, ancient contempt gleamed with razor-sharp brilliance.
Kalen endured that moment with an expressionless face.
It hurt.
Yet it was not surprising.
Watching himself react this way, he realized he had already grasped her true feelings long ago.
So he simply asked with composure.
“Only now?”
Kanna Adis stared directly at him.
She had expected him to be shocked, but he was not. He was like someone who had already suspected her contempt all along.
“Yes.”
“Have I become useless to you?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“Because Prince Argon exists. You’re not needed anymore.”
“No, that is not true.”
Kalen flatly denied her words.
“Prince Argon’s position is merely a façade. He is someone who does not build his own power—he deliberately tears it down. Prince Argon has no interest in the throne whatsoever, and I would stake everything I have that he will one day abandon the Royal Family entirely.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. A rope destined to vanish in the future. No better than a rotted cord. I am disappointed in your judgment for choosing such a thing, sister.”
….
“Choose me instead. I am far more useful than Prince Argon.”
He enumerated his value like a merchant hawking wares.
“I am destined to become the head of House Adis.”
….
“If you desire power, I shall place it in your hands. If you desire wealth, I shall lay it at your feet.”
Then he whispered to her as if coaxing a child, his voice utterly seductive.
“I can make everything you desire into reality.”
“…Everything?”
“Yes. Whatever it may be.”
Kanna Adis gazed up at him with unwavering eyes.
Kalen’s face brimmed with confidence. He believed without doubt that Kanna would ultimately choose him.
And why shouldn’t he? What could he possibly lack?
Kalen Adis. The man who would one day inherit Alexandro Adis’s position entirely.
Nowhere in this world would one find a more powerful bargaining chip than Kalen.
So she had seized him. Molded him to her whims.
But now he was no longer needed.
Nor would I ever recycle him.
A spire built from wealth, honor, and power—even standing at its pinnacle, I could never find happiness beside the Adis name.
“I hate you.”
Kalen’s face darkened.
Kanna smiled. And for the first time in ages, she spoke her true heart.
“Kalen, I despise you. I simply cannot bring myself to care for you.”
As though struck, his jaw tightened.
“No matter what you give me, it changes nothing. If I were with you, I could never be happy.”
After a long silence, Kalen finally spoke.
“Is it… because of what happened when we were children?”
His voice emerged as though scraped from the depths of his throat.
“Yes.”
“Then why am I treating you so well now?”
Kalen seemed to be burning from within.
“I’ve begged your forgiveness countless times. And I’ve done everything you’ve asked of me. Is that still not enough?”
“…”
“How long will you remain shackled to the past!”
Kanna could not answer.
Because even she did not understand.
Why couldn’t she be like the gentle heroines in fairy tales?
If she were the type to forgive everyone regardless of the wounds inflicted, life would have been so much easier.
And yet she simply could not forget.
How Kalen had locked her in this basement until she was on the brink of starvation.
How he had poured apple juice on her face and told her to leave because she reeked of filth.
How he had made her retrieve objects he dropped from the window all day long, until exhaustion consumed her and she collapsed.
How he had watched—as one might observe a pig being dragged to slaughter—as her mother seized her by the hair and dragged her away to be locked in a wardrobe.
All that contempt. All that humiliation.
His eyes in that moment. His expression. His voice.
She could not forget. It would not fade.
‘So what am I supposed to do?’
What could she do about the way she was made? Kanna laughed bitterly.
“I must be a terrible person.”
“…”
“You simply had the misfortune of crossing paths with a terrible person.”
With those words, she turned away. The conversation was over.
Kanna opened the door and stepped into the Research Laboratory. Mercifully, Kalen did not reach for her again.
‘It’s so dark.’
Being in the basement, not even the faintest moonlight could penetrate. As she glanced about searching for a lamp—
Click.
The sound of the door closing behind her.
At that very moment, my vision plunged into absolute darkness.
“….”
I spun around in shock.
The moment the door sealed shut, not a single ray of light penetrated the Underground Laboratory. Everything dissolved into pitch black.
And then came his voice.
“You truly are willful, aren’t you?”
Kalen’s voice descended through the suffocating darkness.
“It’s fine if you use me. If that’s what you wish, you may treat me as a tool.”
Without thinking, I retreated backward until I collided with the desk and froze.
“But I am human.”
I couldn’t hear his footsteps—yet his voice drew closer, inch by inch, moment by moment.
“Did you truly believe you could discard me so easily, like some instrument?”
A chill suddenly seized me.
When had he drawn so near? In the darkness, emerald eyes gleamed from terrifyingly close.
Those phantom flames burned with an eerie, piercing brilliance.
“That won’t do, will it?”

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