My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 137

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Chapter 137
I held my breath.
I said nothing.
I could say nothing.
As time passed, my vision gradually adjusted to the darkness. Kalen’s silhouette began to take shape.
He stood at a distance where I could reach him with just an outstretched hand, utterly at ease.
“Get out, Kalen Adis.”
“You should speak more gently, Sister.”
Kalen answered calmly.
“Are you dropping the act of being a kind sister?”
“Yes.”
“What a shame.”
Kalen laughed.
“Truly a shame.”
My sister was so cruelly beautiful it brought tears to my eyes.
Every smile she had ever given me was a lie, after all. The gentle voice, the tender hand that had stroked my hair—
All of it false.
Nothing was real.
I had known. I was not so foolish as to be deceived so easily.
I had pretended not to notice the flickers of irritation, annoyance, contempt that crossed her face, but I had seen them nonetheless.
I wish I had remained ignorant.
Now that the suspicions I had long ignored had crystallized into truth, I felt only regret.
It was good. I wanted to keep being deceived.
I wanted her to keep deceiving me.
“Think about it once more. I am far more useful than you believe.”
…
“I will no longer object to your meetings with Prince Argon. Marry him. If you wish, I will elevate him to Emperor. I will place the Empress’s crown upon your head.”
I meant every word. If my sister desired it, I was prepared to raise her to the very pinnacle of this Empire.
But my sister is stubborn, so she will refuse.
“I don’t want it.”
As expected.
“I don’t need such things.”
I knew it. This obstinate, immovable wall of a person.
Under normal circumstances, I would never have bothered with someone like her. It would have been nothing but irritating.
And yet I could not bring myself to hate that iron resolve.
Her sharp thorns pierced me relentlessly, drawing blood, causing such exquisite pain—
And yet I did not dislike it.
“There’s only one thing I want from you. Leave this place right now.”
“If I leave, will you see me tomorrow? The day after?”
I spoke with bitter self-mockery.
“No. My sister will never deign to engage with me.”
“Then why are you threatening me now?”
“That’s not it at all.”
He laughed as though the notion were absurd.
“If I truly wished to threaten you, I wouldn’t be so crude about it. What I desire is genuine conversation.”
“And if I refuse?”
Kalen answered with meticulous courtesy.
“You’ll come to want it soon enough.”
Kanna Adis slowly raised her hand, her fingers closing around the necklace.
Poison lies within. Scattered across skin, it would inflict excruciating agony. Poured into the mouth—
Death would surely follow.
I pray it never comes to that. Using it would escalate matters beyond any point of return.
But if Kalen turned violent, I was prepared to respond in kind.
“Then why treat me well from the start? Your whims are utterly impossible to predict.”
“That’s what I told you. You’ve simply fallen into the hands of a wicked woman.”
“No.”
Even in the darkness, Kalen’s gaze remained fixed upon her face with crystalline clarity.
“It is you who has fallen into my hands.”
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Yoanna Friedrich was displeased.
No—this had transcended mere displeasure into something far more unsettling: anxiety.
‘What on earth is happening?’
Throughout the dance at the party venue, Kalen’s attention had been directed elsewhere entirely.
Toward Kanna Adis.
‘This is decidedly strange.’
Strange hardly captures it. Suspicious.
After an suffocating stretch of discomfort, the dance finally ended. Yet Kanna Adis was nowhere to be found—she had stepped onto the terrace and had not returned since.
Unable to bear the wait any longer, Kalen had seized upon the servants, questioning them relentlessly. He discovered she had vanished with Prince Argon.
“With Prince Argon?”
I shall never forget the expression that crossed Kalen’s face in that moment.
A savage beast baring its fangs, his visage contorting into something feral.
A chill ran through me.
‘Even if they were close, this seems excessive, doesn’t it?’
And he departed at once for the Valentino Estate.
He waited before Kanna Adis’s bedroom, then made his way to the Underground Laboratory where she favored spending her time.
Sleep would not come.
Yoanna Friedrich stared blankly at the ceiling before suddenly rising. She slipped on her slippers and retrieved a lamp.
‘This is far too strange.’
That sorrowful smile of Kanna Adis’s kept returning to my mind. Now I understood why she had worn it.
‘She does not seek Kalen’s affection at all.’
As Yoanna carefully descended the stairs, two figures finally came into view.
Kanna Adis and Kalen.
They were conversing.
Though their words were muffled, the atmosphere between them was decidedly tense. Then Kanna Adis stepped into the Research Laboratory.
Kalen watched her retreating figure in silence before….
He followed her inside.
Click. The door shut.
“….”
Yoanna nearly collapsed where she stood.
‘What is this? What on earth is happening?’
Whatever it was, this was not a situation Kanna Adis wanted. Of that much, she was certain.
Yoanna, uncertain what to do, climbed back up the stairs. She had to help. She could not simply stand by and watch a woman in distress.
But was she truly in distress?
Perhaps not. She might be misinterpreting things, making a mistake.
Yet her mistake would become the Yalden Kingdom’s mistake. She was in no position to act rashly.
So she needed to find someone.
Someone who could intervene in this matter—she had to find someone….
“Sir Orsini!”
A breath of relief escaped her lips.
Orsini had just finished his training and was ambling toward her!
“What is the matter?”
“I couldn’t sleep, so I was taking a walk, and then….”
“Get to the point.”
Orsini cut her off mid-sentence. His manner was remarkably discourteous, yet in this moment, she found it rather welcome.
“Right now, Kanna Adis and Sir Kalen are speaking together. But the two of them—the atmosphere is not good, so….”
“Where?”
“The Underground Laboratory.”
Before she could even finish, Orsini rushed past her.
Yoanna hurried after him. In moments, he descended into the basement and wrenched the door open violently.
Bang! The door frame shuddered with a thunderous crash.
The Research Laboratory lay shrouded in pitch darkness. As the door opened, faint light spilled in.
Within, Kalen and Kanna Adis stood motionless, facing each other.
“What are you two doing?”
They stood so close that one need only extend a hand to touch the other’s face. Their eyes locked upon one another.
In that instant, something snapped in Orsini’s mind.
“I asked what you’re doing.”
With those words, he strode forward and seized Kalen’s collar roughly.
“I asked what you’re doing here.”
Yet he did not wait for an answer. He hurled Kalen’s body onto the table. Glass flasks and crystals clattered to the floor in a cascade.
But it was far from over. Orsini grabbed Kalen’s collar once more and struck him across the face.
“Orsini!”
But in that instant, Kanna hung from his elbow, causing the blow to miss. Had it connected properly, his cheekbone would have caved in.
“What are you doing? Stop!”
“Let go.”
“Stop it! My research materials are getting destroyed!”
Orsini’s face contorted violently.
The feeble weight hanging from his arm.
It was nothing. Her strength was so fragile that instead of stopping me, she would simply be lifted off the ground if I swung. Yet in this moment, it felt as heavy as iron. I couldn’t budge.
Engulfed in a terrible sense of helplessness, I clenched my teeth and slowly lowered my arm. There was no other choice.
“Good heavens, my research….”
Kanna sighed as if dizzy. With each word, Orsini’s fury gradually subsided.
And Kalen slowly rose to his feet. For some reason, his expression was completely vacant.
Come to think of it, it had been that way from the start.
Even as I grabbed his collar and struck him, he offered no resistance—not even a reaction.
As if his mind had left his body entirely.
“…What?”
Only now, belatedly realizing he had been struck, did Kalen’s anger flare.
“What do you think you’re doing, brother?”
“What are *you* doing?”
“As you can see, I was having a conversation with my sister.”
“A conversation?”
Orsini wanted to throw him down again, but restrained himself. Kanna still had her hand gripping his arm.
“You hold conversations in a place like this?”
“A place like this? What’s wrong with this place?”
Kalen answered calmly, as if nothing was amiss.
“Is there a problem?”
Kalen met Orsini’s blazing gaze with an icy stare.
“I cannot fathom what you’re thinking to be so angry.”
His eyes flicked toward Kanna’s hand gripping Orsini’s arm.
“Is there a place where siblings shouldn’t converse? I simply cannot understand your actions, brother. Or perhaps….”
A violent impulse stirred within him. Kalen pressed it down firmly as he spoke.
“There’s another reason?”
Could it be that brother knows something too?
Kalen regarded Orsini with a wary gaze.
Suddenly, the conversation he’d had with Kanna just before Orsini entered came back to him.
“It was my sister who got caught up in this.”
“Sister? The fact that you keep calling me that means you haven’t heard yet?”
“Pardon?”
“The truth is, Kalen, there’s no reason for you to care about me like this. You and I are nothing to each other.”
“Truth is, Kalen, you have no reason to care about me like this. You and I are nothing to each other.”
My heart pounded wildly in my chest.
My mouth had gone dry, and the blood coursing through my veins burned so fiercely I could barely contain it.
“We’re not siblings, Kalen.”

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