My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 138

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Chapter 138
“Not siblings? What are you talking about?”
“Exactly what I said. I’m not Alexandro Adis’s daughter.”
“Don’t lie to me, sister.”
“If you don’t believe me, ask Duke Adis himself.”
….
“I share not a single drop of blood with you. We’re strangers.”
….
“So stop caring about me.”
Strangers?
Not siblings?
My mind went blank. When I came to my senses, I was sprawled on the ground, having been struck down by Orsini, who looked like an enraged bull.
Orsini’s eyes burned with a sinister fury.
It was the first time since my birth that he had ever looked at me that way. We had never been particularly close brothers, but we had always respected each other.
I knew that Orsini had no interest in the position of heir and had willingly ceded it to me.
He knew that I had willingly taken on that troublesome burden.
It had always been that way.
We were as different as fire and ice.
What he desired and what he didn’t desire were so eerily misaligned with my own wishes that we never clashed.
I had secretly been grateful for it.
If the day ever came when my brother and I wanted the same thing, one of us would fight until the bitter end.
But that day had never come, and we had never quarreled.
Until this very moment.
“I don’t understand why you’re so angry.”
Now that I thought about it, something was strange. When had my brother ever cared about my sister’s affairs?
After tormenting her so much, did he now want to win her favor?
‘How dare he, now of all times?’
Displeasure surged up like molten lava. For the first time in my life, hostility toward my own brother rose sharp as a blade.
“Do you really think she’ll forgive you if you act like that?”
Orsini’s lips twisted as he listened in silence.
“You talk too much, Kalen Adis.”
And Kanna was no longer holding his arm. In other words, there was no more reason to hesitate.
Orsini lunged forward. Kalen no longer simply endured the assault.
“Hey! You two, take it outside!”
Kanna screamed. But her cry fell on deaf ears. The brothers seemed no longer able to hear anything.
With each exchange of punches and kicks, tables collapsed, pillars shattered, and the floor cracked deep. Deafening crashes and thuds assaulted the Research Laboratory.
“Don’t fight here! Everything’s being destroyed!”
The magical stones, the materials, the alchemical compounds—everything I had accumulated over more than a decade was disappearing.
“Ha, ha….”
Was I so furious that I could only laugh?
A laugh escaped me. Kalen had lost his mind, Orsini had lost his mind, and now I was on the verge of losing mine as well.
Fine. Let us all go mad together.
I burst into laughter and scooped up the scattered magical stones, hurling them indiscriminately at Orsini and Kalen.
Desperately hoping that at least one of them would land a hit on me.
Princess Joanna, who had witnessed all of this, went deathly pale.
‘They are all out of their minds.’
Insane. Every last one of them is insane!
* * *
The brothers’ first brawl only ended when their father arrived.
“….”
Alexandro Adis remained speechless for a long moment.
He opened his mouth as if to speak, then closed it without uttering a word. He rubbed his temples as though plagued by a headache.
And with good reason.
The Research Laboratory lay in ruins. Kalen and Orsini were a complete mess.
And there was Kanna, standing vacant-eyed and muttering repeatedly, “It’s all fallen apart.”
“What in the world….”
Alexandro Adis closed his mouth again. Yet this was a question he ultimately had to ask.
“What happened…?”
Though he seemed reluctant to know the answer, his duty as a father compelled him to inquire.
At that, Orsini’s eyes snapped wide open as if he had been waiting for this moment.
“This bastard Kalen threatened Kanna, Father.”
Kalen then let out a derisive snort.
“Threatened? I was merely having a conversation with my sister.”
“A conversation? In a pitch-black basement with the door shut? Who conducts conversations like that?”
“Perhaps because Princess Joanna was hiding on the stairs eavesdropping.”
“So what? Were you planning to do something you shouldn’t be seen doing?”
“What are you imagining? I would say the contents of your mind are far more dangerous, brother.”
“You bastard!”
The brothers shot to their feet. A second round was about to commence.
“Enough.”
Alexandro Adis spoke, a sharp pain lancing through his head.
The brothers sat back down. Yet their eyes still burned with the desire to kill one another.
“….”
Alexandro Adis was at a loss. Nothing like this had ever occurred in his life.
Moreover, he had never quarreled with Largos to this extent, so he had no sense of how to mediate.
What should I do?
Facing this unprecedented calamity, Alexandro Adis struggled as best he could.
And he arrived at a thoroughly inadequate answer befitting a hapless father.
“Both of you apologize to each other.”
“….”
“Mm. I think a handshake would be appropriate.”
Orsini and Kalen stared at him with expressions of disbelief. Alexandro Adis pressed forward with unwavering resolve.
“Did you not hear me? I said make peace.”
Good heavens. Who demands reconciliation in such a manner?
I found myself wanting to strike the back of Alexandro Adis’s head.
“I have done nothing wrong.”
“Neither have I. I have no reason to apologize to my brother.”
“Does that matter? If I say you will, then you will.”
They were all quite the performers, weren’t they?
Both Orsini and Kalen were insufferable, but Alexandro Adis was truly a zero out of ten as a father.
“I cannot obey such an unreasonable command.”
When Orsini objected, Alexandro Adis’s eyebrows rose slightly.
“You cannot obey?”
“No.”
“Kalen, what do you think?”
“I share the same opinion.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. If one commits a crime, one must pay the price for it, but I have committed no wrong against my brother Orsini.”
“You are both laboring under a grave misunderstanding.”
Alexandro Adis rose from his chair. An oppressive presence, like a tidal wave, crashed down upon us all in an instant.
“You have only one choice to make. Whether you will obey my words or refuse.”
This was absurd.
I exhaled a long sigh. It was clear that if this continued, an even greater conflict would erupt.
Now that Alexandro Adis had joined in, this family quarrel would reach an unprecedented scale.
‘Let them do as they wish.’
Whether all three of them fought and ruined themselves was no concern of mine, but this was my research laboratory.
‘Cursed red-haired fools, the lot of them.’
One day, I would set fire to those heads.
“Wait a moment.”
The instant I interjected, the heat drained from Alexandro Adis’s piercing gaze. He looked down at me with a softened expression.
‘What should I say?’
I had stopped them, but what could I possibly say?
‘Should I just tell all three of them to leave, since I don’t care whether they live or die outside this laboratory?’
If I said that, this quarrel would only escalate further.
“….”
Alexandro Adis remained silent, waiting patiently for me to choose my words.
Orsini and Kalen observed this as though witnessing something utterly bizarre.
“It has grown quite late. Everyone seems exhausted and unable to think clearly… Why don’t you all return to your rooms and discuss this again after daybreak?”
“….”
“Yes. Let us do that.”
Kanna Adis seized Alexandro’s collar and gazed up at him with demanding eyes.
“Fine. I’ll do as you say.”
* * *
At last, after the three men of Adis departed, Kanna Adis found herself finally alone.
‘When am I going to clean all of this up?’
Dangerous research materials were scattered throughout, making it difficult to assign the servants to the task.
Kanna Adis eventually sighed and rolled up her sleeves. For now, she decided to clear away only those things that others must not touch.
While cleaning for quite some time.
“Hm?”
She discovered a book buried within the shattered wall. Kanna Adis pulled it out as if entranced.
“Surely not.”
It was an extremely ancient, worn tome.
She hastily opened it, and indeed.
It was the ancient alchemical text that Celia had mentioned!
‘I never thought I’d find it like this.’
Should I thank Orsini and Kalen for their devastating fight?
She turned the pages. With each page she flipped, astonishment bloomed across her face.
‘Magnificent.’
Ancient alchemy was on an entirely different level from the alchemy she knew.
‘With this, I could truly escape. More than enough to escape.’
Her heart raced as hope ignited within her.
If I could master ancient alchemy, even the great Alexandro Adis himself would be unable to capture me.
‘I can escape.’
I can leave the Adis Mansion.
‘I can start anew!’
* * *
Kalen did not return immediately. Lost in thought, he followed behind Alexandro Adis.
“Father.”
Just before Alexandro Adis entered the bedroom, Kalen called out to stop him.
“There is something I must tell you.”
“Tell me tomorrow.”
“It concerns my sister.”
Alexandro Adis turned his body around.
“What is it?”
“My sister said something strange.”
“That she is not my daughter?”
“…Yes.”
Alexandro Adis released his grip on the bedroom door handle and approached Kalen.
“Then what will you do, Kalen Adis?”
All expression drained from Kalen’s face.
That answer meant one thing: she truly was not his sister.
“Nothing changes. Kanna will remain my daughter, and she is still a member of Adis.”
“….”
“That is all you need to know, Kalen.”
As if to end the conversation, Alexandro Adis turned away.
Kalen stood rooted to the spot, watching him disappear into the Bedroom.
Then he immediately turned and walked toward his own Room, his footsteps heavy and deliberate.
He could not say when he had stopped moving.
Kanna Adis.
The sister he revered.
They were not siblings.
Not a sister. Not family.
Then what was she?
‘What do you mean. She is still my sister.’
But.
‘No, there is no but. Father is right. She is still my sister.’
But. But….
In that moment, a burning heat surged from his belly to the crown of his head.
‘If she is not my sister.’
Kalen’s face flushed crimson.
‘Then.’
He slumped weakly against the wall, his head bowed like a defeated man, trembling fingers covering his face.
Through the gaps between his fingers, his emerald eyes gleamed with dark intensity, glistening with profound desire.
‘My sister.’
My sister.
My….

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