My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 140

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Chapter 140
“Raphael, go now.”
Instead of engaging with Orsini, I finished seeing Raphael off.
“Don’t worry about it. Just go.”
Raphael bowed respectfully, and only after he departed did I turn my attention to Orsini.
“….”
I couldn’t even bear to speak with him.
I looked at him with utter disdain before turning back into the room. But Orsini followed me inside.
“What? Why are you coming in?”
Orsini ignored my words and surveyed the room as if inspecting it.
His gaze swept across the neatly made chamber before settling on the sofa. Upon spotting the medicine bottles and blood-stained bandages, he let out a low chuckle.
“Why is that bastard coming here to get treatment from you? There are physicians everywhere.”
His question wasn’t worth answering. I pointed toward the door.
“Leave.”
But instead of leaving, Orsini settled comfortably onto the sofa.
‘Orsini got the sofa dirty again!’
I’d replaced it before because of him, and now he was soiling it once more!
Orsini sat at ease and reached for the refreshments we had shared earlier. He grabbed several cookies at once and crunched them loudly.
While staring directly at me.
“….”
Crunch, crunch. The sound of cookies breaking between his teeth echoed menacingly.
“What are you doing?”
“They looked delicious.”
He brushed away the crumbs carelessly from the corner of his mouth.
“What? Are even cookies too good for me?”
“If you have no business here, then leave.”
“Business. I have it. Plenty of it.”
He suddenly rolled up his right pant leg to his knee.
As his firm thigh became exposed, I instinctively averted my gaze.
“Hey. Look here.”
“What?”
“Look at what you left on me.”
When I lowered my eyes again, I could finally see it—a small but deep-looking scar.
“Do you remember?”
Instead of answering, I met his gaze directly.
In that moment, I could almost hear the sound of rain from that day.
The torrential downpour that threatened to shatter the earth, the squelching mud, Orsini on his knees looking up at me.
I had trampled his thigh mercilessly, insulting him with every step. I had gouged at it with all my strength using the sharp, pointed heel of my shoe.
He hadn’t even flinched, accepting the pain with utter composure. I hadn’t realized the wound would be this deep.
I blinked. For some reason, that moment in my memory seemed to radiate an intense, suffocating heat.
The weather was actually bitterly cold.
“So?”
Kanna Adis asked flatly.
“Do you want an apology or something?”
“I don’t need that nonsense.”
“Then why are you like this?”
“At least I seem to have the right to be treated by your hands.”
He leaned back against the sofa with ease, then pointed to the wound on his knee.
“Perfect timing. We have bandages and medicine right here.”
“….”
“Surely he gets treated but I don’t?”
“Don’t call him that.”
Orsini’s eyes suddenly turned sharp.
“What?”
“Raphael. His name is Raphael, not ‘that guy.'”
“You’re talking nonsense.”
He ran his hand through his hair roughly, as if exasperated.
“Why do you care what I call that pathetic priest?”
“You wouldn’t have anything to care about if you hadn’t entered my room.”
I found this conversation with him unbearable and irritating.
“Don’t you have anything better to do? If you’re bored, go flirt with someone.”
How idle must he be to come here and pick a fight like this? I clicked my tongue in disapproval.
“I heard there are more than a few young ladies pining away because of you. Show them some interest. Stop wasting your attention on a woman who’s neither family nor anything to you.”
Despite his temperament, which everyone knew about, there were quite a few ladies who had fallen for him simply because of his handsome appearance.
Not that I couldn’t understand their feelings—his outward appearance was flawless, just like my father’s.
“I have no intention of treating someone like you. So stop wasting time and get out.”
Orsini then let out a scoff and sneered.
“Playing physician now, are we? Picking and choosing who deserves treatment.”
Irritation surged up suddenly.
Should I just pour the tea all over him?
I glanced at my teacup, but unfortunately it was already empty.
“Ah, so you really want to be treated by me that badly?”
I muttered to myself as I plopped down beside him. He had been whining for treatment, but now that I was close, he seemed tense.
‘Does he think I’m going to poke at his wound or something?’
While that would be a good way to torment Orsini, it wasn’t my style.
“Let me take a look.”
I reached out and carefully placed my hand just below his wound, above his knee.
I felt his entire body’s muscles stiffen rapidly beneath my fingertips.
“The wound is deeper than I thought. It must have hurt.”
I spoke in a sympathetic tone.
“Of course, I don’t care.”
I pulled my hand away sharply, erasing my smile as I spoke with indifference.
“So go somewhere else and ask around. If you really want treatment from me, then pay for it.”
A long silence stretched between us.
He stared at Kanna Adis, his voice dropping to a low murmur.
“How much.”
“100 million gold.”
“Fine.”
“What?”
“I said fine.”
Kanna Adis glared at him as though he were insane.
I’d meant to provoke him, but he’d actually agreed?
So that’s how it was. Then….
“Sorry, I misspoke. Actually, it’s 500 million gold. And by the way, I don’t accept checks. Cash only.”
“I’ll have it ready by today.”
What is this. He really must be insane….
Who in their right mind would spend such an astronomical sum just to have salve applied and bandages wrapped?
Kanna Adis responded curtly, utterly flabbergasted.
“Do I look like I’m joking right now?”
“Stop wasting time with nonsense and just treat me.”
He seemed serious. Either that or he was truly mad.
I had no desire whatsoever to treat him.
‘500 million.’
Soon I would need to flee this place and fend for myself—cash was desperately necessary.
‘Applying salve once? That’s a bargain for me.’
And that fool was the world’s greatest simpleton.
To squander such a fortune on something this trivial—he was undoubtedly the universe’s most gullible idiot!
“Fine. Don’t change your mind later.”
Kanna Adis immediately reached for the medicine bottle.
The moment I scooped out the salve and began applying it carelessly.
A harsh reality struck me like a blow to the head.
‘Ugh, making a living is really this hard.’
Treating Orsini’s wounds.
Of all people—Orsini!
Fury welled up inside me, and I pressed harder as I spread the salve across his skin.
Yet Orsini’s expression remained unchanged. He stood frozen as though taxidermied, silently observing the scene.
‘At least pretend it hurts, you bastard.’
Then the door burst open. It was Kalen.
“Kalen?”
He took in the sight of Kanna Adis and Orsini, then approached with long strides, his face cold.
“What are you doing right now?”
“What do you mean, Kalen? You’re the one who suddenly——”
I trailed off.
Kalen’s eyes blazed with an inferno of fury unlike anything I had ever witnessed from him before.
“Why would you do such a thing, Sister?”
“Such a thing? How crude to speak that way in a sacred healing moment.”
Orsini, apparently having sensed Kalen’s approach already, showed no surprise whatsoever—only a mocking smile.
“You don’t know? She’s a kindhearted Physician. Since I’m injured, it’s only natural she treats me.”
“The Valentino Estate has a resident Physician. So what possible reason could there be for you to receive treatment from my sister’s filthy hands?”
Kalen spoke each word as though spitting them out.
“Remove your hands at once, Sister.”
My mood soured instantly.
Who did he think he was, ordering me around like this?
Still, I had no desire for this to be misunderstood as kindness, so I made the truth abundantly clear.
“I agreed to accept 500 million Gold as payment for the treatment. So don’t interfere.”
At those words, Kalen’s lips parted. He seemed momentarily stunned into silence.
“500 million Gold?”
Well, of course he’d be shocked. No fool would spend such an astronomical sum on something so trivial.
“That’s right.”
I replied flatly and finished wrapping the bandage. In the next instant, every hair on my body stood on end.
I looked up in alarm to find Kalen glaring at Orsini with eyes that could tear him to shreds.
“What a despicable scheme, Brother.”
“If your stomach’s turning that much, go find yourself an injury to match.”
An ominous premonition began creeping through me.
‘Surely not.’
These two looked like they were about to fight.
‘Not my Bedroom!’
I couldn’t let my Bedroom be destroyed on top of the Research Laboratory!
I hurriedly finished wrapping the bandage and sprang to my feet.
“That’s enough. Both of you, get out and settle this elsewhere!”
“Sister, I’m warning you—never do such a thing to Brother again.”
Kalen spoke in a voice that seemed to fracture with each word.
“Do you understand?”
And those words struck me like a blow.
What? A warning?
“What did you just say?”
It was a mistake to say anything.
I knew—and so did Kalen—that this was a word that would completely provoke me.
A younger brother who had been trying so hard to win my favor would never have said such a thing.
But now, everything was different.
Completely, utterly different.
“Would you like to hear it again?”
His fury was not directed at Orsini alone.
Sparks of rage flickered in his eyes—a seething, destructive emotion that poured forth upon Kanna as well.
“Never lay your hands upon my brother again. Never.”

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