My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 142

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Chapter 142
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“What?”
Yoanna Friedrich’s fingers trembled.
“What did you just say, Lord Kalen?”
“It has become difficult to proceed with the engagement next year.”
Yoanna Friedrich regarded him with a cold stare. Despite the frost in her gaze, Kalen Adis’s expression remained utterly serene.
“Why is that?”
“As I mentioned, it is an internal matter within the family.”
“So you wish to postpone the engagement ceremony?”
“Yes.”
Silence fell between them. Yoanna Friedrich sank into a haze of contempt, her eyes fixed upon her teacup.
“How long must I wait?”
“It is difficult to say with certainty.”
It was a declaration no different from cancellation itself.
Yoanna Friedrich was seized by a hollow despair.
“I believed matters were proceeding smoothly all this time. I never imagined you would unilaterally halt everything like this.”
“I sincerely apologize. I shall provide you with adequate compensation for the damages you have suffered.”
“Compensation?”
Yoanna Friedrich rose from her seat with a bitter laugh.
“You have consumed my time and my reputation. When I return to Yalden, I shall face utter humiliation.”
“I sincerely apologize.”
“No, do not apologize, Lord Kalen. I shall not forgive you regardless.”
“Very well.”
His response was remarkably composed. Yoanna Friedrich studied him with a smile.
“You do not fear me. It seems my anger is beneath your notice.”
I will make him regret this. Yoanna Friedrich resolved and turned away.
‘How shall I take my revenge?’
Was there not some excellent method? Some way to wound Kalen…
Suddenly, a conversation with Kanna Adis from not long ago surfaced in her mind.
A few days prior, Isabel had come to her with a rather foolish request.
“Would you ask Lord Kalen to lift my confinement? He would surely listen if his fiancée asked.”
It was absurd.
She had refused at first, but Isabel had wept and pressed the matter relentlessly.
Then curiosity had seized her.
Kalen Adis, who listens to everything Kanna Adis says—just how far would he go to honor the requests of his own fiancée?
So she had sought him out. Upon hearing that he had gone to Kanna Adis’s bedroom, she made her way there.
And she witnessed a scene of utter chaos.
Kalen, consumed by concern for his sister’s plight, had lost all reason.
When they arrived, Kalen and Orsini departed. And for some reason, Isabel had burst into tears and vanished.
“No one—not even Mother—took my side. How could you possibly….”
With those words left behind, she fled.
That was how Kanna and I ended up alone together. Kanna offered her tea.
She didn’t say much.
Yet in her face, in her eyes, in the corners of her mouth, I sensed a withered desolation.
Yoanna realized it once more.
‘That woman is deeply unhappy in this estate.’
The strange obsession that Kalen and Orsini harbored was consuming Kanna.
If I could exploit Kanna, wouldn’t I be able to wound Kalen?
Lost in such thoughts as I walked, I encountered Elpi in the corridor—the Maidservant who had been resting due to illness.
“Your Highness, you’ve come?”
“Yes.”
Elpi was the Maidservant who had accompanied me from childhood, a companion-like presence who had served me since I was young.
“Elpi, my engagement has been broken.”
“What?”
“It was terminated. Unilaterally.”
“Good heavens… How could such a thing happen.”
Elpi’s voice as she responded lacked strength.
Only then did I notice something was amiss, and I examined Elpi carefully.
“Elpi? Are you still in much pain?”
“No, I’m fine. It’s just that my chest hurts a little….”
And in the next moment, Elpi’s body crumbled like a sandcastle.
“Elpi!”
I rushed to support her as she collapsed. And I was seized with shock.
Her clothes were drenched with sweat!
“Elpi! Elpi, come to your senses!”
Elpi breathed in ragged gasps, her shoulders trembling violently. She clawed at her chest as if her heart were tearing apart.
Watching her, anxiety crashed over me like a tidal wave.
Elpi’s mother had been my governess. And my governess died like this. Just like Elpi now.
She had suddenly collapsed, clutching at her chest, and simply died!
What if Elpi dies the same way!
“The Physician! Summon the Physician at once!”
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How many minutes had passed?
A Physician hurried over and began examining Elpi with urgency.
“Did this Maidservant complain of chest pain?”
“Y-yes. She suddenly said her chest hurt.”
“I see.”
The Physician clicked his tongue and shook his head.
“I’m sorry, Your Highness. This is cardiac arrest.”
“What?”
“There’s nothing we can do. I apologize….”
That was when a woman suddenly pushed past the Physician and forced her way through.
“The Duke’s daughter of House Adis?”
Yoanna’s eyes widened in shock. The woman who had shoved past the Physician was Kanna Adis!
Kanna examined Elpi’s condition, then steadied herself and checked her pulse.
“Acute myocardial infarction….”
After muttering softly, she withdrew a small cylindrical container from her pocket. Then she picked up something resembling a long needle.
Yoanna flinched at the sight of that sinister instrument.
What was she planning to do with that long needle!
“What are you doing right now!”
At that moment, a sharp voice rang out clearly. It was Chloe Adis, the Duchess.
“Stop this instant, Kanna!”
“If we leave her like this, she’ll die.”
“Did you forget what Kalen said not long ago? That you shouldn’t interfere without explicit permission—I heard he said that.”
Chloe gazed down at the dying Maidservant, breathing heavily, and shook her head.
“She’s a critical patient. This is no place for you to meddle, Kanna—you haven’t even received proper training. Step back and leave her to the professional Physician.”
Kanna completely ignored Chloe’s words. Instead of addressing her, I shifted my gaze toward Yoanna.
In that instant, Yoanna’s shoulders trembled as she met my burning black eyes. They blazed like fire.
“Your Highness, what will you do?”
“Pardon?”
“Will you leave your Maidservant to perish as she is? Or will you entrust her treatment to me?”
Yoanna’s thoughts became hopelessly tangled.
Treatment with that strange needle-like thing?
Chloe seized the moment of her hesitation and interjected.
“Your Highness, please entrust her to the physicians of House Adis. We cannot risk your precious Maidservant’s life with an amateur.”
Yoanna’s mind went blank.
Yes, Elpi was like her own friend, her Maidservant. She couldn’t be entrusted to an amateur.
But the physicians of Adis had just said there was nothing they could do….
Her deliberation was brief.
“Yes, please treat my Maidservant. Duke’s daughter of House Adis.”
“That’s not possible!”
Chloe recoiled in horror at her decision.
“It’s not possible, Your Highness! That child is….”
“Be quiet!”
At my irritated cry, Chloe clamped her mouth shut. Then she glared at me fiercely.
But I paid her no further attention. In one swift motion, I flipped Elpi onto her back and tore away her upper garment.
What on earth was I doing?
Why was I removing her clothes?
While Yoanna remained bewildered, I plunged the long needle-like instrument deep into the space between Elpi’s shoulder blades!
“W-what are you doing right now!”
But that wasn’t all. I withdrew another needle and thrust it into Elpi’s hand as well!
“What are you doing! Seize Kanna at once!”
At Chloe’s cry, the Servants hesitantly approached and grabbed my shoulders.
“Drag her away immediately!”
At Chloe’s command, the Servants roughly seized my body and pulled.
“Your Highness!”
I cried out as the Servants restrained me.
“Look properly at Your Highness’s Maidservant. She is dying right now! Will you simply stand by and watch?”
At my words, Yoanna Friedrich, who had been in a daze, snapped back to awareness.
I was right.
Elpi was dying, and the Physician of House of Adis had said there was no method of treatment.
So something had to be done. Even if it was a last straw, it had to be grasped!
“Release your hands at once!”
At the Princess’s sharp command, the Servants froze. Then Chloe persuaded, as if exasperated.
“Your Highness, Kanna has never even received proper medical education! And just recently, Kalen….”
“She is my Maidservant, Duchess of House of Adis!”
I would permit no further interference. At that declaration, Chloe finally lost her words.
Yoanna Friedrich took a deep breath and gazed at me. Then she bowed and made her plea.
“Please, I beg you, save my Maidservant, Miss Kanna Adis.”
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“I am in your debt.”
That night.
Yoanna Friedrich exhaled in measured breaths as she gazed down at her sleeping Maidservant, Elpi, and murmured.
“I am indebted to the Young Miss.”
After a grueling struggle, Elpi’s breathing returned to normal.
Yoanna Friedrich was so relieved that her legs still trembled.
Just as she had lost her nursemaid, she had nearly lost Elpi the same way. Had it not been for Kanna Adis, she would have died.
Yoanna Friedrich turned to look behind her. Kanna Adis, her complexion worn with exhaustion, sat on the sofa resting.
A remarkable woman. Yoanna Friedrich could not forget the concentration Kanna Adis had displayed.
In that chaotic Corridor.
Even as Chloe clucked disapprovingly beside her and the Physician offered unsolicited advice against it, she had continued the treatment without a single falter in her breath.
The situation was so urgent that there was no time to move to a proper location. We had only recently transferred to this Bedroom.
‘It was remarkable medical skill.’
Why was such talent allowed to wither away within the household?
In the Yalden Kingdom, she would have practiced medicine with the full backing of her family.
Yet she was withering away under her brothers’ peculiar obsession.
A woman too precious to waste in House of Adis, in the Aslian Empire.
“I am someone who always repays my debts. So tell me what you desire. Whatever it is, I shall make it happen for you.”
Even as Yoanna Friedrich spoke these words, she already knew what Kanna Adis would demand.
My eyes met Kanna Adis’s. She smiled.
“Thank you for saying so, Your Majesty. What I wish for is….”
At that moment, Kalen Adis purchased a small island to the south.
It was small but beautiful—a perfect retreat.

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