My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 15

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Chapter 15
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Isabel Adis.
She was the last family member to return home, and as a result, she found this situation the most difficult to accept.
“What is this!”
How could Kanna possibly return?
Seven years ago, when my sister married off, I thought we would never meet again. Father had made it abundantly clear to “remain unseen,” so there was no reason to encounter her in High Society either.
And that’s exactly how it had been. For the past seven years, I hadn’t seen even a single strand of Kanna’s hair.
It had been a most satisfying time. My sister, who had tarnished the family honor, was nothing but an embarrassment.
Though fierce jealousy had occasionally boiled up at the thought of her marrying well, it had quickly subsided.
According to rumors, my sister was treated as nothing more than scrap metal even within the Valentino Family.
Everyone knew the Duke of Valentino had orchestrated an elaborate performance to ward off the Crown Princess’s affections.
But… Kanna had returned?
“Mother, what on earth is happening!”
“It seems Kalen drew up a contract with Kanna. She’s permitted to stay here on the condition that she heals Lucy.”
Insane!
Isabel rushed straight to Kalen’s room. To Kalen Adis, her twin brother.
“Brother!”
“Isabel.”
“I heard about it. Why did you do something so ridiculous! What could my sister possibly fix! Is she a physician?”
“She only treated Lucy once yesterday, and she’s already improved significantly.”
“Don’t be absurd!”
That’s impossible! Kanna, that filthy wretch—what could she possibly know how to do!
“Brother, do you trust my sister? Does it even make sense that she knows medicine? Even if she really does cure her, would you let her stay in our home for such a trivial reason?”
“…Trivial reason?”
Oh no, I’d made a mistake.
Though I’d clamped my mouth shut, I’d already revealed my true thoughts.
“Is Lucy’s illness merely a trivial reason to you?”
The truth was, it was. The daughter of a lowborn maid—what did it matter if Lucy’s face was twisted or not?
Isabel felt wronged. No matter what, he was glaring at me over a mere slip of the tongue.
“I’m your twin sister! Why do you care more about Lucy than me?”
“Isabel Adis, leave my room.”
“Brother!”
But Kalen simply lowered his head. It was a perfect dismissal—he wouldn’t even look at me.
Breathing heavily with indignation, Isabel eventually stormed out of the room.
‘What have I done wrong!’
This time, I rushed to my eldest brother, Orsini.
“Orsini, brother!”
Orsini sat alone on a bench in the Training Grounds, his expression unusually vacant.
“Brother, this is absolutely insane! That filthy wretch Kanna has come back to our house!”
“….”
“Brother?”
Yet Orsini offered no response.
He wasn’t listening to Isabel at all. His mind had drifted entirely elsewhere.
‘What on earth is wrong with him?’
In any case, Orsini was in no state for conversation either.
So who could she turn to now?
After deliberating for some time, Isabel made her way to Father’s Study, but just before entering, she reconsidered and turned back.
‘No, I can’t let fear stop me.’
Since childhood, Father had been an object of terror.
Though he’d never struck her or scolded her harshly, she was always afraid.
Was it because of his ageless appearance, like a vampire from legend? Honestly, no matter how much she tried, Father looked no older than his late twenties.
A handsome, youthful warrior. And the Duke of House of Adis, no less.
Perhaps that’s why, despite being married with children, he remained the object of countless women’s unrequited affection. Even girls her own age suffered from infatuation with him.
Some envied Isabel—for having a father who was impressive, transcendent, and wielded such power.
Utter nonsense from those who understood nothing.
‘To Father, I’m no different from an inanimate object.’
Like a stone rolling along the roadside, or the wind brushing against her cheek.
Alexandro Adis loves no one. Not a single member of his family.
So my opinions would mean nothing to him. There was no point in speaking.
‘Then what should I do? I hate that my sister is in this house! Everyone talks about her. It’s embarrassing. Why did she have to be born as my sister?’
It was while I was walking, gnawing at my lips.
“….”
Through the window, a woman’s silhouette stood out as she strolled through the Garden.
Black. That deep, saturated black, as if night itself had been dyed into her form.
“Sister!”
The fury churning in my chest finally found its direction and surged forward. I rushed out and approached Kanna Adis.
“Sister, it’s been so long! Have you been well?”
I called out with deliberately cheerful brightness and linked my arm through hers.
Ugh, filthy filth. Surely the black won’t rub off on me? My heart felt uneasy, but I endured it.
“I’ve been well. Isabel, what about you? Have you been doing well?”
Isabel’s eyes widened. Why wasn’t she hunching her shoulders as she spoke?
“I’m so happy to see you like this, sister. You have no idea how delighted I was to hear you’d come!”
“Is that sincere?”
“Of course! I’ve missed you so much. Why did you shut yourself away all this time? You didn’t visit home, and you didn’t show up at any parties.”
As Isabel chattered away, her eyes swept across Kanna Adis’s face.
Hm? Had sister’s skin always been this radiant?
Kanna Adis’s face up close—the cheeks and lips revealed beneath her bangs—were more beautiful than I’d remembered.
“But sister, is that really true? You’ve healed Lucy?”
“I’m working to treat her.”
How ridiculous. What could someone like you possibly accomplish?
Kalen said Lucy was recovering thanks to Kanna, but that couldn’t possibly be true. Perhaps Lucy was simply healing naturally.
And in the meantime, Kanna was inserting herself and reaping the benefits.
“That’s truly amazing!”
Even if that weren’t the case—even if Kanna truly was healing Lucy through her own abilities.
I hated it. I truly hated it.
Kanna and Lucy both. Sisters with tainted blood!
“How are you healing her? Other physicians couldn’t even touch the case, but you can? Could you teach me?”
“No.”
“…What?”
“I can’t teach you, Isabel. And…”
With a flick, Kanna brushed Isabel’s arm away as though it were something filthy. She dusted off her wrinkled collar and spoke.
“Don’t pretend to be close to me.”
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“Insane woman.”
A curse escaped Isabel’s lips as she recalled what had just happened.
Don’t pretend to be close to me. After saying that, Kanna had hurried away.
“She’s finally lost it.”
Despite the seven-year gap, Isabel was Kanna’s younger sister. Family.
Which meant she knew exactly what kind of person Kanna was.
‘My sister who used to giggle happily whenever I was nice to her… and now she tells me not to pretend to be close?’
Regardless, Isabel couldn’t let this slide. What if Kanna ended up settling into the estate permanently?
‘Why did Kalen even do something so foolish? And why did Father allow it?’
Kanna was a pest.
Not metaphorically—she was genuinely a blight upon the family.
From what Isabel had heard, when Kanna was born, House of Adis had suffered tremendous scandal.
That Alexandro Adis had conspired with the Black Apostles, that he’d fathered a child with them, and so on.
Such slanders grew and festered until voices even called for stripping him of his title.
Of course, it all remained mere talk.
Just then, monsters had poured explosively from the Black Mist and thrown the Capital into chaos, and it was Father who had dealt with them.
The tale of Father slaying the Black Dragon felt so exaggerated and legendary that even Isabel, his own daughter, found it difficult to believe.
‘Right, there’s no way Father would father a child with those filthy Black Apostles!’
The suspicion had completely faded, yet still the ominous gaze lingered.
Kanna’s black hair, her black eyes. Every time she saw them, Isabel’s skin crawled.
Even as family, it was this unsettling—what must others think? She probably looked like a pest to them.
‘I hate it.’
The thought of that Kanna living in her home was as horrifying as embracing a cockroach.
‘But sister said she signed a contract with Kalen…’
Why on earth would Kalen do something so foolish?
Mmm. As Isabel’s mind churned, her expression suddenly brightened.
Kanna had asked to stay at the Valentino Estate in exchange for curing Lucy. Which meant…
‘What if Lucy never gets better?’
Why hadn’t I thought of this sooner? If Lucy remained ill, everything would resolve itself!
Even if her current affliction—that grotesque disfigurement—were to heal, should she fall ill in some other way, the blame would fall squarely on Kanna’s shoulders. They would assume something went wrong during treatment.
“I truly am a genius!”
Isabel giggled to herself, then reached up and tugged the golden bell cord hanging from the ceiling. Ding-ling, ding-ling—the clear chime rang out.
Moments later, a demure-faced Maid entered.
“You called for me, Miss?”
“Your father is an herbalist, isn’t that right?”
“Yes, Miss.”
“Right, that’s what I thought.”
Isabel, who had been pondering for a moment, spoke brightly.
“Can you procure a weak poison? Something obscure?”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Something unknown. Something people wouldn’t easily recognize… Yes, something from the Eastern Continent would be ideal!”
The Maid’s face drained of all color.
“A-an Eastern Continent poison would be difficult to obtain. Especially for a commoner like myself…”
Isabel didn’t elaborate further. She withdrew a diamond brooch the size of a fist from her drawer and held it out.
“Now, can you manage it?”

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