My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 151

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Chapter 151
“What—what are you doing to me!”
He glared at Kanna Adis.
Or did he?
I couldn’t tell. I simply couldn’t comprehend what was happening. My vision blurred violently.
Darkness crashed down as though someone had stolen all my senses wholesale.
What is this? Why is this happening suddenly? What—?
What in the world is—?
That was my final thought.
Thud. My body crumpled. And I stopped forever.
Kanna Adis gasped for breath, glaring at me before checking my pulse.
Dead. She had killed Crescent Izaberg.
And now was not the time for sentiment.
‘I have to escape.’
Kanna Adis draped Amelia’s arm across her shoulders, practically dragging her toward the door.
The moment she reached for the handle—
‘Ah!’
A searing heat surged forward instantly, and Kanna Adis jerked her hand back.
The handle was blazing hot.
‘The Corridor is on fire.’
Moreover, at this height, jumping from the Window would result in severe injury or death.
In other words, every escape route was sealed.
Kanna Adis thought calmly.
‘Crescent knew it would come to this and still remained. He must have prepared a separate escape route.’
What could it be?
‘It has to be through the Window.’
Kanna Adis rushed to the Window, swept back the curtains, and looked out—but there was nothing.
Then—
‘That bastard must have left something where he was hiding.’
This time she yanked open the wardrobe door.
Sure enough, a long rope woven from multiple pieces of cloth lay coiled inside like a serpent.
He had planned to confirm her and Amelia’s deaths before slipping away alone.
Even if someone caught sight of him descending the rope, he’d woven it from bedding scraps to make it look hastily assembled.
Such meticulous planning. Truly a repulsive creature.
“Amelia! Can you move?”
Kanna Adis shook her body. Amelia’s consciousness seemed dim, and she showed no signs of movement.
‘What do I do?’
In that moment, she faced a violent dilemma.
Alone, she could escape right now.
‘If I were alone, I could make it.’
But I had to leave Amelia as she was.
‘Yes, I have to survive by any means necessary. There’s no other way.’
After all I’ve endured to stay alive, I couldn’t die here. Absolutely not.
I had no intention of doing so….
Yet my body moved contrary to my thoughts.
Even as I told myself this wouldn’t do, I was binding Amelia’s body tightly with rope.
I wrapped the other end of the rope around a pillar and spoke.
“Amelia, your weight will pull downward—it will be difficult. Just hold on a little longer.”
After barely hoisting Amelia’s limp form upright, I pushed her out the window.
“Ugh!”
Then I quickly seized the rope. Confirming Amelia dangling in the void, I lowered the rope with agonizing slowness.
‘Damn it, she’s so heavy!’
My fingers trembled violently. I pressed one foot firmly against the wall to bear the weight as I lowered Amelia.
‘Almost there—just a bit more and she’ll touch ground.’
But then.
“Ahhh!”
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
A deafening roar erupted—louder than anything before. I couldn’t withstand the impact and released the rope.
Simultaneously, a sharp, chilling sensation flashed overhead. I instinctively leaped backward. The next instant, the ceiling collapsed where I had been standing.
“Ah….”
Sprawled on the floor, I gasped. My entire body throbbed, and my ears rang. I forced my eyes open with great effort.
Through the dust obscuring my vision, I saw the scattered rubble blocking the window.
And.
“Ugh.”
My own feet were pinned beneath a massive stone. I clenched my teeth and struggled to wrench them free. But they wouldn’t budge.
“Please, come free.”
After straining for a while, I finally gave up. This was beyond my strength alone.
Seized by helpless despair, I looked around frantically.
‘What do I do?’
The window was blocked by rubble.
The corridor had likely become a sea of flames.
And my legs were crushed beneath stone.
It was the worst situation imaginable, yet I didn’t lose my composure. Instead, I examined my surroundings with perfect calm.
After scrutinizing every detail, I finally reached a conclusion.
‘I can’t escape.’
I was completely trapped.
‘There’s no way out.’
No—actually, there was.
In this chaos, there had been a genuine chance to survive. But I was the one who threw away that only opportunity.
‘Amelia.’
Had I abandoned her and escaped alone.
Then I wouldn’t have met such a wretched death here, alongside Crescent’s corpse.
I would have been outside, surrounded by people, receiving treatment.
The moment that realization struck me, laughter burst forth.
‘See? This is what happens when you lower your guard.’
I should never have let my vigilance slip.
‘I shouldn’t have come to see Amelia in the first place.’
Only then did I realize I had genuinely cared for Amelia.
The truth was, I wanted to be her friend. I wanted to laugh together, chatter away, exchange idle gossip.
A single moment of carelessness, a handful of warmth—that was what had ensnared me.
‘I should have remained vigilant about everything until the very end.’
My failure to do so was my fatal flaw. A bitter smile welled up.
Crash!
The wall crumbles again. The stone pillars supporting the ceiling fracture with sickening cracks. They tilt and collapse directly onto Crescent’s body.
Thud! His corpse is crushed beneath the rubble.
Watching that body, I thought of them.
The two Knight Guards who died protecting me today. By now, were their bodies buried under the debris, or were they burning in the flames?
‘I’m sorry.’
I apologized to them.
‘If I hadn’t come to see Amelia, you wouldn’t have died.’
Because of me. Because I was careless. Because I have so many enemies….
Then, with a tremendous roar, the ceiling collapses again. I’m struck by debris both large and small. I feel blood trickling from my head.
‘I was wrong.’
But Amelia is not. She may be injured, but her life will not be in danger.
‘At least I saved one life—Amelia’s.’
“Kanna saved my life. And she saved my future.”
Those words.
Amelia’s sincere words burned like a torch in the darkness at this very moment.
Perhaps that’s why death, though imminent, held no terror. I simply accepted it quietly.
I would die today, now, here.
But I had saved one life.
‘So perhaps I’m dying as a physician.’
Though I failed to save myself, I did save a friend I cared for. So surely this isn’t a meaningless death, is it?
I closed my eyes. As if waiting for this moment, darkness took my hand. I willingly let myself be drawn into it….
“Come to your senses.”
Had it not been for this voice, that would have been the end.
“Come to your senses!”
In that instant, my eyes snapped open.
Through the black smoke and hazy stone dust, a man’s violet eyes gleamed with clarity.
“Raphael…?”
Did I love Raphael this much? Is that why, in my final moments, I’m seeing hallucinations….
“Ugh!”
A scream tore from my lips. Pain exploded through me. Raphael had lifted the massive stone that had been crushing me with a single, effortless motion.
As the crushing weight vanished, agony flooded in belatedly. The shock of it snapped my fading consciousness back into focus.
Raphael. Raphael had entered this hell!
“Raphael, what are you doing here!”
This stalker of a man—I didn’t even care how he’d gotten here anymore.
Instead of answering, he stripped off his long overcoat and draped it over my body like a shield.
Whether he’d doused it in water before entering, faint moisture still clung to the fabric.
“The windows are blocked. We’ll have to break through the flames, so hold your breath as much as possible.”
I turned my gaze.
Whether he’d kicked it open or not, the door stood ajar.
As expected, the Corridor was nothing but a raging inferno. The wave of heat that rushed toward me made me gasp in horror.
“Good heavens….”
Only then did I see that Raphael’s face, neck, and hands were flushed crimson.
Burn marks.
“Are you insane?”
He’d come through that. Through those flames.
Through that fire.
“If you want to die, do it somewhere I can’t see!”
I hurled the garment at him.
Fate had somehow helped him get this far, but without something to cover his body, even luck wouldn’t protect him.
“You came all this way out of madness? Put this on immediately and get out!”
I thought he would obey.
Raphael had always followed my words with almost burdensome compliance.
But his answer was different from what I expected.
“I will not obey.”
“Raphael!”
“No matter how many times you command it, I will not obey. So please, issue no more orders. And keep your mouth closed—smoke is getting in.”
At those chilling words delivered in such a courteous tone, I found myself clamping my lips shut without thinking.
Then he picked up the garment again. After dousing it with water from a vase, he wrapped it around my body like armor.
He lifted me into his arms in one swift motion. The moment I was cradled against his solid chest, tears threatened to spill from my eyes. A surge of overwhelming emotion welled up inside me.
“You’re insane.”
“Yes.”
“You’re out of your mind.”
“I know.”
And then Raphael plunged into the flames.

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