My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 155

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Chapter 155
I twisted the doorknob up and down, my fingers wrapped around its cold metal.
Click, click. The sound of metal grinding against metal echoed through the silence. The door remained firmly locked, as I’d suspected.
“What is this…?”
The moment I began to protest—
A shadow that had crept close suddenly swallowed my entire body.
At that dark silhouette, I instinctively held my breath.
It was different from usual.
That shadow.
The presence standing behind me, his breathing.
The weight of the air surrounding us pressed down heavily on my shoulders.
Then Kalen reached out from behind. He pressed down gently on the back of my hand that gripped the handle.
The moment our skin touched, goosebumps erupted across my entire body.
“Kanna.”
His breath fell against the nape of my neck. I froze completely.
Kalen wrapped his hand around mine and pulled it away from the handle. Then he laughed, like a sigh.
“Does he call you that as well?”
Thud. Kalen’s chin came to rest above my head.
He leaned against me—or perhaps held me—or perhaps in some posture that was neither, pressing his weight upon me.
“During those three hours that man spent in your chamber, I was not myself.”
“…”
“What could the two of you be doing?”
“…”
“What might you be doing?”
My throat tightened.
With each breath, my lungs stung as though the air itself had grown thorns.
I couldn’t believe what Kalen was saying now.
No—I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t want to believe it.
“Did that bastard touch you? This soft hair, this radiant skin…”
Kalen’s fingertips crawled up my wrist. Like a spider, they crept across my shoulder and brushed against the nape of my neck.
“You’re tense.”
He looked down at me. I was completely frozen, my breathing suspended.
Kalen let out a low chuckle.
“Don’t be tense.”
“You…”
My voice trembled.
I had faced countless hardships, and before every brush with death, I had never wavered.
“What are you…”
Yet now, it was so terrifying that fear itself consumed me.
My face drained of all color. Cold sweat beaded in my palms.
“What are you talking about?”
“I’m not sure. What do you think I’m saying?”
“Have you lost your mind?”
“If you ask it that way, I can only give you the obvious answer—that I’ve lost it to you.”
My vision went white in an instant. My legs buckled beneath me.
I pressed my hand against the wall to steady myself.
Bile rose in my throat.
Kalen. Looking at me.
At me. With those eyes.
“Ugh!”
I couldn’t hold back the nausea.
As I doubled over, Kalen reached out and gently stroked my back. The touch sent a chill through me.
“Don’t touch me!”
I roughly shoved his hand away. A revulsion unlike anything before washed over me.
“Filthy.”
I pressed myself hard against the wall, glaring at him.
“Kalen Adis, how could you look at me like that…!”
“Why shouldn’t I?”
Kalen cut off my words with a single phrase.
“I don’t see any reason why I shouldn’t.”
His face was disturbingly serene. That calm expression was utterly unbelievable.
As he stepped forward, I retreated. But there was nowhere left to go.
“Don’t come any closer.”
“Do you treat that priest so coldly as well? Do you keep him from approaching?”
He spoke calmly, but jealousy flickered in Kalen’s eyes.
“You weren’t exactly keeping your distance in that cramped chamber for hours, were you?”
My back struck the door, and I clenched my fists. I warred with myself intensely.
‘Should I kill him?’
The ring on my finger.
This was the ring that concealed the poisoned needle that had killed Crescent.
If Kalen tried anything reckless…
‘No.’
I gritted my teeth. Not now. Not here. Everything would spiral out of control. Everything would fall apart.
If I killed Kalen, what then?
The Knight Guard outside the door? Claude?
All the servants?
My carefully prepared escape plan would be completely ruined. Completely.
‘No. I can’t destroy the plan.’
So I had to endure this. I had to appease Kalen, calm him down somehow…
‘No. I can’t.’
I couldn’t hold back any longer. The truth spilled from my lips.
“You’re insane.”
“Is that what you believe?”
“Yes. Don’t you dare lay a finger on me. You filthy beast.”
Kalen laughed again. Not a single eyebrow twitched at the raw condemnation, as if it meant nothing to him.
“If I can love you, then being a beast isn’t so bad.”
He seemed incapable of being wounded by anything she said anymore. He simply smiled brilliantly and drew closer.
“Does it displease you? This is your creation, sister. You made me this way.”
One step. Then another.
“You’ve corrupted me into a creature without morality or reason.”
The next moment, he pulled a handkerchief from his chest pocket. Then, with swift precision, he gagged her mouth with it.
Pressing down on her struggling form, Kalen whispered against her ear.
“It’s because of you. You’ve completely ensnared everything I am.”
His voice was thick with dark exhilaration.
“If you’ve ensnared me, then you must dominate me.”
* * *
I opened my eyes. My entire body felt heavy.
“Ugh….”
So dizzy. I felt like I might be sick.
I pressed my head, suffering from a terrible vertigo. Then I pushed myself upright.
In that moment, I was startled by the soft sensation beneath my palm.
‘…Where am I?’
A chamber… isn’t it?
‘What happened?’
I looked around, suppressing the throbbing in my head.
This was a bedroom. The room given to me in the estate on Rivensum.
“You’re awake?”
I turned around hastily. My eyes widened in shock.
“…Lea.”
The Maid Lea was there.
But how? She should be at the estate in the Capital.
“Kalen ordered me to attend to you with utmost care.”
Kalen. That word triggered a cascade of memories like a dam breaking.
I’d dined with that bastard, couldn’t restrain myself from speaking about Raphael, and bolted from my seat. And then….
‘Ah.’
I’d heard his revolting confession.
Then I lost consciousness.
I realized the cause of this dizziness. That handkerchief he’d used to cover my mouth must have been laced with a drug.
“I changed your clothes for you.”
“….”
“If there is anything uncomfortable, please let me know, Miss.”
I looked up at Lea, my gaze fixed on her.
Lea. The capable Maid that Kalen Adis had assigned to me.
I had known from the start that she belonged to Kalen Adis. Perhaps that was why I felt no sense of betrayal now. Only absurdity.
“Miss?”
I let out a bitter laugh, muttering to myself.
“You call me ‘Miss’ while condoning what Kalen Adis is doing?”
“How would you like your meal prepared?”
“Leave.”
“Should you need anything, please call for me at any time.”
As if she had anticipated the reproach, Lea’s expression remained unmoved.
Once she departed, I collapsed onto the bed.
My stomach churned. My entire body ached, and there was not a single part of me that did not hurt. The sedatives used here were potent, and the aftereffects were severe.
I gripped the blanket tightly.
It was abhorrent. All of this.
That Kalen Adis had been looking at me with such eyes. The thought sent another wave of nausea through me.
It had not been long since we discovered we were not siblings.
The same was true for Kalen Adis and me.
Until just recently, we had lived our entire lives knowing each other as family.
And yet something like this happens?
‘That bastard is completely insane.’
No matter how estranged we had become, we still lived with the awareness of being family.
‘How could I have known he harbored such dark intentions? The very fact that he would entertain such thoughts is abnormal!’
Unable to contain my rage, I struck the pillow.
‘That son of a bitch!’
That wretch was determined to obstruct me to the very end!
To the very end, to the very end!
‘No, he will not ruin my plans. I will not allow it. Never.’
I suppressed my fury and rapidly regained my composure. I rose and inspected my belongings.
As expected, all my alchemical tools and defensive compounds had vanished. He had forced me into slumber and carried out his scheme.
I released a hollow laugh.
“You have truly committed to this, Kalen Adis.”
Yet, fortunately, the most crucial items remained untouched. The alchemical ink made from demon stones and blood—he had not suspected it and left it as is.
Not only that, but the glass jar filled with star-shaped candies remained undisturbed.
It appeared to be nothing more than cheap confectionery, but it was a compound that altered the color of my hair and eyes.
I had disguised it this way to prepare for any contingency, making it seem worthless to steal.
‘But I never imagined Kalen Adis would go this far.’
My true adversaries were the Empress, the Emperor, Chloe, and their conspirators.
Not a younger brother consumed by carnal desire and blinded by lust!
Still, thanks to my thorough preparations, my plans would proceed without hindrance.
‘But if Kalen were to confine me to this estate by force.’
I gazed down at the ring.
Kalen Adis is the heir to House of Adis.
Killing him would be an incident of far greater magnitude than my escape—one that could unravel my entire plan if I made a single misstep.
‘I must avoid that at all costs.’
But if Kalen continued to obstruct me until the very end….
‘There would be no other choice.’
Just before my escape, I would lure him to a place where no one could hear us.
And I would kill Kalen Adis.
* * *
Kalen was brimming with satisfaction.
His belly was full with profound contentment. He felt as though he could go days without eating.
Kanna Adis was on his island.
He would never have to see that man Raphael again.
Now, at last, he felt truly alive.
Of course, he knew this feeling was temporary, yet he savored this happiness nonetheless.
When dawn broke and he heard that Kanna Adis had awakened, he went to her at once.
“Sister, I’m entering.”

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