My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 157

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Chapter 157
“She disappeared?”
“Yes, yes indeed.”
“How?”
“Through the window, it seems. We found a rope made from bedding and curtains.”
“Is that so?”
Kalen’s face remained expressionless.
Truthfully, I wasn’t particularly surprised. I had anticipated something like this might happen eventually.
He calmly rang the bell and summoned Claude.
“Claude, dispatch the Knight Guards. Find my sister.”
“Yes.”
“Lea, go down to the Village. Order the residents to report immediately if they spot my sister.”
Claude and Lea left the Room. Alone now, Kalen exhaled a deep sigh.
Yes. Of course.
If she simply stayed put, she wouldn’t be my sister.
Of course, I should have known this would happen eventually….
Kalen covered his face with one hand.
Yet the violent fury boiling within me was utterly impossible to suppress. My arms trembled so violently with rage that I could barely control them.
‘Why, exactly?’
Why does Kanna insist on this?
Not even once will she yield to my wishes?
No matter what I do, no matter how I do it, all I receive in return is a crushing rejection like a sledgehammer.
She refuses to accept it.
She permits nothing. Not even once.
Always resisting, always refusing, always pushing me away.
Every single time, every single time, every single time…!
Every time!
Kalen’s throat burned with heat. His eyes became bloodshot with fury.
Kalen fastened the sword sheath at his waist and strode out of the Room with long, aggressive steps.
How remarkably consistent my sister is.
Even when I devote myself to her like a slave, she won’t grant me a shred of sympathy.
The reverse holds true as well.
Even when I act tyrannically like a villain, she doesn’t fear me. She won’t submit. She won’t bend.
Then perhaps instead.
‘I should break her.’
My head spun with searing rage.
I had no idea what to do. No idea at all….
“Sir Kalen! We found the young lady!”
“Where?”
“She was found at the Beach. However….”
“I’ll go.”
Kalen followed the Knight Guard’s guidance. Just as they had said, Kanna Adis sat crouched on the beach.
“Sister.”
Knight Guards surrounded her. Kalen waved them away with a gesture.
“Sister.”
“Don’t come closer!”
The roar of waves crashing behind her was violent. Her hair whipped in the harsh night wind.
“Don’t come closer, Kalen Adis!”
Kanna Adis screamed from where she crouched in the sand. Kalen stared at her with an irritated gaze before exhaling a sigh.
“If you don’t approach, then I won’t either.”
And he smiled crookedly.
“Are you planning to run away?”
“….”
“Look around you, sister.”
He spread both arms wide. Countless Knight Guards formed a line behind him. And behind Kanna Adis, the dark sea churned with waves.
“Where do you think you can go?”
“….”
“You have nowhere to go, sister.”
Why didn’t she understand something so obvious? Why wouldn’t she give up? Kalen squeezed out what remained of his patience.
“So please, come here. Let’s resolve this through conversation.”
At those words, despair flickered across Kanna Adis’s face in the darkness.
“…I refuse.”
“Sister.”
“Rather than that.”
In that moment, Kanna Adis laughed.
Our eyes met.
Like someone who had fallen into an abyss devoid of light, her eyes rippled with deep darkness.
In that instant, an ominous wrongness pierced through me more acutely than ever before. The nape of my neck grew tense.
Something—something terribly ominous was about to happen.
As I reached out my hand.
“I’d rather die.”
Kanna Adis drew a dagger from her bosom.
She angled the blade toward herself. Raised it high.
And.
“Sis…!”
She drove it down.
“…!”
Crimson blood sprayed forth.
The moment that scarlet liquid painted the air, my world froze.
My outstretched hand stopped short, trembling. An immense pressure crushed time itself.
Time flowed with agonizing slowness.
Each moment stretched unbearably, allowing Kalen to track every detail with his eyes.
Blood erupted like a fountain, drifting down in languid arcs, shattering across the sand….
Thud!
The instant the sand darkened with crimson, a strange whimper escaped Kalen’s throat.
No.
Wait.
Wait.
Sister.
“Miss!”
Someone struck his body and rushed forward. A blond man. Claude. He caught Kanna’s collapsing form in his arms.
Kalen stared blankly at the sight.
Kanna hung limp, her black hair whipping wildly about her. It scattered as if screaming.
“Miss!”
Wait.
“Miss, no… Miss!”
Wait.
Wait. Wait.
Wait.
Kalen blinked against the vertigo that seized his mind.
The moment his eyes opened, his heartbeat thundered in his ears. It was his own.
Cold sweat erupted across his entire body in an instant. He walked as though entranced by a dream, then collapsed to his knees.
“Sister.”
He reached out his hand.
“Sister?”
Her lips were stained with blood.
The moment he touched her, Kalen flinched. Warm blood smeared across his fingertips.
Blood.
Blood. Crimson….
“Sister?”
“Her heart….”
Claude’s shoulders trembled.
“Has stopped.”
“….”
“She is dead.”
“….”
“Are you satisfied now?”
The words did not reach Kalen’s ears.
It was a truth he could not accept.
He took her from Claude’s arms. And he confirmed it himself.
I pressed my fingers against my neck, my wrists, and beneath my nose.
But…
“Sister.”
No breath came.
“Sister, wait just a moment.”
No pulse beat beneath my touch.
“Wait, sister, ah—”
My lips trembled. My mind fractured like a broken machine, unable to form coherent words. Everything blurred—reason, thought, vision itself.
Kalen muttered frantically.
“Sister, just wait, if you suddenly do this—”
If you suddenly do this, what am I supposed to do?
Like this, so suddenly.
If you take your own life like this.
A searing pain split my skull. It felt as though someone had driven an axe through the back of my head.
I gasped through that terrible agony, unable even to scream. And then I understood.
“Sister.”
Kanna Adis had taken her own life.
* * *
I ran. I poured every ounce of strength into my flight.
My injured leg throbbed, my heart felt ready to burst, but I had to endure it.
If I missed this moment, there would be no second chance.
‘Faster, faster.’
As I raced along the coastline, I paused briefly and unfolded the crumpled map I’d hidden in my pocket. I read it by the faint moonlight.
‘Almost there.’
Just a little further, and a small rowboat would be waiting for me. I’d arranged it in advance.
From that boat, I would sail not toward the Empire, but toward the Lamas Kingdom. I’d already coordinated with the border guards of Lamas.
At the gateway from Lamas to Yalden, I was scheduled to meet and join with Yoanna Friedrich’s subordinate.
Everything would proceed smoothly.
As long as I didn’t miss the boat waiting for me now!
“Ah!”
There it is—that boat!
I could see a small vessel with a single boatman aboard.
I ran recklessly and stumbled once, my leg burning with pain. But ignoring the agony, I scrambled to my feet and kept running.
“Huff, huff…”
And finally I arrived. I nearly collapsed as I threw myself onto the boat.
“Depart, hurry, set off now—”
The boatman silently began to row.
As the boat began to move, I was seized by such overwhelming relief that I nearly lost consciousness.
I had succeeded.
I had succeeded!
Yet I had no mind to savor the joy.
My heart ached as though it might burst from running beyond my limits, and waves of nausea crashed over me. The world spun in dizzying circles.
I collapsed onto the ship’s deck, clutching the bundle of supplies tightly against my chest.
I gasped for breath in a frenzy, and only after a long while did I finally regain my composure.
Then I slowly pushed myself upright.
“Ah….”
By then, the ship had drifted quite far from the island.
I gazed at the shrinking island with a faint smile.
Somewhere on that island, it must be happening right about now.
‘It must succeed.’
My puppet.
It would act exactly as I had programmed it to.
Among the ancient alchemical arts existed a technique to craft golems indistinguishable from humans.
Fortunately, the beach was abundant with earth, so materials were plentiful.
I looked down at my bandaged palms. Creating a golem was an advanced technique requiring a substantial amount of blood.
‘Such a sacrifice is nothing.’
I could shed this much blood without hesitation.
I smiled broadly.
With this, I had escaped from Kalen and from Adis!
“Haha….”
I couldn’t help but let out a soft laugh. And in that moment.
“Are you pleased?”
A voice suddenly reached my ears.
I nearly screamed.
“Are you pleased?”
It was a voice I knew all too well.
And it came from directly behind me.
From the boatman rowing the ship.
I turned my body very slowly. Only then did I truly see the boatman clearly.
It was a man wearing a straw hat pulled low over his head.
The moment he lifted his gaze, emerald eyes gleamed beneath the brim of the hat.
Our eyes met.
“Ah.”
The strength drained from my lips. A sound escaped me—neither a sigh nor a gasp, but a moan of despair.
“Orsini….”

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