My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 158

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Chapter 158
Kanna Adis barely managed to squeeze out a voice.
“What are you doing here?”
“That’s what I’d like to ask you.”
Orsini tossed his straw hat onto the floor of the ship with a casual flick, muttering under his breath.
“What are you doing?”
Kanna Adis turned her head slowly, her face drained of all color.
The island receding into the distance. An endless expanse of sea.
On this small ship, isolated like another world entirely, only Orsini and I remained.
How was this even possible?
This made no sense.
“Surprised it wasn’t the person you were supposed to meet?”
Orsini laughed with a distinctly reckless edge, savoring her shock.
“That bastard should be lying unconscious in some back alley on the island by now.”
“….”
“Sorry for disappointing you.”
Kanna Adis stared at him blankly.
I couldn’t fathom what had happened, where things had gone wrong, but one thing was undeniable.
The outcome was certain.
‘I’ve failed.’
I was supposed to die on Rivensum.
Everyone needed to believe that.
So that no one would think to search for me, so that no one could even imagine I might be alive somewhere.
But Orsini had seen me.
Everything was over….
‘No!’
Kanna Adis clenched her teeth, forcing her crumbling resolve back together.
‘No, it’s not over yet.’
It was too early to give up.
Everyone on that island believed I was dead, didn’t they?
Only one person had deviated from the plan—Orsini alone.
‘So all I need to do is deal with this bastard.’
If I eliminated Orsini, everything would be perfect again.
‘If only Orsini were gone.’
A dangerous option flashed through my mind.
We were in the middle of the sea, after all. No one would ever know if one person died out here….
Kanna Adis swallowed hard, her throat tight. Then she forced her voice to sound calm and composed.
“How did you know I’d come here?”
“Who knows.”
“So what are you planning to do now?”
“I suppose.”
Orsini answered with indifference. Unlike her, standing at the precipice, he appeared almost bored in his composure.
“I’ll think about it in due time.”
“….”
“Returning to Adis wouldn’t be such a terrible idea.”
Kanna Adis clenched her fists so hard her knuckles whitened, glaring at him.
“I won’t go.”
“It seems like I’m the one playing around here.”
Damn bastard! Fury surged through me like a tidal wave.
I wanted nothing more than to slap his face right then and there, but my expression remained blank. My mind raced quickly.
First, I should try to persuade him.
The recent Orsini had become oddly compliant, unlike before—perhaps if I pleaded, he might listen.
Kanna Adis moved closer to him and suddenly dropped down to sit right in front of him. At that, his brow furrowed sharply.
“What is it?”
“I don’t want to go back to Adis.”
Kanna Adis wore an expression of utmost vulnerability.
“I was so unhappy in Adis. I’ve never been happy there, not even once. And I never will be.”
If Orsini would only comply with her words. If he would simply let her go and leave her side.
‘There would be no need to kill him.’
Not long ago, I had killed Crescent without hesitation, and I harbored no regrets for that act.
But this situation was different. Unless my life was threatened, I never wanted to commit such a terrible deed again.
Orsini, who had been silently watching her, finally answered.
“You won’t go to Adis.”
Kanna Adis’s expression brightened instantly. So Orsini would agree so readily…!
“I’ll think about what to do with you for now.”
“What?”
Think about it for now? What did that mean?
“Are you saying you’ll travel with me?”
“What do you think I’m doing here right now?”
Kanna Adis was completely at a loss for words. She barely managed to continue.
“Orsini, let me go. Please.”
“Please?”
“Yes.”
“Then you should be a bit more respectful.”
“What?”
“Kneel.”
Orsini cut his words short.
He rowed the oars with broad strokes, then tossed out his next words carelessly.
“Get on your knees.”
“….”
He issued the command with an expressionless face.
“Kneel and beg.”
I slowly lifted my head. And our eyes met.
Eyes flickering with naked hostility and triumph.
This was the Orsini of old.
The one who despised me, hated me, and wanted nothing more than to see me crumble.
Yet I hadn’t witnessed this side of him in recent times….
‘Why all of a sudden?’
The last time I’d seen him, Orsini resembled a hunted wolf.
How many times had I felt that helplessness—his inability to do anything to me?
But in this moment, the Orsini before me had reverted to his former self.
“Can’t do it?”
After a brief hesitation, I slowly folded my knees and knelt.
“Good. You’re quite skilled at this.”
Orsini praised me in a flat tone. And he gazed down at me as though admiring a work of art.
In that instant, complex emotions stained his face.
A bizarre satisfaction, twisted rage, warped guilt—that chaos intermingled seemed almost like self-loathing.
Yet he did not stop. Rather, he pressed further.
“Lick it.”
Orsini was avenging an old humiliation. That moment on Paeylon Island, when he was imprisoned and I had offered him my shoe.
Just as he had done to me, so too was he now exacting his revenge, mirroring my own cruelty.
Faced with this repetition, I felt laughter welling up inside me.
Truly, I was sick of this.
We had endlessly switched positions, each trying to subjugate the other.
I had thought this struggle would end with Orsini’s transformation and my victory.
‘Bastard.’
Fine. Perhaps this was for the best.
This was enough. There was no reason to hesitate any longer.
With an Orsini like this, I could kill him without a shred of guilt.
I seized his ankle. The moment my fingers made contact, his eyebrow twitched.
He never expected I would actually go through with it. He merely wanted to witness my complete defeat.
But it didn’t matter.
I was going to kill him anyway.
‘Now!’
I suddenly flipped my hand over.
The ring on my second finger. I drove that gleaming jewel down hard against his ankle.
‘What?’
I thought I had struck him.
It should have been so simple. All I needed to do was flip my palm and press the ring down—and it would be over….
“I knew you’d try something like that.”
Yet Orsini’s hand gripped her wrist.
I couldn’t even see when or how he’d approached. The surreal situation left me utterly dumbfounded.
“There’s no way you’d behave so obediently without some scheme brewing in that head of yours.”
“Let go of me!”
“Ah, fine.”
Orsini released her wrist with a violent shove. My body tumbled backward roughly. Before I could even rise, Orsini closed in and thrust the ring into my face.
“What is this?”
He pressed his finger against the jewel. A thin needle suddenly protruded.
“A poison needle?”
Orsini laughed softly.
“Were you trying to kill me?”
“No.”
“No?”
“That’s right. No.”
“Then I suppose I can test it on you instead.”
Damn it. I clenched my teeth and turned my head away. At my silent admission, Orsini chuckled.
“Yes, it’s hardly surprising. I always knew you’d eventually try to destroy me.”
With that, he hurled the ring out into the sea.
“Ah…”
A sigh escaped my lips.
The ring—my poison needle—had been my most readily available weapon.
Then Orsini seized my collar with brutal force and yanked me close.
“What a sorrowful expression. Are you truly so disappointed you couldn’t kill me?”
I stared quietly at his face, now inches from mine.
Those savage eyes—a gaze that looked ready to tear me apart at any moment.
It infuriated me. My chest ached with such bitter frustration.
Why now?
Of all moments, why must this useless thing rear its head again? Truly, it’s been nothing but a hindrance my entire life.
I exhaled slowly. My hand reached up to touch his cheek.
The moment my fingers made contact, Orsini’s grip on my collar trembled briefly. I felt his jaw tighten beneath my touch.
“Orsini.”
Holding his gaze steady, I whispered quietly.
“You’re truly despicable. I find even breathing the same air as you repulsive.”
Truly, I’m sick of this.
“If you won’t die by my hand, then you kill me. Otherwise, I’ll kill you.”
Then silence descended. Only the sound of waves breaking through our locked gazes.
“Is that so?”
After a long pause, his lips finally parted.
“Your wish is my command.”
The next instant, Orsini hurled me overboard. There was no time to grab anything.
My body tumbled into the sea. Rough spray erupted around me as I was pulled under.
Splash! A wave crashed down violently over my head. Seawater forced its way past my lips, and I clamped down on my breath.
Stay calm. Panic now and you’re finished. I repeated the mantra frantically in my mind as I swam toward the ship.
The moment I kicked my legs with force—
“…!”
My legs felt like they were splitting apart. A dizzying wave of pain shot through me. It was the same spot I’d injured when the rocks crushed me not long ago.
‘Damn it!’
Unfortunately, I had no time to endure the agony. Relentless waves battered my face in succession.
After several more strikes, my balance finally gave way.
My nose, eyes, and head burned as if on fire from the water I’d inhaled. I couldn’t think straight.
I couldn’t regain my senses at all….
In a fleeting moment, I locked eyes with those emerald irises. And I saw it clearly.
His face—that raw, desperate anguish as though he were suffocating.
‘You bastard, what right do you have to make that expression!’
The next instant, a crushing wave swallowed my face whole.
I was pulled down into the dark depths of the sea. My limbs had no strength left. I could resist no longer.
Glub, glub—my final breath scattered into bubbles that rose toward the surface.
As my consciousness faded to black—
A powerful force wrenched my body upward. I was hurled onto the ship’s deck.
But that was all. I lay there limp and unresponsive.
“Hey.”
Alarmed by my lack of response, Orsini tapped my cheeks repeatedly.
“Kanna Adis, breathe.”
But I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t even think anymore.
“Hey, open your eyes! Kanna Adis!”
As he shook my body, my head lolled back limply.
“Damn it!”
The next moment, I felt something rush toward me.
With his hand gripping my face firmly and his breath meeting mine, I lost consciousness.

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