My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 17

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Chapter 17
I slowly withdrew my hand. A tingling sensation prickled across the back of my hand.
“Kalen, let me see Lucy Adis’s condition.”
At that, Kalen slowly rose from his seat. As he turned his body, a face marred by fury was revealed.
This was all my fault. No… no.
‘It’s my fault.’
I should never have trusted Kanna Adis from the beginning.
When she suddenly claimed to know medicine, I should have simply scoffed and moved on.
Why did I believe her?
Or I should have stopped her when she inserted those needle-like things into Lucy Adis’s body.
I should have prevented it when she presented this bizarre, uncanny procedure as treatment—something I had never heard of or witnessed before.
‘It’s all my fault.’
A terrible guilt churned within Kalen’s stomach.
Lucy Adis. My seven-year-old younger sister had no one but me.
Father and my older brother were completely indifferent to Lucy, and my younger sister and mother Chloe despised her.
A young girl isolated like an outcast, merely because she was born of a maid.
Looking at that child, Kalen was seized by a strange sense of déjà vu.
‘When was it? I feel as though I’ve witnessed a scene like this before.’
Surely something similar had happened long ago…
And finally, he remembered.
Kanna Adis.
The abuse that had occurred in this household long ago. That deed in which he himself had participated as a perpetrator. A blemish from his foolish childhood when he knew nothing.
But now Kalen had grown. He was no longer that young boy from back then.
Because of this, he knew his actions had been the conduct of a prejudiced fool. He understood they were wrong.
The discomfort of having committed a wrong act, and the guilt—these had driven him to show kindness to Lucy. He wanted to do now what he should have done then, but had failed to.
Since what he had done to Kanna Adis could not be undone, he wanted to do right by someone else. Like forcibly rewriting an incorrectly answered question, in that manner.
But that child was suffering.
My younger sister, whom I was responsible for.
So I grasped at straws. And that choice had driven Lucy further down a dead end.
I should never have trusted Kanna Adis…
“This is all your fault. She has never been this ill before, not even once, and you…”
Having endured listening to this, I finally could hold back no longer and let out an exasperated sigh. Then I opened my eyes wide.
“Are you whining right now?”
Kalen fell silent.
“If you’re going to cry and wail and make a scene, then do it. If you want to curse and resent, then do it. But not now. You’ve forgotten in the throes of your emotions!”
I cut him off sharply. I raised my hand and pointed at Lucy Adis.
“Your sister is suffering right now! Move out of the way this instant!”
A stern command fell like a rebuke.
Kalen was completely dumbfounded, unable to speak another word.
His mind, which had been clouded by guilt and sorrow, snapped back into focus as if struck from behind.
Regardless, I pushed him aside and approached Lucy Adis. Their assessment was correct—her condition was dire.
‘What happened so suddenly?’
Not critical, but severe enough to appear so. Acute fever. Convulsions. And now respiratory weakness on top of it all.
‘This has nothing to do with facial paralysis.’
Nor could she have contracted a new illness so abruptly.
Illness typically progresses sequentially, like raindrops soaking cloth—revealing itself through warning signs, one after another.
Yet just hours ago, Lucy Adis’s breathing, pulse, and body temperature had all been normal.
When a perfectly healthy person deteriorates so rapidly, there is only one explanation.
‘Exactly one.’
I turned my gaze toward Lucy Adis’s Maid, who was weeping beside the bed.
“What did Lucy Adis eat today?”
“Pardon?”
“Tell me everything Lucy Adis consumed throughout the day.”
At that moment, Isabel quickly interjected, seizing my arm.
“Sister! Stop this at once. Isn’t it enough that you’ve done this to Lucy Adis?”
Tears glistened in Isabel’s eyes.
“I understand you want to return to this mansion. But using Lucy Adis is wrong. You rushed in without proper medical knowledge, and this is the result!”
“That’s right, Kanna Adis. Let me speak to the Duke and secure his permission for you to stay without conditions. Please stop now. Don’t you feel pity for Lucy Adis?”
With Chloe joining in, the Maid fell silent.
But I had never been listening to them in the first place.
“Why won’t you speak? Tell me everything Lucy Adis ate, without omission.”
“Well, that is….”
The Maid glanced furtively at Chloe and Isabel. Yet she could not bring herself to speak, her eyes darting nervously.
To speak now would be to defy Isabel and Chloe’s wishes—she had no choice.
“Lucy Adis was fine until this morning. There’s only one reason her condition could deteriorate so drastically in mere hours. She consumed something harmful.”
At those words, the Maid’s eyes widened. There was something troubling in her gaze.
I did not miss that hesitation.
“I prepared a diet for Lucy Adis, but did she eat anything beyond that?”
“Stop!”
A piercing scream tore through the air.
The cry was so violent that even I flinched, turning to look at Isabel.
“I told you to stop, Sister Kanna Adis!”
I witnessed Isabel’s fingertips convulsing. Her lips had turned ashen, trembling as though she were gripped by terror.
And she was.
Isabel was being consumed by fear.
Because she had poisoned Lucy Adis.
But….
‘I never thought it would come to this!’
They had assured her it would only cause stomach pain. That it wouldn’t be severe. That Lucy Adis would suffer for a few days—nausea, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, fever—nothing more.
Trusting those words, she had placed ‘it’ in the tea container that Lucy Adis favored!
‘I, I never intended to hurt Lucy this badly!’
Not long after she drank the tea, Lucy began vomiting. After expelling everything she’d consumed… she started hemorrhaging.
A mere seven-year-old girl, bleeding internally.
Afterward, she gasped for breath as though death might claim her at any moment, her eyes rolling back before she lost consciousness. And she has remained in that state ever since.
All of this had transpired in mere hours.
Ever since she drank the poisoned tea that Isabel had prepared!
‘It’s not my fault. I never meant for this to happen.’
Terror flooded through her at the thought that Lucy might die.
‘This is all Kanna Adis’s fault. If my sister had never come to this mansion in the first place, I would have had no reason to do this, and Lucy would never have fallen ill!’
Extreme panic drove her toward the precipice.
While everything was indeed Kanna Adis’s doing, she could not afford to be discovered. No one could know that she had poisoned Lucy’s tea.
“For Lucy’s sake, I can’t let my sister continue like this!”
Isabel strode forward with fierce determination and yanked the door open. She shouted at the escort knights.
“Take my sister Kanna away and lock her in her room!”
As the knights hesitated, Chloe, who had been watching, added a cold remark.
“Do as Isabel says. It appears Kanna Adis is quite agitated at the moment, so it would be best for her to rest in her room.”
“Yes, madam.”
With the mistress of the Duchy of Adis having issued her command, there was no further reason to hesitate.
Kanna Adis was utterly bewildered as she watched the scene unfold. Were the knights truly entering and seizing both her arms to drag her away?
“Release me. This is hardly the time for this!”
As she struggled, the knights seemed uncertain, hesitating. After all, nobility was nobility—they could never treat such a person carelessly.
Unable to bear it any longer, Isabel struck her chest in frustration.
“Lift her up! Drag her away by force!”
Chloe nodded in agreement at once, endorsing the command.
“…!”
Kanna Adis was so startled she couldn’t even scream. The largest of the knights had seized her waist and hoisted her into the air!
Her body was lifted onto the knight’s shoulder. Slung across him like a piece of luggage, her face flushed crimson with humiliation.
This was practically treating her like livestock!
Just as she was about to cry out in protest.
“What are you doing!”
Kalen’s voice cut through the air first.
In just a few strides, Kalen reached them and seized the knight’s shoulder with crushing force.
“Stop. Now.”
His tone was so menacing that even Kanna Adis’s mouth fell open in shock.
She had never seen Kalen’s expression contort like this before.
Though he rarely showed emotion, his entire face now blazed with fury.
“Release your hands.”

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