My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 181

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Chapter 181
Kanna Adis had never imagined such a reaction, even in her wildest dreams, and she was genuinely flustered by it.
‘Wait a moment.’
Now that she thought about it, he was gripping her collar with both hands.
‘…His right arm has healed?’
When? And how?
Was such a thing even possible in a single day? Nothing made sense.
Kanna placed her hand over her chest.
Thump-thump-thump—her heart was racing, whether from shock or something else.
‘That wretched bastard, startling me like this.’
He had arrived reeking of blood and then vanished after doing something bizarre.
Kanna Adis opened the window. The scent of blood he had left behind saturated the room.
‘Whose blood is this?’
Now that she examined it, Orsini had been drenched in blood—enough that he should have died from blood loss alone.
Yet seeing him alive and well, it had to be someone else’s blood.
‘In any case, killing people is his specialty.’
But Orsini had said he encountered her doll today.
He must have tried to kill Orsini using her doll.
‘Since he came back alive, it seems Orsini didn’t fall into the trap.’
Wait.
‘Orsini encountered my doll today?’
Then what about Yeon-woo?
A chill ran down her spine in an instant.
She had thought she hadn’t encountered a trap today. But what if taking Yeon-woo with her was the trap itself?
What if Yeon-woo was a doll?
The realization struck like lightning. Kanna Adis kicked open the door and rushed out. She burst into Ren’s room.
“Ren!”
Ren was pinning Yeon-woo down, slamming him onto the chamber and strangling him by the throat.
“Don’t come closer! This bastard is insane! He suddenly attacked me!”
“Get away!”
“What?”
“Get away from that thing!”
But Ren’s expression suggested he thought she was spouting nonsense. Unable to restrain herself, Kanna Adis rushed forward and pulled at his shoulder.
In that instant, her eyes met Yeon-woo’s.
Yeon-woo grinned, baring his teeth as he muttered.
“Tick-tock, boom.”
The next moment, his body exploded like a bomb.
It was a silent detonation. A destruction so terrifyingly quiet that the air itself tore apart without a sound.
Kanna Adis grabbed Ren and threw herself to the ground.
The instant she shielded him with her own body, scorching fragments rained down on her back—heat so intense it brought tears to her eyes.
“Tatiana!”
I clenched my teeth.
The pain was unbearable. What in the world had fallen on my back?
“Good heavens, Tatiana!”
My vision blurred.
Through the haze, I stared at Ren. His arms and shoulders—the parts I hadn’t managed to shield—were a vivid, angry red, as though they’d been scorched by lava itself.
‘So that’s what my back looks like now.’
Damn it. My beautiful back.
“Wait, I’ll fetch the Physician!”
“No.”
I stifled a groan and seized Ren’s wrist.
“No Physician.”
“Have you lost your mind? Your back is—”
“No one can know about this. Absolutely no one.”
“But—”
“Take me to my room. Quietly, so no one notices I’m injured. There’s medicine there.”
“You’re completely insane. You’ve lost your senses!”
Even as Ren cursed, he scooped me up effortlessly.
The explosion had been silent enough that the servants passing by seemed oblivious.
He hurried me to my room.
“The bag—inside—a yellow glass vial. And the disinfectant too. Yes, that one.”
While Ren frantically gathered the medicines, I took a deep breath and undressed.
I examined my back in the mirror. My skin was raw and blistered crimson. The flesh had melted away entirely.
And in that moment, I thought of Raphael.
Once, Raphael had been transformed like this from head to toe.
Had she endured such agony to save me from the flames, diving into the inferno herself?
‘No. This isn’t the time to think of Raphael.’
I pushed him from my mind. I pushed away the shattered promises we’d made.
“Is this the right one?”
“Yes, that’s it. Apply it.”
Fortunately, the medicine I’d prepared back then still remained. If Ren applied it properly, it would disappear without a trace.
“I’ll disinfect it first.”
“All right.”
“It will hurt.”
“I know.”
My calm demeanor drew a sigh from Ren. He offered me a towel.
“You’ll scream. Bite down on this.”
“Thank you.”
As I clenched the towel between my teeth, Ren slowly poured the disinfectant across my back. In an instant, my vision flashed white.
‘It really hurts.’
I cannot recall how I endured it.
Moments later, I collapsed onto the chamber, drenched in cold sweat. Ren wiped away the perspiration beading on my back and arms with a towel.
“Does it hurt?”
“I can breathe now.”
“You’re truly an exasperating woman.”
“Mind your tongue.”
“You didn’t need to protect me.”
Yes, I did.
I was deceived into bringing that doll bomb here.
But I lacked the strength to explain, so I merely sighed.
“There should be some bead-like pills in my bag. Take out five of them for me.”
When Ren returned with them, I tried to sit up.
But I had no strength left. I couldn’t even lift my hand to receive the medicine from him.
Noticing this, he carefully lifted my body and leaned me against his shoulder. Then he placed the pills one by one into my mouth.
I swallowed the water he let flow into my mouth along with the pills.
And I thought of Ju-hwa.
‘Lee Ju-hwa.’
This was certainly Ju-hwa’s idea.
‘Are you trying to kill me?’
Yet strangely, I was not surprised.
Rather, I felt hollow, as if an ominous omen had come true.
‘So she does hate me after all.’
Ju-hwa, who once lived in this body.
Her memories, emotions, and thoughts remain in this body like sediment.
Because of this, I could not help but understand Ju-hwa very well.
If it were Ju-hwa, given her way of thinking and her nature, she would have reason to hate me.
‘She must believe I stole her life from her.’
I pitied Ju-hwa.
I felt sorry for her, living the unfortunate life that should have been mine. I felt guilty.
Yet that could not become my sin. It was not my fault, nor my responsibility.
It was never something I brought about in the first place.
‘Perhaps the Black Apostles orchestrated the switching of our bodies.’
If she seeks revenge, it should be against them.
But this foolish girl is directing her anger at the wrong person.
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“Kanna Adis.”
Ju-hwa smiled faintly.
“She would never believe it was her own fault.”
Rather, she would be angry at me for picking a fight with her.
No one in this world knows Kanna Adis better than I do.
All of Kanna Adis’s memories. Her emotions. Her thoughts. They all remain within this body, one by one.
“Do you think my anger is unjustified?”
Ju-hwa whispered quietly, gazing at her own eyes reflected in the sharp blade of the dagger. She stared as if looking at that girl who once dwelled within this body.
“It’s because you’ve never experienced what I have.”
Ju-hwa’s lips curled upward.
“One day, someone entered your body, received your family’s love, and enjoyed all the happiness that should have been yours instead.”
“Ugh, uhhh!”
“And I entered that person’s body, received all the hatred meant for them, and endured all the misfortune they should have suffered instead.”
Her eyes reddened with tears.
“And you’re telling me not to hate that girl?”
“Uhhh, ugh!”
“There was no place for me.”
Ju-hwa murmured blankly.
The family she met after twelve years called out her name so casually—”Ju-hwa!” “Sister!”—with such familiarity.
They spoke of what happened yesterday.
They gazed at her with eyes full of trust.
But they didn’t love her.
They loved Kanna Adis, who had entered her body.
A laugh escaped her. That’s right—my family never even realized I was gone. And they loved someone else, mistaking her for me.
That girl.
Kanna Adis.
“Ah, I apologize. You can’t answer, can you?”
Ju-hwa approached hastily, as if remembering belatedly, and removed the gag that had silenced her opponent’s mouth.
Then the woman, Josephine Elester, cried out.
“Who are you! What nonsense are you spouting!”
“After going to Korea, I thought about Mother quite often.”
“Release me! Undo this at once!”
“Why did I have to endure everything from Mother?”
“I, I don’t even know who you are!”
“I told you. That I entered Kanna Adis’s body and lived there, that I was abused by Mother.”
Josephine’s face turned deathly pale.
She couldn’t believe it. She didn’t want to believe such a story.
“Perhaps it’s because I have Kanna Adis’s memories? Maybe I’ve even come to resemble her personality.”
Ju-hwa smiled sadly.
“Kanna Adis had so many good qualities. So I intend to learn from her what I should learn.”
As Ju-hwa raised the dagger, Josephine’s eyes twisted with terror.
“What are you trying to do?”
“Revenge.”
“P-please, forgive me! I beg you! Ahhh! Someone help!”
As Josephine began to scream, Ju-hwa frowned and gagged her mouth once more.
Josephine’s lips were bound so tightly they threatened to tear, and I spoke with gentle affection.
“When I begged Mother for forgiveness, do you remember what she said to me?”
All warmth drained from Ju-hwa’s face.
What remained was nothing but hatred, charred and skeletal, consuming her from within.
“You filthy wretch—creatures like you deserve to die.”
I brought the dagger down.

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