My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 194

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Chapter 194
The marriage ceremony proceeded in private.
While Alexei and Amelia’s ceremony took place, I found myself alone in a small prayer room within the Chapel, waiting.
It was the law—no one could see the bride’s face before the sacred union.
I stared blankly into the mirror, my mind drifting back to what had just happened. To what that fool Orsini had said.
‘What on earth was he thinking….’
To say something like that?
Surely he didn’t actually expect me to run away with him.
‘Or did he come to end things?’
He did say he wouldn’t see me again.
‘It’s ridiculous. If he didn’t want to see me, he could simply avoid me.’
Did he really need to come find me and get kicked out so thoroughly to make a clean break?
The way he acted so foolishly—it seemed like the behavior of someone who had given me their genuine heart.
‘If that’s what this is, then he has no shame whatsoever.’
I still remembered that moment when I hid in the corner of the Research Laboratory to escape Orsini. Though perhaps the one who tormented me had already forgotten.
‘I cannot forget.’
How could he gift me hell in childhood and now claim to have feelings for me?
The more I thought about it, the more absurd it became.
And I had even tried to kill him—did he truly not care if he died by my hand, as long as we could be together?
At that thought, I shook my head firmly.
‘No, that can’t be it.’
This was excessive fantasy. He was clearly just caught up in a moment of lust.
Orsini had always been like a beast driven by instinct, so his desires were simply more intense than most….
Wait.
‘Why do I keep thinking about that bastard?’
It’s irritating.
Annoyed, I forcefully pushed him from my mind and turned my thoughts elsewhere.
There was still time before my turn came. I had to wait a little longer.
Fortunately, my thoughts shifted quickly.
Alexandro Adis.
Last night, I had told him everything I’d heard from Prince Argon.
Even the rumors—that he saw ghosts, that he had never slept.
“I thought they were rumors, but it seems they’re not. Why is that? Could my mother have cursed me with that as well?”
The price of the exchange was conversation.
What had been impossible between Alexandro and me until now—he had always hidden the truth, always evaded. I demanded answers from him.
Alexandro accepted my proposal.
“I was cursed by the Black Apostles.”
So that rumor was true.
Then this man truly cannot sleep?
He sees strange illusions? And yet he manages to live with his sanity intact?
I was curious, but I didn’t feel sympathetic. It wasn’t my concern.
After a moment of deliberation, Kanna Adis asked.
“Why did you raise me?”
“….”
“I’m the daughter of Seon-hee, whom you despise. We don’t share a single drop of blood, so why on earth did you raise me?”
Now that I had abandoned the name Kanna Adis, I didn’t particularly want to know.
Still, it seemed unlikely that such an opportunity would come again, so I asked out of courtesy.
“Because I made a promise.”
Ha.
Recalling his answer from last night, laughter burst from my lips.
A promise? Merely for a promise?
And a promise with a woman he despised so much—he kept it?
It was so futile it infuriated me, and I couldn’t believe it.
“What does Prince Argon know, and why are you asking about that? Is it important enough to reveal secrets you’ve hidden all this time?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“Among the information he gave you, there is something only the Black Apostles know.”
“Then what is it?”
I murmured.
“You’re saying Prince Argon discovered something only the Black Apostles know.”
How did Prince Argon find that out?
“Did Prince Argon collude with the Black Apostles?”
Tap, tap. I drummed my shoe against the floor, diving deeper into thought.
‘Prince Argon.’
He was certainly an unusual prince.
Despite being the first prince, he showed no interest in the throne. His wanderlust kept him detached from the Imperial Family.
‘What if it’s not mere wanderlust?’
What if something outside the palace was more important than the throne itself?
For an ordinary person, for a typical member of the Imperial Family, nothing could be more precious than the throne.
But if Prince Argon wasn’t an ordinary person, if he held unique convictions.
For example….
‘What if he were a Black Apostle?’
My heart suddenly sank.
No, that couldn’t be. That was going too far. He could simply be someone who loved freedom, couldn’t he?
That was when the door burst open.
“Ah, there you are.”
In an instant, my mind froze. The very face I had been imagining in my thoughts appeared before me.
Prince Argon entered the Prayer Room with a smile.
“I’ve been looking for you for quite a while.”
Click. The door closes.
Click. I lock the bolt.
I turn and sweep my gaze over her.
“You’re truly beautiful, Kanna Adis. I’d be tempted to abduct you.”
Prince Argon extends a bouquet of crimson roses toward her.
“A gift.”
When she doesn’t accept it, he places the bouquet on her lap instead, then kneels on one knee before her.
“Listen, I have something to tell you.”
He looks up at her.
Hair like spring sunlight, strikingly reminiscent of Concubine Teresa, paired with violet eyes.
A beauty as exquisite as a precious bisque doll.
“I think I might like you quite a bit.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes.”
“And then?”
At her emotionless response, Prince Argon’s brow furrows.
“And then? Is that all?”
“There are quite a few people like that. I’m afraid I can’t offer you special treatment.”
Absurd words.
He likes me? That’s even more ridiculous than Orsini’s nonsense.
“What about the Knight Guards outside?”
“I’ve blocked them from entering, so for now…”
In that moment, I pull the hair ornament I’d tucked into my veil and swing it.
“Ah!”
Prince Argon, his hand cut, quickly retreats backward, muttering in shock.
“What just happened? What’s going on? Did the bride just attack me with a weapon she had in her hair?”
“That’s right.”
I point the hairpin at him.
“I have too many enemies to live in peace.”
It was a sudden attack.
Yet he doesn’t ask why I’ve done this. He doesn’t accuse me of losing my mind.
He simply laughs, as if amused.
“That’s all you can manage with that?”
He extends his hand, showing the shallow cut. Just a thin line of blood.
“A weapon like that can only inflict a wound this shallow.”
“It would be different if it were coated with poison.”
At those words, the smile vanishes from Prince Argon’s face. Now it’s my turn to laugh.
“Within an hour at most, you’ll be dead.”
Silence descends. Prince Argon closes his mouth and stares at me, then mutters.
“In any case, Mother was right about everything.”
“What did Concubine Teresa say?”
“They say you must be careful with a woman whose beauty is ominously striking. They said that everyone would try to break her, so she’d have to keep a thorn or two to protect herself.”
That was when it happened.
A scream pierced the air from outside the door. Simultaneously, a deafening roar echoed as a building collapsed and the ground trembled.
Kanna Adis flinched in alarm and stared out the window.
‘What is that?’
Beyond the window, the Garden was being engulfed—the Black Mist was rolling in!
“It’s begun.”
Yet Prince Argon’s face remained composed.
“Don’t even think about leaving this room, Kanna. The Black Mist is consuming the Royal Palace of Yalden.”
My heart plummeted. Faces flashed rapidly through my mind.
Lorenzo. Yoanna Friedrich. Amelia. Queen Ekaterina, and….
Raphael.
‘That’s right. Raphael is here.’
My turbulent heart settled in an instant.
It wasn’t just Raphael.
Orsini, Silvien Valentino, and even Alexandro Adis.
The Descendants of Holy Knights were assembled. So everything would be fine.
“You’re doing something despicable. And you call yourself a member of the Imperial Family with honor?”
“I didn’t do it.”
Prince Argon cut her off flatly.
“I simply obtained the information in advance and came to protect you. As long as you’re with me, this room is safe.”
Then he laughed with pride.
“I even quietly subdued the Black Apostles who were planning to kidnap you. Impressive, right?”
Kanna Adis let out a scoff. She wasn’t fool enough to believe everything he said.
“What are you plotting? If you don’t tell me, I’ll….”
“The antidote. I have it.”
With those words, Prince Argon withdrew a small glass vial from his breast pocket.
“Ju-hwa made it for me.”
Ju-hwa?
‘That girl.’
Using my knowledge!
Rage surged through me. But I quickly submerged the emotion into the coldest corner of my mind. I thought clearly.
Finally, I reached a conclusion.
“You deliberately cut me that first time, didn’t you.”
Long ago, Prince Argon had drawn his blade against me for refusing his escort. I had thought him merely a mad prince. No. That wasn’t it. It wasn’t coincidence, nor was it his unstable temperament. He had….
“That’s right. I needed your blood.”
Because he was a Black Apostle.
“Kanna, I had to confirm whether you had truly returned.”
Prince Argon admitted it without hesitation.
Argon acknowledged it without any hesitation.
“When Ju-hwa’s soul dwelled within that body, your blood was utterly useless to me. It seems the body and soul were misaligned.”
That was it. That was why he had pursued the cause of his transformation so relentlessly.
To discover whether I had truly returned!
The horrifying realization struck Kanna Adis like a blow, and she clenched her fists until her nails bit into her palms. Absurdly, even a sense of betrayal washed over her.
“Why are you telling me this?”
“I thought it might help you. Besides.”
Argon murmured with a hollow laugh.
“I’ve already been discovered. By someone absolutely terrifying.”
Discovered? By whom?
In that instant, a deafening crash erupted through the room. The door shattered, sending splinters flying.
Beyond the fractured doorway stood Alexandro Adis.
“Damn it….”
A strange, strangled sound escaped Argon’s throat. Even Kanna Adis found herself momentarily stripped of all thought.
In that moment, Alexandro Adis blazed like pure white flame.
From his body poured forth such radiant brilliance that the Black Mist writhing behind him was swept away in its wake.
“There you are.”

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