My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 205

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Chapter 205
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‘I don’t think I slept properly at all.’
I rubbed my stiff neck.
‘Since I can’t watch her while she sleeps, I have to restrain her.’
During bathing, and during sleep.
I had to be bound in handcuffs. My entire body felt uncomfortable, likely from the restless sleep.
‘It’s better than being locked in the Underground Dungeon, though….’
I glanced sideways at Alexandro Adis.
He was currently deciphering Seon-hee’s records—her diary.
Alexandro Adis didn’t blindly trust the characters I taught him.
He continued to suspect whether I was teaching him correctly, but as he deciphered an entire volume of records with no contextual errors, he gradually began to believe me.
Once he learned something, he never forgot it. His deductive abilities were excellent—tell him one thing and he’d grasp ten. His intellect was remarkably sharp.
In other words, he was an unlucky man to deal with.
【The Divine Spirit deceived me. He pretended to love me, but it was all an act. I cannot trust anyone in this world.】
【I want to return to my world.】
While reading that passage, Alexandro Adis asked quietly.
“Are you going to have the child?”
“Huh?”
“It seems like an unwanted pregnancy.”
“….”
“You seem capable enough to terminate it yourself, don’t you?”
When Kanna Adis didn’t answer, Alexandro Adis continued.
“If you’re reluctant to do it yourself, I can introduce you to Theodore’s sister. She’s also an excellent alchemist. She could make an abortion potion in no time.”
“No….”
I spoke very carefully.
“It’s not necessary.”
At that answer, Alexandro Adis sighed and turned the page of the diary.
“Listen well. I’m currently investigating your background.”
Of course he was. I hadn’t expected him to simply believe my words that I wasn’t a Black Apostle.
“Soon, information about your past actions will reach my ears. If there are no problems at that time, I will help you make a fresh start.”
That was probably an extraordinary consideration. The scope of what Alexandro Adis could help with was very broad.
“Do you think you can make a fresh start while carrying the Divine Spirit’s child?”
I smiled bitterly. Whether or not I had the child, there would be nothing for Alexandro Adis to help me with anyway.
‘Because it will be revealed that Seon-hee was a Black Apostle.’
When that time came, Alexandro Adis would no longer listen to my story seriously.
So perhaps this conversation was only possible now. I didn’t know when her report would arrive.
If I had to confront him, it had to be now.
“Alex, I came from a different world.”
It was an abrupt statement.
He glanced up from the diary, his eyes filled with disbelief.
“In that world, I had a husband and a daughter. Then one day, I got caught up in a strange phenomenon and came to this world….”
Kanna Adis paused for a moment, then laughed.
“I met the Divine Spirit and was protected by him. I didn’t know he was the one who pulled me into this place. And just as he wanted, I fell in love.”
She then caressed her belly.
“All of this was the Divine Spirit’s plan to create this child. He intended to use this child to….”
“Use the child to destroy the world itself?”
He scoffed as if listening to a trite fairy tale. It was blatant mockery.
“Something like that.”
….
“He wants to merge two worlds into one.”
Kanna Adis was a sacrifice.
With the blood of two worlds flowing through her veins, she was the only existence capable of creating a crack in the barrier of this world and simultaneously in the wall of the ‘other world’.
That was what the Divine Spirit coveted.
To shatter and completely destroy the walls of both worlds.
When the walls between the two worlds crumbled and the forces of the colliding worlds clashed at a single point, the Black Mist would explode outward.
‘When that happens, all barriers will eventually collapse, and the boundary between the two worlds will vanish.’
Kanna’s world and Ju-hwa’s world.
The walls separating the two worlds would disappear, merging them into one, creating an entirely new realm.
But only a few would be able to enjoy that new world.
Only a handful would survive the calamity of the Black Mist.
Of course, the sacrifice itself would also perish.
‘I don’t want to die.’
The Divine Spirit, Arzenian. For centuries confined within the Divine Temple, functioning only as a tool for purifying the world.
“Seon-hee, do you know how painful the purification ritual is? During the purification ritual, my soul and body merge with the World Tree. It’s truly agonizing.”
He writhed in endless torment.
“But no matter how many times I endure it, it never ends.”
He was exhausted by endless fear.
“Thinking of those who love me, thinking of those who worship me, I endure the purification ritual again and again, yet they all eventually die. I remain here still, trapped in this agony, while they simply fade away with the passage of time.”
He was worn down by endless loss.
“In truth, have I not already died and fallen into hell? Is this not hell itself?”
And so he finally went mad.
Arzenian, worn away by repeating cycles of pain, fear, and loneliness, had become a skeleton stripped of all flesh.
“This world is hell. We are all trapped in hell.”
Thus five hundred years passed.
Time enough for the Divine Spirit to believe this world was hell.
He sought to destroy this hell and remake it into a new world.
One merged with a ‘heavenly world’ free of the Black Mist, the World Tree, and the purification ritual.
Kanna Adis revealed everything to Alexandro Adis.
“So you have to protect this child. You’re the only one who can shield this child within the Divine Temple, aren’t you?”
“….”
“If you would raise my child as your own… No, I won’t even ask for that much. Just take me on as an employee of this mansion. I’ll work as a maid doing menial tasks. So please….”
“Enough.”
Alexandro Adis raised his hand, cutting off her words.
“You’re asking me to believe that now?”
“…Alex.”
“Even if everything you said were true, why should I protect your child?”
He spoke the harsh truth with an expressionless face.
“If that child is truly such a dangerous existence, it would seem better to simply kill it.”
I couldn’t deny it. He was right. It would be far safer to eliminate the threat at its root by ending the child’s life.
And yet, I couldn’t understand it.
Why did the future Alexandro Adis choose to save me? Was it out of loyalty to Seon-hee?
‘No, there’s no such loyalty between them. Their relationship clearly deteriorates.’
This kind of proper conversation only happened when I possessed Seon-hee’s body.
Once Seon-hee returned, the two of them became irreparably estranged.
Yet despite all that, Alexandro Adis protected me. He endured relentless pursuit from the Divine Temple and even the curse of the Black Apostles, yet he never surrendered me in the end.
“I don’t want to die.”
“I’m not telling you to die.”
Alexandro Adis spoke with a slightly softened expression.
“Erase the child. That solves everything.”
“….”
“It’s not as though you chose to bear this child. So you have the right not to give birth.”
I stared at the deeply frustrated Alexandro Adis before speaking the truth.
“I am this child.”
“….”
“I told you before, didn’t I? That I’m actually your adopted daughter from the future.”
He didn’t even respond to that.
Of course he thought it was nonsense, or perhaps a joke.
“That story was sincere. I am the daughter of Seon-hee… the original owner of this body. The life inside this ship is me.”
I seized Alexandro Adis’s wrist.
He flinched in surprise for a moment, but I forcibly pulled his hand and placed it over my abdomen.
“This is me, Alex.”
He stared at me as though I were a madwoman.
“You’ve seen my power, haven’t you? I only came to the past by using that power for a brief moment.”
“….”
“I don’t want to die. So you have to protect me. If you do that….”
If you do that?
What comes next?
Suddenly my words faltered. If Alexandro Adis were to walk that thorny path for me, what could I possibly give him in return?
To someone who had always been stronger than me and possessed so much more, what could I ever offer….
“I think I might be able to love you.”
With only this meager heart of mine.
“I’ll be able to love you again.”
Like before.
Like those moments in childhood when I would steal glances at your back, yearning for you, revering you.
“Please.”
Kanna Adis lifted his hand and clasped it between both of hers.
This hand could save me.
This hand would save me.
There was only this person.
“Protect me.”

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