My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 208

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Chapter 208
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“Ah!”
My eyes snapped open.
Gasping, gasping—I drew ragged breaths.
This place was….
‘The bedroom.’
I clutched at my head.
‘What was that just now?’
My heart thundered wildly. Anxiety sent sharp tingles through my chest.
What had that been?
‘A dream?’
No. It wasn’t an ordinary dream.
I was certain of it.
Twice now, whenever my body was in its worst state, I’d been hurled away.
To that place. To the future. To my reality.
To the moment when Raphael had become an old man.
As his face surfaced in my mind, tears welled at the corners of my eyes.
‘How could he do that?’
Had Raphael remained there all this time?
Guarding the spell formation? For decades?
Waiting for a woman who would never come?
Until he became an old man? His entire life?
“You’ve come to.”
I whirled my head around. Alexandro Adis had pulled a chair beside the bed and was sitting there.
“Are you well?”
“….”
I looked at him with wet eyes, then exhaled a long breath.
‘Get yourself together.’
First, I had to finish this matter.
I wished it were merely a dream, but if it were reality instead, I needed to focus all the more on this moment.
I couldn’t leave empty-handed after making such a sacrifice to come here.
‘That’s right. I need to keep my wits about me.’
I steadied my heart, which threatened to crumble at any moment. Then I reviewed the memories of this body.
‘So Seon-hee did return.’
But after wandering so long on death’s threshold, she hadn’t regained proper consciousness yet. That was fortunate.
“What about the antidote…?”
“As you said.”
Alexandro Adis’s voice was very low. Nearly hoarse.
“I found it on that creature’s body.”
Kanna Adis stared at him intently.
Night had fallen, and the room lay shrouded in darkness.
Yet even so, Kanna Adis perceived the fragile, almost shattered quality of his expression.
‘Theodore Azel, wasn’t that his name?’
A companion he’d walked alongside for over a decade. It was only natural that the shock would be profound when such a person attempted to take his life.
Alexandro Adis let out a hollow laugh.
“I nearly died.”
“….”
“I survived because of you.”
Alexandro Adis recalled the events from days past.
“I apologize. But they said if I killed you, Alexandro, they would resurrect my wife—my deceased wife.”
When the antidote was discovered on Theodore’s body, he finally confessed the truth.
His wife, who had died after bearing his son Claude.
He had betrayed Alexandro Adis, deceived by the hollow promise that she could be brought back to life.
“This is all because of that woman. They said you brought her along and caused all this chaos.”
Theodore spoke through streaming tears.
“They said it won’t stop as long as you remain with that woman and her child. They will curse endlessly, and they will create traitors like me to drive daggers into your back without end.”
Foam gathered at his lips. He gasped and choked, clutching at his throat as if suffocating.
“Ah, damn it, somehow, those bastards must have done something to me too.”
Theodore’s eyes became bloodshot and inflamed. Until the very end, his body convulsed in agonizing spasms.
“Forgive me, Alexandro, shameless as I am, please… my innocent son and my sister, I beg you to look after them….”
Those were his final words.
My old companion died like that.
Alexandro Adis rubbed his eyes.
How had things come to this?
I didn’t need to think deeply to know the answer. It was because I brought Seon-hee here.
From the Divine Temple, that prison, I brought that woman out.
“Seon-hee.”
“Yes?”
“I will protect you.”
And so Alexandro Adis made his resolve.
“I will protect your child as well.”
Yet regret was not suited to his nature.
Rather than regret bringing Seon-hee here, it suited his temperament far better to crush those who attacked him for that reason.
‘Yes, that is the right path.’
They likely hoped I would come to hate or resent Seon-hee, but my vision has always remained clear. There was no distortion born of sorrow.
Theodore betrayed me because of his own greed. Not because of Seon-hee.
It was the Black Apostles who attacked me. Not Seon-hee.
‘Rather, Seon-hee saved me.’
She saved my life even as she risked her own—twice over.
Kanna Adis stared at him with wide, astonished eyes. She couldn’t believe what she had just heard.
“…Really?”
“Yes.”
“Can you promise me that?”
“I promise.”
Remarkably, Alexandro Adis smiled.
“I will protect you and your child.”
In that moment, my vision seemed to blur.
For a brief instant, my sight burned white, and it felt as though only this man existed in the entire world, in the entire universe.
‘This man will protect me.’
A man to shield me. A man to save me.
‘It was you all along, Alexandro Adis.’
As I whispered that name within my mouth, warmth bloomed gently through me. My chest burned with emotion.
Alexandro would never know.
How deeply his resolve, his promise, had moved her…
Perhaps he never would.
“Thank you, Alex.”
It’s all I can say to you.
The moment I couldn’t bear to look at him any longer and lowered my gaze, I finally noticed.
I was no longer wearing gloves. Alexandro must have removed them while I was unconscious.
In other words, he had permitted my alchemy.
There could be no greater expression of trust from him than this.
‘…But it’s a trust that will shatter soon.’
The surge of gratitude that had risen to my throat evaporated like foam. My heart sank very deep, very low.
‘Soon it will be revealed that Seon-hee was part of the Black Apostles.’
And when Seon-hee returns to this body, she will thrash about trying to kill Alexandro countless times.
The current Seon-hee was not in her right mind.
She was half-mad. Conversation or persuasion would never work on her.
She was filled only with the desire to slaughter everyone and return home.
‘But I cannot remain in this body forever.’
This is as far as I can go. There is nothing more I can do.
In her timeline, there is someone waiting for her.
Raphael will likely wait for her until his dying breath.
And Kalen—didn’t I promise him I would return soon?
‘I must return to my own time.’
There is work to be done in that world. The Divine Spirit has Ju-hwa.
Now I understood all too well what the Divine Spirit would do with Ju-hwa.
‘The Divine Spirit will soon commit madness.’
Then Alexandro Adis rose to his feet.
“Rest well. I should be going now.”
“Ah….”
A wave of regret washed over me, and without thinking, I grasped his wrist. He turned to look at me.
“Is there something else you wish to say?”
I stared at him intently, then smiled.
“You remember? You said I’m the daughter of this body’s owner, and that you would raise me.”
“Is this an aftereffect of the poison? More nonsense from you.”
As expected, he didn’t believe me. I let out a bitter laugh.
‘It’s impossible for now, I suppose.’
But someday, you’ll come to understand.
“Alex.”
“What?”
“Let’s meet again.”
Alexandro Adis looked down at me with bewildered eyes, then tapped the back of my hand gently.
“If you’re not thinking clearly, it would be best to let go now.”
I released his wrist.
Our fingers parted, and he moved away.
In that instant, a sharp emptiness pierced through my fingertips.
“Sleep well.”
The door closed.
That was the end. A farewell.
This would become a long separation.
When we meet again, much time will have passed.
But this was no time for lingering attachments. I steadied my emotions and rose immediately.
I could delay no longer. It was time to leave.
And yet….
Why did I not want to leave like this?
I fumbled with my hands before finally retrieving parchment and a fountain pen from the drawer.
【To Alex.】
Yes, I had to do it this way.
Our friendship will shatter the moment Seon-hee returns. Alexandro Adis will soon recoil in betrayal.
That’s why I wanted to leave a letter like this.
【Remember what I told you before? My mind wavers sometimes, and my personality changes.】
【I will likely become a completely different woman than the one you knew. I’ll become that woman who tried to kill you five times a day.】
【Be careful of me then. Never trust me. Because I’ll try to kill you again. Especially, it would be best to keep me away from your brother.】
I filled several pages of parchment with all manner of warnings.
Drawing from Seon-hee’s memories, I wrote down her weaknesses and laid out countermeasures like an instruction manual.
【So you must be cautious of me.】
【Beware of Seon-hee.】
After a moment of hesitation, I retrieved another sheet of parchment.
【To Alex.】
I wrote another letter.
This time, filled only with her genuine heart.
【One day, I will surely repay this debt.】
【Please remember me as I am now.】
【Please wait for me.】
Yes, so please….
【In a future where we can cherish the same memories together.】
【Let us meet again.】

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