My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 214

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Chapter 214
Kanna gazed down at him for a long moment.
Alexandro Adis, intoxicated by the potion, appeared so fragile. Not the broad shoulders she had once feared.
A broken creature laid upon a sacred altar. A life offered as sacrifice for her.
How pitiful it was… how achingly tender.
My chest grew unbearably heavy.
I lowered my gaze. Letters scattered across his thighs came into view.
【…In a future remembering the same past…】
Kanna stepped back. One step, then another. I retreated until the moonlit man fit entirely within my sight. And I foresaw it.
In this moment, the man I had destroyed, this scene.
I would never forget it until death.
* * *
Leaving Alexandro Adis in his stupor, Kanna descended to the Research Laboratory.
‘It’s time to return.’
My instinct screamed to pursue the Black Apostle immediately and uncover what curse he had cast, but this was not the time.
In a child’s body, even leaving the house was a struggle. There were far too many chains binding me.
I needed to be at least an adult.
Kanna drew a spell circle with her blood.
“Please….”
* * *
Kanna’s eyes opened.
The Garden.
A spring garden where pink petals drifted on the breeze. This place lay within the Roots of the World Tree.
“….”
Kanna stared downward with vacant eyes.
As expected, Raphael’s skeletal remains lay there. A man long dead, with nothing but bleached bones remaining where flesh had rotted away.
【Have you returned?】
All strength drained from my body, and I collapsed to my knees.
‘I’ve come to this time again.’
The spell circle was incomplete. Errors kept occurring.
‘This period is absolutely impossible.’
Kanna stared at Raphael’s skeletal remains, then turned away as tears threatened to spill once more.
* * *
Thus began countless attempts.
“Waah!”
I went back to being a newborn once more.
“Ah, no. Why does it keep failing?”
I also arrived at around three years old.
【Have you returned?】
And once again, I saw Raphael’s skeletal remains.
And finally, I found a plausible moment to escape—yet I couldn’t rejoice.
“Where is my sister?”
It was because of Kalen. Kalen, his white hair cascading to his shoulders, had a sword pointed at Raphael.
“Give my sister back. Give her back to me….”
Perhaps he sensed my presence. Kalen’s head turned slowly. Our eyes met. The sword fell from his hand.
“My sister…?”
He rushed toward me in a single bound and pulled me into his embrace.
“Sister, sister, sister.”
The stench of blood. I grimaced sharply. The reek of blood clung heavily to his body—how many had he killed?
“Let go of me.”
I grabbed his shoulders and pushed him away.
And in the next instant, he desperately pressed his lips to me—my hair, my forehead, my cheek. It was frenzied, like a great hound pouncing and licking.
“Kalen, wait!”
“Sister, it really is you, isn’t it? Ah, you were alive after all, sister….”
“Kalen!”
He was out of control. In the next moment, Kalen was suddenly pulled away.
“She does not wish it. Cease at once.”
Raphael had grabbed Kalen’s shoulder and yanked him back. Kalen’s face twisted grotesquely, like a specter’s.
“So it was you hiding my sister all along. The Grand Temple was going to….”
“Kalen, that’s not it.”
I’m going mad, truly. I clutched my throbbing head and sighed.
“Calm yourself and come here. First, let’s leave this place. And Raphael….”
When my eyes met Raphael’s, I understood Kalen’s feelings just a little.
I wanted to rush over and embrace him—Raphael, breathing and alive, not a skeleton.
But this was not the moment to surrender to such emotions.
“Raphael, you’ve endured much.”
Raphael simply bowed his head as if it were routine.
* * *
And when we emerged from the Roots of the World Tree, I beheld hell.
“What on earth is this….”
Corpses everywhere.
Priests and Enforcers of the Grand Temple lay sprawled as corpses. In the Garden, in the Corridors. Everything was drenched in blood.
“What have you done?”
Raphael’s voice carried an anger I had never heard from him before.
Kalen did not answer. There was no need to answer such a catastrophe.
I understood.
House of Adis had attacked the Grand Temple.
“It has been three years, sister.”
Kalen smiled, baring his teeth. His face was utterly transformed from the last time I saw him.
“Three years since the Grand Temple imprisoned you. I should have done this long ago.”
“You….”
“Not confinement, you say? Fine, it doesn’t look like confinement. But please, don’t tell me the truth. Lie to me instead. I’ll believe whatever you say.”
“No, it’s not confinement.”
“Ah, yes, of course. My sister really is infuriatingly stubborn, isn’t she?”
Kalen laughed aloud without a hint of surprise.
“You promised you’d return in a week, yet you hid away for three years. Ha, I genuinely thought you were dead.”
“Kalen.”
“Three years. Three years. Sister, during all that time when even your life or death was uncertain, how do you think I felt?”
Kalen muttered with bloodshot eyes.
“I was a fool for believing in you. I was an idiot for trusting you. For falling for your tricks and believing such absurd lies—that was my mistake.”
Whether it was Kalen or Ren speaking, the personalities had blurred beyond distinction. Goosebumps crawled up my neck. He wasn’t in his right mind.
“You’re insane.”
Sparks ignited in Kalen’s eyes. He laughed with a chilling sound.
“Yes, so don’t think of disappearing. Even if you die, even if it’s hell itself, I’ll chase you to the very end.”
“How much longer must we endure this?”
The moment Kalen’s mad words ended, Raphael asked. I read the silent fury roiling in his eyes.
“I understand he is your brother, but keeping him alive has become difficult. Adis has crossed the line.”
“Raphael.”
“Please, grant me permission.”
This couldn’t happen.
This couldn’t…happen.
My entire body went rigid. The shock froze even the tip of my tongue.
‘So this is it.’
Even when we should have been one, we became enemies and fought each other.
The Divine Spirit would have seized that opportunity to execute his plan with ease.
House of Adis and the Grand Temple would wage war, and that conflict would continue until one side was annihilated.
Destruction began from this very moment.
I bit my fingers hard and drew a spell array with my blood.
“Sister, what are you doing?”
Kalen asked in alarm at the blood forming in the air, and I simply sighed.
“You’re truly terrifying, Kalen.”
Light erupted from the spell array.
Again and again, over and over….
* * *
I blinked my eyes open.
‘So, where is it this time?’
It was a familiar place once again.
Inside the Roots of the World Tree, a garden where those dreadful pink petals now scattered at the mere sight of them.
The place where Raphael’s skeleton lay….
No, it wasn’t.
Kanna Adis’s face hardened.
“Ah….”
There was a person there. A man with deep blue hair.
‘Raphael.’
He stood tall, gazing up at the tree.
Merely at a tree. At nothing more than a tree laden with peach blossoms.
Kanna stared blankly at his back and came to understand.
‘So that’s what he was doing.’
Raphael had spent his entire life waiting like this.
Facing the gentle breeze that drifted through, counting the falling petals as they scattered.
Until his hair turned white and he became an old man. Until he became nothing but bones and perished.
“Raph….”
But there was no need to call out. Raphael slowly turned his body. Upon discovering her, he approached.
He seemed to walk slowly, yet in truth, he had closed the distance in mere moments—the space of a few blinks.
“Have you returned?”
And he spoke not with some farewell carved into stone, but with his own voice.
“How long has it been?”
“Three months.”
Kanna finally felt relief wash over her, nearly collapsing.
Thank goodness. Truly, thank goodness.
Kanna suppressed the surge of emotion welling up inside and managed a strained smile.
“I’ve come back, Raphael.”
Three months had passed since the day I first returned to the past.
‘I was fortunate. Truly, so very fortunate.’
Never again would I carelessly traverse time. I had nearly been trapped in the original timeline forever!
After leaving the Roots of the World Tree with Raphael, Kanna learned of the events that had transpired.
First, Kalen had apparently come looking for her. It was around a month after she had entered the tree’s roots.
‘Though they said they drove him away.’
Kanna recalled the future she had witnessed.
Three years after her disappearance, Kalen had been completely unhinged—a madman incarnate.
But seeing that he had left quietly suggested he still retained his sanity.
For now.
‘That bastard Kalen was far more insane than I imagined.’
I had known it, but not to this extent.
‘Well, he’s the one who threw himself from the Cathedral Spire—what wouldn’t he do?’
From now on, I would have to be cautious around him, Kanna resolved.
And there was one more thing.
Orsini had become the head of House of Adis.
He had inherited the ducal title following Alexandro Adis.
‘Then what of Alexandro?’
What’s happening?

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