My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 223

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Chapter 223
“Sister, why do you look like that?”
Kalen glared at Princess Lilienne with fierce eyes.
“Did the Duchess do this to you?”
“…It was an accident.”
“An accident? What kind of accident causes someone to spill water all over another person’s face?”
As Princess Lilienne fell silent, Kanna Adis rose to her feet.
“That’s enough, Kalen. Let’s go.”
She grabbed his arm and pulled him away. Left alone, Princess Lilienne collapsed onto the sofa.
‘What should I do?’
Kanna Adis had just seen Kalen. If this escalated into a sibling quarrel over a woman…
But Princess Lilienne shook her head.
Surely not.
Kalen wouldn’t budge an inch. If anything, he’d be disgusted.
‘If Kanna clings to him, he’ll turn serious and cut her off. He might even throw her out of the Valentino Estate.’
Perhaps that was for the best. They were going to see the opera soon. Kanna said she would accompany Kalen…
‘I’ll get to see something more entertaining than the performance.’
* * *
A few hours later, Kanna Adis headed to the Opera Theater with Kalen.
“Sister, please step out.”
But Kanna Adis did not descend.
“I have some business to attend to. Go ahead without me.”
“Business? What kind of business?”
Kanna Adis smiled mischievously and placed her index finger to her lips.
“A woman’s secret.”
“…”
At a loss for words, Kalen obediently entered the theater.
After sending even the Coachman to the servants’ lounge, Kanna Adis waited leisurely.
Shortly after the performance began, she was alone in the surroundings. Kanna Adis quietly slipped away and opened the luggage compartment of the carriage.
A figure was crouched inside.
‘No matter how many times I see this, I never get used to it.’
A face identical to my own.
Kanna Adis spoke to the doll crouched in the luggage compartment.
“You understand what you need to do from here on, don’t you?”
The doll nodded. After issuing several instructions to the doll, Kanna Adis entered the theater building.
“Excuse me…”
“Yes, what do you need?”
The staff member responded with a kind smile. Guilt washed over me.
“I’m sorry.”
“Pardon?”
Kanna Adis hesitated for a moment, then lifted the perfume bottle she held in her grip.
Pssh!
The moment the mist struck the employee’s face, all expression drained from it. This was the hypnotic fragrance she had painstakingly crafted through the night.
* * *
“Sister, what on earth were you doing? Why are you only arriving now?”
Kalen was checking his pocket watch.
“The performance has already started, and I was worried when you didn’t show.”
“Sorry, my business took longer than expected.”
“You’re always so busy, aren’t you?”
I had been delayed spraying the hypnotic fragrance on all the staff members assigned to the Box Seat area.
Kanna Adis sighed and sank into the plush sofa.
‘That should do it. The preparations are complete.’
The effects would last roughly half a day. And when they awoke, they would remember nothing.
If everything went according to plan, I could finally catch the Black Apostles’ trail. And then, Alexandro’s curse would….
‘….’
My thoughts scattered.
‘That’s strange.’
Kanna Adis stole a glance at Kalen. I had been thinking about it since we rode in the carriage together.
‘Why does he look so captivating today?’
Kalen sat with one leg crossed, leaning comfortably against the sofa. His long legs stretched out, and the ankles revealed beneath his trouser cuffs possessed an oddly sensual quality.
Had ankles always been such an alluring part of the body?
‘…What am I thinking right now?’
It was absurd. To harbor such thoughts about Kalen of all people.
Yet what was even more absurd was that despite recognizing how strange this was, I found myself utterly unable to tear my gaze away.
My eyes drifted next to his hands.
Large hands with prominent veins, fingers that were long yet graceful.
Kanna Adis knew the texture of his fingertips. Calloused and firm, so very pleasant to the touch….
‘Stop.’
Kanna Adis squeezed her eyes shut. And assessed the situation coldly.
I was not in my right mind.
Just as those hypnotized employees were not in theirs, something was controlling me.
‘Then what is it?’
Had someone manipulated my mind? When? How?
Intuition struck like lightning.
‘Princess Lilienne.’
Why had she been stirring up trouble since this morning….
‘Did she lace the perfume bottle’s water with a drug?’
No. This was not some aphrodisiac. It wasn’t merely inducing sensual thoughts.
Kalen had become precious to me.
A drug capable of producing such emotions—this was no ordinary concoction.
It must have required truly exceptional materials.
For instance, Ju-hwa’s blood.
“How strange.”
At the voice that suddenly reached her ears, I jolted awake, my eyes snapping open in surprise.
Kalen had drawn close beside me without warning, observing me intently. My heart raced beneath his piercing gaze. My face flushed crimson.
“Sister.”
“…Yes?”
“Are you unwell?”
After a moment of silence, I answered curtly.
“I have a fever. I must have eaten something disagreeable.”
“Something disagreeable?”
I nodded.
Strangely, in this moment, I had no desire to deceive Kalen, so I spoke my honest thoughts.
“Yes. There must have been something in the water Princess Lilienne scattered.”
“I see.”
Kalen was remarkably perceptive. Especially when it concerned me.
“Something that would set your body ablaze, quicken your breath, and make you gaze upon me with yearning eyes.”
He smiled mischievously and leaned closer, whispering near my ear.
“Is that why you’ve flushed so?”
Whoosh!
The curtain swept across, severing the outside world from our space in an instant. Kalen had pulled the cord, drawing the curtain closed.
“…!”
The next moment, Kalen lowered his lips to my neck. I trembled as his soft mouth drew my skin inward.
“How is this?”
His lips slowly traced upward along my neck before finally meeting my cheek.
“You seem to be enjoying it.”
Kalen gently nibbled my earlobe, his voice languid and tender.
“Shall I make you feel even better?”
* * *
Meanwhile, Orsini could not focus on the performance.
His gaze had remained fixed on the box seat occupied by Kanna Adis and Kalen since the curtain rose.
Why had they drawn the curtain?
What transpired in a box seat with drawn curtains was predictable. Ardent lovers often kindled their passion within such seclusion.
‘He must be mad with desire for Kanna.’
Surely by now he was receiving a slap across the face. Or perhaps being toyed with by that viper’s tongue of hers.
That was what Orsini believed.
Yet the curtain had remained drawn far longer than such a scenario would warrant…
‘Surely that bastard hasn’t…’
Orsini’s mind spiraled through countless possibilities. A inferno kindled within his chest.
His fist, resting upon the sofa’s armrest, clenched and released in rhythmic torment. As he suffered through the anguish of imagination.
‘The drug is working properly, it seems.’
Princess Lilienne, who had been observing their seats, noticed it too. Behind the curtained box seat, what transpired was predictable.
‘But Sir Kalen succumbed to Kanna’s seduction?’
The siblings were both descending into madness together.
Princess Lilienne leaned forward and whispered into Orsini’s ear.
“Did you know? Last night, I saw something strange in the corridor.”
At those words, Orsini’s fiery gaze shot toward her.
“What.”
“Your sister was kissing your brother.”
Of course, it was a lie.
“It seems she’s committing such depravities even now, and I fear the rumors that might spread. After all, even if she’s only your half-sister, you’ve grown up together since childhood.”
That was when the curtain to Kanna and Kalen’s box seat, which had been closed for so long, suddenly flew open.
‘They’re gone?’
Only an attendant clearing away the empty seats remained.
The two had vanished.
“Leaving their seats in the middle of the performance—it’s certain now.”
Princess Lilienne laughed provocatively, her tone mocking.
“They must have moved somewhere they could be alone.”
“….”
Orsini did not answer. He merely stared at the empty seats with eyes blackened by consuming rage.
How much time had passed?
He suddenly rose to his feet.
“I’m leaving.”
With those words, he departed like the wind.
‘He’s going to find them.’
That beast would surely track them down and raid the scene by any means. He would find them, witness them, and be devastated.
How could he endure seeing the woman he pined for writhing with his own brother?
‘Perhaps a brawl will break out.’
Surely….
‘He won’t kill him, will he?’

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