My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 229

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Chapter 229
Why are you asking me that?
Kanna Adis furrowed her brow. But then she considered it rationally.
Even if Princess Lilienne wasn’t a Black Apostle, she was the perfect pawn for them to exploit.
‘That’s exactly what happened. They even fed me that strange drug.’
Thanks to that, I’d nearly ruined everything.
“It’s better this way. That woman could very well be connected to the Black Apostles.”
Then I twisted my wrist and slipped free from his grip.
“I forgot to mention it, but the Divine Spirit will be visiting soon.”
Orsini’s face slowly, but unmistakably, crumpled.
“The Divine Spirit? That sinister creature who trailed after you like a shadow?”
“Watch your tongue.”
“Did I say something wrong? Why would that bastard….”
“They’re someone precious to me.”
Orsini’s lips pressed into a thin line. For a moment, his eyes twitched faintly. Kanna turned away from him and rose to her feet.
“They’ll be staying for a few days before leaving, so keep that in mind.”
After leaving those words, Kanna exited the room.
This morning, Raphael had sent a messenger.
【I have something to discuss regarding the curse that Alexandro Adis has received. If you permit it, I shall visit shortly.】
I’d discovered how to break the curse of malevolent spirits.
But the curse of sleeplessness and the curse of eternal life—I couldn’t find a trace of them. Perhaps Raphael had found the key to those.
‘First, I want to lift the curse that lets him see malevolent spirits.’
Suddenly, anxiety washed over me.
‘Claude Azel, come back soon.’
* * *
“My apologies. Alexandro Adis has refused.”
Kanna couldn’t believe her ears. After all her misgivings, he was refusing even this?
“I’m afraid I cannot tell you where Alexandro Adis is located.”
Kanna stared intently at Claude Azel.
“Claude Azel.”
“Yes?”
“You know what I want, don’t you?”
“No, I’m afraid I don’t… Miss?”
Psssht!
Kanna sprayed hypnotic fragrance directly into his face.
Moments later, watching Claude Azel’s eyes glaze over, I gave my command.
“Tell me where he is.”
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After extracting the address from Claude Azel, Kanna immediately commandeered a carriage.
‘…Here?’
A small Coastal Village. Alexandro Adis’s home overlooked the emerald Sea at a glance.
‘He was living in a place like this?’
Of course, by commoner standards, it wasn’t a bad place to live alone.
But Alexandro Adis, who had once owned the grandest mansion in the Capital, was residing here.
What’s more, he had even planted sunflowers prettily in the small Garden.
‘Did Claude give me wrong information?’
As I stood there suspicious, the door to the house suddenly burst open.
“Then I’ll be on my way.”
…A young woman emerged.
I stared blankly at the woman who had tumbled out of the house before noticing the man standing behind her.
It was Alexandro Adis.
The moment our eyes met, his expression hardened.
I approached him with an icy smile.
“It’s been a while.”
“Why are you here?”
Instead of answering, I let my gaze drift down to examine the woman.
“And who are you?”
“Huh? Oh, I, I am….”
The woman stammered, glancing back and forth between Alexandro Adis and me. Her bumbling demeanor made irritation surge through me.
“Are you not hearing me? I asked who you are.”
“Kanna.”
At that moment, Alexandro Adis called my name softly. I shot him a glare with burning eyes.
“….”
A stern gaze.
Meeting those eyes, strangely, all my resolve scattered like mist.
Alexandro Adis sighed and grabbed my arm, pulling me inside the house. Then he spoke to the woman.
“You may go.”
Why was he speaking so formally to her?
Who exactly was this woman?
The woman seemed to share the same question.
“B-but who is that person…?”
“My daughter.”
Leaving the startled woman behind, Alexandro Adis closed the door.
Silence descended.
I looked down at his hand gripping my wrist. It was rougher and firmer than the last time we had touched.
But it was only for a moment. Alexandro Adis released me and stepped back.
“Come inside.”
It was unexpected. I thought he would turn me away at the door, not invite me in.
He led me to the Living Room.
“Why have you come to this place?”
“I came to see you.”
“I warned you before. Speak properly.”
“Why? What’s wrong with that?”
“You are my….”
“Daughter, what.”
I cut off his words with a scoff.
“Did you see that woman’s expression earlier? When you introduced me as your daughter, she looked at me like I was insane.”
I leaned back against the sofa, my tone dripping with sarcasm.
“Of course she’d think you were joking. A daughter like me with that face of yours? That’s laughable. A mistress, maybe.”
As I studied his face, I noticed something belatedly.
‘Has he grown younger?’
His face had definitely aged a few years, but now it had reverted to how it was before—frozen at the same moment for eternity.
“Or were you secretly meeting a divorced man with kids? That would certainly deserve criticism.”
“That’s not it.”
Alexandro Adis rubbed his temples as if his head was throbbing.
“That woman is my cooking instructor.”
What?
“She runs the only cooking academy in this village.”
….
“I find it uncomfortable to mingle with others, so I’m taking private lessons.”
In that instant, every word I had prepared vanished.
Alexandro Adis learning to cook? Taking private lessons because he was too embarrassed to attend the academy?
“Why are you learning to cook?”
Then he answered matter-of-factly.
“Because I can’t.”
….
Well, if he were good at it, there’d be no need to learn. You learn because you can’t….
‘No, I can’t fall for this.’
I snapped my wandering mind back into focus.
“I don’t believe it. You could just hire a chef. Why would you need to learn cooking yourself?”
“Whether you believe it or not doesn’t concern me.”
But Alexandro Adis cut off her curiosity with a single stroke.
“Even if I were to see that woman privately, you have no reason to be involved.”
Those words struck me like a slap across the face.
It was nothing. Really, it was nothing—yet every barb seemed to snap and crumble.
Like a fool, I couldn’t say anything and clenched my fists.
“…I came to break your curse.”
After a long silence, I finally managed to speak.
“You said you see malevolent spirits. I found a spell formation that can break that curse. So….”
“I don’t need it. The curse is already gone.”
The curse has been lifted?
When? How?
‘No, that can’t be right.’
I couldn’t believe it. He was clearly lying.
Trying to push me away.
‘Why?’
Kanna Adis bit her lip.
‘Why are you pushing me away?’
Anxiety—or something painted in those same desolate hues—swirled within her.
Alexandro Adis’s sandy gaze, his parched voice, everything about him was pushing her away. Out of his life.
“I can’t believe you.”
At those words, Alexandro Adis tilted his head as if puzzled.
“Kanna Adis.”
“Yes.”
“Does my belief in you matter to me?”
My words died completely. It was as though my tongue had been severed. The shock was that profound.
“The curse is broken. So you need not carry guilt or debt toward me any longer.”
“Alex.”
In that instant, displeasure settled across Alexandro Adis’s face.
He spoke with deliberate slowness.
“I warned you not to call me that.”
The air sharpened in a heartbeat. Perhaps because of it—my entire skin throbbed with dull ache.
“This conversation is finished. I have nothing more to say to you.”
Alexandro Adis rose from the sofa.
“Don’t seek me out again. I would be grateful if you simply forgot me and lived your life.”
…
“Leave, Kanna Adis.”
Alexandro Adis had ended it.
The end of a wait that must have spanned decades of anguish.
“Go and live your own life.”
Heat pooled in my eyes.
How could he end things so callously?
These memories were far too precious to sever so casually. They remained vivid. Close enough to grasp in my hands.
Those moments. So crystalline that their warmth still lingered, still burned through the hours.
Of course. For me, they had happened mere moments ago.
But for Alexandro Adis, they were a distant past. Events from decades before.
Moreover, his wait had neither promise nor object. Like the moon’s shadow reflected on dark water—a phantom he yearned for, forever beyond reach.
“I am….”
“I’m weary. Enough.”
But if he didn’t want this, wasn’t it right for me to withdraw?
He truly seemed to desire nothing anymore. Everything appeared utterly tedious to him.
Then shouldn’t I disappear for his sake?
He must have suffered because of me his entire life….
My nose stung sharply. I swallowed that burning emotion with difficulty.
But….
‘Could he truly mean it?’
If he had so little attachment that he could sever it so cleanly, why had he endured such torment and kept his promise all this time?
“Has the curse truly been lifted?”
“Yes.”
“I see….”
I rose from my seat. Then I passed by Alexandro Adis.
‘The bedroom, where is the bedroom?’
Knowing it was rude, I walked into the bedroom without hesitation.
“Kanna Adis.”
I ignored the footsteps following behind me.
The chamber. And the nightstand beside it. I approached with long strides.
“Kanna Adis, stop.”
I opened the drawer. And I saw.
Dozens of medicine bottles.
My breathing had already grown ragged. I lowered my gaze to the trash bin beneath the bed. Multiple empty medicine bottles were stacked there.
A bitter laugh escaped me.
“And you claim the curse has been lifted?”
I turned my body. Alexandro Adis stood outside the bedroom. Yet as if a powerful line had been drawn, he could not step inside.
I lifted a medicine bottle and laughed mockingly.
“You’ve stockpiled so many, yet you lie that the curse has been lifted?”
I approached him.
With each step closer, I saw Alexandro Adis’s eyes harden with sharp intensity.
“What are you afraid of that you avoid me?”
“There is nothing like that.”
“You’re lying.”
“Leave.”
“I refuse.”
“Do you want to be forcibly dragged out by my hand?”
His voice, spoken low, was menacing. Yet I was no longer afraid. It only hurt.
“Don’t you remember?”
I laughed. I lifted my arm.
It was the wrist he had once grasped.
“You were the one who dragged me into this place.”

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