My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 240

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Chapter 240
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A long, exhausting day had finally passed.
In the early morning, I opened my eyes.
‘The rain… it’s still falling.’
The downpour that had begun yesterday continued unabated. I stared blankly at the ceiling for a moment before turning my head.
Alexandro Adis sat at the edge of the bed, watching me.
“You’re awake.”
“Yes.”
Alexandro was already dressed impeccably.
I gazed distantly at the pristine white shirt that draped his form. Seeing such an immaculate garment without a single wrinkle made everything feel like a fabrication.
Perhaps it had all unfolded only in a vivid dream. Maybe nothing had truly happened in reality at all.
“Now…”
The thunderous sound of rain swallowed my words.
I spoke a little louder.
“I should return now.”
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“There’s no need. I can go alone.”
Alexandro Adis was displeased. She had rejected his escort.
“Please don’t worry about it.”
“Don’t worry?”
He finally unleashed the complaints he had been holding back.
“I didn’t like that you came here alone in the first place. At the very least, you should take a guard with you.”
“I can protect myself. Don’t you remember?”
“What?”
“Back then—who was it that protected you from the Black Apostles when you were poisoned?”
“…”
At the mention of something from decades past, Alexandro Adis fell silent.
“Surely you haven’t forgotten?”
“…No.”
He murmured like a sigh and turned his head away.
“I remember.”
So he does.
He remembers.
In that instant, a poignant hope bloomed within me. Perhaps, if I tempted him just a little more, we could return to how things once were…
‘This is exactly why it won’t work.’
I smiled bitterly.
I had made a promise with Alexandro Adis—to forget everything that happened here, everything from last night. So now it was time to keep that promise.
But why is human desire so boundless?
Even knowing it cannot be, I find myself clinging to hope again and again.
But if I continued like that, it would only be Alexandro who would suffer.
‘Being alone with him in the carriage, I have no confidence I could behave myself.’
If I couldn’t end this now, I would never be able to end it. So I refused with the sharpness of a blade.
“If you’re going to return to Adis anyway, then come with me. But if your only purpose is to see me off, I don’t need it.”
“….”
“I’ll finish the medicine soon and send it through Claude. Until then, refrain from consuming poison.”
“….”
“And if I find a clue to the curse, I’ll come find you again. If you’re going to move somewhere else, you must tell me.”
Finally, the carriage arrived.
As Kanna Adis was about to board the carriage, Alexandro Adis took her hand and helped her up. At the sudden touch of his firm fingers, Kanna Adis was startled.
‘Ah, seriously.’
Don’t touch me so suddenly! My heart races and trembles just from your touch!
Suppressing the urge to cry out and the desire to grab that hand tightly, I turned around composedly.
Our eyes met.
For a moment, as if facing the sun, my eyes were dazzled and I narrowed them.
We gazed at each other.
A little longer, just a little more to behold….
“Go well.”
It was Alexandro Adis who broke the silence.
“Be well, Kanna Adis.”
I don’t know why it sounded like a final farewell.
“Take care.”
Goodbye.
My Alex.
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And I cried a little in the carriage.
As I sat alone shedding thick tears like a fool.
“…It’s alcohol.”
I discovered a bottle of whiskey sitting on the shelf.
‘I want to drink.’
Come to think of it, since arriving in this world, I had never properly drunk alcohol. My life had been too precarious to indulge in drinking.
But.
‘Isn’t alcohol meant to be drunk at times like this?’
After all, there was only myself here, so there was no risk of making mistakes in front of others, and I could lean on alcohol for a moment.
Kanna Adis reached out with that thought.
I intended to drink just one glass, but one became two, two became three, and eventually I emptied an entire bottle of whiskey.
And naturally, I became completely intoxicated.
“Alexandro Adis, if you were going to do this, you shouldn’t have touched me. You bastard.”
After speaking, my mood soured considerably.
“That was harsh. That person would be suffering more than anyone else. Watch your tongue.”
“But you swore nothing would change, so what is this!”
“Shut up. If you insult him, I won’t let it slide.”
I muttered to myself like someone with two separate personalities, and then I completely passed out.
How long had I been asleep?
“…Huh?”
I opened my eyes at the sound of knocking on the carriage door.
It was the coachman.
“My apologies, miss. The carriage wheel is stuck in the mud right now….”
The coachman’s words trailed off. He had caught the scent of alcohol wafting through the carriage. I forced strength into my tongue and pretended I wasn’t drunk. “Handle it yourself.”
“Handle it yourself.”
“Ah, yes, yes. Understood.”
The door closed again. From his bewildered expression, it seemed he was shocked to find a noblewoman alone, drinking herself into oblivion.
I grumbled in frustration.
“Why? I’m human too. I can struggle unbearably too.”
Am I not allowed to cry? Am I not allowed to drink?
I just want to fall apart for one day….
‘Good heavens.’
How pathetic. I let out a bitter laugh at my own pitiful state.
‘How foolish.’
No one died. What’s so significant about one love ending?
My connection with Alexandro Adis hasn’t truly ended either. I can see him again whenever I wish.
So why am I falling apart like this?
‘Thank goodness no one else is here. Thank goodness only the coachman witnessed this.’
With that self-deprecating laugh, I drifted back to sleep. And in my dreams, I seemed to hear something.
“…The carriage wheel is broken….”
“…Take her. I will escort the Duke Adis’s daughter to the Adis Mansion….”
Everything was spinning. Drowning in the approaching intoxication, I couldn’t regain my senses. Then I suddenly met a pair of blue eyes, and I think I said this.
“I was rejected.”
“…Rejected, you say?”
“The man I love rejected me. There’s nothing I can do about it.”
It was a line I would regret enough to kick off my blankets later.
And the man who heard those words seemed to burst into laughter. It sounded like an angry laugh somehow.
The moment I thought that.
Blackness.
“Mmm….”
How much time had passed?
When I opened my eyes again, I was on a bed.
“Where am I…?”
Ah, my head.
I grabbed my throbbing head and forced my eyes open. This was the Adis Mansion. Just moments ago, I thought I was in the carriage….
“Are you awake?”
Kanna Adis turned around with a startled gasp.
“…Orsini?”
Orsini lay beside her with his chin propped on his hand. For a moment, Kanna found herself at a loss for words.
Just for a brief instant, I had mistaken him for Alexandro Adis.
Perhaps it was from spending so many days pressed against him—I suddenly realized just how much Orsini truly resembled Alexandro Adis. Especially those keen, eagle-like eyes, so strikingly similar to Alex as he had been in his twenties.
Perhaps that was why my heart had lurched so violently before settling again.
He merely resembled him.
Orsini was not Alexandro Adis.
“Why are you here? Why are you in the same chamber as me…?”
I started to snap at him but closed my mouth instead. My headache had intensified. Watching my expression, Orsini let out a mocking laugh.
“Are you an idiot? You’re something else.”
“Watch your tongue.”
That temperament of his never changes. Orsini clicked his tongue and sat up, pulling a cord to summon the maid.
“Bring me something good for a hangover.”
Shortly after, I drank the tea the maid brought. Only then did I begin to feel somewhat human again.
“Silvien Valentino brought you here.”
“That man brought me?”
As confusion crossed her face, Orsini’s expression darkened.
“Don’t tell me you got drunk and collapsed in the streets, and that bastard picked you up?”
That couldn’t be right. I had been drinking alone in the carriage.
‘Or was I? I seem to recall hearing something about the carriage breaking down midway…’
Gradually, reason began to return. And I realized something: I had behaved like an absolute fool.
‘I must have lost my mind for a moment.’
Experiencing heartbreak for the first time, I had acted recklessly, as though saying “whatever happens, happens.”
“Hey.”
Orsini, who had been observing me intently, spoke up.
“Where have you been all this time?”
“I visited your father.”
“…”
I had no intention of hiding it. It would come to light eventually if he investigated anyway.
Yet for some reason, Orsini’s face seemed to grow pale rapidly.
“I see.”
But soon he composed himself, washing his face with his hands.
“You have a guest right now.”
“A guest? Ah, could it be Raphael?”
“Yes.”
Kanna Adis rose from the bed immediately.
That was enough. This foolish indulgence ended here.
It was time to stop wallowing in despair and focus on what truly needed to be done.
“Then I’ll be going.”
The moment I grasped the door handle, Orsini suddenly reached out and slammed the door shut with a resounding bang.
“Kanna, you….”
Orsini’s words trailed off.
“Alex.”
Yes.
Kanna Adis called me that.
As if summoning a lover, as if calling out to love itself.
And she wore a smile I had never seen before.
“I just visited your father.”
The blood drained from my entire body.
My fingertips froze with murderous intent toward this incomprehensible figure. My stomach churned. I felt utterly revolted.
You.
What is your relationship with my father?

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