My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 243

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Chapter 243
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One day, an Unknown Man arrived at the Divine Temple.
“I am very well acquainted with the curse that afflicts Alexandro Adis.”
“….”
“Therefore, please arrange for me to meet Kanna Adis. The security at the Adis Mansion is so formidable that I cannot approach it.”
What was this man scheming?
Raphael studied the Unknown Man’s face carefully. Instead of asking questions, he closed his eyes.
When he opened his eyelids again, his eyes had become the World Tree itself.
A colossal gaze that pierced through the world fixed itself relentlessly upon a single human being.
And once again, he was certain.
This man was Alexandro Adis.
“I am not Alexandro Adis. I am his puppet.”
Raphael’s brow furrowed. A puppet?
“A puppet created by Seon-hee decades ago.”
“…You are not a puppet, but Alexandro Adis himself.”
“No. He is elsewhere at this very moment.”
There was no need to question further this time.
Raphael closed his eyes again and gazed down upon the world. There, in the Coastal Village, he discovered Alexandro Adis making a complete mess of a kitchen.
He was learning to cook with a serious expression on his face, secretly pushing carrots that the Cooking Instructor had prepared into the trash bin.
‘How is this possible?’
Alexandro Adis stood before him.
And simultaneously existed elsewhere.
“Seon-hee is a master of alchemy, particularly the art of puppet-crafting. Among the puppets she has created, there are those who live their entire lives without even knowing they are puppets.”
Alexandro explained calmly, as if anticipating Raphael’s confusion.
“I am completely identical to Alexandro Adis. Even the blood flowing through my veins is the same.”
He knew little about puppets.
But one thing was certain.
‘There is no malice.’
He observed for a few more days, peering into the other’s heart with the eyes of the World Tree. While he could not read minds completely, he could discern the other’s intentions.
Indeed, there was no malice. Instead, it was filled with an almost terrifying intensity of goodwill.
‘Not an enemy.’
Deeming it safe, he brought the puppet to Kanna.
“That is how it came to be.”
Even with Raphael’s brief explanation, Kanna found it difficult to believe.
“You’re saying you’re a puppet that Mother created?”
“That is correct.”
Speaking in formal tones to Alexandro’s face felt deeply unsettling, so Kanna cleared her throat awkwardly.
“I don’t understand. Why would Mother create you?”
“Before that.”
The self-proclaimed puppet of Alexandro Adis turned his gaze toward Raphael.
“What I’m about to tell you must not be heard by anyone except Kanna Adis.”
“Raphael is fine. He’s the person I trust more than anyone.”
Perhaps it was my imagination, but displeasure flickered across the puppet’s eyes in an instant.
He spoke coldly.
“Please make that judgment after hearing what I have to say.”
I hesitated for a moment. Since Raphael had asserted there was no malice, it should be fine.
“Raphael, would you wait downstairs?”
“Understood.”
After he left, silence hung heavy in the room. With only a table between us, I observed the man with relentless scrutiny.
“You’re saying you’re a puppet?”
“That’s correct.”
“And the blood flowing through your body is identical? Even if you were a puppet, that would be impossible.”
“It’s impossible for you. But it’s possible for Seon-hee. Her alchemy is incomparably superior to yours.”
“….”
Suddenly speaking informally?
As I glared at him, the puppet casually corrected himself.
“Seon-hee’s alchemy is far superior. After all, the time she’s spent cultivating it is incomparably longer than yours.”
“Ah, is that so? Did Seon-hee spend tens of years, or perhaps centuries?”
Though I spoke sarcastically, the man merely chuckled without answering.
‘This is suspicious.’
As I regarded him with doubtful eyes, he exhaled a sigh and muttered to himself.
“You really don’t believe me.”
“Of course it’s hard to believe. It’s strange for his puppet to suddenly pop out like this.”
“Then what about this?”
He suddenly bent at the waist, bringing his face close to mine. He spoke slowly.
“That’s right. I’m not some puppet.”
His lips curled upward like a demon’s.
“I am Alexandro Adis.”
His green eyes gleamed with an eerie, ghostly light.
“I’ve come from a different time, from a past that has already vanished. I’ve been crossing through time dozens and hundreds of times, searching for a single future.”
“….”
“I can’t even remember how many times I’ve repeated this. I’ve forgotten what era the original me existed in.”
What kind of nonsense was this?
Though I thought that, I couldn’t utter a single word. Those blazing eyes felt as though they were strangling my throat.
“So, which version sounds more plausible?”
The puppet leaned back against the chair. He laughed savagely.
“Choose whichever you prefer to believe.”
I barely managed to swallow, then spoke.
“Don’t lie. You’re not Alexandro Adis from the past.”
When traveling through time, one’s consciousness possesses the body of whoever inhabits that era.
So if Alexandro Adis truly traveled through time from the past, his consciousness should have possessed my current body.
Even as I reasoned this way, I couldn’t achieve complete certainty.
‘I don’t know every single incantation formula that exists.’
There could be other time-travel incantations I was unaware of.
‘Ah, forget it.’
It was a problem I couldn’t solve immediately anyway. I suspended my judgment.
That’s when he spoke.
“By this point in time, you should have already broken the curse of the malevolent spirit, correct?”
How did he know?
“Stop right there.”
He spoke with absolute firmness.
“Alexandro Adis’s curse must not be broken now. If you break it, you will die. Not just you—everyone around you.”
“What kind of absurd—”
I was about to curse, but his piercing gaze silenced me.
Perhaps because our faces were identical, being scolded by Alexandro Adis felt surreal.
“Are you truly determined to break the curse?”
“Yes.”
“Of course you are.”
He nodded expressionlessly, as though unsurprised.
“The future version of you did the same. Within days from now, you’ll devise a spell to break the curse.”
Kanna Adis narrowed her brow. Was he really about to claim time travel again?
“Just endure for exactly one week. Everything will be resolved within that time. So why not rest and enjoy yourself for a few days?”
“I’m sorry, but I’ve already indulged in laziness quite enough.”
“Then I have no choice. I’ll have to abduct and confine you for a while.”
What?
“In one second, I’ll render you unconscious. Prepare yourself.”
“Wait—”
The next instant, a massive palm suddenly approached and obscured her vision.
That was the last thing she remembered.
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That is Alexandro Adis.
Two identical humans exist in this world.
Unbelievable as it was, it was true.
‘How strange.’
Raphael tilted his head.
His former self would never have felt such an emotion.
Now, he genuinely wanted to kill Alexandro Adis.
He knew this Alexandro wasn’t the same person he’d encountered before. This wasn’t ‘that Alexandro,’ but he was still the same man.
And that’s why he wanted to kill him.
And Kanna Adis….
I don’t know. What I want to do with her.
‘No, actually I do know.’
It’s simply that I can’t believe my own desire. I knew exactly what I wanted to do.
I wanted to hold her.
No, that’s not it. It’s not about holding her.
What I desired was not such a romantic gesture.
I wanted to devour Kanna Adis. To intoxicate myself like a carnivore consuming bone and flesh.
In other words… to be precise….
To pin her down right now and mount her, to grip her waist as Alexandro Adis had done, to drink her blood until it spilled from her skin, until she bled dry….
Raphael licked his parched lips. I wanted to act on it immediately. My fingertips trembled. But soon a sharp pang of guilt pierced through me, and I exhaled a heavy sigh.
‘I’m insane.’
I dragged my hand roughly across my face. My chest felt cold. That such a filthy, repulsive desire was my own—I couldn’t believe it.
Yet it was true. I genuinely wanted it. It had been this way since I reunited with her. And now, in this very moment, still.
At this point, I could no longer deny it.
‘I have changed.’
I am no longer a blind worshipper serving her. Now I had become something closer to a traitor—one who wanted to pin down my master and place a leash around her neck.
Once I acknowledged my true nature, there was no stopping it. Desire and imagination, unleashed like a broken dam, rushed forward without restraint. To distant places, to places I should never go.
Yes, the Grand Temple would be an excellent location.
Raphael imagined it with an expressionless face.
I would not confine her in a filthy underground dungeon as I had her mother. I would lock her away in a golden chamber filled with only the finest luxuries.
But since she would likely not obey willingly, I might have to bind her with chains, just as I had done to her mother.
Ah, merely thinking about it….
‘Exquisite.’
I clenched my teeth tightly. My jaw trembled. My breath grew hot and ragged.
Raphael exhaled deeply. And I closed my eyes. Through the eyes of the World Tree, I gazed down upon the world. I peered at what they were doing.
Right now, Alexandro reaching out his hand to her….
He renders her unconscious.
Raphael opened my eyelids again.
Perhaps it was for the best. For now, it was better to be separated from Kanna Adis. When I saw her again, I feared I would no longer be able to restrain myself.
Because I knew that everything I imagined, everything I desired, would become reality.
Besides, even now, I sense no hostility from Alexandro. He is not a man who would harm her.
So Raphael simply let it be. After all, I could always go find her whenever I wished.
I only hoped that red-haired man would protect her from me… Wait.
‘…That’s strange.’
Come to think of it, I had just used the World Tree’s eyes quite naturally.
But the World Tree has vanished.
I destroyed it with my own hands.
How am I using it like my own eyes?

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