My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 250

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Chapter 250
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Three years ago.
Kanna Adis died.
‘I might as well have killed her myself.’
For harboring a dangerous desire I should never have entertained.
Kalen Adis had always seized what he wanted. He knew precisely how to obtain anything he set his mind to.
This time was no exception, and he succeeded as expected.
Kalen never forgot the intoxicating satisfaction of that moment—when Kanna Adis finally fell into his grasp. That instant when she had nowhere to seek help, nowhere to flee, and could only be led wherever he desired.
Now his sister could not leave the Bedroom without his permission.
It was perfect possession.
He had always known it would come to this. He had always known he would have her.
From the moment he first became aware of his feelings, he believed it was only a matter of time. His sister would become his. And yet….
He never expected this.
He never expected her to escape through death.
He never expected her to punish him through death.
‘I should have failed instead.’
Had I failed, she would not have died.
Kalen wept atop the Cathedral Spire.
Against the crimson twilight sky, Kanna Adis hovered like a holy spirit. She smiled gently and extended her hand toward him.
Kalen approached willingly. He reached out his hand toward her.
“I love you.”
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…It hurts.
Sister.
Ah, damn it. It hurts so much.
Did you hurt this much too, sister?
I was wrong.
Sister. Sister. Sister. Kanna. Kanna.
Kanna, where are you now?
“Is she alive?”
“Yes. She’s alive.”
“After falling from that height?”
“She’s a monster. The Adis bloodline truly….”
Beyond the searing agony, blurred voices drifted past. Yet I could not regain consciousness. I merely murmured like an instinct.
“Sister….”
And then, darkness. Pitch-black oblivion engulfed everything.
When consciousness returned, I found myself lying somewhere.
‘Am I alive?’
Why am I alive? I was trying to go to where sister is….
“Hey, your eyes are open?”
“Leave him be. He won’t regain consciousness anyway. How far did the experiment progress?”
“We just finished one. It was successful.”
Kalen opened his eyelids. Unfamiliar men loomed over him like he was some ornamental fish in a tank.
“Hey, are you awake?”
One of the men tapped Kalen’s cheek repeatedly, snickering.
“How does it feel, you noble Descendant of Holy Knights, reduced to a test subject for the Black Apostles?”
“Hey, stop that. If he regains consciousness….”
“He won’t. We already gave him the drug that destroys the mind….”
In the next instant, Kalen’s arm shot out. His hand seized the man’s throat in an iron grip.
Crack.
The man’s neck twisted at an unnatural angle.
It was over.
Kalen hurled the corpse to the ground, breathing heavily. He tried to rise, but iron chains coiled tightly around his torso. With veins bulging viciously across his hands, he tore the chains apart.
“R-run!”
“Get out, now!”
But it was already too late.
Kalen rose and seized the nearest man. He slammed him against the wall with a sickening crunch, the man’s skull caving in under his grip. Simultaneously, he grabbed a candlestick from the table and hurled it with a sweeping motion.
“…!”
It pierced the fleeing man’s chest with perfect accuracy. He collapsed without even a scream.
Kalen slaughtered them one by one. Even though he understood nothing of what was happening.
His instincts alone screamed at him. Escape. Leave this place.
“Well, you’ve come to your senses, Sir Kalen.”
After walking for some time, Kalen discovered a man at the end of the corridor.
Dazzling platinum hair, beautiful eyes of violet hue.
“Wow. I’ve never seen Sir Kalen like this before. You look like a vengeful ghost.”
The man applauded as he watched the blood-drenched Kalen.
“Feels terrible, doesn’t it? I understand. I was experimented on as a child too.”
“….”
“Well, the experiment was somewhat different from yours, but it was equally horrific regardless.”
Nothing reached Kalen’s ears. Since moments ago, only one sentence consumed his mind entirely.
Sister.
Where is my sister?
…But who is my sister again?
I don’t know. I can’t remember.
But I must find her.
Sister. Where. Sister. Forgive me.
Sister. I’m sorry. Sister. Sister….
“Where is my sister?”
“What?”
“Move. Sister. Sister… move.”
“Good grief. Completely mad. Just how much of that drug did they….”
In that instant, murderous intent flickered in Kalen’s eyes.
“Whoa, whoa, don’t do that. I still want to live longer. Just let me pass, let me pass.”
Kalen glared at him before moving past without resistance. Not knowing where he was going, not knowing whom he sought, he simply walked and walked endlessly.
I want to see you. Just one more time.
I can’t accept parting from you like this.
This eternal farewell is a lie.
It seemed he had called out some name countless times, his lips trembling. It seemed he had wept like a lost child.
And then… he collapsed.
When he opened his eyes, he remembered nothing.
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Kalen Adis stared at the white-haired youth in the mirror.
A man who had been Kalen, lived as a mercenary named Ren, and had returned to being Kalen once more.
He possessed memories that had always been shrouded in darkness.
As if someone had drawn a curtain over them, they would not surface.
After falling from the Cathedral Spire.
How had he survived after that?
Those memories had only begun to resurface recently.
That platinum-haired man back then was Prince Argon. As expected, he had been active as a Black Apostle long ago.
‘The Black Apostles experimented on me.’
Kalen’s expressionless face unfastened each button methodically. The muscular body concealed beneath the pristine shirt gradually revealed itself.
Though it no longer existed, there had once been a small mark on his left chest.
‘Why is it gone?’
They had definitely tampered with this body.
He distinctly remembered hearing them say that some experiment had succeeded back then.
What could it possibly be?
What had they done to me?
The more he thought, the more unease coiled within his chest. He felt anxious, as if a time bomb about to detonate were bound to his heart.
‘Sister.’
Since those memories had returned, he had carefully avoided Kanna Adis.
He feared this bomb, which could detonate at any moment, might harm her as well.
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“It is a pleasure to meet you. My name is Rusvia.”
Kanna Adis gazed intently at the woman.
Lucy’s Mother, and in the past, the maid of Alexandro Adis.
‘So her name was Rusvia.’
She still bore an unassuming impression. Save for the violet hair she had never seen before in her life, there was nothing particularly remarkable about this woman.
“Lucy, would you step outside for a moment?”
“Eh? Sister, but….”
“Go back to your room. Understood?”
“Yes.”
Lucy left the room with a sullen expression. Then Rusvia spoke with a smile.
“Did Lucy mention that I was ill?”
“Yes. I heard you’d been suffering for quite some time. She asked me to treat you.”
“I apologize. My daughter is still so naive… It was merely a light cold. I’ve recovered completely now.”
It certainly appeared that way. Her complexion was healthy, with no trace of illness visible.
Moreover, her lustrous hair and the fine quality of her modest garments spoke volumes.
‘Alex has been supporting her.’
Perhaps they’d been maintaining contact all this time. The thought kindled an insidious irritation within me.
Was that why my voice had turned sharp?
“Then Lucy lied to me?”
“She’s still a child who simply wished to be with her mother. I apologize on her behalf. Please, I beg your forgiveness just this once.”
Her words extinguished my competitive spirit in an instant.
‘How difficult it must be for a child to live apart from her mother.’
Completely drained of resolve, I asked weakly.
“Why didn’t you meet more often during this time?”
“Her father did not wish for it. This time, he finally permitted it.”
“….”
Alexandro?
Why would he?
‘Because she was a maid?’
But he wasn’t the type to prevent his daughter from seeing her mother due to low status.
“He disliked drawing attention to myself. So I lived hidden away in secrecy.”
“Is that so?”
I let out a scoff. The jealousy that had subsided flared up once more.
“Are you some sort of treasure? Was he afraid someone would steal you away? What exactly is your relationship with him?”
“….”
“I heard you were a maid. How did you end up bearing his child? Are you his hidden mistress?”
The moment the words left my lips, a crushing wave of self-loathing struck me.
‘Insane woman.’
Why was I jealous again?
I’d sworn never to do this again. Yet here I was, displaying such ugliness…
But Rusvia showed no surprise. She simply gazed at me intently, as if searching for something in my face.
“You are Seon-hee’s daughter, aren’t you?”
And then she spoke words I hadn’t anticipated.
“She knew my true identity.”
“….”
“She told me that one day, her daughter would ask me this very question.”
What on earth was she talking about?
Kanna’s eyes turned cold. She was already irritated enough because of Seon-hee, that woman.
“What are you talking about? My mother predicted this catastrophe? And you say she recognized your identity—who exactly are you?”
“I am not a person born in this world.”
“What did you just say?”
Kanna’s lips parted in shock.
What did that woman just say?
“I am not a person of this world.”
Rusvia smiled faintly.
“Just like your mother.”
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You know the World Tree is not a plant of this world, yes?
I am a person from the world to which the World Tree belongs.
That world is far more cruel and vicious than this place.
So I preferred this world. I adapted and worked hard to become a person of this place and live well.
I don’t know how Seon-hee noticed it. And before Seon-hee disappeared, she told me something.
That one day in the future, there would come a moment when she would be intoxicated and lose her senses. At that time….
At that time, if I called out “Alex” and approached her that way, then she….
…You may blame me if you wish.
I deeply admired her. I wanted to have a memory with her, even if just for one night.
Afterward, Alexandro Adis grew furious.
And Seon-hee…at that moment, she told me to confess that I was a person from another world.
So I did.
Upon hearing my identity, and learning that all of this was something Seon-hee had instructed, he no longer felt anger.
Why was that?
It was something Seon-hee told me to do. Did those words become some kind of cipher?
It’s something I cannot comprehend.
Yet he seemed to understand everything with just those words. As if he had received instructions from an absolute being, he accepted it all in an instant.
He accepted everything.
All of it.
And when I told him that a child had been conceived from that night, I cannot forget his expression at that moment.
On his expressionless face, as always, there flickered briefly….
That gladness.
I had never seen him look so terrifying as in that moment.
Why was he satisfied with Lucy’s existence?
Without even loving her.
While loving nothing at all.

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