My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 252

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Chapter 252
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On her way to Lucy’s Room, Kanna Adis encountered Isabel in the Corridor. And she heard something utterly strange from her.
“Sister. Prince Argon didn’t die?”
“Why?”
“Princess Lilienne’s lover resembles Prince Argon. It’s not that their faces look alike exactly, but the feeling….”
It’s Argon. Kanna muttered to herself.
“Lucy is in danger.”
“What?”
Kanna immediately bolted toward Lucy’s Room. But she stopped abruptly after only a few steps.
‘If I go in?’
I could attack with alchemy, certainly.
But he would undoubtedly be holding Lucy hostage.
I could freeze, incinerate, or tear apart everything in that room, but I didn’t know how to execute an attack precise enough to target just one person.
Moreover, Argon was no ordinary opponent.
Wasn’t he the most dangerous man among the Black Apostles I knew?
So I had to be rational.
“Isabel, you go to Kalen.”
“What? But you said Lucy is in danger! We should go right now…!”
“Go to Kalen! Tell him Argon is targeting Lucy. I’m going to Orsini!”
With those words, Kanna dashed toward Orsini’s Room. But suddenly seized by an ominous feeling, she glanced back.
‘That girl!’
Sure enough. Isabel was bolting toward Lucy’s Room!
“Young Lady? Are you all right?”
She happened to encounter a Knight Guard on patrol. Kanna spoke urgently.
“Bring Orsini!”
“Pardon?”
“To Lucy’s Room! A Black Apostle has infiltrated!”
At those words, the Knight Guard asked nothing further and sprinted away.
Kanna bit her fingers hard as she raced toward Lucy’s Room. Please, Isabel had to be safe….
And then she saw it.
A scene beyond imagination.
“Ugh!”
Argon was being pummeled by Isabel.
“Ah, ah! It hurts!”
“Lucy! Get down! Let go! Now!”
“Ugh! Miss Isabel! Please calm down! If you want to live, ugh! Let this go!”
“Give Lucy back! Let go!”
“Ugh! You cursed Adis! Your strength is ridiculous!”
Then Isabel’s fist came sweeping across Argon’s cheek. His body flew backward and crashed into the wall.
Crash! The wall fractured in a spiderweb of cracks. Argon slid down limply, motionless as if unconscious.
‘Insane.’
I swallowed hard. This wasn’t merely a matter of brute strength….
“Such arrogance from a nobody.”
Isabel dusted off her hands and hoisted the limp Lucy onto the bed.
That was when it happened.
“L-Lucy….”
The fallen Rusvia stirred her fingers and murmured.
“Rusvia!”
I hurried closer to her.
“Rusvia? Are you alright?”
“L-Lucy?”
“Lucy is fine….”
My words trailed off. Was she fine?
The moment I turned back, my eyes met Argon’s. He was already rising stealthily, creeping toward Lucy.
“Ah. Caught.”
Had he been feigning unconsciousness the whole time!
“You bastard!”
As Isabel lunged, Argon leaped backward.
“Miss Isabel, please compose yourself! You’re not a bull—you’re human! Reclaim your human dignity!”
“Shut up! How dare you!”
Isabel’s assault resumed. It was absurd.
‘What are you doing right now?’
I sighed and began tracing a spell formation. This wasn’t even a melodramatic action scene….
Just before the formation completed, I shouted loudly.
“Isabel, get down!”
“What?”
“Get down, I said!”
Isabel tilted her head in confusion.
“Why?”
Irritation surged through me. She should just lie down instinctively!
Once the spell formation completed, razor-sharp wind would tear through like blades, cutting down everything standing—did I really need to explain that before she’d obey?
At that moment, annoyance flickered across Argon’s eyes.
“This is truly troublesome….”
Argon shoved Isabel away. It was the last time.
But as expected, Isabel sprang back up with incredible speed and seized his waist.
“Where do you think you’re going!”
And in that instant, all playfulness vanished from Argon’s eyes. His patience had shattered. His composure crumbled. The killing intent he’d been suppressing erupted.
“Isabel!”
Dodge—no, run!
Kanna Adis was about to speak, but Argon was faster.
Crack.
Isabel heard something break.
“…?”
Isabel’s lips parted slightly. The strength drained from her arms, which had been wrapped around Argon’s waist to support him.
What was that sound? Just now.
“Huh?”
As she lowered her gaze, she saw the blade’s tip protruding at an angle. A sword that had pierced through her back and emerged from her chest.
What is this?
“Isabel!”
In that moment, Kanna cried out. Her face had turned deathly pale.
Isabel tried to respond with a sound, but something surged up her throat instead. The metallic taste filled her mouth, and she grimaced.
This is blood, isn’t it?
Isabel lifted her head with a pained expression. Her chest burned. It hurt as if she were being consumed by flames. Again, blood rushed backward up her throat.
“Sister, it hurts….”
Those were Isabel Adis’s final words.
Her body collapsed. Everything crumbled and was buried in darkness.
“You should have known better than to go that far.”
Argon withdrew the blade from her heart. He flicked the blood away and sneered.
“I told you to stop. I told you to stop talking….”
In that instant, Kanna’s incantation circle was complete.
“…!”
Argon gasped in terror and threw himself flat against the ground. Almost simultaneously, a blade of wind sliced perilously close, shearing through his hair.
‘Good heavens.’
His spine tingled with ice-cold dread. If he’d been even a moment slower, his body would have been severed!
“Kanna, your sister just died—you should at least hesitate for a moment, and yet….”
And already, the next incantation circle was forming. No, it was nearly complete.
That vicious girl! Argon threw himself forward with all his strength and seized Lucy.
At that moment, Kanna’s hands froze. Just a little more, the tiniest movement, and the lines of the incantation circle would connect—but she stopped just before.
“Wow, that’s truly terrifying.”
Argon slowly rose, his grip tightening around Lucy’s throat.
“Just like Seon-hee’s daughter, I see. The same personality. No mercy at all. In a moment like this, you should be clutching Isabel’s corpse and wailing….”
Suddenly, Argon’s words cut off.
Beyond the door.
From the end of the corridor, a murderous aura came surging like a tempest. The killing intent of an enraged dragon made every hair on his body stand on end.
Orsini Adis was coming.
In other words, it was time to flee.
“Well then, farewell!”
Argon hurriedly threw himself out the window.
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Orsini Adis burst into the room. His eyes trembled violently. Isabel….
“Kanna!”
But Orsini rushed past Isabel’s corpse without hesitation.
“Stop!”
Kanna Adis was leaning far out the window.
“This is the fifth floor!”
Thinking she meant to hurl herself down, Orsini gasped and seized her by the waist.
“Calm yourself!”
My gaze remained fixed beyond the window—on Prince Argon fleeing with Lucy Adis slung across his shoulders. I saw what he was doing.
He drew a blade across Lucy’s hand, stained his palm with her blood, and traced an incantation circle with it…
In the next instant, a black fissure tore open in the empty air.
“Insane bastard.”
“Kanna? What in the world….”
I spun around. Rather than explain, I dragged Orsini by his collar toward the window.
“Orsini, look at that.”
His eyes widened. Upon grasping the situation, curses spilled from his lips.
“Damn it, that son of a bitch….”
The black fissure.
Black Mist was pouring from within it.
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Prince Argon exhaled in relief.
By summoning the Black Mist with Lucy’s blood, he could evade pursuit.
He crossed through the mist and fled, then suddenly burst into laughter despite himself.
He knew the structure of this estate far too well.
The paths through the Garden as well.
Despite having visited only a handful of times, they existed vividly in his memory.
In fact, this was true across many domains. Without ever experiencing them, he knew how to do countless things and possessed vast knowledge.
It was all thanks to Teresa.
Thanks to his butterfly-beautiful mother.
The Black Apostle had dragged young Argon to the Laboratory and offered him as an experimental subject.
In that place, the Laboratory, lay the corpse of a red-haired man. The experiment had transferred portions of that man into Argon.
Such things as love-hate toward a woman named Seon-hee, memories of his younger brother Alexandro’s stubborn food preferences, his martial prowess, swordsmanship, knowledge, speech patterns, habits….
So he sometimes became confused.
About who he truly was.
Whether these desires, thoughts, and will belonged to him. Whether this life was his own.
Prince Argon chuckled softly.
‘Kalen, you would understand me.’
Because you, too, were subjected to experimentation like I was.
So prove to me that you have no choice. Show me that what I do is inevitable.
Prince Argon raised his hand, stained with Lucy’s blood. He traced an incantation circle. And he spoke.
“Kalen Adis, I command you.”
During that experiment, I had implanted a suggestion deep within Kalen’s mind—one that dominated his entire spirit and body.
The suggestion could only be triggered once.
Now, in this very moment, Prince Argon used that opportunity.
“Imprison Kanna Adis.”
I had Lucy in my grasp.
So Kanna was no longer necessary.
In fact, she had been my greatest obstacle in achieving my goals.
Therefore.
“Lock her away so thoroughly she can never escape this world, hide her completely, and break her entirely. Make her yours.”
Isn’t that what you truly desire, Kalen? I’m merely opening the floodgates to your own desires.
Prince Argon chuckled darkly.
One command, two problems eliminated. Remarkably efficient.
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“Damn it all!”
Unable to contain his fury, curses spilled from his lips.
Orsini Adis severed the neck of a charging beast. Monsters erupting from the Black Mist were assaulting every corner of the estate, while servants and Knight Guards infected by the Black Mist transformed into savage creatures and lunged forward.
The feeling of killing the household staff—his longtime companions—remained utterly horrific.
There was only one way to end this mist.
Find the rift, that fracture in reality, and destroy it.
A sudden sense of relief washed over him. Kalen had arrived just in time, and I had been able to entrust Kanna to him before rushing off.
It was truly fortunate.
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Kalen had made his decision.
‘I should imprison my sister.’
The desire had suddenly overwhelmed me.
No, that wasn’t right. It wasn’t sudden. I had always wanted this.
I knew it was my true nature. Until now, I had merely suppressed the instinct.
But now I wanted to stop holding back. I was tired of restraint, tired of consideration.
Now I wanted to act freely. Like before, like when I had confined her on the Island….
‘Yes, I should do it like that.’
The time I had spent controlling her on the Island was brief—merely days. Yet those few days of memory were simultaneously my greatest regret and my greatest joy.
How many sleepless nights had I spent in loneliness? How many nights did I yearn for her specifically, secretly reliving those days on the Island, drowning in hidden guilt?
No, I shouldn’t do this. I shouldn’t recall that moment of sin, shouldn’t, shouldn’t, shouldn’t….
And yet.
Again and again.
I had comforted myself alone with an uncontrollable longing.
Kalen Adis licked his lower lip. An irresistible thirst burned through me.
“Kalen, Isabel is truly dead.”
My sister is currently collecting Isabel’s remains. Orsini entrusted my sister’s safety to me before leaving to destroy the Black Mist’s rift. An opportunity like this would never come again.
A dangerous glint flickered through Kalen’s eyes.
“I cannot believe Isabel is dead.”
“I told you to call me instead of entering the room.”
Kanna muttered.
It was not quite sorrow. Rather, her voice carried a hollow emptiness.
“Isabel—she never listened to a single word I said her entire life.”
How unexpected. So my sister’s heart is more delicate than I thought. What does it matter that a younger sister who never once properly apologized is now dead?
What does it matter that she turns her back to me like this?
So defenseless.
“Sister.”
I am the one who once forced myself upon your person before.
“Please do not grieve so deeply.”
If you have such memories, you should not turn your back to me, sister.

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