My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 253

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Chapter 253
“We should leave for now. There are surely wounded Knight Guards outside. If you heal them, they might survive.”
“You’re right.”
Kanna Adis rose to her feet and approached Kalen Adis.
“Come here, sister.”
Kalen Adis seized the pretense of supporting her to wrap his arms around her waist. As Kanna Adis complied without resistance, his breathing grew ragged.
She did not reject his touch. She surrendered her soft, pliant body to him without hesitation. That fact drove him to the brink of madness. He felt like a hunter in the final moments before the kill.
Yet he endured. With superhuman restraint, he suppressed the desire that threatened to tear through his very clothes.
Not yet.
Not until we leave this estate.
“Confine Kanna Adis.”
Hurry, hurry, hurry!
“Miss!”
At that moment, Claude Azel suddenly appeared before them.
“There you are!”
In that instant, Kalen Adis nearly killed Claude Azel. But as Claude Azel’s gaze fell upon him, Kalen Adis smoothly composed his expression.
“Claude Azel, you’re unharmed.”
“If you were thinking of heading downstairs, I’d advise against it. The monsters are swarming.”
Claude Azel gestured to his blood-stained clothes with a smile.
“Perhaps it would be best if you went alone, Kalen Adis. I’ll guard the lady.”
Claude Azel’s eyes did not smile.
“You are an important asset, after all. So I’ll take responsibility for the lady.”
Kalen Adis responded with silence, lifting the corners of his mouth.
How irritating.
Ever since the Island three years ago, Claude Azel had been wary of him.
Kalen Adis had always felt that distrust. And he had accepted it without complaint. It was justified, after all.
But not now.
“Yes, Kalen. Go help the Knight Guards downstairs.”
At Kanna Adis’s words, Claude Azel seized his justification. He pulled her away from Kalen Adis’s arms.
“Let’s go, miss.”
In that moment, such emptiness.
No. I cannot let sister be taken from me like this.
“Confine Kanna Adis.”
His limp hand twitched. Slowly it rose and grasped the hilt of his sword.
And in the next instant, Claude Azel drew his blade and blocked the attack.
Clang! The metallic shriek tore through the air. Claude Azel laughed as he withstood the overwhelming force.
“Just as I thought. I knew you’d do something reckless.”
Their blades locked with a shower of sparks. Claude Azel’s eyes turned cold.
“I had a feeling Kalen Adis would cause trouble one day.”
The moment his words ended, their swords clashed again. Kanna Adis cried out.
“Kalen, what are you doing!”
What am I doing?
That’s right—what am I doing right now?
Kalen Adis’s expression twisted for a moment. What am I doing? Right now I am….
“I’m confining Kanna Adis.”
Yes. That’s what I should do. Lock my sister in a cage, break her wings, make it so she can never see the world again.
Kalen Adis muttered to himself.
“Claude Azel, interfere and I’ll kill you.”
“Miss, run away!”
Claude shouted as he desperately parried the onslaught of blades. He knew he could not hold out long against Kalen.
“Flee, now!”
“No, Sister, don’t go!”
Kalen thrust his sword at Claude while screaming.
‘What in the world is happening!’
Kanna Adis could not believe the sudden clash between the two men. She quickly assessed them both.
Which one of them had lost his mind?
“Don’t move, Sister. Do you wish to watch Claude die?”
It was Kalen. Kalen had gone mad.
Kanna Adis raised her fingers. Blood still flowed from them. She tried to trace a spell formation, but the two men were locked in desperate combat, separating and colliding repeatedly—she could not attack.
Then Kalen’s blade plunged deep into Claude’s shoulder. A white blade bloomed like a wing above his collarbone, then was swiftly withdrawn.
“You held well, Claude Azel.”
With those words, he slashed deeply across Claude’s chest.
No—he did not land the blow. Claude had nimbly dodged backward. Yet the blade had grazed him, and blood began to flow from his chest.
“Haha, is that so? Against Adis….”
Claude coughed up blood.
And Kalen did not miss that instant. He swiftly raised his blade and brought it down with all his might.
“Kalen!”
That was when Kanna Adis burst forward.
Kalen hastily pulled his arm back, but it was too late.
“Ah!”
It was a terrible sensation. The blade’s edge tearing savagely through flesh. Violence he had wielded his entire life, yet never felt so vividly.
“Miss!”
With a metallic clang, Kalen dropped his sword in shock.
His hand convulsed. Unable to believe what he had done, unable to forgive himself, it trembled violently.
“Miss! Are you all right?”
Kalen slowly turned his head to look ahead. The moment he saw Kanna Adis, his breath stopped.
Everything was crimson.
Her right arm burned as if consumed by lava, glowing an angry red. Fresh blood poured down in a torrent.
The thick metallic stench of blood suddenly made him retch. Kalen covered his mouth with trembling hands.
“Miss!”
Was blood always this crimson?
Did it always reek with such horror?
“Ah, ugh….”
Was human suffering always this heartbreaking?
“Good heavens, her arm….”
Claude examined Kanna Adis’s arm, his eyes blazing with reproach as he fixed them upon me.
“Have you lost your mind, Kalen Adis!”
“….”
“Were you planning to sever the young lady’s arm!”
Sever her arm?
I stared at Kanna Adis’s arm—that wound from which blood poured without ceasing.
It was true. Had I driven deeper, it would have been severed without question. The wound was that severe. But….
I did that? I?
My sister’s arm, and I…?
I stumbled backward. My head throbbed. Searing heat flooded toward my eyes.
“Confine Kanna Adis.”
In that instant, a fierce command blazed through my mind.
Ah. Yes.
I clenched my eyes shut, then opened them. Whether from the stench of blood or something else, dizziness washed over me.
Yet it was certain. Perhaps it was for the best. I had to confine my sister anyway. Wound not just her arm, but her legs as well, so she could not escape….
And then I understood.
‘This is it.’
That ominous presence that had coiled within me all along.
I finally grasped the identity of the time bomb.
‘I was the weapon meant to harm my sister.’
The moment I understood, an even more violent compulsion screamed through my skull.
“Confine Kanna Adis.”
“Confine. Confine. Confine.”
Like an endless tolling bell, only that voice filled my mind. And then I remembered.
That laboratory back then.
“If you do not obey the compulsion, it would be best to burst his heart and kill him.”
“A splendid idea. Now, open Kalen Adis’s chest. Let us bind a spell to his heart.”
I swallowed hard, trembling fingers pressing against my left chest.
Here.
A spell is bound to my heart.
If I do not obey the compulsion, my heart will burst.
“Ka, len.”
Then Kanna Adis lifted her head. Her face had gone ashen from excessive blood loss.
“Why are you like this?”
Kanna Adis’s lips trembled.
Kalen Adis was no fool. He would never commit such a blunder.
Even if he were to abduct someone, he would do so in secret, deceiving everyone with meticulous planning. He was not the type to flaunt his depravity so recklessly.
Which meant…
“Are you being controlled?”
In that instant, Kalen forgot the situation entirely and stood frozen.
Her eyes held no disbelief, no contempt, no disappointment, no disgust. Instead, they burned with an accusation born of absolute certainty.
“You idiot.”
In that moment, Kalen made his decision.
It ends here.
“Please, leave now.”
This had to stop.
“Before I commit something unforgivable, please go.”
The moment those words left his lips, a dull ache surged through his chest.
Kalen’s breathing became ragged. It was a pain like a warning—as if his heart would shatter if he resisted further, tearing itself apart piece by piece.
Yet Kalen spoke with unwavering resolve.
“Claude Azel, take my sister and get her treatment.”
Then he stepped backward. With each step away, his heart fractured with excruciating pain.
“Kalen.”
Kalen turned and ran. Behind him, Kanna Adis cried out.
“Kalen!”
Kalen sprinted away from Kanna Adis, ascending the Staircase in frantic haste.
Then, once more, a colossal command seized his mind.
“Imprison Kanna Adis.”
This would be his final chance, perhaps.
If he refused now, his life would end.
And so Kalen declared:
“No.”
In that instant, the suggestion shattered completely. The alchemical binding on his heart activated.
“Gasp—”
Kalen’s breath cut off. Unable to bear the sensation of his body splitting in half, he staggered violently. His form tumbled down the Staircase in a chaotic tumble.
Yet he felt no pain from the fall. In this moment, the agony tearing through his heart eclipsed everything.
“Gasp, gasp…”
He clutched his chest, breathing in ragged gasps. The sensation of his heart shattering piece by piece was vivid and real. Yet he felt no fear.
‘Sister.’
What terrified him was her.
‘Sister, I am sorry.’
Kanna Adis’s arm.
He had cut it deeply. If only there would be no lasting scars.
‘Please forgive me.’
He could not be by her side.
Hadn’t his instincts warned him? That he should distance himself from her, that she was dangerous.
Yet this damnable stubbornness kept him rooted at her side. He simply could not bring himself to leave her.
He no longer sought her love. He merely wished to watch over her from the shadows—to witness Kanna Adis alive, existing, living.
“Kalen!”
Her final cry suddenly surfaced in his mind, and the corners of his mouth lifted. That voice had unmistakably carried concern.
Kanna Adis had sensed his manipulation, and yet she had worried for him. For reasons he could not fathom, that alone made him feel redeemed.
Once, their relationship had been nothing but contempt.
Kalen Adis lay upon the cold Staircase, his life draining away as he reflected.
Yes, it was true. There had been such a time.
When he despised Kanna Adis, or when she despised him.
In those days, Kalen Adis’s life had been perfect. Yet that flawless perfection had begun to crumble at some point. A collapse that began with love.
Pursuing her had led to this—shattered, torn asunder, ruined beyond recognition.
And yet, because his life bore her imprint, he could not help but love her.
Even this pathetic, wretched end in this very moment.
Kalen Adis laughed, coughing blood. And he sensed it with certainty. Only minutes remained. Perhaps only seconds. Soon his life would end.
If there existed a next life, he wished to be reborn as a maggot—so insignificant and small that his existence would go unnoticed, so worthless that no one would ever perceive him. Even so, he would linger at your side.
What expression would she wear if she heard this confession?
The image crystallized vividly before him, and he laughed. Surely she would regard him with that familiar contemptuous gaze. “Are you insane?” she would say.
Ah, even that piercingly cold stare is radiant—my love. My sister. My….
“Kanna Adis.”
His faint voice dissolved into his final breath.
And that was the end.
His hand slipped from his chest.
It fell limp.
And never moved again.

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