My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 254

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Chapter 254
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Argon had finally reached his destination.
“You’ve succeeded, Argon.”
“Yes.”
Arzenian spread both arms in welcome. Argon dropped a young girl before him without ceremony.
“Ah, how adorable.”
So utterly precious.
After losing Ju-hwa, I thought I would need to wage a fierce battle to obtain Kanna Adis… yet here a gift falls from the heavens!
“Thank you, Alexandro. This is a gift from you.”
“Listen, I’m the one who brought her.”
Ignoring Argon’s words, Arzenian caressed Lucy Adis’s cheek with trembling hands. And he murmured.
“Lucy Adis.”
Her soft, supple skin was so endearing.
The blood flowing within her would be even more precious.
A lovely sacrifice offered by Alexandro to protect Kanna Adis.
“Yes. You protect Kanna Adis, and I obtain the sacrifice I desire… This benefits us both, does it not?”
To shatter the world’s barriers and merge two worlds into one.
In that new world, love Kanna Adis freely. There will be different laws and morality than now.
Of course, failure means annihilation.
Everyone’s annihilation, so it’s fair, isn’t it?
“Thank you, Alexandro.”
Arzenian pressed his lips gently to the unconscious girl’s forehead. Then he slowly raised his upper body. His gaze was infinitely tender.
The next moment, Arzenian raised a dagger high into the air.
He brought it down.
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Raphael slowly opened his eyes.
‘He is dead.’
Kalen Adis was dead.
When he severed Kanna Adis’s arm, I immediately wanted to change direction toward that place. But fortunately, Kalen Adis stopped himself. He chose self-destruction.
Raphael observed the entire scene with composure.
Through the eyes of the World Tree.
Without any doubt, with perfect calm.
I did not wonder how I could use the abilities of a plant that had already vanished. Understanding came naturally, seeping in like water.
‘I could not destroy the World Tree.’
Thinking I had destroyed the World Tree was my delusion. Perhaps I simply wanted to believe it.
Yes, it would be difficult to accept.
That I could not destroy it.
‘That day, I lost to the World Tree.’
Raphael walked slowly. His footsteps led toward a place where the stench of blood vibrated in the air.
Arzenian was there.
Arzenian crawled across the ground, drawing something vast upon it—a magical formation so enormous it filled the entire Garden.
“Haha.”
Then Arzenian laughed aloud.
“Yes, after all the sacrifices I’ve made for this world, it’s finally time for me to enjoy myself….”
Arzenian dipped his hand into the blood pooled in a silver basin, then withdrew it. Drip, drip—he traced lines with the flowing blood.
Not much time remained. My heart raced with anticipation.
Soon the moment would arrive when I shatter the world’s barrier. When that time comes…!
“…!”
In an instant, Arzenian’s head snapped around.
“…Raphael.”
Arzenian stifled a gasp at the sight of the man standing behind him.
When had he approached? I hadn’t noticed at all.
“What are you doing here, Raphael?”
“….”
“Don’t tell me you’ve come to interfere?”
Raphael said nothing, his gaze sweeping intently over the pattern I had drawn.
That was when Arzenian understood.
“You.”
Cold sweat beaded down my spine. It was primal terror.
“The World Tree has….”
“Yes.”
Raphael cut him off quietly.
“It has consumed me.”
He spoke slowly, in a hushed voice.
“That is what has come to pass.”
I had known from the beginning.
That the World Tree could not be destroyed.
“Can you destroy the World Tree?”
Yet Kanna had asked.
I could not bear to answer her with “No, I cannot,” to refuse her command.
The reluctance to lose the World Tree’s power was merely a secondary concern.
Had I not earned the right to remain at her side through perfect servitude all this time? For that reason, I could not admit my inability. If Kanna discovered I was useless, would she abandon me?
‘In the end, I was consumed.’
Raphael—or rather, the World Tree that had consumed Raphael—felt across its body.
Having consumed, having been consumed, we had merged into one.
“I have no intention of interfering. Please, continue.”
“….”
“Go ahead.”
The World Tree that had become Raphael issued its command quietly.
“Come now, shatter the barrier of this world.”
Once the barrier crumbled, all manner of foreign matter would pour into this realm. The power from that otherworld had been the stock that made the World Tree ever more formidable.
‘But…’
A persistent unease gnawed at one corner of my mind.
‘What if Kanna becomes angry?’
If she discovered that I had failed to eliminate the World Tree and instead become assimilated with it as one, would she still remain by my side?
Raphael lowered his head. Since when had his fingertips begun to tremble so faintly?
He realized only belatedly that he was gripped by fear—an emotion he had never experienced before in all his existence.
The World Tree did not approve of such feelings.
‘Coward. What is there to fear?’
‘She does not even love you.’
‘She merely uses you.’
‘I know. I wish to be used.’
‘What if she ceases to use me?’
‘Me, defeated and rendered worthless.’
‘Me, who has become the World Tree.’
Raphael knew well that she could end him whenever she wished. There was no need for her to raise a hand and plunge a blade into his heart, no need to strangle him.
A single cold glance, one frigid word, and he would plummet into absolute ruin.
‘What if she abandons me?’
Raphael was terrified of Kanna Adis.
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Kalen Adis’s corpse was discovered on the Staircase leading to the highest floor.
“He seemed to be under control.”
Kanna Adis murmured, her face drained of color.
“He appeared to have received orders to kidnap me. Kalen Adis resisted those commands, and perhaps as a consequence…”
Kanna Adis trailed off.
Orsini listened to everything without expression.
When he had returned after shattering the dark rift, what greeted him was Kalen Adis’s corpse.
Kalen Adis was dead.
It was unbelievable.
‘This wretch died like this?’
Without any glory, without any honor—on the Staircase, alone, in such squalor?
He gazed down at his younger brother’s body, steeped in emptiness. Then, suddenly, a strange sense of familiarity washed over him.
‘Death.’
Orsini placed his hand upon his chest.
Thump, thump—he felt the pulse of his own heart.
All this time, a single unresolved question had twisted within him.
‘I too have experienced death.’
Three years ago, deceived by Kanna Adis’s doll, had not my entire body been pierced through?
Orsini still remembered that fleeting moment—the warm darkness that had engulfed him.
It would have certainly been death.
But how on earth did he survive?
“I’m sorry.”
At Kanna’s words, Orsini turned his head.
“What?”
He doubted his own ears. What had Kanna just said?
“I’m sorry.”
But the apology came again, driven home like a wedge. It was a word he never expected to hear from Kanna.
“Sorry?”
He asked slowly.
“Why would you say such a thing?”
Kanna couldn’t answer immediately. Isabel had been murdered, Lucy had been kidnapped, and even Kalen had been manipulated before choosing death.
‘This might all be because of me.’
Lucy. Isabel. Kalen.
Perhaps all of this tragedy was orchestrated by Alexandro. Such a terrifying suspicion had taken hold.
So I couldn’t bear it without apologizing.
“It’s just… it’s all because of me…”
In that instant, Orsini grasped her chin and lifted it. He looked at her with piercing eyes.
“Are you going to get your head on straight?”
“…”
“Don’t act like an idiot. That’s not like you.”
Was it?
Was I acting unlike myself because of the shock?
‘Ah, am I in shock?’
Come to think of it, there’s no way I would have clung to that corpse and called Kalen’s name three times otherwise.
Kalen always answered my calls,
followed me around so annoyingly, in fact.
So I thought he would answer this time too.
Yes, you called for me, Sister, like this…
But he didn’t answer.
Kalen ignoring me—how strange that was.
When there was no answer, Orsini sighed and released her chin. Then he glanced at her bandaged arm.
“Your wounds are completely healed?”
“Yes.”
Meanwhile, Orsini appeared composed. His expression held not a shred of wavering.
“Then continue cooperating. Lucy might still be alive.”
He was the head of House Adis, after all.
“If what you say is true, she’ll be murdered before long. So we need to find her location as soon as possible…”
That was when a knock sounded and the door burst open.
“Your Grace. Forgive the intrusion.”
It was the Butler. He entered quickly and spoke.
“He has arrived.”
“Who is he?”
“Well….”
Before he could answer, footsteps echoed through the room. And then.
“It’s me.”
In that instant, my body froze.
That voice….
‘No, it can’t be.’
I turned my head slowly. For some reason, that moment of turning my body felt impossibly long. And finally, our eyes met.
With his characteristically dry expression, he spoke.
“It seems a problem has arisen.”
It was Alexandro Adis.

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