My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 255

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Chapter 255
“…Father.”
Orsini reacted a beat too late.
“Have you returned?”
Alexandro Adis answered with nothing but a nod. Then he walked into the Room.
As he drew closer, Orsini bristled like a hedgehog, every spine raised. It was the wariness of a male.
Alexandro Adis ignored his son’s vigilance and stopped before the bed.
Before Kalen’s corpse.
“Kalen is dead.”
Finally, I spoke. My voice was small, barely a whisper.
“And Isabel too….”
“….”
“Lucy has been abducted by Argon. Right now, the Adis Knights are searching, but….”
The Black Mist that Argon created had delayed everything far too much.
“I see.”
I bit my lip.
That’s all?
Your son is dead, your daughter is dead, your youngest daughter has been abducted, and she will probably die soon….
My ominous premonition hardened into something increasingly sharp. I clenched my fists.
“Orsini, would you step aside?”
At those words, he glared at me sharply. His green eyes flared hot in an instant.
“Why should I….”
He seemed about to object. But his tongue lost its strength just as quickly.
My eyes were resolute. Cold.
Orsini let out a short laugh. It was almost self-deprecating.
“Ah, yes. Of course it should be. If you tell me to leave, I should leave.”
Once he was gone, only two people remained in the Room.
“….”
I steadied my breathing for a moment.
It was the first time since that day. Those days in the Coastal Village—the most beautiful and most painful days of my life. It had been mere moments ago.
Yet looking into Alexandro Adis’s eyes as he gazed at me, it felt as distant as a past life.
I suddenly grew uncertain.
Was this man truly that man? Was he the same person who had looked at me intoxicated by burning love?
I could not believe it.
“There is something I want to ask.”
I hesitated for a moment. There were so many things I wanted to ask, so many things I was curious about.
“Alex, you….”
I saw another version of you not long ago. You said he was Alexandro Adis from the past. Do you know of his existence?
“You.”
You’re cooperating with Seon-hee, aren’t you? How far does this plan extend? Where does it begin?
“Lucy.”
Yet in this moment, nothing mattered more than this.
“You raised Lucy with the intention of using her?”
“That willingness.”
“I’ve never been more terrified of him than in that moment.”
“My own father targeting me instead?”
It couldn’t be.
Tell me it isn’t.
That Lucy isn’t bait to replace me….
“Yes.”
Yet contrary to her hopes, Alexandro Adis admitted it readily.
“What?”
Perhaps that was why.
Kanna couldn’t accept it all at once.
“What did you just say?”
“I guided Arzenian to target Lucy instead of you.”
“….”
How could he be so composed?
Was it strange that she felt dizzy? Or were they discussing entirely different matters?
Otherwise, there was no way he could be so indifferent….
“What about Kalen?”
Kanna gestured toward his corpse. Her fingertips trembled faintly.
“Did you know Kalen would end up like this?”
It was an accusation without evidence. Merely suspicion that had bloomed after hearing Rusvia’s words.
So it couldn’t be. It was impossible.
It couldn’t be….
“Yes.”
Yet this time it was the same.
“I knew.”
Kanna stared blankly at his face.
In that moment when her glassy gaze met his, she felt the taut string pulling inside her chest snap abruptly.
Ah.
Kanna sighed. And once more, she became completely certain.
This man. He truly cares about nothing but me.
‘I knew it.’
He had known Kalen would meet this fate.
He simply knew. He offered no warning, made no attempt to stop it.
He merely let it unfold. He allowed it to happen, so that his own son would choose death of his own accord. He stood by and did nothing.
How was that different from contributing to Kalen’s death?
“Then why didn’t you warn me beforehand?”
Her own voice sounded oddly composed. Perhaps because the truth was so horrifying, she felt no shock. Not even anger stirred within her.
“Answer me, Alex. I asked why you didn’t stop it.”
After a brief silence, Alexandro responded.
“This is the only path.”
The only path?
There was no need to think deeply about what he meant.
“Protect me, Alex.”
In the end, it always came down to that.
Kanna Adis let out a hollow laugh. How predictable. It was because of those words.
Because she had grasped his hand and pleaded with him. Because he couldn’t coldly brush her away.
In the end, she was the source of all this calamity.
‘Yes, it’s all because of me.’
Protect me, Alex.
That plea was a curse that destroyed him.
“I don’t need it anymore.”
That’s why she had to end it. Not just his protection, but the cursed words that ruined even his children.
“What do you mean?”
“It means I don’t need your protection. Don’t try to protect me anymore.”
She should have said this long ago.
“I’m an adult now and I can take care of myself. So stop.”
“….”
“Whatever plan you and Seon-hee are scheming, abandon it. Don’t do it.”
Alexandro tilted his head slightly, looking down at her. His eyes were merely observing a sequence of words. His expressionless face filled her with anxiety.
“So stop worrying about me and save Lucy. She’s your daughter, after all.”
It was almost a plea. Kanna Adis grasped his arm.
“Alex, please, don’t let Lucy and Adis die for me.”
Silence descended.
It was an eerie stillness.
She was so desperate, burning with such urgency, yet none of that heat reached him.
Finally, Alexandro parted his lips.
“There is no ending where everyone is safe.”
“Who’s asking you to save everyone? Just the people who matter to you…!”
“Kanna.”
His voice was so quiet.
“You’re the only one who matters to me.”
In that instant, all strength drained from her body. Her grip on him fell away.
“…Please. I’m begging you.”
“No.”
His refusal cut through her like frost.
No. That single word contained so much rejection. The futility of it left her muttering weakly.
“By that logic, you’re a complete villain.”
“A villain.”
A faint smile played at Alexandro Adis’s lips as he repeated the word.
“That’s not wrong.”
“Alex, please.”
“Don’t try to convince me. It’s a waste of time.”
“No, I have to. I don’t know what you’re planning, but don’t do it! If you keep going, I’ll hate you, I’ll resent you!”
“That wouldn’t be so bad either.”
Alexandro Adis muttered those final words.
“I’m not afraid of your resentment. What I truly fear is if you….”
He trailed off, then swallowed the rest of his words.
I waited for what he would say next. By now, I was genuinely curious.
What was he so afraid of that drove him to commit such madness? Why was he so certain this was the only path to protect me?
Or could it be…?
“Did you see a future where I die alongside Seon-hee?”
In that instant, Alexandro Adis’s jaw tightened. I asked him with weary eyes.
“Will I die if you don’t go this far?”
Alexandro Adis turned away. It was the end of the conversation.
Without another word, he walked toward the Door. Then he stopped abruptly before it.
“Every misfortune that befalls Adis stems from my cruelty. It has nothing to do with you.”
“….”
“So don’t be bound by it. Live your own life.”
That was all.
Alexandro Adis left the Room. I hurried after him, but.
“…Alex?”
The Corridor was empty.
Then it happened. A tremendous rumble shook the Valentino Estate. It was a sound like the heavens themselves were tearing apart.
‘This sound….’
I returned to the Room and looked out the window.
“Ah.”
The sky was splitting open.
I gripped the windowsill so hard it nearly shattered.
With a bone-chilling roar, the sky cracked and tore. From that pitch-black fissure, the Black Mist began to seep out slowly.
‘The world’s barrier has broken.’
Lucy Adis.
They had finally harmed Lucy Adis.
But that wasn’t all. I already knew what would happen next.
In the past, moving through time, I had witnessed a terrible future. That horrifying moment when Raphael waited for me until he became nothing but bones.
In that time, the entire world had been consumed by the Black Mist.
‘This cannot happen….’
Destruction was beginning.

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