My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 258

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Chapter 258
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It was a scene that didn’t even exist in his memories.
“My ball!”
He must have been three or four years old. The small boy chased after the ball as it bounced away while he played in the Garden.
And then he saw a pair of pale white hands catching it.
“….”
The boy froze.
A girl stood holding the ball. Her black hair rustled softly in the breeze.
When his eyes met her dark gaze, the boy’s mouth fell open in wonder.
Wow, I’ve never seen eyes so beautiful before.
That must have been what he thought.
“Is this ball yours?”
“Yes.”
“Can I play with you too?”
Before he could answer, his mother rushed over in panic and snatched the ball from the girl’s hands.
“You cursed thing, how dare you touch my son!”
Then she quickly pulled her son into her arms and hurried away from the girl. Cradled in his mother’s embrace, the boy couldn’t tear his eyes away from her.
He wanted to play together….
“Orsini, you must never get close to that child. Do you understand?”
“Why?”
“Your body will rot away.”
A shudder ran through the boy’s face as terror gripped him. His body would rot?
For years afterward, the boy believed those words. He truly thought his body would decay if he touched her.
It wasn’t until he was six years old that he realized his mother had lied.
The fear faded. But the revulsion imprinted in childhood lingered. It was an emotion his mother had instilled in him.
‘She’s here again.’
This time he must have been around ten years old. The boy ran after the ball as it bounced away, then stopped short.
A black-haired girl sat beneath a tree. The ball had come to rest against her outstretched legs.
“Hey, filth. Give me the ball back.”
She didn’t answer—perhaps she was asleep. The boy grumbled as he walked closer to her and picked up the ball.
The girl seemed truly asleep, showing no fear as he approached, simply sitting there.
‘Should I kick her?’
Just then, a gentle breeze swept through, tousling the girl’s hair.
“….”
The boy stood motionless. For a long moment, he gazed down at her silently.
With each gust of wind, her black hair swayed softly, and each time, sunlight glimmered and faded along her long lashes.
Suddenly, a strange impulse surged through him.
‘Should I brush her hair back?’
As if entranced, the boy reached out his hand. The moment he gently swept her bangs to the side….
In a flash, the girl’s eyes snapped open.
They were dark as obsidian. The boy, startled, quickly stumbled backward. His heart lurched violently, then began to race.
“What?”
Angry at his own shock, the boy lashed out defensively.
“What are you staring at?”
Normally, his sister would have shrunk away with an apology and excused herself. But this time…
“Orsini?”
Impossibly, she broke into a radiant smile—the brightest he had ever seen from her.
For a moment, it was as though he were staring directly into the sunrise, his eyes dazzled.
“I succeeded!”
Then, speaking words he couldn’t comprehend, she suddenly pulled him into a fierce embrace.
“…!”
As her soft arms wrapped around him, the boy’s breath caught. The world seemed to stop entirely.
“You unlucky wretch, you worthless garbage, but I’m still glad to see you! Come here, you adorable little thing!”
The boy couldn’t muster his usual retort. His mind scattered like debris caught in a powerful wave.
“If you don’t want regrets later, you’d better treat me well, you pathetic little brat!”
With that, the girl dashed away to somewhere else.
“What—what did she just say! That filth!”
Unable to properly express his anger, the boy huffed indignantly, his belated fury emerging too late. His face and even his ears had turned a vivid crimson.
He should have kicked her away. He should have grabbed her hair like he always did!
“Just you wait, filth. I’ll have my revenge.”
Thump-thump. Listening to his heart pound wildly, the boy steeled his resolve.
From that moment on, every time he saw the girl, the boy was seized by an emotion far more intense than before—a heat that his young frame could scarcely contain.
“Ahhh!”
A shriek burst from the girl’s lips.
The boy, who had been hiding in the shrubbery of the Garden, leaped out and startled her. Then, as she fled, he caught her hair and yanked it.
“It hurts, stop!”
“Who told you to loiter in front of me?”
“But you were the one hiding in the bushes! How was I supposed to know you were there…?”
“That’s not my problem. Don’t let me see you!”
He genuinely despised her. He despised that she was his sister. It was unbearable.
Especially those eyes, hidden behind her drooping bangs. Whenever he met her gaze—those dark pupils—the boy was profoundly shaken. It burned inside him like fire.
Throbbing, searing.
That sensation infuriated and irritated him. So he deliberately sought her out to torment her.
In truth, his mind was consumed by only one thought.
‘How should I torment her today?’
It was an endless cycle. A pitiful spectacle. A cruel moment repeated again and again.
“Hey, weren’t you planning to run away?”
In the next scene, the boy had grown considerably. His physique and build far surpassed those of his peers.
“Are you an idiot? Did you really think someone like you could actually run away?”
My sister tried to run away from home!
Hearing Isabel’s words, I was so irritated.
Was this how it felt when a pet dog you’d raised escaped? The boy rushed to the girl’s hideout in a fury.
“There’s nowhere that will take you in. Stay put at home—where do you think you’re running off to?”
“Wouldn’t it be better for you if I disappeared? You hate seeing me anyway.”
“That’s exactly why you should stay out of my sight!”
Even as he spoke, the boy realized his words contradicted themselves.
“If you ever try to run away again, I won’t let you off easy.”
What nonsense was he spouting? The boy, furious at his own sophistry, kicked over a chair.
After that, he completely ignored the girl. For years, he wouldn’t even glance at her. Whenever they crossed paths, he spat curses and threatened her to stay out of his sight.
And then the scene shifted again.
“She’s getting married?”
“Yeah. Duke Valentino must be insane to think of marrying my sister.”
The boy couldn’t sleep that night. All through the darkness, his mind was torn apart by rage—just as it had been when he heard years ago that the girl had run away.
‘Fine, good riddance.’
The girl had been like a splinter lodged in his finger his entire life, constantly irritating him. Now she was disappearing—good riddance. And yet…
Why was he so furious?
The boy buried his face in his pillow, gripping the blankets roughly, groaning in distress. Something hurt terribly, but he couldn’t identify the source.
Eventually, the boy suffered from a high fever for the first time in his life. It was an illness of unknown origin. He languished for days.
Finally, on the night his sister left the estate, the fever reached its peak. Whether from the fever or something else, tears streamed down his face in the early dawn.
“Damn it, you unlucky wretch. Don’t you dare cross my sight again.”
And once more, the scene shifted. The boy had become a full-grown man.
“Kanna Adis—no, Kanna Adis has returned?”
He sobered up instantly.
Ever since his hated sister married, he’d been drowning in alcohol. In recent years, he’d never been this lucid.
“That filthy wretch—how dare she show her face here!”
A name he hadn’t heard in years. A presence he hadn’t felt in years.
That alone was enough to stir the heat he’d forgotten. His chest burned like a thousand fires raging.
“Where is Kanna!”
He walked without thinking, his heart pounding harder as he approached the Underground Laboratory.
“Hey, filth.”
The woman he’d hated his entire life slowly turned her body.
And they met.
His sister, still bearing that hopelessly wretched appearance.
In that instant, his chest throbbed and his heart burned.
As always, she was a woman whose very sight ignited a heat he couldn’t bear.
“After doing all this, you dare speak of love?”
Orsini’s eyes darken completely as he witnesses the past.
“Isn’t it too grotesque to beautify as some clumsy first love of an adolescent boy?”
It was Kanna’s voice, whispering softly in his ear.
“You’re nothing but a brute. That’s all you are.”
“And now you dare whisper of love, claiming you’ve grown wiser and finally understand your own feelings?”
“You made me suffer.”
“You deserve to die, Orsini.”
Those words were true. I deserved death.
I had committed an unforgivable sin. I should be killed in the most agonizing way possible, plunged into boiling water and left to perish in torment.
But not by your hand.
With a vacant expression, I swept my blade backward in a wide arc. The man who had been creeping forward with muffled footsteps suddenly convulsed as his body was severed.
I swung the sword again. Blood erupted like a fountain from my opponent’s wound. A cry of agony escaped him. He turned and fled.
I let him go. I had something more important to do.
I forced strength into my trembling legs and pushed myself upright. My vision swam.
Where was I? What had happened?
Kanna had returned to Adis after her marriage—no, wait. That was years ago.
I was heading to the World Tree now to save Kanna’s life.
‘Kanna asked me to.’
From within my mind, corrupted by pitch-black poison, I barely managed to dredge up that single sentence.
I had to go. To Kanna.
I had to go, but—
My knees buckled without warning. I coughed blood and braced myself against the ground. I forced my crumbling body to stand.
‘I have to go.’
Kanna… she asked me to…
Suddenly my right arm convulsed. The muscles twisted, snapping at an unnatural angle.
But I felt no pain. I felt nothing at all.
I blinked.
Somehow, I was standing in the Garden of the Adis Mansion once more.
Young Kanna was there—a girl with long black hair hanging darkly around her face. And I had become a boy again, the boy who had tormented her in our childhood.
The boy held out a ball.
“Want to play with me?”
The girl shook her head.
“No.”
At her refusal, I burst into tears. And I apologized.
I’m sorry. I was wrong.
Then Kanna sighed as if resigned and extended her hand. With tears streaming down my face, I grasped it.
“Orsini, you once asked me to leave together, didn’t you?”
Yes. At your second wedding.
“Will you come with me now?”
Kanna whispered with a playful smile.
“Let’s leave. To a place where only we two can exist.”
I squeezed her hand with all my strength. The warmth of it was so overwhelming that I laughed.
And miraculously, the girl laughed with me. The joy of it made me cry again. Then together, we ran.
At the end of this path, brilliant light was bursting forth.
Once I arrive there, I will play ball with Kanna.
There.
In that warm, gentle light….
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“Huff, huff.”
Argon limped forward.
His left leg and right arm were gone—severed completely. The attack had unfolded in less than ten seconds, perhaps even five.
‘How did he notice?’
Orsini’s mind was being destroyed. He was on the verge of death!
‘Damn it, what a monster the Adis are.’
Argon staggered and collapsed. Cursing bitterly, he braced himself against the ground with his remaining arm.
Though he had lost one arm and one leg, it was manageable. Lucy’s blood still remained in his possession. With it, he could attach new limbs….
“….”
Argon saw a figure approaching from the opposite direction. In that instant, his mind went blank white.
‘Is this a dream?’
There was no way that man could be here otherwise.
“How are you….”
Seized by panic, he tried to flee, but his opponent was faster.
“Kugh!”
A heavy, searing pain erupted across his back. His vision flashed white. Blood surged backward and sprayed from his mouth.
‘What, what is this.’
Argon thrashed like a fish impaled on a spear.
Unbelievable.
All of this. Every bit of it!
The next moment, the man withdrew the blade he had driven into Argon’s back. He raised it high and spoke.
“Surprised to find me here?”
“This, this is impossible. How….”
The man let out a faint laugh. Looking down at Argon’s nape, he said:
“Dying with your curiosity unsatisfied wouldn’t be so bad.”
He brought the blade down.
Blood sprayed violently.

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