My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 261

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Chapter 261
“You must offer up the entire bloodline of Adis. Not just yourself, but your children as well.”
At Seon-hee’s words, Alexandro Adis furrowed his brow.
“My children? What are you talking about?”
“I’m telling you to have a child.”
“You’re insane. Are you asking me to become a breeding stallion?”
“Yes.”
Yet Seon-hee remained resolute.
“Can’t you do it?”
“….”
“No, you’ll do anything. You saw it with me in the future, didn’t you? The you of the future had four children.”
Seon-hee laughed mockingly, her voice tinged with amusement.
“You’re the type who would do anything to protect Kanna Adis.”
At those words, Alexandro Adis understood.
“This isn’t the first time.”
Seon-hee admitted readily.
“That’s right. Working with you—this isn’t the first timeline for it.”
She spoke words that were shockingly profound.
“In the lost timelines of the past, I received your help many times. In the end, they all failed, though.”
“Then what reason do I have to cooperate from the start? If I’m going to die no matter what I do anyway!”
Seon-hee smiled faintly.
“This time is different.”
“What?”
“In the last timeline, there was an accident. Something unexpected happened.”
“What do you mean?”
“I will grant you a very long life.”
Alexandro Adis furrowed his brow. A long life—it was a sentence difficult to accept.
“It’s an alchemical curse I placed on you in the previous timeline as well. But it didn’t activate at the final moment, so….”
“What are you saying? Explain clearly.”
“Before that, let me ask you one thing.”
Seon-hee gazed at him intently.
“How far are you willing to go for that child?”
* * *
Alexandro Adis finished his recollection.
“I can do anything.”
He murmured the answer he had given decades ago in his youth, then rose from his seat. He opened the window and looked up at the sky.
Black Mist flowed from the fractured rift. Yet seeing that the crack did not widen further, it appeared Kanna Adis had sealed it.
He understood what that meant.
Kanna Adis’s death was beginning.
“Do you want to change the future?”
“Yes.”
“Then I’ll tell you. The only way to save that child.”
Alexandro Adis opened the door. On the bed lay a white-haired youth, his life already slipping away.
Just as Seon-hee had said, he had willingly lived a life of servitude.
Humiliation. Despair. There was nothing he couldn’t endure. He had promised to save her—what could he not do?
“So in the end, you’re telling me to kill my own children? There’s no other way?”
Alexandro Adis traced his fingers through Kalen’s snow-white hair. He felt no life within it.
Kalen Adis.
My poor son, who sacrificed everything for Kanna Adis.
And yet….
“Listen, Alexandro Adis. When did I ever tell you to kill him?”
You are not meant to die here.
“Didn’t I promise you a long life?”
A faint light emanated from Alexandro Adis’s hand, seeping slowly into Kalen’s chest.
“When the final moment comes, when the time arrives, you will share your life with your children and with Kanna Adis.”
For this very moment, I was granted a long and endless existence.
For the final moment, to resurrect the dead.
“The accident in the previous timeline—that was it. Because Kanna Adis believed it to be a curse and damaged part of this spell, the life force never transferred to those children. But don’t worry. This time, I’ve made sure Kanna Adis cannot interfere.”
“….”
“Truly, it’s a spell I’ve researched for an eternity, repeating time itself. Don’t ask how long it took. You would only pity me.”
I do not pity you.
So do not pity me either.
“…!”
The next moment, Kalen gasped sharply for breath. His eyes flew open.
“Sister!”
He cried out toward Alexandro Adis.
“Where is my sister!”
Is this what he says the moment he awakens? Alexandro Adis let out an incredulous laugh.
“Go to where the World Tree is.”
Without question or hesitation, Kalen pushed himself up and departed.
Watching his retreating figure, Alexandro Adis then resurrected Isabel.
“That bastard Argon Isaberk!”
Isabel sprang up, spewing curses. She gasped for breath, trembling with rage, but when her eyes met Alexandro Adis’s, she froze in shock.
“F-Father?”
“Yes.”
“What about that bastard Argon Isaberk?”
“….”
“I’m going to kill that bastard!”
“Come with me.”
By the time Alexandro Adis brought Isabel there, they were a moment too late. Kalen had already driven his blade into Argon Isaberk. Yet somehow, he still clung to life.
Isabel rushed forward and extended her hand to Kalen.
“Give me the sword.”
“What?”
“That bastard pierced me. I won’t forgive him. I’ll take my own revenge!”
But Alexandro Adis caught her arm.
“Father?”
“Wait.”
Alexandro Adis turned over Argon’s dying body. A pitiful victim enslaved by his brother’s memories.
Argon coughed up blood and laughed weakly.
“Ha… my brother. Still can’t eat carrots?”
“Argon.”
“Why bring it up now? You know who I am…”
“You are Argon Isaberk.”
He spoke in a quiet voice.
“Largos Adis is dead. You are merely an experiment created to break through the world’s walls.”
The expression faded from Argon’s face. Slowly, slowly, his mad laughter dried up.
“But I do not pity you. After all, you buried all the blood yourself.”
“…”
“Your life was dominated by Largos. At least in this final moment, face it as Argon Isaberk.”
At those words, Argon smiled faintly.
“You’re like the Grim Reaper. A kind one.”
That was the end of their conversation.
Alexandro Adis rose and stepped back. Isabel approached.
Argon gazed into her burning eyes. Then, suddenly, he became curious.
Why had Mother—why had Teresa become a Black Apostle? Why had she wanted to deny this world so desperately, even at the cost of her own children?
How much tragic sorrow must have filled Mother’s life to reach that point?
I should have asked her once. She surely had her own story.
Only after thinking this did he realize: these were Argon’s thoughts. Finding it absurd, he laughed softly and spoke.
“I think it would be good for Miss Isabel to seriously learn swordsmanship. It would be a waste to let such talent rot away, wouldn’t it?”
Those were Argon Isaberk’s final words. As he watched Isabel bring down her blade, he closed his eyes.
* * *
And not far away, they discovered Orsini.
“Brother!”
Kalen rushed over and turned Orsini’s body.
A limp corpse. Not a single movement.
“Brother, please regain consciousness!”
Alexandro Adis looked at Orsini with barely concealed anxiety.
He had already saved Orsini once before. Therefore, there was no second chance.
No matter how much overflowing life he possessed, he was not omnipotent. He could not save the same person twice.
So if Orsini had died again, there would be no way to…
“Kanna!”
I jolted awake with a cry, shielding my face with both arms as I shouted.
“Damn it, I said I was sorry! Throw the ball gently, would you? It hurts! You could kill someone with that thing!”
“….”
After my outburst, I fell silent. Orsini looked around as if waking from a dream.
“Brother, are you alright?”
“Yeah, yeah. Of course I am.”
Orsini cleared his throat awkwardly and sat up. Then he asked.
“Where’s Kanna?”
“We’re searching for her now. But… a ball?”
“….”
Orsini closed his mouth. Isabel tilted her head.
“Did you get hit with a ball by sister in your dream?”
“Are you insane? Don’t talk nonsense.”
Yet his ears were flushed crimson.
Orsini rose to his feet. Though his body was covered in wounds, his monstrous physique endured them effortlessly.
“But didn’t you two die?”
“….”
“….”
Kalen and Isabel exchanged glances.
They hadn’t had time to consider that in their frantic rush to this place.
“Indeed. How am I even alive?”
Kalen placed his hand over his chest.
Yes, his heart had been destroyed—he should have died.
So how was he alive?
“Father?”
Then Isabel murmured.
“He was here just a moment ago. Where did he go?”
* * *
The rift that had split the sky began to slowly seal itself. Kanna had absorbed the World Tree’s power and closed the Black Rift.
Alexandro Adis followed the pulse of that power as he walked.
Along the way, he found Lucy Adis. He transferred his life force to the child and revived her.
“I’m truly sorry. Don’t forgive me.”
He removed his jacket and draped it carefully over the child’s body, then gently seated her against a wooden pillar. Then he continued walking.
There was no time to waste. I had to reach her.
With each step, the sound of something breaking from within continued. Kanna must have heard this same sound when she deployed the incantation array to seal the rift.
This sound—the shattering that echoes when a soul breaks.
When one wields power too immense for a human to bear, cracks form in the spirit.
Especially when used repeatedly in succession like this, it would shatter completely. And eventually….
“Alexandro Adis, you will die.”
Alexandro Adis continued walking.
“If you share your lifespan, you can save your children and Kanna Adis. But in exchange, your soul will shatter into pieces and you will die.”
“….”
“In the end, you’ll gain nothing. Are you truly prepared for that?”
I knew.
Even if I devoted my entire existence, the day I would find happiness beside her would never come.
My connection with that woman ended on that day, in that moment, when I released her hand—the moment she awoke after consuming the poison.
Alexandro Adis’s first love would never be fulfilled.
And I would vanish without a trace, like foam upon the water.
A journey filled only with loss and erosion, yet I did not hesitate. In exchange, Kanna Adis would gain life and existence.
I wanted to give her that, which is why I have run with all my strength until this very moment, toward my own end.
Alexandro Adis finally found Kanna Adis.
“Alex?”
As Kanna Adis approached and cradled his face, she whispered.
“I’m sorry. I’m truly sorry….”
And then, his breathing ceased.
Alexandro Adis poured his remaining life into her.
As Kanna Adis’s heart began to beat again, Alexandro Adis turned his gaze to Raphael. Surely such a blindly devoted youth would bring her joy.
Alexandro Adis reached out his hand to Raphael’s body. As he granted life, white light enveloped him. Since the power of the World Tree had completely dissipated, only Raphael would survive unscathed.
It is done. This is enough. I have overcome the crisis.
Now only one final step remained.
When Kanna Adis opened her eyes, her world would be perfect. She had lost no one.
Save for myself alone.
Yet if this ending is the best possible, and I find satisfaction in that, would Kanna Adis be angry?
Suddenly, words I once spoke to Kanna Adis came to mind.
“There is no ending where everyone is safe.”
In this moment of conclusion, it was enough that only I remained unsafe.

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