My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 266

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Chapter 266
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By the time I had grown accustomed to receiving vital energy from multiple men, a restlessness began to stir within me.
Despite my condition as a patient, I could not simply exist without purpose.
It felt wasteful to let my knowledge languish unused.
‘I cannot allow my expertise to decay.’
The time had come to employ my medical arts once more.
Rather than stepping into the field to treat patients directly, I devoted myself to teaching medicine.
I lectured at the Academy, authored treatises, and even cultivated several exceptional disciples.
Those days passed in relative peace.
Throughout that time, I never once encountered Alexandro Adis.
‘Still, he must be living well somewhere.’
I tried to forget. I had promised myself I would.
And I had always succeeded in fulfilling my own promises.
Alex often crossed my mind, yet with each passing season, those moments grew fewer. The ache in my heart gradually dulled.
One day, I would forget him entirely. A day would come when I remembered him only as a cherished memory.
That did not seem so terrible.
Three years passed in this manner.
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“Ah, I’m exhausted.”
Inside the carriage, I rested my head against the wall and sighed heavily.
‘I wish to return to Adis quickly.’
On my journey back from lectures, a sudden downpour had damaged the bridge I needed to cross.
As time slipped away, my vital energy depleted steadily. My body began to throb with pain.
It was then that the Coachman made a suggestion.
“We must take an alternate route, though it is rather treacherous. Will that be acceptable?”
“It is fine.”
I agreed immediately. Yet it was a grave mistake.
“Take cover! Rockslide!”
“It’s collapsing!”
As we passed beneath the Mountain Slope, lightning struck.
With a deafening crack that split the world asunder, boulders cascaded down, crashing upon and crushing the carriage.
I closed my eyes amid the distortion of everything before me.
‘Am I to die like this?’
No. No, that could not be.
I regained consciousness as the torrential rain fell upon me.
I had not died.
‘Someone pushed my body away.’
The moment I managed to turn my head, our eyes met.
“….”
Is this an illusion?
Kanna Adis parted her lips.
“Alex?”
A name she hadn’t spoken in so long. He, whom she had buried in memory, suddenly materialized before her.
And then she saw his entire body crushed beneath an enormous boulder.
In that instant, her mind went blank with horror.
“Someone, someone please….”
Kanna fumbled around her surroundings. She cried out desperately.
“Someone help me!”
But everyone lay pinned beneath the collapsed rocks. The Coachman who had driven the carriage, the Guard Knight who had accompanied her—all were dead. There was no one to help.
“Just hold on a little longer, just a little longer, Alex!”
I pushed with all my strength against the stone crushing his body, but it wouldn’t budge. It was as massive as the carriage itself, so it was inevitable.
But if I used alchemy, it would be possible. Kanna hastily raised her hands.
Then she suddenly noticed something.
A bracelet that had turned red.
“….”
Kanna’s movements froze.
This was a bracelet she had created years ago to distinguish the automaton.
The bracelet that had maintained its blue color all this time was now, for the first time in ages, glowing red.
It was then.
The figure crushed beneath the stone—not Alex, but the automaton—reached out a hand toward her.
A trembling hand, precarious and fragile. It stretched toward her with desperate longing, as though yearning to touch her just once.
Kanna stared blankly at the tips of those fingers.
Should I take it?
But this is an automaton, and there could be some trap….
In the moment of that hesitation, it fell.
His hand dropped to the ground. The light extinguished from those emerald eyes. The pupils dilated widely. Breath ceased.
And it moved no more.
Only the rain continued to pour down relentlessly.
“Miss Adis!”
“Are you unharmed?”
The Guard Knights who had been chasing from behind cried out. The collapsed rocks had blocked their path, preventing them from approaching.
“Miss Adis!”
But Kanna could not answer.
She could not answer.
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After the great commotion subsided, she barely managed to return to the Adis Mansion.
“Hey, are you alright? Are you hurt anywhere?”
“Sister, you should rest first.”
Kanna went directly to the Research Laboratory, leaving behind the persistent concerns of Orsini and Kalen. She placed the body that had saved her upon the table there.
‘Where did I put that drug?’
I rummaged through the drawer and found the reagent used to distinguish puppets from corpses.
Kanna Adis opened the vial and let its contents drip onto the corpse’s fingertips. Moments later, the hand crumbled to dust, as expected.
‘Just as I thought.’
It was Alexandro’s puppet, precisely as anticipated.
‘But why is it in this condition?’
Upon closer inspection, the puppet’s skin was decomposing. It appeared the deterioration had begun long ago.
Kanna stared intently at the puppet.
‘Could this be that man?’
Three years ago.
I had been kidnapped by a man who looked identical to Alexandro.
That man first claimed to be the puppet Alexandro, then changed his story to say he was Alexandro from the past.
Then he vanished abruptly, and I had completely forgotten about him until now.
‘I need to uncover the truth about this puppet’s identity.’
From that day forward, I threw myself into alchemical research for the first time in ages.
A month passed.
Kanna Adis finally succeeded in extracting the puppet’s memories.
She gazed at the elixir. Drinking it would transfer the puppet’s memories directly into her consciousness.
Kanna drank the potion in one gulp and closed her eyes. Strange visions flooded her mind as she felt herself being pulled into another realm.
They were the puppet’s memories.
Simultaneously, they were Alexandro’s memories.
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Inside the room.
Alexandro ran his fingertips through Kalen’s snow-white hair. There was no sign of life.
Kalen Adis.
My pitiful son, who sacrificed himself for Kanna Adis.
And yet…
“Listen, Alexandro. When did I ever tell you to die?”
You are not meant to perish here.
“I promised you a long life, did I not?”
So why…
Why won’t you come back to life?
The spell array that Seon-hee had inscribed upon his soul—the power to transfer life—had not activated.
‘This cannot be.’
Had I not resurrected Orsini using this very method before?
Yet it refuses to activate.
Not only Kalen. Isabel as well. Lucy Adis too.
And.
“Alex.”
Even Kanna Adis.
Alexandro caressed the cheek of the dying woman.
“I’m sorry….”
With those words, her hand went limp. It no longer moved.
Alexandro stared at her in hollow despair.
Kanna Adis was dead.
She would not return to life.
“Alexandro.”
Alexandro turned his head slowly.
It was Seon-hee.
A woman he had met after decades. A woman who had returned to her own world. Yet how she came to be here mattered little.
“I failed.”
Alexandro’s eyes blazed crimson.
“The incantation did not activate.”
I spent my entire life trying to revive that woman, yet I could not save her.
“Kanna….”
A crimson liquid pooled in Alexandro’s eyes, streaming down his cheeks in long rivulets. Tears of blood.
“Alexandro, let me check the incantation I placed on you.”
Seon-hee reached out and touched his forehead. Then she furrowed her brow.
“The incantation has been corrupted. And by Kanna’s blood, no less. This was Kanna’s doing.”
Kanna did this?
‘That cannot be.’
Not long ago, at the Coastal Village.
When consciousness returned to him, he bid farewell to Kanna.
Immediately after sending her away, he moved elsewhere. Of course, he had not told her the destination.
Yet Kanna had somehow followed?
“Your consciousness has been fragmenting less frequently of late, hasn’t it?”
At Seon-hee’s question, Alexandro found himself speechless.
It was true. The instances of his consciousness becoming jumbled had decreased, and his condition had been quite sound.
I had thought it was because the curse of the malevolent spirit had been broken….
“Kanna must have tracked you in secret. And while you were unconscious from the medicine, she destroyed the incantation circle I had laid.”
“….”
“Sleep? You haven’t been able to sleep?”
“…Still. I cannot sleep.”
“That’s why you didn’t notice the incantation was corrupted. It seems that in about a week, the incantation will be completely broken and your insomnia will vanish as well.”
Seon-hee clicked her tongue.
“I never expected Kanna to interfere. After all the research I conducted repeating time across long ages, that girl undid it in mere days….”
“Cast it again.”
Alexandro cut off her words. But Seon-hee shook her head.
“Just as one cannot revive the same person twice, an alchemical incantation that has been destroyed once cannot be cast again.”
“Then you do it. You revive Kanna!”
“I don’t want to die.”
Seon-hee flatly refused.
“You have abundant spiritual power, so even after reviving Orsini, you recovered. But I’m not like that. Even once, my soul would shatter and perish.”
Seon-hee wanted to save Kanna Adis. That’s why she had struggled for countless hours. But she had no intention whatsoever of sacrificing her own life.
“This attempt has failed too. I’ll have to turn back time.”
Seon-hee muttered irritably.
“Don’t worry, Alexandro. I’ll turn back time. Everything that happened now will be undone….”
As she spoke, Seon-hee changed her mind and shook her head.
“No, wait. Alexandro, you must not forget anything.”
“What?”
“You need to stop Kanna Adis from destroying the spell formation.”
Seon-hee stared intently at Alexandro.
“Even if I turn back time, Kanna will interfere again. Since you often lose your senses, she’ll find that opportunity and erase the spell formation. She believes this is a curse, after all.”
“….”
“So we need a third party to prevent that.”
Then she pointed at Alexandro.
“You should be the one to stop her.”
“….”
“Come back to the past with me. And prevent Kanna from approaching you when your mind becomes clouded.”
“You’re speaking as if I’m two people.”
“That’s right. You’ll be protecting Alexandro from a different timeline.”
“…Is that even possible?”
“It’s possible if we use unconventional methods.”
Seon-hee caressed her belly, which had once been greatly swollen.
“Remember when Kanna Adis possessed my body?”
Then she smiled faintly.
“Inside my belly at that time, there was Kanna.”
Yes, that was certainly the case.
Back then, Kanna had claimed ‘Actually, the child in this belly is me’ and demanded protection, hadn’t she?
Two Kannas had existed in the same timeline.
“If you possess someone else’s body, it becomes possible. Then two of the same person can exist in one timeline.”
She raised one finger.
“I’ll create a puppet of you, Alexandro. So possess that puppet and stop Kanna.”
It was an absurd plan.
But it had to succeed. Only then could she save Kanna Adis.
“Can you do it?”
Seon-hee asked.
Just as she had asked before.
“You’ll become nothing more than a puppet I’ve molded from clay. Can you still do it?”
Alexandro lowered his gaze.
Upon seeing Kanna’s lifeless body, my heart shattered as though torn asunder.
“Save me, Alex.”
I had failed to save her. I had sworn I would protect her at any cost.
Alexandro clenched his fists. He could never accept such an ending.
If only I could prevent this tragedy….
“I can.”
Even if it meant becoming a puppet, it was worth the price.

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