My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 267

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Chapter 267
And so Alexandro Adis returned to the past alongside Seon-hee.
“Be careful not to encounter the Alexandro Adis of this time period.”
Seon-hee spoke to him, now transformed into a puppet.
“You are ultimately the same person, the same soul. You must never meet under any circumstances.”
“Why not?”
“Have you heard of a doppelgänger? When two identical people meet in one place, one of them will inevitably vanish.”
“Which one disappears?”
“The incomplete one will disappear.”
She meant him as he was now.
So the puppet lived in hiding with meticulous care, until finally the moment he awaited arrived. He burst forth from concealment, and though he failed several times and had to rewind time, he ultimately succeeded in stopping Kanna Adis. He kidnapped her before she could reach this timeline’s version of himself and destroy the spell formation, rendering her unconscious.
When she awakened, a torrent of urgent matters would sweep over her like waves, leaving no time to search for this timeline’s version of himself.
Caught in that maelstrom, everything would come to an end.
After that, everything unfolded according to plan.
The world’s fracture widened, and Kanna Adis sealed it.
And the other version of himself in this timeline saved Kanna Adis. Then he went to the Coastal Village and fell into eternal sleep.
‘My role is finished now.’
The puppet gazed at his own arm, gradually splitting apart.
Seon-hee’s words echoed through his mind.
“There is no puppet anywhere capable of bearing a human soul. Your body will slowly rot and crumble.”
He could not show Kanna Adis this degraded state.
He could not tell her the story of what he had endured.
So he resolved to guard Kanna Adis from afar until this body decayed and perished.
And so time passed.
Kanna Adis seemed to have become quite happy. The puppet was satisfied with that, yet waves of devastating loneliness crashed over him on rare occasions.
On those days, he could only wish helplessly.
If only, just once, the day would come when their eyes met.
If only there could be a day when he could touch her again, even once.
“Alex?”
Only in that final moment did his wish come true.
He barely managed to pull out his shattered hand from beneath the falling rocks. He extended it toward Kanna Adis.
Just once.
Just once….
Yet that hand never touched anything and fell away.
* * *
Kanna Adis opened her eyes.
Her legs gave way beneath her. She collapsed to the ground. Thud, thud. Tears fell.
She looked at his hand. That hand which never reached her. The moment she saw it—half-crumbled into dry sand—her body convulsed with tremors.
It was me.
I did that.
I did not take his hand.
I crushed his hand into sand.
I, I, I!
“Ah, ahhh.”
I wailed like a beast and grasped at that hand too late. No, that wasn’t right. I couldn’t grasp it. The moment I touched it, it crumbled into sand. I fumbled through the grains, my words tumbling out incoherently.
“I hate this. I hate this. Alex. Please. Please.”
Please don’t do this. Why did you go this far?
You should have just let me die. What was I? What were those brief moments we shared? What was that promise worth that you would sacrifice yourself like this….
“You fool!”
I couldn’t hold back the cry. My chest burned with unbearable pain, and I couldn’t endure the pity I felt for Alexandro Adis’s fate.
And what I couldn’t endure even more was the ending of another Alexandro Adis that I had witnessed in his memories.
The Alexandro Adis of this current timeline.
I had come to know the end he had met.
By now, he would have fallen into eternal sleep.
During those past years, while she spent perfectly blissful moments, he had been left like that. Abandoned in the dust like garbage.
“No. The fool is me. I’m the fool, and I’m a terrible woman. Alex, I’m truly sorry….”
Sorry. Sorry. I wailed, spewing only that word endlessly.
How long did I cry like that?
I suddenly stopped crying. There was no point in weeping. These tears couldn’t change anything.
The doll was dead, and Alexandro Adis had fallen into eternal sleep.
That was his ending.
“Alexandro Adis.”
I called his name for the first time in ages. My voice was hoarse.
“I won’t accept this ending.”
I absolutely won’t allow it.
* * *
I threw myself back into alchemical research.
After a year of fierce study, I finally discovered the answer I sought.
“It’s done….”
I cut my finger with a blade. Blood dripped steadily. With that blood, I drew a temporal displacement incantation circle.
‘I’m going to save Alex.’
After rewinding time dozens upon dozens of times, I finally arrived at the timeline I desired.
Four years in the past.
It was just days after the World Tree and the black rift had been destroyed, and I had died and been resurrected.
I immediately headed for the Coastal Village. I forced open the locked door and entered the bedroom. And I faced the scene I had anticipated.
On the bed.
There lay Alexandro Adis, sleeping.
“Alex.”
Tears flowed once more. I smiled through my tears.
“It’s been a long time.”
He was exactly as she remembered him. Young, handsome, beautiful….
“Are you sleeping well?”
And he was alive.
Not dead. Only his body lived on.
Yet his soul must have shattered into countless fragments.
If his body had also succumbed to death, his soul would have dispersed naturally. But his undying flesh imprisoned his soul like a cage. His soul could neither awaken nor drift away, trapped in eternal darkness.
His spirit was locked in an endless abyss, unable to wake or fade.
Could there be a more terrible punishment than this?
“I’m sorry for living all this time without you, forgetting you.”
I never even searched for you. I gave my body and heart to others, not you. I spent joyful moments with them.
Had I not learned the truth, I would have eventually forgotten you completely and lived my entire life happily before dying.
By fate, I should have been the one to die….
You bore the price of defying that destiny in my stead.
“I will never leave you alone again.”
Kanna Adis slipped out of the Bedroom. After firmly closing the Chamber door, she threw open the Living Room window. Then she cried out toward the night.
“Alexandro Adis!”
Toward the puppet, wherever it might be listening.
“Come out right now! If you don’t show yourself, I’ll reverse time!”
She raised her hand.
“Think I’m joking? I’ll reverse time. I’ll go back to when I was a baby and kill myself. Then you won’t have to die protecting me!”
He still wouldn’t come out?
Kanna began drawing a spell array with her blood.
Yes. Let me go back to infancy and end it all. That would be better for everyone.
Just before the spell array was completed.
“Stop.”
Kanna’s hand froze. A large hand had seized her wrist.
“What are you doing?”
It was the puppet Alexandro Adis.
The moment their eyes met, Kanna pulled him into an embrace.
“Let go.”
But what came back was a firm refusal. The puppet grasped her shoulders and pushed her away.
“Don’t be mistaken. I am not Alexandro Adis—I am his puppet.”
Then, as if providing evidence, he rolled up his sleeve to reveal an arm decaying and crumbling away.
“So don’t harbor false hopes….”
“I already know.”
Kanna cut off his words.
“That you’re another Alexandro Adis who came from the past. That you abandoned your humanity and became a puppet.”
The puppet fell silent. Though his face remained expressionless, Kanna sensed his bewilderment.
“Your body is rotting right now, isn’t it?”
His eyes narrowed to thin slits.
“How do you know that?”
“I glimpsed your memories from the future.”
“What?”
“You died trying to save me. That’s why I came back in time to rescue you.”
At those words, his face hardened like stone.
“A pointless effort. As you say, I am nothing but a puppet. My body is destined to rot and perish anyway.”
“I can restore you to a human form.”
Kanna Adis pointed toward the Bedroom door with trembling fingers.
“If you merge with Alexandro Adis—the Alexandro Adis in that room, the one of this timeline—it becomes possible.”
At that, the puppet let out a bitter laugh.
“Nonsense.”
“No, it isn’t nonsense.”
“Get a grip. Were you always this fragile of a woman?”
“I’m perfectly lucid!”
Kanna Adis cried out.
“Listen to me. You and Alex in that Bedroom—you are fundamentally the same existence. So—”
“Yes, which is precisely why one will vanish the moment you meet.”
The puppet cut through her hope with a single, decisive statement.
He seemed determined that she should harbor no hope, knowing full well it would only deepen her sorrow.
“One thing cannot exist as two. That is the law of the world.”
Then he added with bitter self-mockery:
“I am no longer human, merely a puppet. So I will be the one to disappear.”
There was a strange comfort in the thought of obtaining complete rest that way. But in that instant, Kanna Adis shook her head.
“What if I could seize your soul?”
“….”
“What if I placed your soul into Alexandro Adis’s body?”
Just as Silvien Valentino had gathered the scattered fragments of her shattered soul and restored them to this flesh.
“If I were to pour your essence into Alexandro Adis’s body, what would happen?”
Alexandro Adis’s brow furrowed. His expression was one of utter disbelief. Naturally, it must sound like madness to him.
“Do you truly believe two souls can inhabit a single body?”
Kanna Adis forced her trembling lips upward into a smile.
“No. Not a different soul. You are Alexandro Adis. So you would simply become Alexandro Adis.”
Just as her own soul, once fractured into countless pieces, had been restored to wholeness through Silvien Valentino’s aid, so too would Alexandro Adis become one again.
“Do not harbor false hope, Kanna. The Alexandro Adis of this timeline, the other me—his soul is utterly shattered.”
“I know. Because I experienced it too.”
“It is different in degree. You were merely split into fragments, but the soul in that Bedroom….”
He did not finish. Yet Kanna Adis understood.
“I know. Pulverized to dust. The very foundation to hold divine power has vanished, leaving nothing behind.”
And with good reason.
In this timeline, the current Alexandro Adis had resurrected five people from death. There had been no time for his soul to recover through divine power—it was inevitable that it would shatter completely.
“But.”
I pointed to the doll. And spoke.
“Your soul is intact.”
Though the body was a doll, the soul was wholly that of Alexandro Adis.
“Right now your soul is in perfect condition, and your divine power overflows abundantly. So.”
I swallowed hard.
“So with your divine power, you might be able to heal the current Alexandro Adis’s soul.”
It was entirely possible. In theory.
But this was something no one could be certain of. Perhaps everything could crumble like bubbles.
“Isn’t it worth attempting?”
The doll did not answer.
I read deep anguish in his eyes.
“What are you hesitating about?”
“….”
“Alex?”
What exactly was causing him such conflict?
I could not bear it and pressed him.
“Don’t you want to live on with me?”
“….”
“You love me. That’s why you’re doing all this. Right?”
“….”
“You love me, Alex!”
In that instant, the doll’s eyes wavered. A strange heat rippled through them. After a long moment, his lips finally parted. He seemed about to speak, his mouth moving, but he could not. Then, with great effort, he scraped out a single word.
“I.”
But that was all.
He could not speak.
He did not wish to speak.
There exist in this world truths so profound they cannot be uttered—emotions so sharp and cutting that to voice them would draw blood from one’s own tongue. These are the secrets we carry in silence for a lifetime.
“I’m sorry.”
I took his hand.
“I’m sorry. I was wrong. If you don’t want to speak, then don’t.”
“….”
“If you don’t want to love me, then don’t. Stay if you wish to stay, leave if you wish to leave. Live as your heart desires now.”
It mattered not if he remained by my side. If seeing my face brought him pain, he could depart to distant lands. He could live elsewhere under another name, in another life.
There was only one thing I desired.
“I simply wish for you to live.”
He did not answer.
Instead, he grasped my hand in return.
“Do not hope too much. Things may not unfold as you wish.”
“I know.”
“Even if you fail, don’t grieve too deeply. Live your own life.”
“I’ll do my best.”
They walked toward the Bedroom. Toward the place where Alexandro Adis now slept.
Before opening the Door, they looked at each other one final time.
No more words were needed.
Kanna Adis grasped the doorknob. She pulled it open with force. In that same instant, brilliant light erupted outward.
It poured from Alexandro Adis upon the Chamber and from the doll itself.
Within that searing, eye-piercing radiance, Kanna Adis raised one hand. And traced a spell seal.
‘Please.’
The warmth of his body, which she held in her other hand, rapidly grew cold. It began to crumble into sand. The doll’s form was vanishing.
‘Please.’
I know it’s selfish.
I know it’s impossible for everyone to survive without anyone dying, for all to live happily ever after.
‘Please, please.’
And yet I wish for it.
For Alexandro Adis—for this man’s story—for its final sentence to change. Just as he altered his own ending, I wish to change his.
‘Please.’
I pray with all my heart.
For all suffering and trials to end, and for Alexandro Adis’s life to finally begin.
For the story to continue thus.
For such an ending.

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