My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 268

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Chapter 268
Another year had passed.
Raphael had turned eighteen from seventeen. He had come of age. He seemed to have been waiting for this day alone, announcing the countdown meticulously starting a month before his eighteenth birthday.
“One month remaining.”
“Three weeks remaining.”
“Two weeks remaining.”
And when only one final week remained, he spoke.
“When you visit next time, I will have come of age.”
Kanna Adis, having already lived through this period once, knew exactly what he desired.
‘And yet he claims to aspire toward the priesthood?’
In the past, he had at least maintained proper pretense.
Even now he attempted concealment of sorts, but his lack of experience showed—it was far from the perfection of before. In other words, the raw yearning spilling from his eyes remained utterly transparent.
Kanna Adis had spoken to him the previous night.
“Why don’t you spend time with girls your own age instead of this?”
She had meant to ease his tension, seeing him half-turned away in barely contained anticipation, but his response was remarkable.
“There exists no woman more beautiful than you.”
Kanna Adis stroked his short hair, disheveled across the pristine white pillow. In that instant, Raphael’s eyes flew open. He spoke without preamble.
“Could you not stay a few days longer?”
Kanna Adis answered without hesitation.
“No, I can’t. Silvien Valentino is waiting.”
“Must you meet with him? You won’t need divine power for several days now.”
That was true. An enormous quantity of divine power had poured from Raphael throughout the night.
“I can send the High Priest as a messenger to cancel. Have I not now come of age? Grant me your time as a coming-of-age gift.”
Kanna Adis deliberated for a moment, then nodded.
In the previous timeline—the life before she had turned back time to save Alex—she had soothed him and departed. But now….
“Very well.”
This time, she wanted to grant Raphael what he wished for.
‘Besides, Silvien Valentino is extraordinarily busy during this period anyway. He won’t mind much.’
Yet that very evening, Silvien Valentino appeared while they were dining.
“Silvien Valentino? Didn’t you receive the messenger?”
“I did. You asked to postpone our appointment. That won’t do. So get up.”
Raphael’s face crumpled. He glared at Silvien Valentino and spoke.
“There’s no need. Kanna Adis won’t require divine power for some time.”
Silvien Valentino’s smile deepened. He understood precisely what Raphael was provoking with.
“Congratulations on coming of age. Now that you’re grown, allow me one piece of advice. There are rules between us. We do not encroach upon each other’s time.”
Silvien Valentino regarded him as one might a child.
“So do not throw tantrums like a child.”
“A child? Did you just call me a child?”
“Ah, I seem to detect the scent of milk somewhere.”
“And what are you doing now, cast aside in divorce?”
“Look here. You actually remember everything, don’t you?”
“How imaginative of you.”
What was this childish bickering about? Kanna Adis quickly wedged herself between them.
“Stop it. What are grown men doing fighting like this?”
She pressed down firmly on Raphael’s shoulder to seat him, then grabbed Silvien Valentino’s arm.
“Raphael, see you next time. Let’s go, Silvien.”
* * *
“I’m displeased, Kanna Adis.”
On the way back, inside the Carriage, Silvien Valentino spoke while absently processing documents.
“Unilaterally canceling a promise. Where did you learn your manners?”
He was genuinely angry. And this time, I had been in the wrong.
“I’m sorry, Silvien. I thought you wouldn’t mind.”
“Me? Not mind you?”
Silvien Valentino let out a derisive snort and flipped through the documents.
“Quite the judgment you possess.”
A chill radiated from him. It didn’t seem like he was merely upset about a broken promise.
Did Silvien Valentino realize it himself? He suddenly covered his face with one hand, letting out a groan tinged with self-loathing.
“How pathetic.”
“….”
“Your body is absolutely brimming with divine power right now. I suppose that’s been irritating me.”
Then he lowered his hand from his face and let out a laugh.
“After all, having just come of age and experienced transferring divine power for the first time, you must have been running wild without any sense of restraint.”
“Silvien.”
“I never understood the power struggles between concubines recorded in history books, but now I’m beginning to empathize.”
Then he smiled with perfect composure.
“Ha. I wish Raphael would get struck by lightning.”
He was always going on about lightning. Despite my sympathy for him, I felt laughter bubbling up.
‘That won’t do.’
I moved to sit beside him.
“Silvien.”
Then I snatched the documents from his hands. I smiled brightly and asked.
“Are you very busy?”
Silvien Valentino surrendered them willingly. After setting the documents down on a chair, I climbed onto his lap. Silvien Valentino watched what I was doing with a blank stare, then spoke curtly.
“Do you think this will ease my anger?”
“Hmm.”
I furrowed my brow as if thinking, then laughed.
“Perhaps?”
“Good heavens. You vixen.”
Silvien Valentino eventually let out a soft laugh and shook his head as if he’d been defeated.
“Do you enjoy this? Manipulating people?”
Then he pulled her nape toward him, whispering as their lips met.
“It seems you must have about nine tails. Isn’t that right?”
Documents scattered across the floor.
* * *
Had Silvien Valentino felt competitive with Raphael?
He poured far more vital energy into me than what Raphael had infused. Thanks to that, I was in better condition than ever before.
It wasn’t until the next day that I returned to Adis. The moment Orsini saw me, he laughed coldly.
“Enjoying yourself?”
“Yes.”
“Ah, I see. Then I’m not needed. I’ll step aside. Go ahead and live well with your little concubines!”
Then he stormed out of the room with fierce momentum.
‘He’s angry.’
Rather than chase after him, I sprawled across the bed.
Silvien Valentino’s prophecy from before had been accurate.
At most, it would last a year.
And his metaphor had been quite apt as well.
Concubines.
Hadn’t Orsini just mentioned something about concubines?
‘He’s not wrong. After all, Silvien Valentino is implementing a monogamy system because of this.’
Regardless, I had no intention of marrying anyone. I didn’t want to become entangled legally as well.
It was already sufficiently, tremendously, extraordinarily complicated.
‘I was quite flustered during that previous timeline too.’
Yet because I was experiencing the same period twice, I was accepting it more calmly than before.
That was when it happened.
“Sister, may I come in?”
“Yes.”
Kalen entered.
In his arms was a basket containing bottles of oil. He had professionally learned massage techniques to help her, whose weakened body frequently suffered from muscle soreness.
“Did you quarrel with your brother?”
Kalen poured oil onto my back as I lay face down, massaging gently as he asked.
“No, Orsini is simply upset with me unilaterally.”
“I think I understand the reason.”
“Aren’t you angry?”
“I am not like that fiery colt.”
His nickname had by now become official and spread widely.
“Please don’t worry too much, Sister. For us, it merely ends in jealousy, but for you, it’s a matter of survival, isn’t it?”
At those words, my heart ached with a tender sting. Oddly enough, I felt comforted.
‘This cunning creature.’
He certainly knew my weak points very well.
I knew that the massage and these warm words were all strategy, yet they comforted me nonetheless. Perhaps because of that, I had come to truly enjoy my time with Kalen.
This must have been Kalen’s strategy.
I couldn’t compete with his cunning.
I rolled onto my front. Kalen’s hands, which had been applying pressure along my spine, lost their place.
“Kalen.”
No response. His Adam’s apple bobbed as he swallowed hard.
“Come here.”
Kalen came into my arms, holding his breath.
How could this man seem so endearing? I stroked his snow-white hair.
“Thank you for saying that.”
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The next day, I was taking a walk through the Garden when I sat down beneath a tree for a moment.
I hadn’t slept properly in days. My stamina had improved thanks to my divine power, but I couldn’t fight off the drowsiness.
“Speaking of the Duke Adis’s daughter…”
Just then, voices drifted over from beyond the bushes. Men’s voices.
“Who? Isabel?”
“No, Kanna Adis.”
“Ah. Kanna Adis?”
At the mention of that name, they began snickering maliciously.
“Who was it last night?”
“Obviously. Either Kalen or Duke Adis.”
“Wasn’t she with the Emperor not long ago?”
“I heard she was a Divine Spirit? How many people is she meeting?”
I’d heard that disciples from other Knight Houses were coming to Adis for training today. These must be them.
I used their gossip as a lullaby and began nodding off. Having been through everything, I was no longer bothered by such slander.
“That woman, they say she bathes in the blood of children? How else could she possibly be so beautiful?”
“She’s truly a seductress, they say. There’s even a rumor that the Emperor is implementing monogamy because of her.”
“Tsk, what nonsensical law from who knows where.”
“If other women turn into seductresses like Kanna Adis because of this, I don’t know what…”
But in the next moment, the voices cut off abruptly.
“Why did you stop?”
Then came Orsini’s voice. It was terrifyingly quiet.
“Go on. What about the seductress?”
After that, there was nothing to hear. The sound of something cracking, followed by horrific screams, echoed through the air.
There was no way I could rest in this environment. I muttered with my eyes closed.
“Orsini, take it easy.”
The violence stopped immediately. Then came the sound of men hurriedly fleeing.
“Are you an idiot?”
Orsini pushed through the bushes and approached me. His hands and clothes were splattered with blood.
“And you just sat there listening to that?”
“It’s not exactly wrong, is it?”
“What do you mean ‘no’!”
Orsini trembled from head to toe, his fury consuming him entirely.
“What could those fools possibly know? They would have been infected by the Black Mist and died if not for you….”
His words trailed off as Kanna Adis withdrew a handkerchief and offered it to him.
He stared at it blankly for a moment before quickly accepting it, wiping the blood from his hands and tucking it into his pocket.
“Aren’t you going to return it?”
“It’s mine now.”
Orsini cleared his throat awkwardly before collapsing beside her, then subtly leaned his weight against her.
“Get away. You’re heavy.”
“Bear with it.”
He was a massive man, far heavier than her, so naturally my body swayed to the side.
“Can’t you endure even this?”
Orsini grasped my shoulder and pulled me against him.
“I don’t understand how you manage to survive with such a fragile body.”
“Who was it that bruised this fragile body just days ago?”
Orsini’s face flushed. Without a word, he began sharing his spiritual energy with me.
“You don’t have to.”
“I have more than enough spiritual energy. Take it.”
“Orsini.”
“What I said yesterday wasn’t sincere. I take it back. I’m sorry.”
“Orsini.”
“I made a mistake last night. So if you’re going to spout nonsense, shut it.”
Last night, he hadn’t slept, troubled by the jealous words he’d spoken in madness. Yet he knew it was necessary for Kanna Adis’s survival….
Kanna Adis had been right before.
Greed has no end, and now he’d reached the point of wanting to monopolize her completely.
But Kanna Adis spoke nonetheless.
“You should stop.”
Orsini’s jaw tightened.
“I told you. If you get tangled up with me, you can’t live an ordinary life. My fate is what it is, but you can still live properly whenever you want, can’t you?”
Above all, I found it absurd that I was thinking this way….
‘I hate seeing him suffer.’
That was the truth.
A moment later, Orsini exhaled a fading sigh.
“Hey.”
He gently grasped my black hair. When he applied slight pressure, my head lifted.
“I think I mentioned this before.”
His brilliant emerald eyes bore down upon me with piercing intensity.
“Who said they wanted to live properly?”
Then he lowered his head and kissed me.
Warmth intertwined between us. As her breath seeped into him and her sweet fragrance enveloped him, Orsini trembled with exhilaration.
This was what I loved.
This alone drove me to madness with desire. Only this.
For such exquisite ecstasy, what wouldn’t I do?
This was his wish and his dream.
In truth, I had known for a long time. From the moment I eagerly accepted the poison she offered, the trap she laid, the kiss of death itself.
Even if I burned to ash, it would be within her.

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