My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 269

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Chapter 269
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“Alex, I want strawberries.”
At that, Alex glared at me with an exasperated expression.
“What you have in your mouth right now—is that a carrot, not a strawberry?”
“These strawberries taste awful.”
I grumbled while munching on plump berries.
“Not these. I want those strawberries from before. You know, the ones—”
“Shut up. I don’t want to hear it.”
“When we just escaped from the Divine Temple not long ago, you brought me wild strawberries then. I want those.”
“I thought you were just mad, but you’re shameless too.”
“No, it’s not me who wants them—it’s the other me inside my belly who craves them.”
“Be quiet. Stay silent before I gag you.”
“Ah, wild strawberries, I want those strawberries from back then!”
Alex completely ignored me. And he was nowhere to be seen the entire next day. I asked the Guard Knight watching over me.
“Where is Alex?”
“He stepped away for a moment.”
He returned only when night fell, his hands overflowing with wild strawberries—those from the Forest that I had sung about so much.
“These taste amazing!”
As I ate with a blissful expression, Alex muttered irritably.
“Why did I bring someone like you and suffer like this…”
In that moment, I opened my eyes.
A dark room. The familiar ceiling came into view.
Alex, who had been speaking beside me moments before, was nowhere to be found.
This was a memory from decades ago.
After so long, I had dreamed of the old days.
I rose from the bed.
‘I should go see Alex.’
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I was reasonably satisfied with my life.
I would continue living this way, receiving vital energy from them.
The four men who shared their vital energy had become part of my existence.
I loved them all. How could I not, when they offered to transfuse their life force for my sake throughout their entire lives?
Silvien Valentino was right. I could never live as an ordinary woman. Whether Alex was present or not, this life would never change.
“Hello, Alex.”
I gazed down at Alexandro Adis.
“Are you sleeping well?”
That Coastal Village. That house. That chamber.
The spell formation I created a year ago still floated in the air, emanating a soft black light, connected to Alexandro Adis’s body.
And Alexandro Adis remained trapped in eternal slumber.
One year prior.
It was only half a success.
After examining Alex’s condition, Silvien Valentino—who had experience retrieving Kanna Adis’s soul before—spoke his assessment.
The past Alexandro Adis and the present Alexandro Adis, those two souls had successfully become one.
So perhaps one day he would open his eyes. Perhaps he would be healed.
But it was possible he would never open his eyes. It was possible he would never be healed.
Yet one thing was certain.
“He wishes to live.”
…
“Desperately, he wishes to live. His will to survive is remarkably strong.”
At those words, Kanna Adis shed tears.
“Even now, in this very moment, he strives to live. So you must not abandon hope.”
Yes. Who would wish for death? Life could never be squandered.
Alexandro Adis learned to cook even as his final days approached. I could not comprehend it then….
But now I understood.
He had wanted to live.
Because he hoped for tomorrow to come, he learned to cook.
Though he had thrown away his life for her countless times, it was not because he held it cheap.
Only that she alone mattered more than his entire existence.
“Alex.”
Kanna Adis caressed his cheek and whispered.
Alex, I had an old dream the other night. Do you remember how I stubbornly insisted on eating wild raspberries? You eventually found them for me. Thinking back now, we were so adorable then, weren’t we?
You know, Alex.
I am happy. I am living well. It is thanks to you that you changed my ending.
You told me not to grieve too deeply and to live well. That is what I intend to do.
Someday, as I await the day you awaken, I will live my life. So do not worry….
Kanna Adis pressed her lips to his forehead.
“Sleep well.”
May you have only pleasant dreams.
I will bear all your nightmares for you.
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“Miss? Are you leaving already?”
Claude Azel emerged from the Kitchen, ladle in hand.
“Please have dinner before you go.”
“I’ll take a brief walk by the Sea and return.”
“Shall I accompany you?”
“It’s fine. It’s right nearby. I prefer to go alone.”
Claude Azel remained in the Adis Mansion, watching over the eternally sleeping Alexandro Adis. He had volunteered for this duty of his own accord.
“Lord Claude, do you not find it tedious here?”
“Lord Claude Azel, aren’t you bored here?”
“I suppose it does feel like retirement.”
Claude chuckled softly.
“Well, the salary keeps coming regularly, so honestly, it’s quite nice. I’ve made new friends in the village too. These days, I’m learning to knit.”
“Knitting?”
“Yes. Ah, just a moment.”
Claude disappeared into his room and returned with what looked like a red, tattered piece of cloth.
“This is a scarf. I made it whenever I missed you, and it’s already finished.”
“Thank you.”
“That’ll be 100 gold.”
“….”
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‘How beautiful….’
When I stepped outside, the sun was setting.
I walked along the beach, admiring the sky as it turned crimson. Then, unexpectedly, laughter escaped me.
Now that I thought about it, I had promised Alex we would go see the sea together, but it rained the next day and we couldn’t go.
After that, his memories returned, and we couldn’t go either.
‘Later. Someday it will be possible.’
But… when exactly is that someday?
A year from now? Ten years from now?
Or perhaps a hundred years from now?
A chill crept over me. It seemed like an absurd assumption, but for Alexandro Adis, it was entirely possible.
His body would never die.
A hundred years from now, perhaps a thousand.
When I had returned to dust and ceased to exist anywhere in this world.
Only then might Alexandro Adis open his eyes.
The moment that thought crossed my mind, my feet stopped moving along the beach.
‘What would I do if that actually happened?’
My lower lip began to tremble uncontrollably. It felt as though materialized fear was strangling my throat.
I would be fine. I would be fine. Because there would be people to live with. Because I could live happily with those I cherished.
But what about Alex?
What if there was no one beside him when he opened his eyes?
Alexandro Adis had lived his entire life in isolation, like a solitary island. He harbored plans he could tell no one, and undertook deeds from which he could receive no help.
In the end, even in his final moment, there was no one at his side.
All that remained to witness his last was a single worn letter left by a woman decades ago.
With that thought, I could bear it no longer. My legs gave way, and I collapsed onto the sand.
‘What should I do?’
I could not envision an ending where Alex found happiness. I could not picture him smiling.
‘What am I supposed to do?’
I wept helplessly, tears streaming down my face.
‘Alex, what am I supposed to do?’
These tears alone cannot change anything, and I don’t know what more I can do here. You saved me, yet I cannot save you no matter what.
‘What if you never open your eyes again after a very long time, or what if you never open them at all?’
Kanna Adis gripped the sand with trembling hands. The bones of her knuckles protruded sharply.
No. In truth, I already know the answer.
‘If I had never been born.’
A thought that had once brushed past me in fleeting moments now crystallized into concrete form. From the instant Alex failed to awaken a year ago until now, I have thought of nothing else.
What if I had never been born?
If I had not existed in this world from the beginning, none of these tragedies would have occurred.
This was the only certain answer.
Kanna Adis gazed at the sea through eyes clouded with tears.
Even if Alexandro Adis awakens, my life will not change. I will continue living as I do now.
But if he does not awaken, my life will remain forever like a box with its corners shattered.
No matter how happy, no matter how joyful, no matter how loved and loving, everything will eventually slip through the fractured cracks.
Suffering a lifetime beneath the guilt of failing to save him.
‘The only certain way to save you is this.’
It was a fate I should have met from the beginning. Yet I lived because of Alex, and through him I felt happiness. So this is enough.
“Because you saved me.”
Kanna Adis withdrew a small dagger she had kept close to her heart.
“This time, I will save you.”
I drew across my finger. Slowly, I traced the incantation circle. Blood flowing through the air began to crystallize.
“So now, you live.”
I will reverse time. I will go back to the distant past and kill Kanna Adis.
So that Alexandro Adis will not sacrifice his entire life for me.
With each line of the incantation circle I traced, tears streamed down my face.
The moment the circle was finally completed, Kanna Adis laughed.
I was sorry to them. Those people who had become truly precious to me now. I was happy because of them….
But I cannot accept this ending where only he remains unhappy.
So.
‘Goodbye.’
It was the moment I was about to close my eyes.
Something rushed at the incantation circle with fierce momentum. It collided with a deafening crash. A brilliant white light flashed and exploded before my eyes.
Kanna Adis could not even scream as she was thrown backward.
“Ah….”
Kanna Adis clutched her dizzy head. Through her blurred vision, she could see the incantation circle completely destroyed.
What? Did it fail?
No, someone just unleashed power at me—who on earth could it be?
In this small rural village, there is only one person with such power….
It could only be him.
Kanna Adis lifted her head as if entranced. And she saw.
A world drenched entirely in crimson, the sea painted a vivid scarlet as if the sunset-stained sky itself had collapsed.
I couldn’t focus through that overwhelming brilliance.
Was I seeing illusions? Or was I dreaming?
Beyond the distant sandy shore, white flames blazed. Wrapped in such blinding pure radiance that my eyes might burn away….
The red man.
In that instant, the entire world froze.
The sound of waves, the scent of the sea, the cool breeze—all of it stopped eternally in this moment. It felt like the end of time itself. Only one thing continued to flow—
“You lied.”
That person alone.
“You said you’d wait.”
Salvation was coming.
“Kanna.”
To me, he came.
Completely overwhelmed, I couldn’t draw a single breath. Afraid that if I exhaled, it would all end. That he would disappear….
But in the next moment, a large hand grasped my shoulder and lifted me to my feet. The instant that hand touched me.
The sound of waves rushed in. The wind stirred my hair, and the scent of the sea moistened the tip of my nose.
With time flowing once more, a tremendous tremor surged through me.
It hadn’t ended. He hadn’t disappeared.
Yet I still couldn’t believe it, and I lifted my trembling hand. That face which had been asleep all this time.
When the cool, smooth sensation reached me, electricity shot through to my elbows.
“Ah.”
Realization crashed over me. It poured out with tears.
“Alex?”
As if in answer, he gazed at me.
His eyes that I hadn’t seen in so long. When our gazes met deeply, I felt it completely real.
This is real.
This is reality.
“We….”
So hurry. Quickly, I had to say it now.
That one thing I’d wanted to say first the moment he awoke.
“Did you sleep well?”
Then he—Alexandro Adis—smiled gently.
Unable to bear that moment, I burst into tears.
‘Thank you, God.’
I could never accept it, even in death. I could never make peace with it, even if I died.
So there was a story I strove to change, even if it meant dying to do so.
And now, in this moment, that ending had finally changed.
Faced with this miraculous reality, I couldn’t bear the overwhelming joy and surging emotion, so I wept and laughed all at once.
Then Alexandro wrapped a red scarf around my neck.
Weeping and laughing, completely falling apart, I spoke in a trembling voice like a lamb’s.
“This was worth 100 gold.”
“I know. I bought it.”
“Fool.”
“….”
Kanna Adis embraced him.
This was the story she had so desperately yearned for. The ending she had longed for with all her heart.
“Thank you for saving me.”
Alexandro Adis—the final chapter of his story had been rewritten.
“Did you have a dream?”
“I did.”
A dream where no one died and everyone survived to live together.
“What kind of dream was it?”
Alexandro Adis smiled faintly.
“It was a good dream.”
One where all suffering and trials had ended, and a new life was finally beginning.
An ending like that.
【Someone possessed my body】
Main Story Complete

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