My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 272

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Side Story 3
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“I will protect you.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
“Can you promise?”
“I promise.”
From that moment on, the unknown woman transformed as if she had become someone entirely different.
‘Yet she truly was someone different.’
I couldn’t believe it, and yet I had no choice but to believe.
Because I had witnessed her death in the distant future that the real Seon-hee had shown me.
Her death. Kanna Adis’s death.
“Alexandro Adis, how far are you willing to go to save that child?”
“I can do anything.”
“You will die in the final moment. Can you still do it?”
“I can.”
At that declaration, the real Seon-hee spoke.
“Why would you go so far? In the end, you will save my daughter and die. Aren’t you afraid of such an ending?”
Alexandro Adis did not bother to explain.
He was a knight. A swordsman. No matter how prettily it was dressed up, he was ultimately a killer.
Those who steal the lives of others can have their own lives stolen at any moment. To prepare for that day, to accept it, and to live with it—such was the fate of those who dealt in death.
Therefore, death held no fear for him. He was no coward who would shirk his duty out of fear of death.
And above all, he remembered the time before he met Kanna Adis.
A peaceful life where nothing brought him joy. Those tedious nights when he thought he would spend his entire existence standing watch like a star in the night sky.
Had he remained ignorant, he might have lived that way.
But now he knew. The burning passion. The searing heat. Desire. Urgency, exhilaration, rapture.
He had chosen that path.
“Remember this incantation circle. And whenever your resolve wavers, summon me at any time.”
Seon-hee urged him.
“It will be a difficult journey. You may even change your mind along the way. Then call me using Kanna’s blood. I will grant you the ability to live your own life.”
“That won’t happen.”
“No, it will be harder than you think.”
Seon-hee smiled faintly, her expression like that of someone watching a naive child.
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And from that point forward, everything began to crumble.
The first collapse was Largos.
“Don’t interfere, Alexandro Adis. Let’s not fight as brothers.”
My brother was gradually losing his mind.
What had Seon-hee done to paralyze Largos?
I couldn’t possibly understand, and yet it felt as though I did.
Blood cannot lie—Seon-hee shared similarities with Kanna Adis. Which meant both were extraordinarily dangerous. One careless moment and I’d find myself poisoned, or so it felt.
‘Both my brother and I have lost our minds, falling for such perilous women.’
I had thought them opposites, like opposing forces, yet perhaps their essence was identical. They shared the same inability to stop, no matter what.
Largos could not bear Seon-hee slipping from his grasp. He was determined to possess her by any means.
Even if it meant killing her.
Yet in the end, it was Largos who died.
Poisoned to death.
“Have you heard of self-defense?”
Seon-hee pointed to the red handprints marking her neck.
“If I hadn’t killed him, I’d be the corpse by now. Not Largos.”
After killing Largos, Seon-hee vanished. She had returned to her original world.
‘There was no choice in the matter.’
I knew it. I understood it.
But.
‘No, there is no “but.” This was always how it would end.’
Days later, my father died.
Father had been devastated by news of Largos’s death and rapidly declined.
He had dismissed his guard knights and was walking alone when he encountered an assassin sent by the Black Apostles, fought them, and—unable to overcome his weakened body and advanced age—was defeated.
“What did I tell you, Lord Alexandro Adis?”
Theodore’s resentment lingered as a fragment of his soul, hovering near me. Then it mocked me.
“This is all because you saved that woman. What did I say? That woman is ill-omened, didn’t I tell you?”
At those words, Alexandro Adis muttered.
“Do not insult my father. He was the one who taught me that for a swordsman, the battlefield can become a grave at any moment.”
“No! It is because of you! Because of you, Alexandro Adis!”
I could not deny it. This was a consequence born from my own choices.
I reached toward my father’s coffin. But I could not bring myself to touch it and stopped. I knew I had no right to touch my father’s coffin, nor any right to comfort his spirit.
“…My deepest apologies.”
It was a desolate night.
I could not sleep. I drank whiskey and smoked cigarettes one after another. Then, on impulse, I went to find the child.
The child was sleeping soundly. I gazed down at the baby intently.
“Are you really that woman?”
Sensing my presence, the child opened her eyes. Her gaze was clear and direct.
“Kyak! Kyarek!”
Why was she delighted?
The moment I reached out my hand without much thought, the child’s expression suddenly twisted. Then, with a hand like a pebble, she swatted mine away.
“Ow!”
Ah. It was because of the cigarette smell.
At the child’s violent rejection, I felt embarrassed and withdrew my hand.
“Uu! Ow! Uu!”
I could not understand what she was saying, but her displeasure was unmistakable.
“Do you understand your current situation?”
“Waa waa!”
“Your mother killed my brother and abandoned you here. And the Black Apostles are hunting you.”
“Uuu uuu!”
“The future version of you begged me on her knees to protect you as you are now. Yet you strike my hand just because I smell of cigarettes?”
“Waa! Ah!”
“Your shamelessness hasn’t changed one bit, then or now.”
He glared at the ungrateful child but made no further move to reach out.
From that day forward, he quit smoking.
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“That child.”
Chloe trembled, her face drained of color.
“You’re taking her in as your daughter?”
“Yes.”
“Seon-hee’s daughter? The daughter of the woman who killed Largos?”
“That is correct.”
“Are you insane?”
“Whether I am or not is irrelevant to you. You were engaged to my brother, and he is dead. The engagement is void.”
“No. I was engaged to House of Adis. Not to Largos.”
“….”
“I won’t break this engagement.”
It mattered not who the other party was. It mattered not what people whispered. Chloe had to become the Duchess of Adis.
“Do as you wish. But I have conditions.”
“What are they?”
“Transfer the turquoise mines of Cletin to my name.”
Chloe made her demands as if she had been waiting for this moment.
“And make my brother the commander of the Imperial Knight Order. And grant me exclusive commercial rights over Albes Harbor.”
“….”
“These will become my personal assets, entirely separate from House of Adis.”
Chloe thought this was actually fortunate.
What she truly desired was Adis itself. Since the other party conveniently had a flaw, she could simply accept his conditions while extracting her own benefits—was that not ideal?
“And finally, the family will be inherited by my children.”
Chloe spoke with unwavering resolve.
“I will bear at least two sons. We cannot have another heir die young like Largos did.”
“….”
“If you accept my demands, I will raise Kanna Adis as my own daughter.”
Alexandro Adis regarded her with hollow eyes. Seeing Chloe consumed by desire, his thoughts suddenly turned to Princess Ekaterina.
A woman who had demanded marriage and children, just as Chloe did.
Back then, Alexandro Adis had steeled himself to be cast out from his family and poured wine over her head. But now.
Now….
Alexandro clenched his fist tightly.
‘I have already made this choice.’
This is merely the adversity that follows that decision.
And he had never lost to adversity before.
“Can you promise me?”
“I promise. On my honor.”
“Very well.”
After that, everything proceeded according to plan.
And Alexandro learned what true hardship meant for the first time. Especially after his marriage to Chloe, he struggled before an enormous obstacle.
For the first time, he wanted to give up.
After much deliberation, he sought out Celia, an alchemist and Theodore’s younger sister.
“Can you make a hallucinogen?”
“Pardon?”
Celia looked taken aback.
“But hallucinogens carry a high risk of addiction.”
“That’s fine.”
Celia hesitated, but soon produced the hallucinogen and handed it over.
He returned to his bedroom at once and consumed it.
Then she appeared.
Kanna Adis.
The dark-haired woman he had seen in the future that Seon-hee went to. The woman who had possessed Seon-hee’s body to meet him.
“The fact that you remember so vividly what you saw briefly in the future tells me I made quite an impression on you.”
He muttered to himself with self-deprecation.
“And of all things, your appearance matches my taste perfectly. Did you scheme to ruin me?”
At that, Kanna Adis smiled. Beneath her gentle gaze, the beauty mark beneath her right eye stood out prominently.
It was so captivating that his gaze was stolen away. For a moment, he could say nothing at all.
For some reason, a hollow ache settled in his chest. It was almost akin to defeat.
“Kanna Adis.”
The hallucination does not answer.
It doesn’t matter.
“You are beautiful.”
Looking at her, the confusion and self-loathing that had consumed his mind gradually, bit by bit, began to settle.
“I saw your death in the future. The scene of you, so beautiful, dying.”
And you did not wish to die, so you came to find me. You must have believed that I could save you. That I would keep my promise.
You trusted me so deeply.
Not anyone else, but me.
“Yes. Trust in me.”
With those words, Alexandro rose to his feet.

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