My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 281

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Side Story Episode 12
Side Story 3. Such a Thing Never Happened (1)
“Silvien, come here.”
In the summer of my seventh year, Father brought a girl into the house. She had black hair—something I had never seen before in my life.
“She will become your younger sister from now on.”
Father gripped my shoulders firmly as he spoke.
“Silvien Valentino. No matter what happens, you must protect this child. Do you understand?”
“Father?”
“Especially from the Grand Temple.”
Father’s expression was as though he had glimpsed some dangerous secret lurking beneath the world.
“Protect this child from the Divine Spirit. That is the duty of Valentino. Do you comprehend?”
I was bewildered, but I nodded. And then I approached the girl.
“Hello?”
Was she shy?
The little girl stammered uncertainly. I smiled at her.
“I’m Silvien, your older brother now. I’m so happy to have such a cute little sister. What’s your name?”
The child’s face flushed. She answered in a small voice.
“Kanna. I’m Kanna.”
That was my first meeting with Kanna Adis.
* * *
It wasn’t long before I came to love my new younger sister.
It was only natural. Kanna was kind, and she followed me with blind devotion.
Moreover, Kanna was my only ally.
She was the one who endured those moments alongside me when Mother would have her episodes, when she would wail.
“B-Brother. Mother is doing it again.”
“It’s alright. Come here, Kanna.”
As always, Mother, drunk on wine, begins to shriek.
She shatters vases, shouts at the top of her lungs, destroys furniture. That deafening chaos was violence itself to two young children.
“Brother. I’m scared. Mother frightens me so much.”
“Just bear it a little longer, Kanna. It will be over soon.”
We hid ourselves deep within the wardrobe where Mother could not find us.
“Close your eyes and count sheep.”
“Sheep?”
“Yes. Count until you reach one hundred.”
“But I can’t count to one hundred.”
“I’ll teach you.”
I held Kanna close and patted her gently.
“One, two, three, four….”
As we counted together like this, Kanna would eventually drift off to sleep.
“Kanna, are you asleep?”
“….”
“Sleep well, my sister.”
Silvien gently wiped away the tears clinging to his sleeping sister’s eyes. The sight of her distress pierced his heart.
In that moment, Silvien made a vow.
‘I must protect Kanna Adis with everything I have.’
Because she had no one but me.
And I had no one but her.
* * *
As time passed, they grew closer, and their bond deepened into something unbreakable.
“Brother, what is this flower called?”
“Astilbe.”
“It’s so beautiful.”
“You’re more beautiful, Kanna.”
“What!”
Six-year-old Kanna Adis burst into laughter and struck his shoulder playfully.
“If we’re talking about beauty, you’re the most beautiful, brother. You’re truly….”
Kanna gazed at Silvien’s face as if tracing its every feature, then her cheeks flushed crimson.
“You look like a fairy.”
“Do you like my face, Kanna?”
“If you don’t like it, are you not human? I’m envious. I wish I had silver hair like yours….”
She often cursed her own black hair and dark eyes.
“Kanna, don’t listen to what others say.”
“But people hate my hair and eyes.”
“Does that matter? I love them.”
Silvien stroked her black hair tenderly as he spoke.
“I love everything about you.”
Kanna’s cheeks flushed at his words.
“Brother, you know what?”
“Hmm?”
“Will you marry me when we grow up?”
“What?”
“Marriage is between people who love each other, right? I love you more than anyone in the world.”
Silvien laughed, delighted by her affection.
“I love you too, Kanna.”
“Then you’ll marry me?”
“Yes, let’s do that.”
They were siblings, and he never told her the truth—that marriage between them was impossible. He wanted to preserve his young sister’s innocent fantasy for as long as he could.
* * *
“Mother, please stop!”
“Get out of the way, Silvien!”
Mother shrieked, her eyes glittering with madness.
“It’s because of this wretched girl! If only she didn’t exist!”
I thrashed in the center of the Frozen Lake, gasping for help, my brother, save me, gulping down water as I struggled desperately.
Mother drove her long sword through my shoulder to keep me from surfacing.
“Stop!”
Silvien Valentino shoved Mother away.
A piercing death cry echoed as she plummeted into the lake. Water erupted in violent sprays.
Seizing the moment, Silvien Valentino grasped my hand and pulled me up.
“Kanna Adis, come to your senses!”
My body, cold as ice, felt like a corpse. Terror flooded through me.
“Kanna Adis, wake up. Kanna Adis!”
He cradled my frigid form and rushed toward the Valentino Estate.
Behind him, Mother sinking beneath the Frozen Lake—
He had completely forgotten about her.
* * *
Fortunately, I survived.
But Mother…
“Silvien Valentino, speak to no one of what happened at the Frozen Lake. Do you understand?”
Father gripped Silvien Valentino’s shoulder and made him swear solemnly. And she was declared to have died by misadventure.
‘I killed her.’
Yet he felt not a shred of remorse.
Truthfully, such a mother—
Did her absence truly matter?
A mother who drank herself into oblivion every day, spewing abuse, hurling objects, raving and wailing, could never compare to Kanna Adis, who had always been kind to him.
“Kanna Adis.”
Silvien Valentino took her small hand in his. He pressed his lips to the back of her hand.
“I’m grateful you didn’t die.”
* * *
Months later, Father remarried. His new bride was Josephine, his former mistress.
“I ask for your understanding, Silvien Valentino and Kanna Adis. I will strive to be a good mother.”
Josephine treated Silvien Valentino with utmost gentleness. But not Kanna Adis, who shared not a drop of Valentino blood with them.
“Brother, I’m afraid of that woman. When you weren’t around, she pinched my hand.”
Silvien Valentino held me close.
“Don’t worry. I’ll protect you.”
Yet Father cherished Josephine dearly.
“You said we must protect Kanna Adis. But the stepmother is deliberately tormenting her.”
“Yes, we must protect Kanna Adis. But the threat comes from the Divine Spirit and the Black Apostles—not from a fragile woman like Josephine.”
“But…”
“Josephine is my only refuge. I have lost much to protect Kanna Adis, but I will not lose the woman I can lean upon for solace.”
And Josephine knew Father’s love all too well. That was precisely why she could torment Kanna Adis with such brazen cruelty.
Kanna Adis grew darker with each passing day.
“They say I’m filthy because I have black hair. I’m a blemish on the Valentino name, brother.”
Silvien Valentino saw the sickly bruises covering Kanna’s back, belly, and thighs.
For a moment, he felt as though he might lose himself entirely.
The fury was overwhelming.
‘Josephine. That woman.’
How could anyone torment such a small child so mercilessly?
Silvien gathered the sobbing Kanna into his embrace and made a decision.
I would eliminate them.
Everything that tormented this child.
Josephine. And the father who turned a blind eye to her abuse.
* * *
At twelve years old, I joined hands with Marquis Alsbayne, a close friend of my father, and together we trapped him and orchestrated his death. Josephine was part of it all, of course.
“Come here, Kanna.”
The day I became head of the household, I lay in the master’s chamber with Kanna beside me.
“Can we sleep together?”
“Of course. Now you can do whatever you wish.”
“This is wonderful. You’re the best, brother.”
Kanna smiled brightly for the first time in ages.
“I love you, brother.”
“I love you too.”
Silvien pressed his lips to Kanna’s forehead and we drifted to sleep, warmed by each other’s presence.
It was a warm night.
* * *
Childhood passed swiftly.
Kanna turned fourteen, and I turned seventeen.
“Brother, I have a favor to ask you.”
“What is it?”
“Promise you’ll hear me out first.”
“Of course. Have I ever refused to listen to you?”
Shortly after, she brought a man to me.
“His name is Raphael. I found him homeless on the streets. I brought him here, but…”
I was astounded. She’d picked up a man—not a cat or a dog, but an actual man?
Worse still, this Raphael wouldn’t even make eye contact or speak unless it was to Kanna.
‘Something’s off about this one.’
I recognized his origins at a glance—he was from the Grand Temple.
I could feel the divine power radiating from him.
‘So the Divine Spirit’s successor has escaped. It must be him.’
And the way he looked at Kanna was deeply unsettling. Like a dog, somehow. A loyal hound with eyes only for its master.
“Brother, please? I’m asking you.”
“Kanna, about the people from the Grand Temple….”
“Brother.”
But Kanna Adis draped herself across my neck, pressing her lips softly against my cheek as she whispered.
“You’ll grant my request, won’t you?”
I gazed down at Kanna Adis with quiet scrutiny.
She smiled with absolute confidence.
It was the smile of someone who knew precisely how enchanting she was, who harbored not a shred of doubt that her charm would make others surrender.
When had Kanna Adis become so cunning?
“Very well.”
Yet still, she remained utterly captivating.
Though I could see through her scheming heart entirely, I chose to yield to her.
Surrendering to her brought me joy.

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