My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 285

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Side Story Episode 16
After that, I behaved like a cornered mouse.
I burrowed myself away somewhere and refused to emerge, fleeing hastily whenever our paths crossed by chance. I no longer ventured into the Palace Garden.
The Palace Garden had been the only place I frequented regularly, yet….
‘Where on earth am I spending all my time?’
It seemed I was living in the Underground Laboratory, but I had no idea where I was during the rest of my hours.
Meanwhile, time flowed steadily onward, and Orsini’s fury accumulated layer upon layer.
And so I turned twelve years old.
* * *
“Your sister was quite beautiful, wasn’t she?”
Orsini turned his head.
Beneath the sprawling tree in the Garden, Kalen was conversing with his companion.
“Seriously. She was incredibly beautiful, Kalen.”
What was that fellow’s name again?
“Be quiet, Colin.”
Right. Colin Davis. But what exactly had that bastard just said?
“I’m telling you, she was incredibly beautiful! I saw her hair pulled back.”
“You must have seen wrong.”
“No, I’m serious. She was really, truly, incredibly beautiful! I mean it!”
“Be quiet. You’re being annoying.”
“Come on, just call your sister over. Let me get a closer look, just once.”
“No.”
“Come on, just this once….”
That was when Orsini rose to his feet. As he strode forward, Colin looked up at him, grinning widely.
“Lord Orsini? Why all of a sudden—ahhh!”
He struck Colin’s face without hesitation.
In that instant, there came a sharp cracking sound. His nose bone had likely shattered.
“Lord Orsini! Please stop!”
Only when Kalen intervened did Orsini cease his assault. Yet unable to contain his rage, he spat out his words.
“You. If I hear one more word of that filthy garbage in my ears, I’ll kill you.”
* * *
The next day, Marquis Davis visited the Adis Mansion.
“Colin is the heir of the Davis Family. Therefore, this act is no different from threatening the Davis Family itself!”
And by sheer misfortune, Father returned home that very day—his first time back in nearly half a year.
In other words, Father had to endure the Marquis’s protests the moment he arrived home after finishing his business.
“Orsini Adis.”
That night, Father came for me as expected.
I tensed immediately. Alexandro Adis spoke in a weary voice.
“Come to the Training Grounds. We’re sparring.”
I was doomed.
* * *
“Cough, cough.”
Orsini lay sprawled on the ground, gasping for breath. Dry coughs erupted from him in succession.
‘Damn it. Decomposition.’
He clenched a fistful of dirt.
At merely twelve years old, he was already a match for most Knight Guards—they couldn’t even stand against him.
There were occasionally Knight Guards stronger than him, but that was all. He felt certain that it wouldn’t be long before he caught up and surpassed them. Everyone was like that.
But then….
“Cough!”
This feeling was entirely new to me.
“Orsini Adis. Get your head straight.”
Alexandro Adis tossed the wooden sword aside. Then he turned away.
Orsini glared at his father’s receding back—that towering frame, eternal and solitary even a thousand years hence.
Was this supposed to be some form of discipline?
‘How ridiculous. As if you even care about me.’
Rage bubbled and churned within me.
My father, wielding swordsmanship bordering on the miraculous, had toyed with me as easily as one might manipulate an ant colony, yet his expression remained utterly bored throughout.
No—he looked annoyed. He looked as though he might die from exhaustion.
This experience left Orsini with a profound sense of contempt.
‘Just wait.’
How much longer could he possibly look down on me like this?
‘Just you wait.’
Someday I would break you and surpass you. Orsini ground his teeth.
* * *
The next day, Orsini saw Kanna Adis for the first time in a while. It was a family meal where their father had made an appearance.
‘What a ridiculous girl.’
She’d even dressed up nicely for some reason, despite usually wandering about looking like a kitchen maid.
‘I suppose she wants to make a good impression on the Duke.’
Orsini let out a derisive snort.
“I’m thinking of redesigning the Valentino Estate’s Garden.”
Chloe spoke to Alexandro Adis.
“So I was wondering if we should start the construction. What do you think?”
“Do as you wish.”
A few days later, their father departed once more, and Kanna Adis vanished as well.
I encountered Kanna Adis again a week later.
“What are you doing?”
Deep within the construction site of the Palace Garden, Kanna Adis was trapped in a sunken pit.
“Why are you like that?”
Kanna Adis’s condition was pathetic.
Her hair was disheveled and tangled, her limbs covered in scratches and abrasions. It appeared she’d stumbled into the pit without noticing it….
“Hey, you filthy thing. Is that your home?”
“….”
“Can’t you hear me?”
“….”
“I’m asking you a question.”
I didn’t answer. Of course, I didn’t even look at him.
It was the same casual dismissal as always.
I should have grown accustomed to it by now, yet anger always surged up regardless.
‘This is unbearable.’
Orsini picked up a twig and hurled it. It struck my shoulder with a soft thud.
Still no reaction. This time he threw a pebble. It hit my head squarely.
“Stop it!”
Only then did my gaze lift to meet his. The moment our eyes connected—my pupils barely visible beneath my disheveled bangs—a chill ran down his spine.
She looked at me.
Finally, she looked at me.
This was the first time our eyes had met since that day when she suddenly embraced me without warning.
“Are you planning to stay there forever?”
For some reason, his throat felt parched. Orsini spoke with barely contained excitement.
“Well, it actually suits you.”
Ask me for help.
“Why don’t you just keep living there? Hmm?”
Come on, ask me for help.
“It looks better than your gloomy Underground Laboratory.”
His insides churned. His mouth had gone completely dry.
Orsini stared at me intently, licking his lips. Come on, hurry up….
“Orsini, you.”
Finally, I opened my mouth. Orsini’s heart raced with anticipation.
Yes, speak. Ask me for….
“Get lost.”
“….”
In that instant, it felt as though his head had been struck. Orsini’s lips trembled with a spasm.
“What did you just say?”
“I said stop bothering me and get lost.”
Fury erupted within him.
“Who do you think you are, ordering me around!”
Orsini indiscriminately scooped up leaves, dirt, and pine cones, flinging them in a torrent that rained down upon my body.
“Don’t! Stop it, Orsini!”
It was strange.
I was the one becoming a mess, yet why did he feel more defiled?
In this moment, it seemed as though he—not I—had fallen into a pit.
“Hey.”
Only after tormenting her for quite some time did I finally lift myself up. Then, as if bestowing a favor, I spoke.
“Should I pull you out from there?”
Kanna Adis was crying. Tears streamed down her face as she spoke.
“I don’t need it. I’d rather die than accept your help.”
“Is that so?”
Orsini Adis laughed with utter composure.
“Then go ahead and die.”
* * *
Shortly after, a Knight Guard from Adis discovered Kanna Adis.
“Young Lady! Are you alright?”
Orsini Adis watched the scene from behind a wooden pillar, then turned away.
‘What a shame. It would have been better if she’d just died there.’
I trudged forward with heavy steps. Then, suddenly seized by anger, I kicked a stone with all my might.
‘From now on, I’ll ignore her too.’
Does she think only she knows how to ignore someone?
From now on, I won’t even look at her. I won’t speak to her. I won’t chase after her.
‘How irritating.’
It was just like that moment.
The moment I saw the tattered silk ball and thought it resembled me.
It was equally miserable.
* * *
A few years later, Kanna Adis married.
On the day she left, Orsini Adis suffered from a high fever for the first time in his life. His head felt like it would split, and his chest burned. It was as if his heart was melting away while still alive. Such agony was unprecedented.
Orsini Adis groaned and buried his face in his pillow.
‘Damn it. It hurts so much.’
Eventually, tears burst forth in a torrent. The pillowcase grew damp from the endless stream of tears.
I couldn’t even find it in myself to despise my own weakness. I could only endure this tumultuous storm of the night, this terrible moment, with sheer perseverance.
That night, Orsini Adis wept for a very long time.

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