My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 295

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Side Story Episode 26
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On the fourth day of holding Kanna Adis in the Underground Laboratory, she seemed to have lost even the strength to struggle.
“Why are you doing this to me?”
Kanna asked in a hoarse voice. Kalen shrugged.
“I’m not entirely sure myself.”
“I think I know.”
“Then tell me.”
“You’re angry because I wouldn’t listen to you. So you want to crush me thoroughly and make me submit. You’re a natural tyrant with a twisted perversion.”
She was truly a remarkable sister. Speaking with such acerbic words while her body trembled with fear. Then suddenly, she shifted her tone entirely.
“I’ll listen to you from now on. Okay? Please, just let me out.”
Kalen let out a faint laugh. Did she really think such an obvious lie would fool him?
“Sister, if this becomes known, my honor will be destroyed.”
“So what? What are you trying to say?”
“I intend to cover it up. Only you and I know about this, so all I need to do is silence you, correct?”
Her face went deathly pale in an instant.
“You wouldn’t possibly….”
Ah, she misunderstood it as a death threat.
He quickly added:
“I’ve purchased an Island.”
“What?”
“A very beautiful Island. You can live there comfortably.”
“….”
Kanna seemed to have completely lost her words.
“Behave yourself. I’ll return this evening.”
Kanna trembled violently.
She clenched her teeth, swallowing something again and again, until finally she could no longer contain herself and screamed.
“Kalen Adis, you insane bastard! I’m not your possession! Let me out right now! Release these restraints!”
“….”
“Help! Please, anyone! Save me! Save me!”
Kalen stood with his arms crossed, calmly observing Kanna’s outburst.
How much time had passed?
Eventually, Kanna exhausted herself and collapsed. Kalen asked calmly.
“Are you finished?”
“…you bastard.”
“I thought you had good learning ability, but it seems that’s not the case. After all, you know better than anyone that no one will come, don’t you?”
He lifted her chin to meet her eyes. They were pupils drenched in terror.
Kalen smiled at her.
“See you later, Sister.”
* * *
‘What is this?’
Kalen Adis furrowed his brow.
A marriage proposal had arrived.
Colin Davis had formally requested Kanna Adis’s hand in marriage.
‘How utterly pointless.’
My sister was destined to remain mine until her dying breath.
From the moment we crossed that irreversible river, her fate had been sealed. Beyond my desire to dominate her, I had no choice but to keep her—to conceal what I had done.
If the truth came to light, my reputation would crumble, and in the worst case, I could lose my title as Duke.
‘Yes. This secret belongs only to her and me. The world must never know.’
The most effective way to keep a secret is to eliminate the other party, but…
I had not the slightest intention of killing my sister.
Rather, I wanted to keep her close and cherish her.
That is why I purchased the Island.
For our happy ending together.
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Several days passed.
I steadily prepared to move Kanna Adis there.
I adorned the Valentino Estate on the Island lavishly so she would not grow bored, and I bribed the Island’s residents to ensure she could not escape.
Everything proceeded smoothly.
Until that day.
“…Sister?”
When I returned after finishing my business at the Imperial Palace.
“Where are you, Sister?”
The Underground Laboratory was empty. Only the rope that had bound her hands and feet lay abandoned like a shed skin.
‘Ah.’
The sight left my mind reeling.
Gone.
My sister was gone.
‘Did she escape?’
My breathing grew ragged. I swallowed hard, suppressing the twisted breath, and lifted the rope.
A cleanly severed edge from a single cut.
This was something Kanna Adis could never have accomplished alone.
This meant…
‘Someone cut it for her.’
And soon I discovered who that ‘someone’ was.
“Colin visited today, but you didn’t see him, did you?”
Isabel spoke with a puzzled expression.
“I’m not sure when he left. I saw him come in, but no one saw him go.”
Colin.
My jaw clenched.
Yes, if it’s Colin.
That bastard frequented this estate constantly since childhood. He might well know the less-traveled routes.
Since he was close with my sister, he would have known about her Underground Laboratory.
That bastard helped her escape.
How dare he.
My woman.
“Ha ha….”
Heat surged through me in an instant. Fierce rage roiled within.
Kalen pressed his forehead with his hand, then withdrew it. By then, his eyes had already settled into an icy calm.
‘No matter where you run.’
Because he was my friend, I knew him.
What he would think. What he wouldn’t think, what he could do, what he couldn’t.
I could read him like lines on a palm.
“Kalen? Where are you going?”
“I’ll be back shortly.”
“Where are you headed?”
Kalen laughed without answering. The hot blood coursing through him made it impossible not to laugh.
It was time to hunt.
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“Huff, huff….”
From far ahead, I could hear their breathing. Finally, I had caught up.
By then, Kalen dismounted. He began walking on foot. There was no need to hurry—the prey was right before him.
Colin, as expected, had sought no help from his house. He was attempting to hide thoroughly and flee abroad. He must have planned to cross the border through this Forest.
Had he accepted his house’s aid, he might have lasted a bit longer.
In any case, a foolish bastard.
“Colin.”
Then, Kanna’s voice reached him.
“That’s enough. You should turn back now.”
“No, I’m not leaving you behind.”
“But you could be put in danger too….”
“Let me take you somewhere safe. Please.”
“…I’m sorry.”
“Why are you apologizing? The villain here is Kalen Adis!”
“But because of me, you too….”
“Stop it, Kanna. Only an idiot would stand by and watch the woman he loves suffer like this.”
Oh, is that so?
Kalen twisted his lips into a smile. Love talk in a situation like this? They certainly knew how to play.
“Colin, I….”
“I know. You said you love another man, didn’t you, Kanna?”
At those words, Kalen found himself stopping without realizing it. He held his breath.
Sister?
Sister Kanna is in love with someone?
“I’m satisfied as long as you’re safe. So Kanna, for now let’s just focus on escaping.”
Kalen Adis slowly, very slowly brushed back his hair. His exposed eyes froze with irritation.
‘How annoying.’
So I decided to just end this quickly.
“K-Kalen!”
I hurried after him and deliberately made my presence known. Colin then startled violently and hid Kanna Adis behind his back.
Kalen laughed.
“Hello, friend. Having a good evening?”
Then he lifted the bow slung across his shoulder. In one fluid motion, he drew the bowstring taut.
Colin’s eyes widened.
“Kalen, wait!”
In that moment, perhaps I wavered for the briefest instant.
Colin Davis. My only friend.
My childhood companion, someone I’d walked beside since youth.
The memories we’d shared, the moments of joy we’d experienced together—they flashed before me like a lantern show.
But it was only a moment.
Kalen released the bowstring immediately.
“No!”
At the moment of impact, Kanna Adis’s scream pierced the air. Colin’s lips twisted in agony.
“K-Kalen, you….”
I didn’t listen. From the moment I left the estate, I had decided I would witness Colin’s final moments tonight.
I had no hobby of conversing with corpses.
After that, Kalen fired three more arrows in succession. None of them missed.
“Ah.”
After several stumbles, Colin’s body collapsed. Only then did Kalen lower his bow.
“Colin! No, this can’t be! Colin!”
Kanna Adis clung to Colin’s lifeless body and wailed. As I approached, she glared at me with a face streaked with tears.
“You! How could you do this! Colin was your friend!”
“Whether friend or family matters little. What matters is that you touched what is mine and learned my secret.”
“You… demon….”
Kalen sighed and spoke.
“Don’t make this difficult. Get up.”
“You bastard, just kill me instead! Kill me here!”
“I’m barely restraining the urge to do so. Get up, sister.”
“No! Let go of me!”
Kanna Adis wrenched her arm free from Kalen and began fleeing desperately.
“Ah!”
She tripped over a tree root and fell. Kalen watched her pathetic performance with an expressionless face.
“Be careful, sister. You’ve been bound for days now—you must be weak.”
With that, he approached her.
“No, don’t come near!”
Perhaps because she had witnessed Colin’s final moments, her limbs had gone limp—she couldn’t even rise. She writhed there on her stomach.
Like a deer with broken legs.
So pitiful, so forlorn….
Kalen found himself licking his parched lower lip. And he thought.
Perhaps those addicted to hunting were truly addicted to moments like this.
The moment when one could admire a beast caught in a trap at leisure, and capture it whenever desired.
“Sister.”
Kalen bent down. He lowered the bow and pressed it gently against her back.
At that alone, Kanna froze like a statue in that very position.
He commanded her.
“Look at me.”
After a moment, Kanna slowly lifted her head and looked up at Kalen. Her eyes were filled with terror.
“You’re beautiful even in moments like this, sister.”
Kalen laughed as he watched her face contort.
He had already thought himself at the bottom, that he could fall no further….
“Truly, maddeningly beautiful.”
The descent had no end.
* * *
After that day, Kanna’s spirit was utterly broken.
‘It was wise to be cruel.’
At last, as if he had tamed a vicious hound—and as a result, he now possessed a docile Kanna in his hands. It had been the right thing to do.
Kalen moved her to the Island.
Everything proceeded smoothly.
Someday, someone would notice her absence, but by then it would be too late. She would never be found. Like Colin.
Colin was officially reported as missing. In reality, he lay buried somewhere in the Deep Forest.
My chest ached.
Colin Davis. My only friend.
But now that the secret was known, there was no choice. He had to die.
‘I’m sorry, Colin. So why did you do something so pointless? Why did you force me to kill you?’
Kalen lit a cigar and offered a prayer for his old friend’s soul. It was a cigar Colin had given him.
‘If there is such a thing as a next life, I pray you never become entangled with sister.’
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A month had passed since Orsini Adis began frequenting the Palace Garden. When he couldn’t catch even a glimpse of Kanna’s hair for that entire month, he grew increasingly violent.
“Damn it. They’re all worthless dogs.”
He was always seething with rage, and everything in the world irritated him unbearably.
Orsini knew he was falling apart with full force.
Would it have been better if he had left this house instead? Or if Kanna had left….
Had one of them departed to a place beyond sight, it might have been better than this. Yet she had spent her entire life within his domain.
Those torturous years had stretched on endlessly.
Far too endlessly.
“Damn woman, what the hell have you been doing that I can’t even catch a glimpse of you?”
Orsini descended into her Underground Laboratory. He kicked the door open with a bang as he entered.
“Hey, you wretch!”
But the laboratory was empty. Not only that—a thin layer of pale dust had accumulated on the desk.
“…What?”
The moment Orsini swept the dust away with his finger to confirm, he understood.
Kanna Adis was not in this mansion.
Likely, she hadn’t been for quite some time.

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