My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 296

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Side Story Episode 27
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“Sister, I’ve arrived.”
“Kalen!”
Kanna Adis rushed toward me with a radiant smile, throwing her arms around my neck and hanging from me.
“You’re here now?”
It had been two months since Kanna Adis came to this Island. By now, she seemed to have adapted perfectly to this life.
“Aren’t you tired?”
She was so remarkably kind. It was impossible to imagine her former sharp-tongued demeanor.
“I’m fine. What were you doing, Sister?”
“Oh, I was working on a puzzle. I just finished it—do you want to see?”
Kanna Adis smiled brightly and pulled my hand.
“How is it? Impressive, right?”
“Yes. It’s remarkable.”
“Right? That part over there was a bit difficult to fit together, but….”
I couldn’t restrain myself and pulled her nape toward me, pressing my lips against hers.
“I missed you, Sister.”
Every moment apart from her, I’d been desperate to breathe in her scent, to feel her skin—it was driving me mad.
For some time now, I had always been thinking of Kanna Adis.
During parties, during meetings, while working—always.
My thoughts were consumed entirely by her.
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“I believe I shall become engaged.”
Kanna Adis, who had been resting against my arm, suddenly opened her eyes wide.
“Engaged? To whom?”
“Yoanna Friedrich. The Princess of the Yalden Kingdom.”
I spoke while stroking the black hair scattered across my chest.
“For now, we shall meet with the engagement as a premise, and I intend to hold the formal engagement ceremony several years from now.”
“Then what about me?”
I gathered her hair and pressed my lips against it.
“You shall continue living here, Sister. I will make sure to visit frequently.”
“….”
“Political marriages are commonplace, are they not? It is practically a noble’s obligation.”
“…I know. Who wouldn’t?”
With those words, Kanna Adis snorted and turned her body away sharply. Watching her back, something felt strange.
It should have been annoying….
Yet she was endearing to me.
I touched my lips. My mouth was curled up in a smile, wasn’t it?
This is troublesome. To find such behavior endearing. Even more so, her anger was sending a peculiar thrill through me.
“Shall I not do it?”
Kanna Adis turned her head slightly.
“If I tell you not to, will you stop?”
“I’m not sure.”
“What kind of answer is that?”
Kanna Adis rose with a petulant expression, placing her hand against his chest.
“Answer me properly, Kalen.”
Her cascading black hair tickled his cheek like a waterfall.
“Tell me you won’t get engaged.”
Kalen looked up at her as though gazing upon something dazzling. Her smile was so beautiful it made him dizzy.
“Come on, yes?”
“Sister.”
“Answer me, Kalen.”
Everything that followed blurred in my memory.
I won’t. I’ll listen to you, sister. Through the haze of my mind, I must have answered thus.
It was terrifyingly blissful.
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Yet Kalen knew the truth.
‘She despises me.’
This was all an act.
I knew it. I knew it, but…
‘Let me be deceived.’
For the first time, Kalen understood those pitiful souls enslaved by addiction.
With a feeling like this, it made sense. No wonder they would desperately seek it out despite knowing it was poison to their bodies.
Yet Kalen was not particularly concerned. No matter how much Kanna Adis struggled, she could never touch a single hair on his head.
Kalen trusted in himself, who had always succeeded, and despised Kanna Adis, who had always failed.
Therefore, what captured his attention was something else entirely.
“Kanna Adis, you said there’s someone you love, didn’t you?”
That man sister loves. Who could it be?
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Orsini tracked Kanna Adis’s movements.
‘The last person to meet Kanna Adis was Kalen.’
And Kalen had been disappearing periodically of late. After thorough surveillance, Orsini stowed away on the ship Kalen boarded and arrived at the Southern Island.
And he watched.
In that estate, in that room, Kalen and Kanna Adis.
A man and woman as affectionate as lovers.
‘Insane bastards.’
In that instant, a murderous impulse surged through him—the desire to rush in and tear both of them to shreds.
‘These insane bastards.’
Yet Kalen Adis, that fool, couldn’t even sense this killing intent. He was so consumed by Kanna Adis.
He seemed so entranced he wouldn’t notice even if his throat were cut.
Orsini hastily retreated from the scene. Any longer and he feared he would tear the two of them to shreds.
Only after putting distance between himself and them did he slam his head against the wall.
His forehead split open and blood trickled down, yet he felt no pain whatsoever.
‘What is the meaning of this? Why are the two of them…?’
He understood nothing, but one thing was abundantly clear.
He wanted to kill them.
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After confirming that Kalen Adis had departed by ship, Orsini made his way back to the Valentino Estate.
“You.”
He kicked open the door and stormed in. Kanna Adis, startled, bolted upright in the chamber.
“You filthy wretch.”
He seized her hair with brutal force.
“What is your relationship with my brother?”
Kanna Adis looked up at him with eyes clouded in pain.
“What relationship? Tell me!”
Thick veins bulged along Orsini’s neck as he shouted.
“I’m asking what relationship you have with Kalen Adis!”
Then the corners of Kanna Adis’s mouth curved upward.
“Why? Are you jealous?”
“You insane woman…”
It was then.
Kanna Adis’s arms wrapped around his waist, and she buried her face against his firm abdomen.
“Orsini.”
Time stopped for Orsini.
His grip loosened of its own accord. Her hair cascaded downward in soft waves.
“Will you help me?”
Orsini could not answer. Rather, he could not even hear. It took a long moment before his thoughts finally returned.
“…Get your filthy body away from me.”
Kanna Adis suppressed her laughter.
Get away? Was he joking? When he had heated up so quickly like this?
‘Should I be grateful to Kalen Adis for this?’
Thanks to that fool catching her and falling into the mire with her, she now possessed far greater possibilities.
Things she could never have imagined before.
Now she could do anything.
“Help me, Orsini. You’re the only one who can help me.”
She pulled his arm toward her.
The massive man crumbled like a paper doll, collapsing onto the chamber. Kanna Adis climbed onto his lap.
“Please help me.”
With those whispered words, she pressed her lips against his forehead.
“You will do this for me, won’t you?”
I descended slowly.
Against his fevered eyelids, the bridge of his nose, his cheeks, and along his jaw, I pressed and released, each time his fingertips trembling with involuntary spasms.
“Please… help me.”
Yet I hovered near his lips without quite touching them, merely caressing his skin with the warmth of my breath.
Orsini’s mouth twisted with contempt.
“Vulgar woman.”
But his eyes, his face—they were shattering into fragments beneath the explosive weight of anticipation and desire.
Soon his pride, his stubbornness, even his reason itself would crumble without a trace.
At last, he surrendered.
“Tell me…”
A voice strained and suffocated escaped him.
“Tell me what you want.”
In the next moment, I consumed his lips. Orsini released a groan like death itself. Then he pulled me fiercely into his embrace.
“Kill him for me.”
I whispered a curse into his mouth.
“Kill Kalen Adis for me.”
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The moment Kalen Adis returned to the estate, he dissolved the engagement.
“Young Lord, are you truly certain about this?”
“This is far too unilateral. To cancel an engagement with merely a single letter!”
“Should you not at least show the courtesy of speaking directly with the Yalden Royal Palace?”
His retainers protested vehemently, but their words had already ceased to reach his ears.
‘Sister will be delighted when she learns of this.’
My lips were already curving upward.
Of course it was all pretense. Performance. Deception. I knew it. I knew it well this time too, but…
Yet her joy would be genuine.
She would be truly pleased at having ruined his plans and manipulated him.
‘At least then, she will smile with sincerity.’
I wanted to see Kanna smile. Her false smile was beautiful enough, but her genuine one would surely be incomparably more radiant.
In that moment, Kalen Adis became aware of something.
Something had changed.
It had transformed completely within him.
Had not the feelings he once harbored for Sister been violent and brutal?
I had wanted to possess her by any means. To monopolize her. In truth, it was less an emotion than raw lust.
But this feeling now—as if sweet floral nectar had seeped into a corner of my chest—was endlessly warm and tender.
I did not understand it.
I simply found myself smiling.
I wanted to see her.

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