My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 298

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Side Story Episode 29
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‘How well they fight. Idiots.’
I gazed down from the window, watching the two men locked in their blood-soaked struggle.
‘I wish they’d both die.’
Whether it was Kalen or Orsini, they were both equally repulsive bastards.
If both died, it would be the perfect ending, but if both survived, that wouldn’t be so bad either.
With this, the brotherhood was shattered, and they would spend their lives forever wary of each other—or fighting.
So now it was enough.
I slipped weakly from the Valentino Estate and walked toward the Beach.
Orsini had already slaughtered the mercenaries, and the two men were too consumed with their battle to stop her.
‘So let’s go now.’
To somewhere other than this world.
It didn’t matter where.
Even if I never reached anywhere, that was fine.
I no longer wanted to live here.
Just as I had been completely exhausted when I first drank poison at fourteen.
‘I’m tired now.’
Whoosh—the waves rushed in, wetting the sand.
I stared blankly at the Sea, then slowly stepped forward, one foot at a time.
‘Now, I’m truly tired.’
I had never known happiness in my entire life. It was always darkness.
My first friend died because of me. And just once, I secretly harbored a light in my heart—but…
It was a light I could never reach, no matter what.
‘That’s right. It was a fate that could never be.’
Even my admiration for him had become nothing but another tragedy.
‘I wish I could have seen him just one more time at the end.’
But he was always, always, always busy.
Perhaps in a year, or two years, or if I was lucky, I might meet him then.
But I no longer had the strength to endure that time.
‘So, goodbye.’
The cold Sea slowly swallowed my body. In that chill, I recalled the only warmth I had ever known in life—that hand pressing gently against my back.
Thinking only of that warmth, I continued forward.
Perhaps that’s why the Sea felt warm.
As if it were his embrace, which I had never once experienced…
I didn’t want to escape.
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“What?”
The brothers’ fight stopped at the urgent cry of a Townsperson.
“No, this is terrible! That black-haired young lady…!”
Clang!
Kalen was the first to drop his sword. He asked as if he’d been struck.
“What did you just say?”
He doubted his own ears.
“My sister… did what?”
The next moment, Orsini cast aside his sword and lunged forward. He grabbed the Townsperson roughly by the collar.
“What did you say? Say it again.”
“Th-that young lady, she walked into the Sea!”
“And?”
“And?! She never came back out!”
The Townsperson spoke with a face flushed crimson.
“She walked into the Sea and never came back!”
All expression drained from the brothers’ faces.
Kanna Adis had walked into the Sea. No one had seen her emerge.
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Alexandro Adis remained unconscious for an extraordinarily long time. According to Claude, his right side had been completely crushed.
Six months later, Alexandro Adis opened his eyes, and by then his body had recovered as if by miracle.
“Tell me again.”
And waiting for him upon awakening was news like a thunderbolt.
“What did you just say?”
“While you were unconscious, word came of her death.”
Claude continued carefully, watching Alexandro Adis’s expression.
“Her body was never found.”
“…”
Alexandro Adis’s expression remained unchanged. Calm as the Pearlescent Lake without ripples.
“Leave me.”
Claude departed, and alone, Alexandro Adis sat vacantly on the bed, gazing out the window.
After a long silence, he parted his lips. And he called out.
“Kanna.”
That name echoed through the room for a very long time, before finally dissolving into the air.
It was then that Alexandro Adis understood.
That this breath, this very respiration, the air of a world where the one he needed to protect had vanished—it was nothing but terrible agony.
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‘I killed her.’
Kalen gazed endlessly at the Sea. The Sea that had swallowed Kanna.
‘I killed her. My sister died by my hand.’
From sunset to moonrise, and again until the morning sun pierced the darkness, he stared at the Sea for an eternity.
Then at some point, his crimson hair transformed into white as snow, like that of an old man.
How much time had passed?
“Kalen.”
I heard her voice.
Kalen lifted his head in shock.
She—Kanna—was standing in the middle of the Sea!
“Sister?”
“Yes, Kalen.”
Sister answered.
Alive, before his eyes, speaking to him.
The moment realization struck, tears spilled down his cheeks.
“I….”
His voice shattered. Words tumbled out like fragments.
“I was wrong, Sister. I was so wrong.”
Only then did Kalen truly comprehend what he had done.
It was no different from a savage predator tearing into prey with its fangs.
How much she must have suffered.
This should never have happened.
I was wrong. Truly, terribly wrong.
“Sister, I was truly wrong.”
“….”
“Sister, please, come out of there. Won’t you?”
“….”
“I promise you. I will never do this again. I will accept any punishment you desire. So please….”
But Kanna did not answer. She would not forgive.
Of course not. I did not even dare hope for forgiveness.
All I wanted was one thing—to pull her out of that Sea.
“Sister, please, I beg you. That place is dangerous. Do not go in there.”
Kalen forced his trembling body to rise. He moved toward Kanna, but she merely smiled mischievously, spinning around and running deeper.
“No, this can’t be happening.”
My heart plummeted.
“Sister! Don’t go! Sister!”
I chased after her—Kanna—as she waded deeper into the Sea, running frantically.
“Sister! Please, please don’t go!”
Waves crashed against my body.
I did not care.
Only one thought consumed me—I had to save her. Nothing else mattered. My mind held only that obsession.
“Sister!”
Not this time. Not again.
I cannot lose Sister to the Sea again….
“Sister, please…!”
Seawater surged across my face.
Kalen reached out, stretching with all his strength toward her wavering dark hair.
Just a little more, ah, just a little closer….
‘Sister.’
Finally, I reached her.
I thought I had reached her.
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After Kanna Adis’s death, Kalen Adis’s hair turned white as an old man’s, and he began to suffer from mental derangement.
“Sister, I was wrong. Please don’t go in! Don’t go!”
According to rumors, he chased after the phantom of his dead sister and threw himself into the sea.
But like Kanna Adis before him, no one ever saw him emerge again.
Orsini Adis vanished.
He severed his own right arm, becoming a one-armed man, and was spotted by several people wandering drunk through dark alleys.
Alexandro Adis retired.
He passed the dukedom to his only remaining child, Isabel Adis, and disappeared.
And three years later, Alexandro appeared as a Black Apostle.
The man who had once been the Empire’s protector returned as a plunderer.
Cities crumbled in his hands, and crimson flames erupted wherever he passed.
Without any justification or reason, Alexandro Adis destroyed everything.
And as if sending a warning to someone, he created and scattered flyers every single day.
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“Stubborn as always. You’d restart anyway without my threats.”
Alexandro was forcing ‘her’ to have no choice but to turn back time.
He would have done it anyway without needing to.
“Did that girl really capture your heart that much?”
He had always been this way in every life.
Though he never remembered his life before regression, in each life he became obsessed with protecting Kanna. He simply could not accept failure.
“In any case, those Adis people—once they fixate on something, they never give up.”
The woman smiled bitterly and continued her record.

The woman paused her pen for a moment, lost in thought, before resuming her writing.
<Kalen Adis is extremely dangerous.
Perhaps even more dangerous than the Divine Spirit.
He bears a chilling resemblance to Largos.
Largos Adis. That mad man who will do anything for his own desires.
Even I could not tame Largos Adis and had to kill him. Can Kanna Adis truly control Kalen Adis?
Kalen Adis is harmful to Kanna Adis, yet paradoxically, he is a necessity for her survival.
As a sacrifice bearing divine power, he must become a tool for her existence—a guardian to protect her.
Only by succeeding in controlling him can we advance to the next stage.
Is such a thing even possible?
Unless Kanna Adis makes that man kneel in absolute submission and repentance,
there will only ever be a tragic ending for her.
"But it's alright."
The woman set down her pen. She rubbed her weary eyes and murmured softly.
"I won't let you become this way."
She drew a mystical seal with blood from her palm. Time itself would be reversed.
"You will never experience such horrors, Kanna Adis. This never happened to you."
And so the woman returned once more.
Dozens of times. Hundreds of times. Perhaps even thousands of times.
Until the child could embrace a happy ending.

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