My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 305

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Side Story Episode 36
The Unknown Man answered immediately.
“There’s no need for you to know.”
“Pardon?”
“I shall depart soon.”
With that, he took a step back, then another.
“Then.”
Was that his farewell? The Unknown Man turned and walked away. Kanna Adis stood dazed, watching his receding figure disappear into the distance.
‘What was that?’
What had just transpired?
Kanna Adis, utterly bewildered, stared at the spot where he had vanished before turning back toward her Room.
‘What on earth?’
She collapsed onto the Chamber, burying her face in the pillow.
‘Who was that person, really?’
It felt as though she had glimpsed a phantom.
Kanna Adis lingered in that strange sensation for a while before drifting into sleep.
* * *
That night, Silvien Valentino met with Alexandro Adis.
“Is that truly the end of it?”
Silvien Valentino shattered the crystal orb that had tormented Kanna Adis’s mind. He picked up a fragment of the broken crystal and spoke.
“Will Kanna Adis recover now?”
“Yes. When an artifact is destroyed, the power dwelling within it dissipates. That is my experience. However….”
Alexandro Adis paused for a moment.
“There may be confusion until her mind fully returns to clarity.”
“Confusion, you say….”
“It is a matter of the psyche. She will likely experience delusional episodes in stages.”
“In any case, she will ultimately recover, yes?”
“Yes.”
Silvien Valentino glanced briefly at the scar on Alexandro Adis’s cheek.
“What exactly transpired?”
How had Alexandro Adis sustained such a wound?
And how did he possess such intimate knowledge of artifacts?
Yet instead of answering, Alexandro Adis rose to his feet.
“I shall send a detailed account by letter.”
“Are you truly leaving?”
Silvien Valentino gently tried to detain him.
“Why not stay longer?”
“No.”
Alexandro Adis turned away. His broad back betrayed not a trace of hesitation.
“My role here is finished.”
* * *
As I slept, old memories overwhelmed me.
“Brother, I’m so scared.”
“It’s alright, Kanna. I’ll protect you.”
The memory of hiding in the wardrobe with my brother to escape our stepmother’s rage. And countless memories of whispered affections.
“Brother, I love you.”
“I love you too.”
“You’re all I have.”
“You’re all I have too.”
…But how could that be?
I awoke at some point and gazed up at the ceiling.
‘It hurts.’
My head throbbed as though it might shatter. My thoughts felt tangled and fractured.
Amid the chaos, only one feeling crystallized with perfect clarity: betrayal.
‘How could my brother change?’
It made no sense.
He had whispered such devotion, swearing that I was the only one he loved in this entire world.
Then fear crashed over me like a tidal wave.
What if I lost my brother’s love?
I had to do something before that happened—anything, everything.
“…Kanna?”
When I came to my senses, I found myself in Duke Orsini Adis’s Bedroom.
How did I even know where his room was?
I had no idea.
“Hey, how did you—”
The red-haired man sat up in surprise. I climbed onto his bed without hesitation.
“Duke Adis.”
I felt him draw a sharp breath.
“You’re so magnificent, Duke.”
I wrapped my arms around his neck.
“You’re so magnificent that I think I fell for you at first sight.”
I smiled brightly down at his dazed face.
“What do you think of me, Duke?”
I lowered my hand to grip his wrist.
“When I think of you, my heart races like this. Can you feel it?”
His trembling hand quivered beneath mine.
He must love the eldest daughter of Adis, yet here he was, responding as though he loved me instead.
It didn’t matter.
Kalen Adis and I already shared an intimate bond. Now I just needed to seduce this man.
“Please, tell me. What do you think of me, Duke?”
I kissed his lips as Raphael had taught me. I caressed him as Kalen had taught me.
“I… you.”
Finally, a seething voice poured from the Duke.
“I want you so much that I think I’ve already lost my mind.”
“Does that mean you love me?”
“….”
“I love you too.”
The man’s breath stopped. His heart seemed to stop as well. That was the expression on his face—as though he were being murdered in this very moment.
It seemed he might allow me to split open his chest and tear out his heart.
I lowered my lips to his. And I whispered.
“I love you.”
“…Say it again.”
“I love you.”
“Again.”
I whispered that word endlessly, pouring affection upon him like a torrential downpour, drowning him until he lost all sense of reason, until he was utterly undone.
“Kanna….”
Orsini Adis called my name. He called it again and again.
I gazed at his face.
That face consumed by the pinnacle of ecstasy—whether dream or illusion or trap, I found myself gazing at it for a long time, a very long time, as though I would surrender myself wholly to this moment….
“I wouldn’t mind dying like this.”
With his fractured voice as the last thing I heard, I fell asleep.
* * *
My head ached terribly.
Even in sleep, it felt as though it would split open.
Dreams, memories—they struck me with violent force.
“Brother, will you escort me at my debutante ball?”
“Of course. Would I let anyone else have that honor?”
I laughed and threw myself into his arms. He embraced me and pressed his lips to my forehead.
“You’re the person I love most, so I could never let such an opportunity pass to anyone else.”
Delighted by his words, I pressed my lips to his cheek.
“I love you most too, brother.”
In that moment, his eyes blazed. He looked at me as though he would devour me, then smiled again with a brother’s eyes.
“I love you too, Kanna.”
I sensed that something had changed.
I became completely certain of it then.
At my debutante ball at fifteen. When I danced with another man for the first time.
“Did you enjoy yourself?”
“Hmm?”
“You looked like you were having quite a good time with Colin Davis.”
It was when I was resting alone on the Terrace for a moment. Brother came in abruptly. He wore his usual smile.
“He pressed his lips to your cheek.”
Though he wore a smile, an eerie pressure unlike his usual demeanor bore down upon her.
“You looked absolutely lovely, Kanna.”
My brother strode toward her with sweeping steps. In that tempestuous advance, fear seized her—until he cupped her face in his hands.
“Ah….”
Warm lips brushed against her cheek. Where Colin had kissed her, he pressed firmly.
“….”
No. His lips were closer to hers than where Colin had touched.
The edges of their lips hovered at a perilous distance, so near that the slightest tilt of her head would seal them together.
Suspended in that space, they mingled their breath for an eternity. Through the tips of their noses, through parted lips, only each other’s warmth and respiration existed.
What resolve did he summon to restrain himself?
What strength did I find to endure?
“I’m sorry.”
After what felt like a thousand years, Silvien lifted his face. His expression had returned to that familiar, luminous smile—as though the turbulent moment had been nothing but a mirage.
“The wine must have gone to my head.”
“Brother.”
“I’ll head back first. Enjoy yourself, Kanna.”
In that instant, I understood completely.
His love for me had transcended the bounds of familial affection.
I remember the exultation of that moment.
‘My brother truly loves me.’
After that, Kanna savored his love and tested his patience.
“I love you, brother.”
Cheek, jaw, lips—so close. I kissed him at a distance where, should Silvien lose control for even an instant, our lips would meet.
Each time, his beautiful azure eyes blazed with longing, then darkened to an almost blackened intensity.
I delighted in his anguish. His every torment, his restraint, his guilt—they were all proof of his love.
‘Perhaps I truly am a terrible person.’
If he ever discovered this truth, even he would recoil. He would call me a seductive demon, regret taking in such a sister.
Yet in the end, he would love me still.
Because Silvien Valentino belonged to me.
‘But this cannot be.’
The dream had been so vivid that I could not distinguish where it ended and reality began. Only when I saw the red-haired man sleeping beside me—Duke Adis—did I awaken.
I had just emerged from the dream.
This was reality now.
‘My brother must never betray me.’
Kanna rose from the bed. She could not recall how she had reached the Imperial Palace.
Her mind was clouded—heavy as though drunk, dizzy as though anemic.
“Kanna?”
And when she finally found him, Kanna rushed into his arms, and he instinctively opened them to embrace her.
“Brother.”
“Yes, Kanna.”
Silvien Valentino laughed. Kanna Adis laughed even more deeply.
“Brother, you know what?”
She rose onto her tiptoes and whispered into his ear.
What happened with Raphael.
What happened with Kalen.
What happened with Orsini.
Speaking in hushed, conspiratorial tones as though sharing the most delightful gossip, she described everything in meticulous, nauseating detail. From beginning to end, omitting not a single moment.
“And how I felt at that moment was….”
The longer Kanna Adis spoke, the more slowly, deliberately, his expression darkened.
“That’s enough.”
From within her relentless, explicit confession, he issued a quiet warning. But Kanna Adis ignored it.
“…and then Duke Adis placed his hand on my back….”
The smile playing at his lips gradually vanished.
All warmth drained from his blue eyes, leaving them parched and desiccated like a scorching desert….
Until finally, they plummeted to subzero temperatures.
“So.”
After a long pause, Silvien Valentino opened his lips, and he was no longer smiling.
“Why are you so kindly explaining this to me?”
Had his voice ever dropped to such a dangerous register?
“Tell me.”
His hand seized her collar, dragging it upward with brutal force.
“Was that so fascinating to you?”
Watching his face draw closer, Kanna Adis trembled with exquisite dread.
Finally.
Finally, he was angry.
My brother, furious with me.
“Did you want to see me lose control so badly?”
Speaking thus, Silvien Valentino laughed—a thin, dangerous laugh from the corner of his mouth—and said:
“Can you handle what comes next?”
In the next instant, he bit her lip sharply.
‘Ah.’
Sweet pain flooded through her. In that exquisite agony, Kanna Adis felt herself dissolving.
Yes, that’s right. I wanted to break my brother.
I wanted him to kiss me first. To lose all reason and restraint, to desire me like this—like a beast.
Kanna Adis wrapped her arms fervently around his neck. She felt as though she might lose consciousness entirely. She had wanted this so desperately, this person, these lips….
“Brother….”
It was in that whispered moment.
“Brother?”
Silvien Valentino echoed the word and burst into laughter.
“Good. That does sound rather entertaining.”
He shoved her body onto the sofa as though discarding her.
“Go on then, Kanna Adis. Keep calling me brother until the very end.”
Silvien Valentino spoke in a heated voice, his rough hands tearing away his cravat in one swift motion. He cast it aside.
Moments later, the buttons of Kanna’s collar burst open all at once.

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