My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 309

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Side Story Episode 40
Side Story 9. The Flower of Evil
The scene always begins in that room, on that bed.
She whispered in his embrace.
“I’m hungry, Alex.”
At her words, he reached for the basket brimming with strawberries on the bedside table.
“Open your mouth.”
The woman parted her crimson lips halfway. He pushed a strawberry inside.
She accepted it without the slightest hesitation or doubt—as if she belonged entirely to him.
Alexandro Adis found himself captivated by the sensation of his heart submerged in warm water as he gazed upon the sight.
His beloved—infinitely beautiful, infinitely precious. In all his life, he had never encountered a being so capable of moving him. He never would again.
Emotions swelled to the very depths of his chest, and his tongue tingled with the urge to speak. He wanted to tell her he loved her.
So he called out her name.
He wanted to meet her eyes and convey this feeling.
“Kanna Adis.”
Then the woman’s eyes flutter open slowly. She lifted her head to look at him.
Their eyes met.
“Yes?”
In that instant, the woman had become a child.
Alexandro Adis froze as if struck by a whip.
The scene shifts abruptly—to the Palace Garden of the Adis Mansion, that moment when he first deeply realized that the child and the woman were the same person.
“Why are you calling me?”
The innocent girl smiles naively.
A smile tinged with shyness, fear, and longing.
That very smile she had worn throughout her childhood….
“●●●.”
She calls him by the name she had used in those days.
It seized his throat. It crushed down upon him as if to sever his breath entirely.
“Please speak, ●●●.”
No.
He hastily made excuses. To the girl. To himself. To the world.
No. Absolutely not.
I would never, ever, ever….
“●●●?”
As if his excuses meant nothing, the child calls out to him once more.
In that moment, he wished he could simply cease to exist.
Revulsion, guilt, sin. That inferno of anguish incinerated his bones, his flesh, his very soul.
The pain was so unbearable that he longed to vanish forever.
* * *
Alexandro Adis awoke from the nightmare.
I covered my face with my hand. Cold sweat beaded across my forehead.
Again.
I had that dream again.
That nightmare. That terrible moment when I realized that child was that woman.
After a while, once my ragged breathing had calmed, I rose from bed. I sat at the desk and began writing a letter.
To Kanna Adis,
As I composed those blade-sharp words of parting, I understood once more.
I should have done this long ago. I should have severed this bond much sooner.
‘Yes. This is right.’
For her sake.
And for my own.
* * *
Time passed in this manner.
After I severed my relationship with Kanna Adis, the nightmares ceased. I could sleep peacefully now.
Peace had finally arrived.
* * *
“Did you know?”
A few days later, Claude spoke.
“About the Lord of Paelon’s daughter. Miss Alisha. You know who I mean, don’t you?”
“Who is that?”
“Who else? That young lady who made the rounds here every few days, trying to catch Alexandro Adis’s attention.”
“Ah.”
Only then did I recall that woman.
She must be around twenty now. There was a woman who flushed crimson and hovered near me constantly.
But seeing that she hadn’t appeared recently, I thought she had finally come to her senses.
“She’s been possessed by an evil spirit.”
Claude spoke with a grim expression.
“She devoured all the chickens in the coop and crawls about on walls and ceilings like a spider. Her neck rotates at unnatural angles, they say.”
“I see.”
“Aren’t you surprised?”
“Not particularly.”
“Well, there’s nothing particularly surprising about it. Honestly, I’m not surprised either.”
Claude laughed with a ha-ha-ha and continued.
“When there’s a man who won’t get out of bed until 6 in the evening, what’s surprising about that?”
….
I said nothing. So Claude was reproaching me. I responded with a serious expression.
“I have the freedom to be lazy.”
“Of course you do. But have you eaten?”
“No.”
“Did you know your pajama shirt buttons are buttoned crooked?”
“No.”
“I just told you—lock it properly!”
“Too much trouble.”
“Then please, at least comb your hair. Birds might fly in and build a nest there soon.”
“They won’t.”
“They will! Should I open the window and see if a bird builds a nest on Alexandro Adis’s head and lays eggs?”
“Fine. That evening, we’re having roasted bird.”
Claude suppressed the urge to strike Alexandro Adis across the back.
“Alexandro Adis, be careful. If you keep living like this, you might soon transform into a sloth.”
At that, Alexandro Adis stared at him as if he were mad.
“Claude, what’s wrong with your head? Get a grip on yourself.”
In that instant, Claude’s anger surged uncontrollably.
Who was the one who needed to get a grip?
‘What on earth has happened to this man!’
Alexandro Adis, equated with a sloth! The man said to be the strongest of all the Adis throughout history!
Just a short while ago, he was still going fishing, shopping, cooking, living reasonably well….
Now he does absolutely nothing.
‘He’s not even a jobless man who’s given up on life!’
He seemed so helpless, like an old man waiting only for death.
“Please listen to me. Alexandro Adis, your body stopped at your early twenties, and only recently has time begun to flow again, yes? Kanna Adis broke the curse, didn’t she?”
“….”
“Do you understand what that means? It means you have far more days ahead of you than I do.”
Claude poured out his passionate words.
“Yet you do nothing like this? With a heart to start anew… Blast it, you’re sleeping!”
When had he even started dozing! Claude stamped his foot hard.
“Wake up!”
* * *
In the end, Alexandro Adis was driven out of his house by Claude’s hand.
‘Why must I be driven out of my own house?’
Claude seemed to hope he would do something, but that was wishful thinking. He intended to do his utmost to avoid any effort.
He found a sparsely populated Forest Hill and lay down.
‘Now I can sleep well.’
After lying beneath the tree’s shade, he pulled a straw hat over his face.
Just as he was about to take an afternoon nap….
“Alex?”
That woman’s voice reached him.
“Alex, is that you?”
Alexandro Adis slowly moved the straw hat to the side.
“So it is Alex.”
Black hair filled his vision, swaying gently.
She smiled down at him, her expression radiant.
She was breathtakingly beautiful.
“What are you doing here?”
She brushed back the strands of hair that swayed past her ear. Her pale ear, revealed beneath the sunlight, possessed an exquisite delicacy as if drawn by an artist’s hand.
“Ah, I’m sorry. Did I wake you?”
Alexandro gazed up at her quietly, then answered in a low voice.
“No.”
In that moment of blinking.
He awoke from the dream.
“….”
Alexandro opened his eyes.
Leaves rustled in the wind with a soft whoosh.
Fragments of light pierced through the swaying foliage, stabbing at his eyes. The brightness stung, and he furrowed his brow.
Only scenery surrounded him. Nothing but scenery.
‘When did I fall asleep?’
Alexandro closed his eyes again. The straw hat that had covered his face before sleep had vanished somewhere. It must have been blown away by the wind.
It didn’t matter. If I could just fall back asleep….
‘No, that won’t work.’
Moments later, as I’d anticipated, a voice called out to me.
“You there, are you Alex?”
Alexandro cautiously opened only his eyes to check. An armored Knight Guard glared down at him with a menacing expression.
“You insolent bastard. What are you doing lying around?”
Troublesome.
But ignoring him would only invite more trouble. Alexandro rose obediently.
“Red hair, green eyes. That’s right. You’re Alex, aren’t you?”
Alexandro nodded. In that instant, the Knight Guard struck his cheek hard.
“How dare a commoner nod so impudently! Can’t you answer properly?”
Alexandro’s face turned to the side, his red hair parting to reveal eyes filled with nothing but weariness.
What should I do?
“My apologies.”
What should I do indeed?
In this world, there was nothing easier than snuffing out another’s life, but slaughter had become so tedious I’d grown sick of it. I had destroyed and trampled far too many lives in my existence.
So now I had no desire to kill anyone. No desire to fight.
If a matter could be resolved by uttering a mere five-word phrase, that was the preferable course.
“Hmph, spineless wretch.”
The Knight Guard spat at my feet mockingly.
“Don’t get cocky just because you’ve caught the young lady’s favor. You’re nothing but a pretty face with no substance….”
The Knight Guard looked me over with displeasure.
“Follow me. The young lady has summoned you.”
“I won’t go.”
“If you refuse to come, the lady instructed me to deliver this.”
I accepted the paper the Knight Guard offered and unfolded it.
【I’m holding your lover here. If you ignore me again this time, what do you think I’ll do to this woman?】
…She wrote this?
‘Was she drunk when she wrote it? Or drugged?’
She had been troublesome recently, but she wasn’t a bad woman. She wasn’t the type to orchestrate such a third-rate love triangle drama….
‘And a lover, no less.’
I had no lover.
Not before, and not now.
There had never been a lover in my life….
‘No. Or had there?’
Come to think of it, perhaps there was.
Once in a lifetime.
Excluding that moment when my memories tangled and I regressed to childhood, love had always been something I pursued alone.
Yet there was something I couldn’t simply dismiss.
That girl.
Not long ago, she came here to meet Orsini.
‘No, that can’t be right.’
It’s an absurd thought.
But. Still.
What if. Even one in a million chance….
“Understood.”
In the end, I followed the Knight Guard.
It was obviously a foolish trap. I wasn’t ignorant of it. I knew full well.
But rather than leave even the slightest possibility unresolved, it was better to verify it with my own eyes.

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