My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 311

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Side Story Episode 42
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Alexandro Adis allowed The Demon to inhabit his body.
It was not particularly difficult. He simply opened his mouth wide and waited for the prey to fall.
Just as The Demon dwelling within his body had read everything about Alexandro Adis, so too did Alexandro Adis read everything about The Demon.
It was a truly pathetic plan.
That child?
The child I saved with my own hands, and it dares.
Using the power that had become one with him, The Demon summoned them one by one.
The fragments of The Demon. Hordes of demons that had seized human bodies and made them hosts.
The moment he had finally summoned them all, Alexandro Adis opened his eyes wide. Simultaneously, he unleashed the holy power he had concealed. In a single, explosive flash of light, he consumed them all.
“No!”
The Demon fled.
It desperately tore itself from his body. It tried to escape far, far away, but….
There was no escape.
Alexandro Adis gazed upon The Demon with arrogance. Already engulfed by his holy power, The Demon was crumbling from its edges.
“No, no. This cannot be.”
Alexandro Adis finally beheld The Demon’s true form.
Something utterly black and utterly dark. The body of The Demon adorned with ninety-nine horns, ninety-nine eyes, and ninety-nine wings.
The Demon shrieked within the light.
“Stop! I will grant your wish! I will, I will!”
“This is my wish.”
“No, you lie! I know you. I have seen you. I know your desires!”
“This is my desire.”
The Demon shattered into fragments within the explosion of light.
Ninety-nine horns, wings, eyes—all consumed into the light, crumbling like black dust.
“How long did you think you could maintain such hypocrisy!”
Perhaps sensing its error, The Demon cursed with its final breath.
“Let me make a prophecy for you. You will inevitably sin again! You will cast yourself into the abyss once more! No.”
Then it laughed shrilly and cried out.
“You are already the abyss!”
The two eyes that remained suspended in the void were soon engulfed by light and crumbled to dust.
At last, silence descended.
Alexandro Adis slowly withdrew his holy power. Only then did pain strike him belatedly.
Alexandro Adis coughed up blood violently.
“Damn it.”
Irritation washed over me.
I had retired. I was certain I had retired, yet here I was doing this.
Moreover, blood was flowing from my cheek—I had no idea when I had been wounded. I wiped the blood away.
In that moment, a phantom sound struck my ears.
“You will inevitably commit sin again!”
No. Never.
Fearing that very outcome, I ended it with my own hands.
It was completely over between us.
So such a thing would never happen.
I would live the rest of my life without ever seeing her again.
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Yet the very next day, my resolve crumbled. A message arrived from Silvien Valentino—Kanna Adis had been affected by an artifact from the Southern Continent and her mind had become unstable.
‘At least it doesn’t appear to be an artifact harboring The Demon.’
Having acquired all of The Demon’s knowledge, I had learned that destroying an artifact would erase its power.
When I went up to share that method with her.
“I am Kanna Adis.”
I encountered that girl.
“And what might your name be?”
I gazed at her intently.
Rosy cheeks, hopeful eyes looking toward me.
How I wished we had met this way from the beginning.
“You need not know.”
But that was impossible.
“I shall be departing soon.”
And so I ended it.
Having ended it, I harbored no further attachment. I turned away with resolve.
I believed that my long, first love had finally reached its conclusion.
I chose to believe that.
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I returned to my ordinary life.
Life without her was peaceful.
So peaceful that I forgot I was even alive.
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One day, I visited Lord’s Castle, unable to refuse the earnest request of the Lord of Paelon.
“Please, I beg you to reject my daughter cruelly. Only then will Alisha give up.”
And so I did.
“I have been divorced once and have four children. Moreover, their mothers are two different women.”
Alisha’s mouth fell open in shock.
“That’s a lie! You can’t possibly be such a loose-moraled libertine!”
“No. I am indeed a libertine.”
“Liar! You’re around my age—how could you have four children!”
“I have indulged in women since my youth, and this is the result. If you find it difficult to believe, ask your father.”
“No! My Alex could never be like that!”
“Please, find a young man more befitting your age.”
With those words, I boarded the Lord’s carriage to return, only to find myself sharing it with someone else.
It was my former Cooking Instructor.
“Are you alright, Alex?”
Apparently, the woman who had been mistaken for his lover was none other than the Cooking Instructor.
Once Alisha regained her senses, she apologized profusely, and through that process, the two of them seemed to have grown closer.
‘Women’s friendships are truly inscrutable.’
Inside the carriage, the Cooking Instructor asked with a worried expression.
“Miss Alisha deeply regrets what happened before. She said she simply cannot understand why she acted that way.”
“….”
“I suspect she may have been drinking. Otherwise, she might have been using drugs….”
Alisha had no idea that she had been possessed by The Demon. That was a fact known only to the Lord of Paelon and Alexandro.
“You must have suffered greatly as well, Alex.”
Alexandro did not respond to the Cooking Instructor’s words. Unable to bear the awkward silence, the Cooking Instructor fell silent as well.
There was no further conversation.
Alexandro would no longer exchange words with this woman. He would no longer take lessons from her.
This woman was more uncomfortable than anyone else.
Because she knew.
Because she had heard it directly from her.
“I am that person’s, ….”
Alexandro could vividly recall that moment.
For just a brief instant, I had reverted to my younger self. The lie I had overheard from Kanna Adis in that room.
How my heart had trembled in that moment.
She loves me too.
The woman I love loves me in return.
Joy flooded through me at that realization. I lost all reason in the grip of a passion I had never experienced before.
In the end, I committed an act I should never have committed.
For days, in that room, all the while….
Alexandro covered his face with one hand.
It was a habit. Whenever I recalled that time, I always hid my face like this.
Because I wanted to conceal the expression on my face as I remembered that moment.
So no one could see it. So even I could not witness it.
Surely I must have worn the face of a vicious beast. Eyes devoid of morality, conscience, or reason—only wild with base instinct.
If I saw that face, I felt I would shatter completely.
Yet I was already broken.
There was nowhere left to deteriorate.
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“Alex?”
It was the moment I stepped down from the carriage.
At that familiar voice, Alexandro’s head snapped around.
“….”
At first, I thought it was a hallucination. But it wasn’t.
It was Kanna Adis.
Kanna Adis stood before the Garden of his house. And her gaze was directed behind him.
The moment Alexandro saw that murderous glint in her eyes, he finally realized he had descended from the Carriage with the Cooking Instructor.
“W-well then, I’ll be going.”
The Cooking Instructor, reading his expression, vanished swiftly.
“Did you two come together?”
Only after the Cooking Instructor disappeared did Kanna Adis ask.
“Huh? You’re asking if we came together?”
“….”
Alexandro didn’t answer. He didn’t know what to say.
It was simply too sudden. And bewildering. So much so that this moment didn’t feel real.
“Yes.”
So for now, I answered truthfully.
At that, Kanna Adis’s face turned glacially cold.
“I see?”
Irritable fury circled sharply, then seemed to be suppressed.
“That’s right.”
But the trembling in her voice couldn’t be hidden.
“You had a good time late into the night, it seems?”
Kanna Adis couldn’t help but jeer. Alexandro gazed at her quietly.
At Kanna Adis, unable to conceal her jealousy. At herself, despising her own weakness. Yet unable to stop regardless.
“According to Claude Azel, you’re not taking cooking lessons anymore. Seeing you meet separately….”
Having said that, Kanna Adis bit her lip hard. As if trying to silence herself.
“I’m sorry. I’m not in my right mind. I must be crazy.”
Muttering thus, she quickly passed by him.
Alexandro moved to follow her immediately, then stopped.
If I follow?
With an expressionless face, I watched Kanna Adis’s retreating figure grow distant.
If I follow, I wouldn’t let her escape….
What would I do after catching her?
‘No.’
Alexandro clenched his fist, then released it.
Today is dangerous. At least not now.
I turned my back. I walked across the Garden toward the Door of the house. For now, I had to get through this moment.
Not long ago, The Demon had turned my heart and desires upside down.
That must be it. Because of The Demon. That’s why I’m wavering. Not because Kanna Adis came looking for me.
Hadn’t I ended things so decisively?
There’s no way I’m such a fool as to waver so easily just because a woman came looking for me first….
“Alex!”
That was when I heard footsteps returning once more.
“Wait, Alex!”
She was running toward him. Alexandro clenched his teeth.
‘This cannot happen.’
Kanna Adis, this cannot happen.
Do not come. You cannot come. Not now. You must not come now.
Not like this. Not now. If you come to me, if you do this, if it comes to that….
Then… wouldn’t it be enough if I simply turned away?
But he did not turn away.
Instead, he stood firm in that very spot, waiting for her. Like a tree. Like eternity. As though waiting were his very purpose.
He savored the moment.
Her footsteps drawing ever closer and faster, her breathing, the wild flutter of her hair.
As she drew near, he felt his own heartbeat thrashing wildly within his chest.
He waited for her.
“Alex!”
She had come.

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