My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 323

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Special Side Story Episode 11
2. The Libertines of House Adis (7)
“Sister, please listen to me.”
He dismounted hastily and approached her.
“That spirit stone—Elder Brother only obtained it a few days ago. I was planning to tell you later.”
“Why did you hide it?”
“It required investigation before presenting it to you. The spirit stone contains an abnormally high concentration of spiritual power within it. So I needed to verify first whether it was truly safe….”
“Don’t obscure the issue.”
Kanna Adis would not be deflected.
“I asked why you hid it.”
She had seen through it with precision.
The ugly desire dwelling in the brothers’ hearts—the very thing they themselves were denying.
Kalen seemed momentarily at a loss for words.
As if concealing his true intentions, he avoided her gaze, but then lifted his head to meet her eyes once more.
“I was planning to tell you later. Once we had conducted a thorough investigation and confirmed the spirit stone was safe.”
Yes, that would have been the plan. That’s what they intended.
Kanna simply laughed. He had not lied. She knew Kalen was speaking the truth, but….
She also knew it was not sincere.
“There’s no need to investigate. I just tested the spiritual power myself—it’s normal. It’s safe.”
Kanna held up the spirit stone and smiled gently.
“Since it’s safe, I can take it and leave now, can’t I?”
“What? Leave?”
Kalen responded as though he had heard something utterly absurd.
“Sister, surely you’re not thinking of departing the Adis Mansion?”
“Don’t you see this travel bag? Move aside.”
“No, Sister. Please calm yourself. I understand you’re angry, but this may not be your true intention.”
“What?”
“There is someone in the Adis Mansion right now using artifacts from the Southern Continent to cast suggestions. So….”
“So? You’re saying I’ve been affected?”
The absurdity of it made Kanna burst into laughter.
“Don’t escape from reality, Kalen Adis. Does it make you feel better to believe that?”
“….”
“Listen carefully. You brothers have done something utterly repulsive, and I’m leaving because I’m sick of it. By my own will alone.”
The moment she finished speaking, Kalen’s expression vanished. His face became that of someone who had lost all words.
Whatever happened, what did she care.
Kanna lifted the travel bag again. Then she fixed Orsini with a sharp glare.
“Let go.”
“….”
“I said let go.”
Yes.
She wouldn’t let go…?
Rather, her grip only grew stronger. And in those eyes looking down at me, something flickered. Something utterly ruthless and violent.
In that instant, chills ran down Kanna’s spine. Could it be that Orsini was actually…!
“What? Are you going to force me to stay? Lock me away?”
The words tumbled out rapidly.
Before Orsini could make a dangerous decision. Before the point of no return.
“Do you want to do to me what Kalen did before? Are you jealous of that?”
“….”
In that moment, the heat drained from Orsini’s eyes like a receding tide.
The instant his grip weakened, Kanna shoved him away. This time, he fell limply to the ground.
“How pathetic.”
She spat the words like venom and walked away. She departed.
From the Adis Mansion. From her home.
* * *
Kalen watched her retreating figure.
Kanna was leaving. By her own feet, by her own will. Without so much as a glance back.
She vanished so utterly, so completely.
“Ha ha.”
Kalen burst into laughter. He couldn’t help himself.
Really? She’s leaving?
After everything they’d endured together. After all that time spent side by side.
And that’s the end?
Instead of chasing after Kanna, Kalen chuckled softly to himself as he walked back into the mansion.
Of course, my sister would feel betrayed.
The Holy Stone was practically a cure-all for her.
But we hid it anyway. For the sake of investigating the Holy Stone.
Yet… honestly, there was a thread of fear in my heart. The fear that if I gave her the Stone, she would leave.
‘But look at this. She’s leaving anyway.’
Suddenly, countless things I’d done to earn her love flashed through my mind. So many things I’d done to keep her here.
‘All for nothing.’
I understood it clearly now. Every single thing. Utterly useless. Such measures could never hold Kanna.
Kanna had left, and I had been abandoned.
‘Or perhaps… she fell under the influence of some artifact from the Southern Continent.’
Kalen clung to a fragile hope.
Someone had implanted a false son into El Andois through suggestion. Perhaps that same someone was using Kanna for some scheme. But…
But.
Damn it.
I know the truth. My instincts grasped it clearly. My brother probably felt it too.
This was all Kanna’s will.
Every step she took—spitting out words of contempt, leaving the Adis Mansion—was entirely her own choice.
So what should I do?
Kalen Adis stopped in his tracks. It felt as though he’d returned to the beginning—to square one, to that first day when he’d agonized over how to win her.
Yes.
Back to the beginning.
“Lord Kalen, where have you been?”
“Rodrick.”
He’d run into his secretary. In that moment, Kalen knew exactly what he needed to do.
“I need to purchase an island.”
“…Pardon?”
“A deserted one this time. Find me something remote and isolated—far from civilization and the inland territories.”
Kalen laughed clearly.
“Somewhere suitable for confining a single person and raising them like a beast.”
She’ll think I could never do such a thing again.
She’ll believe she knows everything about me now.
Perhaps even the depths of my depravity.
‘No, sister. Even I don’t know my own depths.’
You’ve shattered my foundation, after all, so there’s no help for it.
I can only descend further.
The next day, Kalen Adis purchased a small island in the north.
It was small but beautiful—a deserted island.
* * *
‘Infuriating bastards.’
Let them suffer some heartache for once. Kanna Adis boarded the ship.
‘How could they hide something like this?’
Kanna was certain. Those Adis brothers would have delayed the investigation into the sacred stone indefinitely, only producing results in the distant future.
Or they’d deliberately caused it to go “missing.”
‘Creatures of pure desire, the lot of them.’
She was genuinely furious, right down to the tips of her hair, and yet.
‘I knew what they were all along. They’re people I can never let my guard down around.’
Still, she had no intention of severing ties completely. There was simply too much history between them for that.
But she couldn’t let this pass without consequence.
‘I’ll travel for a while and then return.’
So it was merely running away, after all.
But it had to look like she’d truly left home. Because.
“Leave House of Adis.”
The one who’d planted the suggestion in her had commanded it.
“Steal Kalen Adis’s seal, find the sacred stone in Orsini Adis’s vault. Use that as a pretext to quarrel, to fight, to leave. Never return to Adis again.”
Yes. Those were the orders she’d received.
‘Who was that person, anyway?’
Kanna Adis stood at the bow of the ship, gazing out at the sea.
Perhaps it was a blessing in disguise—the moment I spotted Sung-seok, my rage became so overwhelming that it shattered the hypnotic suggestion.
I remember that cursed mirror and the command, but the face of whoever issued it remains frustratingly elusive.
‘Someone tried to extract me from House Adis. But who on earth could it be?’
I would learn the answer soon enough. At the end of this path, that person would be waiting for me.
“Kanna.”
In that instant, a powerful grip seized her shoulder. Kanna flinched in surprise.
“…Raphael?”
It was Raphael.
He was staring at her with an austere expression.
“Raphael? How did you know I was here?”
“…”
“Raphael…?”
Raphael did not answer. He merely gazed at her intently, then—
“R-Raphael!”
He lifted her effortlessly into his arms. Then, with long strides, he walked across the deck and issued a command.
“Turn the ship around.”
To the Ship Captain.
“We’re heading to the Divine Temple.”
What? Was this Raphael’s ship? More importantly, what was the meaning of this sudden appearance and abduction?
“Raphael, put me down! What are you—”
“Be still.”
In that moment, Kanna’s breath caught.
Raphael was looking down at her with an oppressive gaze she had never witnessed before.
“Be still, I implore you.”
* * *
What followed was utterly unbelievable.
“Raphael!”
Kanna was speechless. She could not fathom this reality.
“Raphael, how could you do this!”
Clang! Iron chains bit into her wrists. Enraged, Kanna cried out.
“Release these at once!”
This was the Divine Temple. A luxurious bedroom within.
Yet now, her hands and feet were bound in iron chains. Astonishingly, it was Raphael who had done this.
“Are you uncomfortable?”
“Is that what you call this!”
“I am disheartened to hear you speak so.”
Raphael spoke with utter composure.
“However, I cannot release you. I beg your patience.”
“…”
How could Raphael possibly do such a thing?
I never imagined Raphael would come at me so forcefully.
Yet he did. Right after encountering me on the ship, he scooped me up and carried me straight to the Divine Temple.
‘He dragged me here like I was some piece of cargo!’
With apologies spilling from his lips and that infuriatingly polite expression plastered across his face, he seized my shoulders, pressed down hard, and forced me to bend forward before fastening restraints around me.
All the while muttering his endless apologies!
“What on earth are you doing?!”

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