My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 326

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Special Side Story Episode 14
2. The Libertines of House Adis (10)
【Kalen Adis’s Mistress, El Andois. Found Dead】
【Who is the Culprit?】
【El Andois’s Last Movements Confirmed to Have Been with Kalen Adis】
【What Becomes of the Unacknowledged Son?】
【Kalen Adis’s Endless Descent into Depravity!】
“Lord Kalen.”
I lowered the newspaper. My secretary Rodrick stood before me with a tense expression.
“What is it?”
“Lady Chloe has come to see you.”
“Chloe? Mother?”
“Yes.”
“I wonder what brings the Countess Lintz here.”
Chloe Lintz—my mother’s new name.
After divorcing Father, she had remarried with lightning speed to a man barely past his youth.
Since then, all contact had ceased until now….
“Well, it’s fine. Not unwelcome.”
I was curious why she would visit at such a peculiar moment.
“Show her in.”
* * *
“Kalen, what on earth are you doing?”
Chloe cried out the moment she saw me.
“Please come to your senses. How did things ever come to this!”
Nagging me the instant we reunited after years apart. I frowned, then quickly smiled.
“It has been a long time, Countess Lintz. I trust your husband is well?”
At those words, Chloe stiffened momentarily, then deliberately straightened her shoulders as if she hadn’t heard.
“Kalen, I am the one who gave you life. Do not forget that fact.”
“Of course, naturally.”
“Though we have grown distant, my heart has burned day and night with worry for you, until I could bear it no longer and came to find you. Because of those vulgar newspaper articles….”
Tears glistened in Chloe’s eyes.
“Why has it come to this, Kalen?”
….
“Why have you become so broken? Hmm?”
Why does everyone insist on saying such things?
I thought with a bored expression. The newspapers, Rodrick, my retainers, and now even Mother—they all make a fuss about my supposed depravity.
I could not comprehend why they condemned Kalen Adis for falling to such depths.
The tasks I had handled before, my duties and obligations—I still performed them with meticulous precision, flawlessly and without fault.
When monsters appeared, I went to capture them; when the remnants of the Black Apostles rarely surfaced, I went to kill them; and recently, I had even been smoothly advancing the Empire’s first railway project.
‘So why do they point out that I have changed?’
The only thing that had changed was that I had fallen deeply for one woman.
Why was everyone making such a fuss over this trivial transformation?
“I know everything.”
Chloe’s eyes turned sinister in an instant.
“It’s because of Kanna Adis, isn’t it?”
“….”
“Don’t think you can deceive your mother. Kanna Adis. She seduced you, didn’t she?”
“Good heavens, Mother. Kanna and I are siblings. How could you speak such profane words?”
Kalen, growing tired of the conversation, responded as if reciting from an etiquette manual. At that, Chloe let out an exasperated laugh.
“There are rumors circulating in society. That the Adis brothers have lost their minds, bewitched by a serpentine sister!”
“To think you would believe such vile gossip, Mother. It seems your ears have grown dull since you’ve taken up residence with a man young enough to be your son.”
Chloe’s face flushed crimson.
“Don’t try to deceive me! You’ve been ruined ever since that girl returned! Ever since Kanna Adis came back to the Adis Mansion!”
At the sharp tone, Kalen already felt a headache coming on.
“Mother, I heard that Baron Lintz enjoys extravagance.”
So he decided to simply give in.
“Do you perhaps need money?”
“What, what?”
“Shall I give you some?”
Chloe’s hands began to tremble with indignation.
“Who do you think I am, lacking in funds?!”
“Ah, of course. I’ve heard that Father gave you considerable wealth as a gift early in your marriage.”
“…Yes. That’s right. You know well. Alexandro Adis gave me much when we married. In exchange for raising Kanna.”
Hearing this for the first time, Kalen raised one eyebrow. In exchange for raising her? Had Mother ever actually raised his sister?
“Kalen. Do you know Largos Adis?”
“Yes. He was my late uncle, was he not?”
“I was originally his betrothed. After Largos died, I was bound to your father, but the man who should have been my husband was Largos.”
“And so?”
“You resemble Largos, Kalen.”
Chloe stared at Kalen’s face as if piercing through him.
“Largos was as splendid as you. But after meeting one woman, he fell completely to ruin. Do you know how it ended? He was murdered by that woman.”
As if recalling a moment from the past, Chloe’s lips twisted.
“Largos was poisoned by the woman he so desperately loved.”
This was news to Kalen. So his uncle Largos Adis had harbored such passionate devotion.
“What a magnificent end.”
“…What?”
“Magnificent, Mother. I would wager that Uncle was quite pleased in his final moment.”
Kalen laughed. He meant it sincerely.
“To meet one’s end at the hands of the woman you love. No death could be more romantic than that.”
At those words, Chloe stared at Kalen in bewilderment. Then she asked bluntly.
“Kalen, have you lost your mind?”
“Not at all. Eventually, everyone dies anyway, don’t they? Whether from old age, illness, or a sword wound in the streets. In the case of House Adis, those who fell to the blade are overwhelmingly numerous.”
I had heard that his grandfather too had died on the streets, fallen in battle against the Black Apostles.
In truth, most members of House Adis met such an end. No, most powerful swordsmen ultimately perished in this manner.
They would triumph throughout their entire lives, only to suffer a single defeat—just once—and in that fleeting moment, they would rush headlong into death.
“Rather than die so meaninglessly, I would find it far more joyful to perish by Sister Kanna Adis’s hand.”
Chloe’s complexion turned ashen. It was as though she were witnessing a terrible nightmare.
“…Kanna Adis. That child has completely bewitched my sons, draining their very souls.”
Kalen shrugged. After all, it was true that Sister had stolen his soul.
“You must escape from Kanna, Kalen. Without her, you can live whole again!”
“I do not wish to be whole.”
“What?”
“If being with Sister is the path to ruin, then I prefer that path.”
Kalen laughed silently.
“Mother. I wish to be ruined.”
At last, Chloe found herself completely at a loss for words.
Kalen felt he had done all that was necessary—a final gesture of courtesy toward the woman who had given him life.
“Then, Baroness Chloe Lintz. Please remain discreetly and depart at your leisure. There is no need to inform anyone when you leave.”
* * *
Kalen Adis had murdered El Andois.
On the day that news plastered the newspapers, the retainers of House Adis took unprecedented action.
“Your Grace. Our Calvin Family has served House Adis for five hundred years across generations. I beseech you to hear this as sincere counsel.”
For the first time, they approached the family head to lodge a protest.
It seemed that the accumulated grievances—the mockery of House Adis as knights—had finally erupted.
“House Adis currently has no heir!”
“Yet the heir who appeared as if by miracle is now facing a threat to his life.”
“A woman presumed to be the child’s mother has been murdered. This is unacceptable!”
And representing the retainers, Count Calvin approached with a resolute expression.
“Please verify this.”
He presented documents.
“There are servants who witnessed Lord Kalen departing the mansion carrying a woman presumed to be Miss El Andois.”
“…”
“There are also those who witnessed him taking her to a mansion by the riverside.”
Orsini did not even examine the documents.
They would be true anyway.
“If we leave Lord Kalen unchecked, even Lord Julian’s life will be in danger.”
“Please recognize and protect Lord Julian!”
Orsini gazed at his retainers with clasped hands. Suddenly, a conversation with Rodrick flashed through his mind.
“Lord Kalen has purchased an island.”
“An island?”
“Yes. A deserted island. It appears he intends to use it for similar purposes as when he confined Kanna Adis a few years ago.”
Kalen had purchased an island.
After failing so spectacularly back then.
And now he’d bought another island through a secretary.
That bastard again?
“You called for me.”
At that moment, the door opened and Kalen entered. The retainers immediately fell silent.
“Kalen. Look at this.”
Orsini Adis hurled the documents at his brother. White papers scattered and fluttered through the air.
“These are testimonies from those who witnessed you taking El Andois away.”
“….”
“El Andois’s last confirmed whereabouts before her death were spent with you. Is that true?”
Kalen made no effort to pick up the documents and verify them. Because.
“Yes.”
He had no intention of denying it.
“It is true that I took her outside the Adis Mansion and spent time alone with her. As for her death, I regret it.”
“Did you kill her?”
“Would you believe me if I said no?”
“…Bring the Adis family legal counsel. We need to settle the family registry.”
Orsini Adis declared with a chilling edge to his voice.
“Kalen Adis is hereby expelled from House of Adis.”
The room erupted in turmoil. The retainers stared at the Duke in shock.
“Why are you surprised? Isn’t that what you wanted?”
“Your Grace! That, that’s not—!”
“Cast out the vulgar Kalen Adis and welcome the young, promising little Adis. Wasn’t that it?”
As Orsini spoke with derision, Count Calvin flinched.
“That was never our intention! Your Grace, expel Lord Kalen?!”
“Please reconsider! Lord Kalen has made great contributions to House of Adis!”
Orsini Adis sneered at his retainers. He hadn’t expected them to go this far. They looked genuinely shocked.
“Is that so.”
Yet Kalen himself remained utterly indifferent.
“Then do it. It works out well. My sister isn’t here anyway, so there’s no reason for me to stay.”
Kalen turned and walked away. His departing figure looked so unburdened that the retainers could only gape in disbelief.
“This cannot be! Your Grace, please reconsider!”
“Expel Lord Kalen?! This is unthinkable!”
Yet Orsini Adis’s face remained hard as steel.
“I will say it once more. Kalen Adis is expelled. All authority he holds as second son of House of Adis is revoked, and all titles, wealth, and territories granted to him are hereby confiscated.”
His voice, delivered so matter-of-factly, sounded almost cruel in its composure.
“From this moment forward, there is no one named Kalen in House of Adis.”

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