My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 327

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Special Side Story Episode 15
2. The Rakes of House Adis (11)
“Kalen?”
Meanwhile, the news reached me.
“Kalen has been expelled from Adis?”
“Quite the spectacle, wouldn’t you say?”
Silvien Valentino braided my hair into several strands while relishing the gossip about Kalen.
“Well, it’s hardly surprising. Kalen Adis—such a formidable villain, is he not? Denying his illegitimate child, murdering his former lover El Andois, even purchasing an island to imprison you.”
“Silvien Valentino. Those are all merely suspicions. Nothing has been confirmed yet.”
At that, Silvien opened his eyes sharply and tugged at my hair.
“What is this? Are you actually defending that white-haired pervert, that Demon King?”
“Your nicknames keep evolving… But who said I’m defending him? It hurts, so let go.”
I swatted Silvien Valentino’s hand. He pulled at my hair a few more times playfully before continuing to braid it.
“In any case, Orsini expelled Kalen. He must have been certain of something.”
“I’m not so sure about that…”
I trailed off.
My thoughts differed from Silvien Valentino’s.
Of course, it was reasonable to think as he did.
‘But I know Orsini far better than Silvien Valentino does.’
I know Orsini, and Kalen, and Adis better than anyone in this world, perhaps.
“…It feels like setting a great fire.”
“A fire?”
“Yes. To catch fleas, you must set a great fire, mustn’t you?”
I laughed. Yes, speaking it aloud crystallized my certainty.
Why Kalen purchased the island through his secretary once more.
And why Orsini expelled Kalen from Adis.
I could now see through the brothers’ true intentions. After all, they were family.
Silvien Valentino, gazing down at me intently, asked.
“Kanna. I’m curious about something.”
“Hmm?”
“Will you tell me how Raphael broke the compulsion?”
“I’d rather not.”
“Tell me. That man absolutely couldn’t have assaulted you. How exactly did he break the compulsion?”
“…”
I silently traced my fingers through the bubbles filling the bath. Of course it wasn’t assault, but…
‘It felt like… being disciplined…’
At the memory, my bottom tingled from where Raphael had struck it, and my cheeks flushed crimson.
“You don’t need to know.”
I grew embarrassed.
Such a rare sight delighted Silvien Valentino, who giggled with unbridled amusement and continued to tease me relentlessly.
“Next time something of such grave importance occurs, promise me you’ll summon me as well. I am far closer to Raphael than you might imagine. We are remarkably compatible in many ways, so surely….”
“Your Majesty. You seem to be enjoying yourself immensely, but please refrain from such vulgar jests in broad daylight.”
“Very well. Then we shall continue this evening.”
“Honestly….”
“But, Kanna.”
“Yes?”
“You see.”
Silvien Valentino pressed his lips against the nape of her neck, savoring the silken sensation as he whispered.
“Regardless of what you think, I believe it would be better if Kalen Adis were to disappear.”
“Silvien Valentino, that’s not——”
“The very fact that you shield him is proof of his danger. You have become entangled with Kalen Adis.”
Frustrated that she did not understand his heart, he bit the nape of her neck rather firmly, causing her to flinch and draw her shoulders inward.
“You are being deceived by that man, Kanna.”
“Silvien Valentino. Please, just listen to what I have to say.”
“I refuse. I wish to end this conversation now.”
“But you were the one who brought it up first….”
Silvien Valentino tilted her chin upward and captured her lips with his own. The air in this moment was as sweet as she was. He prayed this sugary happiness would not shatter.
‘It would be safer for you if Kalen Adis were dead.’
So he did not voice this thought again.
‘I have decided to kill him.’
He had no intention of speaking this aloud either.
‘The one who will kill him is moving toward him now.’
There was no need to mention this either.
Who would be the one to end him.
There was no need for her to know.
You are the woman I would stake my entire life to protect, and now you are perfectly safe within my embrace.
My precious Kanna. May you remain forever untouched and at peace.
Silvien Valentino wished with all his heart.
* * *
Alexandro Adis received a letter.
“….”
He deliberated, sitting in silence.
[Seon-hee has advised me.]
[That it might be safer to kill Kalen Adis instead.]
He turned the sentence over in his mind again and again for a long time.
How much time had passed in this way?
At last, having reached his decision, he rose to his feet. He wiped the dust-covered scabbard with a handkerchief and fastened it to his waist. Then he left his house.
“Where are you going, sir?”
Claude approached in startled surprise.
It was the first time since his retirement. Alexandro Adis had girded himself with a sword.
“Alexandro Adis? Is something the matter?”
“I have some business to attend to.”
Alexandro Adis’s voice was swallowed by darkness—so profound it seemed to emanate from the depths of the Underground itself.
“I shall return shortly.”
* * *
That night, Kalen sat in a Tavern, nursing a mug of beer.
Cheap swill, the kind commoners drank—a brew his lips had never touched during his days as Kalen Adis. Yet now it suited his palate perfectly.
‘Indeed, I have changed.’
During my years as Ren, I grew weary of such ales.
‘Perhaps it would be wise to remain as Ren for a time.’
After all, Kalen Adis held no immediate utility.
My elder brother had not expelled me from Adis as I had anticipated—or rather, as I had orchestrated.
It was precisely what I desired. The Island I purchased to confine Kanna was meant to fail; I knew it would.
Of course it would be discovered.
Silvien Valentino and Raphael were watching me with hawk eyes.
‘And a method that failed before would hardly succeed now.’
Yet I pursued the acquisition of the Island with genuine earnestness. It was necessary to draw out the vermin lurking within Adis.
A vermin in possession of an artifact from the Southern Continent, no less. I needed to capture it with absolute certainty.
Had I truly intended to possess my sister, I would have employed different means—conducted everything in solitude, without intermediaries.
For instance….
‘No. First, I must beg my sister’s forgiveness.’
According to my intelligence, she is currently with the Emperor. I shall seek her out, plead for her pardon, and weep. She has always been susceptible to tears.
‘Or perhaps inflicting a grievous injury upon myself would serve equally well.’
My years as a Physician had taught me this: my sister harbored a particular weakness for the physically infirm.
Should I present myself with some affliction, she might relent.
And if she still refused….
“You certainly have a taste for cheap beer.”
In that instant, the back of Kalen’s neck grew taut.
He slowly lifted his head.
He had wondered if someone might come to kill him—perhaps Silvien Valentino or Raphael, alarmed by his purchase of the Island.
But of all people….
“…Father.”
Father himself had come.
“Father, what brings you to the Capital?”
“I have business with you.”
“How honored I am. That you would make such a journey on my account.”
As Kalen spoke, he swiftly assessed the exits.
The window—no, far too small. Impossible. The back door? Cursed be it. None exists. The only path is the front entrance.
Duke Adis sat with his back to the front door. Which meant I could only escape by passing through him.
The moment this realization crystallized, Kalen’s instincts screamed a warning.
Perhaps I will die here, today.
“Kalen.”
“Yes.”
“There was a time, years ago, when I wished to tear you apart and watch you perish.”
Kalen gazed steadily at his father.
It was the first time his father had spoken his true thoughts aloud, and it felt deeply ominous—like a final conversation between them.
“Do you know why I allowed you to live despite that?”
“Because I must become a sacrifice to offer my strength to my sister. Is that not so?”
“Yes. That is your purpose. Without such a reason, you would never have been born into this world in the first place.”
Despite his tension, Kalen trembled at those words.
Born for my sister’s sake. Could there be a more fateful bond than this? So I was already bound to Kanna Adis before I even drew my first breath.
If I found pleasure in such a thing, my sister would surely grow weary of me.
“Do you know who showed me this path?”
“I heard it was my sister’s mother. Seon-hee, was it?”
“Yes. Thanks to that woman showing me the way, I was able to save Kanna.”
His father’s voice, as he spoke, was lower than I had ever heard it before.
“According to Seon-hee, if you were to die, Kanna would become safer.”
For some reason, in that moment, words I had once spoken to my mother came to mind. The common fate of House Adis. Their history, where a single defeat meant death.
Kalen simply laughed. When he had spoken so carelessly back then, he never imagined that mere days later he would find himself in such circumstances.
‘Surely Largos Adis met a far more shameful death than this.’
At least this death would be better than his.
* * *
Several days later, a corpse surfaced at the river bank.
Upon hearing the news, Orsini Adis went himself to identify the body.
“…It is Kalen.”
And with a frozen expression, he confirmed it.
“He is my brother.”
The corpse of one who had once been the second son of House Adis.

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