My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 329

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Special Side Story Episode 17
2. The Libertines of House Adis (13)
Julian is the son of my mother and father?
‘If Julian were Father’s child…’
Orsini’s ears perked up. It was quite an appealing notion.
If, if Father had truly conceived another child with Mother.
‘Kanna would grow distant from Father.’
A base desire slipped out unbidden. I knew this was no time for such thoughts, yet I couldn’t help myself.
“Just before the divorce. As a final memento… the child was conceived then.”
Mother continued, her voice trembling with shame.
“Your father refused to acknowledge him. But what could be done? The boy carries Adis blood…”
“So you made him Kalen’s child instead?”
“Yes. I used an artifact from the Southern Continent to implant a suggestion in El Andois—to make her believe she was Julian’s mother. And I implanted the same suggestion in Julian, so he would believe El Andois was his mother.”
Watching Julian, who had wept himself into unconsciousness, Chloe squeezed her eyes shut.
“And to Kanna as well…”
…
“I thought if Kanna existed, Kalen would never accept Julian. I’m sorry. I’m truly sorry.”
…
“Sob… it’s my fault. Kalen died because of me. I should have been honest from the beginning.”
Chloe’s sobs echoed through the Funeral Hall.
Then.
“Father? Well, Father was always so active, so it’s possible…”
Isabel murmured.
“Given the previous Duke’s remarkable virility…”
“He was always so vigorous.”
“He managed to father six children.”
“Three daughters, three sons. A flawless composition.”
The retainers watching also began to whisper among themselves.
Orsini wanted to be swept along by their words like driftwood in a current. It was such a sweet bait.
And equally insulting bait.
‘So I’m being asked to choose which version to believe?’
Because I would want this to be true?
If I accept this as fact, Kanna would grow distant from Father?
So this is a negotiation?
Accept this child in exchange for Kanna’s affection?
Laughter burst from between my lips. They truly saw me as a fool.
“Rodrick.”
“Yes, Your Excellency— Ugh!”
Whack! Orsini’s palm struck Rodrick’s cheek with brutal force. Three teeth flew in an arc through the air.
Rodrick collapsed unconscious. There was no scream, only the silence of oblivion, yet Orsini had the Knight Guards forcibly revive him.
Very well.
“What… what am I doing?”
Rodrick blinked, his face a portrait of confusion drowning in pain and delirium.
“It… it hurts terribly. But what am I doing here? What is this…?”
Rodrick muttered to himself as he tore at his own hair with brutal force, his body convulsing as blood streamed from his mouth and nose—a grotesque sight.
“The Countess of Lintz.”
Enough leverage to coerce my refined mother.
I turned back. As expected, Chloe’s legs had given way beneath her, and she had collapsed to the floor.
Mother had always been this way. Her courage never matched the scale of her schemes. Her ambitions exceeded her abilities, and her dreams soared beyond reason.
“One doubt troubles me.”
“Wh… what?”
“Might the Countess of Lintz also be under the influence of the Southern Continent’s relic?”
“Oh, Orsini…”
“So I must verify this.”
Tap. I tapped Mother’s cheek with my fingertip, as if gauging the teeth beneath.
“Countess of Lintz. Would you mind losing a few teeth?”
Tears welled in Mother’s eyes. Witnessing her despair, Orsini acknowledged the truth.
I should have used my fists from the beginning. There was no point in dancing to Kalen’s tune.
Nothing in this world was simpler or faster.
“…Stop.”
After a long silence, Chloe whispered.
“Orsini, you back me into a corner until the very end. You are truly cruel. Truly cruel.”
Then she laughed like a woman driven to madness.
“Of course. It was always this way. Damn those Adis wretches. All the same. After all I’ve done to raise you.”
Only then did Isabel, finally grasping the situation, erupt in fury.
“You’re insane! Mother, are you in your right mind? How could you do this to us!”
Chloe’s eyes blazed with burst blood vessels as she glared at her daughter.
“Why shouldn’t I?!”
She screamed, her neck veins bulging with such force that her voice rang out like a bell.
“Do you think only you can abandon me? I can too! Mother can abandon you as well! I can! I can betray you all!”
Isabel gasped for breath. In Chloe’s eyes as she screamed burned a murderous intent that glittered.
It was directed at her own daughter. At her own child.
“Kalen, Orsini—you were bewitched by that wench Seon-hee’s daughter and abandoned your mother! Isabel, you’re no different!”
Chloe wailed as if in agony.
“The youth I surrendered to Adis, all those long years—the injustice, the resentment burns eternal!”
Chloe had been abandoned by her betrothed, her husband, and her children.
All that time, she had lived only for Adis.
She had lived only to become the wife of the family head, the mother of the family head!
Yet cursed Adis had always abandoned her. The resentment took root. Even after remarrying and finding happiness with a new man, frost never thawed in one corner of her heart.
So when the opportunity came, she did not let it slip away.
The ancient magical artifacts from the Southern Continent had fallen into my hands by mere chance.
If I didn’t take revenge on House of Adis, then what was I—a fool or a human being?
“It’s all because of you. Everything that happened is because of you!”
I had to be compensated somehow for the time I wasted on House of Adis.
That’s why I resolved to give the position of head of House of Adis to Julian, the child of Lintz and myself—but then….
“Ugh, ugh.”
At that moment, Julian groaned and writhed in the grip of the Adis Knight Guards.
Helpless in their iron grasp.
In that instant, all my will drained away. I collapsed forward and wept.
“Julian has done nothing wrong. So don’t lay a single finger on my poor son….”
I burst into tears—a wail so heart-wrenching that it pierced the hearts of all who witnessed it.
“Why are you just standing there?”
Orsini’s gaze had already drifted elsewhere long ago. As if the matter were already finished, as if he no longer cared one bit.
“Take the Countess of Lintz to the Prison at once.”
* * *
At last, this wretched farce had ended. Orsini felt as relieved as if he’d extracted a rotten tooth.
‘I should have beaten her senseless from the start. Then this would’ve been over long ago.’
From now on, he decided, he’d lead with his fists. No more hesitation.
But that wasn’t all.
Kanna Adis had finally returned.
“Kanna Adis.”
Orsini straightened, standing before her with tense anticipation. His heart thundered in his chest—whether from anxiety, excitement, or joy, he couldn’t tell.
“It’s been a while, Orsini. You look well?”
“….”
“The House of Adis has been chaotic lately, hasn’t it? I heard all sorts of things happened?”
Kanna Adis spoke curtly and brushed past him. Orsini quickly followed in her wake.
“Hey, Kanna Adis. Back then—”
“Forget it. You were going to apologize, weren’t you? Don’t bother. It’s pointless.”
“….”
She wouldn’t even accept an apology? Was this relationship truly over? Was everything between us finished?
As confusion consumed me, Kanna Adis stopped and looked up at me intently.
“You were right.”
“…What?”
“The spirit stone. It was defective. Once its power was depleted, it wouldn’t recharge. I can’t use it.”
In that moment, Orsini’s fist clenched tight.
Don’t laugh. If I laugh, she’ll know I’m worthless. He forced his voice low and controlled.
“Give it to me. Let me take a look.”
“…What?”
“The spirit stone. Give it to me.”
At that, Kanna Adis looked at him with eyes that questioned whether he possessed any romantic sensibility whatsoever, then shook her head slowly.
“You’re really an idiot.”
“What?”
“Never mind. I threw away that gemstone myself.”
Kanna grumbled and turned away. Such a fool.
“But where is Kalen?”
“Ah. That bastard.”
Orsini barely maintained his expressionless facade, straining with all his might to suppress the laughter welling up inside him.
“Indeed. I wonder why he hasn’t shown up.”
* * *
Kalen did not return.
Not after three days, not after four, not after a week.
‘Why the hell isn’t this bastard coming?’
Honestly, even the feigned death seemed strange.
Kalen’s intention was to lose credibility and be naturally expelled from House of Adis. So that the rat could crawl out and strut about freely.
Wasn’t that why he had constructed such a plausible pretext?
Clumsily having his secretary purchase an island, being framed as El Andois’s murderer.
‘There’s no way he’d be that sloppy.’
Kalen Adis would never conduct his affairs so blatantly.
He wouldn’t repeat a failed scheme, nor would he bungle the disposal of a corpse like some amateur killer.
It was all intentional. To be naturally expelled from House of Adis. So that the rat, believing itself safe, would crawl out into the open.
Though they had never discussed it once, Orsini had discerned his brother’s true intentions. And Kalen, too, would surely know that Orsini had seen through him.
It was a silent conspiracy.
‘But expulsion would have been enough. There was no need to fabricate a corpse like this.’
Using the same method as with El Andois—bloating it in water to make identification impossible. This time, too, it seemed he had selected the corpse of some executed criminal of similar appearance.
In any case, now that it was all done, he just needed to return.
But my brother did not return.
I dispatched search parties, but they yielded nothing. He had vanished without a trace.
As if he were truly dead.
‘I see.’
I became certain of that fact.
‘It wasn’t over yet.’
* * *
Kalen Adis had disappeared.
When he did not appear even after a week, I finally accepted it.
“He’s finally dead.”
Alexandro Adis had killed his son and deliberately made the corpse surface, announcing Kalen’s death to the world.
With that thought, I could finally breathe freely.
‘I should have done this long ago.’
Kalen Adis would inevitably cause trouble someday.
Whether that day came tomorrow, five years from now, or fifty years from now—it was merely a matter of timing.
It was certain—a bomb waiting to detonate someday.
Originally, I had turned a blind eye to Kalen Adis for the sake of replenishing Kanna’s power reserves, but….
‘Recently, spirit stones have been discovered in abundance.’
Spirit stones could replace Kalen Adis.
As reality shifted turbulently, my resolve changed with it.
If Kalen Adis was a thorn that would inevitably need to be removed someday, then now was the time to eliminate him.
Of course, my hands remained clean throughout the process.
My role was singular—as always, I merely wielded the conductor’s baton, orchestrating from the shadows.
Though I did necessarily create some disturbance within House of Adis in the process….
But House of Adis was hardly the sort to be shaken by mere pawns.
As expected, removing Kalen alone sufficed. House of Adis remained steadfast as ever.
Silvien Valentino—everything unfolded exactly as I desired.

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