My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 333

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Special Side Story Episode 21
2. The Rakes of House Adis (17)
Kanna Adis had gifted Kalen a pair of gloves to conceal his blackened right hand.
Not only that, but she checked the condition of his right hand daily and stood beside him, earnestly helping him train to live with a single functional arm.
“Since Kalen oppa can’t use his right hand anymore, maybe I could actually beat you in a match.”
Isabel’s face gleamed with excitement, as though she had discovered an enemy’s weakness. She had harbored considerable frustration over losing every time Kalen sparred with her.
Meanwhile, Orsini’s composure was unraveling.
“Kalen, does your wrist hurt? Should I craft you a wrist brace?”
“I would be most grateful, sister.”
Seething. His head burned so intensely he felt he might explode.
‘What’s the big deal about losing one hand? Why are they fussing over it like this?’
Had he not once been unable to use his own arm? And his affliction had come from Kanna Adis’s poison, no less!
‘Back then, instead of sympathy, they mocked me for it. So why do they care so much about Kalen losing his hand?’
A twisted jealousy seized him, quickening his breath. Orsini drew in a deep breath.
But he could not restrain himself.
“Crippled bastard. The idiot’s finally become a real cripple.”
At those words, Kanna Adis fixed him with a look of contempt.
“Orsini. Don’t speak like that.”
“Did I say something false?”
“It’s certainly vulgar. If that’s how you’re going to talk, just keep your mouth shut. I have no desire to exchange words with someone as crude as you.”
“….”
Orsini felt rage boiling up inside him.
Behind Kanna Adis, Kalen was wearing the smile of a victor.
‘Are you envious? Then perhaps you should get injured too.’
That was the expression on his face.
“I will heal him no matter what.”
He restrained himself from striking his brother’s face, pouring intensity into each word.
“I will heal Kalen’s right hand, no matter what it takes.”
“What?”
“If necessary, I’ll venture into the Southern Continent myself. There must be something there capable of healing Kalen.”
He meant it sincerely.
Rather than continue watching that cunning wretch Kalen bask in Kanna Adis’s care, it would be better to journey to the Southern Continent himself and obtain the means to cure him.
That had been his intention in speaking.
“Orsini. You’re more thoughtful than I gave you credit for.”
Kanna Adis gazed at him with admiring eyes.
“I suppose brothers are brothers after all….”
“….”
“You’re dependable, Orsini.”
Orsini fell silent. Kanna Adis seemed to have misunderstood, but he made no effort to correct her.
‘Me… dependable?’
The corner of his mouth twitched.
“That’s not necessary, really.”
Kalen, on the other hand, seemed somewhat displeased.
He appeared quite fond of the role of being cared for by Kanna Adis, but it was hopeless. Orsini had made his decision.
‘I will definitely fix that bastard’s right hand.’
* * *
That night, after finishing all his duties, Orsini opened a dictionary.
[Dependable:
1. A person who is trustworthy and solidly grounded.
2. Of considerable age.
3. An object that is large, heavy, and sturdy.]
All day long, Kanna Adis’s words—”You’re so dependable”—echoed in my ears.
I wanted to continue appearing that way to her. Not as some fiery stallion or whatever nonsense.
‘I need to understand exactly what dependable means.’
Orsini examined each definition carefully.
[1. Trustworthy and solidly grounded.]
Solidly grounded… Am I that type?
I’ve heard plenty about being hot-tempered, violent, and quick to anger, but never about being dependable.
‘But Father is dependable.’
Lost. Damn it.
Then, the second one?
[2. Of considerable age.]
‘I’m younger than Kanna Adis.’
I was two years younger than her.
Still, I’m better than that brat Kalen, who’s three years younger than her. But.
‘But Father is older than Kanna Adis.’
This is something I could never win against, no matter what.
I cursed under my breath and looked at the final definition.
[3. An object that is large, heavy, and sturdy.]
Now I felt like laughing. An object, of all things.
‘I am large, heavy, and sturdy, at least.’
This much was an undeniable truth. However.
‘Father would be large, heavy, and sturdy too.’
Orsini hurled the dictionary across the room.
Father fit all the meanings of “dependable,” while I only matched one!
“Damn it.”
Forget about being a dependable man or whatever.
Orsini left the scattered dictionary on the floor and went to find Kanna Adis.
“Hey, Kanna Adis!”
But she wasn’t in the room.
Instead, there was a single letter on the desk.
“….”
Now that I think about it, this has happened before. Back then, I resolved never to read the letter again….
‘Just this once. I need to see what it says.’
Orsini carefully picked up the letter.
[Is your posterior doing well?
I struck you quite forcefully at the time, and I’m concerned that you must have bruised quite badly.
I’m sending along an effective salve—please apply it to the area where I hit you. The bruising should fade quickly.
I sincerely hope that the posterior I struck recovers as soon as possible.]
Crunch—the paper crumpled in Orsini’s grip.
A moment later.
“Brother? What are you doing right now?”
“What do you think? Burning a letter.”
“Oh dear.”
So it’s that day again.
Kalen swallowed his words and suppressed his laughter.
Then he made his way to Kanna Adis, who was in the middle of repairing Lucy Adis’s teddy bear.
“Sister. The day has come.”
“What day?”
“That day. Brother’s special day.”
Lucy Adis tilted her head in confusion.
“What day is that?”
“You don’t need to know yet.”
Kalen reached out with the gentle expression of an older brother and ruffled his younger sister’s hair—his perfectly intact left hand.
“You’ll understand when you’re older.”
That day came around periodically, without fail.
【Orsini’s Day of Spectacular Madness】 had arrived once more.
Kanna Adis immediately rushed to the room. Sure enough, just as Kalen had said, Orsini was placing the letter into the fireplace and conducting a ceremonial burning.
“Orsini, what are you doing!”
“What does it look like? I’m burning a letter.”
“You promised you’d never do this again!”
“When did I promise that? I made no such vow.”
“This is ridiculous!”
Kalen, listening from outside the door, smiled faintly and walked down the corridor. What spectacular display of madness would unfold this time?
‘Last time he ran away for days and came back with his pinky finger severed.’
Kalen hoped he would put on another magnificent show of chaos.
‘But please, don’t get hurt this time.’
Sister’s patients are already more than enough to handle.
Today, too, Adis remained peaceful.
As it always was.
Special Side Story Episode 2
【The Rakes of House Adis】 Complete
Epilogue 1.
[Rejection Notice]
[While your passion is impressive, we regret to inform you that you do not align with the talent profile we seek, and unfortunately we cannot work together.]
“….”
Silvien Valentino read the letter again. Yet the words remained unchanged.
[While your passion is impressive, we regret to inform you that you do not align with the talent profile we seek…]
Absurd. Silvien Valentino let out a hollow laugh.
Never did I imagine I would fail a gardener’s interview.
Days ago, I accepted Alexandro Adis’s suggestion and took a brief vacation to rest thoroughly at the Coastal Village.
Then, on a whim, I decided to sit for a gardener’s interview….
‘I was rejected?’
Why, exactly?
How could they reject me?
I could do it well.
‘No, wait. I wasn’t serious about it anyway.’
Right, there’s no reason to be upset. I never truly intended to become a gardener in the first place.
Alexandro Adis had persistently urged me to interview, and I was bored, so I sat for it as a jest.
‘Why am I irritated?’
Why, exactly? What am I lacking?
“Sigh.”
Silvien Valentino swept his hair back. To seriously ponder such a trivial matter.
The absurdity of it made him laugh.
Certainly, it was amusing.
Enough to lift one’s spirits.
‘I see. What I truly needed was rest.’
As Alexandro Adis had said, my duties were excessive. Silvien Valentino smiled faintly and folded the damned rejection notice.
‘I should retire soon. After I apprehend all the relic merchants of the Southern Continent.’
And then, I noticed there was more written on the back.
[※※However,
Cooking Assistant Urgently Needed
※※]
[※※No interview required/Can start immediately. Room and board provided, salary at industry-leading rates. Please apply anytime.※※]
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“That man Silvien Valentino is utterly useless.”
Claude grumbled.
“He is disqualified as a gardener. Perhaps as a cooking assistant to Alexandro Adis, but nothing more.”
“I don’t understand why I need a cooking assistant. My culinary skills improve with each passing day.”
Claude pretended not to hear and continued his complaints.
“Silvien Valentino is excessively handsome. His beauty is seriously, dangerously excessive.”
“Is that a problem?”
“Of course it’s a problem! What good is it to painstakingly arrange a beautiful garden when the gardener’s appearance will overshadow it entirely?”
“….”
“That man was watering flowers beneath the afternoon sun, and I nearly went blind. His silver hair—it was gleaming, absolutely radiant!”
“….”
“I’m serious. His hair was literally shining. Not metaphorically. There was an actual luminescence pooling in those strands.”
Claude clicked his tongue, as though deeply aggrieved by this injustice.
“And those eyes—why must they be so impossibly blue? I have blue eyes myself, you understand? Yet his are like the sea itself, so vivid that standing beside him makes my own blue eyes appear gray!”
“….”
“I cannot fathom how his face is shaped so perfectly. It’s as though some god carved him with meticulous devotion. How does he grow more refined with each passing day? How?”
“….”
“And his physique—why must it be so impeccable? How are his muscles sculpted in precisely the shape women desire? What manner of training does he undertake? He should have no time for exercise with all his duties….”
“Claude.”
“Yes?”
“Ugly.”
“….”
Epilogue 1. Complete

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