My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 335

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Special Side Story Episode 20
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Kanna Adis’s condition was dire.
“Her fever is dangerously high. I’ve administered antipyretics, but she’ll require meticulous care,” the Physician said.
“Meticulous? How exactly?”
Orsini’s question prompted a cautious response from the Physician.
“Frequent changes of cold compresses, wiping away perspiration—that sort of thing, but…”
The Physician’s words trailed off as he gauged the atmosphere.
Naturally, such menial tasks were beneath the wayward Young Master Adis.
Yet Orsini merely nodded, as if dismissing him.
Once the Physician departed, only Kanna Adis and Orsini remained in the Bedroom.
Orsini dragged a chair beside the bed and sat, gazing down at Kanna’s limp form sprawled across the mattress before letting out a derisive chuckle.
“Pathetic. You look ridiculous.”
Apparently, she’d stolen Mother’s necklace. As punishment, she’d stood in the rain all day.
But then again…
Orsini harbored doubts.
This timid little thing committed theft?
Someone so averse to drawing attention would steal such an ostentatious necklace for what purpose?
‘Mother must have misplaced it somewhere and is taking it out on Kanna.’
His mother, Chloe, tormented Kanna for the most trivial reasons.
The weather was poor. Her dress displeased her. His father, Alexandro Adis, was cold to her. And so forth.
This time, as always, she was blaming Kanna.
Orsini slouched in his chair, regarding Kanna with a sneer. Cold sweat beaded across her pallid cheeks, and her dark hair clung damply to her skin.
“Right, what use would someone like you have for a necklace? Casting pearls before swine, as they say.”
Ugly, wretched, slovenly—that was what she was.
Fortunately, Kanna Adis possessed sufficient self-awareness. She was always holed up in the Underground Laboratory, hidden away—one rarely caught a glimpse of her face.
There was no way such a girl would steal a necklace.
“Nngh…”
Just then, Kanna let out a pained whimper.
“Ugh…”
…So much suffering.
Not that I care whether she’s in pain or not.
Orsini touched the compress resting on Kanna’s forehead. It had already grown lukewarm.
That was how severe her fever burned.
“Stupid girl. Why are you groaning over something so trivial?”
Orsini had once served as a Knight Guard, enduring a week of rain while crossing jungle marshlands. Yet he hadn’t developed a fever—not even a single cough.
More than that, Kalen, Isabel, and Alexandro Adis’s children possessed such robust constitutions that they’d never even caught a common cold.
So why was she so sickly?
“Tainted blood from a bastard, I suppose.”
He sneered, thoroughly soaking a cloth in a basin of cold water. After wringing it out, he wiped away the perspiration beading on Kanna’s face, brushing aside the damp strands clinging to her forehead and sweeping them to the side.
“….”
At some point, the hand wiping my face slowed.
My lower lashes were exceptionally long and full. When I blinked, they resembled the flutter of a black butterfly’s wings.
And when these eyelids opened, eyes like obsidian would be revealed.
Seeing those eyes was truly a difficult thing….
Orsini felt a strange urgency. For some reason, a heated sigh scattered. It was a feeling akin to anger, akin to anxiety—decidedly unpleasant.
How irritating….
Orsini dampened the washcloth once more and wiped my face. His throat burned, and his chest felt constricted.
It was the moment after he placed the cloth on my forehead and turned his head.
“….”
Suddenly, his gaze met his own reflection in the mirror hanging on the wall.
Soaked through by the rain, that vacant expression as he tended to the girl….
In that instant, his mind snapped into focus.
What am I doing right now?
Orsini shot up from the chair.
Why couldn’t I leave, as if it mattered what happened to this girl? And besides, I’m completely drenched from the rain myself, looking like a mess.
Orsini kicked at the bed in frustration and left my bedroom.
“My goodness, truly?”
“Yes. I’m telling you it’s true.”
The moment he stepped outside, he heard the voices of maids from beyond the corner of the corridor.
Orsini spun around hastily. He had no desire for anyone to see him emerging from tending to Kanna Adis.
He tried to hurry away, but—
“A marriage proposal came for Miss Kanna Adis?”
The young man’s feet stopped.
“Yes. It seems the Duchess intends to accept it?”
“Good heavens, what does that mean then? Is Miss Kanna Adis getting married?”
“Since Miss is only fourteen now, she’ll be betrothed first. Usually the wedding ceremony would be held around when she comes of age… Oh my.”
The maids froze the moment they spotted Orsini.
“Y-Young Master.”
Orsini stared at the maids. They flustered with frightened faces and quickly bowed.
“We apologize, Young Master.”
“P-Please forgive us.”
Orsini passed them with indifference. He couldn’t understand why they were so flustered.
Anyone watching would think I’m furious.
Orsini walked coldly down the corridor. The maids’ words echoed in his mind.
“A marriage proposal came for Miss Kanna Adis?”
…What kind of madman is it?
Whoever it is, they must be out of their mind.
Otherwise, how could anyone agree to marry a pile of filth like Kanna Adis?
Yet for him, it was a welcome development.
If that irritating girl would just disappear from this mansion, I’d be delighted.
Orsini chuckled to himself, then found himself drawn toward Kanna’s hideaway.
The Underground Laboratory beneath the Valentino Estate.
Kanna Adis always hid here like a frightened mouse.
Whenever it had been too long since I’d seen her face, I always came to this place. Then I could find her.
I absolutely loved causing havoc in this laboratory.
Kicking over chairs, toppling bookshelves, destroying research materials, cursing, condemning, mocking….
“Stop it, I’m telling you to stop, Orsini!”
At those moments, she could no longer ignore me. She would call my name, look at me, hang on my every word.
It was exhilaratingly enjoyable.
But once she married, this laboratory would be empty. I’d never see her anywhere in the mansion again.
The mere thought of it felt so satisfying that my lips curled upward.
“Yes, hurry up and disappear….”
Crash!
Orsini kicked the desk. The legs of the solid wood desk splintered with a crunch, and research materials scattered across its surface tumbled down in a cascade.
It didn’t end there. Orsini wreaked havoc throughout Kanna’s laboratory. He shoved everything in sight, hurled objects, kicked them aside.
I couldn’t bear it otherwise. I felt as though I would shatter. Crumble. Splinter into a thousand pieces. Perhaps even die.
Orsini couldn’t understand what this was, why he felt such terror. He only wanted to escape it.
Yes, so disappear. Vanish.
Erase yourself from my life!
After thrashing about for how long, Orsini finally stopped, having reduced the laboratory to complete chaos.
Not because his anger had subsided.
He had discovered something.
“…What is this.”
Where the bookshelf he’d knocked over had stood.
A single brick jutted out at an angle from the wall.
The moment I approached and pulled out the brick, I burst into laughter.
‘Look at this.’
Inside the hollow space of the brick.
A necklace gleamed like the sun, hidden away.
It was Mother’s necklace.

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