My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 34

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Chapter 34
“…Why…?”
Why you?
“Why…?”
It’s not you.
Rather, Kalen—you’re a face I wouldn’t want to see even in my dreams.
Unable to bear his presence in my sight any longer, I squeezed my eyes shut. And then I understood.
‘…This can’t be a dream.’
If anything, seeing Sun-hong must have been the dream.
My hazy consciousness gradually sharpened and returned to clarity. Kanna opened her eyes once more.
“You’ve awakened.”
Kalen Adis spoke calmly.
“….”
Kanna stared blankly at him before glancing around the room.
High ceilings. Pristine white curtains draped around the bed. A place I’d grown quite familiar with by now.
‘Why am I lying here?’
I had been speaking with my father in the lobby…—as if sensing that question, Kalen spoke.
“You lost consciousness.”
“Ah.”
As expected. Kanna nodded in acknowledgment.
That made sense. After experiencing so many strange things today, all strength had drained from my body.
“What about the wound on your shoulder?”
“You don’t need to know.”
Kanna spoke dismissively as she pushed herself up from the bed.
Through the window, evening dusk was just beginning to fall, but I had no desire to sleep through it. As she draped a shawl over herself, Kalen approached and pulled it back.
“…?”
What? Kanna looked down at his grip and struggled to wrench the shawl free.
But it wouldn’t budge at all.
“What are you doing?”
“We need to talk.”
“What could I possibly have to discuss with you?”
“I have things to say, and things I need to hear.”
“I don’t.”
“Sister!”
Ugh, seriously!
Kanna couldn’t help but open her eyes sharply.
Kalen seemed to realize his slip of the tongue, quickly biting his lip.
“…The form of address isn’t what matters right now, is it? What exactly is that wound?”
“I fell. Tumbled down the stairs and got scraped against the edge—nothing more to it.”
“You expect me to believe that? And where are you going at this hour?”
“The Research Laboratory. I need to make something.”
“What on earth!”
When Kalen raised his voice, Kanna flinched violently, her shoulders trembling.
“….”
Kalen’s contorted expression grew clouded.
Lips pressed into a thin line, fists clenched tight. And shoulders quivering delicately.
I was trembling.
‘Damn it.’
I realized I was shaking.
Showing such weakness before Kalen was worse than death itself, so I took a deep breath.
But calming myself proved far more difficult than expected.
‘I witnessed someone die. And I nearly died myself.’
In truth, I had never witnessed an actual death before.
Much less seen something so horrific as a throat severed clean through in a single stroke.
Perhaps that was why the remnants of terror still lingered.
Yet my mind refused to accept it.
What good does fear do? I won’t grow weak.
“…I had no intention of startling you.”
“I know. So let go.”
The shawl slipped from Kalen’s grasp with a soft whisper.
Only then did I drape it across my shoulders and quickly exit the room.
‘The Research Laboratory. The Research Laboratory.’
As I descended the stairs with hurried steps, I heard footsteps following behind. Only when I entered the Research Laboratory itself did I finally turn around.
Sure enough, Kalen was there.
“Why?”
“You may collapse again.”
Those words scraped across my nerves like a blade.
My eyes grew progressively colder and sharper.
Perhaps it was the exhaustion of the day. Patience felt harder to maintain than usual.
Why, exactly.
“Tell me who inflicted that wound.”
Why does he keep—
“And I believe you should rest for the remainder of today. Your complexion is ashen.”
Why does he keep—
“…Sister.”
The taut thread of my patience snapped with a sharp crack.
I heard it distinctly.
That sound of something breaking inside my mind.
“What are you.”
I could bear it no longer. No—I refused to bear it any longer.
“I told you not to call me that.”
Everything irritates me.
This wound on my shoulder.
Being in this Empire instead of Korea.
Having to see family members I despise.
“Who do you think you are calling me sister, who?”
Kalen Adis clenched his teeth.
Even watching him suppress something with such effort did nothing to diminish my rage. If anything, it only intensified.
Kanna Adis glared at him as though she could kill him with her eyes alone, her voice sharp as a blade.
“What gives you the right to interfere? What gives you the right to lecture me?”
“…Sister.”
“I told you not to call me that!”
She screamed it—spat it out like venom.
“Don’t call me sister! You’re nothing to me. And I’m nothing to you either!”
Kalen Adis’s face drained of all color.
The shock written across his features made her words feel absurd somehow.
He was shocked by this?
Merely this?
These words were nothing compared to what he had done to me!
“I don’t know what you’re thinking, calling me sister like that, but stop it. I know it’s just a momentary whim anyway.”
Kalen Adis, who had been listening in silence, finally parted his lips.
Was it her imagination? His lips seemed to tremble.
“I have long since regretted what happened in the past. I simply wish to mend our relationship going forward…”
“Since when did you get to decide that?”
Kanna Adis could not suppress the bitter laughter rising in her throat. She laughed—sharp, cutting, merciless.
“You always do whatever you want, Kalen Adis.”
When we were children, and even now.
Kalen Adis was desperately selfish.
“When you hate me, I’m supposed to grovel. When you don’t, I’m supposed to be affectionate. Is that what you expect? Why should I do any of that?”
“…”
“Why must I always bend to your will?”
“That’s not—”
Kalen Adis clenched his fists. His cheeks flushed as though he had been insulted.
“That is not the case. Please do not speak that way.”
Before Kanna Adis could respond, he continued urgently.
“We will continue to see each other regardless. Do you intend to reject me forever? Whatever the past, we are siblings. Sister, you…”
His voice grew anxious, and he licked his dry lips. A glimmer of hope flickered in his eyes.
“Sister, did you not seek me out while you were in pain?”
“…What?”
“You called me your brother when you saw me. Surely somewhere in your heart, you wish to rely on family.”
Kanna Adis found herself completely at a loss for words.
She had found Kalen? Herself?
‘No, that’s not it.’
Yes, she had certainly found her brother.
Unconsciously, she had sought out her mother and father, Toto and Sun-hong—those she longed to lean on when her body and spirit weakened, the family she couldn’t help but think of.
But Kalen seemed to believe that she had been searching for him.
That the “brother” she had called out for was him.
What a nauseating misunderstanding.
“Rely on me, Sister. You have no one but me.”
“….”
“Will you depend on Orsini instead? Or Isabel? Mother?”
Kalen, oblivious to the truth, spoke with fervent conviction.
“Or perhaps Father? Father merely watched as you collapsed. Do you understand?”
“….”
“You have no one but me.”
“….”
“Only me.”
A hollow laugh escaped her.
His arrogance was insufferable.
And Father’s behavior was proving exactly as predictable as she had feared.
It was now abundantly clear that Father cared nothing whether she lived or died.
She had thought he seemed somewhat startled by the blood-stained clothes….
‘Surprise and concern are two different things.’
How much longer would she have to endure this nonsense?
There were several medicines she needed to prepare immediately—time was precious.
So Kanna Adis decided to tell him the truth.
“It’s not you.”
“…Pardon?”
“The brother I found—it’s not you.”
“If not me, then who? Surely not Isabel? Or Orsini?”
“None of them.”
“Then….”
“Someone else.”
Kalen’s face froze. He looked as though he had been slapped.
“Seven years have passed since you and I were separated. It wouldn’t be strange if I had found someone like a true sibling in that time, would it?”
“….”
“There is such a person. A man around your age, and I regard him as my brother. No—he is my brother.”
So now, would you please leave?
Kanna Adis’s eyes conveyed this message as she stared at him.
“The one I found was him. Not you.”

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