My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 341

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Special Side Story Episode 28
I watched Orsini’s jaw clench visibly at my response.
“You won’t make it?”
“That’s right.”
“You’re mistaken. I’m not asking you—I’m threatening you.”
He spat the words out with rising fury.
“If you don’t make the handkerchief, I’ll tell everyone you’re the thief who stole the necklace.”
“Go ahead.”
“What?”
“Tell them. I don’t care.”
….
“Then I’ll be whipped, or left outside until I faint like last time. Or maybe I’ll receive an even worse punishment.”
“Yes, you understand well.”
Orsini’s face had turned a sickly pallor, as though he’d received a tremendous shock.
“And yet… you still won’t make my handkerchief?”
“No.”
….
“I’d rather be beaten unconscious than make you a handkerchief. No.”
I took a deep breath before speaking.
“I’d rather die.”
Perhaps my sincerity reached him.
Orsini’s face froze solid.
The eyes that had burned with rage turned to ice. A faint, hollow laugh escaped his lips, now cold as winter frost.
“Aha ha…”
And in the next moment.
Crash!
Orsini suddenly kicked over the box containing embroidery tools. The wooden box flew through the air, smashing against the wall and shattering into pieces, scattering thread and needles with a deafening clatter.
Startled, I jumped to my feet and cried out.
“What are you—ah!”
Orsini snatched the embroidery hoop from my hands. He strode past me and hurled it against the wall with all his might.
Crash, crash, crash! The circular walnut hoop shattered into fragments, splintering into countless pieces.
I was overwhelmed by this frenzied violence. I’d seen Orsini angry before, but never like this—never so wild. He seemed mad.
Yes, truly, utterly mad.
Orsini seized the scattered fabric and tore it again and again. He trampled it relentlessly, as though determined to ensure I could never embroider again…
….
After his rampage had run its course, he finally stopped, having destroyed every embroidery tool.
Silence fell.
Orsini stood there for a long moment, breathing heavily…
Then he bent down.
He picked up a scrap of fabric from the ground.
It was a handkerchief embroidered by Kanna Adis.
Orsini gazed at the handkerchief, then tucked it into his pocket.
That was all.
Without so much as a glance back at me, Orsini walked out of the Research Laboratory.
Left alone at last, I collapsed onto the sofa, utterly drained.
What was that?
What just happened?
Did Orsini really just put my embroidered handkerchief into his pocket?
I clearly told him I wouldn’t give it to him, and yet—
“That thief….”
Orsini Adis had stolen my handkerchief.
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“Well, well, Young Master, it’s been quite some time!”
Orsini had emerged from eight days of seclusion and immediately made his way to his usual playground.
The Game House. In other words, a gambling den.
Entry was permitted only for those fifteen and older, but Orsini’s physique made it abundantly clear he was no mere twelve-year-old. Thus, there was no obstacle to his entry.
“Welcome, Young Master!”
He revealed nothing of his identity and always wore a deep hood when coming and going, so the staff had no idea he was the young master of House Adis.
Yet he was warmly received nonetheless. The amount of money this mysterious boy scattered about was beyond imagination.
“Please, sit here, Young Master!”
“We shall deal the cards for you!”
Orsini played cards as he always did. Even winning several hands in succession brought him no joy.
Had even this grown tedious?
This transgression had been the only thing that felt genuinely thrilling.
Now it felt hollow.
I couldn’t concentrate.
My mood was utterly ruined.
“Hey, how old are you?”
Just then, a woman sat down beside him. Orsini didn’t even look at her.
“I’ve been watching you since earlier. You have a nice jawline showing just a bit. Would you mind removing your hood?”
“….”
“Up close, you look a bit younger. I saw you when you came in, and you’re incredibly tall. How old are you? Fifteen? Sixteen?”
Fifteen.
That was Ludrick Elbiso’s age.
As if it mattered—the bastard had no money anyway.
And Kanna Adis, clueless as she was, clung to that fool like an idiot.
“I’m fifteen too. I’m from the Regent Kingdom, but I came to the Empire to study abroad. Are you from the Empire—?”
“Yeah.”
Orsini turned his gaze toward the woman. The moment their eyes met—his green eyes beneath the hood and hers—he saw her body stiffen.
“Do you like jewels?”
“Huh? What?”
“Do you like jewels?”
At that, the girl’s cheeks flushed crimson.
“Y-yes. I do like them.”
“Do all girls like jewels?”
“I suppose most do…? I’ve never met a girl who dislikes them.”
So it was as I thought.
Orsini’s expression darkened considerably, and the girl’s face went pale in an instant. Anyone could see the fear in her eyes, yet Orsini paid it no mind and pressed further.
“How much do you like them?”
“W-what do you mean…?”
“Would you accept them even from someone you despise?”
As he pushed the question, the girl began to hiccup. His piercing gaze was far too much for a girl her age to bear, yet Orsini showed no interest in such matters.
“I-I don’t know…”
“…”
What have I done to make her cry like this?
Orsini shot the girl a harsh look.
“If you’re going to cry, go cry somewhere else.”
The girl burst into tears and fled as if escaping. Orsini immediately dismissed the matter and looked down at his hand of cards.
“What are you doing, Young Master?”
“It is your turn, Young Master.”
Orsini carelessly played a random card and fell into thought.
When I was younger, I was so frustrated that Kanna Adis ignored me that I gathered centipedes and brought them to her.
I thought she would grow angry with me. I thought she would seek me out, cry, or throw a tantrum.
Yet Kanna Adis did not grow angry. Instead, she ignored me even more intensely.
She would not even look at me.
When I spoke to her, she would run away.
It was not the reaction I desired.
So afterward, I changed my approach. I brought her beautiful things—dolls and dresses that girls her age adored.
I threatened to kill anyone who spoke of it, and had a servant secretly present the gifts.
“I apologize, Young Master. Miss Kanna Adis has discarded the gift.”
She discarded all of them.
Not only that—even when I offered her the skin of a rare black panther, she showed no interest. When I brought her a beautiful silk ball, she would not even glance at it.
She would not even accept an umbrella offered to her in the rain.
It was always, always like that.
‘But she likes jewels? Like necklaces?’
Now that I think about it, I have never once given her jewels.
If I had given her jewels, she would not have discarded them. Perhaps she would have finally stopped ignoring me.
She was willing to marry for jewels, after all.
‘But that man could never afford good jewels.’
Could Kanna Adis truly not know?
Do you not realize that if I so desired, I could purchase any jewels I wished, in any quantity?
Orsini Adis inherited an immense fortune from the moment of his birth. Mountains of gold, seas of diamonds—all belonged to him.
So why would you marry some pauper when you could instead win my favor?
Rather than stealing my mother’s necklace in secret, wouldn’t it be far better to earn my affection and receive such a necklace as a gift?

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