My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 43

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Chapter 43
It was the Emperor.
He stood before the door.
“How appalling.”
His brow furrowed deeply.
“To resort to such degradation.”
He clicked his tongue in disapproval.
It was the same tone he’d used when condemning his own blood as tainted, saying it had produced a wretch like Amelia.
“Your… Your Majesty, that is….”
“Enough. I have no wish to hear it.”
He cut off the Empress’s words with sharp finality.
“I was well aware of the Empress’s malice, but I never imagined her to be so vulgar.”
“Your… Your Majesty.”
“Swinging fists about like some common street rabble….”
The Emperor regarded her with utter contempt before turning away entirely, as though he couldn’t bear to let that chaos remain in his sight even a moment longer.
The door closed with a heavy thud, and he departed.
“….”
A chilling silence descended upon the Bedroom.
A suffocating stillness that seemed to crush everyone within it.
Within that silence, the Empress’s body trembled violently.
The pain of her body being seared as though by flame was unbearable. And.
“You… you wretch!”
Consumed by a raging inferno of fury.
The Empress seized the unconscious Kanna Adis by the throat.
“You wretched creature! Because of you! His Majesty has treated me like!”
“Your… Your Majesty!”
“Empress, please compose yourself!”
The Knight Guards and Maidservants alike rushed to restrain her. But the Empress had completely lost her reason.
“You wretch! You collapsed on purpose! You sensed His Majesty’s arrival! You deliberately showed yourself in this state! To humiliate me, to insult me!”
How perceptive. How did she know?
I barely managed to suppress my laughter.
Though my throat was being strangled, it wasn’t particularly painful.
Given how much I’d endured thus far, the Empress’s grip was utterly pathetic.
‘No matter what, I was unconscious. What can you do about it?’
If you want my medical care, you’ll never achieve it with this attitude.
It was then.
“Y-Your Majesty the Empress!”
A Servant’s voice called from beyond the door.
Had the Emperor returned? The Empress’s movements froze for an instant.
“Duke Adis has just arrived… No, Your Grace! You mustn’t do this!”
Bang!
The door burst open without permission.
No—it hadn’t opened. It had been kicked in. The entrance was violent, like the intrusion of a lawless ruffian with no regard for propriety.
A man with crimson hair strode in with heavy steps, trampling the luxurious carpet beneath his mud-caked military boots without a shred of hesitation.
The Empress was more alarmed by the Emperor than she had ever been.
“Ah, Alexandro… Duke Adis.”
What?
In that instant, I nearly forgot I was feigning unconsciousness and opened my eyes.
Who did she say?
Father had come?
“Ah, why has Duke Adis—?”
Alexandro Adis—the patriarch of Adis—stood before her!
His shadow engulfed the Empress in an instant, as though a colossal mountain had materialized. She swallowed hard.
The crimson cloak draped across Alexandro’s shoulders and the oppressively black uniform emanated a thick, metallic reek of blood.
The stench of slaughter.
The stains smeared across his shoes were not merely dirt.
Crimson bloodstains—the marks of carnage.
To anyone’s eye, he had come directly from the Black Mist and rushed straight here.
‘No, that can’t be! Duke Adis wouldn’t even treat Kanna as his daughter!’
Regardless of her shock, the expressionless Alexandro moved his gaze slowly.
My face, caked with dried blood.
Scratches on my cheeks as though clawed. My split lip. The dark bruises around my eyes. My pallid complexion.
And my slender neck, gripped in the Empress’s two hands.
After slowly surveying everything, Alexandro’s eyes finally fixed upon the Empress.
“…!”
The moment their gazes met, the strength drained from the Empress’s hands.
My body stumbled backward. Alexandro extended his arm and caught me effortlessly.
As though reclaiming what was his.
That was all it took.
As though this were the most natural thing he had done his entire life, Alexandro lifted me into his arms and turned. He walked out without hesitation.
From the hem of his gently swaying crimson cloak, monster blood dripped steadily.
“….”
The door closed with a thud.
The Empress could only watch.
There was no other choice.
* * *
‘Has he lost his mind?’
Meanwhile, I was on the verge of losing my composure entirely.
‘What on earth is this? What did I do wrong?’
Had this old man gone senile? He looked about my age, yet his mind had already succumbed to dementia?
‘Dementia, perhaps.’
There was no other reason he would come to rescue me.
“….”
Inside the rattling carriage, I rested quietly against Alexandro Adis’s shoulder.
It was an affectionate touch that had never existed between father and daughter.
‘Why did he seat me beside him? There’s the opposite bench. Two men could lie down there with room to spare.’
So just leave me there instead!
However, I had been feigning unconsciousness since the Empress struck me, so I couldn’t say a word.
Anyone seeing this scene would certainly misunderstand.
They would assume I was truly a precious daughter to him.
‘Insane. Absolutely ridiculous thoughts.’
If I could have moved, I would have slapped my own cheek.
But I couldn’t. I couldn’t even twitch a finger or release a single heavy breath.
As if chains bound my body tightly—everything felt heavy, uncomfortable, and suffocating.
‘I can’t breathe. I feel like I’m dying.’
Enduring the Underground Dungeon these past few days had been easier than this.
‘Why isn’t Father moving at all?’
Since entering the carriage, Alexandro Adis had been as still as a statue. Perhaps he was asleep.
I opened my eyelids very slowly. The moment I glanced upward.
“…!”
Green eyes met mine.
His gaze was unwavering, as if he had been watching me the entire time.
I nearly cried out but barely suppressed it. I quickly closed my eyes.
Was I caught?
Did he notice when I opened them just a crack?
‘No, if he knew I was awake, he wouldn’t be doing this. He definitely doesn’t know.’
Thank goodness I wasn’t caught. I mustn’t open my eyes until we arrive home.
Why would he stare at an unconscious person and startle them like that?
‘…Indeed. Why is he looking?’
Was my face really so swollen?
Badly enough to warrant curious staring?
‘I don’t know.’
I stopped thinking.
I simply endured this moment. This suffocating time shared with my father.
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We arrived at the Valentino Estate. Alexandro Adis carried me directly to the Bedroom.
I kept my eyes firmly shut and maintained my pretense of unconsciousness.
Fortunately, Alexandro Adis seemed to notice nothing and left the room as it was.
“Good heavens. Poor Duchess.”
I heard Maid Lea approaching with a sniffle. She gently wiped away the dried blood clinging to my face with a warm cloth.
‘Good….’
How long had it been since I last lay upon a bed? How long since I felt the warmth of a proper blanket?
For the past several days, I had endured the cold Underground Dungeon wearing nothing but a thin slip. It was bearable, yet far from painless.
Now, lying here like this, I finally felt as though it was truly over.
‘No… it isn’t over yet.’
A heavy darkness descends upon me. My eyelids grow leaden. Sleep crashes down like a tide.
‘The Empress. She hasn’t yet begged me. She hasn’t apologized.’
Until that moment comes, nothing is truly finished.
But wait and see.
Soon you will cling to me, weeping and wailing.
‘By now, she must be dying.’
The burning itch will only intensify with each passing hour, soon leaving her body utterly broken and uncontrollable.
Perhaps she won’t even be able to endure it and will attempt to take her own life.
‘If it comes to that, it is only what she deserves….’
Kanna Adis pretended to sleep while being attended to, but eventually, she truly did fall asleep.

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