My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 61

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Chapter 61
This wasn’t a game. It wasn’t a jest.
This was reality.
A reality where I faced someone who hunted me with arrows as their weapon.
In other words, failure meant only one thing: death.
‘I have only one chance. I must succeed.’
Then, footsteps echoed from the distance. Kanna Adis quickly crouched down and held her breath.
“The footprints end around here. She’s probably hiding nearby.”
Kasil tracked the traces with leisurely amusement, a smile playing at his lips.
“You search deeper inside. I’ll search this area.”
“Yes, understood.”
“When you find her, don’t kill her. Bring her to me. I’ll be the one to end her.”
His voice, dripping with the pleasure of the hunt, sent chills down my spine.
“Hmm, let’s see. She must be hiding somewhere around here…”
Left alone, Kasil hummed to himself as he tore through the brush. I gripped the water bucket tightly.
Just a little closer.
“Could she be here?”
Thunk. He stabbed mercilessly at the vegetation with his arrowhead, drawing steadily nearer. I fixed my eyes on the crown of his head, my gaze unwavering.
Just a bit more.
“Or perhaps here?”
Just a little.
“Then here?”
More…
“Not here either.”
Just a little, truly just a little more…
“Here?”
He suddenly jerked his head upward. In that instant, our eyes met directly!
‘Now!’
I immediately tilted the bucket downward. Water cascaded out in a torrent.
“…!”
A direct hit!
Water splashed across Kasil’s face. He squinted and hastily wiped his face clean.
“Damn it, what are you doing!”
He swept his wet hair back and gazed upward with a crooked expression. The absurdity of it all drew a hollow laugh from him.
“Hey. Why aren’t you running? What are you doing up there?”
“…”
“So this is all you can manage? Pouring water on my face?”
“…”
“Come down. I’ll spare your life, so come down.”
It was a lie.
In truth, Kasil possessed no talent for martial arts. His archery skills in particular were abysmal beyond redemption.
So his plan was simple: position the woman before him, maintain distance, and shoot her dead.
‘Killing her when she’s let her guard down—that has its own appeal.’
Concealing my sinister intentions, I smirked. The foolish woman actually believed my words and hesitantly climbed down the wooden pillar.
“Ugh!”
Then she lost her footing and crashed to the ground.
“Oh, that must hurt.”
But instead of catching her, I raised my bow. This distance was more than sufficient to kill her.
I grinned wickedly as I drew the bowstring taut.
“Well then….”
…What?
My vision blurred. Just now, I felt an extraordinarily strange sensation on my cheek.
In that instant.
“Gack!”
A searing pain scorched my face, and I grimaced violently.
That was merely the beginning.
From my nape, my back, my arms—a sensation as though my flesh was sizzling and burning descended upon me.
“Aaaahhh!”
What is this?!
I screamed and tore open my shirt.
Looking down at my chest, which felt as though it were charring black, it was perfectly intact. Far from burning, it was slick with moisture!
“…!”
And the agony rapidly descended further.
A scorching inferno raced down my buttocks and spread swiftly downward to my ankles.
Unable to endure this abnormal heat, I frantically stripped off my trousers. Even amid this, shame overwhelmed me, so I screamed at Kanna Adis.
“Damn it! Damn it all! Argh! Hey, turn your eyes away! Don’t look, ack!”
Kanna Adis pushed herself up from where she’d collapsed. She had to escape while that bastard was out of his mind.
However.
‘Ugh.’
The moment I straightened my body, sharp pain lashed across my legs.
I nearly cried out. It seemed I’d been badly injured when I fell from the tree.
‘I can’t give up. I have to endure. I still have to escape.’
As she turned her body.
“Your Highness?”
“…!”
Footsteps approached from a distance. Isaac and a man with a massive, bandit-like physique!
Kasil’s expression darkened upon recognizing the newcomer as Valix Venetia. The image of himself, looking utterly deranged with his trousers down, flashed through his mind.
“G-Get away! Don’t come here!”
“Your Highness? Is something amiss?”
“Damn it, I said don’t come this way! Aaaahhh!”
At that moment, the pain reached its peak!
As my flesh burned and melted away, my vision flashed white. There was no room for shame or dignity anymore!
“Help me! W-water! Bring water! My body is on fire! It feels like I’m burning! Ahhh! Ahhh!”
At my cry, Isaac and Valix Venetia rushed over. They scanned my naked, glowing body from head to toe, but…
“It’s burning! It’s burning! Water, hurry, water, nooooo!”
What exactly was burning?
Isaac and Valix Venetia exchanged confused glances. As everyone fell into panic.
“Ahhh!”
Kanna Adis charged in like a buffalo and rammed her body into the prince’s chest!
The prince tumbled backward. Seizing the moment, Kanna Adis snatched the bow and arrows from his grasp.
“Stop! Come any closer and I’ll shoot!”
Kanna Adis drew the bowstring taut, aiming at Kasil. Isaac and Valix Venetia froze hesitantly in their tracks.
“Get up, Your Highness.”
“D-damn it, damn it all, ahhh… damn… ugh.”
The prince, completely seized by panic, stumbled about muttering curses frantically. Kanna Adis took a deep breath and slowly backed away.
“Your Highness, follow me.”
“Huh. Gasp, gasp…”
Even so, the agony of my entire body melting like lava continued unabated.
The violent pain brought a ringing in my ears. My vision was nearly fading. Mentally, I was completely collapsing, nearly on the verge of losing consciousness.
“I have an antidote.”
At those words, my mind snapped back. Could that wench have used poison on me?!
“You, what have you done to me! How dare you!”
“Be quiet and follow me.”
Kanna Adis gripped the bow tightly as she threatened.
“If you don’t follow, there will be no antidote, and I will shoot.”
“This, this damned…”
Kasil whimpered and retreated, following Kanna Adis. There was no choice.
“You two, don’t move from there.”
Kanna Adis glared at Isaac and Valix Venetia.
“If you try anything foolish, I cannot guarantee His Highness’s life.”
She continued talking to maintain the tension, backing away step by step.
If I could just distance myself from them, I had a chance. If only the prince and I were left alone, I would win.
I had the weapon to threaten him and the antidote to save him. So…
…
Thud. My back struck something. Kanna Adis lifted her head.
And met the eyes of the Knight Guard.
…!
Subdual came in an instant.
A hand extended in one swift motion, twisting Kanna Adis’s wrist, while another hand struck the bow harshly.
“Ugh!”
The overwhelming grip forced me to release my bowstring.
“Your Highness, are you unharmed?”
It was Kasil’s escort knight, who had vanished deep into the Forest.
“I apologize for my tardiness, Your Highness.”
He appeared to have rushed back upon hearing the commotion.
“Damn it, I—cough! Do I look all right?”
Kasil could no longer contain himself and let out a scream.
“Aaaagh! Damn it, argh, everything hurts!”
Kasil wiped his sweat-drenched face and took a deep breath.
“You insane woman. Hand over the antidote right now. If you don’t, I’ll kill you.”
How amusing, I thought bitterly to myself.
He would kill me the moment I handed over the antidote. But until he had it in his grasp, he couldn’t afford to let me die.
‘Damn it, I was captured far too quickly.’
I had mentioned the antidote as a precaution in case I was caught, but this was faster than I’d anticipated.
And four against one at that—four men against a single woman!
“Hey, give me your sword!”
Kasil breathed heavily as he snatched the knight’s blade.
“Hand over the antidote! If you don’t, I’ll cut off your hands!”
It was nearly a shriek. His eyes blazed crimson as he spat and bellowed with fury.
“After your hands come your arms! After your arms come your legs! I’ll sever all your limbs and leave nothing but your torso!”
He raised the sword with genuine intent to strike. Realizing he meant every word, I thrashed against the knight’s iron grip, but his brutish strength left me utterly helpless.

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