My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 64

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Chapter 64
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“What information are you looking to purchase?”
Groups that bought and sold information existed everywhere.
While not an officially sanctioned institution, everyone knew of them in whispered tones, and anyone with enough coin could use their services.
‘Which means even a suspicious woman like me just needs to pay.’
“I haven’t come to buy information. Rather, I’ve come to sell it.”
“What?”
The Information Broker’s brow furrowed. He rose abruptly, his expression souring as though his time had been wasted.
“We don’t purchase information from those of unknown identity. Get out.”
“Who said I was selling?”
With a soft clink, I slid a bundle of gold coins across the table.
The Information Broker’s body froze mid-turn. One thousand gold. The money I’d received from selling the jewels at the pawnshop earlier.
“As I said, I haven’t come to sell information. I have no intention of demanding payment either.”
“….”
“In exchange for accepting my information, I will pay you one thousand gold.”
“We have our own sources of information. From someone of unknown identity….”
“I assure you, there will soon be people coming to purchase my information.”
“….”
“And my information will fetch an extraordinary price. What is one thousand gold? It will be worth whatever I ask.”
She whispered enticingly.
“Believe me or not, it matters not. Sit before me and hear what I have to say. You have nothing to lose, do you?”
At my words, the man’s eyes narrowed with suspicion. Yet shortly after, he dragged a chair over and sat down.
“Fine. Let’s hear it then.”
“Prince Casil Izaberg, Your Highness—you know of him, yes?”
The man’s expression immediately darkened. He too seemed to regard the reckless prince with disdain.
“Yes. The prince who received exile. Fortunately, he’s left this place now. What of him?”
“I hear that on the final day of his exile, while disguised as a commoner and wandering through the Debor District, he was beaten unconscious by a woman. That woman had black hair.”
Having provided such an obvious clue about black hair, he would surely have realized immediately that the woman was me—Kanna Valentino.
As expected, the man’s eyes gleamed with interest.
He leaned forward eagerly and asked.
“And then? What happened?”
But I opened my empty hands before him.
“That’s all.”
“….”
“That is the entirety of the information I’m providing.”
The man then grumbled irritably.
“Listen, what are you going to do with information like that? There has to be more to the story, doesn’t there?”
“Who knows.”
Beneath my hood, I smiled. A smile no one could see.
“That should be sufficient.”
After leaving the Information Broker, I returned to the Hospital Ward. I summoned the Knight Guards that Silvien Valentino had assigned to me. I handed a sealed letter to one of them.
“I need this delivered to the Imperial Palace. Can you send it?”
“Yes, understood.”
“Thank you. Please send it as quickly as possible.”
He immediately left with the letter. Once that letter reached the Empress, everything would proceed according to plan.
Of course, before that.
‘Silvien will read the letter first.’
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“A letter from the Duchess of Valentino to be delivered to the Imperial Palace, sir.”
The fountain pen’s movement halted abruptly.
Silvien Valentino looked up.
Kanna Adis had sent a letter to the Imperial Palace?
Suspicion bloomed in an instant. Was she dissatisfied that this matter hadn’t been made public, that Casil Izaberg hadn’t been punished?
Without a moment’s hesitation, Silvien Valentino removed the wax seal and unfolded the letter. He read through it.
‘….’
After a moment, he folded it back up.
He carefully placed it in the envelope and resealed it with fresh wax, then handed it to the Knight Guard.
“May I send it, sir?”
“You may.”
It was an innocuous letter.
A fleeting suspicion crossed his mind—perhaps she intended to mention and expose what had happened recently.
‘That couldn’t be.’
Silvien Valentino laughed at his own imagination and shook his head.
No, it couldn’t be.
Because that would put him in a difficult position.
Kanna Adis loves me.
Though she had shown recent changes, I had never once doubted her love. Seven years were sufficient reason to believe in her.
Besides, hadn’t I saved her life this time?
‘So she would never do anything to harm me.’
It was a brief moment of distraction. He pushed Kanna Adis from his mind and focused on the documents before him.
After that, he never thought of her again, not for a single moment.
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Days passed in this manner.
Despite my injuries, I devoted myself earnestly to treatment. The illness was simple enough that there was little to worry about.
I planned the patients’ diets and meticulously ensured they consumed a daily quota of fruit juice and medicinal herbs.
The results were remarkable.
The sailors’ condition improved with each passing day.
The swollen gums gradually subsided, and the skin ulcers ceased to weep. As I replenished their critically deficient vitamin C, they steadily regained their health.
The more they improved, the more anxious Aizek became.
‘What if this matter becomes known to the world?’
Isaac had provided Prince Casil with information about the dark-haired woman, and had insisted to Valix that she deserved punishment.
Moreover, hadn’t he participated in the ‘hunt’ as well?
‘It was a stroke of fortune that the Duke of Valentino arrived before the arrows were loosed.’
Though he had made excuses about going to rescue her, Silvien Valentino didn’t seem entirely convinced.
He simply appeared to refrain from pressing further, having decided to let the matter rest.
‘But what if he changes his mind and conducts a proper investigation into the truth? What if he decides to punish me?’
That wasn’t all.
Remarkably, the symptoms of the sick sailors were gradually improving!
‘This is impossible. How could they recover simply by changing their diet and drinking some medicinal tea?’
If the sailors recovered, what would become of him?
It was easy to imagine. A physician who couldn’t cure an illness that a woman had easily treated.
A physician who had made absurd claims about possible infection from the Black Mist.
A physician who had caused even Alexandro Adis himself to intervene.
If that happened, Isaac’s career as a physician would be finished.
‘No, I cannot allow this to happen.’
That was when it came—knock, knock. A rapping sound at the door.
“Who is it?”
He yanked the door open, but there was no one there.
‘What is this?’
Instead, a letter and a small bundle lay before the door.
‘Who left this?’
He checked the letter first.
The handwriting was deliberately crooked, as if written with the left hand. An attempt to conceal the author’s true script.
【That woman is attempting to report this matter to the Imperial Palace.】
…What?
【If it becomes known that I attempted to hunt another noble while in exile, it will harm not only me, but also the lord who cooperated with me and Physician Isaac.】
His heart plummeted. Only those who had been present in the forest at that time knew of the incident.
In other words, this letter was from Prince Casil!
But that woman was attempting to report this to the Imperial Palace? His fingertips began to tremble uncontrollably.
No. This cannot happen!

Trembling, Isaac unwrapped the bundle with shaking hands.
A small glass vial containing a crimson liquid. And a key to the Hospital Ward.
“Ugh….”
A pained groan escaped my throat, as though it were being strangled.
Was he ordering me to kill the sailors?
But I was a Physician.
A Physician who saved lives.
‘I can only practice medicine if I remain alive!’
In that instant, clarity seized me.
Yes, I had to survive.
If that woman revealed what happened here, Aizek would certainly die.
Prince Casil and the noble Valix might escape, but I would not. Certainly not!
‘Yes, and if the sailors perish, my reputation remains untarnished. I can continue practicing as a Physician.’
I swallowed hard.
Perhaps it was the decision itself, but my hands no longer trembled. Only my eyes burned with a fierce, consuming fire.
‘This is the only way to survive.’

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