My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 75

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Chapter 75
“….”
“I have something to tell you.”
The rain poured down upon her like violence itself.
When I came to my senses, I found myself moving toward her, tilting my umbrella over her head. The raindrops I couldn’t shield fell upon my shoulders instead.
“Why didn’t you wait at the Valentino Estate?”
Whether from shock or confusion, my throat ached—as if I’d swallowed burning coals.
“I didn’t think you would meet with me.”
Kanna’s frail voice pierced my heart like a dagger.
Yes.
That had been my intention.
“So you waited here instead?”
“I thought if I didn’t do this, I would never see you again.”
Kanna whispered weakly, her laughter thin and fragile. She looked as though she might crumble beneath the weight of the rain.
“Kalen, I have something to say….”
In that moment, Kanna’s body swayed. I caught her collapsing shoulders and steadied her.
“…!”
And immediately, shock struck me like a blow to the head.
‘Good heavens.’
Kanna’s body was ice-cold!
“Cough!”
Then, Kanna coughed.
But something was wrong.
In this moment where the scents of grass, earth, flesh, sweat, and rain mingled in dizzying confusion, a sharp metallic scent suddenly pierced through.
This scent….
‘No.’
No, it couldn’t be.
Denying without knowing what I was denying, I hastily pulled Kanna’s shoulders toward me.
“…!”
My eyes widened. Blood stained the corner of her mouth!
In that instant, Kanna collapsed completely. I caught her reflexively in my arms.
She was terrifyingly light.
She was dreadfully cold.
Like a corpse with an emptied soul—the moment that thought crossed my mind, dread sounded its alarm.
Crash!
“Summon the Physician at once!”
I didn’t know when I’d reached the Valentino Estate. Had that shout come from my own voice?
“Kalen? What on earth has happened?”
“I said fetch the Physician! Now!”
Chloe asked, but I couldn’t hear her. Couldn’t see her. The Physician came running at my frost-edged command.
“How is she? Is my sister alright?”
“….”
The Physician did not answer. His shadowed eyes, steeped in such profound darkness, made Kalen’s chest sink with dread.
“Why won’t you answer?”
“…That is…”
“Speak plainly.”
“Her pulse is beating very faintly.”
I could discern the details of her condition, but her breathing is weak, her pulse faint, and she has a severe fever….
The Physician’s words reached me in fragmented pieces through the white haze clouding my mind.
Kalen’s expression hardened terrifyingly. Despite the chaos churning inside his thoughts, his face remained colder than ever.
“So what’s your conclusion?”
“She is in critical condition.”
The Physician sighed and shook his head.
“I apologize, but it would be wise to prepare yourself mentally.”
“Incompetent.”
Kalen suppressed the urge to seize the Physician by the collar and throw him against the wall as he issued his command.
“That’s enough. Leave. And bring me another physician.”
Yet every physician who came reached the same conclusion.
Her condition was grave, the fever especially severe—if it didn’t break, she would die as things stood.
When the fourth physician delivered the same diagnosis, Kalen finally erupted.
“That can’t be! My sister merely got caught in the rain. Bring another physician….”
It was then.
“Cough, cough!”
Kanna, who had been unconscious as if dead, began coughing violently.
Then she coughed up blood. And her entire body began trembling as she convulsed!
“Lord Kalen, please step aside for a moment!”
The Physician rushed forward to examine Kanna’s condition. He pressed a handkerchief into her mouth and turned her body onto its side.
Fortunately, within seconds, Kanna’s convulsions subsided.
But in that brief moment, Kalen felt as though he had plummeted to the very depths of hell. His palms, his forehead, his entire body drenched in cold sweat.
“She has stabilized now. High fevers can sometimes trigger convulsions, and this appears to be such a case.”
Kalen was completely at a loss for words. Seeing his vacant expression, the Physician offered his advice.
“I will prepare medicine for you. Feed it to her faithfully every hour, regularly wipe the sweat from her body, and change her clothes. And….”
The Physician then listed several more instructions.
“…I will do it.”
After the Physician left, when Maid Lea tried to administer the medicine, Kalen spoke in a hoarse voice.
“I will care for my sister. Leave.”
Lea obeyed without question.
Click. As the door closed, the space became sealed. Only then did Kalen slowly walk forward and gaze down at Kanna.
My beautiful sister.
My pale sister.
My sister, looking like a corpse…
In that moment, a sharp pain pierced through my chest. Kalen collapsed onto the edge of the bed, clutching at his heart.
What if, just what if.
‘What if she really dies like this?’
If she dies as things stand now. If she truly dies.
“Kalen, I have something to say…”
Sister said she had something to tell me.
She said there was a story she needed to share with me.
That’s why she came looking for me day after day. Despite my refusal to see her, despite turning her away at the door.
“Kalen, I have something…”
She kept coming because she had something to say.
“Because I have something to tell you…”
What could it have been?
What was it she so desperately wanted to say?
Only now did I desperately long to know.
What could it have been that made her wait for hours in the pouring rain?
To end up like this, to become this…
‘She waited until death, didn’t she?’
What words could possibly be so important?
And why did I avoid her when listening to her would have been so simple?
‘Because of me.’
Suddenly, my breath caught in my throat. It felt as though someone was strangling me.
‘Because I wouldn’t listen to what she had to say.’
That’s why she threw herself into the cold rain and waited.
And what is the result? Kanna Adis is suffering. In pain. Perhaps, just perhaps, she might die.
What made it worse was that this scene felt all too familiar.
The Kanna Adis I remember was always sick, always sorrowful, always struggling, always suffering. From childhood until now.
Sister was always in pain.
And damn it all, I was still the perpetrator. Just as I always had been.
‘I did this to her.’
Kalen bent forward and covered his face with both hands.
‘It’s all because of me.’
Suddenly, an old memory surfaced.
“Brother, do you know? I drove Kanna Adis out of the house.”
Childhood. When I was thoughtless.
“I told the Knight Guards not to open the door for her. So she’s probably lingering outside the Valentino Estate waiting.”
Kalen, who had heard Isabel’s words in one ear and let them out the other, flipped through his book and said.
“Go away, Isabel. I’m reading.”
“Ugh, how boring. I finally drove Kanna Adis out and you’re not even happy?”
“Be quiet. Go play somewhere else.”
After casting Isabel out, I buried myself in books. Reading until evening, I heard the sound of rain.
“….”
Rain poured down in torrents.
“She must be waiting for someone to open the gates from inside the estate.”
Isabel’s voice flickered through my mind for a moment, but I dismissed it. Ignored it. Whether she stayed or left was of no concern to me.
No—perhaps it would be better if she went somewhere else, just as she’d said.
Ten-year-old Kalen thought nothing of it.
At that age, I couldn’t fathom where an unprotected girl might go, or what kind of life awaited her.
Lost in those thoughts, that very evening at dinner, the Duchess commanded the Knight Guard.
“The Duke will be returning soon. Bring Kanna inside before he arrives.”
Moments later, I watched as the Knight Guard carried an unconscious Kanna on his back.
Her lips had turned a deathly blue from spending so long outside in the cold.
Just like now.
“….”
I stared down at Kanna with a darkened expression.
It was the same as then.
Nothing had changed.
I’d excused myself by saying I was different now, that I’d been foolish as a child and didn’t understand, that I’d tormented her unknowingly.
But what had truly changed?
Kanna was still suffering as she had been then. Drenched in rain and ailing.
“I had something to tell you.”
“I waited.”
“I thought you wouldn’t see me.”
Self-loathing burned through my mind.
She was already someone who’d endured hardship recently. Yes, someone who’d nearly been hunted by that mad Crown Prince.
Why had I been so terrified of losing control in front of Kanna?
Of becoming someone other than myself?
‘What does that matter?’
Considering what I’d done to her, her coldness was nothing. I should have been grateful that she’d come back at all, however late.
If only I had been, none of this would have happened.
“I’m sorry….”
I carefully took Kanna’s hand.
So small and delicate—it seemed it would break with the slightest pressure. Such a fragile person. Someone who’d done nothing wrong.
Yet it was always this person who suffered.
Pain and anguish had always, always been Kanna’s burden.
“I’m sorry.”
I bent my waist and lowered my head, pressing my forehead against the back of her hand.
Before this hand, I was undeniably a criminal.
“I was wrong.”
So please, open your eyes soon.
I rose to my feet, waiting to hear her pleas.
“Please, I beg you to punish me, Sister….”

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