My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 76

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Chapter 76
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A soft groan escaped my lips as I fought to pry open my heavy eyelids.
‘How many days has it been?’
From the clarity returning to my mind, I’d estimate four days had passed. The poison was designed to cause suffering for precisely that duration before subsiding.
‘Mm, it was more potent than I expected. I didn’t realize the pain would be this intense.’
But still.
I let out a quiet laugh. Seeing Kalen slumped in the chair beside my bed, arms crossed as he dozed, the poison had clearly done its job magnificently.
That was when it happened. Perhaps sensing my consciousness, Kalen’s head snapped up abruptly.
“Are you awake?”
“….”
“Can you hear me? Please, say something in response.”
“Cough, cough.”
Kalen’s complexion turned ashen.
“Wait, just wait a moment. I’ll fetch the Physician immediately.”
The Physician who arrived shortly after announced my full recovery.
“However, there may be lingering aftereffects, so you must rest and recuperate for some time.”
The relief that flooded Kalen’s expression was unmistakable. I barely suppressed a smirk.
‘I never imagined it would work this well.’
Taking the poison and standing in the rain had been the right move.
‘Since the poison leaves no lasting aftereffects, I’ll recover completely after just a few days of suffering.’
Though I’d endured several days of agony, it was worth every moment. I’d successfully resurrected all of Kalen’s guilt and compassion.
“Are you feeling better?”
Kalen entered carrying a medicinal tonic himself.
“Please drink this.”
“Thank you.”
I drank the bitter medicine without resistance.
‘Ugh, how vile.’
Did my expression betray me? Kalen extended a small candy.
‘What is this?’
A wave of revulsion surged through me. I didn’t want to accept candy from Kalen of all people….
‘I want to slap his hand away, send the candy flying to the floor, and shout that I don’t need such things!’
But rejecting his goodwill now would be foolish. I manufactured a grateful expression and accepted the candy, popping it into my mouth and rolling it across my tongue.
Strawberry flavor.
Predictable, really.
“Thank you.”
“No, not at all.”
He lingered afterward, clearly wanting to say something, pacing about the room hesitantly. I anticipated what he might say, but feigned ignorance, tilting my head innocently.
After a moment, Kalen spoke as if he’d steeled himself.
“I apologize.”
I knew you’d say that. Yet Kanna’s eyes widened in surprise.
“You’ve suffered so much because of me.”
“No. I’m the one who should apologize.”
Kanna smiled darkly and lowered her head.
“I think I was too harsh with you all this time. I spoke only cruel words and treated you coldly. So it’s only natural that you would turn away from me….”
“That’s not true.”
Kalen hastily cut off her words.
“That’s not true. Please don’t say such things. This is all my fault for being so narrow-minded.”
So he understood. Fortunately, this man was remarkably skilled at self-reflection.
“There was something I desperately wanted to tell you when you woke up.”
Kalen approached the side of the chamber bed. He knelt down on the floor.
Was it to meet Kanna’s gaze at eye level, or….
Was it to kneel and confess his sins?
“I was wrong.”
Kalen’s voice trembled faintly.
“In this matter, and in everything from childhood as well.”
His fingertips were also convulsing slightly.
“I regret it.”
“….”
“I don’t even dare ask for forgiveness. I simply wish to atone for my sins.”
Kalen Adis.
The man spoken of as the next head of House Adis, famous as a cold-blooded successor bearing Alexandro Adis’s striking resemblance.
“Please punish me. I will accept whatever you decree.”
Now he knelt and begged for her to inflict punishment upon him.
‘He means it.’
If I slapped his cheek, he would accept it without complaint. If I spat on him, he would endure it silently.
Even if I wielded a whip against that flawless back, he seemed as though he wouldn’t cry out or resist.
‘Well, that might feel somewhat satisfying too.’
It was gratifying yet absurd.
I had achieved my goal, so naturally I felt joy, but that was all there was to it.
I had no interest in Kalen’s repentance. If this were the Kanna from not long ago, such words would have merely annoyed me. They would have irritated me.
‘Punish you?’
No.
I whispered silently within my heart.
‘If I punish you, you’ll have the opportunity to atone for your sins.’
Memories from the past. I had lived without them, but I hadn’t truly forgotten.
‘I tried to kill myself back then, Kalen.’
At fourteen, exhausted by my family’s torment and coldness, I resolved to die. I made poison with my own hands and placed it in my mouth.
Death seemed sweeter than living.
‘Though I failed to die.’
How could I have forgiven Kalen after all that?
Yet I had no desire to be consumed by hatred and burn my heart away.
I wouldn’t grant Kalen forgiveness or punishment—not even a shred of resentment. Wasting time growing angry at the thought of him felt beneath me.
So Kalen was simply nothing to me. Nothing at all.
Now, well, he’d been promoted to the status of a chess piece, but once his usefulness was exhausted, I would discard him without hesitation.
But now was the time to smile.
This wretch wasn’t a person to me—he was a tool to be utilized. A tool to be discarded without mercy once spent. Though if I needed him again, I could always recycle him.
“Kalen.”
At my call, Kalen obediently lifted his head. That desperate gleam in his eyes—I wanted to display his handsome face before the entire world.
How amusing it would be if everyone could witness Kalen Adis in such a pleading state.
“Remember when I told you not to call me sister?”
“…Yes.”
“You may call me sister.”
“What?”
“I said you may call me sister.”
Kalen stared at me in silence, his lips trembling faintly.
‘What is this—is he actually moved?’
How pathetic. Yet I delivered an even more pathetic line.
“I’ve been thinking a lot lately.”
I recited my prepared words while wearing a sorrowful expression.
How I’d nearly been killed by Prince Casil.
How my thoughts had changed as I danced with death.
And naturally, I spoke of the importance of family and all that blah, blah, blah.
“When Prince Casil was about to shoot an arrow at me.”
I deliberately paused, arranging my face into an embarrassed expression.
“I thought of you.”
Kalen seemed at a loss for words, his face almost dreamlike.
“I remembered what you once told me… that you were all I had, that I should rely on you. Those words came back to me.”
Not a single bit of it was true—not even the smallest fragment. I hadn’t thought of Kalen once until I decided to peddle nostalgia.
“You were right. You’re all I have, Kalen.”
Ugh, this line was difficult to deliver. My tongue felt like it was rotting. The crisis had arrived, but I focused on the next line.
‘Tear juice, tear juice! Even one drop will do—please, come out!’
Finally, a single tear squeezed out with great effort. I tilted my head at just the right angle so Kalen could see it clearly, then let out a sob.
“Sob. It was truly terrifying.”
“Sister…”
Kalen’s voice trembled.
Glancing down, I could see his hands shaking now, down to his fingertips. He was completely immersed in this scene.
“Sob, sob.”
I covered my face with both hands.
My shoulders trembled with such delicate fragility.
She looked like a delicate blossom trembling in the wind. Without thinking, Kalen reached toward Kanna’s quivering shoulders, but withdrew his hand before it could touch her.
He clenched his fists tightly. Self-loathing tore through him once more, shredding his composure.
‘Poor sister.’
How pitiful. How heartbreaking.
“Kalen, you were right.”
Kanna grasped his hand, her voice trembling with tears.
“You’re all I have, Kalen. You’re the only one who thinks of me. Isn’t that true?”
Kalen stared at her hand holding his, then covered the back of her hand with his other palm.
“Yes.”
For some reason, the weight of that gesture made Kanna flinch. She instinctively tried to pull away.
“You are right, sister.”
Kalen pressed down gently on the back of her hand, as if refusing to let her go now that she was finally within his grasp.
“I am here for you.”
Kalen looked up at her, his eyes burning with a fervor that bordered on obsession.
“So rest assured now.”
So use me. That was how it sounded to Kanna’s ears.
It was a beautifully spoken line.

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