My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 80

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Chapter 80
“Miss Isabel Adis and the Duchess of Valentino were having a conversation. They were alone together on the Bridge.”
Kaleina Merci, who had always been at odds with Isabel, seized this opportunity without hesitation.
“The Pond Bridge isn’t narrow enough for someone to lose their footing and fall. Something seems odd about this.”
Though there were no railings, the bridge was remarkably wide—so wide that one would need to be deliberately pushed to fall. Yet Kanna had fallen.
Why?
“Ah, I hear you had quite a heated argument with Miss Isabel Adis. The commotion carried all the way here. What was it about again? I could have sworn I heard the word ‘illegitimate.'”
You’re doing splendidly, Miss Merci. Kanna silently cheered for Kaleina.
‘I’d heard she and Isabel didn’t get along, yet here she is, helping me.’
Kalen’s face drained of all color. He fixed Isabel with a withering glare.
“No, that’s not—!”
Isabel shook her head frantically and thrust out her forearm.
“I didn’t push her. It was actually Sister Kanna who pushed me. Look at this! Sister Kanna pushed me, and that’s why I—”
“Leave this place at once, Isabel Adis.”
Kalen issued the command, his voice trembling with barely suppressed fury.
“We’ll discuss this at home. Go. Now.”
Isabel’s lips trembled in shock. She had never seen Kalen like this before. His eyes held the gaze of one regarding an enemy!
She wanted to cry, her heart breaking with sorrow, but instinct warned her. She could not afford to cross him now.
As Isabel departed with a sniffle, Kalen turned his attention back to Kanna.
“Sister.”
Her face was deathly pale, drenched and unconscious. The sight reminded him of a scene from weeks ago—her standing in the rain.
A sharp pain pierced his chest.
‘How many times must I witness this?’
Months ago, Kanna had returned home bleeding profusely from her shoulder, only to collapse immediately.
That had been the beginning.
She had been brutally assaulted by Josephine Elester in the Greenhouse, nearly hunted like prey by Prince Casil, left to shiver and nearly perish in the rain after being ignored by him—and now this.
Now she had been tormented by Isabel and cast into the Pond.
‘Poor sister.’
Kanna was like an abandoned fawn—forsaken by its mother, shedding thick tears of sorrow, surrounded by malicious beasts that circled endlessly, always striking without mercy.
‘No. Sister has me now.’
She has only me. So never again will anyone dare mistreat Kanna. I will protect her.
Kalen made this vow. He stared at the Unknown Man who had pulled Kanna from the Pond.
“Thank you for saving my sister.”
He extended both arms, as if to receive her.
“I will repay you properly later. Now, please hand my sister over to me.”
The Unknown Man holding Kanna laughed.
“Repay me, you say?”
His voice was light as a gentle breeze. Yet it struck Kanna’s mind like a typhoon.
‘Why… why are you…?’
In that instant, the embrace of the man holding her became terribly uncomfortable.
Could it really be that person?!
“I have no need for anyone’s gratitude when it comes to saving my wife.”
Silvien Valentino spoke with a smile. To some, it might have seemed like a natural statement, but to Kalen, it sounded like blatant mockery. His eyes froze over with cold.
“Please return my sister to me.”
“Return her?”
Silvien Valentino tilted his head as if puzzled.
“That’s quite a strange thing to say, Lord Kalen Adis. It sounds as though I’ve stolen something that belongs to you.”
“My role as her escort for this gathering has ended. Therefore, it is only right that I take responsibility for her.”
“Nothing takes precedence over a spouse’s responsibility. I shall graciously accept your concern.”
What is this madman saying?!
‘Just hand me over to Kalen!’
I wanted to scream it aloud. I disliked them both, but being held by Kalen was infinitely preferable to being cradled in Silvien’s arms!
‘What on earth is he thinking?’
Had he taken pleasure in infuriating Kalen?
“Besides, what could Lord Kalen possibly do for her at this moment?”
“What do you mean by that?”
“What my wife needs most right now is to change her clothes and wash herself. At best, you could only entrust such matters to the maids.”
Silvien Valentino laughed with a distinctly suggestive undertone.
“But I can do it with my own hands.”
This… madman….
My face burned with indignation. I couldn’t fathom why he was doing this, but one thing was abundantly clear.
‘This man has lost his mind.’
Otherwise, he would never address me as his “wife” in front of everyone gathered here.
“I shall retire to my private chamber to care for my wife. Tell the Physician to come there.”
Silvien Valentino walked away unhurriedly, still cradling me in his arms. Immediately, whispers rippled through the crowd.
Indeed, the couple’s marital harmony had improved, the Duchess of Valentino was finally receiving affection—such were the murmurs.
Kalen stood motionless amid those whispers.
A sharp pain made him glance down unconsciously, and he saw his fist clenched tightly.
He had gripped it so hard that his nails had dug into his palm.
Kalen stared down at his bleeding hand with an expressionless face.
“…”
He felt terrible.
Utterly filthy.
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“Fortunately, there is nothing seriously amiss. It appears you lost consciousness momentarily from the impact of the fall, so there is no need for great concern.”
The Physician finished his examination and left the room.
‘Now you’re leaving too, aren’t you?’
I waited with anxious anticipation. For Silvien Valentino to leave. To disappear.
But then—scrape, scrape—I heard the sound of him dragging a chair to sit beside the bed.
‘Don’t sit. Don’t sit!’
Kanna Adis startled awake, her eyes fluttering open just a crack. As Silvien Valentino crossed his long legs, the fabric of his trousers rode up to reveal the defined contours of his ankle.
‘Everything’s done, so why doesn’t he just leave? Why is he settling in like that?’
Unlike the boast I’d made to Kalen, Silvien Valentino hadn’t actually dried me himself.
I’d never truly expected him to.
I’d merely suspected he’d developed some peculiar hobby of tormenting Kalen.
‘A sadist? Is that what he is?’
How could I possibly fathom the depths of Silvien Valentino’s mind?
He’d simply summoned a Maid to dry my body and dress me in fresh clothes, and in the process, he too had changed into new attire.
‘So now he should either summon Kalen or leave entirely, shouldn’t he?’
I had no desire to converse with Silvien Valentino. So I persisted in feigning unconsciousness with stubborn resolve.
‘This conversation would be too awkward.’
The last time I’d seen him was in the Courtroom.
I’d schemed behind his back and struck him a resounding blow to the head, so facing him now was bound to be uncomfortable. That’s why I’d intended to remain unconscious until he departed, but—
“How much longer must I wait before you open your eyes?”
My heart skipped a beat.
Surely he didn’t know I was feigning unconsciousness. No, that couldn’t be… could it?
“I suppose there’s no help for it. The Physician assured me you were fine, but I find myself rather concerned. I’m even contemplating whether artificial respiration might be necessary.”
“….”
The bastard.
He knew I was faking. That wasn’t suspicion—it was absolute certainty in his tone. But refusing to concede defeat, I thrashed about and continued my performance.
“Mmm.”
“….”
“Mm, ah?”
“….”
“W-where am I? Ah, Duke Adis, why are you here?”
“….”
Silvien Valentino’s lips curved into an amused smile, as if he found the situation utterly absurd. Yet I tilted my head with shameless audacity.
“I remember falling into the Pond. Did you rescue me, Your Grace?”
“Yes, I did.”
It seemed Silvien Valentino had decided to play along with my charade after all.
“Why?”
Since this question had been nagging at me all along, I asked it with genuine candor.
“Why did you save me this time?”
There was no reason for him to intervene.
Besides, hadn’t he recently suffered a vicious blow to the back of his head from me? His feelings must be wounded, so there’s no way he’d help without reason.
“Does one require a reason to rescue someone from drowning?”
Well, that’s because you and I are connected.
When I couldn’t shake my suspicion, Silvien Valentino smiled gently.
“Though I do have something I wish to discuss.”
“….”
Yes, I knew it would be so. He is not a man who would save someone without reason.
“However, given the circumstances, I shall explain later.”
“No, please tell me now. It would put my mind at ease.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes.”
“Very well. There is someone I would like Miss Kanna Adis to examine.”

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