My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 90

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Chapter 90
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“Ahahaha!”
The Empress laughed heartily.
“She is truly my daughter. Wouldn’t you agree, Marquis Mercy?”
“Indeed, Your Majesty.”
“Of course. My daughter could never be outshone by the bastard child of some common dancer.”
Amelia’s debut into High Society had been remarkably successful. The Empress smiled with satisfaction.
“Please do look after the Princess, Marquis. This is her first venture into society, so she may still be rather clumsy.”
While laughter bloomed in the Empress Palace, the Concubine Palace was consumed by despair.
“Teresa, please don’t lie there. At least drink some water.”
“Your Majesty….”
Ever since Crown Prince Kasil’s long banishment, Teresa had been languishing in illness. When she learned of the humiliation Princess Lilienne had suffered, she fainted once more.
“It is my fault for being inadequate.”
Tears streamed down Teresa’s cheeks.
“Had I been a woman worthy of Your Majesty, neither Kasil nor Lilienne would have been so disgraced.”
The Emperor’s expression darkened. Yet he could not offer comfort.
Because she spoke the truth.
“Even Argon abandoned his claim to the throne for this reason. He knew it was hopeless. With a lowborn mother, the throne could never be his—that is why he ventures beyond the palace walls.”
“Do not speak such words.”
“Sob, my poor children.”
After weeping for some time, Teresa lost consciousness once again. The Emperor spent the night tending to her, returning to his Study only as dawn broke.
How had things come to this? Not long ago, the situation had not been so dire.
Princess Lilienne had reigned as the flower of High Society. Crown Prince Kasil was meant to return once his exile ended.
‘Kanna Valentino.’
Unbelievable as it was, she stood at the center of it all. That woman had cured Amelia’s skin affliction, shifting the balance of High Society, and had driven Kasil to ruin, costing him his hand.
The Emperor fell into deep contemplation. Then, suddenly, he noticed a letter that had arrived on his desk.
It was from Orsini Adis.
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On a day when peaceful times seemed to stretch endlessly ahead, shocking news struck the estate like a bolt from the blue.
“What?”
I nearly dropped the mana core I had been condensing in the Underground Laboratory while crafting medicine using mana stones.
“Lea, what did you just say?”
“Lord Orsini….”
Lea chose her words carefully, watching my expression.
“Lord Orsini has gone missing.”
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Orsini had been attending to matters related to the Black Mist as always.
Recently, he had traveled to Paeylon Island. When the Black Mist appeared there, he departed leading the Knight Order.
During that time, he had sent letters periodically to report on the situation.
The Knight Guards have been completely annihilated.
Something is deeply wrong with this place.
I will explain the details later. But do not send any more Knight Guards.
Under no circumstances should you send them.
After that final letter, written in obvious haste, all communication ceased abruptly.
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A shadow fell over the Adis Mansion.
“Oh no, my son… what shall I do? My poor, poor son.”
Chloe had taken to her bed in sorrow, and Isabel, confined to her quarters, wept every night without fail.
“Orsini must be dead! If I lose my brother too, what will become of me!”
Orsini Adis was, in every conceivable way, the opposite of Kalen—a reckless troublemaker.
‘Kalen is a model student. Diligent, meticulous, never cutting corners.’
Orsini, by contrast, possessed an obsessive nature that made him utterly indifferent to anything outside his interests.
From boyhood, he had routinely skipped etiquette lessons and treated everyone with equal disregard for courtesy.
Yet despite his countless transgressions, he had never fallen from Duke Adis’s favor. Even the Emperor himself spoke of him with high regard.
And why was that?
‘A monster among monsters,’ they called him.
His swordsmanship, his martial prowess—they were said to be a perfect echo of Alexandro Adis in his youth.
Some even whispered that one day, he might surpass Alexandro Adis himself.
And now that Orsini had vanished.
The Knight Guards of House of Adis who had departed with him were completely wiped out.
“It seems Lord Orsini is dead as well.”
“Hush! Keep your voice down. Someone might hear.”
“There’s no one around. What does it matter?”
“Still, be careful. If the Duchess hears…”
“She’s bedridden. How could she possibly hear?”
But I am listening.
‘They all keep saying the same thing.’
I closed the window. Eavesdropping on the servants’ gossip from outside was growing tedious.
‘Orsini is dead?’
That stubborn fool was actually dead.
My feelings were complicated.
To be more honest about it.
‘I think I might actually be pleased about this…’
I despised everyone in this household.
‘Well, except for Lucy.’
And the person I hated most was Orsini.
I disliked Kalen too, but my hatred for Orsini was incomparable.
‘Maybe it doesn’t feel real. That’s probably why I’m not as happy as I should be.’
Just then, Lucy came to find me.
“Sister Kanna.”
Lucy’s eyes were swollen and red—whether from tears or something else, I couldn’t tell.
“What’s wrong, Lucy?”
“Sister.”
“Is something the matter?”
Lucy burst into tears without a word.
“Lucy, what is it?”
I gently stroked her trembling back.
“Sister, the truth is….”
After crying for a long while, Lucy confessed through her sobs.
“I killed Orsini Adis.”
“….”
What on earth was she talking about? I stared at Lucy with a blank expression.
“B-because I was so afraid of Orsini Adis, I prayed to God that I would never have to see him again.”
“….”
“So it seems God granted my wish. W-what do I do now?”
Oh, how innocent.
I suppressed my laughter. It would be rude to laugh when she was crying so earnestly. I lifted Lucy up and placed her on my lap.
“It’s alright, Lucy.”
“B-but.”
“It’s not your fault.”
“But I prayed to God.”
“For Orsini to die?”
Lucy shook her head vigorously.
“No, that’s not it. I was scared, so I prayed that we wouldn’t meet….”
“Why? Did Orsini hurt you?”
That damned bastard—did he hit Lucy the way he did to me?
‘He’s not even a child anymore. And he still does such trash-like things?’
Orsini had tormented me when we were young. Viciously so.
If, by some miracle, some madman tried to defend Orsini’s actions, they would use his youth as an excuse.
That he was too young to understand back then. That he was ignorant because of his age.
‘Of course, that’s nonsense.’
But if he torments a young girl now that he’s an adult? Even the divine spirits of the Grand Temple couldn’t forgive that.
“No, it’s not like that.”
Fortunately, Lucy denied it.
“Orsini Adis never hurt me. He just… ignored me.”
But even that would have terrified Lucy.
Orsini was slightly larger than Kalen, who was already imposing in build, with an extraordinarily muscular frame, and above all, his gaze was fierce and piercing.
Merely meeting his eyes felt like being stabbed through with a blade.
For a young girl like Lucy, he was more than enough to be an object of terror.
“So I was afraid, and I prayed that we would never meet. I never thought God would actually answer that prayer.”
“That’s not what happened, Lucy.”
I reached out and gently stroked Lucy’s violet, tousled hair.
“God doesn’t answer human prayers.”
“…What?”
“Well, let me correct myself. He never answers them easily. So your prayer wasn’t answered either.”
Even as I spoke, I began to regret my words.
I had meant to comfort Lucy, but wasn’t this too harsh for a young girl to hear?
“In any case, even if Orsini Adis had died, it wouldn’t have been because of your wish.”
If wishes were answered so easily, Orsini Adis would have died a thousand times over by now.
During my childhood, one of my countless prayers had been exactly that—’I wish Orsini Adis would disappear.’
But Orsini Adis never disappeared.
‘Instead, I was the one who vanished from that place.’
Perhaps the wish was granted in a different way? I pushed aside my wandering thoughts and comforted Lucy.
“And Orsini Adis didn’t die. So you don’t need to blame yourself like this.”

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