My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 93

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Chapter 93
I had wanted to scream at him long ago, but I held back because of Claude Azel. I let my fury explode.
“I didn’t come here to see you, so don’t get the wrong idea! You insufferable bastard!”
I expected him to argue back. Yet something unexpected happened.
“….”
Orsini simply collapsed into his seat with a deflated expression!
‘What? Why did he stop here, so unlike him?’
I thought he would hurl more insults at me, but Orsini appeared utterly powerless, as if drained of all fighting spirit.
“Hey, Orsini.”
“….”
“Do you know you’ve been reported as missing?”
“….”
“I can’t believe you actually hit the High Priest and got thrown in prison.”
When the Lord of Paelon told me that, it felt so satisfying. Yet separately, Orsini’s actions were absolute madness.
“You’ve truly lost your mind.”
The High Priest’s authority commands an entire nation.
Even the Emperor himself does not dare treat him casually.
Yet Orsini supposedly struck that High Priest across the face.
With those massive palms of his, alternating left and right across the High Priest’s plump cheeks.
“Stop bothering me and just leave.”
Thud. Orsini leaned his shoulder against the bars and muttered.
“I’m not missing—I’m just taking a break. Tell them that, and now shut up and get out.”
“Taking a break?”
A sneer played at the corners of my lips.
“Look at you. You’re sleeping on straw like a beggar—can you even rest properly?”
“….”
Orsini tilted his head and glared at me. In the darkness of the prison, his emerald eyes gleamed with a bestial menace.
I smiled enchantingly and whispered.
“Should I get you out?”
In that moment, a memory flashed through my mind.
When I was imprisoned on suspicion of poisoning Amelia, Orsini had made me a humiliating proposition.
“Lick it.”
I pushed my foot through the bars. My crimson shoe gleamed like the mocking tongue of a serpent.
“Then I’ll get you out.”
“….”
“What do you think? Quite an enticing offer, isn’t it?”
Orsini slowly lowered his head and stared at the tip of my shoe.
I wanted to burst into delighted laughter.
How exhilarating! To inflict such humiliation upon Orsini….
“…!”
In the next instant, Orsini seized Kanna by the ankle.
“Yes, now that’s appetizing.”
From the point where his body heat made contact, goosebumps rose in waves up to my neck. Without thinking, I twisted my ankle reflexively, but he didn’t budge an inch.
Orsini twisted his lips into a smile—a savage, predatory one.
“I might not just lick it. I could bite it clean off.”
This insane bastard. I glared at him with disgust and spoke coldly.
“Let go.”
“Why? I was planning to bite your ankle too.”
He was taunting me.
“Are you frightened now?”
“Frightened? More like disgusted.”
“What?”
“I never knew your touch could be this repulsive.”
I spoke each word distinctly, then twisted my ankle once more.
This time, Orsini didn’t force me to stay. I slipped from his grip and stepped back.
“I don’t care whether you rot there for the rest of your life. Though I must admit, watching you decay would be rather entertaining.”
“….”
“I don’t know why you’re languishing in this prison, but as I said, with communications cut off, you’re currently listed as missing.”
I clicked my tongue in contempt.
“What did you want me to tell them? Sorry, but I won’t. Do I have some obligation to clean up your mess?”
I tapped the bars with barely restrained desire to kick his legs.
“If you have something to say, tell them yourself.”
Orsini glared at me savagely, his eyes gleaming with murderous intent, but I scoffed.
What could he do, locked away in this prison? He couldn’t grab me by the collar or strike me down.
“….”
But in the next moment, the tension drained from Orsini’s eyes. He simply collapsed back onto the straw mat.
‘What?’
It was utterly unlike him.
“What’s wrong with you? Aren’t you listening?”
“Shut up and get out. I have no intention of leaving this place for a while.”
I narrowed my eyes and stared at him.
“Did all the Knight Guards you brought perish?”
“….”
No answer came. It was a direct hit.
“So that’s why you’re sulking? They all died and you’re the only one left? Are you afraid? Or is it guilt?”
Suddenly, Orsini rose slowly. He grasped the bars before him and yanked them sideways with all his strength.
With a sickening crunch, the bars bent like taffy.
‘A m-monster….’
Orsini slipped through the gaping bars and escaped.
A monster? How could he bend them so effortlessly….
While Kanna Adis was reeling from the shock, Orsini closed the distance in an instant and seized her by the collar.
“Get out.”
His eyes blazed with murderous intent as they bore into her.
“I warned you. Leave this island immediately——”
In the next moment, Kanna Adis’s hand shot out and grabbed Orsini by the collar. She yanked him forward with all her strength. Caught off guard by the unexpected move, his body was pulled toward her.
“Don’t you understand what I’m saying?”
I’m not the only one who can grab a collar.
Kanna Adis stared into Orsini’s wide eyes and whispered low.
“You’re officially missing. If you want to handle this yourself, then go tell them yourself. Don’t make me do it.”
“…!”
“Stop bothering people and handle your own damn problems, you bastard.”
Sparks of hatred flew between their locked gazes.
Orsini’s presence was truly terrifying, but Kanna Adis refused to yield.
That was when it happened.
“Forgive the interruption, Duchess.”
Claude’s voice came from outside the door.
“The Lord of Paeylon’s daughter has come to see you.”
“….”
At his words, Kanna Adis’s mind went cold.
“Damn it.”
Orsini cursed and released his grip on Kanna Adis’s collar.
Then a voice came again. This time, it was a woman’s.
“May I come in?”
“Yes, of course.”
Kanna Adis answered.
The prison door swung open and a woman entered. She smiled kindly and spoke.
“Orsini, shall we go to the Dining Hall? I’ve prepared a meal for you.”
“….”
“Please come up and eat. As you surely know, the trout from Paeylon Island is exquisite.”
“I don’t need it.”
Yet the woman’s expression remained unchanged as she spoke gently.
“For the sake of my sincerity, please come out of the prison. Father is in quite a predicament with you staying here so long.”
“Predicament? It seems you’ve forgotten who put me in this place.”
“You know it couldn’t be helped, Orsini. You assaulted the High Priest in front of so many people.”
“And I said I’d behave, so why all the chatter?”
It appeared the Lord of Paeylon was trying to get Orsini out of the prison.
‘This is ridiculous. He wasn’t even confined.’
He was throwing himself in here and rolling around of his own accord.
Perhaps sensing that persuasion wouldn’t work, the woman fell silent for a moment before speaking calmly.
“This morning, we found Sir Hamilton’s body.”
In that instant, Orsini’s gaze hardened like steel. Claude Azel’s expression mirrored his own.
The woman continued speaking in a soothing tone.
“I understand he was your loyal subordinate. Please, I ask that you bear witness to his final journey.”
“….”
Orsini stared at her with a terrifying intensity, then swept past her without another word and strode out of the Prison.
“So you’ve finally left the Prison.”
The woman smiled brightly and only then turned her attention toward me.
“I apologize for introducing myself so late. My name is Rachel Dale, and the Lord of Paeylon is my father.”
“It’s a pleasure to meet you. I am….”
“You must be the Physician sent by His Imperial Majesty, correct?”
Rachel approached with a warm smile. It was a smile that appeared genuinely kind.
“Thank you so much for the trouble of coming all this way. Though I’m afraid your efforts may have been in vain, and that weighs heavily on my heart.”
“In vain?”
“The afflictions plaguing the people of Paeylon Island are not a disease. They are possessed by malevolent spirits.”
Rachel spoke with genuine sorrow, her voice tinged with melancholy.
“But since you’ve come this far, it would be best if you saw for yourself. I shall accompany you and show you around the island.”

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