My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 95

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Chapter 95
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I was dining with Duke Adis and the High Priest when it happened.
Bang! The door burst open without warning.
Everyone stopped eating and turned their heads.
“Orsini?”
A man drenched in rainwater strode in, leaving a trail of water droplets in his wake.
He hurled something he was holding onto the table with brutal force.
Crash! Food and dishes clattered to the floor. The grotesque object Orsini had thrown rolled across the table toward Rachel.
“Ahhhhh!”
Rachel screamed. It was a monster’s head!
“What in the world are you doing, Orsini?”
The High Priest, finally regaining his composure, cried out. Orsini laughed with utter irreverence and sneered.
“Can’t you see? It’s a monster’s head.”
“How dare you show such disrespect! I——”
“Something is different.”
Orsini cut off the High Priest’s words.
“I’ve severed thousands upon thousands of monster heads in my time, but I’ve never seen ones that look like this.”
“What do you mean——”
“The Black Mist is the same. It’s different from before. Far too unpredictable.”
Orsini swept back his rain-soaked hair.
“Until now, the Black Mist would appear in one region, occupy it for a set period, then vanish. But——”
His twisted emerald eyes gleamed with intensity.
“The Black Mist here strikes like lightning and disappears. Because it’s unpredictable, many knights have been infected.”
Orsini’s voice grew increasingly harsh as he spoke. His fury was directed at the High Priest.
“Yet here you sit leisurely eating fish. Is that right, High Priest?”
“Mind your tongue! As you say, I am the High Priest. I have no reason to listen to such frivolous words——”
Bang! Orsini slammed both palms against the table. He leaned toward the High Priest.
“You’re the one who should stop this foolishness.”
The High Priest flinched.
“The Black Mist has appeared, and a man with holy power—a High Priest no less—does nothing but sit comfortably and pick at trout flesh?”
The High Priest’s cheeks trembled beneath the oppressive weight of Orsini’s presence.
“Is no one outside? Remove Orsini at once!”
The door burst open and Knight Guards rushed in.
“Remove Orsini immediately——”
The High Priest’s command trailed off. The guards who entered were from the House of Adis.
“Ah, so you called the Lord’s knights?”
Orsini smirked.
“They won’t hear you no matter how much you call. I’ve blocked the entrance so they can’t get in, and given them a chance to rest instead.”
At his mocking words, the High Priest’s face drained of all color.
“You do seem to enjoy eating quite a great deal.”
Orsini regarded the towering stack of plates beside the High Priest with undisguised revulsion.
“I share the sentiment. Particularly with spirits—I’m absolutely mad for them. They say Paeylon Island’s rye whiskey is exquisite, yet regrettably, I haven’t had so much as a single drop to taste. And I have that damned Black Mist to thank for it.”
“You… ruffian…!”
In that instant, the sneer vanished from his lips.
“That’s right—even a ruffian like me knows what truly matters. But what about you?”
“….”
“Had you lifted that ponderous backside of yours, several of the many Knight Guards who fell today would have lived.”
“How dare you speak to me in such a manner!”
“And who exactly are you?”
Orsini straightened from his bow, looking down at the High Priest now cast beneath his shadow with a contemptuous smile.
“A spineless swine cowering behind the Lord of Paeylon, terrified of the Black Mist.”
“You!”
That was when it happened.
Shadows of Knight Guards stretched across the marble floor. Rachel watched as those shadows began to writhe.
“…!”
But in the next moment, she realized they were not shadows at all.
It was the Black Mist.
A dark, shimmering haze erupted with incomprehensible speed, engulfing the Knight Guards in a single, terrible instant!
“The Black Mist!”
“Flee!”
Yet those consumed first were already beyond response.
“Gah, gaaahhh!”
“Ahhhhh!”
Five. Five Knight Guards swallowed by the dark mist, their screams tearing through the air.
But they were death cries.
Within mere seconds, the screams ceased abruptly.
“….”
The Grand Hall fell silent in an instant.
The Knight Guards pressed themselves against the walls, swords raised. Though the screams had stopped, their eyes remained tense, as if the nightmare were only beginning.
The High Priest, trembling with terror, barely managed to force out his voice.
“What… what is this…?”
Then the Black Mist dispersed abruptly.
“….”
The Knight Guards who had been swallowed by the mist remained exactly where they stood.
They appeared completely unharmed.
It was scarcely believable that moments before they had been consumed by the Black Mist, that they had uttered such horrific screams—yet there they stood, utterly pristine…
“Hrrr… hrrrrr…”
But the sounds emanating from their lips were grotesque. Then, with agonizing slowness, they began to raise their heads with mechanical, creaking motions—like broken puppets.
“…!”
Rachel nearly cried out.
Black.
The Knight Guards’ eyes had turned completely black!
But that wasn’t all—their hair was slowly darkening from the roots, spreading downward. Their eyes were bloodshot crimson, and drool dripped from their gaping mouths like ravenous beasts.
“Grrr, grrrrr….”
Then Orsini approached them.
The infected Knight Guards immediately fixed their gaze upon him. They leaped forward like wild animals—a bound so extraordinary it seemed impossible for humans to achieve.
“Krrgh!”
Hidden beneath the table, Rachel couldn’t see exactly how Orsini wielded his blade. She only witnessed three Knight Guards’ bodies cleaved apart by a single, decisive stroke.
With a soft thud as the infected man’s head fell, silence descended once more upon the Grand Hall.
Orsini turned to the remaining Knight Guards and spoke.
“Collect the bodies. And….”
In that instant, Orsini’s eyes widened dramatically.
He shouted.
“Evade!”
The next moment.
Black Mist erupted from all directions.
Consuming every Knight Guard in the Grand Hall.
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“It happened in an instant.”
Rachel spoke quietly.
“There was no time to dodge or do anything. Orsini’s comparison was precise. The Black Mist spread like a lightning strike. It consumed all the Knight Guards.”
That day when the Knight Guards of House of Adis were infected by the Black Mist, and Orsini alone had to slaughter them all.
“Orsini performed a sacred act.”
Those who touch the Black Mist become infected. Their minds shatter, and they transform into monsters consumed by malice and murderous intent.
“They all found peace through Orsini’s hand.”
Only then did Kanna understand why Orsini had seemed so dispirited lately.
The Knight Guards of House of Adis were his comrades and subordinates—men he’d spent nearly his entire life alongside. Just like Claude Azel, who was listening to this story from behind.
“That incident deepened the rift with the High Priest. The High Priest did nothing even then… though he could have weakened the Black Mist’s power with holy magic.”
So that’s why he was slapped. For the first time, she felt sympathy for Orsini’s violence.
“The rain has stopped.”
The rain outside the window had gradually ceased.
“Shall we go out?”
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Not long after Kanna began walking through the Village, she witnessed a peculiar phenomenon.
“I’m flying, I’m flying! I’m finally flying through the sky!”
A middle-aged man ran through the streets, giggling madly.
“Ahahaha! This is thrilling, so thrilling!”
A woman danced in the Rye Field, clutching a scarecrow.
“I’m a fish! I’ll swim to the end of the sea!”
A small child was swimming in the Mud Field.
With each step forward, as I surveyed the village, I encountered residents exhibiting bizarre behavior at every turn.
This was the madness of Paeylon Island I had heard whispered about.
‘It’s true. They all seem to have gone mad together.’
Yet Rachel gazed upon all this chaos and smiled serenely.
“Are you surprised, Physician?”
Observing a girl who insisted she was a monkey and had climbed into a tree, Rachel spoke quietly.
“But it is no surprise to me. This phenomenon has occurred on the island for countless ages.”
….
“During this season, demonic activity becomes particularly intense.”
“You speak of the rainy season, then?”
“Yes. All the villagers have taken turns being possessed by demons at least once. All except me.”
Rachel carefully picked her way through the rain-soaked earth as she spoke.
“That is when I realized. I am something very special on this island.”
Everyone had been possessed by spirits at some point.
Even my father once suffered from this madness in his childhood, or so he told me.
But I am different.
Only I am.
Therefore, only I can save this island.
“The Saint!”
At that moment, the sane villagers rushed toward Rachel upon catching sight of her.

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