SPMB - Chapter 84

SPMB - Chapter 84

My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone

Isabelle, who was conflicted for a moment, kicked off the blanket and stood up.

"How can you barge into a sleeping Lady's room? That's rude, Brother Kallen."

"You must be the one who is rude." 

Kallen said quietly.

"Why on earth did you do something like that? What happened?"

"Are you asking because you don't know? 

"I'm talking about what happened when you pushed sister Kanna and made her fall into the pond." 

"I've never done that. I just hit her shoulder in an accident. "At that time, I fell backward, and my sister unfortunately fell into the pond."

As Isabelle spoke, she felt sad.

Yes,  she fell too. She fell backward and rolled. Her elbow was cut and blood was flowing! He doesn't even care about that. Isabelle shouted, thrusting her bandaged elbow.

"Can't you see this in your eyes? Do you only care about Kanna falling into the pond?"

"Are you comparing that to falling into a pond?"

"You would say that? I am a noble Lady! Is it because you don't know how big a deal it is to get hurt on the body of a woman who hasn't been married?"

Kallen held back a sigh. He just wanted to stop talking like this. How did Isabelle end up like this?

She is immature, careless, and selfish.

"I am your sister! Your twin sister!"

"..."

"But discriminating like this is too much!"

Isabelle shed tears and expressed the sorrow that had accumulated over the years.

"So does perfume! Why are you making it after Kanna's name?"

"Isabelle." 

"Then what becomes of me? I wonder what people will think of me!"

Kallen's eyes gradually sank. When he made perfume in his sister's name, Kanna was against it.

"It's burdensome. I hope not."

But Isabelle cries and whines, asking why he didn't make perfume in my name. It felt like a seven-year-old child was having a tantrum.

The perfume was named Kanna at Kalen's insistence.

A beautiful scent that has never existed before in the world. Kanna even discovered a material that suppresses the volatilization of scent. This was her revolutionary discover 

However, in order to deceive the Empress, it was necessary to hide that it was Kanna who created the perfume.

Kallen felt sorry for that.

It's a wonderful perfume that deserves everyone's praise, but he can't reveal the perfumer.

So he named it Kanna as a small sign of respect.

"Kaleina Mercy, do you know what that girl said to me?"

"..."

"Do you know that she incited the other ladies to laugh at me?"

Isabelle screamed and trembled.

"You can't do that if brother is my real brother. You can't make me miserable like this!"

"Stop."

"..."

"What are you talking about? Kanna? 

"She's an illegitimate child who doesn't even know if she's blood mixed with us or not!"

Kallen's eyes finally sharpened at the absurd slur. Was Isabelle this bad? 

"That's right. Look at Kanna. She doesn't look like us at all! From head to toe, there is nothing similar!"

"Do not insult the Addis family anymore, Isabelle Addis."

Tiredness comes over him. Kalen's head hurts a lot. He couldn't tell if it was because of the nonsense Isabelle had spouted, or whether he was disappointed.

"From now on, you will be under probation. Don't even think about going outside the mansion, let alone the social world."

"What?"

Isabelle's eyes wavered. 

"How long?"

"Until I give permission again."

"So when are you going to allow it?"

"Until you become obedient to Sister Kanna.”

Kallen said emphatically.

"If you don't bend forever, you'll never be able to leave the house again."

Isabelle exploded at those words.

"Kalen Addis, what right do you have! Are you the father?"

"Do you really think father and brother Orsini will be against my decision?" 

Unfortunately, he was right. Kalen had the power to act as head of the family during his father's absence.

"I have the authority to discipline my younger sister who runs wild like a colt. Therefore..."

Kallen warned his twin sister.

"Behave with respect to Kanna."

Finally, a teardrop fell down Isabelle's cheek.

"You bastard!"

Kallen left the room, leaving her behind.

"You bad son of a bitch! You were born just a few minutes before me! Argh!"

As he closed the door, he heard Isabelle throwing a vase and struggling.

***

Kallen lay down in bed to fall asleep. But he couldn't sleep. He told his sister to report when she came back, but no one came. What time is it and why she haven't come back yet?

Kallen opened his eyes and checked the pocket watch he had placed next to his pillow.

The dawn is already getting so deep. 

'Couldn't something dangerous have happened?'

If she meets a bully or a robber...But considering her companion, that possibility was zero.

Besides, aren't the two of them a couple anyway? It's not strange for them to spend late nights together.

'But she said she would come back home." 

It was a very similar situation to before. She grabs hold of him, shakes him off, and chases after Sylvien.

At that time, he felt like such an idiot that he could still vividly remember the terrible misery. But now it is different. Kanna smiled softly and said she would be back soon. She was different than before. So now he can sleep in peace.

But Kalen can't sleep.

"She's an illegitimate child who doesn't even know if his blood is mixed with us or not! We don't look alike at all! From head to toe, there is nothing similar!"

The words Isabelle said earlier resonated in his head. How badly would she have wanted to disparage her sister? Kallen couldn't believe that Isabelle was his twin.

Did father look so gentle in Isabelle's eyes? If there was any doubt, a paternity test would have been done right away.

Among alchemists who use magic stones, there are those who have the skill to distinguish blood relatives. Didn't Lucy also accept that she was father's biological daughter after completing the paternity test? So, if there had been any doubt about Kanna, a paternity test would have been conducted a long time ago.

But Alessandro did not do that.

In other words, there is certainty that she is Alwasand's biological daughter. 

'And yet you say something like that.'

"I don't know if we have the same blood or not!"

Kalen's heart is pounding. His heart beat strangely as if he heard the devil's whispers. Is Kanna his sister?

It's bullshit. Is it possible that Kanna is not his sister? Kallen narrowed his brows in deep discomfort.

Isabelle's words stung like thorns. For a very long time.

***

The next day, Kanna woke up early in the morning.

"Are you awake?"

"Uh, okay."

"Shall we prepare some washing water?" 

The maid, who must have been waiting the whole time, came up to her and asked what she wanted. It was a natural courtesy, but it was a courtesy that had never been received in this house.

Kanna looked at the maid with curious eyes. There's no way the maids would do that voluntarily.

'Sylvienne appointed a proper maid. He tended to treat me thoroughly, at least during the 'deal'.

'The way he treats his business partners is much more respectful than his wife.'

But when Kanna thinks about it, she thinks his first attitude towards Joo-hwa wasn't that bad.

At some point, it started to become more and more 'I don't care if you die!' 

Has it become so cold-hearted? 

Kanna looked through Joo-hwa's memories intently and shook her head.

She couldn't remember at what point the change occurred. It wasn't an important issue to her anyway.

"And here are some new clothes for you."

"Okay."

"How would you like to eat?" 

"I do not need. Is Your Excellency awake?"

"Yes." 

Kanna was curious about Sylvien's condition. If her own prediction is correct, after taking the medication, even his faint fever will have disappeared now.

'If everything is healed...'

Her heart is pounding. Her heart pounded with anticipation.

'Finally, divorce.'

"Tell him I'll come see him right away."

"Yes."

The maid bowed politely and left. Kanna stared at the figure and burst into laughter.

Only then did she remember who that maid was.

"Miss, your clothes are dirty. What are you telling me to do with things? Of course, you should have done the laundry."

But the maid snorted and replied.

"You can either do it yourself or throw it away." 

In the end, Joo-hwa sat down in the bathtub alone and washed her clothes.

'Poor Joo-hwa.'

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