SPMB - Chapter 96

SPMB - Chapter 96

My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone

"Saintess!"

"Saintess, please save my child!"

"My husband is possessed by the devil again! Please save me!"

Those of reason fell earnestly in front of Rachel. It was like a fanatic.

"Today my younger brother was possessed by the devil!"

"Saintess, please find the Black Apostle! Please find the apostle who is using the devil and punish him!"

Rachel gazed pitifully at the clamoring villagers.

"The day of purification is coming soon. At that time, we will find the black apostle who is manipulating the devil, so don't worry." 

Kanna, who was watching the situation, was very embarrassed.

A Saintess? A lord's daughter is called a Saintess?

'Besides, what is Purification Day?'

After sending the crowd away, Rachel calmly explained.

"Once a year, we search for and purify those suspected of being Black Apostles."

For some reason, these words felt very ominous.

"How do you purify?"

"They hang them upside down on a tree and burn them at the stake."

The ominous premonition came true. Kanna's stomach started to ache. 

Rachel's seemingly good-natured impression begins to show cracks.

"Is it Miss Rachel's job to find people suspected of being the Black Apostle?"

"Yes. I am faithfully carrying out my God-given duty."

The only woman on this island who has never suffered from mania. She is also the lord's daughter.

That alone was enough to make her a Saintess on this closed island.

"How do we identify the Black Apostle?"

"After I look at everyone who has suffered from mania, I find the one with the strongest demon energy."

"Can you feel the magic?"

"Yes. There is someone who gives off the most ominous aura. He is the Black Apostle, infecting others with madness."

"I see."

Kanna tried hard to refrain from being sarcastic. That was something that even the descendants of the Holy Knights, the Addis and Valentino families, could not do. 

Moreover, it is an ability that even the priests of the Great Temple do not have.

"So, that means more than one villager was burned at the stake every year."

"Before I'm a villager, I'm a Black Apostle."

"Why does the same thing happen every year?"

For the first time, Rachel couldn't answer.

"..."

"Have you ever thought that you were having a very evil dream?"

"Yes?"

"Maybe it's all Miss Rachel's delusion. Or maybe it's an illusion."

At that moment, Rachel's expression fell. Her eyes trembled slightly. At that time...

"Because evil continues to multiply!"

Jerome, who had been following behind all along, retorted loudly. Kanna shot back.

"You purified the demon by killing the Black Apostle, but I am asking why the same thing repeats itself every year."

"So please stop insulting her! Lady Rachel has never made a wrong choice."

He blushed and defended Rachel as if he had been insulted.

"After the purification ritual, the number of possessed people decreases and no longer appears! Until next year, this time!" 

"Is it so?"

"Yes. That is proof that we have found and purified the right Black Apostle!"

If the person presumed to be the Black Apostle is burned at the stake, the madness will gradually subside and peace will return to the village.

At least until the rainy season comes next year. As Kanna listened, something seemed very unclear.

"There's something."

Kanna can't seem to remember something very important. 

'This is not madness or anything like that. There's something.'

It felt like puzzles were scattered all over her head. But Kanna couldn't think of anything in the end. That night, Kanna groaned even before she fell asleep.

"There's something. I think I'll remember something.'

When the sun rises, she will have to take a closer look at the villagers again. Clearly, those who suffer from mania have something in common. 

'Okay, so let's sleep first."

It was a really tiring day.

***

"Sister!"

"Hu hu hu"

"Sister, wake up."

"Noisy......."

Kanna frowned and snuggled into the blanket. She wants to sleep just a little bit longer.

Kanna was so tired that it felt like her whole body was tied in chains. Because it was a really tiring day...

"..."

Wait for a second.

Kanna slowly opened her eyes. What was that voice just now? 

"Sister!"

Kanna stood up straight away. There was a man standing very close to the bed.

Kanna looked up at the man blankly.

"What is that stupid expression?" 

Black eyes. Black hair. And sharp eye corners, slightly nervous eyebrows, a refreshingly straight nose bridge, and the fresh look of someone who has just turned 20. 

Kanna's trembling gaze scanned the man's face.

She couldn't believe it.

"No way..." 

Kanna's lips trembled. Her breath hitched and her breathing became shaky.

“Seon-hong?”

It was Seon-hong.

The man in front of her was Lee Seon-hong, a young man whom she had called her younger brother and cherished all her life!

"Hey, Lee Seon-hong!"

Kanna quickly got up from her seat. When she reaches out to hold Seon-hong's hand.

One step, Seon-hong takes a step back.

"Sister, don't do that, just follow me quickly. Everyone is waiting outside."

"Uh, huh?" 

"Hurry!"

Seon-hong turns his back and runs out. Kanna looked at his back blankly and then hesitantly followed him out.

'What? What is it?'

She didn't have the presence of mind to throw a shawl over her shoulders or the time to wear slippers.

Why? Why is Seonhong here?

For a moment, a sense of reality struck me.

'Has Seon-hong also fallen into this world?'

It was quite possible.

Didn't Joo-hwa also suddenly possess her own body one day? Maybe Seon-hong also experienced a strange phenomenon and fell into this world!

When Kanna thought about that, her whole body trembled. Her hair turned white as she felt fear for the first time in her life. 

"Lee Seon-hong! Don't you come here right now!"

"Sister, quickly follow me!" 

"Wait, come with me. This place..."

This place, this world, is dangerous! At that time, someone grabbed her arm and stopped her.

"I was rude. I'm sorry, Duchess." 

It was Sir Claude, he asked with a smile.

"Where are you going? It's raining a lot outside right now."

"Let go of this!"

"But Duchess."

Kanna shouted nervously as she looked at the spot where Seon-hong had disappeared. 

"It's an order!"

Claude was a knight who followed orders like a well-trained dog. The strength holding my arm disappears. Kanna hurriedly ran after Seon-hong. But it was no easy task for her to follow an athlete who had been training since childhood.

Kanna ran after him like crazy. Her anxiety seemed to make her head spin.

'Seon-hong can't do that. Not Seon-hong.'

He must not come to this world. Joo-hwa is enough. Kanna is enough.

She can't let Seon-hong or even her little brother live in this dangerous world! 

"Lee Seon-hong, wait!"

Before she knew it, Kanna was running through the pouring rain. But she didn't even know she was getting wet.

“Seon-hong”

Where is it, where on earth...

"Meow!"

Ah!

Kanna's ears perked up.

The cry rang clearly even in the pouring rain that seemed to shatter her eardrums.

There is no way she doesn't know this crying sound. This crying.

"Again, again?"

"Meow!"

"Too again!"

Her cat!

Kanna ran like crazy in the direction of the sound. Yes, this is another cry. It's her cat.

The cat who always fell asleep in her arms. Her warm and soft cat. 

"Sister, it's here!"

"Meow!"

At that time, Seon-hong beckoned from behind a tree trunk in the distance. Next to him, a cat with cheese-colored fur was staring at Kanna, soaking wet.

"Quickly! Come quickly before it's too late, sister!"

"Meow!" 

Seon-hong and Totto met eyes.

"Wait..."

Suddenly, Kanna burst out crying

"Wait."

Tears streamed down, mixing with the pouring rain.

"Wait, please."

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