SPMB - Chapter 114

SPMB - Chapter 114

My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone

Kanna's heart was beating wildly. It was pulsating so fast that her chest was getting sore.

Cold sweat drips from her palms. Kanna's nervous mouth immediately became dry.

Alessandro looked down at her silently and looked like a huge mountain. It felt like he was going to crush her to death. The pressure strangled her neck and made it difficult for her to breathe.

'How can my father be here?'

He should be on Palen Island by now.

Only two days have passed since she arrived here. There's no way he came here just then...

Then, after a suffocating silence, he stretched out his hand. As her large hand approached, Kanna's shoulder trembled.

Was that ridiculous, she wondered quietly.

"You came in without fear and now you are here."

Then, he grabbed the lantern that Kanna was holding. He pulls and takes it away.

"It looks like you're going to drop it if you hold it."

Her hands are shaking like that. Alessandro omitted that statement.

Kanna feels like she's suffocating.

"What were you doing here, Kanna?"

Kanna.

Damn it. Also, the tone is kind. 

Goosebumps rose on her skin and the sticky heart.

"Answer me."

Kanna strengthened her stiff neck.

"Sorry."

"What?"

"I came here carelessly."

"You know me well."

Kanna lowered her face. Almost at the same time, he placed one of his fingers on her chin and lifted it.

"Don't bow your head in front of me."

It meant not to avoid eye contact. Kanna barely looked at him and apologized.

"Sorry. I couldn't overcome my curiosity and came in."

"I'm curious."

Alessandro took a step back and slowly bowed.

"What made you so curious that you came into this room?"

At that moment, Kanna realized. It's a trap.

She was caught in the trap he had prepared. It was Alessandro who lured Kanna here in the first place.

He spoke in Korean and deliberately made it look like he was leaving the house for a long time. So he made her come here, a place where she could find out his secrets!

But now it was a meaningless realization. Whether she knew it or not, she was already a trapped animal.

"... Father is right." 

She's already been caught in a trap, and she'll struggle until she dies. No matter what the outcome is, she will get everything she can.

"Father said, 'You're lying.' I came here because I was curious about how you knew that word. Isn't this what father wanted?"

"You know me well."

Alessandro did not deny it. He was a person who didn't need to do that.

"I figured if you understood that word, you would definitely come here."

Damn it. 

Kanna forced her curse words down her throat. She was caught properly, as expected. No, but even if she knew he was luring her...

'I would have come here.'

Because his secret is not something that can be ignored.

Kanna pointed to the portrait.

"Who is this person?"

Alessandro glances down. He answered half-heartedly. 

"Well."

"She looks exactly like me, no, almost like me. Just like a parent." 

"If that's you, then that's probably her."

It was positive. As expected, the black-haired woman in this portrait was her own mother!

Kanna's heart was pounding, her heart was pounding. Her excitement rises as she discovers a truth she never knew before. Her fears gradually give way and her curiosity surges fiercely.

"Where is she now?"

"Why are you asking?" 

Alessandro responded strangely sharply.

"Are you planning on coming and meeting her now?"

"That's up to me to decide."

"You won't be able to decide anything."

In the end, he said he would not say anything. Kanna chewed her lip and glared at him. It was a look that could only be described as a glare.

Really, it was just like before.

When she was a child and first asked her father about her mother.

"Never mention that woman again."

It was no different from when he warned her with his evil eyes.

"Please tell me one thing. This person, the person in this portrait... Is she alive? Has she passed away?"

"No."

Surprisingly, he was sarcastic. 

"Even if I kill her, she won't die."

But strangely enough, the voice contained was not directed at an ex-lover or mistress. On the contrary...

'Enemy.'

If she says she even felt hatred, is it because of her mood?

"This time it's my turn."

Alessandro stretched out the arm holding the lamp to the side. Then, as if a curtain of darkness had lifted, the wall was clearly revealed.

'Are there any more portraits?'

There was another portrait hanging on the wall that Kanna couldn't find.

"Do you know this woman?"

Kanna looked at the newly revealed portrait. A faint scarlet light flickered and illuminated the painting.

'An Asian woman..."

The woman was probably Korean. And she was young. Kanna thinks she was in his mid to late 20s?

And. And...

"..."

Kanna almost collapsed. Because it was a familiar face.

"It's a familiar face."

A strange joy was felt in Alessandro's voice as he saw Kanna's shaking eyes.

"Have you met this woman?"

"What does that mean?"

"I'm asking you if you met this woman while someone else was in your body."

Kanna stared at him blankly. Each of his words hit her head so harshly that it felt like his brain was broken. Kanna thought she might have heard wrong.

But she knew she hadn't heard wrong.

But father, how, on earth? 

No, is this possible? This conversation now? 

Is this a conversation her father and she can have? Is this reality?

At that moment, a greater fear than ever before rose up through her toes. Goosebumps rise like spiders. Kanna hesitated and took a step back. Her thighs hit the tabletop. Her back was blocked.

"Answer me."

"I am... What is father saying?...."

The next moment, he took just one step closer and narrowed the distance.

"Don't even think about denying that your body has been occupied by another woman."

How on earth did father do that?

For a moment, an afterimage passed by.

Joo-hwa's diary. A diary written in Korean. In this world, only the Joo-hwa and her can read it.

Kanna thought so.

But Alessandro could have seen it too.

"What about you, father?"

Kanna couldn't bear it without asking.

"Who did you learn Korean from? And what do these portraits have to do with the two women? And...."

"It's not me. Now it's your turn to answer."

Alessandro calmly pushed away her heated question. And once again he pointed to the portrait in the dark.

The faint moonlight shining through the window seeped into the face of Seon-hee, an Asian in the portrait.

"Do you know this woman?" 

"I don't know."

Kanna immediately denied it. It was an instinctive feeling. 

It was clear that Alexandro was not looking for Seon-hee with 'good intentions'.

His feelings of hostility and hatred were directed not only towards her own mother but also towards Seon-hee.

So Kanna had to protect her. That was more important than anything else.

"I'm seeing this woman for the first time."

"..."

Kanna spoke as calmly as possible and looked Alessandro in the eyes. His vivid green eyes watch her silently, like a beast in her hiding place in the darkness.

At that moment, Kanna realized.

My father was not fooled by her lies. Not even for a moment.

And in the end, he was a man who squeezed out the truth. Whatever it takes.

'Maybe even through torture.' 

The moment she became conscious, Kanna's fingertips trembled. This is a sealed room. A room where no one comes.

As long as she's in her father's sight, she can't even dream of running away. Maybe her father will hurt her. Even so, he may want to hear the truth.

"I really don't know. That woman is my first time seeing her."

"..."

"Just as my father said, another person was in this body. And I... I entered the human body in reverse. That place was a country called Korea."

Mix truth and lies so that they cannot be distinguished.

"But more than just one person is living there. Even though they may be of the same nationality, most people live their entire lives without meeting each other."

"..."

"I've never met that woman."

Alessandro did not answer. As he looked into her eyes, a terrible sensation engulfed her as if her skin was peeling off. 

It was the shame and fear of someone who had seen through a lie, who already knew that the other person was lying, and yet had to press ahead with the lie.

"... Father, I will go out now."

After a long period of silence, Kanna made a request in a cracked voice.

"Please let me go."

"..."

"I was wrong. I will never enter this room again."

After that Kanna couldn't say anything more. She just waits for Aleewandro's decision with a sad heart.

'If you torture me."

He hates her, and she has information he needs to get from her.

'I brought self-defense medication.'

This necklace was worn by noblewomen with a small amount of perfume.

There is a drug in it that causes the skin to burn, but will it really work on her father?

No, she wonders if she really dares to attack her father...

"Okay."

Ah?

"Go out."

Her father stepped aside. And he held out the lantern to Kanna, who was standing far away.

"Take it."

"...I apologize."

Kanna suddenly took the lantern and slowly walked away.

Her father really let her go. Don't catch it quickly!

Because he might change his mind again, Kanna hurried her steps as if on alert. And finally, after leaving the room, she sprinted like crazy.

“Huft, huft.”

Kanna, who entered the bedroom, threw down the lantern and fell on the bed. She trembled as she held on to the blanket.

What was it?

What was it, what was it?

Kanna crawled under the blanket and curled herself into a ball.

What was it?

Just that conversation.

Father. A portrait of her biological mother, who looks just like her.

Her father knows that Joo-hwa and her have swapped bodies.

Father asked if she knew Seon-hee.

Father let her go even though he knew she was lying.

He gave her a lantern, no, not like this.

Father, father, father.

How much does father know?

Kanna's head felt tingly. Her body twitched for a long time due to a lingering feeling of fear or shock.

'Seon-hee.'

Kanna clutched the blanket tightly. She closed her eyes. Seon-hee. Seon-hee Lee. A very familiar name. And the person she misses so much.

'Mom...!'

Joo-hwa's mother.

The Asian woman in the portrait was Joo-hwa's mother.

Boom! Plot twist 😱

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