SPMB - Chapter 115

SPMB - Chapter 115

My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone

One late night, Kanna sat at her desk instead of falling asleep. She wrote the information down on a piece of paper.

<1. My father's 'secret room' was a room used by women.>

<2. Portraits of two women hang in the 'Secret Room'. One is my biological mother and the other is Joo-hwa's mother.>

<3. What is the relationship between my biological mother and Joo-hwa's mother? Seeing that the portraits are hanging together, it seems like they are related in some way. (Maybe they were friends? I'm not sure.)>

<4. My father seems to hate Joo-hw's mother and my biological mother.>

<5. My biological mother is alive somewhere. Where is it?>

<6. Joo-hwa's mother went back to Korea, so it seems she has a way of moving between dimensions.>

<7. Joo-hwa, Seon-hee's biological daughter, and I possessed each other's bodies.>

Is this really a coincidence?

Kanna rummaged through her pocket and took out a piece of paper. It was a letter secretly stolen from her father's room.

Faintly blurred Korean. 

She doesn't know how long it will take, but she will definitely be able to restore the letters.

'I need to find out more about this.'

After her wild emotions were sorted out, her senses returned. She needs to dig into this matter in more detail.

First of all, Kanna planned to find out about Alessandro Addis and his father.

If she goes through his life in detail and investigates it, she will find that both Joo-hwa's mother and her own mother are involved somewhere.

'Alessandro Addis."

Father, who are you?

***

The next day, the maid Ariel achieved another achievement. Finally, they succeeded in contacting the informant.

"I tell you to find the meeting place yourself. It doesn't matter where there are a lot of people and it's noisy."

Kanna won't be taking Claude with her because she wants to do this in secret.

She would take self-defense supplies with her, but she planned to meet in a place with a lot of people just in case there was any danger.

The more people there are, the safer it is, and the noisier it is, the better for secret conversations. 

It just worked out well. Even if that wasn't the case, she wanted to entrust the investigation to her father as quickly as possible.

And she also had to quickly create a fake identity.

'I don't know what my father will do later. I need to secure a way to escape in preparation for any unexpected situation.'

A clumsy run away from home will fail. This was a lesson she learned from her childhood experience.

'Yes, there was a time when I ran away from home and failed when I was fourteen.'

Suddenly, an old memory came to mind. Fourteen years old. Before attempting her suicide, Kanna attempted to escape from Addis's mansion.

For a girl that age, she was quite detailed.

She wandered around the outside of the mansion like a loach several times, looking for a place and a way to leave...

But it failed. Someone who recognized her forced her to return home.

"Running away from home means bringing shame to the family. You are a disgrace to the Addis family, Kanna."

Chloe's eyes were glaring at her as she was sent home. Really, Kanna still hasn't forgotten that look that was like looking at dirty filth.

"Be glad that His Excellency the Duke is not at home. If your Excellency found out about this, you would no longer be alive."

Then, as punishment, she locked Kanna in a closet. Kanna cried and begged that she was wrong, but Chloe was merciless.

As Kanna was being dragged violently into the closet, she made eye contact with Kalen.

"Kalen, help me..."

Without realizing it, she begged for help. Even though she knew it was useless, she did it because she was so desperate.

But as expected, Kalen just watched in silence.

He just watched.

Soon she lowered her head and read the book. She turns the pages. The movement was so graceful...

After being locked in the closet like that for two days, Kanna was able to get out.

"The Duke will return in a week. Until then, eat something. His Excellency will kick you out if he sees your miserable appearance like a lowlife."

Listening to Chloe's nagging, Kanna staggered down to the underground lab. She then began making a heart-stopping drug. Because she'd rather die.

"That too failed in the end."

A bitter smile came out as memories of the past came to mind.

"That was the most difficult moment.'

A time when she dreamed of escaping, wandered around the outside world for the first time and was eventually caught with her wings broken.

But the person she is now is different from then.

If the moment comes when she has to run away, she'll do it right.

 'I can't be clumsy like you used to be.'

So she had to prepare.

***

A few days later, the day of the meeting arrived.

The location is a masked ballroom. A secret social gathering of nobles. It is the perfect place to meet the informant.

Kanna wore a brown wig and a butterfly mask decorated with platinum. She said that the members of her organization she would meet would also be wearing the same mask.

'It was a place like this.'

As soon as she entered the masquerade ballroom, Kanna frowned at the billowing smoke.

Ugh, the smell of cigarettes.

Masked men and women are laughing loudly, dancing, drinking, touching each other, and even openly using drugs.

The attitude of the male nobles was also different from that at the formal banquet. It was disgusting how they clung to each other like a dog in heat. Kanna continued to walk, shaking off the hand that was grabbing her arm.

'Where on earth is the source of information!"

Just as Kanna was starting to lose her temper, someone grabbed Kanna's wrist. Kanna helplessly dragged along, and slammed her face against a man's hard chest.

'How rude is this...!'

The moment I raised her head and thought, "I need to kick his ass."

“Ah.”

A man wearing a mask identical to hers was looking down at her.

A man who was probably an informant. He was surprisingly a very handsome man. His neatly swept platinum hair and chin exposed beneath the mask were extremely handsome.

... But somehow it looks like a familiar face.

"I'm sorry for pulling you out. I had no choice but to just pass by. Isn't it a bit weird to shout your name out loud here?" 

At that moment, goosebumps ran up her spine. This voice!

"How have you been?" 

Prince Argon?

Kanna blinked. She was not mistaken. She didn't see anything wrong. The man in front of her was Prince Argon!

"Why Your Highness?"

At that time, Argon lowered his head. He touched her mask with the tip of her sharp nose. As the gap suddenly became closer, Kanna stopped breathing. Argon was smiling mischievously like a boy.

"A person wearing the same mask. This is a proof."

So really, the informant is Argon? Does that make any sense? Prince Argon? 

"Your Highness this is...It makes no sense."

"Why not?"

"..."

Is that called a question? It was such an embarrassing question that I couldn't answer anything. 

'What is this? Are you kidding me? Did Ariel trick me or not?'

For a moment, Kanna's head started pounding and it hurt. What a ridiculous situation this is, for Prince Argon to appear as an informant!

"Oh, this is my favorite dance song."

Whether Kanna was confused or not, Argon dragged her up on stage. He gets excited grabs her shoulders and starts dancing with her.

'Why am I here dancing with the Prince...'

Kanna suppressed the urge to shout and spoke calmly.

"Your Highness, I came here to meet with an informant." 

"I told you. That's me."

Argon narrowed one eye.

"Didn't you know I had an information guild?

" .... Yes."

"Of course. Because it's a secret."

***

Are you kidding me?

'I already knew that it was so famous that it wandered outside the imperial palace.:

Kanna's heard that not only is Argon not interested in the throne, but his time in the palace is extremely short. But who would have guessed that he was enjoying such a double life?

A man whose name is the first Prince of the empire!

"I'm sorry, Your Highness. It happened because of my ignorance."

Anyway, it has to be resolved. She has no intention of getting involved with this crazy Prince.

"If I had known it was your guild, I wouldn't have contacted you. How dare I tell you...."

"It's okay. I manage almost all of the empire's information guilds anyway."

For a moment, Kanna's tongue stiffened. 

No way. No way. 

He must be kidding. Or is it just a bluff?

"It's not a joke or a bluff. If you don't believe me, go find another guild. In the end, it will all lead to me."

The news was literally like a bolt from the blue. If what he said was true, it meant that no matter where she requested his work, it would eventually reach Argon's ears!

"But there are only a few nobles that I directly manage. One of them is the Duchess. Congratulations."

This is not something worth celebrating at all. Your plan is falling apart piece by piece!

'Besides, why are you calling my name earlier!'

Kanna cried out inwardly as she encountered an unexpected obstacle. At that time, Argon glanced somewhere beyond Kanna and said.

"But Kanna, did you know that the knight followed you?"

"Yes?"

"Your escort knight, Claude Azelle."

At those words, the back of her neck felt stiff. Claude followed her?

"He keeps giving off an unpleasant vibe. It feels like I'm starting a fight, and it's annoying."

But Kanna didn't even tell Claude that she was going out, let alone asking him to accompany her. Still, if he followed her around on his own, it would be the same as following her.

Why did Claude do such a thing?

'It must have been Kalen's order.'

Otherwise, there is no way he would follow her even if there were no special instructions.

'Did Kalen trick me?'

What did Kalen say when attaching the escort driver? 

He told Kanna to take Claude with her only when she wanted to and to forget about him other than that. But he secretly follows her at other times as well. Without any comment!

"This is no different from surveillance."

I was boiling with frustration, but now was not the time to complain.

"Your Highness, it was an honor to meet you. But I don't dare to ask Your Highness for work."

"Why?"

"As a noble loyal to the imperial family, how can I ask Your Highness to do such a chore? So..."

"You'll have to think carefully, Kanna."

Argon gently cut off Kanna's words. 

"Opportunities don't always come. You have to stay alert and grab it when it passes before your eyes."

Argon's voice as he said that was confident and even arrogant. It seems as if his presence is a great opportunity for Kanna.

"You can't hire just anyone. Of course, I don't move with money or anything like that. It's piled up so much that it hurts my feet."

"... So what moves you?"

"Information."

Argon smiled, showing his teeth.

"I can't stand being curious."

"I'm sorry, but I don't have the information you might want."

"There is."

"Yes?"

"I'm curious about you, Kanna Valentino."

The rhythm of the dance song slows down. Walking slowly in a circle, Argon lowered his lips to her ear.

"I mean it."

The fur on the right side of her neck, where his breath touched it, stood up. When the scent of thick cologne passes the tip of his nose.

"Who are you?"

"Yes?"

"You're not Sylvienne's wife, Kanna Valentino."

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