SPMB - Chapter 121

SPMB - Chapter 121

My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone

Just before leaving for the main shrine, Sylvien Valentino walked around his mansion.

The first place we headed to was Kanna's bedroom. As he stared quietly into the bedroom, Kanna flashed in his eyes. 

She stammers, curling her body up.

"Well, I don't want to go out... Because my clothes are dirty"

"Then do your own laundry. What are you doing with your hands?"

The maid said she answered that way. Of course, it was nothing.

"Hey, there was a bug in my meal."

"So? ...Eat it without leaving any behind. Really, you don't know how to waste food."

What was even funnier was that Kanna actually chewed up bugs at the maid's words. 

Foolish woman.

Sylvien doesn't understand why she was so scared that she ate trash.

"Wake up right now! It's already morning!"

Ahh, it seemed like he could hear the sound of Kanna being slapped in the face by the maid. Of course, it was an auditory hallucination. He knows it's an auditory hallucination.

But for him, it probably wasn't an auditory hallucination or anything like that.

"Madam punished you for breaking the greeting hour. Please do not leave this room for the next week."

This is a bedroom, not a prison. That woman couldn't even go out on her own.

He's getting frustrated again. He felt the pressure of someone pressing his neck. Sylvien left the bedroom.

But the hallway was no different.

“Aaaah!”

Kanna twists and slips.

She passed a place that the maids had deliberately greased. Her head is broken and blood is flowing. The maids who saw this laughed and laughed.

Kanna cried, then laughed along with them.

And the dining room.

"These are dining etiquette that you learned somewhere! Take away that bitch's dishes right now!"

Josephine, who shouted loudly, smiled evilly as if she suddenly had a good idea.

"Or just mix the food in one bowl. I think it would be more convenient for Kanna."

"Yes, ma'am."

Fruits, vegetables, steaks, stews, water, sauces, everything mixed in one place. It is mixed like dog food and thrown in front of Kanna.

"What are you doing? Eat it quickly."

Kanna trembles and shoves food into her mouth. Then she couldn't stand it anymore and started vomiting.

"Anyway, you're an undignified girl."

Josephine watched it with the maids. Kanna fell onto her back and stretched. She vomited and vomited until only gastric juice came out.

"I'm losing my appetite. You have defiled it, so clean it up yourself."

She clicks his tongue and adds.

"This golden beast."

Now that he thinks about it, didn't he use that line himself? A party hall one day, a garden at night, to a disheveled Kanna.

"Even golden beast can't do it."

Sylvien stopped. When he came to his senses, he had already made it to the garden. He stood tall and turned his head. To him, it was just a beautiful garden.

But this place was not safe either.

"It's cold, please let me in. Mom, I was wrong."

One day when snow was pouring down, Kanna stood barefoot in the garden and begged. This time, as usual, she failed to make it on time to say hello.

Three times a day. Morning, afternoon, lunch. If Kanna was late even by a single minute, Josephine would get angry like fire. She struck down a punishment like a thunderbolt.

Kanna lived like that for seven years.

"I don't know how the Addis family educates their daughter."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

"Do you want me to be difficult for you? All you have to do is keep the time properly, that's all. Is it that hard?"

Josephine, wearing a fox fur scarf and fur coat, mocks Kanna. 

"When I was young, I thought all the children of the Duke family were perfect, but now that I look at you, I see that's not the case, Kanna. Or is it different because you are an illegitimate child?"

She twisted Kanna, revealing her bitter inferiority complex. Kanna squeezed and squeezed until not a single drop of tear came out.

"Sorry"

"It is done. Please stay here and reflect until I give you permission."

Josephine snorts and turns around. She enters the warm mansion. Kanna, who had been shaking for hours, sobs in the garden. She cried as she looked into Josephine's eyes.

"Mom, mom, mom..."

Sylvien closed his eyes. A voice that rings like an auditory hallucination disperses.

He opened his eyes again. He walked quickly. It was only after entering the carriage that he could breathe.

"We are leaving, Your Excellency."

Sylvien did not answer. The carriage runs. Moving away from Valentino's mansion. He stared coldly at the shrinking building outside the window. 

At that moment, Kanna's voice is heard once again.

"The bullying that a woman like me goes through and the pain I go through in this beautiful mansion must have been the same."

It was like that. It really was.

He knew Kanna wasn't doing well.

He knew it.

He knew it...

Why didn't she hit him like she does now?

There was an answer to that too in Kanna's words. She may have unconsciously thought that what he does, the battle, risking his life, fighting, and protecting, is nothing compared to that.

She may have thought that since everyone in the world lives with their own misfortunes, she was just one of them and that it was a boringly common occurrence.

That's probably why he wasn't interested.

Sylvien had no interest in her.

He remembered a long time ago, a very long time ago, when he caught a girl who was trying to run away from home.

He was secretly searching after hearing that the girl who was being raised as the next great spirit of the Great Temple had escaped to the empire.

At that time, he saw fourteen-year-old Kanna.

Kanna at the time was incredibly ignorant. She was walking the streets without knowing that she was being targeted by low-cost robbers.

Sylvien thought about leaving her alone, but then he remembered receiving help from the Duke of Addis during the battle. He thought of the Duke of Addis, who had helped him many times, so he captured his daughter and handed her over to Addis.

At that time, the girl was glaring at him with such sad eyes. She glared at him as if she were seeing her killer driving her off a steep cliff.

Eyes filled with anger, hatred, sadness, and desperation, boiling like lava.

After meeting that gaze, it suddenly occurred to him once or twice a year. It was that intense of an eye.

In fact, even now, he can recall it vividly if he put his mind to it. Is that why? 

When he was proposed to by Kanna, whom he met again a few years later, he reviewed it positively.

"You want to avoid getting engaged to Her Royal Highness Princess Lilienne, right?"

Of course, it is.

But he knew about a dozen ways to avoid engagement. There was no need for a clumsy fake marriage...

"Great."

But Sylvien accepted. Anyway, it wasn't a bad offer. And at that time, he was a bit curious about how a girl with such fiery eyes would have grown up.

But why? 

Sylvien quickly forgot the look in her eyes back then. Upon meeting Kanna again, he was surprisingly unimpressed. He wasn't interested.

Whether she dies or not, whether she lives or not.

He didn't even want to know what kind of pain she was going through in the mansion.

Sylvien let out a low laugh.

Yes, it certainly was, but why did he investigate her now?

He even tortured his employees to extract information.

What kind of life did Kanna live in this mansion? 

Now he is very curious about what kind of pain he went through.

Come now.

***

"Uh?"

On the first night at the Great Hall, Kanna, who was about to fall asleep, was startled. She was visited by Sylvien. 

"Were you sleeping?"

"No. I was going to sleep now..."

Kanna looked him up and down.

Standing in a dark hallway, he was dressed in a perfect suit. Even the cravat around his neck wasn't even an inch out of place. A stunningly beautiful sight, as usual.

'What?'

But he felt a strange sense of heterogeneity. Kanna tilted her head.

"What's going on?"

"For a moment."

"Uh...."

For a moment.

He said only those words briefly and pushed open the door. And then he walked into the room.

"...?"

Why is it like that? Kanna was skeptical, but she didn't kick him out.

'Is there a story that needs to be set in advance?'

Tomorrow is the annulment wedding ceremony. She didn't even know some parts needed to be put together before that. So, it must have been unusual for him to come here at this late night.

"What's going on? Sit down first"

But he didn't sit on the sofa.

Instead, he leaned his back against the wall. He tilted his head and stared at her.

"...?"

Kanna met his gaze. She looked in for a while and then she finally noticed.

What is strange and different from usual? 

Her face and Sylvien's face, bathed in moonlight, were too clear. The expression that always existed beyond the blurry mask and dazzling smile was extremely clear at this moment.

"What happened?"

Why is this happening? Why did he come to her with a raw face? 

An ominous feeling crawls up the back of her neck. 

"Why is this happening all of a sudden?"

"Well."

A quick answer. Insincere.

"I don't know either."

There wasn't even any courtesy. Kanna was taken aback and glared at him. He was looking at her with one eye until it became crooked. This is absurd. What does that irreverent face mean?

"Aren't you here because you have something to say?" 

"Right."

Sylvien tilted his head lazily. Disheveled silver hair covers one of his eyes. The interior of the wall that was revealed at first glance was boring.

"It seems like that."

"..."

"I don't think so." 

What is this...

Has he been drinking? Could it be that he is drunk?

No, he doesn't smell like alcohol. Above all, alcohol is prohibited in the Great Temple. 

"If you have no business, please go back."

Kanna controlled her embarrassment. She was surprised because he was so uncharacteristic of Sylvien, but she had no intention of being swayed.

"There is a marriage annulment ceremony tomorrow morning. I have to get up early in the morning, so I guess I'll just sleep now."

"Marriage Annulment Ceremony."

He chanted the words in a hollow voice. Even his face looked like a doll with only a shell left. That's why Kanna found him creepy and strange.

Sylvien doesn't smile...

"Josephine Eleister was kicked out that very day."

"I know. I heard it."

The news spread immediately.

Josephine, who had been Valentino's hostess, was kicked out of the countryside. It's cold and full of barbarians, so it's like a wasteland!

"Did you hear?"

"Yes."

"So."

"Yes?"

"So what are you going to do now?"

"..."

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