SPMB - Chapter 127

SPMB - Chapter 127

My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone

"What are you?"

Orsini frowned.

"Why are you interfering?"

But Raphael did not even look at Orsini. His eyes were always on Kanna. And he waited. May she do her bidding?

Kanna stared at him blankly. Lips opened.

"Yes."

It was a decision that didn't go through her head.

"I don't want to go back to Addis."

At that moment, Orsini's face distorted. Raphael approached. Orsini blocked his path.

"What are you doing?"

"Stay aside, Lord Orsini. I will take care of the Duchess."

"Fuck the Duchess, how long ago did she get divorced?"

Orsini swore harshly.

"Why are you taking her away?"

"The Duchess does not want to be with you."

"So who are you to care about?"

It was like an animal ready to pounce and bite right now. However, Raphael spoke without a trace of agitation.

"I will say this one last time. Lord Orsini, step aside."

"No..."

Orsini's lips twisted. Thick veins stood out on the back of his hand.

Kanna was in the mood for a hit right away, so she quickly stepped forward.

"Orsini, No...."

But Orsini was one step faster. He suddenly punched Raphael!

"Orsini!"

But fortunately, Raphael turned his face to avoid it. Then, he grabbed Orsini's wrist as he passed by and threw him away. The large body of Orsini was dragged around as easily as a lie.

Rather than falling down awkwardly, Orsini turns his body with amazing flexibility and lands on the floor. The moment he thought he had landed, he immediately rushed like an animal.

"Don't do it!"

Kanna blocked Raphael's path. Orsini, who was running, suddenly stopped.

The eyes of the man she met right in front of her were truly beast-like. Orsini was so full of life that it just flowed out.

"Move."

A look so intimidating that it makes her toes go numb. But Kanna was not afraid of him. Even as much as an eyebrow.

"You get out of the way, Orsini."

Instead of backing away, she roughly pushed his shoulder. Then, as expected, he was obediently pushed aside by that force. He was as helpless as a paper boat swaying on the waves.

Kanna now knew that. She knew it well enough to be funny.

"Why do you care about me? What are you!"

Puck. 

She gave him a shove on the shoulder. One step, and he gets pushed away again.

"Don't worry where I go or who I go with. Because you have no right to do that."

"So you're going to go with that bastard?"

Orsini retorted harshly.

"How can I trust that bastard?"

"I don't need your faith. And how can I trust you?"

"... What?"

"I don't trust you, Orsini. I'd rather trust a beggar on the side of the road."

At that moment, Kanna realized that her tongue had penetrated Orsini deeply. It seemed like the sound of his face splitting into pieces could be heard all the way up here.

That was funny.

Like Orsini.

She's shocked by just saying this. It hurts.

"So get out."

After spitting out coldly, she turned around. She grabbed Raphael's arm. She walked away with long strides.

Kqnnq felt Orsini's gaze fall on her back.

"Hey."

Orsini called her. But she ignored it. Rather than slowing down her steps, she didn't even look back.

“kanna.”

Then he seemed to say something.

However, it became faintly blurred, buried by the sound of rain. It had to be blurry.

Kanna didn't listen.

She didn't want to hear it.

And how many hours did she walk?

Raphael said he knew the way out of this forest. It was really fortunate Raphael said he knew the way out of this forest. She was really fortunate. If it weren't for him, she would have lost all her energy wandering through the forest.

So, all she has to do is follow this light and walk. Then it will end someday.

'What?'

What will end?

Will it ever end?

Kqnnq thought it was all over now. She made enough money and the divorce was finalized. Now all that was left was the branch house.

It was a journey with an end.

'I guess it was a mistake.'

Although she has faced numerous crises and put her life in danger several times, Kanna has never once been discouraged. but now...

She'd rather collapse.

Kanna's head is pounding. Kanna bit her lip, which was trembling from the cold.

Was it because she received a life-shattering shock, or was it because she walked in the rain for hours? 

Her head hurts and her eyes feel dizzy.

“Ma’am?”

Kanna blinked.

"Huh?"

Before she knew it, she was leaning her head on Raphael's back.

The moment she recognizes it, her body slides down. Raphael hurriedly grabbed her body and stood her up.

"Ma'am, are you okay?"

"It's okay... "

Her vision is shaking. With the dizziness shaking her head, Kanna tried to come to her senses. 

"It's okay. It's okay, let's go."

She needs to come to her senses.

However, unlike her mind, her body was boiling with heat. Her eyelids became heavy.

No, she can't. If you pass out in a place like this, she might die...

 "It's okay."

At that time, Raphael spoke as if he knew what was going on.

"Rest in peace, Ma'am."

It was a strong voice.

Maybe, enough to want to lean on it.

Kanna closed her eyes without realizing it.

***

Meanwhile, she had a short dream.

"Happy birthday, Mom."

A time when Kanna was in the state of Joo-hwa.

Joo-hwa was around 22 years old. As a birthday present for her mother, she made her the only perfume in the world.

"Thank you, Joo-hwa. After all, my daughter is the best."

"Yes? I am the greatest gift, right?"

"Right. I'm so glad you grew up so well. Did mom raise you too much when you were little? I thought you were just a childish child..."

At that time, Seon-hong suddenly intervened.

"Mom, why didn't I raise Onaon? Why am I a Spartan?"

Then mom laughed.

"It's because mom was too busy in the past, so there were a lot of things she couldn't take care of when Joo-hwa was a baby. Don't be jealous, Seon-hong Lee."

"Ugh. Okay. Let's both do it together. I'm going to play with my dad." 

Then her father, who was peeling apples, responded angrily.

"Am I going to play with Seon-hee?"

A time of great commotion. A moment that was a common everyday moment for them.

But the moment she opened her eyes, it disappeared like bubbles. All that remains is the bone-chilling cold.

'Cold.'

Kanna trembled and opened her eyes.

'This place...?'

Inside a cramped cave.

She could hear the sound of a bonfire burning right next to her and the sound of pouring rain in the distance.

"Are you awake?"

Kanna turned her head helplessly. Raphael was sitting next to her. Like her, he was caught in the rain on a cold morning, but unlike her, he didn't seem to feel the slightest cold.

"Are you okay?"

"No."

Kanna's chin was shaking.

"Cold."

She feels like she's going to freeze like this.

Kanna hugged her pale, cold body. It's like ice. She was still wearing wet clothes, so it was only natural that she did so.

"Take it off."

If things continue like this, she will develop a very high fever and wilI either suffer from heat exhaustion or die from hypothermia.

"Take off your clothes..."

She didn't even have the strength to lift a finger, so she just asked. No, is this closer to an order?

Does not matter.

Whatever it is, Raphael will listen to what he says. 

"And give me a hug."

She's sure he'll listen to this too.

"Hug me. Too cold."

She felt like she was going to die. She needed warmth. Kanna didn't know if it was the cold or the loneliness.

"I feel like I'm going to die from the cold...."

Alessandro Addis.

No matter how much she hated him, no matter how much she didn't think of him as her father, he was still her father. So she called him father. But the spirit says he is not even the father.

But what was it that shocked her so much?

She's been hoping for that the whole time. While she hoped that the thread of her relationship with him would be severed forever...

'No, no, I'm just shocked. Because the truth I've known my whole life was a lie.'

"Seon-hee abandoned you and me, abandoned us, and went back to her own world."

"Because she always missed her hometown. She said she had a young daughter and a husband back home."

But mom.

Couldn't he have taken her too?

He'll make her apart of Mom's family too.

'Of course, it won't work.'

Because she is a child out of wedlock. Dad must have waited and raised Joo-hwa, who was a young baby, alone during the time Mom was missing. When her mom returned, he would have welcomed her with open arms.

What if her mother had her with Joo-hwa at that time?

That happy family may not have existed. That's why her mother, even if she could have, she would never, she would never have taken it herself.

It was truly a motherly choice.

A mother who sets goals calmly considers the benefits, chooses the best, and doesn't look back.

Kanna knew her mother well.

Because she taught herself that. Because, like her, he is a person who can act as cold-hearted as she likes.

That's why at this moment, the ground beneath her feet collapsed.

“Ma’am.”

Even rolling in the mud would have been less miserable.

"I will be rude for a moment."

Kanna lifted her heavy eyelids. His fingers grab the end of the ribbon on her chest. She stays like that for a moment.

"Please forgive me."

And pulled the ribbon. The knot is undone and the front buckle is opened. Raphael very carefully grabbed the hem of her dress and pulled it down, taking care not to let his fingers touch her skin.

The damp cloth slides over her shoulders and chest and down to her waist. In the end, it grazed her toes and peeled off like skin.

However, Kanna did not feel even the slightest sense of shame. She didn't mind. She may have been paralyzed in every other part of her body because all her nerves were in pain.

And the next moment, the sound of Raphael unbuttoning his priest's robes was heard. Also, the sound of clothes falling down. 

Then he lifted her up and sat her on his thighs. As his warmth approached, Kanna instinctively stretched out her arms. She wrapped her arms around his waist and hugged him. Her skin touched tightly and their body temperatures overlapped.

Heat rushes in. Warm.

Closer, just a little closer.

But she knows it shouldn't be like this. Kanna knows she shouldn't share body heat with her bare skin with her divorced ex-husband's best friend, but she knows.

No, actually, it was good.

If only she could thaw her frozen body.

If only she could escape this sub-zero cold and the loneliness of feeling alone in the world.

"Are you not offended?"

Raphael's bass sound rang very close.

"Not at all."

"Then the uncomfortable place is..."

"No. Just stay like this for a little while."

And then silence fell. No one said anymore.

Cracking, the embers are burning.

In silence, each other's breath became noticeable. The sound of water droplets falling from hair sliding across skin, the sound of swallowing, and even the pulsation of the heart.

Kanna breathed slowly.

Warm.

She finally felt like she could live.

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