SPMB - Chapter 221

SPMB - Chapter 221

My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone

The moment she met his eyes. Kanna's breathing trembled slightly.

It was a very strange feeling. It felt like she had come from some moment in the past.

At that moment.

He leaned against the door, stretched out his arms, lowered his head, then slightly raised it.

"That effort."

"Try it for me."

Kanna unconsciously covered her mouth with a trembling hand.

She felt hot inside. The burning sensation of being pierced through her bars, the sensation of him penetrating her in a flash of her past, disturbed her breath.

At that time, Alessandro frowned.

"What are you doing here?"

"..."

"Don't you know that you are not allowed to enter this room?"

Kanna swallowed. Her lips parted, barely able to overcome the searing heat in her throat.

"Why are you here?"

"It's none of your business."

He bluntly shooed her away. Then he turned to face the window again.

"Just know that you saw me here."

"..."

"Get out."

She didn't go out. She rather approached him.

One step, another step.

The closer she got, the more she felt his back becoming stiff.

Alessandro turned again and glared at Kanna.

"Didn't you hear me tell you to ge tout?"

"You passed the title on to Orsini?"

"Kanna."

"So what should I call you now?"

"..."

Alessandro's brows narrowed. Kanna seemed embarrassed as she approached him without even listening to him.

"What should I call you?"

Finally. Kanna stood right in front of him.

As she reached the front of the man who was much taller than her, the strange tension she felt in her body made her skin tremble.

She feels like her head has gone crazy.

She had no intention of acting like this.

"You are not even my father."

Kanna had no intention of saying this at all.

Her body and mouth were moving as she wanted, caught in some intense burning heat.

Kanna lowered her head. She stared at his large, callused palm, which was hanging down, and stretched it out as if fascinated.

Just before Kannq reached him, he stepped back.

"What are you doing?"

It was a voice that revealed a sharp edge. When she lifted her head, she saw him glaring at her with his stern eyes.

Through the eyes of a caregiver.

At that moment, the heat escaped like a lie.

Kanna blinked. Something that seemed like it was going to explode suddenly dispersed like air. Kanna's mouth opened at that feeling of despair.

"..."

It wasn't Alex.

This was not the man in the cold cave, with whom she had personally opened his lips and poured out drop by drop of the antidote.

The man's mind was confused throughout the night. But he occasionally opened his eyes, and each time he stared at her with clouded eyes.

Kanna also met his gaze. Even if he slowly closed his eyes again, she couldn't take her eyes off him.

She didn't know when his breath would disappear, so she just stared at his lips until she fell asleep. Just those lips.

But the man in front of her is not the Alex from back then.

Kanna then realized that she had been dying to meet Alex the man from her past, the man who brought her strawberries, taught her to read, and swore to protect her.

They finally met.

It's not him.

Kanna laughed.

Does not matter. Yes, it would be just a small difference.

"Alex."

At that moment, his breathing stopped.

They both knew he had stopped.

"You weren't waiting for me to call you this?"

Their eyes met. The eyes were trembling.

At that moment, it seemed like only the two of them were left in the world. Time and space were meaningless.

Everything disappeared, and only each other existed as they remembered each other.

But it was only for a moment.

Alessandro cast his gaze downward and then slowly raised it.

The eyes were like shells.

All that's left are empty words. All there is is a faded promise from decades ago.

"Yes. I waited."

He calmly admitted.

"Everything went as you wanted. I protected you, and you survived."

It was as if he was talking about someone else's business.

"So that's it. Now you live your life. I have nothing more to give you."

"For a moment..."

He turned his back again. He was trying to get out through the window. Kanna quickly grabbed his arm.

"...!"

At that moment, Kanna withdrew her hand without realizing it due to the strong feeling of rejection she felt at the point she touched.

"..."

He paused for a moment.

The back, the nape, the shoulders, and the back seemed to be talking. He told her not to come any closer.

"For a moment, wait for a second, Alex. Are you going to keep going like this?"

"Speak clearly. I am your father."

For a moment, she almost cursed.

What about my father? Nonsense bullshit!

But Kanna hurriedly admitted it because she felt like if she did that, he would disappear like the wind.

"Okay, I understand. So don't go. Live your life, this isn't a relationship that will end like that!"

"Then?"

He looked out the window and muttered.

"Is there more to it?"

"That......."

"Be careful what you say."

He calmly but firmly cut her off.

"What you said brought me here."

"..."

"So be careful what you say."

"Protect me."

"Then I think I might love you."

Those words were clear. It seemed to ring. To him and to her.

"Wait a minute, I understand, so just look at me. Speak while looking at me."

"No. No more......."

Then he stopped talking. Then he stumbled.

He stumbled greatly and quickly straightened his posture by leaning on the wall. He groaned, placing one hand on his face.

As if someone was sick somewhere.

"Alex? What's wrong?"

"Don't call me that."

He mumbled nervously and frowned. It was a painful face.

"Like that... Me."

Only then did Kanna realize that his physical condition was not normal.

Her heart dropped from the cold sweat on his strong neck.

"No, not now, now......."

He muttered to himself. Then he jumped down the window in one go.

There was nothing else to do but stop him. It was a movement so agile and fast that no one could stop it.

It was as if he was running away from her.

Kanna hurried to the window and looked down...

"..."

He was nowhere to be found.

Kanna slid down into her seat. She covered her face with both her hands. And she realized.

'He's not in good condition.'

Maybe that's why he stays in hiding.

"Miss?"

At that time, Kanna raised her head in shock. A man opened the door and came in. It was Claude. He too looked just as surprised as Kanna.

"How did you get here....?"

"Claude."

Kanna glanced down. He held a vial in his hand.

Come to think of it, Claude was Celia's nephew.

Could it be that he came to deliver medicine to Alessandro?

"Sir Claude, did you know he was here?"

Claude hesitated for a moment and then nodded.

"Yes. Have you ever met him?"

"Yes."

"Bad timing."

Claude sighed and knelt down to be at eye level with her.

"He doesn't stay here all the time, but comes back sometimes.'

"......He comes here sometimes?"

"Yes. Come here when he wants to relax. It looks like he ran into the Young Lady just then."

Relax?

Suddenly, that scene passed by.

At some point in the past, she saw him sitting in a rocking chair with letters scattered across his lap.

The sight of him with his eyes closed, bathed in pale moonlight. The scene where the poison showed mercy and gave the gift of rest.

"Miss, please pretend not to know."

Claude said clearly. It was a recommendation rather than a request.

"And don't come into this room again."

"..."

"He is not in a good condition right now. There is no benefit to him in being noticed by others."

Kanna's face turned pale. As expected, it was as expected.

"Claude, please. Tell me everything."

"Miss."

"I can fix it. So, please. Please."

Claude seemed conflicted at those words. However, he soon opened his mouth as if he had made up his mind.

"He hasn't been able to sleep for 27 years."

27 years. During those years, Kanna was suffocated.

She knew he couldn't sleep. It is said that after her own birth, he was cursed with his sleeplessness by th Black Apostles in the process of guarding her.

I guessed that it must have been a long time ago. He could only guess.

In 27 years, Kanna was devastated in front of the numbers that were revealed in detail.

"Besides, he sees and hears very strange things. That's why he always says the world is dizzy and noisy. It's been a while since he's felt quiet... "

Claude trailed off and held out a vial.

"That's why he takes this medicine. It's a medicine that helps him relax."

He didn't say poison. Maybe he doesn't know.

It doesn't matter. It was clear that this was the medicine that Alessandro needed.

No one would be able to live a sleepless life for 27 years.

"But maybe it's a side effect of taking the medicine for a long time, sometimes his memories get mixed up."

"Are his memories mixed up?"

"Yes. Fortunately, this is a temporary phenomenon, but there are times when he loses recent memories and returns to his  younger self for a very brief period of time."

"..."

"A time when his relationship with your mother was amicable."

Kanna lowered her head with empty eyes.

If the relationship between him and Seon-hee was amicable...

It was the moment when Kanna was by his side.

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