SPMB - Chapter 267

SPMB - Chapter 267

My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone

Thus, Alessandro returned to the past with Seon-hee.

"Be careful not to run into Alessandro during this time."

Seon-hee said to him who had become a doll.

"In the end, yiu are the same person and the same soul. So you must never meet him."

"Why?"

"Have you heard of doppelgangers? If identical people meet in one place, one of them will definitely disappear."

"Which one disappears?"

"The Imperfect side will disappear."

It was the current person.

So the doll stayed completely hidden until it finally came out when it was time to wait.

Although he failed a few times and had to turn back time, he eventually succeeded in stopping Kanna. Kanna went to see him this time and he kidnapped her and knocked her out to prevent her from damaging Seon-hee's work.

When she wakes up, she won't have time to go find himself at this time because other urgent matters will be rolling in like waves.

If she gets carried away like that, everything will end.

After that everything went according to plan.

A gap in the world widened, and Kanna closed it.

And this time his other self saved Kanna's life. Then he went to a coastal village and fell into eternal sleep.

'Now my role is done.'

The doll looked at his arm, which was gradually cracking.

The words Seon-hee said passed by.

"There is no doll anywhere that can handle the human soul. So your body will gradually rot and become dull."

He can't show Kanna like this.

He can't even tell Kanna what he experienced.

So he decided to protect Kanna from afar until this body corrodes and dies.

Time passed like that.

Kanna seemed quite happy. The doll was satisfied with that, but every now and then a terrible feeling of loneliness washed over him like a wave.

On days like that, he had no choice but to hope helplessly.

He hopes that just once, there will come a day when he makes eye contact with Kanna.

He hopes the day will come when they can reach each other again.

"Alex?"

It wasn't until the last moment that the wish came true.

He barely pulled out his broken hand from falling rocks. He held it out towards Kanna.

Only once.

Only once...

However, the hand could not reach anywhere and fell straight down.

***

Kanna opened her eyes.

Her legs felt weak. She flopped down on the floor. 

Thump, thud. 

Tears fall.

She looked at her hands. A hand that never reached him.

The moment Kanna saw his hand, half broken into rough sand, her body convulsed as if in a fit.

She did that.

She didn't hold his hand.

She crushed his hand with sand. 

Me, me, me!

"Ahhh."

Kanna cried like an animal and belatedly grabbed his hand. No, no. She couldn't catch it. The moment she touches it, it crumbles into sand. 

Kanna fumbled with the sand powder and spoke gibberish.

"I don't like this. I don't like this, Alex. Please. Please."

Please don't do this. Why did he do this?

He'd rather just let her die. What can she say, what can she say about the short time he spent with her, what can she say about the promise he made?....

"You stupid!"

Kanna couldn't stand it anymore and shouted. Her heart felt like it was burning, and Alessandro's life was so pitiful that she couldn't bear it.

And what was even more unbearable was the ending of another Alessandro she saw in his memories.

Alessandro in this time.

She found out the ending he had faced.

He must be in eternal sleep by now.

For the past few years, he has been neglected while she has been living perfectly happy times. He was left in the dust like trash.

"No. I'm the fool. I am a fool and I am a bitch. Alex, I'm so sorry..."

Sorry. Sorry...

She kept crying and spitting out just that word.

How much did she cry like that?

Kanna suddenly stopped crying. It's no use for her to cry. So far, her tears can't change anything.

The doll died, and Alessandro fell Into eternal sleep.

That was his ending. 

"Alessandro Addis."

It's been a while since Kanna called his name. The voice was very hoarse.

"I don't like endings like this."

She absolutely cannot tolerate this.

***

Kanna began studying alchemy again.

After a year of intense research, she finally found the conclusion she wanted.

"It's done...."

Kanna cut her own finger with a knife. Her blood drips. 

With that blood, she drew the lines of her time-shifting technique.

'I'm going to save Alex.'

After turning back time dozens of times, Kanna finally arrived at the desired time zone.

To 4 years ago.

After eliminating the World Tree and the Black Crack, it had only been a few days since she died and was revived.

Kanna Immediately headed to the coastal village. She forced open the locked door and entered the bedroom. She then encountered the sight she had expected.

On the bed.

Alessandro was sleeping there.

"Alex."

This time, tears flowed. Kanna smiled while crying.

"Long time no see."

He was just as she remembered him. Young, cool, beautiful...

"Are you sleeping well?"

And he was alive.

He didn't die. Only the body is alive.

But his soul must have been shattered.

If the body also dies, the soul would naturally disperse. The immortal body imprisoned the soul as if imprisoning it.

His soul could neither awaken nor flow but fell into eternal darkness.

Is there any punishment more terrible than this?

"I'm sorry for forgetting about you all this time."

Kanna didn't even look for him all this time. She exchanged her body and mind with people other than him. She had a great time.

If Kanna hadn't known the truth, one day she would have completely forgotten him and lived happily ever after before dying.

Originally, she was destined to die...

"I will never leave you alone again. You bore the price for defying fate."

Kanna left the bedroom. After shutting her bedroom door tightly, she opened the living room window wide. She then shouted out the window.

“Alessandro Addis!”

Toward the doll that must be listening somewhere.

"Come out now! If you don't show up, I'll turn back time!"

She raised her hands.

"Do you think it's a joke? I'm going to turn back time. I'm going to turn back and commit suicide. Then you won't have to die protecting me!"

Does this mean it won't come out?

Kanna began to draw blood and draw a magic circle.

Yes. Let's go back to when she was babies and committed suicide. That's better for everyone.

Finally, just before the drinking ritual is completed.

"Stop."

Suddenly, Kanna's hand stopped. A large hand grabbed her wrist.

"What are you doing?"

It was Alessandro the doll.

The moment their eyes met, Kanna hugged him tightly.

"Let go."

But returning was a firm refusal. The doll grabbed her by the shoulders and pushed her back.

"Don't be mistaken. I am not Alessandro. I am his doll."

Then, as if presenting evidence, he rolled up his sleeves and showed his decaying arm.

"So, don't expect anything for nothing."

"I know everything."

Kanna interrupted him.

"That you are another Alessandro from the past. You gave up being human and became a doll."

The doll closed its mouth. Although his face was expressionless, Kanna noticed that he was embarrassed.

"Your body is rotting right now, isn't it?"

His eyes narrowed.

"How do you know?"

"I glimpsed your memories from the future."

"What?"

"You died trying to save me. That's why I came to turn back time and save you."

His face hardened at those words.

"You did something pointless. As you said, I am a doll. My body is destined to rot and die anyway."

"I can give you back a human body."

Kanna pointed to the bedroom door with a trembling hand.

"It is possible if you become one with the Alessandro that is there now, the Alessandro of this time."

The doll snorted at those words.

"Bullshit."

"No, that's not bullshit."

"Come to your senses. Have you ever been such a weak woman?"

"I am perfectly sane!" 

Kanna shouted.

"Listen to me. You and Alex in that bedroom, you two are essentially the same, therefore..."

"Yes, that's why the moment we meet, one disappears."

As if cutting off her expectations, the doll spoke with a single word.

He seemed to hope that Kanna wouldn't get her hopes up. Knowing it would make her sadder.

"It is impossible for two of one thing to exist. That is the law of the world."

Then he added self-mockingly:

"I am no longer a human being, but just a doll. So I will disappear."

It's not a bad idea to get some complete relaxation that way. Just as the doll was thinking that Kanna shook her head.

"What if I capture your soul?"

"..."

"What if you put your soul into Alessandro's current body?"

Just as Sylvien retrieved the scattered pieces of her soul and placed them in this body.

"What would happen if I put your soul into Alessandro's body?" 

Alessandro's brows narrowed. It was an amazing face. Of course, it sounds like bullshit.

"Do you think two souls can fit into one body?"

Kanna raised a trembling corner of her mouth.

"No. Not another soul. You are Alessandro. So it just becomes Alessandro."

Just as Kanna's soul, which was once split into several pieces, became whole again with Sylvien's help, Alessandro also eventually became one.

"Don't expect in vain, Kanna. Alessandro of this time, my other soul is completely shattered."

"I know. Because I did the same."

"The degree is different from you. You're just broken into pieces, but the soul in that bedroom..."

He didn't speak until the end. But Kanna also knew.

"I know. It was broken like powder."

"Even the foundation to contain sacred power has disappeared, so everything has been lost."

It was worth it.

During this time, the current Alessandro brought back as many as five people from the dead. There was no time to recover the soul with holy power, so it deserved to be shattered.

"But..."

Kanna pointed to the doll. And she said.

"Your soul is intact."

Although his body was a doll, his soul was a complete Alessandro.

"Now your soul is intact, and your holy power is also overflowing. Therefore..."

Kanna swallowed.

"So, with your holy power, you may be able to heal Alessandro's soul."

It was quite possible. In theory.

But this was something no one could be sure of. Maybe everything could have collapsed like a bubble.

"It's worth a try, right?"

The doll didn't answer.

Kanna read deep anguish in his eyes.

"What are you hesitating about?"

"..."

"Alex?"

What on earth makes him conflicted?

Kanna couldn't bear it and was beaten.

"Don't you want to live with me too?"

"..."

"You love me. That's why you're doing it like this, huh?"

"..."

"You love me, Alex!"

At that moment, the doll's eyes wavered. A strange heat wavers. Only after a while did his lips open. It felt like he wanted to spit something out, but he couldn't. Then he barely managed to scratch out the words.

"I am..."

But that was the end. He couldn't tell.

He didn't want to talk.

There is a sincerity in the world that cannot be brought out. It is a sharp feeling that will cut off his tongue the moment he spits it out, so there is a secret that he has to hide his whole life.

"Sorry."

Kanna took his hand.

"Sorry. It's my fault. If you don't want to talk, don't."

"..."

"If you don't want to love me, don't love me. If you want to stay, stay, if you want to leave, leave. Now Iive as you feel comfortable."

It doesn't have to be by his side. If it's painful to see her face, he can go far away. It is okay to live a different life in a different place under a different name.

There's only one thing she wants. 

"I hope you live."

He didn't answer.

Instead, he held her hand.

"Don't expect too much. It may not go as you wish."

"I know."

"Even if you fail, don't be too sad and live your life."

"I'll try."

They walked towards the bedroom. Towards the place where Alessandro is currently sleeping.

They looked at each other one last time before opening the door.

No more words were needed.

Kanna grabbed the doorknob. She opened it vigorously. At the same time, a bright light burst out.

It was light coming from Alessandro on the bed and from the doll.

Kanna raised one hand in the intense beam of light that stung her eyes. She drew a picture of her technique.

'Please.'

His body temperature, which she held with her other hand, cools down quickly. It begins to crumble into sand. The doll's body began to disappear.

'Please.'

She knows it's greed.

She knows that it is impossible for no one to die and for everyone to survive and live happily.

'Please, please.'

She still hoping.

Alessandro, may the last sentence of this man's story change. She hopes she can change his ending, just as he changed her own.

'Please.'

She's desperately hoping.

After all the pain and trials, Alessandro's life finally began.

The story continues like that.

That kind of ending.

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