SPMB - Side Story Chapter 22

SPMB - Side Story Chapter 22

My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone

Kanna.

It's Kanna.

"Ha."

It makes Orsini laugh. Because the woman in front of his eyes was so clear.

"Crazy."

Orsini chuckled.

As expected, the drug found in his father's kitchen was a powerful hallucinogenic drug.

He's sure my father also tried this hallucinogenic drug. It was funny that he pretended to be so noble, but ended up being a drug addict just like himself.

"They say they look alike, and it's true. How come you even look like this?"

Orsini continued to laugh and sat down in his chair.

The area where he cut it later started to hurt, and his mind became confused, so he couldn't bear it and took hallucinogens.

'I was really trying to quit.'

Chasing after Kanna. And then sometimes he turns his eyes and acts pathetic...

Orsink was so sick of it, he hated himself so much. He was going to quit.

But when he came to his senses, he saw this.

Moreover, he started having very scary thoughts later on.

"There is no need to go around like this. How much help do you think it would be?"

What if Kanna is not happy?

"What, you're missing a finger? It's like a monster. It's gross."

What if she disapproves of his broken body?

"You are a piece of trash who burns other people's letters and hopes for other people's love to fail. You have no conscience, no pride, and now you don't even have a little finger. I hate people like you."

Unable to overcome Kanna's harsh words in his Imagination, Orsini eventually turned to hallucinogenic drugs.

"..."

As he stares blankly at her, the void in his heart begins to fill little by little.

It had been a gaping hole for some time. It fills up only when Kanna is by his side, but the moment it falls, it breaks through again.

He knows. That this is selfish greed.

Wasn't there a time when he was satisfied with just being around her? But greed gorged on desire. He grew up like a monster.

He became so miserable that he wanted to quit.

“Kanna.”

Orsini muttered while looking at Kanna's hallucination.

"I have a question for you."

Orsini closed his eyes. He covered his face with his healthy hands. He actually wanted to hide.

"You made me... Even just a little..."

He couldn't bear to speak.

Orsini felt like his tongue was going to be cut out. No, he'd rather cut it. Because he was extremely servile, because it was shameful, and yet he wanted to hear an answer.

A rush of heat rushed to his face. Even his ears seemed to be burning.

"Or am I still terrible?"

"Uh."

"..."

Uh?

Huh?

Orsini slowly opened his eyes. He lowered his hand to cover his face. He turned towards where he heard her voice.

And saw.

"I really hate it."

Kanna with cold eyes.

Orsini looked at her with a blank expression. Is it a hallucination?

"Is this a hallucinogen?"

At that time, Kanna lifted the medicine bottle on the table.

"Is this a hallucinogenic drug?"

At that moment, his mind came back. The energy from the medicine disappeared.

How is Kanna here?

"I told you before."

Clink! 

Kanna threw the medicine bottle.

"I said if you do this one more time, I'll never see your face again!"

"Hey, wait a minute."

"Shut up. Don't make excuses!"

Kanna was literally as angry as a ghost.

It was shocking. Orsini couldn't believe it.

Kanna?

Kanna, why is she this angry?

"I made it clear. If you do this one more time, I will never see you again."

The voice was trembling with anger.

"But then I saw something else and now I really don't want to see you again..."

The next moment, Kanna's words stopped.

"..."

Her gaze rested on Orsini's left hand. With bandages stained with red blood stains.

"What are those bandages?"

Is it an illusion? Her voice seemed to tremble a little...

"Are you really hurt?"

Kanna lifted his wrist. And she noticed it right away.

More than half a joint of his little finger was missing.

"Come on? What happened?"

"It's nothing. Rather, this..."

Orsini quickly rummaged through his pockets. This moment, which Kanna had forgotten was angry, was an opportunity.

"Take this."

He held out the Holy Stone.

"There is sacred power within this stone."

"..."

"Carry it with you for emergencies. Wouldn't it be good to get drunk later, like taking a restorative medicine, when you're low on energy?"

Orsini focused his attention on examining her expression.

Does she want to like it? Or is she just trying to be boring?

"..."

But Kanna said nothing. Rather, she had a calm, controlled face, as if she had calmed down her emotions in the meantime.

"Orsini, did you actually cut off your finger trying to save this?" 

No, it wasn't cut, he cut it himself...

However, Orsini felt that if he told the truth, something really big would happen, so he played it off. 

"No. This was an accident."

"Accident?"

"Yes, accident."

Kanna finally sighed.

Orsini himself may not have known it, but he had no talent for lying. Very seriously.

"Fool."

The only person who can damage Orsini this much is Orsini himself..

In the past and now.

As it always was, it was probably the same this time too.

'Idiot.'

Maybe he's that pathetic? It's so, so pathetic...

She wanted to hug him.

Just once, very lightly.

But Kanna suppressed that impulse. 

"Let's start with proper treatment. It can hurt you more."

As she was about to turn, she stopped as if she suddenly remembered something.

"Ah... And..."

Kanna lifted the holy stone he handed her.

"Did you say this is a sacred stone?"

Orsini swallowed. Then he waited for the next words.

Maybe she could say that stones like this are useless. Since it can't be a fundamental solution. it won't be of much help, and it might actually be annoying...

"I'll write well. This is what I really need. Where did you get this?" 

Kanna smiled.

"Thank you, Orsini."

"..."

Orsini looked at the scene in silence. The scene where Kanna smiles at him.

And naturally. He had a premonition. He won't forget this moment for a very long time.

The reality before his eyes is much more than he imagined.....

"Hey."

"Huh?"

Orsini grabbed Kanna's shoulder and pulled her towards him.

"Let's do it just once."

The moment he lowered his lips while muttering that, Kanna was startled and pushed his shoulder.

"Wait a minute, Orsini!"

"Only once."

"Are you crazy? You're hurt now."

Kanna looked stunned, but Orsini heard nothing..

"No. I'm not hurt."

"You're not hurt, you're insane!"

But in the end, he succeeded in putting his lips on hers. For a moment his head seemed to go numb. As always, her breath was like poison.

"Okay. Just a little bit, soon...."

Orsini muttered as he continued to suck on that ecstatic thing. But he didn't even know what he was saying.

His head and body were hot as if on fire, so he had to do something, somehow, right now. He can't bear it.

***

"I caught it!"

When Claude pulled the fishing rod, a large fish came out.

"Mmm hmmm... hmmm hmmm...'

He hummed and put the fish in his bucket. There were already well over 10 of them, and they were all big fish with plenty of meat.

On the other hand, Alessandro's barrel...

"How can you not catch even a single one?" 

Claude clicked his tongue as if feeling sorry.

"Are you not getting any bites at all?"

"Quiet. It is running away."

Claude held back his laughter. He heard Alessandro was really not good at cooking or fishing.

'How did he end up like this?'

They say he once caught a dragon, but now he can't even catch a minnow.

Perhaps because he had spent so much time fighting, Alessandro was insensitive to the world.

In particular, he was almost completely ignorant of the lives of commoners, so he was well-known among the village merchants as an innocent young man who was easy to sell.

'Anyone can see that he looks like a somewhat clumsy country boy.'

It was so different from Alessandro that he knew that it was sometimes surprising.

Claude has been following and watching over Alessandro since he was very young. His fight, his war, the bright red mess he went through.

It was a man standing alone and empty on top of a mountain made of corpses...

Finally, his fight was over.

'But are you really taking a break?'

Sometimes Claude had that question.

Is this really the rest?

Maybe he just gave himself away?

Just as an object that had served its purpose was thrown away, sometimes it felt as if he had thrown away himself.

'Aren't you going to remarry? Or it would be nice to have a relationship.'

Claude asked cautiously.

"It seemed like the Lady was coming for a while. She is the daughter of the Lord of this place, right?"

"I don't know."

"You don't know. Isn't she coming around here on purpose to see Alessandro? She's such a beautiful woman."

"Claude Azelle."

Alessandro answered quietly.

"Just wait and see. You have no right to be involved in my decisions."

Claude smiled and shut his mouth. His true intentions were completely revealed by the words he had just hinted at. Even his concerns.

'Anyway, it's scary.'

Claude changed his tune.

"By the way. Do you really want to clean, that Orsini?"

"No way. It will be a good thing if we don't fall further."

"Then why are you bothering me by asking me to do that? You're so mischievous."

"Am I being mischievous?"

"It's not like you, Alessandro, to give useless instructions. Isn't that something you did on purpose to pick on him?"

"Maybe so."

"Why did you do that?"

Alessandro stared blankly at the sea

"Well."

The sunlight shattered and shimmered like gold dust over the sea. The glare was beautiful. And he resembled Orsini.

Undamaged self.

Brilliant arrogance.

It is the prime and peak of life that has never been broken and knows no true surrender.......

Looking at Orsini like that reminded Alessandro of that time.

The moment he felt like he could do anything, the moment he promised he would do anything.

His blue spring days passed too quickly like fallen cherry blossoms.

"Maybe I was jealous."

Alessandro muttered.

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