SPMB - Side Story Chapter 3
My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone
"I'll protect you."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"Can you promise?"
"I promise."
From then on, the woman changed into someone else.
'But it was really a different person.'
Alessandro couldn't believe it, but he had no choice but to believe it.
He saw that woman die in the distant future that 'Real Seon-hee' took her to.
The death of that woman, Kanna.
"Alessandro, how far are you willing to go to save that child?"
"I can do anything."
"At the last moment, you will die. Can you still do it?"
"Yes."
In response to that assurance, 'the real Seon-hee' said.
"Why are you doing this? In the end, you will die saving my daughter. Aren't you afraid of that ending?"
Alessandro did not bother to explain.
He was a knight. He was a prosecutor. No matter how good he was, he was ultimately a murderer.
A person who takes another person's life can have his life taken away by another person at any time. Preparing for that day, accepting it, and living. It was like fate for the killers.
That's why he's not afraid of death. He was not a coward who avoided his job for fear of death.
And most of all, he remembers the time before he met Kanna.
A peaceful life where nothing was boring. That boring night when he thought he would stay in that place for the rest of his life like a star in the night sky.
If he hadn't known, he could have lived like that.
But he knows now. Burning passion. Burning hotness. Desire. Nervousness, excitement, ecstasy.
He chose that one.
"Here, remember this drinking circle. And if you change your mind, summon me at any time."
Seon-hee asked him.
"It will be a difficult journey. Maybe you change your mind along the way. At that time, you used Kanna's blood to call me. I'll let you live your life."
"That won't happen."
"No, it will be harder than you think."
Seon-hee smiled faintly. It was like looking at a child who was being naughty.
***
And from there, everything started to fall apart. The first collapse was Largos.
"Don't disturb me, Alessandro."
"Brothers, let's not fight."
His brother was becoming increasingly crazy.
What happened to Seon-hee that paralyzed Largos?
Alessandro couldn't figure it out, but at the same time, he felt like he did.
Blood cannot be deceived, and Seon-hee had a similar side to Kanna. So, both were extremely dangerous.
Should he say that he feels like he might get poisoned the moment he lets his guard down?
'My brother and I are both crazy for falling for such dangerous women.'
He thought they were as different as opposites, but he didn't know that maybe their essence was the same. It was also the same thing that he couldn't stop.
Largos could not bear Seon-hee trying to escape from his grasp. He tried to get her somehow.
Even if it kills her.
But in the end, it was Largos who died.
He was poisoned.
"Have you ever heard of self-defense?"
Seon-hee pointed to the tree with the red handprint on it.
"If I hadn't killed him, I would have been a corpse by now. Not Largos."
After killing Largos, Seon-hee disappeared. She has returned to the original world.
'It's something that can't be helped.'
He knows. He understands.
But..
'No, there is no but. This is what happened in the end.'
A few days later, his father died.
His father was shocked by the news of Largos' death and quickly became weak.
After biting the guard knight, he was walking alone when he encountered an assassin sent by the Black Apostles and fought...
His father was defeated, unable to overcome his weakened body and old age.
"What did I say, Sir Alessandro?"
Theodore's resentment remained as a fragment of his soul and lingered by his side. Then he laughed.
"This is all because you saved that woman. What did I say? That woman, you said she was sinister, right?"
Alessandro muttered those words.
"Do not insult my father. My father is the one who taught me that a battlefield can always become a grave."
"No! It's because of you! It's because of you, Alessandro Addis!"
He couldn't deny it. This was a result of his own choice.
He reached for his father's coffin.
But he couldn't reach it and stopped. He knew that he was not qualified to touch his father's coffin or comfort his soul.
"I'm sorry."
It was a miserable night.
He couldn't sleep. He drank a glass of whiskey and smoked cigarettes one after another. Then, on impulse, he went looking for the child.
The child was sleeping soundly. Alessandro looked down at the baby.
"Are you really that woman?"
Perhaps because she sensed that he was there, the child opened her eyes. It was a mean look.
“Kyaar! Caw!”
Why does she like him?
The moment Alessandro stretched out his hand without thinking, the child frowned. Then she smacked his hand away with her pebble-like hand.
"Awww!"
Ah. It's because of the cigarette smell.
Alessandro was embarrassed by the child's fierce rejection and withdrew his hand.
"Boo!!"
He couldn't tell what she was saying, but it was clear that she was expressing dissatisfaction.
"Do you know your situation now?"
"Awww!"
"Your mother killed my brother and left you here. And the Black Apostles are targeting you."
"Oooh!"
"The future you begged me to protect the present you. But are you hitting my hand just because it smells like cigarettes?"
“Wow! Ah!”
"You're the same shameless thing now and then."
He glared at the ungrateful baby but did not reach out any further.
After that day, he quit smoking cigarettes.
***
"That child,"
Chloe trembled, her face pale.
"Are you going to take that child as your daughter?"
"Yes."
"Seon-hee's daughter? The daughter of the woman who killed Largos?"
"That's right."
"Are you crazy?"
"Whether I go crazy or not has nothing to do with you, Lady. You were my brother's fiancée, and my brother was dead. The engagement was canceled."
"No. I am engaged to the Addis family. Not Largos."
"..."
"I will not break this engagement."
It doesn't matter who the opponent is. It doesn't matter if people whisper. Chloe had to become the Duchess of Addis.
"As you wish. Instead, there are conditions."
"What is that?"
"Please transfer Cletin's Lapis Lazuli Mine in my name."
Chloe demanded as if she had been waiting.
"And make my younger brother the leader of the Imperial Knights. Let me monopolize the commercial area of Alves Port."
"..."
"It has nothing to do with Addis and is solely my personal property."
Chloe thought it was better.
Anyway, what she wanted was Addis. When the other person has a flaw, shouldn't she just pretend to accept it and take advantage of it?
"And lastly, you will definitely pass on the family name to my child."
Chloe said firmly.
"I will definitely have two boys. Because it could happen that the successor, like Largos, is short-lived."
"..."
"If you grant my request, I will raise Kanna like my own daughter."
Alessandro looked at her with sunken eyes. As he looked at Chloe, who was filled with her desire, he suddenly thought of Princess Catherine.
A woman who, like Chloe, asked for marriage and children.
At that time, Alessandro was prepared to be kicked out of the family and poured wine on Catherine's head, but now...
Now...
Alessandro clenched his fists.
'It's already been a choice.''
This is just the adversity that follows that choice.
And he had no history of losing to adversity.
"Can you promise?"
"I promise. I put my honor on the line."
"Great."
After that, everything went according to plan. And for the first time, Alessandro learned what suffering was. Especially after marrying Chloe, he was conflicted in the face of huge difficulties. For the first time, he felt like quitting.
After thinking for a while, he visited Celia, an alchemist, and Theodore's younger sister.
"Can you make hallucinogens?"
"Yes?"
Celia looked surprised.
"But hallucinogens have a high risk of becoming addictive."
"It's okay."
Celia hesitated, but soon produced a hallucinogenic drug and offered it to him.
He went straight to his bedroom and took hallucinogenic drugs.
Then the woman appeared.
Kanna.
A black-haired woman is seen in the future he went with Seon-hee. She possessed Seon-hee's body and was the woman who came to see him.
"I guess you must have made an impression since you clearly remember what you briefly saw in the future."
He muttered self-deprecatingly.
"After all, it's just my taste. Are you determined to ruin me?"
Then Kanna smiled. A tear spot stood out under her right eye as she smiled softly.
It was so attractive that he lost his attention. Alessandro couldn't say anything for a while.
For some reason, a part of his heart felt heavy. It was almost a feeling of defeat.
“Kanna.”
Hallucinations do not answer.
It doesn't not matter.
"You are beautiful."
As he looked at her, his mind, which had been filled with confusion and self-destruction, gradually calmed down.
"I saw your death in the future. The scene where you, so beautiful, die."
And she came to him because she didn't want to die. If it were him, she would have thought he could save her. She thought he would keep his promise.
She trusted him so much.
Not anyone else, but him.
"Yes, trust me."
With those words, Alessandro stood up.
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