The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 10

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Episode 10

No way. No way.

An uneasy feeling crept up my spine.

“It’s different from usual.”

“….”

“As the maid said, I suppose the food I always eat can feel different sometimes.”

Rihardt calmly set down his spoon and looked at me.

I didn’t believe what he said at face value.

I wasn’t foolish enough to miss the fact that he was indirectly telling me the fruit had been put in the food.

I thought it would be fine if I just carefully watched the moment the food was being cooked, but that seemed to have been my mistake.

How did they put it in?

“…Ugh.”

“…!”

Rihardt, who had been acting nonchalant, suddenly let out a groan. I was startled and opened my eyes wide.

His face was turning bright red.

Rihardt didn’t look well. Though he wasn’t showing it, cold sweat was streaming down his face.

“…Are you okay?”

I reached out my hand to wipe the sweat flowing from his forehead. At that moment, a strong force grabbed my wrist.

The hand that grabbed my wrist tightened with force.

Until now, even when he ate food with poison in it, this had never happened….

According to the original story, that poison didn’t show effects immediately from the start, but only showed reactions after steadily accumulating.

…Looking at his condition, it seemed the fruit that the kitchen maid had been secretly adding, which he had been taking long-term, was now showing its effects.

‘Why now of all times….’

I bit my lips and observed him.

At the thought that I might lose my head if things went wrong, the pain in my wrist caught in his grip felt like nothing.

“If you come closer… it might not be good.”

He warned in a low voice, blinking his eyes with difficulty as if his vision was dizzy.

Contradictorily, while telling me to stay away, he was holding my hand tightly.

Because of that, I had no choice but to sit facing him, unable to do this or that.

Soon his body collapsed.

“Rihardt!”

I urgently caught his collapsing body.

The current Rihardt reminded me of how he looked when I first saw him.

The way he gasped asking for medicine.

Though he didn’t need medicine, writhing in pain was the same then and now.

‘What should I do?’

I bit my lips until they bled from the sense of despair.

If I reported this fact to the outside like this, I might be branded as the criminal who poisoned Rihardt’s food and die.

But I couldn’t just leave him alone either…

“…Maid.”

Finally, Rihardt, who had been silent for a while, opened his mouth while exhaling hot breath.

“…Please touch me.”

“….”

“…Please, I beg you.”

Blue eyes filled with heated desire looked at me.

Even after hearing his words, I took no action.

More precisely, my malfunctioning mind refused to let my body operate.

Touch? Me? You?

“Hurry….”

He pulled the wrist he was holding to make me stroke his cheek.

When my hand was suddenly pulled toward him, my body, unable to maintain balance, tilted in that direction too.

Having fallen into his embrace and unable to do anything, I furrowed my brow.

“Hey, just….”

“Good….”

“….”

Why?

Though I had no abilities, it seemed like I had become someone who could offset the situation Rihardt was experiencing.

Seeing him lean his body against me while losing his reason, I could only sigh.

Rather than being caught with Rihardt in this state from taking medicine, if this could somehow treat him, I thought it might be better to leave it like this.

When I weighed my life against this strange situation, the answer came easily. I decided to stay still.

“Do it in moderation.”

Whether he was listening to me or not, he had a peaceful face like someone who had found an oasis in the desert.

His skin touching mine was so hot as if he had a fever that my fingers naturally curled inward.

“Haah….”

He let out a quiet, hot breath. I watched with a stiff expression as he breathed in with difficulty.

As I stroked his cheek as he led me to, his breathing seemed to slowly improve. Watching that made me feel strange.

“Does it hurt a lot?”

“Rather than hurting, it’s just….”

He exhaled hot breath. Though he couldn’t think straight just moments ago, he seemed to have calmed down a bit.

“Honestly, I should say I didn’t know I could be this violent.”

What does this mean?

“To put it simply….”

He laughed as if troubled.

“I wanted to kill.”

“….”

“I suppose it’s because I ate something strange.”

So that’s why he told me not to come close….

I seriously wondered if I should shake off his hand and run away even now.

I glanced toward the mana restraint shackled to Rihardt’s ankle.

Thinking that if that wasn’t there, I might have died, I reflexively felt around my neck.

“I’ve shown you another disgraceful sight.”

Now that he seemed to have calmed down, the grip of Rihardt’s hand that had been tightly holding my arm loosened.

I pulled out my arm that had been caught by him and thought.

The kitchen maid had started putting the fruit in the meals again.

As long as the maid was adding the fruit, this kind of crisis situation might come again.

Belatedly, I decided what I should do from now on.

* * *

My mood, which had been bad for the past few days, improved all at once.

This was because the problem I had been having with putting medicine in the monster’s food because of Roji had been resolved.

Mari brushed her brown hair back and smiled pleasantly.

Was there really a need to put medicine in right when the head chef was making the food?

There are many ways.

I don’t know why she got so worked up over that girl named Roji.

‘Still, she’s annoying.’

She seemed to be from commoner origins, but she had the nerve to look directly into her eyes….

The maid named Emily beside her was the same.

So she was planning to make it hard for them to establish themselves in this Marquis House.

However, Mari knew that this kind of harassment couldn’t deal any real blow to them.

The moment she realized this, she had already vaguely formed a plan in her head to drive Roji out.

She intended to use what the Marquis was sensitive about.

That monster.

Her plan was to…

“Hello, Mari.”

“You, you…!”

Seeing Roji appear silently from behind without any sign, Mari gasped in surprise.

“Wh-what do you want?”

“It’s nothing much.”

Roji smiled wickedly.

At the smile that didn’t feel pure, Mari narrowed her eyes. What was she up to?

“I heard from the other girls that you’re really good at giving advice, Mari.”

“…What?”

What came out of Roji’s mouth was truly unexpected, completely out of the blue.

“So I was hoping you could give me some advice about my troubles.”

“Why should I?”

At the blunt response, Roji just smiled warmly and linked arms with Mari.

Mari was startled by Roji’s sudden action. What had gotten into her…?

“I want to become friends with you, Mari.”

Only then did Mari think she glimpsed Roji’s thoughts.

As her harassment continued, she had decided to surrender. It was immensely satisfying to see her bow down from that side.

Mari looked back at Roji with a pleased expression.

“You have troubles? What kind of troubles?”

“Well… I had a strange dream.”

“A dream?”

When Roji nodded meaningfully, Mari unconsciously examined her carefully.

“In the dream, I was sitting at the dining table waiting for my meal. But when I ate the food, my mind became hazy.”

“…And then?”

“The food tasted strange, so I went into the kitchen and secretly looked around, and someone was putting medicine in my food.”

“…”

“The next day too, and the day after that, continuously…”

Putting medicine in.

As if reciting exactly what Mari had ordered the kitchen maid to do, Roji persistently made eye contact with Mari.

“Do you think I’ve earned someone’s resentment?”

“…”

“What do you think, Mari?”

“You…”

“Hmm? What do you think, I’m asking, Mari.”

As Roji kept catching her off guard, Mari couldn’t say anything.

Then Roji looked at Mari like that and muttered with a smirk.

“…So it really was you?”

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