The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 101

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Episode 101

The clattering sound grew closer and closer.

My heart pounded like crazy and tension made it difficult to even breathe.

Then Rihardt grabbed my chin.

“Oh my. You need to breathe.”

“…What exactly are you planning to do to me?”

I know I did something wrong to Rihardt that day.

But I explained the situation, and didn’t Rihardt say he understood? But is this really necessary?

“I’m not the one who imprisoned you! It wasn’t me! So why are you doing this to me?”

I was just a maid who served Rihardt his meals.

Then I had the misfortune of becoming his personal attendant.

“…Please let me go.”

When getting angry didn’t work, I drained the strength from my body and called to him pleadingly.

Rihardt looked down at me quietly and smiled faintly. He still held me firmly bound.

“Don’t worry. Surely I wouldn’t sell you out.”

With those words, he lifted me up. When my body floated upward, I looked at him in surprise.

“What are you doing?”

“You said you didn’t want to get caught.”

Rihardt carried me into the forest. As we moved farther away from the carriage, my mood became grim.

“I have no intention of handing you over to anyone.”

* * *

“Just how far do we have to go?”

Gilbert, who was following the Count, breathed roughly and panted.

The dark forest was eerie, as if monsters might jump out at any moment.

Gilbert thought the Northern Forest was ominous as he looked at the Count walking ahead.

Good stamina too. The Count showed no signs of fatigue.

His body, consistently trained through daily practice, seemed tireless.

“We’re almost there, Gilbert.”

“Didn’t you say that a little while ago! Just how far do we have to go!”

“I said we’re almost there.”

The Count’s cold retort had a completely different tone from what Gilbert had seen before, so he closed his mouth.

“I have something important to tell you.”

“Something to tell me…”

“It’s a confidential matter, so I can’t speak of it here. Follow me quietly.”

“…”

What kind of story could it be for him to act like this?

It didn’t seem like an ordinary matter, so Gilbert had no choice but to silently follow the Count.

They walked like that for quite a while longer.

He had never moved this much in his entire life, so he seemed to have walked too strenuously.

His legs were shaking, and the sense of unease he had felt earlier disappeared completely.

Just as irritation surged and he was about to shout at the Count again, the Count stopped.

“We’re here.”

There was a cabin there.

Gilbert followed the Count into the cabin.

Inside, several strong men were waiting. At first glance, they appeared to be knights.

Gilbert looked at this situation with puzzlement.

“…It’s an important conversation, but don’t these men need to be sent away?”

“Don’t worry about that. Because…”

Then creak- the cabin door opened again.

Who is it?

Gilbert quickly turned his head toward the door.

A person with a slender build wearing a robe took off their hood.

“…Michelle?”

We’re having a confidential conversation, so why is Michelle…?

No way!

“Haha!”

Gilbert burst into laughter.

He thought the intention of dragging him all the way here was to show him Michelle being dealt with.

Gilbert believed this without a shadow of doubt.

However, that was only for a moment. The Count’s knights approached Gilbert.

As he looked at them puzzledly, the knights grabbed Gilbert’s shoulders with strong force and pressed him down.

“Ahhh!”

Suddenly, what is this…!

Gilbert was forced to kneel by the knights’ strength.

“Count! What is the meaning of this!”

“What meaning, you arrogant bastard.”

The Count smiled with his eyes curved in circles.

No way…

Gilbert, who belatedly grasped the situation, looked back at Michelle.

“Do you know, Uncle? This Northern Forest is so vast that it wouldn’t be strange if a person disappeared without even the mice or birds knowing.”

Michelle smiled brightly while looking at the terror-stricken Gilbert.

* * *

Rihardt carried me up the mountain.

As if he had absolutely no intention of putting me down, he didn’t let me out of his arms for even a moment.

Even while climbing the treacherous mountain in that state, he showed no signs of fatigue. I tried to escape when I saw an opportunity, but that seemed wrong.

‘Is it because he’s a transcendent?’

Why is he doing this to me?

“Achoo.”

My nose tip felt cold from being exposed to the cold wind continuously.

As I covered my cold cheeks with my palms, Rihardt looked at me.

“Are you cold?”

“Of course I’m cold! I’ve been exposed to cold wind for hours?”

He has an expression like he just realized it now.

‘He’s not cold, I suppose.’

Just like a transcendent. I was clicking my tongue at how annoying it was when Rihardt silently put me down.

I was flustered because I didn’t expect him to put me down like this, so I looked at him, and Rihardt took off his outer coat and covered me with it.

When the large coat was draped over my shoulders, I was surprised once again. For a kidnapper, he’s kind.

“Just bear with it a little. I’ll take you somewhere warm.”

“…”

“I’ll light a fireplace, so you won’t be cold.”

Is he calling that speech right now?

“Where exactly are you trying to take me?”

As if he had no intention of telling me, Rihardt kept his mouth tightly shut.

He approached as if to carry me again. I stepped back.

I just got free after several hours, so I can’t be carried again.

At first, I was so flustered that my thoughts completely stopped.

Of course, that’s still the case now, but at least my mind seems to be working.

“Let’s have a conversation.”

“A conversation?”

“Yes. I know you’re doing this because you hate me right now.”

Rihardt smiled as if telling me to say more. How annoying.

“But do we really need to fight emotionally like this? Think about it carefully. There’s nothing to gain from this anyway.”

After all, having me by your side now won’t make that body of yours any better.

“I was really sorry about what I did to you three years ago. But you know now that I had no other choice at the time.”

“…”

“So I’ve been thinking. I’ll compensate you.”

“Compensate?”

Rihardt asked back as if amused.

However, I couldn’t smile along and calmly nodded my head.

“Yes, compensation.”

“How exactly do you plan to compensate me?”

“Name the amount you want. I’ll give you as much as you desire…”

“Ah.”

Rihardt let out a sigh and soon burst into laughter.

Whatever was so funny, he laughed as if he was about to choke.

When his laughter stopped, he became terrifyingly expressionless. That look was so eerie I almost stepped back.

‘I can’t retreat.’

I have to return safely to Michelle.

Michelle only has me.

I have to go back and protect her.

I know. I know how Michelle changes when I’m not there…

‘She’s an unstable child.’

Michelle didn’t show it, but she was terribly lonely. When I’m not there, her psychology becomes extremely unstable.

On top of that, her body is weak too.

I have to go back and protect her.

So I had to persuade Rihardt here.

“Do you think I lack money?”

“…Generally, everyone prefers money. If not money, then tell me something else. What do you want?”

“What I want…”

Rihardt, who had been pretending to think for a moment, narrowed his eyes.

Then he approached me with wide strides.

“It’s right here.”

When he pointed directly at me, I was momentarily speechless.

“…Isn’t there anything else?”

“What else would I want besides you?”

So why me?

Now I was a useless existence to Rihardt.

Then there’s only one answer.

‘He just wants me to suffer.’

Just like what he did to Arzen in the novel. Is he planning to make me feel exactly what he went through?

So he wants to confine me too?

There are always people like this.

Those who say they need nothing else and are blinded only by revenge.

Rihardt must be one of them.

‘There’s no way to deal with this type.’

They’re like beasts that drool and charge forward until they achieve what they want.

I calmly stepped back a few paces from Rihardt.

I wondered if there was any way to create an opening.

Rihardt watched my actions as if looking at a pitiful lamb.

He would probably charge at me immediately if he thought I had escaped his range.

I stopped after not going very far.

“Let me ask one last time. Is there really nothing else you want?”

“I told you it’s you.”

I quietly moved my hand behind my back and dropped the hairpin I had hidden in my sleeve into my palm.

I turned the pin so Rihardt couldn’t see it.

“I have to go back. There’s someone who absolutely needs me.”

Rihardt seemed displeased with my words and moved slowly while frowning.

“I was sorry to you, so I tried to give you the best compensation I could.”

But since you’re refusing, there’s nothing I can do.

I absolutely have to go back.

Watching Rihardt approach, I gripped the hairpin tightly.

Let’s stab him.

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