The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 102

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Episode 102

Rihardt moved slowly to catch me.

I gripped the hairpin tightly and waited for him to come closer.

My hand holding the hairpin was sweating.

Rihardt’s approach seemed slow, and over it, the image of the knight who had approached to kill me in the forest overlapped.

Even the sight of blood spurting like a fountain.

My stomach churned.

While I was caught up in that vision, Rihardt had somehow come right up to my nose.

When exactly did he…

I stepped back to create distance again, but Rihardt reached out his arm to grab me.

Thinking I couldn’t be caught like this, I swung the arm holding the hairpin that I had hidden behind my back.

I intended to stab Rihardt directly.

However, pathetically, with a thud, my hand was caught by Rihardt.

“Oh my.”

Rihardt looked at me struggling with dry, emotionless eyes.

I hurriedly tried to pull my caught hand back, but he pulled my arm toward him.

“…!”

Helplessly pulled forward, before I could even be surprised, Rihardt wrapped his arm around my waist.

“Did you think you could just swing wildly when you don’t even know how to kill someone?”

“…Let go.”

“What am I to do with you being so clumsy?”

Rihardt stroked my cheek as if feeling sorry for me.

“Didn’t you tremble after killing just one knight last time?”

“…”

“Do you think someone like you could stab me?”

His words weren’t wrong.

Contrary to my resolve, the hand holding the hairpin was trembling.

I overlapped the image of the knight I had killed before with Rihardt.

Rihardt looked at me like that and smiled pitifully.

“You could never kill me.”

“You’re quite confident. It would be quite amusing if you died from that attitude.”

I met his gaze directly without avoiding it.

In the tense atmosphere, neither of us intended to back down.

“Still, you were quite cute. The way you rebel while trembling is just like a small animal, isn’t it?”

“…”

“You’re just like a cat.”

I wanted to spit on that grinning face.

Rihardt took away the hairpin from my hand.

“I felt this before too, but having something like this would be quite useful.”

“…That’s my belonging. Give it back!”

“But since you were going to use it on me, I’ll confiscate it.”

I watched helplessly as Rihardt took away the hairpin.

Should I have brought a few more?

Though they probably would have all been taken away anyway.

“And it’s not good to keep provoking me.”

“…”

“Shall we go back then?”

“No. Let go of this!”

My opinion was cleanly ignored.

Rihardt picked me up and moved again.

* * *

I wondered where that terrible smell of blood was coming from.

Around the modest carriage, bloodied knights were collapsed.

Yurta clicked his tongue and looked at the open carriage door.

Naturally, with things in this state, there was no way anyone would be inside the carriage.

Yurta gestured with his chin to Asel.

Understanding what he meant without words, Asel sighed and approached the fallen knights.

Asel checked each one in turn to see if they were breathing, if they were conscious.

“Ugh…”

Then someone let out a groan as if signaling they were alive.

“Wake him up.”

Yurta spoke coldly even seeing that pitiful state.

He had spent three years searching for Rose without giving up.

But nowhere could Rose’s figure be seen.

Then new information came to him.

Baron Seiblain’s pink-haired aide.

That she seemed to be like the maid Roji who had escaped from Evantes three years ago.

It was a letter Gilbert had sent to Evantes.

Yurta quickly gathered information.

And hearing news that Count Evantes had made his move, he hurried to the North.

He had to find Roji before Count Evantes.

However, regrettably, he was one step too late, and all Yurta heard was news that the pink-haired woman who had been imprisoned had died.

Yurta was dazed for a while upon hearing that news.

Sister died?

Yurta almost killed the servant who brought this news on the spot.

Asel had to break out in a cold sweat trying to stop Yurta.

【Calm down. There’s no guarantee that pink-haired aide is Lady Rose, is there?】

Only after hearing Asel’s words did Yurta calm down a little.

Right. There’s no guarantee she’s Sister.

Thinking calmly like that, he thought that perhaps the current situation might be a trap Rose had set.

There was no evidence.

It was just because Rose was that kind of person.

【Search this area immediately.】

Leaving that order, Yurta moved personally.

If it were Rose, where would she have tried to escape to?

A place in the North that was deserted, where no one would go. Yet a place where she could quickly pass through checkpoints…

When he moved in the direction with the highest possibility, Yurta discovered the collapsed knights and abandoned carriage.

“Ugh… Lady Shabrina…”

The knight who barely regained consciousness muttered hazily.

Yurta grabbed the collar of the fallen knight and lifted him up.

“Lord Yurta!”

Asel cried out in surprise, but right now Yurta didn’t care about the knight’s wellbeing.

“What’s the situation here? Explain quickly.”

Though his mind was hazy, when the gatekeeper met those eerily glowing red eyes, he instinctively opened his mouth.

“Sud, suddenly… some, one attacked…”

“An attack? Where did they go?”

“The mountains…”

The gatekeeper couldn’t continue speaking and fainted.

Yurta threw the gatekeeper aside in annoyance.

Asel prayed for the poor gatekeeper’s soul.

“He’s the only gatekeeper who regained consciousness.”

“That’s enough. I got the information I needed.”

Yurta turned his head to look toward where the mountains were located.

To think Sister is over there.

He smiled ecstatically.

“Search this entire area thoroughly.”

* * *

Humans are learning animals, they say.

I screamed at Rihardt to let me go and cursed at him with everything I had.

I hit him and struggled, but it was useless.

Instead, saying I was interfering with his movement, this crazy bastard untied the cravat he was wearing around his neck and bound my wrists with it.

It didn’t hurt, but it was enough to interfere with my movements.

And what he said while doing that was.

【It’s quite lewd.】

What the hell is this crazy bastard saying right now.

That’s how I collapsed from my own frustration.

I gave up and entrusted my body to Rihardt.

Staying rigid from being on guard was fine for a moment, but it became difficult if it continued.

Stubbornness is only possible when you have the stamina to back it up.

Right now, no amount of struggling would be useful, so I needed to conserve my strength.

When I leaned my head against his shoulder for a more comfortable rest, Rihardt’s body stiffened.

Why is he acting like this?

He’s the one who forcibly picked me up.

‘What time is it now.’

Long after sunset, the completely black sky made it impossible to gauge the time by sight.

The mountains of the North were incredibly vast.

At first, I couldn’t guess where Rihardt was trying to go while climbing these vast mountains.

But after thinking about it a little, I had a rough idea.

‘Since he can’t pass through the checkpoint.’

He’s trying to cross the mountains.

Even if I tried to escape from here, I’d just be caught by Rihardt immediately, and even if I succeeded, I wouldn’t know the way.

I had no choice but to get out of here and aim for escape then.

Making such plans, I fell asleep in Rihardt’s arms.

Falling asleep in the arms of a man I should be wary of, with my wrists bound by a cravat, was truly a strange thing.

I repeated falling asleep and waking up like that several times. Though at some point I really did fall asleep.

When I fully woke up, I was in an unfamiliar room.

A canopied bed and tapestries decorating the walls.

Where the hell did this crazy bastard move me to?

I was bewildered to wake up in such a luxurious room.

But on the other hand, I felt relieved.

‘I thought he’d lock me up in an equally shabby room as payback…’

Such a nice room like this – doesn’t that defeat the purpose of revenge?

It feels like I’m on vacation at some luxury hotel.

I was flustered by the unexpected luxury as I looked around the room.

That’s when the door burst open.

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