The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 103

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Episode 103

“You’re awake.”

…Rihardt.

I bit the inside of my mouth and looked at him.

“What are you planning to do with me now?”

“I’m planning to feed you.”

Replying as if it were obvious, Rihardt came in pulling a trolley.

The room was instantly filled with mouth-watering aromas.

“In the past, you used to bring me meals.”

“That was a truly terrible time.”

“Was it? I’m enjoying this time right now.”

Of course you would, since you wanted to see me finding this situation terrible.

“Hmm. Just in case, I’m telling you not to think about rebelling by refusing to eat. Then I’ll force you to eat even if I have to…”

“Why would I starve myself?”

I was actually planning to cause a ruckus if you didn’t give me food.

If it had been Arzen who was confined instead of me, with his arrogant personality he would have refused to eat, but I’m different.

Who would I be starving for? I need to eat to gain strength and escape.

And usually in novels, when the confined person starves themselves, the captor gets sad, but I don’t think Rihardt would be like that with me.

‘But wasn’t he just about to say he’d force me to eat? Well, that was probably just talk.’

Rihardt smiled with his characteristic pretty eye-smile.

“That’s fortunate.”

He placed a small table over my bed and put the food on top of it.

I thought about complaining about the side dishes with a mother-in-law’s critical eye, but… the food was too excellent for that.

‘It’s not like Rihardt cooked it himself anyway.’

Criticizing such food would be unfair to whoever made it.

So I finished my meal deliciously. Every last bit without leaving anything.

“You eat well.”

“…Why are you being so burdensome?”

After confirming that I had finished eating, Rihardt left the room shortly after. He acted as if he didn’t care what I said.

I sprawled my body on the bed.

Having just eaten, my mind became drowsy. Even though I seemed to have just woken up from a good sleep.

My eyelids grew heavy and I barely managed to snap back to consciousness just before closing my eyes.

‘I’m confined right now.’

This isn’t the time to sleep.

The situation was so luxurious that I almost forgot for a moment.

This isn’t the time for this – I need to escape quickly.

I checked if there was anything in the room that could help with escaping.

The vase on the shelf looked quite expensive… no, that’s not it. Get it together.

While wandering around the room, I discovered there was another door besides the one Rihardt had entered through.

What is this door?

Hoping it was an exit, I opened the door, but it was a bathroom.

I felt deflated for a moment.

‘Wait…’

A method came to mind.

* * *

Three years ago, on that day when he was dying in the Cursed Land, Rihardt lost ‘it’.

【Don’t you want to live?】

The Benefactor who appeared before him as he was dying whispered like a devil.

Rihardt had simply lived because he was alive.

His life was something that almost disappeared in childhood anyway. If ‘mother’ hadn’t saved him.

So he existed.

Without any emotion.

It was the first time he had ever experienced such intense survival instinct.

Only that maid with pink hair that shimmered like a fantasy before his eyes. Crawling through this rotten land with only the thought that he must meet her again, that he had to meet her.

【What do I need to give?】

Anything would be fine.

When even his life was fading away, what could possibly be frightening?

As if pleased with such a Rihardt, the Benefactor smiled slyly.

【Scent.】

Scent?

【’Her’ scent that you’ve been smelling. I want to smell her scent too.】

Did the Benefactor know something about Roji?

And a scent – how could he possibly give that?

【You just need to give it to me.】

However, the Benefactor acted as if he could obtain such a thing.

So he gave it.

The scent that had captivated him and paralyzed his thoughts.

Perhaps when Rihardt met that maid again, he might go mad from that scent.

Rather than repeat such foolish behavior again…

It might be better to live bearing the pain.

It was pain he had carried his entire life anyway.

【I accept the deal.】

He would never again be bewitched by that scent.

So he willingly made the deal, but…

While crossing the Northern Mountains, questions wouldn’t leave Rihardt’s mind.

He could no longer feel the scent and pleasure that had bewitched him until now.

But why was he still drawn to her?

The small warmth in his arms was very warm.

As if the warmth here was what he had been longing for all this time.

A subtle body scent wafted from Roji, who slept obliviously.

It was a body scent he couldn’t feel three years ago because he was consumed by her intense fragrance.

‘Now that I can’t smell the scent anymore.’

Am I now captivated by her body scent?

Somehow he thought he might be captivated by her scent for his entire life.

Even though he could no longer smell that scent, she looked lovely lying in his arms like this.

She’s the woman who betrayed him.

He didn’t know it three years ago, but he knows it now.

From the beginning, Roji never intended to run away with him. She planned to deceive him and escape alone.

She deceived him from start to finish.

And yet.

Her sleeping face and the way she chews food in her mouth are unbearably lovely.

He had been worried about what to do if she refused to eat.

It was fortunate that Roji ate the food deliciously.

Rihardt had often cooked since he was young.

Perhaps because his mother enjoyed the meals he made for her. He continued cooking even though he didn’t particularly like it.

As a result, his cooking skills gradually improved.

After growing up, since he couldn’t trust anyone, he preferred to cook his own food.

Considering his status, it was surprising.

Rihardt looked at the scenery beyond the window.

A few hours ago, knights had noisily passed around this area. Probably looking for Roji.

He had moved Roji to his castle near the north.

Inside this castle, there were only Roji and him, just the two of them.

That fact was very satisfying.

Taking his eyes off the window, he headed toward the room where Roji was.

“Roji.”

He thought she would naturally be on the bed, but she wasn’t there.

Looking around, he saw the bathroom door was open.

Hot steam poured out along with the sound of rushing water.

‘Is she washing…?’

His face reddened slightly.

Why is the door open…?

He was about to turn around and leave when a metallic scent brushed past his nose.

Though it was a faint scent, with his exceptional senses he could tell it was the smell of blood.

Rihardt hurriedly entered the bathroom.

Inside the bathroom…

There was a broken vase and Roji, who had collapsed unconscious in the bathtub filled with reddened water.

The blood smell that struck his mind made him dizzy.

The excited mood he had felt until entering the room disappeared and seemed to plummet into an abyss.

After staring blankly at the bathtub, Rihardt pulled Roji out with trembling hands.

Whether she had changed into the white negligee he had brought her, her previously white clothes were stained red.

“…Roji.”

Where on earth is this blood coming from?

Rihardt hastily embraced Roji. Then her wrist fell to the side.

Blood flowed down from the wound on her wrist.

He stared at that wrist in a daze, then carried Roji and moved her onto the bed.

“Roji, please come to your senses.”

“…”

“Roji.”

There was no way she would answer.

Could she be dead?

He pressed down his trembling hands and placed his palm on her neck.

Fortunately, her pulse was beating.

‘I need to treat her quickly.’

He left the room to find the first aid kit he had stored away.

When he hurriedly returned to the room with the first aid kit…

“Ha.”

There was no one in the room.

He was sure he had laid her neatly on the bed.

Looking closely, he could see traces of water drops around the area, as if Roji had left the bed.

All expression was wiped from Rihardt’s face.

“So you wanted to play hide and seek…”

Muttering to himself, he smiled eerily.

“Since you started first, I can decide the punishment however I want, right?”

* * *

I ran and ran for a long time.

Running frantically through the dark corridor, I finally stumbled and fell.

“Huff huff…”

My stamina had already reached its limit and I was out of breath.

‘This hurts like hell…’

The inside of my thigh hurt more than my wrist.

There’s no way all the blood that spread in the bathtub came from just my wrist.

And I hadn’t even cut my wrist deeply in case it might be dangerous.

I touched the inside of my thigh.

When I touched it and pulled my hand away from the stinging pain, blood was soaked all over my palm.

When I stabbed my thigh, I was surprised that more blood gushed out than I expected.

I got up again, limping.

I need to escape quickly.

‘Where on earth is the exit?’

Was there such a large castle in the north?

I had to wander around for a long time.

As I ran through the dark corridor, I saw bright light in the distance.

It’s the exit…!

I ran toward the exit with a bright smile. Now I can get outside!

However, at the exit stood a man darkened by the backlight.

“I’ve been waiting for quite a while.”

It was a pleasant voice, but it sent chills down my spine.

My heart pounds violently.

“You’re late, Roji.”

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