The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 11

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Episode 11

At that moment, Mari realized. This damn girl had never submitted.

Rather, she was telling her that she knew she was putting drugs in the food.

However, Mari quickly regained her composure. It was a useless action anyway.

“So what. Do you have evidence?”

“Are you admitting to your actions now?”

“Admitting what, Roji. I never did such a thing. You were saying strange things, so I mentioned evidence.”

“But Mari.”

Roji gently stroked Mari’s hair. Mari roughly swatted away Roji’s hand at the unpleasant feeling.

A brief look of disappointment crossed Roji’s face.

That hypocritical bitch…!

“Usually when someone says ‘it was you,’ shouldn’t you ask ‘what was?’ I didn’t say anything, but you seemed to already know.”

“…That’s.”

She was at a loss for words. Mari bit her lip in frustration.

“…Don’t you know that even if you interrogate me, it’s useless? Don’t falsely accuse innocent people without evidence.”

“I understand. Then let’s go.”

“What…?”

Before she could understand Roji’s words that came out of nowhere, she grabbed Mari’s arm and pulled her along.

Mari followed her in bewilderment.

The place Roji led her to was the First Floor Hall, and there was…

“You came, Mari.”

The Butler looked at her with a cold face.

Mari surveyed her surroundings with trembling eyes.

The Head Chef standing beside the Butler with a murderous expression, Emily the Maid next to him with a triumphant look. And…

…A Kitchen Maid kneeling in front of them.

What on earth was going on?

Mari’s fingertips trembled.

At that moment, Roji, who had her arm linked with hers, looked back at her. A gentle smile was floating on her lips.

“Now then, explain, Mari.”

* * *

Actually, I knew a simple way to solve the problem of drugs being put in Rihardt’s food.

It was to catch the Kitchen Maid putting something suspicious in.

So I told the Head Chef and Emily to keep watch over the Kitchen Maid.

The Kitchen Maid was only wary of me, so she wouldn’t have thought they were watching her.

And as I expected, when night came, the Kitchen Maid appeared to mix fruit into the ingredients that would go into Rihardt’s food.

Because I had told them in advance, the Head Chef and Emily were able to catch the Kitchen Maid in the act.

And so now.

All the servants had gathered on the First Floor and this situation had occurred.

“Confess honestly what you were trying to put in the food! Hurry!”

The Butler sternly shouted at the kneeling Kitchen Maid.

I watched this scene half-enlightened.

Seeing the Butler for the first time today, I realized.

The fact that the blonde man I had reported Rihardt’s escape attempt to last time was not the Butler.

Don’t tell me I made a mistake with someone important?

If the man I called Butler back then was Arzen…

‘No. He said he wasn’t.’

My suspicion had somehow turned into conviction and I was full of distrust, but I had no choice but to believe him with tears in my eyes.

“What exactly were you trying to put in! Do you know that you’ve made a tremendous mistake right now!”

“Th-th-that… I heard it would enhance the flavor if put in food… I thought it would be good to add…”

No one anywhere was fooled by the Kitchen Maid’s rambling lies.

I signaled Emily with my eyes. Then Emily, understanding my signal, nodded and approached the Butler.

“Butler.”

“What is it?”

“It’s a plant encyclopedia.”

When Emily handed the thick book to the Butler, he reluctantly received it.

He opened to the page where a bookmark had been placed.

“I saw the Kitchen Maid putting something suspicious in, and since she didn’t seem willing to tell the truth, I quickly borrowed this.”

Interest sparked in the Butler’s eyes.

“Was this your idea?”

When the Butler asked Emily, her gaze turned to me. I signaled again.

Just say you did it!

As if understanding our signal, Emily smiled brightly. As expected, smart Emily…!

“No, it wasn’t me, Roji told me to do it!”

…Excuse me, Emily?

“And it was also Roji who noticed that the Kitchen Maid was acting suspiciously!”

No, Emily! That’s not it!

“Quite a clever maid.”

The Butler glanced at me up and down, then turned his attention to the plant encyclopedia.

I figured nothing much would happen, so I decided to just let things flow.

“Is this true?”

The Butler, having read the plant encyclopedia, showed the book open in front of the Kitchen Maid.

The Kitchen Maid desperately shook her head in denial, but her lies were exposed in an instant.

Realizing she could no longer lie, the Kitchen Maid finally confessed the truth, and at the Butler’s summons, I brought Mari.

“Say again what you said earlier.”

The Butler coldly ordered the Kitchen Maid, and she looked at Mari with tearful eyes.

“Maid Mari knew I had a sick sibling, so she gave me money and told me to put medicine in the meals!”

“What is she saying now…! Butler, this is slander!”

“Shut up!”

The Kitchen Maid, as if she wouldn’t suffer alone, spilled all the circumstances up to now.

Mari shouted with a reddened face that it wasn’t true, but too many circumstances aligned for that.

“That Kitchen Maid is slandering me!”

“What reason would the Kitchen Maid have to deliberately slander you?”

“I don’t know that either. I’m innocent! I’m innocent, I tell you!”

Even seeing Mari cry out pitifully, the Butler’s gaze remained ice-cold.

“For now, I’ll report this matter to the Marquis. Lock up the Kitchen Maid, and Mari, you are to reflect on yourself. Since there’s only circumstantial evidence for now, I’ll punish you as soon as proof emerges.”

At the Butler’s cold words, Mari gritted her teeth and looked at me, so I turned my head pretending not to see.

While I was doing meal duty, I had to block all problems.

This was also good for the next maid who would come as my successor.

“And Roji.”

I didn’t expect the Butler to call my name, so I opened my eyes wide.

“Would you consider becoming a personal maid?”

“…Pardon?”

“The thing the Marquis brought is called a Monster, I hear. They say it curses people and bewitches them. But unlike the rumors, that’s not the case.”

Wait a minute, Butler. What are you saying.

The Butler seemed to be trying to persuade me, doing his best to soften Rihardt’s image that Arzen had created as much as possible.

However, I knew what happened to the personal maids in the original story.

“The work will be easier than what you did before. And your salary will increase too.”

“….”

“It’s not a bad condition. In fact, there’s no better condition than this.”

“…Butler, I.”

Perhaps reading rejection in my expression, the butler spoke before I could finish.

“Think about it a little and give me an answer….”

“I thought about it a little and I don’t like it.”

Perhaps I answered too firmly, as the butler looked flustered. However, he quickly and skillfully returned his expression to normal.

“I understand. If you don’t like it, I won’t recommend it further.”

“Thank you for giving me such an generous offer.”

Fortunately, the butler didn’t continue to persuade me.

I was planning to leave this Marquis House as soon as I had saved up enough money.

I would leave right before Rihardt escaped later.

So I had absolutely no intention of becoming a dedicated maid with such firmly planted death flags.

Having made such a firm resolution, I came to deliver Rihardt’s dinner….

“I heard you rejected the dedicated maid offer.”

How on earth do you know that.

“Why did you reject it?”

Incomprehensibly, his eyes darkened ominously.

* * *

With Mari’s matter resolved, I was on my way with dinner for Rihardt, feeling relieved.

“I heard you rejected the dedicated maid offer.”

But as soon as I entered the room, Rihardt asked me out of the blue.

How does he know about that?

Rihardt was smiling, but it didn’t look like he was truly happy.

“The gatekeeper told me.”

Perhaps noticing my confusion, he immediately revealed the source of his information.

“That person told you…?”

“To be precise, I overheard the gatekeeper talking with a friend outside.”

You can hear outside conversations from inside this room?

“Why did you reject it.”

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