The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 110

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Episode 110

There were so many things I wanted to ask Dillen.

The conversations we couldn’t finish three years ago came back vividly.

However, the moment Dillen coughed up blood, all those thoughts scattered into thin air.

I looked at Dillen, forgetting everything else.

He casually wiped the blood from his lips as if it were nothing.

“…Are you hurt somewhere?”

He turned his head away as if it was difficult to answer.

“Dillen.”

“…It’s paint.”

When I glared at him with wide eyes demanding an answer, Dillen reluctantly opened his mouth.

Are you kidding me right now?

“Paint?”

“Yeah, paint.”

Does he think I’d fall for such an absurd lie?

“Don’t worry. We just need to go this way. We’re almost there.”

I was worried about his condition, but he was the one comforting me instead.

‘I wasn’t worried about that though.’

Strangely, I found myself trusting him.

It was just a brief connection from three years ago.

Because he saved me?

I’m not the type to trust others. Anyone would have to climb very long stairs before I’d trust them.

In this world, Michelle was the only person I considered trustworthy.

We went through difficult times together and overcame several crises.

When I felt lonely sometimes, Michelle was there for me, and when she was lonely, I was there.

Those were sufficient conditions to trust each other.

‘Then what about Dillen?’

How strange.

I couldn’t understand why I felt that way.

Dillen hid deep in the forest to avoid pursuit.

His condition kept getting worse.

Eventually, he swayed greatly and collapsed.

“Dillen!”

“…Haah.”

Dillen clutched his chest area as if in pain.

I frantically looked around.

A place where Dillen could rest…

While hurriedly searching, my gaze landed on one spot. An abandoned temple surrounded by withered vines.

The building was half-collapsed and the walls showed cracks and holes.

Dead grass grew wildly around it, looking unmanaged.

“Dillen, just hold on a little longer.”

I dragged him inside the temple.

For now, it seemed we’d have to assess the situation here.

‘Why is Dillen suddenly like this?’

Did he come to save me with a sick body?

“…Hot.”

Then Dillen clutched his chest as if trying to tear it.

Rip-

Startled by the harsh sound of fabric tearing, I looked at Dillen.

“…Hot, hot.”

“Dillen, are you crazy?”

“…So hot I’m going crazy, Rose.”

Why is he suddenly acting like this?

He kept muttering that it was hot while trying to take off his clothes.

While I was flustered, when his bare shoulder was revealed, I quickly grabbed his arm.

“…Hot, Rose.”

“It’s the middle of winter, Dillen. Get a grip!”

“…Hot.”

Dillen’s red eyes became slightly hazy. Why is he suddenly acting like this?

It was during this repeated struggle.

That I discovered the strange mark on Dillen’s chest.

“…Rose?”

When I stared intently at his chest, Dillen called my name in a puzzled voice as if he’d come to his senses.

He tried to quickly adjust his clothes, but I grabbed his hands.

“Take off your clothes.”

“Hey, what are you…”

“Just take them off!”

“N-no… Hey!”

Whether he called out to me urgently or not, I focused on removing his clothes.

After the fabric brushed past my hands several times, his clothes were completely removed and his upper body was revealed.

It was a beautiful body with well-defined muscles.

But without time to admire it, I focused on the mark carved on his chest.

“…Don’t look.”

Dillen tried to cover his body with a face red from embarrassment, but I grabbed both his hands.

His hands trembled weakly.

“Rose, please…”

He called to me pleadingly, but it didn’t reach my ears.

This mark, definitely…

I’ve seen it in a book. Not only that, I’ve also seen someone with a similar mark.

“Dillen, is this a curse?”

“…”

The color drained completely from his face.

As if he didn’t want to be found out, he pressed his lips tightly shut.

【I made it so you couldn’t meet Sister.】

No way…

“Yurta did this.”

“…It’s not like that.”

“It is. What kind of curse did he put on you?”

“…You don’t need to know. You don’t have to know.”

Dillen let out another groan as if in pain.

【If you want to protect Dillen, it would be best to stay as far away from Dillen as possible.】

Yurta had said that as if giving advice.

“Yurta told me to stay away from you. Is it a curse related to that?”

“…Cough, no.”

Dillen denied it while coughing up blood.

He seemed reluctant to let this fact be discovered.

“Dillen, tell me honestly. What kind of curse is it?”

“Cough…”

The amount of blood pouring out gradually increased. I looked at him in shock.

“Dillen…!”

At that moment, his body completely collapsed.

* * *

More than a week had passed, but there was no progress in the search.

The knights hung their heads low as if they had no face to show.

“Is she really dead?”

Died in a fire? So anticlimactically?

It still didn’t seem believable.

For the sole reason that she couldn’t have died so anticlimactically, Arzen conducted a massive search.

The knights already seemed to think that Roji was completely dead.

Arzen became a little restless, unlike himself.

She shouldn’t die this easily.

He anxiously tapped the armrest of his chair.

“Count.”

Then one knight carefully approached his side.

“We heard news that Baron Seiblain moved somewhere urgently. What should we do?”

The suspicious Arzen had placed surveillance on everyone related to Roji, just in case.

‘Baron Seiblain moved.’

Arzen, who had been pondering something deeply, rose from his seat.

“Follow him.”

A pleasant smile formed at the corner of his mouth.

“Carefully, so we’re not discovered.”

* * *

It seems like he’s in pain because he’s with me.

Since Dillen’s condition rapidly worsened after meeting me, the cause clearly seemed to lie with me.

As I was contemplating whether it would be better to leave Dillen behind like this, he grabbed my arm.

“…Rose, don’t go.”

“…”

“Don’t abandon me.”

Though he had awakened, Dillen still didn’t seem to be in his right mind as he muttered in a confused voice.

“…Dillen, are you in pain when you’re with me?”

At those words, a strange light flickered in his eyes as if he had momentarily come to his senses.

“…No. It’s not like that.”

“But you’ve been in pain ever since you were with me.”

I had thought a lot while Dillen was collapsed.

If my guess about the curse’s conditions was correct, it was right to separate from him.

“Just tell me where Michelle is. I’ll handle the rest myself.”

“No. Don’t go…”

Strangely, I didn’t want to be a burden to Dillen, at least.

I felt reluctant to keep receiving help from him. It was separate from my feelings of gratitude.

Were these my emotions or Rose’s emotions?

Or both?

I couldn’t tell.

Everything becomes confusing when I’m by Dillen’s side.

“…Do you think I’d let you go alone?”

“Then what can you do in that condition?”

Like a broken record, the conversation went in circles.

I sighed.

I coldly shook off Dillen’s arm as he pitifully tried to hold onto me.

Then his red eyes wavered.

‘That blood doesn’t go anywhere.’

Like Yurta, Dillen is also stubborn.

Since it had come to this, I had to coldly separate from him for his sake too.

“You’re no help at all right now and have no value. You know? Why do you keep being bothersome?”

Being sharp with Dillen wasn’t easy. However, I had to make him give up, so I had no choice.

I thought if I went this far, he’d be hurt and back down.

But…

“…Are you crying?”

His eyes reddened.

Was this something to cry about?

I was flustered by the sight of Dillen’s reddened eyes.

“…Don’t go, Rose.”

When he says that while crying, I…

I sighed.

My heart softens when he cries with that handsome face.

And strangely, being cold to Dillen wasn’t easy.

Why?

When dealing with Yurta or Rihardt, I felt nothing, but only with Dillen it’s like this.

“Footprints were discovered over here!”

Who…!

My whole body stiffened at the suddenly heard voice.

“Calm down, Rose.”

Were they Count Evantes’s knights, or Yurta’s knights?

My heart beat frantically.

I was so tense that I didn’t even notice Dillen lifting me up.

“It’s toward the temple!”

Are we going to be discovered like this?

‘Should I have just left Dillen behind and gone alone after all?’

I looked up at Dillen.

He can’t use his power when he’s with me. Because of the curse Yurta carved into his body.

“Listen carefully, Rose.”

Then his red eyes shone clearly.

“There’s no one on the back road.”

“…”

“I’ll block this place, so you escape alone through the back road. There’s a side path nearby, so if you keep going, Baron Seiblain will be waiting for you.”

“…”

“Got it?”

I wanted to say no at least once, that I’d stay with him, but reason led me down a different path.

Anyway, it’s best for Dillen and me to separate.

“Take this.”

Dillen handed me a black robe. Was this to hide my appearance?

“Hurry and go.”

Dillen released me.

I recalled that moment three years ago when he had protected me.

I don’t know if it was the price for that, but you received that curse.

Why do you still try to save me even after that?

Though I had doubts, my body was already running as Dillen had instructed.

I immediately slipped out toward the back of the temple.

Debris and accumulated snow fell from the arched doorway, but I had no time to notice.

After running through the backstreet for a short while, the side path Dillen mentioned appeared.

Dillen really was determined to help me.

Once again, the thought that I wasn’t Rose followed me, but I pretended not to know and kept running.

Thorns pierced my bare feet and the cold snow touching them hurt.

Pure white snow swirled violently, blocking my vision.

“Ah!”

Eventually, I tripped over a thick tree root and fell.

Tears welled up from the pain, but there was no time for this.

Just as I was forcing my body to move despite its refusal to get up.

A hand wearing pure white gloves extended before my eyes.

“Oh my.”

I know that voice.

I froze stiff, unable to stand up, just staring at the ground.

Is this what it feels like to fall off a cliff?

A deep sense of despair washed over me.

I had managed to escape, but in the end…

“You’re hurt. How heartbreaking.”

I had no strength to resist as Rihardt pulled me into his embrace.

So it’s back to Rihardt again in the end?

Just as I was letting out a hollow laugh.

Rustle.

I heard the sound of grass being pushed aside and the crunching of snow being trampled.

It wasn’t coming from Rihardt’s direction.

I turned my head toward where the sound came from.

And I was able to meet red eyes filled with rage.

“Take your hands off her right now if you don’t want them cut off.”

It was Yurta.

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