The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 126

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Episode 126

The moment I discovered Dillen, the smile that had risen with joy cooled and faded away.

Though the situation was sudden, I had been happy to see him like this, but that feeling disappeared without a trace.

“Isn’t what you’re saying a bit strange, Dillen?”

“….”

“Usually at times like this, people say things like ‘you’re alive’ and such.”

“….”

Dillen’s eyes glowed coldly, shrouded in darkness. His attitude, which felt disconnected from usual, was meaningful.

“…You know something, don’t you?”

Hidden in the darkness, I couldn’t see his face well, but somehow he seemed to be both crying and smiling.

“Come to think of it, you said you’d help me return to Korea. Yes….”

“…Rose.”

“You knew something.”

I rose from the coffin and staggered toward Dillen.

With each movement, I felt the weight supporting my body disappear like grains of sand slipping from my hand.

However, I desperately ran to Dillen and grabbed his chest.

I clung to Dillen desperately. It was laughable how much I hadn’t thought of Korea during the three years living in This Place.

Why had I carved out all those memories?

All the questions I had kept closed surged up in this moment.

All those answers depended on Dillen.

However, he was looking down at me with a terribly pained and distorted face.

“Rose, why did you come back?”

At that moment, my heart sank with a thud. Why did I come back….

“Didn’t you kill Yurta and return to your world?”

“…What do you mean by that.”

“…You don’t remember again? It’s what you wanted.”

Dillen’s voice sank like a swamp. I couldn’t understand what he was saying.

At that moment, a chilling realization struck the back of my head.

“Don’t tell me my death was….”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Dillen’s voice rang out low.

“But Dillen, I… came back.”

That woman with Rose’s face… she killed me. It was the sensation of my mind becoming distant and my breath being cut off.

“…That’s because you didn’t enter through a proper method.”

Dillen’s voice seemed pained and choked as he spoke.

“You didn’t kill the transcendent.”

I blinked, not understanding what Dillen meant. What did killing a transcendent have to do with me returning?

Come to think of it….

【Didn’t you kill Yurta and return to That Place?】

Three years ago, Dillen had said such words.

【If I help you, you promised to kill Yurta for me.】

Perhaps the contract between Rose and Dillen wasn’t equal.

All of this might have been a contract solely for Rose.

“…For you to return, you need enormous energy equivalent to a god.”

While I was realizing something, Dillen continued to speak.

“A transcendent isn’t an ordinary human. They’re a vessel containing enormous magical power.”

“…So?”

“You have to break the vessel.”

Dillen poked near my heart with his finger.

“Kill them and extract it.”

“….”

“…So that energy can flow into the dimension and widen the gap. That’s the only way.”

Perhaps Dillen had originally made a contract with Rose to kill Yurta for her sake.

And I had taken over Rose’s body. So….

“…Then the method is for both the transcendent and me to die?”

Dillen didn’t answer anymore. I knew well that this was an affirmation.

The method was murder. What kind of absurd nonsense was this?

To cut someone’s throat and crush their heart to take that energy?

Suddenly, I remembered killing the Gatekeeper who had tried to harm me in the North.

The temperature of the sticky blood that touched my fingertips and that moment’s fishy sensation.

It still clung to me like a nightmare, something I could recall anytime I closed my eyes.

And now I had to do that again?

My whole body trembled. My mind went blank.

“I can’t do it….”

“Don’t do it.”

I looked at him.

He also looked at me.

Both of us in ruins.

“…Just.”

“….”

“Just live with me, Rose.”

“….”

“…Wouldn’t that be okay?”

With a face that revealed his anguish and shame completely, he confessed his honest feelings to me.

That desperate look in his eyes took my breath away.

“…You said That Place doesn’t come to mind anymore.”

That had certainly been true.

I don’t know why I couldn’t think of it then… but now it’s different.

“Why do you want to go back again now?”

“Because That Place is my original world.”

It was a very natural reason for wanting to return.

There, my family, my home, and the life I had built remain.

Unlike This Place, there are no people who see me reflected in Rose’s shadow.

In Korea, only I exist.

“Won’t This Place do?”

Dillen asked back with a trembling voice.

I quietly stared at him.

“Why are you saying such things? You clearly said you would help me. That you’d help me return to Korea….”

“Right. I did. I certainly did….”

“Then are you saying you won’t help me now?”

“You….”

His jaw trembled. With unstable breathing, only exhaling hot breaths, he barely managed to open his mouth.

“You know it too.”

He grabbed both my shoulders with trembling hands.

“I don’t want you to return to That Place.”

“…”

I was left speechless at that moment.

“…Why?”

You said you would help me, help Rose.

“…You said I was all you had.”

Dillen muttered in a voice full of resentment.

Why on earth did Rose say such things? You shouldn’t carelessly utter words you can’t take responsibility for.

“…You said I was everything.”

The strength left his hands that had been gripping my shoulders.

“Dillen, I…”

“You became my world, you became my everything…”

He pushed me away and staggered backward.

Until his back touched the wall.

The moonlight illuminated Dillen’s profile.

What had been hidden in darkness—whether he was laughing or crying—was now revealed.

Tears dropped from Dillen’s red eyes.

“You’re bad.”

“…”

“Deceiver.”

Was he afraid of being left alone when I returned?

I thought that perhaps past Rose had only Dillen, which was why she carelessly said such things.

Dillen had been foolishly enchanted by those words.

Because he too was terribly lonely.

“Dillen…”

But I wasn’t Rose. So I couldn’t accept those feelings.

“I’m sorry, Dillen.”

I rejected him.

* * *

His hazy consciousness began to slowly return.

Only then did the sensation of his limbs being severed and broken into pieces come back to life as well.

Yurta’s eyes trembled finely from the pain.

Light from all directions pierced through the gap of his slightly lifted eyelids.

As his mind gradually cleared, Yurta grasped the tail end of his last memory before collapsing.

【Yurta.】

【I hate you.】

Smiling brightly, she stabbed his abdomen without hesitation, and she pushed him off the cliff without ever wavering.

More than the pain of his limbs being shattered, the fact that Rose had abandoned him without hesitation was more agonizing.

Rose always hurt him.

She had never stopped hating him, not for a single moment.

She had tried to see it through to the complete end.

Somehow he felt like crying.

But he couldn’t let go of this pain.

If he could see her even like this, he was confident he could say he loved even this pain.

Yurta raised his body.

No, he tried to raise it.

Only then did he realize.

Somewhere unknown, he was bound.

Like a beast.

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