The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 136

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Episode 136

I stared up at Rihardt in a daze.

He was looking down at us with an utterly expressionless face.

The sword he held still bore clear traces of having harmed someone.

Bright red blood flowed down across the long blade.

I shifted my gaze to look at the man who had fallen on top of me.

From the circumstances, it appeared he had been struck down by Rihardt—he was covered in wounds and in a complete mess.

“Paelo Yungsik? What on earth is this…?”

“Kugh!”

But I couldn’t finish my words.

Rihardt’s sword had pierced through Paelo Yungsik’s body.

Red blood splattered over my body.

“Cough…”

Wet blood spurted from the parched lips of Paelo Yungsik.

The strength left Yungsik’s grip that had been holding me. The heavy man’s body slumped over me.

I couldn’t say or do anything, and simply accepted Paelo as he collapsed into my arms.

A person had died before my eyes.

My mind went completely blank. Through my numbed ears, I heard the sound of shoe heels hitting the ground.

Rihardt carelessly lifted Paelo Yungsik’s corpse and moved it off my body.

“Are you alright?”

“…”

“Oh my, you seem quite shocked.”

He looked down at me as if pitying me.

The man’s cold fingers brushed against my cheek.

My skin was startled by the distinctly different temperature, and my body instinctively shrank back.

“You just killed someone…”

“I didn’t kill a person.”

“Murderer.”

“I merely did what I had to do.”

What he had to do?

Breaking into someone else’s manor and killing people?

“You see me as a ruffian. If you knew who that dead man was, you wouldn’t say such things.”

I couldn’t bring myself to ask who the man was.

However, Rihardt smiled faintly and gave an answer I hadn’t wanted.

“A demon worshipper.”

“A demon worshipper?”

“I caught a demon worshipper who was trying to escape, Miss Camilla.”

It was an unexpected statement. But I still couldn’t understand the situation at all.

Even when I tried to think, only the scene of Paelo Yungsik being struck down played in my mind.

“You have blood on your face.”

Rihardt looked at me in my dazed state and pulled out his handkerchief as if pitying me.

Since I was too frozen from shock to take the handkerchief, Rihardt personally wiped the blood from my cheek.

However, the blood didn’t wipe away easily and instead smeared across my face.

Rihardt discarded the blood-soaked handkerchief and brushed at the traces of dried blood on my face.

Those blue eyes flickered with a strange heat, then Rihardt lowered his head and kissed my cheek.

In that moment, I snapped back to my senses.

“What are you doing right now…?”

“Grand Master!”

Just then, the Countess came running urgently toward us, clutching her skirts.

She carefully surveyed the current situation, but didn’t seem surprised by the sprawled corpse and my blood-soaked appearance, maintaining a calm expression.

“Young Lady, are you alright? Oh dear. Blood got on the clothes you just changed into. I’ll bring out new clothes, so please wait a moment.”

After that, her servants came running and casually cleared away the corpse.

No one found this situation strange.

I felt like I was the only one who had gone insane.

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“Since the Young Lady seems to be in shock right now, it would be best to move locations. I should guide you to a room…”

“I’ll guide her.”

Countess Millard, who had been wearing a troubled expression, changed her face as if hearing something unexpected.

However, she soon left with words asking him to take care of Young Lady Camilla, as if understanding.

Rihardt lifted Roji, who was still sitting on the ground, unable to even think of getting up.

He could feel her trembling body clearly where they touched, making him feel like a predator holding a herbivore in his arms.

How pitiful.

Yet somehow, a smile appeared on his lips.

Two months ago, when Rihardt saw Roji and Count Evantes embracing, he had been curious.

Why had she chosen Count Evantes?

He too had said he would give her everything.

What was different about that bastard compared to himself?

But why did she choose Count Evantes, smiling so prettily while embracing that man?

The woman who looked exactly like Roji, as if wearing her skin, mocked Rihardt’s ugly jealousy.

【I’ll help you get that girl you want. In exchange…】

The woman proposed a deal to Rihardt.

【You’ll help me. You have to step forward when I ask for help. Stay by my side until I need you.】

【Do you think I would accept such a proposal?】

The woman’s eyes widened. As if asking what reason there could be to refuse.

【You can’t have that girl with your own power anyway.】

【…】

【That girl hates you, though it might be different if you used force. You know that, don’t you?】

The woman casually poured out the correct answer that Rihardt didn’t want to hear.

【That girl will never accept your feelings.】

Ever.

The woman added cruelly.

Helplessly, Rihardt couldn’t refute that. Everything the woman said was true.

Roji hated him and perhaps would never accept him for the rest of her life.

【Who exactly are you?】

Who was she to speak as if she knew so much about the relationship between Roji and himself?

He gritted his teeth and approached the woman. But she gazed at him as if finding him ridiculous.

【Don’t you need my help?】

【I don’t need it.】

【You think that way now. But later, you’ll change your mind.】

The woman smiled meaningfully and raised her hand to point at her own chest.

It was an exaggerated gesture as if she were acting in a play.

【Because I’m going to take away all of that child’s place. Without leaving a single trace.】

【….】

【What do you think will happen to that child when she has nowhere to go?】

The woman seemed to find great pleasure just imagining that scene, and this time she laughed out loud.

If anyone had seen it, they would have felt chills as if a ghost were laughing.

【Let me know if you change your mind.】

【….】

【See you again next time.】

The woman left only those words and disappeared.

It was quite an enticing proposal, but he wasn’t drawn to it. No matter how out of his mind he was, he wasn’t foolish enough to grasp the unsettling hand of a woman whose identity was unknown.

After that incident, Rihardt pursued Roji’s whereabouts.

He was able to hear new information.

That Count Evantes had taken in a blonde mistress. Strangely, Roji’s existence, who had left with him, had completely vanished without a trace.

Like liquid heated by fire evaporating and scattering as smoke.

However, on the other hand, Rihardt thought that the mistress might be Roji.

So he went to find her….

At the cafe, he discovered a blonde woman walking out with Count Evantes.

The woman’s golden hair swayed in the gentle breeze like golden petals blooming in a meadow.

The wind blew.

Many crowds passed by before his eyes, but only the golden hair was etched in his mind.

【Roji.】

He called the woman’s name as if enchanted. His voice was filled with passionate longing and anticipation.

Don’t forget me.

Remember me.

Think of me….

Look at me.

Whether the woman heard his voice or felt the suppressed wind, she turned around in surprise.

Her blue eyes wavered as if searching for him in the crowd.

He avoided the spot while looking into those eyes.

He thought then.

She shouldn’t have turned around.

The moment he saw her, he was certain he would never be able to let go for the rest of his life.

And so, in the present.

Rihardt pulled the woman, who couldn’t even think to tidy her disheveled appearance, into his arms.

The Countess organized the situation and offered a room for the startled Roji.

He naturally followed into the room, saying he was worried about Roji.

He sat Roji on the sofa and shamelessly sat right next to her, but she stared blankly into space with vacant eyes, as if she hadn’t recovered from the shock.

She seemed lost in thought.

He embraced Roji and grasped her hand, pulling it to his lips.

Even as he kissed between her fingers, there was no reaction.

“You should look at me.”

“….”

“Roji.”

Only then did a glimmer appear in the woman’s blue eyes as if she had come to her senses.

Roji raised her head to look at him.

“How….”

Her red lips trembled, unable to close, as if asking how he knew.

He felt the urge to kiss her because she was so lovely, but he restrained himself. Instead, he buried his lips deeply in her fingers.

He wanted to savor this moment for a long time.

But at that moment.

“Count! Please calm…!”

With an urgent shout from outside, bang! The door opened.

Count Evantes with an angry face looked this way.

Seeing Roji in her blood-stained dress embraced in the arms of the Paladin Commander, Arzen’s brow furrowed.

He looked at Rihardt.

Taking in the sight of Rihardt burying his lips in her fingers, he opened his mouth as if astounded.

“Ha. You’ve completely lost your mind.”

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