The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 149

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Episode 149

【I’m Rose Herthas.】

When the woman wearing Rose’s mask first appeared, Dillen didn’t believe it.

When he deliberately approached her, when the woman embraced him, he didn’t believe it without a doubt.

This isn’t Rose.

If it were Rose, his body should have been swept away by burning pain.

Even while dying in agony from that damned curse Yurta created, his gaze still followed Rose…

-Don’t you want to twist and break those ankles and trap her in your arms?

The madness planted by the curse was directed entirely at Rose.

Not at the woman who appeared claiming to be the savior.

But…

‘Why are you running away as if you’re the fake one?’

Doubt began to sprout.

That was only the beginning.

After Rose disappeared, Dillen deliberately stayed by the woman’s side and observed her.

And he discovered an amazing fact.

The woman’s speech patterns, gestures, habits. Every single trivial thing belonged to Rose.

【You can’t even drink well.】

The way she snatched the wine from his hand and curved her eyes like a crescent moon.

Even how each action evoked memories.

Everything was Rose.

“So you answer me.”

Dillen spoke to the flustered woman as if coughing up blood.

His head said that one over there was Rose, but his body was drawn to this side.

“Who are you.”

* * *

My wrist hurt from being caught by him. However, the gaze that looked at me as if strangling my neck was so painful that I quickly forgot the sensation in my wrist.

“Who are you.”

“…Dillen, that’s.”

What should I say?

That I’m actually fake? That I’ve been pretending to be Rose all this time?

How could I say such a thing.

“Say something, anything!”

Dillen shouted.

Incomprehensibly, his eyes held desperation.

“You said you lost your memory. At least say you don’t remember!”

“You already know the answer.”

You know that I’m not Rose.

But why do you act as if I must be Rose? Why?

Are you trying to project Rose onto me?

To make me taste that disgusting sensation again?

“Let go of my hand.”

“…”

“It hurts because of you. Let go quickly.”

Whether he reacted to my words about pain, Dillen’s eyelashes trembled.

He closed his eyes tightly, then opened them and spoke heavily.

“I’m in pain too.”

“What?”

“When I’m with you, it still hurts like crazy.”

Even while saying it hurt, he couldn’t completely let me go and kept holding my wrist.

Looking at his confused red eyes, strangely, my mind became calm.

“So you want me to tell you I’m Rose?”

“…It’s not like that.”

“It’s not like that? Then why are you still holding onto me when Rose has appeared, Dillen.”

I pulled my arm free from his grasp.

“I’m not Rose.”

At that moment, the emotion that flickered through Dillen’s eyes reached me clearly.

Terrible anguish.

I turned away from him.

* * *

After parting with Dillen, I immediately entered the empty prayer hall.

Is this the place?

Unlike the bright and splendid banquet hall, the prayer hall was dark.

Only sparse light coming through the arched windows.

‘Where is Rose?’

I looked around inside the prayer hall.

Then, from somewhere, the sound of a piano rang out through the prayer hall with a ting-.

After hitting the keys a few times, suddenly bang bang! Sounds with completely messed up rhythm and melody struck down like lightning.

I reflexively covered my ears at the tremendous noise pollution.

‘What is this…’

In the distance, I could see large organ pipes moving up and down.

If those are moving…

Below the organ pipes, I could see a slender figure roughly pounding the keys.

‘Rose!’

What on earth is she doing over there?

I thought I needed to do something about that noisy sound first.

At this rate, everyone would come rushing over.

“Stop!”

However, my voice was buried in the loud pipe organ sound.

The performance continued.

Until Rose collapsed from exhaustion.

Having pounded the piano to her satisfaction, Rose stood up from her seat.

“You came instead of that man?”

That man must refer to Rihardt.

Rose spoke in a calm tone as if she wasn’t surprised that I had come here.

“Yes, I came.”

I also answered calmly.

“Don’t you think we need to have a conversation?”

“A conversation?”

“Yes. Why you killed me, why you appeared here… there are so many conversations to be had.”

“You seem to have many things you want to ask me.”

“You definitely want something from me. What exactly are you trying to do.”

Otherwise, you wouldn’t be acting in ways that provoke me.

“What on earth are you thinking.”

At those words, Rose’s smile became meaningful.

“You know what? I played the piano for the first time today.”

It was a sudden change of topic.

“I’ve wanted to try playing it for a long time.”

“….”

“Isn’t it amazing? How such beautiful sounds can come from such a large thing.”

Rose tapped the keys as if fascinated.

Ting- Ting- Ting-

The same note rang out steadily.

“When I was young, I think I dreamed of playing such instruments in front of many people and receiving cheers.”

Rose’s eyes became hazy for a moment, as if lost in memories.

“So I thought beautiful sounds would come out when I pressed the keys, but that wasn’t the case.”

“What exactly are you trying to say.”

“….”

“Stop talking nonsense and answer what your purpose is.”

Rose smiled brightly.

“I just told you. That I wanted to try playing the piano.”

“What…?”

“I really wanted to try playing it. Very much.”

The hand slowly stroking down the piano gradually gained strength.

Soon Rose’s pink eyes turned toward me. Stained with madness, they shone like red for an instant.

“But forget the piano, I was robbed of everything.”

She dropped down from the pipe organ and slowly approached me.

“I had to be trapped in darkness for a very long time.”

“….”

“Do you know what it feels like to be trapped in darkness for years beyond imagination?”

The woman’s languid voice gradually gained strength. Each syllable she spat out as if filled with resentment dripped with venom.

“It was sickeningly long.”

“….”

“During all that long time, I was helplessly robbed of everything in the darkness, and as if that wasn’t enough, I had to watch even that disappear.”

When Rose stood in front of me, her expression was completely distorted.

Strangely, looking at that face reminded me of a crying child.

“…What are you talking about. Speak so I can understand.”

Are you saying that I stole Rose’s body?

“So when I got a body, I looked forward to meeting you for a very long time.”

Rose reached out her hand to me.

Her hand stroking down my cheek felt like touching her own shell, making me shudder.

“But you know what. This wasn’t what I wanted to meet.”

“….”

“Not something this stupid. Not you in a blank state acting like you know nothing!”

She screamed as if vomiting out her resentment, then looked dejected.

Then she suddenly showed irritation.

“I came here to steal everything from you, but this makes it no fun.”

She touched my forehead as if displeased.

“How dare you forget your memories? By whose permission.”

I swatted away her hand touching my body.

“Don’t just say what you want to say, speak properly! Is it because I possessed your body?”

But that wasn’t something that happened because I wanted it.

I too…!

At that moment, my head became hazy and some memory surfaced.

The image of a girl with pink hair sobbing in the Temple.

What is this memory?

While I couldn’t collect myself for a moment, a strong force gripped my shoulder.

The sharp pain brought me back to my senses.

“This isn’t such a simple problem.”

“….”

“You took my body and ruined everything of mine. So why can’t you remember alone?”

“….”

“How dare you try to escape from this pain by yourself? By whose permission.”

The woman’s eyes surged with fierce anger.

As if my body was also burning in the flames, my flesh felt like it was burning away.

Then the woman smiled, a smile that didn’t match her distorted brow.

“Still don’t understand? Whose appearance I showed at the banquet hall.”

“….”

“It was your appearance. Can’t you even remember that?”

My appearance?

“I came to steal everything from you, Rose.”

The woman, the woman I thought was Rose, called me by that name.

As if I were Rose.

“…Aren’t you Rose?”

“Ha! I guess you’ve forgotten even that now?”

Laughing as if incredulous, the woman got angry again.

“Remember properly. Who you are. I’m not Rose. You’re Rose.”

Then who is the woman in front of me?

There’s no way I could be Rose….

She says she’s not Rose.

I instinctively opened my mouth.

“…You’re Roji.”

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