The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 150

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Episode 150

Ten years old, she was young.

The girl hated the house that reeked of musty smells.

In her neighborhood, no one wore clothes as shabby as hers.

Very rarely, opportunities to wear pretty clothes would arise, but they were clothes thrown to her like charity by neighbors who pitied the girl.

When receiving clothes given because their own daughter had outgrown them, her mother would be delighted.

The girl couldn’t understand it.

What’s so good about wearing clothes others have discarded!

‘Why was I born as mom’s daughter?’

If not, she could have lived enjoying a little more.

The girl wanted to be born as a noble young lady from a wealthy family.

On the streets, she could see noble-like women passing by in pretty dresses.

‘Beautiful.’

The girl also hoped to wear such dresses someday.

Roji went to the fountain that was said to grant wishes if you prayed, and earnestly prayed that day too.

Please make me rich too.

It was a common wish, nothing particularly special, just like other children her age would have.

* * *

“…You’re Roji.”

The original Roji, before I possessed her body.

“Right?”

The smile disappeared from Roji’s face, leaving only coldness.

“Is it because I stole your body… because you can’t enjoy what you could have enjoyed?”

She looked at me with an extremely expressionless face.

“And I think you’re mistaken about something – I’m not Rose. My possession was recent…”

“What’s the point of talking more with someone who can’t even remember?”

She muttered as if feeling deflated, then her eyes soon sparkled.

“No wait? I thought of a good idea. I’ll help you find those memories.”

“What?”

“You cast a spell, didn’t you? I’ll break that spell for you.”

Before I could even agree, she grabbed and pulled me toward her.

I was startled and tried to pull away, but a strong force wouldn’t let me go.

‘What kind of strength…’

I’d felt it before, but it was strength rivaling that of a man.

“What?”

“Why…”

Then suddenly excitement crept into her voice.

“The spell is broken.”

“…The spell is broken?”

As Rose’s memories began surfacing one by one, had Countess Millard broken the spell back then?

But if that were the case, not all the memories had returned.

“Then why can’t you remember? The spell is broken, so why…!”

“Ugh…”

Force was applied to her hand gripping my shoulder.

I frowned at the sharp pain, and the woman soon burst into loud laughter.

Soon, bright red anger rippled in Roji’s pink eyes.

“…Right. You don’t want to remember, is that it?”

“…”

“If the spell was broken, the memories should have returned, but you must have found them so unpleasant to recall that you locked them away yourself?”

“…What are you talking about?”

“Then I’ll have to force you to remember.”

Before I could even ponder Roji’s words, her hand reached toward my neck.

“Gah!”

Her hand gripping my nape forcibly dragged me along.

And she walked to the altar buried in darkness and threw me down roughly.

“Ugh…!”

With that brutal force, I couldn’t even resist and was thrown down.

‘She won’t listen to reason at all!’

Seeing the madness gleaming in her pink eyes, I thought I should run away.

But as if the woman noticed that thought, she firmly stepped on my hand with her foot.

“Ah!”

“Does it hurt? Compared to the pain I felt, it’s nowhere near enough.”

Roji picked up a silver candlestick that was nearby.

“If you don’t want to remember, I’ll make you remember.”

“Are you crazy? Are you going to kill me with that?”

“You won’t die anyway. If you want to go back, you have no choice but to kill the transcendent being, right?”

“So you knew after all? That’s why you killed me without hesitation?”

Roji smiled as if it were obvious.

I also smiled back defiantly. Like I’d die twice for her sake?

I used all my strength to kick her ankle hard!

“Ugh!”

Even with monster-like strength, she seemed to feel pain as Roji staggered backward.

I immediately pulled my body back and stood up.

But a hand reaching from behind grabbed my hair.

“Ugh!”

“I told you, didn’t I? This kind of pain can’t break me.”

The hand mercilessly gripping my hair felt like it would tear my scalp off.

Roji threw me toward the altar again.

“If you didn’t want to suffer like this, you should have protected what I held dear.”

“What exactly did you hold dear! What did I steal from you!”

I shouted while clutching my aching side after hitting the altar.

I couldn’t understand why she was taking her anger out on me.

“You think I wanted to possess someone? I didn’t want to either!”

“Then you should have at least protected mom.”

“What?”

“You know what’s funny?”

“…”

“You hate Yurta enough to wish for his death. Because he killed mom!”

At those words that struck like lightning, I trembled blankly for a moment.

【…Sister, I really didn’t do such a thing.】

【I didn’t do such a thing…】

I recalled Yurta’s figure pleading to be believed in the North.

The man with reddened eyes, sobbing like a young child.

【I… killed ‘that woman’ so you resent me.】

My head was throbbing.

Very old memories broke through the dam that had blocked them and crawled up.

“But did Yurta really kill mother?”

“…It was Yurta who killed mother.”

With my confused mind, I blurted out words without knowing what I was saying.

“How cowardly. You’re shifting the blame to Yurta because you can’t bear that pain.”

“…”

“Of course I hate Yurta too. His sins aren’t light either, so I hope you both suffer for the rest of your lives.”

My consciousness grew hazy.

As if they would burst out at any moment, memories seemed to crash bang! against each other. My head rang violently.

“So just die for now.”

The woman’s actions were unhesitating.

Without a moment’s hesitation, she swung the silver candlestick.

Thud! With a dull sound, my vision shook violently and all strength drained from my body.

A warm stream flowed down my face.

But no groan came out.

“Still not dead?”

She raised her hand as if to swing the silver candlestick again.

I stared blankly at that sight and closed my eyes.

* * *

It was a very long time ago.

On a stormy night, when I was submerged in darkness with even the candles extinguished.

I was lying there like a corpse without energy when the manor became noisy.

“Miss! Madam has returned!”

A maid urgently shouted toward Rose, who was lying there in a daze.

Only then did Rose sit up.

“Mother has returned?”

The unexpected news made my mind snap to attention.

Since we had parted on bad terms, I didn’t expect mother to return.

“I should quickly prepare… no, no. I should go like this. Where is mother?”

When life returned to Rose’s face after she had been acting like a dead person for months, the maid showed a momentarily surprised expression.

However, Rose had no time to care about the maid’s sentiments.

As soon as she heard where mother was, she rushed out.

Then she remembered the last moment with mother, and suddenly her steps slowed.

She barely arrived in front of the room where mother was, but she absolutely couldn’t open the door.

【I hate you!】

【How dare you imitate my daughter when you’re not even my daughter?】

That moment when gentle mother had shouted like a madwoman with veins bulging at her temples.

‘She won’t want to see me.’

I know that.

But I wanted to meet and talk just once.

Even if she wouldn’t love me like before, it would be fine…

Please just listen to what I have to say, just once.

Rose opened the door to the room where mother was, filled with desperate hope.

And she witnessed that moment.

Rose couldn’t take her eyes off the scene unfolding inside the room.

Rumble!

Thunder struck and lightning crashed down. Flash! Blue light entered through the window, illuminating the dark room.

She couldn’t take her eyes off mother, who had already become a corpse.

Red blood spread around mother, who had collapsed clutching her abdomen.

Rose turned her head in a daze.

Where her gaze directed, there stood Yurta holding a blood-stained sword.

* * *

“Why are you laughing?”

Roji frowned as if displeased, but strangely, laughter flowed out.

“Ah…”

Tears flowed mercilessly from my eyes, yet strangely I was laughing.

It was truly incomprehensible.

“I asked why you’re laughing? Don’t my words make any sense?”

I looked at her standing with the candlestick and opened my mouth emptily.

“Stop it now.”

I raised my hand to cover my face.

“I remember now, so stop it.”

“You remember? Everything?”

For a moment, intense ecstasy flashed in Roji’s eyes.

I looked into those eyes and answered slowly.

“…Yes.”

I remembered everything.

The memories I wanted to forget.

To explain all of this, the memories go back to a very distant past.

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