The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 155

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Episode 155

That day was the first time I learned that a person could be so vicious.

After throwing off his mask, Yurta tormented me terribly.

Of course, Yurta had no awareness that he was tormenting me.

“Sister belongs to me.”

Even while putting a dog collar on a person, he didn’t know what was wrong with it.

It was literally ‘his way.’

“So please don’t push me away anymore, Sister.”

Crazy bastard.

Yurta tried to restrain me by any means necessary.

He wouldn’t tolerate me being away from his side even for a moment.

When things didn’t go his way, he would tie me up and confine me.

Sometimes the consequences of my mistakes would affect the servants too.

‘Crazy bastard!’

The torment never ended quickly. It continued for years.

Was there ever a moment when I more desperately needed a place to escape?

The place my feet led me to was the Temple.

“Sister is going to the Temple?”

At first, Yurta asked as if it was strange.

“The rumors about me from outside seem bad, so I thought I’d work on improving my image…”

It was a place I thought of because I wanted to get away from Yurta even a little. It wasn’t somewhere Yurta would go.

“If that’s what worries you, I’ll take care of it for you.”

“No. It only has meaning if I do it myself.”

“I see. Then.”

Perhaps Yurta noticed my true intentions then.

Maybe I looked pathetic struggling to escape.

He obediently let me go. That was unexpected, but I didn’t have the luxury to think deeply about it.

I paid a large sum to the Temple to get my own Prayer Room, and that place felt like the most peaceful location at that moment.

I rested there.

Then one day it happened.

-Senior.

-Are you there?

I heard a ‘voice’ I knew.

At first, I thought it was just a hallucination.

-Senior, if you’re there, please answer me.

-Come on.

The voice kept calling me.

“…Are you Sian? Am I going crazy and hearing things?”

When I answered, ‘that child’ replied with a voice filled with joy.

-It’s not a hallucination or anything like that.

-I finally found you.

* * *

Sian.

He was an underclassman I knew when I was in college.

We weren’t particularly close, so we lost contact after I took a leave of absence.

Then after several years passed, we met again…

‘We met again through bad circumstances.’

I don’t even want to think about it. There was no point in remembering since they weren’t particularly good memories anyway.

“You’re in Korea, right? How exactly are you able to contact me like this? Did you perhaps before too…”

Could the voice I thought was a hallucination when I first went to the Temple with Dillen have been him too?

“Did you perhaps call out to me before?”

The barrage of questions all at once might have been confusing, but Sian smiled warmly and kindly answered.

-Hmm. To answer your first question, yes, I am in Korea.

“But how are you and I…”

-You’re curious about how I can talk to you like this, right? I don’t know that either.

Sian slowly explained what he had experienced.

-At some point, I couldn’t contact you anymore. After we fought, I couldn’t reach you, so I went to your company. But they said you had been absent without notice?

“…”

-I was worried, so I went to your house…

“Wait. How did you get into my house?”

-Well… don’t be angry. I contacted the Gatekeeper and had the door opened.

It was absurd, but it wasn’t important, so I decided to let it go.

-Anyway, when I entered your house, I was shocked to find you collapsed.

‘Me? I was collapsed?’

It was a moment when I could learn what had happened to my body in reality. My heart churned with agitation, but I had to stay quiet and listen to more of what Sian had to say.

-I was about to call 119 right away, and at that moment… I heard your voice.

“My voice?”

However, at the part about hearing a voice, I couldn’t help but ask back.

-I mean the voice praying to be allowed to go home.

After being possessed in This Place, I had always prayed to be allowed to go home. Then when did Sian hear my voice?

If I had to guess…

Was it when I first went to the Temple with Dillen?

But that was over 4 years ago.

“How much time has passed since I collapsed?”

-About a week has passed.

A week?

Only that much time had passed? Then does that mean 4 years in This Place equals one week in Korea?

“That’s impossible…”

I had worried that 4 years might have passed in Korea.

I had worried countless times about Mother’s surgery fees that I couldn’t keep paying and the situation at the company where I would have been fired long ago.

I felt relieved, but at the same time, I felt empty.

-…Now you explain. What exactly happened to you?

I was frozen in a daze for a moment, then came to my senses when I heard Sian’s words.

“So what happened was…”

I honestly confessed everything that had happened.

-…You’re trapped inside a novel?

“…Is it hard to believe after all?”

-No. I believe you. I’m just a little surprised… But Senior, what’s the title of that novel?

“Huh?”

At that moment, all the contents of ‘Raised by the Mist’ flashed through my mind.

Since it was rated for all ages, there weren’t any particularly explicit scenes, but still…

It’s embarrassing.

I felt like my terrible taste had been discovered.

-Senior?

“…”

-Why aren’t you saying anything? Did we lose contact again? Senior, can’t you hear my voice?

“…No, I can hear you very clearly.”

-That’s a relief. So what’s the title of that novel?

I squeezed my eyes shut with a devastated feeling.

“Ah, Fog….”

-The title is Fog?

“…No. It’s a novel called ‘Raised by Fog.'”

Sian fell silent for a moment.

He seemed to be searching for the book title.

Sian’s silence grew longer, as if he was even skimming through the plot.

-Ah….

A short sigh escaped from Sian’s lips.

“Listen, Sian, it’s not like I enjoy this kind of thing or read it often….”

-I didn’t say anything, senior.

“No, that’s….”

-If you like it, you read it. There’s nothing wrong with that.

His voice, responding as if asking what the problem was, carried a faint trace of laughter.

Ah, I want to die.

-Now I’ll help you, senior. So you can return safely.

“…Thank you.”

-I’ll also handle things well with your company. Don’t worry about your mother’s surgery expenses either.

Ah, I remembered. Why we fought at the end.

【Senior, if you need money for your mother’s surgery, I’ll give it to you.】

【Are you treating me like a beggar right now?】

【…Senior?】

I was the one in the wrong.

I let out a groan.

Back then, I was so exhausted and sensitive that something must have gone wrong with my head.

“…Thank you, Sian.”

Hearing my words filled with many meanings, Sian fell silent for a moment.

-Not at all. First, I should go find the author who wrote this story.

“Yes, please do that.”

-See you again next time, senior.

It was the first moment I had hope since coming to this world.

* * *

What happened after that.

I don’t want to remember!

I don’t want to recall it!

Please don’t let me remember!

I’d rather die than think about it!

“Argh….”

My head hurts. It hurts so much.

From somewhere, someone cries out in an anguished voice not to remember.

My consciousness that had crossed over to the distant past snapped back to reality as if bouncing back.

The memories that had opened began to close again.

I was afraid the terrible memories that had unfolded after that would leak out again.

I thoroughly shut away the memories and turned away from the past.

“…No. I don’t know anything.”

I don’t remember anything.

I don’t know anything.

Through my blurred vision, I could see Roji’s distorted face.

“You said you remembered!”

Roji shouted.

“You said you remember!”

“…I don’t know. I don’t remember.”

As if angered by my irresponsible answer, Roji’s hands that grabbed my shoulders tightened with force.

“Remember. Or I’ll kill you right here and now.”

“Just kill me then.”

I can’t die anyway.

Even if I really would die, I don’t care.

Roji’s hand holding the silver candlestick trembled with rage. I pulled that hand toward me.

“Just kill me! Kill me properly.”

The pink eyes looking at me trembled finely, then Roji bit her lips tightly.

“If that’s your wish, I’ll kill you.”

A pair of eyes glowed fiercely like red, then Roji reached out and grasped my neck as if to hold it in place.

My throat was being strangled.

“Then die!”

Just as she was about to swing the silver candlestick mercilessly, thud, her hand was caught in mid-air.

From the recoil, the silver candlestick fell to the floor with a sharp sound.

Blue eyes filled with quiet anger examined us. Soon Rihardt slowly opened his mouth.

“You can’t die, Rose.”

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