The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 157

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Episode 157

It was a wretched life.

Roji hated the poverty-stricken house and the village children who wouldn’t leave her alone.

Most of all, what she hated most was her incompetent mother.

Why did you give birth to me?

Mother has no ability. And no father either.

Why did you raise me?

“Mother, I want to eat chocolate.”

“…Roji.”

“I know. Mother doesn’t have money either.”

Aaron, the wealthiest in the village, went around bragging that his parents bought him expensive chocolate.

“…I want to eat it too.”

“….”

“I want to eat chocolate too! Not this tasteless stuff!”

It was a day when she couldn’t endure the wretched poverty and took out her anger on Selline.

That day, Roji stormed out of the house.

However, when night came and she had nowhere to go, the 10-year-old girl’s wandering didn’t last long.

She returned home listlessly and fell asleep sniffling as usual.

I wish tomorrow wouldn’t come.

I hate seeing Mother’s face.

It was a night when she fell asleep harboring all kinds of hatred and complaints.

When morning came, Roji despaired.

“Roji, are you sick somewhere? Why do you keep screaming?”

“Wh-who are you!”

“…Roji?”

Someone had stolen her body.

A pitch-black unconsciousness sucked Roji’s soul away.

Filled with terror, she watched her mother and the woman who had stolen her body growing distant.

“Our daughter, what’s wrong. Tell Mother. Hmm?”

Mother, that’s not me! I’m here!

Roji screamed until her throat was raw.

But cruelly, her own mother seemed to hear nothing and caressed the thing that had stolen her body.

Mother….

I’m here!

I’m here!

Save me!

“My beloved daughter.”

Mother, why can’t you see me?

It was darkness.

* * *

“Benefactor.”

Roji came to her senses at the title calling her.

Everyone praised her.

In childhood, she had wished to become a noble person who received ecstatic gazes like a saint.

‘It’s nothing special.’

Having experienced it, it was nothing but a trivial thing.

“Benefactor.”

However, she didn’t dislike everyone revering her.

How could she dislike it when those who looked down on her were now groveling at her feet?

Roji felt a moment of exhilaration.

But then someone who shouldn’t be seen caught her eye.

“Benefactor….”

“Wait a moment.”

She brushed off those calling her and hurriedly left the banquet hall.

Chasing the black shadow, she turned her back on the splendid party venue and ran into the dark garden.

“Stop there!”

She urgently called out to the man.

“Stop! I said stop!”

Even though she could catch up if she ran, she hoped the man would stop at her words.

“Sian.”

As she spoke that name, the man hesitated and finally turned his head.

“…I knew it was you.”

Upon confirming the man’s face, her voice trembled.

The jet-black hair and black eyes were an uncommon appearance.

Most of all, the man’s distinct features had an enchanting quality that drew people’s attention.

Having spent a very long time with such a man, there was no way she wouldn’t recognize him.

“Why are you here? You shouldn’t be here.”

“Why do you think I shouldn’t be here?”

“That’s because….”

The man she knew couldn’t escape from the ‘Cursed Land.’

Because the moment he came outside the cursed land, he would be engulfed in pain as if his whole body was burning.

If he stayed out for a long time, this man might die.

That’s why the man had only come out of the cursed land once.

“You thought I wouldn’t come out of the cursed land and caused quite a stir.”

Roji couldn’t keep her gaze in one place and moved it around restlessly. Like a child worried about getting scolded.

However, contrary to Roji’s thoughts, the man smiled kindly.

“Why did you do it?”

The man’s words contained many meanings, so Roji couldn’t answer immediately.

Was he asking about killing Rose and trying to kill her again?

Or about her stealing Rose’s place?

Or… was he blaming her for stealing his position and becoming the savior herself?

“Did you come to steal my position? You came to reveal that I’m not the benefactor, didn’t you?”

“….”

“…Yes. That’s it. You’re doing this because you care so terribly much for that woman!”

The moment when all the nobility bowed their heads to her now felt like a dream.

This man before her eyes would surely ruin both her position and her revenge.

However, the man let out a short bitter smile and said something surprising.

“No. You can have that position.”

“….”

“If you want it so much, you can be the benefactor.”

“…Why?”

“Are you still dissatisfied even when I let you have it?”

The benefactor held significant meaning for the man. That’s why Roji had doubts.

“Why are you just giving it to me? You wouldn’t do something good for me, so is this side more beneficial to Rose?”

Instead of answering, the man looked at Roji with an unreadable gaze.

His jet-black pupils gleamed like black pearls on the surface but never showed what was inside.

“When I met you again, I thought you would try to kill me. Because I killed Rose, whom you cherish so much.”

Still unable to read the man’s intentions, Roji threw out words that might shake him.

The man’s eyelashes trembled for a moment, then regained their usual calm.

“I’m the one who made you, so why would I kill you.”

“….”

“I don’t want to harm you.”

“Lies! If I get in your way, you’ll kill me without hesitation.”

As if it wasn’t entirely wrong, the man laughed briefly.

“You like glamorous things, don’t you. I’ll give you that position, so be satisfied and give up your revenge. If you do, I’ll help you enjoy that glory forever.”

Words wrapped in fancy packaging. Looking inside them felt disgusting.

Roji clenched her fists tightly.

“You know why I’m doing this, yet you say such things?”

“….”

She had been trapped for a very long time in darkness where no one would save her.

Briefly, when she regained consciousness, she had to face painful scenes.

The moments when someone took over her body, monopolized her mother’s love, and stole her life.

Was that all?

“Because of that stupid thing, Mother died miserably.”

The usurper was so busy taking care of only herself that she didn’t even know what was happening to Mother in that place.

So Mother died.

Roji wandered around like a ghost.

Unable to escape from the darkness. Without a body to cry with, she wailed in the only way she could express herself.

The one who saved her then was Sian. This man.

“….”

“You’re the one who made me. Did you bring me back to life without anticipating something like this?”

The man was someone who appeared one day.

He saw her when no one else could, pulled her from the darkness, and created a body for her.

“Thank you for making this body. I’ll put it to good use.”

Roji turned her back on Sian.

Once, she had run chasing wherever that man’s gaze reached.

It wasn’t romantic feelings.

It was the desire to receive just one glance, just one bit of attention from her savior. The man who saved her.

But not now.

As she took steps to return to the banquet hall, at that moment she came face to face with a tall man.

The man’s green eyes looked down at her, his fine golden hair swaying in the wind.

Count Evantes?

Don’t tell me he heard the conversation?

Sure enough, the man’s lips twisted.

“Who are you?”

* * *

I had a strange dream.

In the dream, I walked through a pure white space. It was a place that was completely white with no visible end.

Walking as if drawn by something, I picked up an object that had fallen on the floor.

‘A locket pendant?’

It seemed familiar, and wasn’t this the item I threw away three years ago after being told it had the aura of demon worshippers?

This is what Mother gave me, that’s right.

My memories got mixed up and I had forgotten.

As I fondled the pendant with a wistful feeling, at that moment I heard a voice.

-Do you still want to forget your memories?

Huh? Where is that coming from?

When I looked down toward where the sound was coming from, there was the pendant.

The locket pendant twitched as if its lid was about to open or not. As if entranced, I opened the lid.

Inside was a drawing of a woman with pink hair wearing a smile.

‘Mother.’

Selline.

Seeing her gave me a strange feeling.

-I asked if you still want to forget your memories.

Then the locket pendant spoke to me again.

I hesitated for a moment before answering.

“…Yes.”

Otherwise I feel like I’ll cry all day.

I don’t want to cry anymore.

I want to go back to my carefree college days.

Back then Mother wasn’t sick and things were good….

-I understand.

The lid that had been open closed.

I wanted to see Selline’s face again and tried to open the lid, but it wouldn’t budge.

But soon my memories were also sucked into the pendant, and I forgot what I was doing.

When I closed my eyes and opened them again, I was back in reality.

“My lady, did you have a good dream?”

The silver-haired man wore an ecstatic smile as he brushed my hair back.

Rihardt. My husband.

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