The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 160

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Episode 160

“…A maid?”

“This is where the Lord of Ruad resides. They’re looking for a maid, what do you think, Roji?”

Maid work at Ruad Manor. It was something I had never thought about before.

It was too sudden. Flustered, I looked at Sian, and he lowered his eyes while looking at me with a forlorn expression.

“…You don’t like it?”

“No, it’s not that I don’t like it… I’m grateful that you thought of me, but I have a husband at home, so it would be difficult to stay at a manor like this.”

“What if you could just fulfill your quota and return home?”

“Huh? If it’s like that, then it’s fine.”

Then Sian smiled.

“Then it would be even more perfect for you, Roji.”

No need to stay at this manor. Plus, since it’s work at an estate, the pay would be good too.

When I made my decision, Sian approached the gatekeeper guarding the estate.

Sian whispered something to the gatekeeper. Then the gatekeeper’s eyes became hazy, and soon he opened the gate for us.

‘Are procedures normally this simple?’

Since Sian knows someone here, they might have opened the gate for us… but I still couldn’t shake my bewilderment.

As I followed Sian into the estate with mixed feelings, after briefly looking around the interior, Sian’s gaze landed on a man.

“That’s him.”

Looking at the clothes worn by the stern-looking man, he seemed to hold a high position.

“Mr. Peret.”

When Sian called out to the man, the man called Peret turned his head toward us.

That man is the one who knows Sian…?

“Who are you?”

At that moment, an awkward atmosphere formed.

I looked at Sian in confusion, and he wore a calm smile.

“Another boring joke?”

“A joke…”

“You said you were looking for someone.”

“When did I…”

“Don’t you remember?”

At that moment, Peret’s eyes also became hazy. Soon the man’s rigid expression softened.

“Ah, it’s Sian! My eyesight has gotten worse lately, so I didn’t recognize you.”

If your eyesight is so bad you can’t recognize someone from this distance, shouldn’t you be wearing glasses?

Anyway, it was fortunate that they knew each other.

‘But how does Sian, who’s a woodcutter, know someone like this?’

It was a discriminatory thought, but I couldn’t help but wonder.

“Right. I was looking for someone. Is this young lady the person you’re introducing?”

“That’s right. She’s someone who works well.”

“Really? That sounds promising. Miss, what’s your name?”

“…Rose.”

“I see. When can you start working?”

Something was really strange.

Getting hired this easily?

Usually, don’t you have to go through various procedures? Or am I having these doubts because I lived in the rigid modern society?

Something was odd, but ultimately it worked out well.

* * *

“…This is definitely strange.”

“What is?”

Sian turned to look at me.

“No matter what connections you have, getting to work at a lord’s estate immediately without any verification?”

“Well. Maybe it’s because you seem trustworthy, Roji?”

When Sian answered as if asking what the problem was, I had nothing left to say. No, more precisely, it was extremely suspicious, but I couldn’t argue about it.

It would be rude to say it was strange when I should be thanking him for introducing me to a job.

“By any chance, are you… like a hidden son of the lord or something?”

“You sometimes make funny jokes, Roji.”

I couldn’t take my eyes off Sian, who smoothly deflected this conversation.

Surely just moments ago he looked like a young man in his early twenties, but now he seemed like a cunning old fox.

“But why are you helping me?”

Even when I first met him when I was lost, Sian helped me without expecting anything in return.

It might be a trivial kindness to Sian, but I felt sorry for only receiving help.

Sian seemed to have difficulty answering and hesitated for a long time.

Just as I was about to give up, thinking it was hard to get an answer, Sian belatedly opened his mouth.

“You… resemble someone I cared about deeply. That’s why I helped you.”

Someone he cared about.

His voice carried a wistfulness, as if that person no longer existed in this world.

“That person wanted to go home for a long time.”

“Wanting to go home means they couldn’t? There must have been some circumstances?”

“That’s right. There were circumstances. I was far away, but I did my best to help her return.”

Sian’s black eyes were momentarily lost in melancholy.

Again. It was too profound a look for a young man barely in his early twenties to have.

“But one day, that person suddenly declared she wouldn’t return.”

“Why?”

“She said she had found someone she loved.”

“Oh no…”

The pain of unrequited love?

Sian still seemed unable to forget that person, wearing a bitter expression.

As I quietly listened to Sian’s words, something seemed about to surface in my memory. I reached out to grasp that precarious memory, but it wouldn’t stay in my grip.

【I won’t go.】

Only fragments of dizzy memories caught in my hand.

What kind of memory is this?

A woman with pink hair spoke in a resolute voice.

Her words echoed in the small prayer room.

【Get a grip, senior. Do you think anyone will acknowledge you for acting like that?】

【You love that woman? Do you think that woman will recognize you?】

【Not a chance! What do you think she’d do if she knew you were a parasite wearing her daughter’s skin?】

【You say you love that woman? You’re wrong. That’s nothing but deception.】

【If you truly love that woman, come back. Stop pretending to be her daughter.】

A familiar voice shouted at the woman with mockery.

The woman didn’t want to hear that voice to the end and shook her head like a madwoman while covering her ears.

【…No. Stop it. I won’t go back.】

【Senior.】

【I’ve already decided.】

【Senior, please…!】

Sian shouted as if he couldn’t believe it.

However, his cold judgment couldn’t reach me, who had lived trapped in fear in a strange world for so long.

【Even if I go back there anyway… I have nothing! Nothing! No one! I lost everything while trapped in this place!】

【On the contrary, what do you have if you stay in that world, Senior?】

【…If I go back, what about Selline? She’s a woman who endured looking forward to her one daughter. If I leave, she’ll surely die.】

【So you’re going to keep deceiving that woman? Don’t you think that’s more cruel to her? Stop talking nonsense, Senior.】

【Even if it’s nonsense, I can’t help it. Selline protected me all this time. So now it’s my turn to protect Selline.】

【…You’re really not in your right mind, are you?】

No. No.

I don’t want to remember.

“Ugh…”

I clutched my throbbing head.

The memory that had momentarily surfaced faded away like mist.

Please disappear.

I staggered and struggled, resisting against the frightening memories.

“Roji! Are you hurt somewhere?”

“…I don’t want to remember. I hate it, don’t do this.”

I couldn’t hear Sian’s voice and shook my head to escape from the monster-like memories.

My breathing became increasingly rough and my body, unable to endure, swayed greatly.

Sian firmly caught me in that state.

“…Avoidance again.”

Sian muttered something, but I was too busy trying to evaporate the memories in my head to notice.

Only after a long while was I barely able to calm down.

“…I made a scene. I’m sorry.”

“Shouldn’t you go see a physician?”

What was that just now?

Why did my head hurt like crazy?

“No. It’s too late. My husband must be waiting. I should go first.”

“See you next time, Roji.”

“Thank you for today, Sian!”

I smiled brightly at him and waved my hand enthusiastically.

“Be careful going home. These days, there are quite a few people who suddenly go missing from the village…”

“Don’t say such scary things.”

I frowned at Sian, then turned around and hurried toward the cabin.

* * *

Jet-black hair was matted to his forehead with flowing blood.

The stream flowing down his cheek wasn’t particularly a pleasant sensation.

“Yurta.”

“Yes, Sister.”

His dark, saturated red eyes wandered lifelessly across the floor.

Kneeling on both knees and sitting in front of Rose, all that entered his vision were pure white legs.

Once, he had wanted to grab and crush those legs. So she couldn’t run away.

But now, strangely, no desire arose when he looked at her.

“Yurta.”

Rose called him again.

Rose carelessly brushed aside his hair that was stuck to his skin, soaked with sweat and blood.

“Did it hurt a lot?”

“…It doesn’t hurt.”

The woman threw a sneer at Yurta, who believed without doubt that she was Rose.

A few months ago, Yurta had searched everywhere for Rose, who had died in the North.

He walked, and walked, and continued walking without rest.

Until that moment when he didn’t know how much time had passed.

Until all the memories in his head disappeared and only the word Rose remained.

He walked.

Then one day it happened.

Like a miracle, Rose appeared before him. He still couldn’t forget how much joy he felt then.

However, Rose had changed.

“Do you hate me for hitting you?”

“…That can’t be, Sister.”

“Even though you’re bleeding?”

The same question kept repeating.

Yurta repeated words like a parrot before her test with dead, dry eyes.

No. No. That can’t be.

His appearance was exactly like a dog being brainwashed.

That sight was so ridiculous it was killing her.

Then, as if to stop the woman’s continued behavior, the door opened roughly with a bang!

A brown-haired man with a fiercely furrowed brow looked at the woman as if he couldn’t believe it.

“Rose, are you really crazy?”

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