The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 161

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Episode 161

Rose had changed.

Since when?

It started on the festival day.

Rose standing before Dillen that day was two people.

A woman with Rose’s memories and a woman who denied herself.

Though he was momentarily drawn to the latter, there was clear evidence of the former, so he was forced to choose the former.

Because….

How could I abandon you, Rose?

【Why? You’re good at it.】

Dillen couldn’t forget the words Rose had said to him in his childhood.

In his very early years, the boy who was a hothouse flower saw a genius.

No, something that far transcended genius. That being was his very own sister.

That being, said to be born blessed by the gods, was always far ahead of him no matter what he did.

Dillen became a shadow while watching that light. The stronger the light became, the darker his shadow grew.

He thought he would live as a shadow his entire life.

He tried to learn to simply accept it.

Then came that day.

【Stop crying already.】

On his mother’s death anniversary that everyone had forgotten, when he was crying alone in bitter sorrow.

On that day when he felt so wretched he wanted to bury himself in the dirt, a young girl approached.

【If I were your mother, I’d be sad to see my child crying so bitterly.】

【What’s it to you? Do you want to die? How dare you come here!】

The stained boy’s eyes became bloodshot. He wanted to tear apart and kill the woman standing before him right then.

His mother had died miserably. Not only that, now even her death was forgotten.

Because of the very girl before his eyes! Because of her mother!

They had taken over this Count’s estate and his pitiful mother had died lonely.

She looked for her husband, but he never came. Instead, she faded away while holding Dillen’s hand.

【I just felt like caring.】

【Stop babbling and get lost while I’m being nice.】

But the young girl didn’t budge.

【Do I amuse you?】

What harsh words would be good?

Violence alone couldn’t drive away or hurt the girl before him.

He wanted to see the girl crumble, even just a little.

That would be fair.

With my poor mother.

You and your mother shouldn’t be happy. That would be unfair!

So Dillen dared to speak words that should never be spoken.

【I wish your mother would end up the same way.】

【I wish you’d both be punished by heaven.】

【I wish you’d fall to hell.】

【I wish you’d fall to the depths.】

Strangely, the more he spat out those words, the more intense his euphoria became.

A red gleam flashed in the boy’s eyes. He was soon pouring out harsh words with an ecstatic smile.

【Die.】

【Just die.】

【Both of you disappear from this world!】

What expression did the young girl have after hearing those abusive words?

Rose had a face that contained no emotion – neither smiling nor crying.

Seeing that expression, the intense euphoria that had surged up was instantly extinguished. It wasn’t the reaction he had wanted.

Just as he was about to pour out his boiling anger again, Rose opened her mouth.

【You know what, Dillen? I’m already in hell.】

Rose tidied the boy’s disheveled hair from his anger.

Normally it would have been a touch he’d find disgusting and shake off, but facing the girl’s face that was more despairing for having no expression, he couldn’t say anything.

Was this really what I wanted?

【I’m already in hell.】

Dillen’s mind went blank for a moment.

This is deception.

A girl from the slums had settled into the Count’s estate and was living a happier life than anyone, yet calling it hell.

He bit his lips hard.

【How blessed you are. Hell, with that situation? You and your mother stole everything my mother had! After enjoying it all… and then you call it hell?】

【…Right. If my mother had enjoyed such things, would it have been a little less unfair?】

What is she saying?

Rose’s words sounded as if her mother hadn’t enjoyed anything at all.

Is she trying to deceive again?

【Just admit it.】

That your mother is enjoying happiness.

If you dare steal my mother’s things and say such words….

【My mother didn’t get to enjoy anything. Nothing at all.】

Rose, if you say such things, what does that make me?

It was the moment when Dillen, unable to contain his surging anger, was about to push Rose’s shoulder.

【She died before she could enjoy anything.】

At that moment, Rose’s expression looked so genuine that he thought the woman who had taken over the Count’s estate had finally died.

Did she die because I cursed her?

Fear washed over him. Dillen couldn’t close his mouth and trembled as he looked at Rose.

Rose pretended to be in the same situation as Dillen, but didn’t cry at all.

【Dillen, I have nothing, what should I do?】

【What….】

【I really have nothing. Nothing at all. Neither in ‘that world’ nor ‘this world’.】

【….】

【It’s been too long since I left ‘that place’, so everything has disappeared. But I don’t have anything here either.】

Has she finally gone insane? What on earth is she talking about?

While thinking Rose had gone crazy inside, Dillen couldn’t move.

He was afraid that if he said even one word to her, the girl would crumble like a sandcastle.

So Dillen couldn’t even touch Rose and just stood there stupidly, watching the words pour out like machine gun fire.

【You know, Dillen. You’re really good at studying. You were the smartest child I’ve ever seen.】

Then Rose suddenly blurted out something unexpected.

Even though he had hated the girl in front of him to death, Dillen ended up blushing at those words.

【You’re good at swordsmanship too.】

【….】

【You don’t seem to be able to draw, but you sing well too.】

【You, you, how do you know I sing!】

【You walked by singing after getting praised by father once before. How could I not hear that.】

Rose laughed briefly as if amused.

Dillen saw her laugh like that for the first time.

He was momentarily entranced, but the smile that had charmed him quickly disappeared.

【You’re really overflowing with talent. So amazing.】

【Wh, what are you saying right now….】

【I can’t say more because this is all I know how to say. Anyway, you do many things well. So don’t cry just because you got scolded a bit.】

【….】

【In my opinion, you were a genius.】

Dillen almost swayed without resistance at the flood of unfamiliar praise.

It was something his genius younger brother had heard countless times and found boring, but Dillen was different.

【This is all I can say.】

【….】

【I tried to save at least one person before leaving, but what can I do when I couldn’t even save myself.】

Rose smiled, but her expression looked like she was crying. Why does she have that expression?

【Well then, goodbye.】

Was it his imagination that her voice sounded like she was saying farewell?

He wanted to hold Rose back.

He wanted to reach out his hand and tell her not to go.

Just a little, just a little more praise for me. Tell me I’m doing well.

Pathetically, he wanted to make such a plea to the girl who had felt like an enemy.

However, his petty pride prevented him from stopping the girl.

All his pride would allow was grabbing a servant and asking what had happened to the Countess.

He was suddenly afraid that she might have died as Rose had said.

But what came back from the servant was the story that she had held a tea party as usual.

Hearing that, Dillen became angry. Did she make fun of me?

He tried to calm himself alone, but that night he tossed and turned for a long time before getting up from bed.

What were those words you whispered to me?

Were they lies to make fun of me?

He wanted to hear an answer.

True to his impatient nature, he immediately ran out of his room.

The boy who hadn’t even properly put on his slippers ran.

He still hasn’t forgotten the anger toward the girl and the slight tension. His clenched fists kept getting sweaty.

Finally, when he went out to the garden to quickly get to the room where Rose was staying, Dillen saw it.

【Rose…?】

Rose stepping up onto the terrace railing.

【You right now….】

What are you doing right now?

Why are you up there?

The moment Rose’s body swayed, her pink eyes and his red gaze crossed.

At the moment their gazes were about to intertwine, the small body fell.

【No, don’t… Rose!】

He tried to catch the falling girl.

He stretched out both arms and ran while bursting into tears, but couldn’t overcome the speed of the falling girl.

The girl’s body that fell from the high floor was shattered.

Dillen can’t forget that shocking scene.

Rose had committed suicide.

* * *

Dillen knows.

That Rose is now using pilgrimage as an excuse to mercilessly kill innocent people.

Why on earth is she doing such things?

But Rose didn’t answer.

Dillen looked at Yurta who had collapsed bleeding for a moment, then looked at Rose again.

“…Rose, please stop.”

Don’t crawl any further into the abyss.

“Why are you doing this?”

It wasn’t that he disliked Rose assaulting his younger brother.

The two brothers hadn’t cared what happened to each other from the beginning anyway.

He was just afraid that Rose would be ruined.

“…Stop it.”

Dillen clung to Rose’s wrist, pleading desperately.

However, Rose smiled brightly as she pressed a knife into Dillen’s hand.

When Dillen stared blankly, Rose wrapped her hands around his.

Just like that, she thrust her abdomen toward Dillen’s hand that held the knife.

Thunk!

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