The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 163

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Episode 163

Rihardt pushed aside the tree branches and approached me.

Why did that ordinary movement feel so tense? My entire body seemed to contract with tension.

I forced myself to twist my body, trying to get up. I couldn’t be caught. I had to escape quickly…

“Rose.”

Suddenly, a gentle voice called my name.

The voice that had once brought me comfort during those days when I knew nothing now felt disgusting.

“Don’t come near me.”

“…”

“I said don’t come! Go away. Leave me alone.”

But no matter how much I pushed him away with my words, he had already approached right in front of me and bent down.

One knee touched the dirt ground, dirtying his clothes, but he didn’t seem to care as he examined my condition.

Seeing that made me even angrier.

I fiercely swatted away the hand that reached toward me.

“Don’t touch my body!”

“…”

“Why are you doing this to me! Do you enjoy playing with someone who doesn’t know anything?”

Of all times, I had injured my foot and couldn’t move, which made my situation unbearably frustrating.

As I pressed my fingertips against the ground, dirt particles dug under my nails.

What a disgusting person, taking advantage of my memory loss.

A brief standoff continued, but eventually harsh words spilled from my lips.

“I hate you.”

“…”

“I hate you. Please just go away.”

Only then did his expression, which rarely crumbled at any words, finally change.

The smile disappeared from Rihardt’s face. Was it just my imagination that his face looked hurt?

Why are you making that expression? Why would you?

“Rose, the ground is cold.”

“…”

Even so, even while making that face, he stubbornly reached out to me once more.

“Take your dirty hands away.”

“Let’s go home first. Where are you going barefoot…”

“Let go!”

Smack!

Unable to hold back, I slapped his cheek, and Rihardt’s head turned to the side.

I was ready to strike him again if he dared to touch me once more.

He turned his head back and fixed his gaze on me again.

When I met those deep blue eyes, I couldn’t move at all.

“…The weather is cold.”

Rihardt was right.

My body trembled in the cold wind, but now wasn’t the time to worry about such things.

However, Rihardt acted as if it were a matter of great importance, draping a thin cardigan over my shoulders.

“…What do you want from me? Why are you doing this?”

His incomprehensible attitude only made me more wary of him.

I asked with a voice full of suspicion.

He quietly looked down at me, then placed his hand over mine.

As I tried to pull my hand away in surprise, he interlaced his fingers with mine as if he wanted to be firmly entwined.

“What are you doing…!”

“Don’t you already know what I want?”

“…”

“I’ve always said it was you.”

He pulled my hand toward him and pressed it firmly against his lips.

Even though it was a hand dirtied with soil, he didn’t care.

“Let go now…!”

“I refuse.”

“…What?”

“I won’t let you go.”

Forever.

* * *

Rihardt embraced Rose, who had collapsed after raging for a long time.

There had been times before when her memory returned like this.

That day too had been a peaceful night when he fell asleep holding Rose. That night had been so sweet, as if it would never happen again.

【Who are you?】

【Rose?】

【Why am I in bed with you… Ugh.】

She clutched her head as if confused by her mixed-up memories.

After a while, as her memory gradually returned, she glared at him.

【Rose, are you alright?】

【…Disgusting bastard.】

He couldn’t deny Rose’s words.

They were words that left no room for rebuttal.

That Rose had also gritted her teeth and hurled curses before collapsing.

“Rose.”

He called the name of her who lay motionless in his arms.

After gazing at her sleeping face for a while, he soon moved to the cabin.

When Rose first suggested they live in this place, he was dumbfounded.

At the time, the fake Benefactor who had tried to steal Rose away had sent pursuers after Rihardt.

He could have easily dealt with the pursuers, but living peacefully with Rose, who had lost her memory, would have been somewhat difficult.

So he hurriedly came down to the Ruad Estate to avoid them.

In fact, he had no intention of settling in this place.

This was an estate ruled by the fake Benefactor’s people, after all.

【Be honest with me. You have debts, don’t you?】

【…】

【It doesn’t seem like anyone’s chasing us anymore, so let’s settle down here. This town looks nice and peaceful.】

A peaceful estate? That was only on the surface; this place was…

Rationally, he thought they should move, but with Rose’s single comment that she liked this place, he decided to stay.

He couldn’t go against what she liked.

And at that time, he had no idea that her absurd misunderstanding would lead them to live in a dilapidated cabin.

【We need to save money, Rihardt.】

I have more than enough money.

【Don’t you need to pay back your debts quickly?】

I don’t have any debts.

However, since there were more than a few things he was hiding from her who had lost her memory, he couldn’t tell her any facts.

He felt guilty about making her live in the dilapidated cabin and almost told her the truth right away, but somehow he couldn’t bring himself to speak.

Because it seemed like she would run away immediately.

After cleaning and decorating the cabin together with Rose, it looked quite decent.

【It looks like a house from a fairy tale.】

【Does it?】

【I’ve wanted to live in a house like this since I was little, and I didn’t know it then, but now I’m actually living in one.】

And so he came to live here with her.

Rihardt carefully moved Rose to the bed.

She must have run frantically, as her body had scratches from tree branches here and there.

Especially her foot, which she had complained of pain, was bleeding.

Rihardt dampened a towel with water and carefully wiped away the dirt and blood, then applied medicine over it.

Rose let out a groan, seemingly from the stinging sensation.

“…Rihardt?”

Innocent eyes that seemed to know nothing.

In her pink eyes, only the desire to sleep more was clearly contained.

Seeing those eyes, he felt selfishly relieved.

“My lady.”

“…Mmm. What are you doing there? Ouch.”

The injured area must have stung as she curled her toes.

Finding it cute, he grabbed her ankle and kissed it.

Rose’s eyes widened in surprise.

“Hold me, Rose.”

“…Huh, suddenly?”

She doesn’t remember what happened at dawn.

That memory is his alone to bear.

When he first deceived her, he never knew his deception would bring such guilt.

Such emotions were foreign to him.

If he wanted something, he took it, and if it belonged to someone else, he stole it.

However, it was actually the first time he had felt emotions intense enough to want to steal.

“Do you dislike it?”

Even in this moment of asking her, he feared the distant future.

The day when she, having fully regained her memory, would look at him with disgust.

When he first deceived her, couldn’t he have anticipated that moment?

…No.

He had anticipated it even then. It’s just that back then, he couldn’t imagine at all what it would feel like to have her depend on him like this.

Even knowing it was deception, he liked that she looked only at him.

Because there were too many people around Rose.

“Come here. I’ll hold you.”

When Rose spread her arms, Rihardt buried himself in her embrace.

It was warm.

However, he wasn’t satisfied with just this and demanded more.

“Kiss me, Rose.”

“…”

“Please.”

Rose blushed as if flustered, then carefully grabbed his cheek and kissed him.

The cheek her hand touched felt like it was burning with crimson heat.

At that tantalizing, tickling sensation, he finally lost his reason.

“Mmph, wait…!”

The startled Rose tried to push his shoulders away, but it was already too late.

Rose was helplessly devoured by him.

After a while, she collapsed exhaustedly in Rihardt’s arms.

Rihardt gazed at Rose like that for a long time.

He couldn’t let her go.

Whatever ending was predetermined, even if that end was destruction, he was ready to grasp the sweetness he now held in his hands.

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