The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 174

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Episode 174

I had to hurry and escape.

That much was certain.

But for some reason, my footsteps were heading toward the estate.

‘If I don’t say anything, Sian will be in trouble.’

Right, so let me stop by the estate to tell him I’m quitting and then leave.

I didn’t think anything was strange about it.

The awareness that I needed to escape and the choice to head to the estate awkwardly overlapped, but I didn’t bother to dwell on that contradiction.

As if I was following an already predetermined sequence.

‘I need to go to Sian. Because that kid is….’

Or as if someone had very carefully just redirected my path.

The estate guards changed shifts once during the night and didn’t recognize me, but a knight with a familiar face who was passing by spotted me and let me inside.

I hurried toward the garden.

“Sian.”

Sian had said he worked in the garden even at this hour.

“Sian, are you there by any chance?”

However, Sian was nowhere to be seen.

I definitely heard he worked even at this time….

Thud.

Then something caught at my feet.

‘A locket pendant?’

What’s this?

Come to think of it, I saw Sian wearing something similar before… could this be Sian’s?

I picked up the locket pendant and tried to open it.

But the tightly closed locket pendant wouldn’t open.

【Please, if there is a god, hear my prayer.】

Again.

A strange memory struck my head as it came flooding back.

I frowned. What the hell is wrong with me?

【If you have even a little pity for me, please hear my prayer just once.】

In the memory, I was kneeling in the temple, pleading pitifully.

【If you’re going to keep me trapped in this living hell…!】

【Then please make me forget everything. Make me like an idiot!】

“Ugh….”

My head hurts.

I covered my throbbing head with my hands.

Then I saw red stains splattered on the grass.

What are these stains?

Struggling to hold onto my hazy consciousness due to the headache, I walked following the stains.

It couldn’t be blood, right?

Even as I denied it inwardly, an ominous feeling crept up on me.

Soon I discovered there was something in the bushes. Wondering what it was, I examined the bushes and froze in place.

“…Sian?”

Sian, he was collapsed with blood flowing from his head.

I crouched down to check if Sian was okay.

His body was cold as ice. Just like a dead person.

I hurriedly put my hand under his nose and checked his pulse too.

“Hey, Sian….”

Something was wrong.

Why the hell is he collapsed here.

“Sian, snap out of it.”

I tried shaking his body to wake Sian up, but it was useless.

How did this happen. Sian, please….

“Rose?”

Then someone called me from behind.

“Hanna? Perfect timing. Something’s wrong with Sian.”

“….”

“Hurry and call someone. I think something terrible might happen to him.”

“….”

“Hanna?”

Why aren’t you moving after seeing someone bleeding from the head!

I thought she might be shocked, but strangely she had a calm expression.

“You saw it.”

“….”

Does she know what those words mean.

“Sian is dead.”

“….”

“I made it that way.”

“Hanna, you…!”

What was so brazen about it that Hanna laughed.

“Offer him as a sacrifice too.”

A sacrifice?

At that moment, rumors I’d heard from the Ruad Estate flashed through my mind.

That recently strange incidents of people going missing had begun to occur….

‘This is insane.’

The moment that chilling premonition struck my mind, a large man jumped out from behind me.

I tried to run away immediately, but it was already too late.

The man struck the back of my head.

I lost consciousness just like that.

* * *

A fragment of memory I thought had been shattered came flowing in.

【…I’m really sorry.】

【They said your mother passed away.】

While I had left Korea, Mother died.

At that moment, the mass that had condensed inside me, the thing that had endured through endless wear, completely crumbled down.

My pillar of support that had somehow tried to persevere in this strange world disappeared.

So I jumped from the terrace. Because there was no need to live anymore.

But….

【No, Rose!】

The moment I fell, I saw a boy running toward me, crying. The brown-haired boy held onto me as I fell and wailed.

Even amid the impact that felt like it would shatter my body, his tear-stained face remained vivid.

【…Live, Rose.】

【…Please.】

That was the last voice I heard.

Perhaps because of that prayer-like plea, I eventually survived.

【Rose, Mother is here with you. My baby…】

Selline’s warmth as she embraced me was terribly warm.

Even if that warmth wasn’t truly mine, I wanted to breathe by clinging to her embrace.

The two people holding onto me weighed on my mind too much for me to decide to die again.

【Rose… my daughter.】

Selline, who never left the bedroom until I recovered…

【I… I was wrong…】

Dillen, who constantly knelt and apologized to me.

That day, I decided to become a perfect fake.

I wanted to protect them.

And I too needed people to love.

So I believed I could maintain this lie until the end.

That I could deceive them perfectly.

Until Selline realized everything.

【You disgusting thing! How dare you deceive me and pretend to be my daughter!】

Selline’s appearance as she screamed and wailed remained vivid.

【Ahhh! My daughter, my daughter Roji… where did that child go…!】

She looked at me as if seeing a terrible monster and spewed out her bitter hatred.

But I loved you.

…I ended up loving you.

* * *

I woke up from that nightmare-like sleep.

When I opened my eyes, terrible pain seemed to spread through me.

Again.

Another strange memory…

The headache wouldn’t go away.

“Roji, are you okay?”

Then a familiar voice called out to me.

A black-haired man was looking down at me.

‘…Sian?’

Hanna definitely said Sian was dead… but he was standing right before my eyes, perfectly alive.

Come to think of it…

“Your head…! Are you okay?”

I quickly got up and grabbed Sian’s head to examine it.

“As you can see, I’m fine.”

As Sian said, dried blood was stuck to his forehead and hair, but there didn’t seem to be any serious injuries.

This is strange. Wasn’t he seriously hurt?

He wasn’t breathing and had no pulse.

“How is this…”

“Roji, I’m fine.”

When Sian said that, I had no choice but to let him go. Did I see it wrong?

“It was just a graze.”

Just a graze when he bled that much? Such nonsense…

Sian’s black eyes were strangely calm.

“More importantly, Roji, listen carefully to what I say.”

When I met Sian’s serious black eyes, I nodded as if entranced.

“We’ve been kidnapped.”

…What?

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