The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 18

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Episode 18

“Since I’m not assigned to bedroom duties… I didn’t receive advance notice. I apologize.”

At my shameless answer, an expression of disbelief appeared on his face.

However, I maintained an innocent expression, pretending to know nothing.

“Do you not know what bedroom service means?”

“Cleaning the bedroom and attending to or assisting the Count… isn’t that it?”

I am pure… pure…

I kept repeating those words in my mind like a mantra.

Arzen was silent for a moment.

What exactly is the problem?

“No. Just go now.”

“…Is it alright if I don’t attend to your bedroom duties?”

“I don’t want to do it anymore.”

He seems to dislike me changing the bed sheets.

I understood what Arzen’s words meant, but since I decided to pretend not to know, I chose to think of it that way.

I nodded, saying I understood.

“Then I shall take my leave.”

I pretended not to see Arzen’s dumbfounded expression as I closed the door and left.

Now I just need to give Rihardt his meal and retrieve the potatoes he had peeled.

Tomorrow would be the last day of my precarious meal duty assignment.

* * *

The gatekeeper had been imprisoned since that day. And just a while ago, he escaped.

He couldn’t die like this.

Using the connections he had built up over time, he begged for their mercy and successfully managed to leave Count Evantes’ Mansion safely.

Although Roji hadn’t immediately revealed that he was a spy, there was no telling when she might spill that fact.

He immediately sent a ‘message’ to the predetermined location, and after some time, a reply came back telling him to come to a cabin in a remote place.

In the cabin was the master who had sent him to Evantes. The gatekeeper didn’t know who they were.

As long as he got paid, that was enough.

In the cabin were two men wearing robes.

One was sitting arrogantly with his legs crossed leisurely, leaning back against his chair, while the other stood beside him, quietly attending to him.

Whoever they were, they were definitely high-ranking people.

The gatekeeper immediately fell to his knees upon seeing them, thinking his head might roll for returning without any results.

And he confessed everything without omitting a single detail.

Among those details, he didn’t leave out the story about Roji and Mari either. It was to make excuses that his work had gone wrong because of them.

“Roji?”

But the man who had been sitting in the chair all along reacted to an unexpected part.

“Yes, that’s right. If it weren’t for that maid…”

“What does she look like?”

The gatekeeper was puzzled. Why was he asking such a thing?

“Master, it’s just someone with the same name.”

“How dare you contradict my question, are you trying to climb above your station?”

When the man presumed to be a servant answered the seated man’s question instead, a murderous voice returned.

“Not at all. I was merely stating my thoughts.”

“Right. I don’t need your thoughts, so you there, gatekeeper was it? Now you tell me. What does Roji look like?”

Could the Roji that man knew be no ordinary person?

“She had pink hair and pink eyes. She looked arrogant, resembling a cat…”

The gatekeeper fumbled to recall Roji’s face and said everything he knew as best he could. Roji had quite a striking appearance, so she remained clearly in his memory.

“Is that so?”

Strangely, the seated man looked satisfied with the gatekeeper’s words.

Whatever it was, he felt like he had survived.

“I hear there will be a banquet at Count Evantes’ Mansion soon.”

Arzen Evantes enjoyed entertainment quite a bit, so he often held parties.

Most were parties attended by high-ranking nobles, and attending them was every noble’s dream.

“Shall I attend?”

The man spoke as easily as if the party that even most nobles found difficult to get invited to could be achieved with just a flick of his finger.

…He must indeed be someone of very high status.

“Master…”

“Perhaps my dear sister fled there and is working as a maid.”

He giggled as if this was a very amusing matter.

At that moment, one thought struck the gatekeeper’s mind.

His sister with pink hair and pink eyes.

The bounty posted for finding the sister who fled from Herthas Count’s Family.

Could it be…

The moment he grasped the identity of the man before him, he met red eyes that were slightly visible through the robe.

At that moment, the enchantingly beautiful eyes curved into a smile.

“Deal with him, Asel.”

The man simply sentenced the gatekeeper to death.

“W-wait a moment…”

“…”

“P-please spare me! Hiiiik!”

At that moment, the gatekeeper let out a strange scream and tried to crawl away on all fours to escape, but an eerie wind passed behind his neck.

Yurta looked at the gatekeeper who had fainted while foaming at the mouth with disdainful eyes.

“Clean it up.”

“Understood.”

Yurta watched the gatekeeper being dragged away and murmured languidly.

“Whether as a slave or whatever, I hope I can meet my sister this time.”

Dear sister, my patience isn’t that abundant.

* * *

Under the clear blue sky, a girl with lovely pink hair stood blankly.

“Rose…”

The girl muttered blankly. That was the girl’s name.

Rose. A rose.

It was the name she received from her stepfather the moment she entered ‘Herthas Count’s Family.’

The child’s eyes reflected in the candlelight that illuminated the dark room had a vivid red color, reminding him of roses.

So her name became Rose.

Originally, her name was ‘Roji.’ Her stepfather said that name was worthless and gave her a new name.

However, Rose thought it didn’t matter what her name was changed to.

Rose was thirteen years old.

She looked at the world with dark, gloomy eyes that didn’t match her young age.

“This is supposed to be my name…”

The girl’s lips twisted. The girl thought that if her name had substance, she would want to scratch it until it bled.

As she was suppressing that boiling anger, at that moment a ‘thud!’ and intense pain struck her head and shook her mind.

Thump.

The girl’s body collapsed helplessly onto the grass. Warm blood flowed from her head.

Rose looked up at the brown-haired boy who had hit her.

“What kind of vermin has crawled into this house.”

The brown-haired boy looked at Rose with an unmistakably disgusted gaze, showing no mercy.

Though his stare was clearly menacing, Rose merely looked at the boy’s burning emotions with bored eyes.

This made the brown-haired boy’s already terrible mood even more hideous.

“Where does she get off looking at me like that?”

“Get lost.”

“What?”

“I said get lost.”

Rose was extremely annoyed by the brown-haired boy’s bothersome behavior.

She wasn’t afraid of the boy’s violence. What she truly feared was something else entirely.

“Where does this bitch get off…!”

“Brother.”

Just then, a calm voice called out to stop the boy.

The boy’s hand froze in midair, unable to strike Rose.

Frustrated by this, the boy’s face contorted with anger.

“Are you trying to hit our sister again?”

“This girl is acting so insolently! I was just going to teach her a lesson…”

“Brother.”

Once again, the calm voice cut off the brown-haired boy’s words.

Though he was clearly younger than the brown-haired boy, he possessed the power to make others submit.

“Go inside.”

“…You, Yurta.”

“I won’t say it twice.”

The brown-haired boy was afraid of Yurta.

This was clear because vivid emotions that anyone could see were plastered all over the brown-haired boy’s eyes.

The brown-haired boy obeyed Yurta’s words.

He wouldn’t get lost when I told him to…

Though Rose was usually stoic about everything, she felt subtly irritated.

After the brown-haired boy disappeared from view, Yurta approached Rose with leisurely steps.

“Sister.”

“…”

“I just saved you. Aren’t you going to say anything to me?”

Rose thought to herself.

An even more troublesome bastard has arrived.

She shook her head in disgust and struggled to her feet.

Then she spat out the exact same words she had said to the brown-haired boy moments before.

“Get lost.”

The boy let out a short laugh at Roji’s words.

However, Rose wasn’t fooled by that shallow pretense. Finally, like thin glass breaking, cracks appeared in Yurta’s gentleness.

“Ah, how annoying.”

At last, hell had begun.

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