The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 193

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Episode 193

Sian had never once felt lacking in anything. There were always people and material things overflowing around him.

He thought he would live his entire life that way.

Until he met that woman.

The moment he first met her was so ordinary it didn’t remain in his memory.

The woman was pretty, but Sian had no interest in her. It was the same for the woman.

They had no interest in each other.

They were just ordinary acquaintances who got involved over business matters and would part ways without regret once things were resolved.

Then one day, the woman disappeared.

【That senior took a leave of absence.】

【Why?】

【Well, you see…】

Hearing news about someone from another person’s mouth wasn’t exactly a pleasant feeling.

However, Sian, who had been listening to the story with one ear, soon found himself concentrating.

【That senior’s mother suddenly collapsed. And since she lives alone with her mother, that senior has to earn money for hospital bills.】

From family circumstances to trivial details.

There were many similarities with Sian. For the first time, Sian turned his attention to the woman.

It was definitely a sense of kinship.

【But how do you know all that?】

【Everyone knows about it, right? The guy who used to date that senior has been telling everyone.】

Even the lack of good relationships with people is just like me.

That day, he seemed to spend the entire day thinking about the woman in various ways.

After a very long time had passed, he met the woman again at an unexpected moment.

He was quite glad to see her.

At first, he approached the woman out of curiosity. Wondering how someone he once felt kinship with was living now.

As this continued, the days he met with the woman gradually increased…

Ah.

Sian let out a sigh.

How did things come to this point?

Frantically searching for a woman who had disappeared.

He didn’t choose his means and methods. He crawled through mud and pressed forward.

Toward the woman.

At the end of it all…

‘Offer a price.’

‘…’

‘To get what you want, you need to pay an equivalent price.’

Sian paid the price.

* * *

I looked at Sian standing before me.

“It’s been a while, senior.”

It’s been a while? Seeing Sian greet me so casually made me feel deflated.

How can he greet me so casually?

I still have vivid memories of you pushing me away.

“If you’re not going to kill me, give me that sword. You’ll hurt your hand.”

“…”

I bent my wrist inward, worried that Sian might try to snatch the sword away.

‘Kill him.’

‘Kill Rihardt.’

The voice telling me to kill Rihardt still echoes in my head.

“…Is this your doing?”

“This?”

“I keep hearing voices in my head telling me to kill Rihardt. Did you do this?”

Sian’s jet-black hair swayed in the wind as he looked down at me.

He smiled quietly.

“It’s time to go home.”

“…What?”

“Do you remember the story I told you before? About the apostle and the demon.”

I searched through my hazy memories.

When I had lost my memory, Sian would tell me random stories.

Stories about demons who controlled people and led them to destruction.

How an angel, unable to bear watching, sent down his apostle and banished the demon to the cursed land.

“I remember.”

“Senior, let me tell you a secret. Actually, transcendents aren’t beings blessed by God.”

“…What?”

“They’re demons wearing the shells of blessed humans.”

“…”

“Perhaps as the price for wearing God’s shell, they say that when they enter the cursed land, they feel the pain of their flesh and skin being torn.”

I couldn’t understand what Sian was saying.

“What exactly are you trying to say?”

Sian drew a meaningful smile.

A bleak wind blows. The man dressed all in black suited the cursed land very well.

“I kept telling you stories. The apostle and you, senior. Aren’t you quite similar? Like the apostle who enchanted demons with fragrance, you’re the same way, senior.”

“…Are you saying I’m that apostle?”

“Doesn’t the puzzle fit together? Why you can only return home by killing a transcendent. Why you possessed that body.”

Sian’s words sounded different to me.

Like he was telling me to fulfill the role of the apostle.

I had an intuition. The fact that the Sian before me now was different from the person I knew long ago.

“…You’ve changed.”

Sian didn’t answer.

His round, curved black eyes seemed to show affirmation.

“…I won’t kill the transcendent.”

“…”

“I’ve given up on going back now. There’s nothing there even if I go back anyway. So you should stop too…”

“I see, then.”

Contrary to expectations, Sian nodded readily.

It was different from how he got angry when I declared I wouldn’t go back long ago.

“You didn’t think I came here to take you back, did you, senior?”

“…No?”

“No.”

“….”

What is this guy doing?

“Then why did you approach me? Why did you push me into the furnace? And why….”

Long ago. I remembered that moment when Roji killed me.

“What was it that I saw when I died?”

“….”

“When I opened my eyes in Korea, at first I didn’t know where that place was. But now I know. That’s your house, isn’t it.”

What exactly was it that I saw and experienced?

And what’s my relationship with Roji exactly?

And what was that about asking Rihardt to smell my scent.

There were too many things to ask.

“Actually, there wasn’t much reason for me appearing before you.”

“Then why….”

“I just wanted to see you. That’s all.”

“Then why did you push me back then?”

“That was because I hoped you would quickly recover your memories.”

It seemed to make sense while also not making sense.

“What does that have to do with you.”

Sian just smiled mysteriously.

“Then what about that house? How did I return to Korea when I briefly died? Why was I at your house in Korea….”

“Senior.”

Then Sian interrupted me.

“You said you wouldn’t kill the transcendent, so are you going to leave him like that?”

…Rihardt.

I couldn’t leave him like this. I had to treat him right away….

“Should I help?”

He whispered temptingly like a demon.

Though I felt uneasy, I nodded thinking that saving Rihardt was the priority right now.

Then the rotten tree branches swayed and a white temple hidden in the fog revealed itself.

“Ah….”

I reflexively gasped.

This temple, I remember seeing it somewhere.

‘Where did I see it?’

Long ago when I worked at Evantes…. That’s right.

The hazy memory suddenly unfolded before my eyes as if gaining momentum.

Evantes’ Maze Garden! It was the scene I saw like a vision when I entered that place.

“I’ve seen this place before.”

“Really?”

Sian asked back as if it was nothing important.

“I saw it at Evantes. I heard your voice then too.”

“…My voice?”

As if finally interested, Sian asked me.

“What did I say?”

I slowly traced back the hazy memory. Then the jumbled words gradually became clearer.

“…You apologized to me.”

“….”

“You said you misspoke because you were angry then, so I should think about it again.”

“Ah.”

Sian also smiled crookedly as if he remembered like me.

“I didn’t know you heard that.”

“….”

“I make mistakes sometimes. It was something I meant to say to you from a more distant past. The timelines get tangled and sometimes connect wrongly.”

It’s something I’ve heard before.

Timelines don’t flow consistently like a straight line but are tangled like thread, so the time of this place seen from Korea could be the past or the future.

“How do you know all of that?”

“Shall we go in now?”

As if he didn’t want to answer about this, Sian smoothly changed the subject.

Right. There’s still time. No need to be hasty.

I turned toward the tree where he had been leaning to take care of Rihardt.

But….

‘Huh?’

Rihardt wasn’t there.

I turned pale and looked around. Where could he have gone when his body was hurt….

“Sian…!”

At that moment, a swift shadow pounced on Sian.

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