The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 196

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Episode 196

“What brings you all the way here, brother?”

Yurta’s face was displeased upon seeing Dillen after such a long time.

Dillen also wanted to frown just like Yurta.

Someone he never wanted to face again for the rest of his life.

The memory of their old fight with swords crossed came vividly to mind.

But now he had to endure it.

Just recently, Dillen had heard news that Yurta had captured Rose from the cursed land and imprisoned her.

So he was here now to persuade Yurta.

“That… have you been well?”

“…”

“…”

An awkward silence passed between them.

“Are we really the type to exchange pleasantries?”

This is really…

Dillen suppressed the anger already rising within him.

“Of course not. I came because I have something to tell you.”

“I suppose you would.”

Yurta calmly sipped his tea as if he had already decided it would be worthless talk.

Since Dillen hadn’t expected much anyway, he quickly regained his composure.

“To get straight to the point, I heard you caught a fake in the cursed land.”

“You’ve already heard.”

“Do you really think the person you caught is fake?”

“Yes.”

One would expect him to look up in surprise, but Yurta remained merely calm.

“I don’t know what strange things you’re saying, brother.”

“The woman by your side right now might be the fake, Yurta.”

“…”

“The Rose you’ve imprisoned is the real one.”

When no answer came, Dillen thought Yurta was having trouble accepting the truth.

“I have no proof, but… didn’t you feel something strange? Like she was imitating Rose somehow.”

“…”

“Even thinking about it again, it’s strange. Why were we fooled all this time…”

“Brother.”

Then Yurta put down his teacup and looked at Dillen with a calm gaze.

“I didn’t spare my precious time to listen to such idle talk.”

“…Idle talk?”

“Isn’t that what it is? Does Sister know you’re telling such ridiculous stories?”

“I’m telling you that’s not Rose!”

However, Yurta stared at Dillen as if he were pathetic.

“I’ll be going now. I have work to do.”

“Hey, wait…!”

As if it wasn’t worth listening to anymore, Yurta stood up from his seat.

Dillen hurriedly stood up to follow Yurta.

If you leave, who’s going to get Rose out!

Hadn’t he come all this way out of necessity to save her?

He quickly chased after Yurta, who was striding away without looking back.

“Listen to what I’m saying!”

“I don’t want to.”

“No, don’t you really feel something’s strange?”

“Sister is Sister.”

“Think about it properly!”

Dillen grabbed Yurta’s arm.

Their red eyes clashed. In that moment, Dillen instinctively realized.

“You…”

The strength left his hand gripping Yurta’s arm.

“You already know.”

Dillen and Yurta hated each other endlessly.

The ironic thing was that they knew each other very well because of it.

Because they were brothers. And because they had lived their entire lives keeping each other in check.

“I don’t really understand what you’re saying.”

“You know.”

“I don’t know…”

At that moment, Dillen roughly grabbed Yurta by the collar.

“You knew and still did that? Are you in your right mind?”

“Brother, what…”

“That’s why Rose finds you so detestable. Can’t you stop that disgusting behavior?”

Yurta’s gaze, which had been trying to shake off Dillen’s grip, lingered on Dillen for a while.

The lips of Yurta, whose expression hadn’t changed once, twisted.

“What do you know to spout such nonsense?”

Yurta roughly shook off Dillen’s hand and took a step closer to him.

His red eyes became hazy as if recalling a very long time, then the focus returned to normal.

“Rose has been looking only at you ever since she entered this manor. What would you know about that?”

“You call that talking?”

“Why? Damn it, just one glance from you would make Rose smile for a long time. But me? Why doesn’t it work no matter how hard I try?”

“Stop talking crazy, Yurta. Because you keep doing horrible things, Rose…!”

“Shut up, hypocrite.”

Yurta’s red eyes flashed.

He glared at Dillen as if he would kill him, then smiled bitterly.

“Does Sister know too? That your behavior is hypocrisy.”

“What kind of bullshit is that?”

“Right. Good for you. Keep hiding that hypocrisy well. Now the more you do, the more disadvantageous it becomes for you.”

Yurta patted Dillen’s shoulder as if taking revenge.

“Because I won’t hide anything anymore.”

Having confessed he would spill out all his desires, he turned around arbitrarily.

Dillen realized. The fact that he could never persuade Yurta.

The two decided to walk different paths.

When Dillen left the manor and headed toward the sunlight, Yurta headed toward the dark basement where not a single ray of light entered.

Yurta laughed in ecstasy.

Sister.

* * *

‘Senior, actually…’

‘Maybe I’m not Sian.’

In my dream, I remained in the cursed land.

The day I parted with Sian.

‘You’re not Sian? What are you talking about?’

‘….’

‘Answer me.’

‘….’

‘Sian…!’

Unlike that day, in my dream I shouted and questioned him, but Sian remained silent.

With that image, I woke up from the dream.

“Have you awakened?”

As I opened my eyes, I heard a familiar voice.

“Fake.”

…Yurta.

I don’t know when he arrived, but he was sitting on a metal chair, watching me.

It gave me chills.

My head started to ache. How did things come to this situation?

Ah, right. I remembered. Yurta in the Cursed Land….

【Sister.】

Those flashing red eyes were clearly etched in my memory.

“…What did you come here for?”

“Just to take a look at the fake’s thick face.”

Yurta laughed as if he found this situation extremely amusing.

“…I’m a fake?”

“That’s right, a fake who deceived Sister.”

It was absurd. At the Ascent villa, we were both out of our minds, so I could understand that, but he definitely recognized me in the Cursed Land.

“You definitely know.”

He definitely had eyes that knew me.

And he twisted my ankle.

“Ah, was I found out?”

Yurta reacted as if it was nothing important. His light attitude made this whole situation feel unreal, like a joke.

“Why are you doing this?”

I couldn’t understand.

Why is he following Roji when he knows I’m real?

Why did he twist my ankle?

“The bandage has come loose. I’ll wrap it again for you.”

Instead of answering my question, Yurta brought over a medicine kit he had prepared and sat in front of me.

Somehow his presence felt eerie, so I moved back.

However, Yurta didn’t care and grabbed my ankle bound by shackles.

“Ah!”

“Stay still, Sister. Don’t provoke me.”

“Won’t you let go of this?”

I pulled with all my strength to free my ankle from his grip. However, my resistance didn’t last long due to the searing pain like a burn.

The sensation of tears welling up made me dizzy. I leaned my body against the wall.

“Does it hurt a lot?”

Shamelessly, he caressed my ankle as if feeling sorry, then unwrapped the bandage.

“…Take your hands off my body. If you keep this up, I won’t hold back.”

“I know Sister’s strength well.”

“Then why are you acting like this?”

“But do you think you could get out of here even if you knocked me down?”

He was right. Knocking out Yurta would be easy, but I couldn’t do anything about the shackles on my ankle.

“But Yurta, the reason I’m staying still while you approach is because I want to talk with you.”

“Talk? You?”

Yurta, who was wrapping the bandage, looked up. His eyes showed curiosity.

“Have you become desperate now that you’re cornered?”

“…It’s not that. I’m just thinking that maybe I’ve been misunderstanding you all this time.”

Yurta’s hands stopped moving while wrapping the bandage. Taking advantage of that gap, I continued speaking.

“…Maybe you didn’t kill Mother.”

I heard that Selline went to find Sian and begged him to save Roji. She said she wanted to sacrifice her own body to save her since she would die anyway.

…Maybe Yurta didn’t kill her, but Selline deliberately died by his hand?

But why? I couldn’t understand the reason.

“I’m sorry for suspecting you all this time, Yurta. So….”

“Ha.”

Yurta let out a bitter laugh.

His brightly shining red eyes curved into crescents.

“It’s too late, Sister.”

“….”

“I’ve already made my decision, so what do you think will change by saying such things now?”

“Yurta….”

“Besides, I know now. Whether you have such realizations or not, you’ll continue to hate me anyway. Isn’t that right?”

Yurta no longer trusts me.

I knew the old Yurta. If I had said such things before, he would have shown at least some sign of being moved.

But now only bitter laughter remained.

‘He’s really given up on everything.’

But I couldn’t back down.

To get out of This Place, to face Roji, I had to persuade Yurta.

“Yurta.”

I squeezed out the most gentle voice I could muster to call him.

“I won’t hate you.”

I placed my hand over his. When startled Yurta reflexively tried to pull his hand away, I gripped his hand tightly.

“Really. Please believe me.”

“….”

“We can get along well from now on.”

Actually, I don’t really think so.

We’ve been through so much, how could we get along well?

“So don’t think badly of it.”

I placed my other hand on his cheek and pressed my forehead against his.

“We can change.”

“….”

“Really.”

I whispered continuously in his ear.

That I was sincere.

“Ah, Sister….”

Then Yurta looked at me with his eyes contorting.

His eyes were reddened as if he was about to cry, but strangely his lips curved upward.

“I think I did well to confine Sister.”

“What?”

“Otherwise, you would never cling to me like this.”

Only then did I realize. The smile he wore was one flushed with ecstasy.

“I should have done this long ago.”

“Yurta….”

“Sister, you’ve always only looked at Dillen. If it was a path he had walked, you’d follow his traces at least once, and I was truly just a pathetic dog following you around.”

I immediately opened my mouth to try to stop Yurta.

But my head soon went blank at the words he spat out a step faster than me.

“But you know what? I saw him. That brother you love so much, I saw him. The day I killed that woman, he saw that situation.”

“….”

“Dillen knows. He knows that I wasn’t trying to kill that woman back then.”

So why didn’t that bastard say anything to you?

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