The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 198

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Episode 198

Marriage? What kind of absurd nonsense is this?

It was ridiculous, but on the other hand, I thought, here we go again. How tiresome.

“Fine. Let’s do it.”

It was a choice I had made before. If it meant getting out of this place, such a lie wouldn’t be difficult.

“Are you serious?”

“Marrying into the Evantes Family wouldn’t be bad for me either.”

I replied calmly, but as expected, he suspected my intentions.

He smiled brightly and tucked my hair behind my ear.

“Really? Should I be grateful that you’ll at least love my family? But Rose.”

Arzen smiled kindly and spoke gently.

“I’m planning to get it notarized before I let you out of here.”

“….”

“So if you’re thinking of getting out of this situation with some half-hearted lie, it’s pointless.”

As expected, Arzen was no pushover.

Seeing my stiff expression, Arzen smiled as if he felt sorry.

“Looking at your expression, I guess that was your plan.”

“….”

“How disappointing, Rose. We’ve spent quite some time together, do you think I wouldn’t know you?”

“….”

“It’s not like you’ve fooled me just once or twice.”

It was unfair. The incident before we broke up was Arzen’s own misunderstanding in the first place.

I had to clear up the misunderstanding first.

“I told you back then too, that incident was your misunderstanding. I never tried to betray you.”

“You were secretly exchanging letters with the Head of the Holy Knights.”

“That’s exactly the misunderstanding. Rihardt did that on his own….”

“Now you’re on a first-name basis with him, I see.”

Damn it. There’s no getting through to him at all.

I wanted to give up on the conversation, but I needed Arzen to get out of this situation.

“That’s not what’s important right now.”

“What a problem. That’s what’s important to me.”

Is he being serious?

“If you marry me, I might feel a bit better about it.”

It was the worst proposal of my life.

“If you’re doing this because of the curse, other things would work too. Does it have to be marriage?”

“The curse has already been lifted.”

What? The curse has been lifted?

“…Then what’s the reason for going this far.”

“Good question. Why indeed. I’m curious too.”

He asked me for the reason instead.

When his green eyes persistently captured me, it felt suffocating.

Time seemed to stop like this. What on earth was Arzen thinking?

* * *

Arzen stared intently at Rose, lost in thought.

On that day when the Benefactor first revealed themselves to everyone, Arzen saw what lay beneath.

The woman seemed briefly flustered, as if she hadn’t expected to be caught talking to the ‘real’ Benefactor.

However, she soon tried to persuade Arzen with her skilled tongue.

【I know you’ve been suffering from a curse for a long time.】

That day was truly special.

It was the day he learned about the identities and relationship between Roji and Rose.

And the fake Benefactor claimed to know about his curse too.

【A curse? I don’t know what you’re talking about.】

【The pattern that blooms from around your neck, and the moment when scorching flames cover you in pain. Isn’t that right?】

At that moment, Arzen felt displeasure first.

He thought information had leaked from somewhere, and someone he didn’t even know was wagging their tongue to escape a crisis.

【It must have been painful since you were very young. They said only a special being could break the curse, right?】

【….】

【If this continues, you’ll die. If you can’t break the curse, you have about one year to live, two at most? Just about that much.】

The woman knew his secrets too deeply. Facts that only he knew.

【Aren’t you curious about who cursed you?】

She even dangled facts that no one had ever known before his eyes. It was amazing yet absurd.

【It was the ‘real’ Benefactor. That person cursed you.】

It was something said by a woman without evidence and suspicious above all else.

However.

【Aren’t you curious why the Benefactor cursed you?】

【….】

【It’s because of Rose Herthas. Because of that girl.】

Somehow, he found himself listening to the woman’s words.

The woman continued whispering without stopping.

【Rose Herthas is indeed the one who can lift your curse. The Benefactor made it that way.】

【….】

【The Benefactor loves her. You’re a sacrifice for her sake.】

Bitterness flashed across the woman’s face.

【Of course, I know another way to break your curse.】

It was now a somewhat distant memory from the past.

What would he do when he met Rose?

The woman who had toyed with him and run away.

There was also a way to resolve it ‘his way.’

But in the end, he.

“Marry me, Rose.”

made a different choice.

* * *

“Do you perhaps like me?”

It was such an absurd thing to say that I clicked my tongue even after saying it myself.

Did I say that for nothing? I looked at Arzen with regret… What? The expression Arzen made at that moment was one I had never seen before. He wasn’t the arrogant man I knew.

A face contorted like a boy desperately denying his first love.

“…You’re saying strange things.”

“…”

Ah, I remembered.

A way to get out of this place.

“…Fine. Then please give me a little time. I’ll think about it seriously.”

“Are you serious?”

“I’m serious. But could you do me just one favor?”

“What favor?”

Perhaps suspecting that my words about being serious were a lie, Arzen’s voice lowered.

To reassure him, I placed my hand over his rough one.

“…Please don’t let Yurta come in here.”

“What?”

As if it was an unexpected request, Arzen’s eyebrows rose.

“That child has tormented me terribly since we were young. I’m afraid of him.”

“…Is that really true?”

“Every time he comes in… No. Please forget it. I think I said something unnecessary.”

When I removed my overlapped hand and pulled my body away as if to avoid him, Arzen grabbed my arm.

“Tell me, Rose.”

“…It wasn’t anything important. I must have said something random because I was tired.”

“What exactly happened?”

“…Arzen, please.”

When I let out the breath I had been holding, Arzen came closer.

“It’s nothing serious. So…”

I told him about Yurta, embellishing it a bit more than the truth.

Then I could see Arzen’s expression changing moment by moment.

“I absolutely won’t let Herthas Prince enter this place.”

Perfect.

* * *

Yurta had been in a bad mood the entire time.

He roughly knew about the relationship between Count Arzen Evantes and Rose.

He had heard that Rose had pretended to be Arzen’s mistress while acting under the name ‘Camilla’.

Not only was Arzen’s visit unwelcome…

“What? That bastard met Sister while I was away?”

They said Arzen had met Rose while he was gone.

How dare he, Sister.

Rage filled him to the top of his head.

Just when he thought he had finally gotten his hands on her, someone had met her.

Yurta immediately went down to the basement where Rose was confined.

However, armed knights stood blocking his way.

“You cannot pass.”

“What?”

“Count Evantes said he would not permit Herthas Prince to enter.”

At that moment, Yurta almost drew his sword on the spot and cut off all the knights’ heads.

Count Arzen Evantes, how dare you prevent me from meeting Sister?

The knights flinched and trembled as they felt the murderous intent pouring out.

“Have you all gone mad?”

“The Count said…”

“Shut up. I’m the one who brought that fake there.”

“…Still, you cannot pass.”

“I cannot?”

“…Yes.”

Ha. Yurta burst into hollow laughter as he gripped his sword.

He couldn’t forgive insolence.

Especially from those who blocked his path to meet Sister.

As Yurta drew his sword and swung it, the body of the knight standing in front split in half.

“…”

“…”

The surroundings were instantly enveloped in silence.

Overwhelmed by the crushing murderous intent and force emanating from the Transcendent, no one could move easily.

However, they were knights.

“Stop him quickly!”

The narrow basement instantly became piled with corpses and turned into a Sea of Blood.

Yurta stepped on the pool of blood and stood in front of the door.

With a face drunk on ecstasy, he broke down the door.

Covered in others’ blood, he looked like a fierce evil spirit.

“Sister.”

Yurta hurriedly looked for Rose inside the room and turned his head toward the bed.

And there…

There was a woman in an unusually disheveled state.

With reddened eyes, the woman stretched out her delicate hand.

“…Help me, Yurta.”

At that moment, the thread-thin remnant of reason snapped.

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