The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 2

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Episode 02

A BL novel that was once tremendously popular, ‘Raised by the Mist’.

The precarious atmosphere like walking a tightrope, the emotional dynamics of protagonists who wanted to kill each other, and the writing skill that brought it all to life.

It was a novel I had read with great enjoyment.

In this novel’s worldview, there existed beings called ‘transcendents’.

But they had a peculiarity.

Transcendents meant those who wielded power beyond human limits after receiving divine blessing.

Perhaps because they received divine blessing, the blood transcendents possessed was magic itself, making them completely different beings from ordinary people.

Looking at it this way, transcendents seemed like beings who lacked nothing, but the reality wasn’t so.

Transcendents received divine blessing, but as a price, ‘cruel pain’ also followed.

Their ordinary flesh couldn’t endure their extraordinary blood, and they suffered as if lava flowed through their bodies.

It was the price for receiving divine blessing.

The protagonist of this novel, Rihardt, was also a transcendent.

When transcendents used their power, they were engulfed in pain incomparable to their usual suffering.

This pain was called magic seizure, and transcendents took magic suppressants that helped suppress the agony.

But unfortunately on ‘that day’, Rihardt had no magic suppressants.

And at that timing, Arzen, the novel’s antagonist who was overwhelmed by Rihardt’s beauty, kidnapped Rihardt – this was the early part of the novel.

Arzen, who brought Rihardt, immediately realized he was a transcendent.

Fearing he might escape using magic, Arzen put high-grade magic restraints on him and didn’t give him magic suppressants to leave no room for escape.

Without them, Rihardt would find it difficult to exert his original power.

As Arzen wished, Rihardt could do nothing.

Thus Rihardt came to experience various humiliations.

Rihardt’s noble pride resisted Arzen, but Arzen tried to crush that arrogance.

Rihardt didn’t yield and repeatedly attempted escape, tasting all kinds of hardships with each failure.

‘How did this end again.’

It’s hazy, but I think Rihardt eventually succeeded in escaping.

However, Rihardt’s family was a declining county in the frontier, while Arzen was a marquis with tremendous power.

Learning this fact, Rihardt heard news that war had broken out and headed straight to the battlefield.

He returned after achieving military merit and brought down Arzen’s family…

Did he confine Arzen, telling him to experience exactly what he had endured?

I think that was the ending.

Until the conclusion, the two never loved each other – there was only hatred.

[Author, there are Boys but why is there no Love…?]

Such comments lined up, but there were still more readers who enjoyed it saying it was interesting.

“Roji! What are you thinking about again?”

“Huh?”

“Are you really bewitched by that monster?”

When the woman in front of me scolded me with angry eyes, I reflexively shook my head.

Why did I suddenly think of that novel?

“You’re acting strange right now, Roji. You’ve been in a daze ever since meeting that monster.”

That’s because I was lost in other thoughts.

“Everyone who met that monster was like that. They all said their condition was strange.”

The woman rubbed her arms as if getting goosebumps.

“…Excuse me, who are you calling a monster?”

She seemed to be talking about the man who begged me for medicine earlier, but far from being a monster, he was a rare beauty.

“That man you met earlier.”

“…Ah.”

“Everyone loses their minds when they see that man. They’re bewitched by the monster.”

Come to think of it, in ‘Raised by the Mist’, everyone who saw Rihardt did lose their minds.

Because he was handsome.

And transcendents, perhaps because they received divine blessing, were enchanting beings to ordinary people.

“You’d better go rest, Roji.”

The woman grabbed my hand, entered a room, and pushed my back toward the bed.

“Get some rest. Then you’ll feel better.”

I ended up lying on the bed, swept along by the woman’s touch.

I’m really fine though.

But I didn’t refuse her touch and closed my eyes. When I wake up, I’ll probably wake from this dream.

* * *

Unfortunately, I didn’t wake from the dream.

“Wake up, Roji!”

Rough hands shaking me awake. The sensation of someone tapping my shoulder moderately, not enough to hurt.

It wasn’t a dream.

“It’s time to go to the monster.”

“…”

What, really?

“Even if you don’t want to go, there’s no choice. You’re on meal duty this time.”

“Meal duty?”

“Right. We decided to take turns for 10 days because that monster is disgusting. Even if you hate it, there’s no choice. You have to go, Roji.”

Why does this remind me more and more of ‘Raised by the Mist’ the more I hear?

“If you’re late, the master will be angry.”

“…Master?”

“Why are you acting like this? I mean Count Evantes.”

Count Evantes… that’s exactly the same as the antagonist’s surname in ‘Raised by the Mist’.

No way, surely not. It can’t be.

Anxiety climbed up my spine like a chill.

When I said nothing, the woman’s expression darkened. I quickly composed my expression.

“Sorry. I’m feeling a bit sick so my memory seems hazy.”

Even as I said it, it was too flimsy an excuse.

I looked at her carefully, worried she might find it absurd, but the woman’s expression became serious.

“…That monster really did something to you, didn’t he?”

Huh?

“…Roji.”

“No, it’s a cold! I caught a cold so I felt a bit sick, and I just forgot for a moment after waking up.”

“Really?”

“Yes. So I need to go deliver the meal?”

The woman still looked worried. She nodded reluctantly and led me to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, a fierce-looking chef was cutting food menacingly.

The knife was quite sharp.

“Um… I’m here to pick up the meal.”

“It’s over there, take it yourself.”

Where the chef gestured dismissively, there was a dog bowl.

“…Do you keep dogs here?”

Was I supposed to give food to a dog instead of delivering a meal to Rihardt?

“What are you talking about, Roji. That’s just right for that monster.”

A strange sneer crossed the woman Emily’s face.

On the way down to the dining hall, I had heard the maids calling her Emily.

“Ah, I see.”

Not wanting to get into a pointless argument, I picked up the dog bowl on the tray.

What would change even if I said something anyway.

“I’ll be going now.”

“Hang in there, Roji!”

There was no doubt about it.

This place was definitely inside ‘Raised by the Mist’.

The detailed settings resembled that novel.

First, all the employees here treated Rihardt like a monster. It was one of Rihardt’s humiliations I had seen in the original work.

The employees considering Rihardt a monster was all part of Arzen’s plan.

If Rihardt wasn’t given magic suppressants, he would feel great pain from the magic boiling within his body, and if left alone for too long, he would lose his reason and go berserk.

With only beast-like instincts remaining, he would wildly swing his power at anything in sight, and Arzen took advantage of this.

He deliberately showed the employees Rihardt’s terrifying appearance to frighten them.

The sight of him losing his reason, causing his magic to run wild as he tried to break his restraints, was said to be terror itself.

Since magic was rare, the employees simply thought of Rihardt as a monster and found him repulsive.

Arzen had knights subdue Rihardt with restraints in front of the employees and declared before them:

“As you can see, this is a monster.”

That’s how he made Rihardt isolated.

‘Is this really inside Raised by the Mist?’

I could hardly believe it.

From the moment I saw Rihardt, that novel kept coming to mind.

I had the strange feeling that perhaps this place was subtly letting me know that this was indeed inside that novel.

As I gradually accepted reality, I felt a chill.

What happened to those who served Rihardt his meals?

Seeing that Rihardt didn’t have a dedicated maid yet, it was clear that not much time had passed since the original story began.

According to my memory, in the original work, Arzen watched as the maids took turns bringing Rihardt his meals every 10 days, observing who would be suitable as a dedicated maid.

What were the criteria again…

It had been too long since I read it, so I couldn’t recall the detailed parts.

‘I need to be careful not to become the dedicated maid.’

Because Rihardt’s dedicated maids would later have their heads cut off for failing to stop Rihardt’s escape attempts.

Lost in thought, I found myself in front of Rihardt’s door. The room in the Basement resembled a prison.

The Gatekeeper standing in front of the door looked me over with a cold gaze.

I took a deep breath.

Alright, let’s go in!

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