The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 20

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Episode 20

…Rihardt?

Could it be that he went on a rampage again like last time when he ate the fruit?

The thought that came to me at that moment was selfishly not concern for him, but relief that I wasn’t his meal attendant.

If this had happened when I was his meal attendant, it might have been difficult to remain unharmed.

“The monster has gone crazy! I, I can’t be the meal attendant! Please… please change it!”

When the maid cried loudly enough to shake the manor, everyone stopped working and approached her.

“Ella, what’s wrong?”

When a maid approached her with tears streaming down her face and asked, Ella began clinging to her.

“Please! You switch with me! Huh? I’ll do all your work instead…!”

“Ella, what are you… what are you talking about right now! You’re the meal attendant this time!”

“…Sob, but I, I really can’t do it! It’s too scary!”

The flustered maid tried to pry off the clinging Ella at her shameless words, but Ella clung to her desperately.

What on earth had happened?

I silently sent words of comfort to Ella.

Just as I was about to turn my attention away from Ella and continue my work, our eyes met.

“You…! Roji!”

Ella, who had been clinging persistently despite the maid’s attempts to shake her off, suddenly let go of her skirt and approached me.

Her appearance was so bizarre that I reflexively stepped backward.

“You served meals before I did, right?”

Ella grabbed my hands and looked at me desperately.

“Please! Switch with me! You did well all that time…!”

“Ella! What are you saying! Roji already did meal duty! You know that someone who’s done it once can’t do it twice…”

“You even got offered to be a personal maid by the Butler!”

The other maids grabbed Ella’s shoulders to stop her, but Ella roughly shook off their arms.

“Ouch!”

Ella’s long nails left a long scratch on another maid’s arm.

The injured maid looked at Ella resentfully, but Ella only looked at me desperately as if she didn’t care about such things.

“Roji, if it’s you, he’ll let you switch. So please… okay?”

“…”

“Why aren’t you answering! It’s because you didn’t become the personal maid that I have to do it instead! Aren’t you even sorry to me!”

She had tried to persuade me, but when I showed no signs of giving in, Ella got angry at me instead.

I pondered how to handle this awkward situation.

“It’s because of you! It’s because of you! Because of you, I…!”

“Stop it, Ella.”

“Stop what! Because of you…!”

“What is all this commotion about!”

Having heard the disturbance Ella was causing, the Butler who happened to be nearby approached and shouted.

“Butler…! I really can’t do meal duty! Please switch Roji and me.”

“Ella.”

“I’m scared to death! Why on earth do I have to…!”

“Ella! Won’t you stop this!”

Ella, who had been crying noisily despite the other maids’ attempts to stop her, closed her mouth at the Butler’s sharp rebuke.

“Everyone has done their work steadfastly to the end until now. If I excuse only you, Ella, what would the other maids become?”

“But…”

“Don’t argue with me. If you refuse your duties even after I’ve said this much, I won’t be able to overlook it either.”

Ella pressed her lips tightly together and hung her head.

The situation was resolved this way, but I felt uncomfortable knowing her resentment was directed at me.

“Wait, Ella.”

At my words, Ella looked at me with puzzled eyes.

Without giving her a separate explanation, I went to the kitchen and brought back a potato.

“…What’s this?”

“A potato.”

“So why are you giving this to me…”

Ella looked at me like I was crazy.

Since Ella, who had been acting crazy just moments ago, was looking at me that way, I felt wronged.

“That person seemed to like peeling potatoes.”

“You mean that monster?”

“Yeah, try taking it.”

Ella looked at me with disbelieving eyes.

She reluctantly took the potato and disappeared.

The maids who witnessed this scene looked puzzled.

A few hours later, Ella headed to Rihardt’s room with the potato I had given her.

I hoped that what I had given her would be effective.

I turned my attention away from Ella and focused on my work, and before long, Ella emerged from the basement.

Holding a completely shredded potato.

…Didn’t it work?

Ella approached me with a dark expression. I thought she was going to pour out her anger and half-emptied my mind, but…

“Thank you, Roji.”

“Huh?”

“Just like you said, he seems to like potatoes.”

That actually worked?

Even I had given it to her half-doubtingly…

I looked at the completely shredded potatoes cradled in Ella’s arms.

The traces of being hacked with a knife were so clear that I smiled awkwardly.

Is that what liking something looks like…?

“I’ll have to bring potatoes from now on.”

“…Oh, yeah.”

“Thank you.”

After finishing her greeting to me, Ella took the shredded potatoes and headed somewhere else.

The maids still watched this situation with eyes that couldn’t understand.

* * *

Several days had passed since I was freed from Rihardt’s meal duty.

During that time, I devoted myself to party preparations, and every time Ella went into and came out of Rihardt’s room, she emerged holding shredded potatoes.

Watching that sight, I tried hard to hide my bitter expression and focus on my work.

Time passed this way, and the moment arrived when the servants’ efforts would shine.

The party had begun.

* * *

Jet-black hair reminiscent of the night sky and blood-red eyes.

The man leisurely checked his appearance in the mirror.

When he noticed that the inner collar wasn’t properly straightened, his elegant fingers properly raised the collar.

“My dear sister should find me presentable too.”

“…”

“What’s wrong, Asel?”

“…To be honest with you, I don’t think that maid is your sister.”

“Your thoughts don’t matter.”

The man looked at his neatly arranged hair and smiled pleasantly.

The man, Yurta, continued humming as if he were excited.

His subordinate Asel, who followed him, was only troubled.

Yurta had been at the Academy two years ago.

While he was at the Academy, his sister had run away, and upon hearing the news, Yurta spent two years searching everywhere like hunting rats.

When she was nowhere to be found, he even put up a bounty despite the risk of damaging his sister’s honor.

Even then, there was no news at all. Then came a single word he heard through the gatekeeper.

A maid with the same name, pink hair, and pink eyes at Count Evantes’ mansion.

Upon hearing those words, he came all the way here.

“What will you do if that maid isn’t your sister?”

“I’ll have to kill her.”

“…Killing another family’s maid isn’t good. Count Evantes might think you’re disrespecting his family.”

“But she deceived me.”

There was no getting through to him at all.

How was it deception if that maid wasn’t Yurta’s sister, and what reason was there to kill her for that?

Moreover, he was currently in a situation where he needed to make a good impression on Count Arzen Evantes.

Arzen held the powerful position of treasurer.

The treasurer had the authority to manage the imperial crown lands, and that authority was what Yurta needed.

Hertas was a family that had ventured into commerce, and their regret was that they had no ‘mine’ in their territory.

So Yurta, who had been pushed out of the heir position after earning the wrath of the head of Hertas, was trying to obtain mining rights through Arzen to reclaim his position.

As a backup plan in case negotiations failed, he had planted a spy to find weaknesses to blackmail Arzen, but nothing substantial had emerged yet.

Therefore, it would be troublesome to fall out of Arzen’s favor, yet whenever his sister was mentioned, Yurta always acted like a ruffian.

Asel found this truly frustrating.

What was so special about that damn sister…!

However, the moment he let that slip out, his neck would have difficulty staying attached to his body.

“…As you wish.”

He gave up on the conversation.

He simply felt sympathy in his heart for the pink-haired maid at Count Evantes’ mansion.

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