The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 201
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Episode 201
I need to pull myself together.
I can’t collapse here.
I have to chase after Sister.
Yurta drew his sword and cut his own hand.
Holding onto his fading consciousness, he ran.
* * *
He gave me a chance?
My head went cold at Dillen’s voice, which didn’t sound like him at all. Something was seriously wrong.
But my injured leg was inconvenient, and I couldn’t leave Dillen behind.
“If I don’t go now… I think I’ll really go crazy. And then I don’t know what I might do to you.”
His seething voice contained a thrill of expectation even as it crumbled with pain.
Without realizing it, I stepped backward.
Then Dillen’s red eyes gleamed eerily.
Even though he was the one who told me to run away.
Dillen straightened his hunched body and reached out his hand toward me.
“…Ugh, no, Rose. Don’t go.”
“…”
“You don’t need to go to the square. Count Ascent agreed to kidnap Roji. So stay with me. Okay?”
The two of them made such a plan?
Then nothing will happen today?
I wanted to ask, but Dillen’s current state was too strange to question him in detail.
Staggering and burying his face in his palms, Dillen muttered.
“No. Go.”
“…Dillen.”
“Just leave me behind… Ha.”
Don’t go. Don’t abandon me. No, just go.
It was clear that Dillen wasn’t in his right mind. He poured out the same words countless times.
It felt so eerie that I unconsciously stepped back several paces. But I soon stopped and steeled my resolve.
“Let’s meet again next time, Dillen.”
And I turned around and ran.
Since I couldn’t use one leg properly, it might be inaccurate to call it running.
Still, I did my absolute best.
Behind me, I heard bizarre sobbing and laughter.
‘Where should I go?’
Since it was an unfamiliar path, I had no idea how to get to the square.
I wandered the streets mercilessly.
“Benefactor?”
Then someone called out to me as if recognizing me.
Damn it.
That passerby’s single word became the starting point, and more people began recognizing me.
“Isn’t that person the Benefactor?”
“But the Benefactor is supposed to be at the ceremony…”
Suspicion clouded people’s gazes. They seemed to be considering the hypothesis that I was a fake impersonating the Benefactor.
Damn it. This is a disaster.
What should I do?
“This imposter!”
Then a man grabbed my arm and pulled me. Because of my injured ankle, I staggered as I was dragged along.
“Let go of this!”
“How dare you have such nerve after impersonating the Benefactor!”
The situation got tangled.
How should I handle this…
“What kind of rudeness is this toward the Benefactor?”
A familiar voice flew over, and I was startled and turned around.
A man with brilliant golden hair stood arrogantly and gestured with his chin.
“If you don’t want that arm cut off, you’d better let go right now.”
“…!”
Only then did the hand that had been roughly gripping my arm fall away.
The man turned pale as he looked at Arzen.
“I, I dared not recognize the Benefactor…!”
Arzen smiled brightly as he looked at me.
“What would you like me to do with him, Benefactor?”
How disgusting.
He must know I’m not the Benefactor.
“Get lost.”
I snapped at the man who had been gripping my arm.
“Th, thank you, Benefactor!”
As I watched the man disappear, Arzen took off his outer coat and draped it over my shoulders.
“Why are you out in such shabby clothes, Benefactor?”
He led me to a carriage parked nearby, avoiding people’s gazes.
“Don’t tell me you came to capture me?”
“I heard that suddenly an intruder appeared and attacked the basement to kidnap you.”
“…”
“I’ve been searching for you, Rose.”
As if checking whether I was injured anywhere, he grabbed my chin and examined me thoroughly.
“But you don’t seem like you were kidnapped…”
His gaze seemed to suspect that today’s incident was something I had orchestrated.
“Arzen.”
Since I’d come this far, there was no choice.
I had to settle this decisively.
But first, let me confirm one thing.
“Do you know what’s going to happen at the ceremony?”
“What’s going to happen?”
Arzen furrowed his brow as if he didn’t know. Perhaps unlike Anri and her forces, Arzen might not know what the Benefactor is trying to do.
“Has the Benefactor asked you to help with anything?”
“…”
“Tell me, Arzen. Please.”
When I firmly grasped his hand, Arzen sighed.
“I’ve done some favors occasionally, but I haven’t really helped with anything specific. I’ve only exchanged letters with the Benefactor or met a few times.”
“But you captured me in the Cursed Land.”
“That was an exceptional situation.”
This is ridiculous. So he cooperated with the Benefactor to capture me?
I couldn’t understand why he was so obsessed with me to this extent.
“There wasn’t anything else special with the Benefactor. Come to think of it, the Benefactor did show interest in my manor.”
“Your manor?”
“I don’t know the reason either.”
Is there something special about the Evantes Estate that would interest Roji?
“Did the Benefactor perhaps promise to break your curse?”
“….”
“I’ve been thinking. That’s the only thing that could be used to manipulate you.”
“Why are you asking that?”
“Because I need you too.”
“What?”
His green eyes widened in surprise as if hearing something unexpected.
“If you joined hands with the Benefactor to break your curse, then switch to my hand instead.”
“I told you, Rose. If that’s what you want—.”
“Stop with that marriage nonsense. Do you really think you can have me by forcing it like that?”
“You seem to have forgotten that you’re currently in my grasp?”
Arzen reached out and grabbed my hair.
This place was inside Evantes’ carriage.
“I should correct that. You could have me. If you want a rotting corpse, that is.”
“What?”
“If you do anything to me right now, I’d rather bite my tongue and die. If that’s what you really want, then go ahead and take a corpse.”
Arzen frowned as if he’d heard something extremely unpleasant.
How would he react?
Would he get angry, or would he laugh at me?
But contrary to my expectations, the man’s face became serious.
“…Then what should I do.”
I opened my eyes wide in surprise.
I knew he wasn’t the type of person to say such things.
Especially not with that noble and lofty pride of his.
“I told you. The day when I’ll grant what you want will never come. So tell me what you heard from the Benefactor. I’ll break that curse for you.”
“….”
“It might be better to maintain a good relationship this way. It’s ridiculous to join hands with the Benefactor and then hope to be with you.”
At least if he took my hand now, I was willing to stay with him until his curse was broken.
He slowly closed his eyes.
“The Benefactor said that to break the curse, prolonged contact or intimate physical contact would be necessary.”
“….”
“But can you really break my curse without running away?”
It was the method we had guessed all along. So that’s why he had proposed marriage.
“Prove it, Rose.”
Misplaced trust had widened the crack of distrust.
“…Prove it?”
I wanted to suggest writing up a contract right now, but there wasn’t much time.
I leaned forward, placing my hand on Arzen’s thigh. I felt the muscles tense where we touched, and heard him draw in a breath.
I carefully pressed my lips against his, then pulled away.
As I slowly exhaled, the man looked at me with slightly dazed eyes.
“…You really are.”
The man spoke in a cracked voice as if pouring out resentment.
“Cunning.”
Deep longing reflected in his green eyes.
“What do you want from me?”
Finally.
“So what I want is….”
* * *
“Oh my, there’s blood on you.”
The first person Roji encountered after getting out of the carriage was Anri.
It was as expected.
However, things proceeded disappointingly quickly.
“…You, what are you.”
Anri, who had coughed up blood from his mouth, collapsed under the tree.
The place where they were was a dark forest with few people around.
The knights sent to kidnap Roji had died by her hand.
“…You didn’t have this kind of power before.”
At Anri’s words, Roji smiled brightly.
The body Sian had made for her was sturdy, so she was stronger than ordinary people. But even then, she didn’t have the same power as now.
“You know it too, Anri. I was trying to draw upon the energy of the Cursed Land.”
Perhaps it was because demon blood had fallen on that place long ago.
The energy of the Cursed Land was extraordinary.
Roji raised her pure white hand. Black energy swirled around it.
“You’ve already drawn upon that land’s energy? The sacrifices were woefully insufficient, so how….”
Anri muttered as if he couldn’t believe it.
Wasn’t today’s ritual supposed to be for opening the ‘door’?
Then Roji smiled slyly.
“I’ve already offered all the sacrifices, Anri.”
“What do you mean….”
Anri knew the amount of sacrifices Roji had offered. That’s why he had to ask.
“Don’t tell me you deceived me and….”
“No. I didn’t deceive you. The last sacrifice I offered was myself.”
“What?”
Anri’s pupils shook aimlessly. She turned around without hesitation.
“Time’s up. I should get going now.”
She left Anri, who had suffered fatal injuries, behind.
Since he had fatal injuries, he would die on his own. If he was lucky, he might survive.
The reason she didn’t finish Anri off was her last mercy.
She headed toward the town square where the ritual would take place.
-Stop.
Then, a voice blocking her path echoed in her head.
Sian.
-This is your last chance, Roji.
She ignored Sian’s words and walked on. Last chance? How ridiculous.
The last chance had passed long ago.
When Roji arrived at the town square, she heard tremendous cheering.
“It’s the Savior! It’s the Savior!”
Everyone was praising the Savior.
But Roji froze solid.
Like a supporting actor standing behind the stage.
And for good reason—the person receiving the people’s praise wasn’t Roji.
Why is Rose in that position?
In the middle of the town square, Rose was giving a speech while pretending to be the Savior.
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