The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 202
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Episode 202
Imitating the Benefactor wasn’t difficult.
Since Roji had been acting as me in the first place, I didn’t need to act.
“Benefactor! Benefactor!”
Endless praise filled the square.
How tiresome.
‘The Benefactor needs to disappear now.’
“…And I intend to step down after today as my last day.”
Near the end of my speech, I stated my true purpose. The venue stirred with murmurs.
Just as I was about to continue speaking without concern, I met a pair of gleaming pink eyes among the countless people.
‘No way.’
After blinking, I looked at that spot again, but she was no longer there.
I looked around, searching for the pink eyes I had just seen. Where on earth… Could I have been mistaken?
“There are two Benefactors…!”
I wasn’t mistaken. As if proving what I had seen was real, surprised voices soon reached me.
Starting with that outcry, people discovered Roji among them.
‘So she came after all.’
Anri had said he would kidnap Roji, but it seemed he had ultimately failed.
“Which one is the real Benefactor?”
“But the Benefactor is giving a speech right there…”
Naturally, malicious gazes turned toward Roji.
While this was advantageous for me, it didn’t feel good.
“This imposter! How dare you come here!”
Then a man roughly grabbed Roji’s arm and yanked her. Just like what had happened to me earlier.
The crowd’s voices gradually turned violent.
Roji, who had been dragged along with a somewhat dazed expression, suddenly burst into laughter.
“Ahahahahaha!”
Even hearing it again, her laughter was eerie.
The people must have felt the same, as they stopped moving.
“This is why I hate you all. You deserve to die.”
“Wh-what?”
“Just loud and stupid.”
The situation grew increasingly menacing.
Roji showed no intention of explaining that she was the Benefactor.
Her pink eyes were clearly angry that I had ruined her plan.
“Shut up! You fake!”
Then a voice flew from the opposite side.
Count Herthas. It was him.
“How dare you pretend to be my daughter! This is outrageous!”
Like a perfect victim. Like righteous anger. His display of rage was disgusting.
“That’s right, shut up!”
People defended Count Herthas and shouted at Roji.
Even though the people weren’t criticizing me, my hands kept clenching.
I only wanted to stop Roji, not push her over the cliff edge.
That child had become a terrible person, but she was a pitiful young girl whose body had been stolen, who had lost everything and changed like this.
Soon people began throwing stones at Roji.
Blood flowed down from Roji’s head. Even so, she couldn’t stop laughing.
Then, in one moment.
“No. You’re the ones who should shut up.”
Dark energy exploded from Roji’s body.
“Aaaahhh!”
The square instantly became a sea of blood.
“Stop…!”
I had to stop Roji.
She was trying to kill people indiscriminately.
But that wasn’t the end of it.
“Everyone stop hiding and come out now!”
As soon as Roji’s shout ended, demon worshippers who had been hiding everywhere burst out.
The situation became even more chaotic.
I quickly gave Arzen a look. He nodded and shouted.
“Everyone stop that evil group!”
The Evantes family soldiers who had been waiting nearby rushed in to stop the demon worshippers.
I stood at a distance, watching the dark power emanating from Roji’s body.
‘What is that black thing?’
Did she have such power in the past too?
Could that be the energy of the cursed land? Since Roji had said she would draw that power…
“R-Rose!”
Then someone grabbed my wrist.
“Let’s run away quickly! It’s dangerous here right now…”
Count Herthas.
I looked at him with a coldly hardened face.
He probably wasn’t looking after me out of worry.
He just didn’t want to lose the reliable family ally called the ‘Benefactor.’
Then the dark energy stretched out and blocked our path.
“Where are you trying to go, Father?”
“Father?! My daughter is right here, you fake…”
“You know it. That I’m the Benefactor.”
“What nonsense!”
“Look at the clothes. I’m wearing what you saw me in this morning, right? But what about that child?”
Ha. Would it matter to Count Herthas who was real?
He’s the type who wouldn’t care whether someone was fake or real if his position became awkward.
“Stop it, Roji.”
I stood in her way.
“This isn’t right.”
“Not right?”
“It’s too much. Even if you kill the people here, you won’t gain anything substantial. The more you vent your anger, the more you…”
“What do you know to spout such words?”
As if angered by my words instead, the dark energy surrounding her grew thicker.
She hates me.
So whatever I say will sound disagreeable to her.
“Roji, please…”
“Shut up!”
Whoosh-
The black energy spun violently, releasing rough energy that spread in all directions.
Crash!
The ground where the energy struck cracked and buildings collapsed.
“Kugh!”
The dark energy wrapped around Count Herthas as if to kill him.
“If you loved Mother, shouldn’t you wish for this man’s death and celebrate together?”
“….”
“You must agree with my will.”
“…Roji.”
“Ah, right. You’re not mother’s daughter, are you? What would you know?”
“Don’t speak so carelessly.”
Roji drew that bizarre smile once again.
“Kuh, kuhuk!”
The force strangling Count Herthas grew stronger, and the swirling black energy only grew larger.
Words alone couldn’t stop her.
‘If that’s the energy from the Cursed Land….’
A certain thought flashed through my mind.
Recalling the power I had used on Yurta and Rihardt, I drew forth pure white light.
Like the power Roji had displayed when she first appeared as the Savior.
Whoosh!
It worked! The black energy diminished where the light touched.
Swish! Sensing her power shrinking, Roji turned her head toward me. Soon the black energy stretched out toward me.
I tried to exert more force to block the black energy, but I could only push it back slightly.
The power was too vast.
The energy drawn from the Cursed Land was like an endless desert.
“Just die, all of you.”
Black energy gathered in the sky and spread in all directions, transforming into dark clouds.
As if preparing to scatter black rain.
“Cough.”
Then Roji coughed up blood. She quickly wiped the blood from her lips and looked at me.
“…That power is taking a toll on you.”
“Yes. Shall I tell you a secret, Rose?”
A secret?
“Actually, it’s not really a secret. I’m probably going to die soon.”
“…Die?”
“I offered my body as a sacrifice, so I’ll die before long.”
Sharp thorns emerged from beneath the black clouds.
“So I have nothing to fear. I hope you all just die.”
The first target of the sharp thorns was Count Herthas.
“Aaaaah!”
The thorns cruelly tore into Count Herthas. But he didn’t die immediately.
They avoided vital spots so he would die in agony.
“Now for the next turn….”
“P-please spare me!”
“Savior! Please spare us!”
Screams for help surged from all directions, but there was nothing I could do.
Even the knights who had rushed to subdue Roji couldn’t move easily, blocked by the black energy.
And so the black thorns poured down like rain.
I expanded my white power as much as possible to block the black thorns. I had to stop them somehow.
But my power was woefully insufficient. Far from blocking the black energy, it melted away as if being devoured. Then.
Flash!
In an instant, all the black energy vanished.
What?
“How is this….”
Roji looked down at her hands with surprised eyes. Even she seemed unprepared for this.
“Why is my power….”
“That’s enough.”
Someone had arrived.
* * *
“What is the meaning of this sudden behavior!”
On a bright afternoon, an uninvited guest invaded the Evantes Family.
The white-haired man entered the manor as he pleased, without anyone’s permission.
“That’s…!”
“That monster from back then…?”
The faces of those who recognized Rihardt, who had been imprisoned here long ago, turned pale.
But Rihardt ignored them and passed by.
“Stop him! Stop that insolent fool immediately!”
Armed knights rushed at him, but they were easily dealt with by a single light gesture from Rihardt.
The place Rihardt headed for without hesitation was the Maze Garden.
He recalled old memories.
He had escaped through the transport portal located here. The portal was connected to the Cursed Land, where he had met the Savior.
Sian had told him. The fact that the fake Savior Roji was drawing power from the Cursed Land through this passage.
“So I just need to destroy this place.”
He drew his sword without hesitation.
* * *
“Cough!”
Roji spilled a bowlful of blood.
She struggled desperately to summon the black energy, but it was useless.
“Stop it, Roji.”
I looked at the man who stood blocking Roji.
An unfamiliar face. Who is he?
“Your, Your Holiness…!”
“How did Your Holiness come to be here…!”
Unlike me, people who recognized the man cried out in surprise.
Your Holiness… This man is the Pope?
I stared blankly at the man. The man’s black eyes also looked at me.
In that moment, I realized a certain fact.
“Could it be… Sian?”
He looked completely different from the appearance I knew. But somehow I was certain this man was Sian.
The man raised his index finger to his lips with a “shh.”
“It’s the Holy Knights!”
With the Pope’s arrival, Holy Knights rushed in like reinforcements and blocked the Demon Worshippers.
“I’ve blocked the passage through which your power was leaking.”
“…Cough.”
Roji coughed up blood and glared silently at Sian. Perhaps because her power was forcibly cut off, the pain she felt seemed to have intensified.
As if making a final desperate struggle, she staggered as she walked, but soon Sian caught and stopped her.
Sian’s eyes looked somehow sad.
“…I’ll handle things here, so you can go ahead and leave.”
It seemed like the incident was being resolved as Sian said.
“Sister.”
Until that sickening voice was heard.
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