The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 203

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Episode 203

 

I looked at Yurta and forcibly suppressed the expression that was about to contort.

 

The situation here seemed to be settling down, but there were still quite a few things left for me to handle.

 

“Sister.”

 

Yurta called out to me once more. I belatedly noticed the wound on his hand. Why was there so much blood flowing…?

 

“Yes, Yurta.”

 

I reluctantly called his name.

 

His eyes widened as if he hadn’t expected me to respond like this.

 

Sian’s eyes, watching us, turned cold.

 

“I’m fine. You take care of the situation here.”

 

Because from now on, I need to have a showdown with Yurta.

 

“Yurta, shall we move to another place?”

 

When I grabbed his hand, his black eyelashes trembled.

 

“Yes, Sister.”

 

I took Yurta and evacuated to a safe place.

 

It seemed a waiting area for the nobility had been set up near the town square.

 

I sat Yurta there and brought bandages.

 

Since there were many injured, first aid supplies were overflowing everywhere.

 

“Does your injured hand hurt a lot?”

 

“…Not really.”

 

“How did you get hurt? It’s worrying.”

 

“…Worrying?”

 

As if my affectionate demeanor was unfamiliar and awkward, Yurta suddenly became subdued.

 

“All done. Don’t get hurt from now on. It hurts, doesn’t it?”

 

“…”

 

“Are there any other places that hurt?”

 

“This place hurts too.”

 

Yurta extended his other hand.

 

“…This place hurts?”

 

There was only a small scratch, it didn’t seem painful enough to complain about.

 

“Please apply medicine, Sister.”

 

On this place that’s hardly even a wound…?

 

Yurta’s eyes sparkled with anticipation.

 

Ah. Even though it doesn’t really hurt.

 

He was like a child wanting to act spoiled.

 

I had no choice but to pretend not to notice and apply medicine to his hand.

 

“Please blow on it like when we were young, like ‘hoo-‘.”

 

This seems to be going too far…

 

No. Let me endure it.

 

I did as Yurta asked and blew ‘hoo-‘ on the back of his hand.

 

“Get better quickly, yap.”

 

Even adding childish words.

 

Though he was the one who asked for it, he seemed not to have expected me to actually do it, stroking the back of his hand with a reddened face.

 

“What’s the reason you’re suddenly being so kind to me?”

 

When you abandoned me and went to Dillen.

 

Though he was voicing words of resentment, his red eyes were filled with anticipation.

 

Perhaps, he was surely swelling with dreams of the future…

 

“I just feel a little sorry toward you.”

 

“…”

 

“So I want to make things right with you.”

 

I placed my hand over the back of Yurta’s hand.

 

The man who had been full of madness and rage looked at me with the face of an innocent boy.

 

Seeing that face, I felt strange for a moment. To think I’d receive such a fresh feeling from this man.

 

His face, ripe like a green apple, was innocently pure, unlike him.

 

I leaned closer.

 

Looking at Yurta whose breathing had become rough, I carefully brought up the main point.

 

“So Yurta, please lift Dillen’s curse now.”

 

“…What?”

 

“Now that we’ve cleared up the misunderstanding between us. I won’t push you away anymore, and you don’t need to hate Dillen anymore either.”

 

At that moment, the man who had seemed young enough to give off a fresh scent disappeared, and familiar madness surfaced.

 

“…Ha.”

 

“…”

 

“You wouldn’t change. I said it was strange.”

 

Wanting to return the man to his previous state, I gripped his hand tightly, but Yurta instead used that to pull my hand toward him.

 

“That damn Dillen. In the end, it was because of Dillen?”

 

“…”

 

“You… just how much more miserable do you plan to make me before you’re satisfied?”

 

“Yurta, that’s not what I meant…”

 

“If I lift Dillen’s curse, you’ll accept me like charity? If that’s not miserable, then what is? Did you think I’d be happy about that?”

 

His words were completely right.

 

Though the misunderstanding that he killed Selline was cleared up, I still dislike Yurta.

 

Emotions built up over a long time wouldn’t be easily resolved.

 

“What’s different between Dillen and me? Dillen stood by and watched the death of the woman you loved, so why do you cherish him so much?”

 

“Don’t try to drive a wedge between us, Yurta.”

 

“Drive a wedge?”

 

Ha. Yurta looked at me with a frustrated expression.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

The sound of knocking on the door was heard.

 

“Um… Herthas Prince Dillen has come to see you.”

 

Yurta pulled my shoulder toward him and pressed his lips close to my ear.

 

“Then let’s do it this way, Sister.”

 

* * *

 

Dillen entered the waiting room.

 

“How did you get all the way here, Dillen?”

 

Unlike earlier when he was acting like a madman, he seemed to have regained his composure to some degree.

 

“I thought you might go to the town square, so I came here, and they said you entered the waiting room with Yurta… But you’re alone?

 

“Yurta left a while ago. I couldn’t stand the sight of him, so I kicked him out without saying a word.”

 

“Really?”

 

Being close to me seemed to worsen his condition again, as Dillen began breaking out in cold sweat.

 

Though that sight was pitiful, I steeled my heart and called out to him.

 

“Dillen, I know now.”

 

“…You know?”

 

Dillen seemed confused, not knowing what I was talking about.

 

“Why on earth did you do that?”

 

“What are you trying to say, Rose?”

 

Now I have to tell him.

 

“Why didn’t you say anything when you saw Selline’s death?”

 

Even as I said it, I was dumbfounded. I should test someone worth testing, there’s no way Dillen would do that to me… Huh?

 

Strangely, Dillen’s face turned deathly pale.

 

I suppressed my anxious feelings and thought. No way, Dillen wouldn’t do that. He must be pale because he’s sick.

 

“What are you talking about, Rose.”

 

When Dillen denied it, I felt strangely relieved.

 

Of course you wouldn’t do that, I thought. But somehow, an ominous feeling in one corner of my heart kept growing.

 

“Don’t deny it, Dillen. Do you think I’m doing this without any evidence?”

 

“…You have evidence?”

 

I’m so anxious.

 

Holding onto these uncontrollable emotions, I asked again.

 

This time with an even more serious voice, as if interrogating for the truth.

 

“Dillen, why did you do it?”

 

“Rose, so I…”

 

“So, what.”

 

Finally, he managed to utter a single word with difficulty.

 

“I’m sorry.”

 

My head went blank.

 

Sorry? Why? Why are you sorry?

 

【Try testing Dillen once.】

 

【That guy is weak to you, so if you come on strong, he’ll end up apologizing.】

 

【Should I say he has an obsession with wanting to seem good until the end, even while doing terrible things.】

 

Why did I follow along exactly as he said when I didn’t even think Yurta was telling the truth? Even I was dumbfounded.

 

But… a hint of uneasiness ultimately made me act according to Yurta’s words. Even while telling myself it couldn’t be true.

 

“Why are you apologizing?”

 

Why exactly?

 

“I’m sorry.”

 

Did you really just stand by and watch?

 

“…Why exactly did you do that?”

 

“…I.”

 

Dillen moved his lips as if searching for words, then hung his head.

 

“…I didn’t mean to do it on purpose.”

 

“Of course you should say that. If you did it on purpose… are you even human? At least answer me.”

 

“I just didn’t want you to get hurt…”

 

“Is that really all?”

 

If I had heard this before testing him, I would have believed it, but now I couldn’t trust him.

 

He finally spat out the truth.

 

“When that incident happened, you told me that Yurta was terrible. So I…”

 

“…Don’t tell me.”

 

“I thought it would be good if you hated Yurta until the end.”

 

I looked at Dillen in dismay.

 

Was it really just as Yurta said?

 

“How could you do that to me?”

 

“…I’m sorry.”

 

“I trusted you, Dillen.”

 

Enough to share my secrets only with you.

 

“You were also the one who gave me hope. You taught me how to return home.”

 

It was Dillen who told me I had to kill the Transcendent to return home.

 

“But you… deceived me?”

 

My head was still blank.

 

Why did it have to be you who deceived me.

 

“…You were my everything.”

 

“…”

 

“I always only had you. I had nothing else. So… I didn’t want to lose you.”

 

Looking at Dillen, I recalled the image of a boy from long ago.

 

A boy who stood alone and lonely with no one to talk to.

 

But that pitiful boy had disappeared, and what appeared before my eyes now was a detestable man who had become an adult.

 

“You were the only one who stayed by my side.”

 

“…”

 

“So actually, I regretted giving you information about how to return to where you originally lived. I was afraid you might disappear.”

 

“…Then why did you give it to me.”

 

“Because I thought you would like me more if I did.”

 

Before I knew it, Dillen was crying.

 

Speaking to me in a pleading voice with desperate tones.

 

But all I could give the man was one sentence.

 

“I can’t see you again now.”

 

“…Rose, don’t do this.”

 

“You should have been prepared for this if you got caught.”

 

As I tried to pass by indifferently, he grabbed my wrist.

 

“Let go.”

 

“…Rose.”

 

“Let go…”

 

At that moment, Dillen’s red eyes gleamed strangely bright.

 

Like a leash had been released.

 

Then, there was a thud from the window.

 

It was Yurta who had been hiding outside.

 

He drew his sword and approached.

 

“Stop. Please let Sister go, brother.”

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