The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 210

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Episode 210

 

‘Was I allowed to dare confess?’

 

Perhaps the woman knew his feelings too.

 

Even so, Sian couldn’t dare confess. It wasn’t that he lacked courage.

 

He was Sian, but he wasn’t Sian.

 

Sian himself didn’t know how to define what he was.

 

He was originally an existence that shouldn’t be alive.

 

‘How did it come to this.’

 

It started with his senior.

 

After she disappeared, Sian frantically chased after her traces.

 

The first place he went to was the author who wrote the book that his senior had supposedly possessed.

 

Thinking back to that time, it was truly a strange experience.

 

The author who wrote the novel was someone who knew something.

 

【If I tell you something crazy, I actually lived in that world and was reincarnated.】

 

【….】

 

【When people die, they reincarnate. That’s how they travel through various worlds. I wrote based on memories from my past lives.】

 

However, Sian couldn’t die. Even if he died, there was no knowing whether he could cross over to the world where his senior was.

 

He researched like a madman.

 

He read every book and even broke into strange cult groups.

 

He ran around so frantically that his family locked him up in a mental hospital.

 

In a family that valued honor, Sian instantly fell to the status of an unwanted burden.

 

But that didn’t matter at all.

 

They were only family in form anyway, with nothing else connecting them.

 

His mother, the only family member he had loved, died of illness. In her dying moments, his mother had only Sian, and Sian felt the same way.

 

So those who remained in the place where his mother had disappeared were beings of no value to Sian.

 

The only person left for Sian was his senior, that one woman.

 

So he ran toward the truth.

 

To find the woman.

 

In the end, he reached the Laws of the World. But….

 

His human body couldn’t handle those laws and died.

 

The memory of that dying moment is still vivid. More than the pain that fell like divine punishment, it was the despair that he might never meet the woman again.

 

But was it fate? An opportunity came to Sian.

 

The ‘Laws of the World’ whispered to Sian.

 

-Offer a price.

 

-You need to pay an equivalent price to get what you want.

 

What was Sian like then.

 

Very desperately.

 

But like a madman, crying and laughing, he shouted.

 

Take anything. He could give everything, so please send him to that world.

 

-Then can you give me your ‘memories’ too?

 

What?

 

-Give me your ‘memories’.

 

If his memories were taken away, there would be no meaning in crossing over to where she was going.

 

Sian pleaded that anything but that wouldn’t do. However, the ‘Laws of the World’ weren’t so merciful.

 

From the moment it killed him.

 

-If you give me your memories, I’ll give you ‘power’.

 

-You just have to choose. Will you give me your memories and cross over there, or will you die like this.

 

It was a proposal with a predetermined ending, with only one choice.

 

* * *

 

Sian stopped in front of Rihardt.

 

Rihardt, who had been smiling just moments before, fell back into anguish when the illusion disappeared.

 

Eyes blue with madness followed Sian.

 

“You took Rose away.”

 

Rihardt spoke as if that was Sian’s sin. He resented Sian.

 

Sian spoke calmly to such a Rihardt.

 

“I came to keep my promise.”

 

“Promise?”

 

Rihardt had a face that said he didn’t understand what this meant.

 

But for Sian alone, it was something he had kept in his heart all along.

 

“I said I would find your memories for you.”

 

“…Those memories and such.”

 

“They’re important.”

 

Sian thought of Rose outside the door.

 

Actually, you see. There are still many things I’m hiding from you.

 

I’m so scared that kind you might hate me.

 

“Actually, I didn’t want to find your memories for you.”

 

Sian confessed honestly.

 

“I wanted to stay by her side a little longer.”

 

There was no way Rihardt, who had no memories, could understand what Sian was saying.

 

Sian didn’t expect Rihardt to understand anything either.

 

Anyway, once he regained his ‘memories’, he would know what all these words meant.

 

“But in the end, this time has come.”

 

Crack-

 

Then cracks appeared on Sian’s face again.

 

Rihardt’s eyebrows twitched at the strange sight.

 

“Take my hand.”

 

Sian extended his hand to Rihardt.

 

But there was no way Rihardt would take that hand. Unless he was going to cut it off immediately.

 

So Sian whispered.

 

“If you take my hand, you’ll be able to find your memories.”

 

He knew this alone wasn’t enough.

 

“And you’ll be able to understand ‘Rose’ even better.”

 

“…I can understand her?”

 

With a face that didn’t know the reason, Rihardt was displeased.

 

Not through his own power, but just by holding hands once….

 

“I told you. I’m returning your memories to you.”

 

“…If I find my memories, I can understand her?”

 

“Yes.”

 

Rihardt would have no choice but to take his hand.

 

Because nothing else but ‘Rose’ was involved.

 

As Sian expected, Rihardt took his hand.

 

At that moment,

 

Crack-

 

Sian’s face, which had been cracking, completely shattered and fell piece by piece. Rihardt looked at the scene in surprise.

 

Like a wax doll breaking, Sian’s body crumbled down.

 

The fallen fragments turned to powder with a soft sound, sparkling like sand reflecting sunlight.

 

Sian thought.

 

It would have been nice if he could have spent his end together with Rose.

 

However, as he well knew himself, that was something that could never be achieved.

 

Finally, Sian’s body completely crumbled. And as if it had been waiting, the quietly accumulated powder was absorbed into Rihardt.

 

“…!”

 

Rihardt couldn’t breathe due to the tremendous agony that rushed in.

 

“Hah….”

 

He hastily clutched at his chest, but his breathing didn’t ease and only his collar became wrinkled.

 

After a while, the agony slowly subsided and Rihardt raised his body.

 

“Ha…!”

 

Rihardt burst into laughter.

 

“Ah.”

 

Fragment-like memories seeped into him.

 

* * *

 

All humans reincarnate.

 

And they wander through dimensions in cycles of rebirth.

 

Sian was Rihardt’s reincarnation.

 

* * *

 

One day, Senior disappeared.

 

She was sucked into a ‘dimensional rift’ that had opened.

 

Sian searched everywhere like a madman to find a way to meet her.

 

When he finally reached the forbidden ‘Laws of the World’, a demon-like voice whispered.

 

-You must pay a price. Give me your memories and I’ll give you the ‘power’ to cross dimensions.

 

It was a cruel bargain.

 

Even if he gained power and crossed dimensions, if he lost his memories, he wouldn’t be able to recognize her.

 

He would forget even the heart that loved her and become nothing but an empty shell.

 

But if he didn’t go, he would never see her again.

 

Sian ultimately had to choose.

 

While crying. While wailing. Then he laughed.

 

Because he had found a way.

 

‘I see. Then give me power now.’

 

-Have you chosen?

 

‘Yes.’

 

The ‘Laws of the World’ gave Sian power as promised. As the power entered, Sian’s memories also disappeared.

 

However, Sian had devised one trick just before that.

 

Before all his memories completely disappeared, Sian breathed life into his ‘memories’.

 

So that when he lost all his memories, the separated ‘memory’ would move and prepare everything in his place.

 

The memory that separated like that was.

 

Sian was.

 

As the price, he fell to the cursed land.

 

It was an existence that would someday break because it was not complete.

 

‘Sian’, who was merely a memory separated from the main body, thought.

 

Am I Sian, or am I not?

 

Though he was Sian’s memory, the main body wandered around separately.

 

The main body was born as a blue-eyed boy and lived with the name Rihardt.

 

That thing, which was merely Sian’s memory, spent agonizing time denying its own existence.

 

However, it carried out the duties assigned by the main body.

 

First, he cursed Count Evantes.

 

It was still a story Rose didn’t know.

 

The novel written by the author was merely a fictional story. Therefore, Sian had to create the story that Rose knew.

 

So that everything would happen according to that book.

 

So he designed it so that Count Evantes would kidnap Rihardt.

 

That was the ‘curse’.

 

Count Evantes had been searching for the existence of the oracle for a long time.

 

And he arranged for Rihardt to appear before his eyes.

 

In fact, Rose was the oracle, and the transcendent was also correct.

 

So that all three would gather in one place.

 

Up to this point, everything was rational judgment.

 

However, ‘Sian’ was not an emotionless being. He contained all of Sian’s essence, even emotions, so how could he act coldly in every moment?

 

So he picked up ‘Roji’.

 

He coveted Rose’s scent that the main body could smell but he could not. He stole the main body’s ability.

 

‘Saving Rose.’

 

It was what Sian desperately wished for just before dying.

 

So he appeared before Rose who had lost her memories.

 

When she struggled in agony because of Selline and tried to run away, he made it so she could no longer escape.

 

He blocked all escape routes.

 

To make her look forward.

 

Thus the moment of choice approached.

 

Then he gradually became greedy. I want to have her.

 

I became impatient with waiting.

 

But Sian’s absolute imperative was ultimately ‘saving Rose’.

 

In the cursed land and fake world, the body containing ‘memories’ broke down slowly.

 

But it wasn’t the same in other places.

 

‘Sian’ had been constantly pondering, but ultimately gave himself to Rihardt.

 

Now we are one.

 

Thus Rihardt’s lost memory, ‘Sian’, returned to its original owner.

 

They became complete.

 

* * *

 

I thought something big might happen inside. But even though quite some time had passed, it was strangely quiet.

 

【Maybe I’m not Sian after all.】

 

Suddenly I remembered something Sian had said long ago in the cursed land.

 

What did that mean?

 

‘Five minutes must have already passed, right?’

 

I swallowed nervously and opened the door.

 

Rihardt was standing there with a dazed expression, looking into empty space as if he had just woken up.

 

Where is Sian?

 

Could something have happened?

 

I wanted to run away, but I didn’t retreat and approached him.

 

Then Rihardt’s gaze turned toward me. He approached me filled with joy.

 

As the man larger than me approached, I instinctively shrank back, but in that moment, he pulled me into his arms.

 

“Rose.”

 

Don’t tell me he’s going to tie me up again?

 

I should use my power before that happens….

 

“I’m sorry.”

 

Rihardt apologized to me. I wondered what this was all about.

 

“…I really missed you.”

 

Did he realize that I wasn’t an illusion?

 

The sun that had risen at some point pierced through the gaps in the Temple.

 

“I won’t do what you’re worried about.”

 

Did Sian succeed?

 

What on earth happened inside?

 

It was truly an incomprehensible situation.

 

Still, I suppose it’s fortunate that we prevented the worst-case scenario?

 

“I know. You must be confused. But everything is okay now.”

 

Everything is okay?

 

I was confused because I didn’t know what had happened.

 

To me in that state, the man whispered.

 

“I love you.”

 

The man continued to whisper after that.

 

That everything had been accomplished.

 

It was a situation that could be described with any word—confusion, chaos—but somehow the sunlight seeping into the desolate Temple felt warm and comforting, giving me a premonition that everything would work out well from now on.

 

【The End】

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