The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 216
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Side Story Episode 6
When the physical examination ended, I was completely exhausted.
So much so that I couldn’t walk at all.
So I had no choice but to be carried on Rihardt’s back the entire way.
The Cursed Land was quiet.
It had been 6 hours since we started walking through the wasteland, but Rihardt hadn’t shed a single drop of sweat.
Even though we had come this far, it would still take more than half a day to arrive.
‘It would have been nice if we could go on horseback.’
Animals instinctively made a fuss when trying to enter this land, and above all, they couldn’t survive long in a land full of malice.
My vision felt like it was becoming hazy.
“Are you alright?”
“…Uh, huh?”
I was so exhausted that I could barely hear what Rihardt was saying.
Rihardt looked down at me with pitying eyes.
“…How, how much is left?”
“More than half remains.”
“More than… half is left?”
“I’m the one walking, so why exactly are you exhausted?”
Clinging on is also tiring. How would a transcendent understand this feeling?
There wasn’t even a trace of fatigue on his face. Even though we had walked for a good 6 hours…
After clinging on for quite a while longer, I finally returned to the cabin where Rihardt and I lived.
“I had no idea your physical condition was this poor.”
“That… can happen.”
Can’t someone have poor physical condition?
“From now on, you’re going to exercise.”
“…What?”
I looked at Rihardt like someone who had heard a bolt from the blue.
“Is that really such a shocking thing?”
“Then it’s not shocking?”
“…”
Rihardt’s gaze became complicated. Soon after, I heard a sigh.
“Rose.”
“…”
I avoided Rihardt’s gaze.
…Come to think of it, I have gained weight lately.
My physical condition has gotten even worse too.
Rihardt prepared delicious meals for me every day, and he did almost all the housework… so there wasn’t really anything for me to move around for.
“Fine. I’ll exercise.”
Then Rihardt’s complexion noticeably brightened. To that extent…?
“I’ll help you.”
“No, there’s no need to…”
“I want to help, Rose.”
“…”
Ah, why do I have a bad feeling about this…
* * *
The ground below was already a mess.
Undried blood was spread stickily across the floor, and the mixed smell of iron, dirt, and blood stung the nose.
With each breath, the nauseating energy seeped deep into the lungs.
“Speak.”
It was a short, dry voice.
“We also don’t know… Cough!”
The Knight trembled and bowed his head.
Something red poured out from the corner of his mouth. The blood flowed down his chin and dropped once again onto the already filthy floor.
Red eyes looked down at the Knight impassively.
“What remarkable loyalty. Don’t you think?”
“…I don’t know who you are, but do you think you can get away with this?”
The Knight glared at the Robed Man with bitter resentment.
They had been dispatched on a mission. Then they were suddenly attacked by the robed man.
The man had asked,
【Tell me the location of the former Paladin Commander.】
…He was asking about the location of Rihardt, their former master.
In fact, he knew Rihardt’s location.
However, he was someone who had received a favor from Rihardt in the war a few years ago.
He absolutely could not open his mouth.
“Don’t you value your subordinates’ lives? If you keep your mouth shut…”
“…We truly don’t know. And as Knights, we’re prepared for death.”
“Hah?”
The man clicked his tongue as if dumbfounded.
Soon he roughly grabbed the Knight by the collar.
The Knight held his breath at the pain of his wounds tearing open.
“Knights are such convenient beings. They have no thoughts, and they wag their tails drooling at commands. They’re the most convenient bunch who die believing they’re doing good. Don’t you think?”
“You dare…!”
“But you know what.”
In the Robed Man’s hand was a transparent glass bottle. An ominous liquid sloshed in his grasp.
“Even that great loyalty is nothing but decoration in front of drugs.”
Bitter mockery poured down over the Knight’s head.
“With just one drop of medicine, whether it’s beliefs or oaths… it all flows away.”
“I’m a Knight. In a body with divine power, such things…”
“We’ll find out if we test it.”
At that moment, the drug poured down his throat. The Knight struggled not to swallow it, but the man’s grip was incredibly strong.
It wasn’t the strength of an ordinary person. Like a transcendent…
But before the thought could continue, his consciousness was cut off.
The wind blew.
As the cold, sharp wind passed by, the robe’s hem was blown away and jet-black hair fluttered.
【I left because of you.】
It was a very sweet voice, but it poured out curses that seemed to pierce sharply.
It had been like this for the past year since awakening from deep sleep.
【You’re horrible, Yurta.】
Fluttering pink hair was drawn before his eyes.
The transparently shimmering woman couldn’t be reached even when he stretched out his hand.
But before that violent beauty… he finally shed a single tear.
I cannot live without you, so how can you say such things.
【Ah… the Grand Master is… north of Piette Domain, in the Cursed Land… past the forest… the black earth…】
【That’s all I know…】
Rose is probably with that transcendent.
That’s why he hadn’t gone berserk.
Yurta’s red eyes gleamed.
In a place reason couldn’t reach, something was persistently boiling over.
His lips parted slightly as a long breath escaped. It was a sound that could have been laughter or grinding teeth.
Yurta’s footsteps moved quietly.
* * *
Suddenly I felt chills and my body trembled.
“…Haa.”
I let out a hot breath.
My condition suddenly dropped drastically. And the reason was clear.
“Rihardt, stop…”
I pleaded with Rihardt as if about to cry. I can’t do anymore. I’m going to die now.
“…Rose.”
Rihardt called my name as if feeling sorry.
“You’ve only done five so far.”
“Five is… huff.”
“It’s only five.”
…Isn’t that already a lot?
After returning from Piette Domain, I started exercising. Of course, it was semi-forced by Rihardt.
Right now I was doing lunges as Rihardt instructed.
For reference, I couldn’t keep my balance well so he was holding my hands.
“Five more left.”
“This, this isn’t right… Something’s wrong…”
“Nothing’s wrong.”
Rihardt smiled brightly and urged me to go down as if telling me to hurry.
In the end, I reluctantly finished all ten and collapsed as if exhausted.
Rihardt’s complicated gaze poured down on me again today.
“L-let’s stop here for today.”
“…”
“Huff, I can’t do anymore…”
Rihardt’s silence grew long. Lately, he’d been making this expression more often.
“Understood. Let’s stop here for today. We can gradually increase it.”
That was the scariest thing to hear.
Rihardt seemed to want to find meaning just in having me exercise.
“I need to wash up, huff…”
I quickly spoke, worried Rihardt might make me do other exercises.
“…I’ll heat up the water.”
“Th-thank…”
My memory cuts off after that.
I don’t know how I washed up.
Rihardt dried my hair for me.
“Anyone who saw would think I dragged you off for harsh training.”
While drying my hair, Rihardt seemed to say something as if feeling wronged, or maybe not…
I fell asleep as if fainting.
I woke up again at dawn.
I was covered with a blanket Rihardt had bought from Piete Estate.
It was because I’d fallen asleep too early and woke up quickly.
My mind was a bit hazy and I was thinking of going back to sleep, when dim light was coming through the door crack.
‘…Rihardt must still be awake.’
He often stayed up late. But I don’t know how he manages to wake up early.
I opened the door and went outside.
Since I was awake, I thought I’d have a brief conversation with Rihardt.
But I could faintly hear conversation.
“…right.”
What?
This place is the Cursed Land.
It was a place where only Rihardt and I lived together.
Who on earth is he talking with?
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