The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 25

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Episode 25

“Roji, you don’t look well.”

Emily said worriedly, looking at me shuffling around like a zombie after not sleeping properly last night.

“…Yeah, I’m feeling a bit under the weather.”

“You’ve been like this since yesterday. Roji, are you okay?”

No, not at all.

Just learning Roji’s true identity was driving me crazy, but Yurta talking about keeping me locked up forever was making me go insane.

What should I do now?

First, I need to tell the butler that I’m postponing my resignation…

“Roji, Roji.”

Then Emily poked my side.

When I looked at Emily with an expression asking what was wrong, she gestured with her chin to look over there.

In the direction she nodded toward was Ella coming up from the basement carrying potatoes.

But what was strange was that today the potatoes she brought up were intact.

“She’s coming toward you?”

When Ella saw me, she smiled faintly.

Ever since I gave her the potatoes last time, incomprehensibly, she had been acting like a chick seeing its mother hen whenever she saw me.

“Um, Roji.”

As Emily said, Ella approached me.

“What is it, Ella?”

“I have something to give you…”

Ella glanced at Emily. She wanted her to step aside.

Emily glanced at me. Should I stay with you, Roji?

I also answered with my eyes. Is it necessary?

Then Emily openly made a dejected expression and shuffled away to give us space.

Her retreating figure looked so forlorn that I felt like a sinner.

“What do you have to give me?”

Ella handed me the armful of potatoes she had been holding.

“Why this…?”

Is she giving it to me in case I’m hungry?

That was the only answer my meager brain could come up with.

“…He asked me to give it to you.”

“Who… that person in the basement?”

“Yeah, the monster.”

Is he crazy?

Suddenly asking me to deliver boiled potatoes?

I turned the potato around. But there were knife marks on the potato.

What is this?

Two circles were carved with some space between them, and below that was a curved line that bulged outward.

‘◡’

A smiling face…?

“Why did he ask you to give me this?”

“I don’t know either… Anyway, enjoy eating it, Roji.”

Ella shook her head and left my side.

I stared at the potato for a long time even after she left.

Then I recalled how he and I had parted ways.

When he asked me to help him escape…

【I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that. I won’t tell the Count, so don’t bring up such talk again. Not to anyone.】

I spoke coldly as if I’d never see him again and left his side.

I looked at the potato with the smiling face drawn on it again.

Is this guy really crazy?

* * *

Today too, the new maid delivered potatoes to him.

Thinking that Rihardt had taken a liking to ‘potato abuse,’ she was offering them like tribute.

Rihardt considered crushing the potato, but instead drew a picture on it.

He drew a smiling face of himself.

After drawing it, he gave it to the new maid.

“Why this…?”

“Please give it to Maid Roji.”

While handing over the potato, Rihardt had a truly absurd thought.

If she received a potato with his image drawn on it, it would mean Roji was having Rihardt, and if she ate the potato, she might be devouring Rihardt himself.

It would be something that would shock Roji if she knew.

After the new maid left, he smiled languidly and briefly recalled his last meeting with Roji.

【I would like you to help me escape.】

Saying those words had been impulsive.

Even Rihardt himself was surprised that he had uttered such words.

But he had no regrets. That’s why it was strange.

【Then I shall place wealth and glory in your hands.】

Those words too were unlike him.

He had planned to take her with him when he escaped.

Her existence was the most useful thing he had encountered in his life, as much as it suppressed the pain he had experienced all his life.

So if she would just obediently follow his words, he was willing to grant her anything.

【I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that. I won’t tell the Count, so don’t bring up such talk again. Not to anyone.】

The cold response that came back wasn’t particularly surprising.

Because he had already expected it.

Actually, it would have been stranger if that maid had promised to stay by his side after being promised wealth and glory.

Should I say it was unimaginable.

After that, Roji looked at him with cold eyes and left the basement without looking back.

Rihardt found himself unconsciously thinking that he wanted to touch the maid’s softly swaying pink hair.

A distance that couldn’t be reached even if he stretched his hand far.

That was the distance between the maid and Rihardt.

He didn’t like that.

But conversely, the distance could be easily shortened if he broke these restraints and rushed to the maid. That’s how he thought of it.

How could such a rough and crude method be so appealing.

Yesterday, just having Roji come was enough.

Because of that, he briefly escaped from pain without magic suppressants and became able to attempt an escape.

All this time, he hadn’t just been sitting quietly trapped.

He continuously researched even while suffering from mana overload in order to nullify the mana restraints.

And today, that attempt bore fruit.

Crack!

A flash of light emanated from the mana restraints, and cracks began to spread.

He had destroyed the mana restraints that had bound him for so long.

Bang!

In the process, the mana restraints exploded with a blast. The sight of fierce winds sweeping through the basement was utterly menacing.

The shock that shook the basement when the mana restraints were destroyed had probably leaked outside.

People would come rushing soon.

Even in this troublesome situation, he smiled pleasantly.

Now it was time to go get Roji.

No, kidnapping would be the correct word.

A sinister smile formed on Rihardt’s lips as he left the dark basement.

Now it was time to fulfill his desires.

* * *

Smile.

I split the potato with a smiling face drawn on it in half. Seeing the potato cut in two made me feel refreshed.

I handed the halved potato to Emily. The two of us cheerfully chomped and swallowed the potato.

“Roji, you know what?”

“What?”

I feel uneasy for some reason.

“I happened to overhear this morning that an honored guest is coming to the manor.”

Not particularly interested in the story, I didn’t pay much attention and fidgeted with my thumb.

“Aren’t you curious who’s coming?”

“It’s not like I know them, so is there any need to be curious?”

Emily looked at me with disappointed eyes.

She seemed to want to see me getting excited and curious.

“Wow…! I’m so curious.”

I even clapped belatedly, but it was already too late.

“Ahem. So who’s coming?”

“A young master from a very famous family!”

So who exactly is that.

“The young master of the Herthas Count’s Family!”

…Huh?

Did I just mishear?

“I heard he’ll be staying here for a while.”

What great sin did I commit in my past life.

Why do only bad things keep happening.

“…Um, Emily, do you happen to know which of the Herthas Count’s sons is coming?”

The Herthas Count’s Family had two sons as far as I knew.

The first was Dillen Herthas.

The scoundrel I saw in my dream who struck Roji’s head and made it bleed.

And the second was that crazy sub male lead I saw yesterday.

The first was violent, but I thought he’d still be better than Yurta.

Since it was the worst either way, I judged the lesser evil was better and waited for Emily’s answer, but…

“Since the second son attended the party last time, wouldn’t he be the one coming this time too?”

Oh my god.

Unable to contain my terrible feelings, I buried my face in both palms.

“Roji, are you still sick? You don’t look well.”

“Emily, I just realized that a person can actually die from shock.”

“Roji! What do you mean dying!”

I ignored Emily who was worriedly shaking my body and fell into deep thought.

He’s probably coming to this manor because of me too.

Am I really going to get kidnapped and dragged away in the middle of the night?

Should I start sleeping with Emily from now on…

I was about to seriously suggest to Emily that we escape separate rooms and share one bed.

Bang!

That’s when a thunderous sound that shook the manor was heard.

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