The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 32

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Episode 32

To go bring food to Rihardt.

I unconsciously recalled the last moment I had seen him.

【You…】

The face that looked at me, unable to hide his bewildered expression.

The scene of his blue eyes trembling faintly was still vivid.

【What did you do to me…】

He definitely said that.

I didn’t do anything to him.

Yet he still collapsed.

‘It must have been something I did, right?’

So his plan to kidnap me and his escape all went awry because of that.

‘He tried to kidnap me…’

I already knew from reading the original work that he wasn’t in his right mind, but to pull something like this in broad daylight.

The guilt I had unconsciously felt toward Rihardt was coldly washed away.

‘Should I just run away like this?’

Roji’s body wasn’t ordinary. Already two transcendents were persistently targeting this body.

Maybe that was why Roji had been hiding here all along?

Especially Yurta.

‘How do I escape from him?’

I could only sigh.

“I’ll open the door for you.”

Then the gatekeeper spoke quietly. I came to my senses and looked at him.

‘Right. Let me focus on the immediate situation for now.’

To make sure Rihardt can’t escape.

But…

The gatekeeper had an unfamiliar face. As expected, had the previous gatekeeper been replaced? Like Ella?

But…

Why didn’t Arzen dismiss only me.

“Aren’t you going in?”

When I didn’t move, the gatekeeper looked puzzled.

“…I should go in.”

Please, may this gatekeeper last long.

Somehow the gatekeeper’s situation seemed similar to mine, so I found myself looking at him.

The moment I stepped inside.

Clank! Clatter!

Before the sound of the door opening, the friction sound of metal being pulled taut pierced my ears.

I already knew what this sound was.

It was the sound made when chains were pulled to their limit.

“Are you alright?”

I forced a smile and nodded.

Then, leaving the gatekeeper behind, I entered inside.

Click.

The door locked behind me.

It felt as if my escape route had been cut off.

I steadied my breathing and raised my gaze.

Rihardt had come as close as the chains would allow.

Though his body was bound, his gaze seemed not to be at all as his blue eyes slowly looked me over.

Without smiling or speaking.

That silence was suffocating.

“You never smile at me even once.”

He spoke in a low voice.

“Yet you smiled so readily at the new gatekeeper.”

…What is this man saying?

After trying to kidnap me, is this what he should be saying?

“Were we close enough to smile at each other?”

I replied curtly.

Now I was determined to draw a clear line.

At that moment, Rihardt leaned forward slightly.

Clank!

The chains cried out again.

“I find myself smiling naturally whenever I see you, maid.”

He slowly curved his lips upward in a smile.

‘You smile every time anyway, even when you’re angry.’

He always smiled while thoroughly hiding his emotions.

Those who were drawn in by that facade only came to fear that smile at the very last moment.

Even trapped in the dim dungeon, his appearance was still as handsome as ever.

“Are you taking charge of my meals again?”

I didn’t hide my despairing expression and nodded weakly.

I had no energy left now. Too much had happened.

I listlessly set down the dog bowl in front of Rihardt. Then Rihardt’s gaze lingered on the bowl before turning back to me.

“Why?”

“It’s nothing.”

He smiled brightly, but why did it feel unsettling?

I silently sat down next to Rihardt and waited for him to finish his meal.

Being so close to Rihardt like this, I kept remembering how he had collapsed without any warning the moment he touched me while trying to kidnap me.

It felt as if somewhere in my body, there remained a power that could bring him down.

…If that were true.

It wouldn’t be the chains, but me who would keep him captive.

So he couldn’t escape, until the very end.

‘Maybe it could be useful for escaping from Yurta too?’

I finally couldn’t contain my curiosity and asked.

“What did it feel like when you collapsed?”

At the question that should have been bewildering, Rihardt casually pretended to think before smiling slyly.

“Like being conquered by you, maid?”

“…”

It was my fault for expecting anything.

Well, there’s no way he’d easily tell me something that could be a weakness.

Just as I was about to give up on prying further.

“It felt like my breath was stopping.”

His voice was low enough to send chills down my spine.

“My body wouldn’t obey me,”

His gaze very slowly traced over my face.

“And my mind grew increasingly hazy.”

It felt as if my entire body was captured by his gaze, unable to escape.

“My head is completely filled with thoughts of the Maid…”

“….”

“It was quite a strange experience.”

I couldn’t avoid his gaze.

“You still don’t know what that power is, do you, Maid?”

His voice was phrased as a question, but it was actually closer to a statement without a shred of doubt.

“So….”

He smiled very slowly.

“You should be careful.”

There was no warmth in that smile.

The man before me was a predator. Even if he was pretending to be docile now, he was waiting for his moment.

The thought that he might someday grab my neck and twist it sent chills down my spine.

“Maid, your expression.”

Rihardt said with a low chuckle.

And as if finding something amusing, he lightly flicked my forehead.

“I’m not sure if you’re always like this, but you seem to make particularly sour faces when you’re with me, Maid.”

“…Thanks to you.”

Right. This is all because of you.

Ever since getting involved with Rihardt, it feels like nothing goes right.

“That kind of expression should be worn by me, the one who failed to escape.”

“You reap what you sow.”

I shot back immediately.

“You should have run when you had the chance, why—”

Why did you try to kidnap me.

Those words never made it out of my mouth.

“Indeed.”

Rihardt interrupted, adding with a gentle smile.

“Why are you so beautiful that you made me fall under your spell?”

“…Are you insane?”

Rihardt laughed as if pleased about something.

“It’s just, enjoyable.”

“Is that so? How nice for you. I’m having an absolutely terrible time right now.”

I said dryly.

While someone’s life hangs in the balance every day, this man really is….

“If you don’t want to end up in such a state again, you’d better be careful.”

“True, such easy methods wouldn’t work to win you over. I’ll have to put in more effort.”

“Isn’t leaving me alone an option?”

His eyes curved prettily.

The crescent-shaped eye corners were strangely bewitching.

“Of course,”

He said with a smile.

“It’s not.”

I irritably gestured with my chin toward the dog bowl in front of him.

“Just eat.”

“….”

Rihardt looked down at the bowl placed before him for a moment.

Then, as if nothing had happened like always, he looked at me with prettily curved eyes.

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