The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 37

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Episode 37

She was clearly teasing me while knowing I didn’t do it.

“What a shame. If I had known you liked jewelry, I would have tried to seduce you with that.”

“You talk too much for someone locked up in here.”

Instead of answering, Rihardt smiled prettily. He gave me an eye smile, and damn, he was annoyingly beautiful.

“You seem to be in a difficult situation. Shall I help you?”

His grinning face looked leisurely confident, as if he could solve this situation.

“You’re going to help me?”

“If a commoner gets caught stealing a noble’s belongings, it could be a matter of life and death. I should help you.”

“I told you I didn’t steal anything.”

And… Roji’s status was noble, so if she revealed her identity, she wouldn’t die.

Of course, I would never reveal my identity myself.

“Don’t think so negatively. If you get thrown in prison…”

His hand traced down my wrist and intertwined with my fingers.

“I’m the only one who would take you and run away.”

…Really, this man tried to dig into any opening I showed with frightening persistence.

I must not let my guard down.

“So hurry up and beg me to save you. My maid.”

I shook off his hand. My heart beat irregularly.

…I’d rather reveal my identity than go to prison.

“Unfortunately, I don’t need your help.”

I stood up, brushing off my skirt.

“How disappointing.”

His low laughing voice was full of displeasure.

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As soon as I came out of Rihardt’s room, I was dragged by maids who grabbed both my arms and forced to kneel.

The floor without even a single rug was hard, making my knees hurt.

The Head Maid who made me kneel had a face full of anger, as if looking at a traitor who had betrayed the country.

“How dare you steal Count Evantes’s jewelry!”

“Do you really think I did it?”

“What?”

The Head Maid looked dumbfounded at my shameless attitude.

“I trusted you and assigned you the task because I heard you worked well, but you dare…!”

As the commotion grew louder, people gathered around in no time.

The gazes of those who turned their heads to see what the fuss was about turned cold.

Those were exactly the kind of looks.

Her again?

People might overlook it once, but when such incidents happen twice, they think there’s something wrong with me.

Since I was involved in this kind of incident again, they would try to find fault with me.

“What do you mean I stole jewelry, Head Maid?”

When people gathered, I acted like someone so wronged I was about to burst into tears.

The Head Maid twisted her face at my completely changed attitude.

“You hypocritical little wench. Do you think you can hide your true nature forever?”

“…True nature? I just want to know what you mean by suddenly saying I stole jewelry.”

“After you worked, one of Count Evantes’s luxury items, a piece of jewelry, disappeared.”

So she was saying I must be the culprit.

“I already ordered them to search your room. Soon it will be revealed whether you did it or not.”

Searching my room so forcefully without the owner’s permission. As expected, she was clearly doing this convinced that there would definitely be jewelry in my room.

Come to think of it, I felt a sense of déjà vu.

It was similar to the false accusation Rose received in my dream. Could this be a coincidence?

As I was calmly thinking about it.

“Head Maid!”

The maids who had searched my room as the Head Maid said came running urgently.

“Yes. Did you find the jewelry?”

“…”

“Roji stole it, right?”

“Well…”

When the maids trailed off, the Head Maid instinctively sensed something was wrong.

“Why aren’t you answering?”

“…There was nothing.”

“What?”

“…There was no jewelry in Roji’s room.”

The Head Maid’s expression of disbelief was amusing. That’s what she gets for pulling such a pathetic trick.

“Roji is not the culprit, Head Maid.”

“That can’t be…”

Since there was no jewelry, I wasn’t the culprit. That was a very obvious fact.

However, the Head Maid’s reaction, who had tried to make me the culprit, was different.

When the surrounding gazes changed as they watched her, the Head Maid finally realized her behavior needed to change too.

‘Of course it wouldn’t be there.’

The whereabouts of that jewelry…

I suppressed a smile inwardly.

“Oh my, Roji… I must have been mistaken.”

Realizing her plan had gone awry, the Head Maid tried to back out belatedly.

And then.

“My goodness, Roji! What’s going on!”

Emily, shocked by the current situation, came running urgently.

When Emily protectively embraced me as I was still kneeling, I sniffled pitifully.

“Roji wasn’t the only one who managed Count Evantes’s belongings! Did you check Lena’s room?”

Emily immediately protested to the Head Maid.

As I faithfully played the role of a pitiful maid who suffered undeserved humiliation, the surrounding gazes changed to sympathy.

“You girls, check Lena’s room too.”

“Yes, Head Maid.”

It was a decision she could make since no jewelry would come out of Lena’s room anyway.

And the Head Maid’s judgment was truly a misjudgment.

“Head Maid! We found jewelry in Lena’s room!”

“…What?”

“Lena stole the jewelry!”

“What? What are you talking about!”

Lena, who had been quietly standing next to the Head Maid, screamed in shock.

“Why is that in my room… No! I didn’t steal it!”

Lena denied it, but the jewelry was found in her room.

She looked at the Head Maid as if asking for help.

“Head Maid, you treated Roji like that, so why can’t you say anything now?”

Watching this, Emily kept muttering “poor our Roji” and hugged me tightly.

“…You, what are you saying so impudently! I was going to do that anyway.”

“Head Maid! It’s not me. You know that!”

“Lena, be quiet!”

When the Head Maid shouted, Lena’s eyes welled up with tears from shock. She looked as if she had been betrayed by someone she trusted.

Soon Lena was dragged out and seated right next to where I had been forced to kneel.

“What is all this commotion!”

Just then, the Butler’s appearance made the situation completely escalate.

Lena denied it, but since the jewelry was found in her room, no one believed her words.

“Take her away.”

And so Lena was dragged off.

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Even though everything was over, an uneasy feeling remained.

In the original story, Lena steals the Blue Diamond and runs away.

Then who was the servant who helped move the jewelry with her in the original?

‘It couldn’t have been Roji.’

If it had been Roji, she would have revealed her identity to resolve the situation. But there was no such content in the original.

‘That means…’

There must have been another servant who originally helped move the jewelry.

But why did the Head Maid assign this task to me?

The suspicion wouldn’t go away, so I decided to keep watching Lena.

‘If I keep hovering around after the job is done, they’ll think it’s suspicious.’

I asked the maids I was close with to tell me what they were doing.

“Thanks for doing me this favor, Emily.”

“It’s nothing, Roji. It’s no big deal.”

Emily was among the maids I had asked.

Emily discovered and told me that Lena had secretly entered and left my room.

“But where were you watching that from?”

If she had been openly guarding in front of the room, Lena wouldn’t have been able to enter my room.

“Hanging from the ceiling?”

“…You’re joking, right?”

Emily didn’t answer, but it seemed serious, which was scary.

‘Why did Lena hide the jewelry in my room?’

In the original, Lena stole it and ran away, but this time she tried to frame me.

There must be someone behind this.

“Is Lena in prison by now?”

“Probably?”

“…Is there no way to meet Lena?”

Even I found it ridiculous as I said it.

With the Gatekeeper standing guard, how could I get inside?

But Emily pondered something thoughtfully, then gave a thumbs up.

“Just trust me, Roji.”

No, this feels ominous.

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