The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 6

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Episode 06

A plate?

The maid transferred the food that had been in the dog bowl onto the plate.

…What is she doing?

“Please eat.”

Rihardt couldn’t respond as gently as usual and just quietly watched her.

The maid pushed the plate with bread toward him and took out what she had prepared behind her.

She carefully folded ice in a towel and cautiously handed it to Rihardt.

“…What is this?”

“You injured your leg. Hold this against it.”

Though he hadn’t known the maid for very long, the woman he had observed wasn’t the type to care for him.

Rather, she seemed like someone who would do her utmost to fulfill her duties if he tried to escape.

“Oh, and.”

What else is there?

The maid smiled kindly, an expression that didn’t suit her, and offered him dessert.

“Would you like some?”

“…”

Could there be some strange ingredient in that cake?

He couldn’t react at all and just stared at the maid.

“Oh, I’m not giving you all of it.”

The maid picked up a fork and positioned it across about half of the cake. As he watched wondering what she was doing, the maid divided the cake into two pieces.

“I meant we’d share it.”

When he didn’t react, the maid smiled awkwardly.

Did Arzen order this?

Otherwise, he couldn’t understand her attitude that had changed so drastically from this morning.

He looked into her pink eyes as if trying to discern the maid’s intentions, but there seemed to be no malice.

“…Your master wouldn’t approve.”

“The dessert? Dessert disappears when you eat it, so he probably won’t know anyway.”

The maid was surprisingly bold.

“I wasn’t just talking about that.”

“Are you referring to the plate and ice?”

That too, and also her newly kind attitude toward him.

Rihardt didn’t trust people easily by nature. That’s why he was suspicious of the maid’s actions before him.

However, his blue eyes concealed his inner thoughts and still held a gentle light.

“I sneakily took the plate while helping with dishes in the kitchen. And for the ice, when I pretended to be hurt, people around me took care of me.”

Why did she go to such lengths?

The maid replied as if it was nothing, but to Rihardt it wasn’t a trivial matter.

It wasn’t that there had been no servants among those who passed by who had cared for Rihardt.

But most of them acted that way because Rihardt had seduced them, behaving kindly because they were enchanted by him.

However, the maid before him had no particular interest in him. Rather, she openly showed an expression of not wanting to get involved.

So why?

Perhaps for her it might just be trivial kindness, but Rihardt had to pay great attention to every variable.

That way he could prevent variables that might arise during his escape.

Rihardt couldn’t dispel his suspicion toward the maid as he took a bite of the bread offered to him.

At that moment, he realized the sensation spreading in his mouth was quite different.

It wasn’t about discussing taste or anything like that.

‘There’s no aphrodisiac.’

His food always contained vicious tampering, but today it didn’t.

Is this also because of this maid?

“Does it taste strange?”

“…No. It just seems a little different from usual.”

“I understand. Sometimes even food you always eat can feel different.”

Whether she didn’t know the intention behind his words or was pretending not to know, the maid played dumb.

In Rihardt’s view, the latter was more likely.

He quietly looked at the maid, then said something he wouldn’t normally have said.

“Why did you go to such lengths?”

The maid couldn’t answer immediately.

Her gaze touched his bluish swollen ankle and then fell away.

“I’m kind to patients.”

That’s all there was to it.

Looking at such a maid, Rihardt recalled something.

When he had gasped and begged her for medicine in front of her, she had readily given him the medicine.

Did she really give it because he was a patient?

At that moment, Rihardt realized one fact.

To win this maid’s heart, he would need to stay sick a little longer.

* * *

Originally, I hadn’t planned to offer dessert as well.

However, seeing his injured leg made my conscience prick, so I offered the dessert like a tribute.

But Rihardt’s expression was strange. Could he possibly be moved?

Rihardt, who would normally have approached me cunningly, said nothing special.

He slowly picked up the dry bread and chewed it slowly.

It was clearly the act of eating bread, but his every gesture was elegant.

“Are you originally this kind only to patients, Maid?”

Wouldn’t there be few people who would be harsh even to sick people?

Ah, are you one of those rare few?

“Even if they weren’t patients, I’ve always been kind.”

“…”

I had spoken sociably to Emily whom I’d just met, and to the Head Chef too. I was kind to everyone.

…Except for Rihardt.

“I see, kind Maid.”

Is he teasing me?

“…Ahem. You asked before what perfume I use, right?”

I had thought it might be Rihardt’s style of flirting and tried to ignore it, but since he had asked, I decided to let him know.

“When I looked into it, I found out I don’t use perfume.”

“…Was whether you use perfume or not something you needed to look into?”

Oops.

I naturally made a slip of the tongue.

Well, these things can happen in life. I was rather lenient with myself.

“I have a bad memory. I often can’t remember if I’ve eaten even after having a meal.”

“Oh my.”

Was my lie too insincere?

It didn’t matter anyway. Rihardt would just let such trivial talk go in one ear and out the other.

“But it’s curious that you don’t even use perfume.”

“What is?”

“I don’t know if you’re aware, but you have a strong fragrance coming from your body.”

Is this a pickup line?

Looking at Rihardt’s face, it didn’t seem like he was joking.

“It didn’t seem like artificial fragrance, more like body scent. I apologize if it was unpleasant.”

“Yes, it’s unpleasant, so hold your breath.”

At the firm response, Rihardt’s eyes widened, then he quietly burst into laughter.

“I told you to hold your breath.”

“If that’s what the maid wishes.”

…He’s not actually holding it, is he?

Contrary to my worry, Rihardt was breathing without any disturbance.

It was quiet after that. He silently finished his meal and I quietly waited for him.

When there was no longer any reason to stay here, I skillfully wrapped the plate with a towel and went outside.

It was a perfect crime.

…Maybe?

* * *

The sun had already set and it had become a dark night.

The woman in maid’s clothing looked around her surroundings.

After confirming there were no people around, she glared at the kitchen maid trembling before her.

“You couldn’t put the fruit in the monster’s meal?”

“…I’m sorry.”

The woman in maid’s clothing furrowed her brow without hesitation.

The woman in maid’s clothing was named Mari. She belonged to the higher ranks among the maids.

With her characteristic snake-like tongue, she had won favor from the head maid, making her position quite solid.

But one day, a ‘suspicious man’ came to see her.

He pressed a large sum of money into her hands and ordered her to grind suspicious fruit into powder and mix it into Rihardt’s food.

She tried to refuse the unsavory proposal, but when she heard the amount the man offered, she couldn’t bring herself to do so.

Thus Mari came to mix fruit of unknown identity into Rihardt’s meals.

Of course, to protect herself, she didn’t act directly but gave some money to a kitchen maid and had her do the work.

If things went wrong, she planned to blame it all on the kitchen maid.

“And it’s not just that you couldn’t put it in once, but you couldn’t do it all day. What on earth happened?”

“Well, the maid in charge of meal service this time kept watching the food the whole time…”

The maid in charge of meal service this time would be…

Roji.

With swaying pink hair and vivid pink eyes reminiscent of azalea flowers. She was a maid with a striking appearance.

All Mari knew about her was that she was quiet.

That Roji interfered with the work?

“One day should be fine. Tomorrow, don’t miss it and definitely put it in.”

“Um… that’s…”

“What’s the problem this time?”

“She says she’ll always come early from now on…”

The composure she had barely found was shattered by the unexpected news.

“Why on earth?”

“I’m not sure either. She said the Head Chef looks so cool while cooking that she wants to watch from nearby…”

That couldn’t possibly be true. Only the Head Chef was fooled by it.

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