The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 64

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Episode 64

“Look at this.”

I spread out a map in front of Rihardt, who had finished his meal.

“What is this?”

“Memorize it in advance. I’ve marked the escape route with a red line.”

Rihardt picked up the map with interested eyes.

“Did you prepare this alone, Miss Maid?”

“Well, who else would I share this with?”

Such secretive business.

“So you’re planning to leave this country, Miss Maid.”

Rihardt said, seeing the red line on the map leading to the sea.

“…Not necessarily, but at least I’ll go to a land far from This Place.”

Actually, the line I drew on the map is at the opposite point from where I plan to escape.

I’ll help Rihardt escape, but I have no intention of fleeing together with him, so I plan to just give him appropriate information.

I intend to help him avoid the hardships Rihardt went through in the novel when he fled from Arzen’s knights.

However, Rihardt gently folded the map and handed it back to me.

“I’ve memorized it all.”

“…Already? That’s fast?”

Did he really look at it?

I can’t believe he memorized everything in that short time when just taking in the entire map would be overwhelming.

“But Miss Maid, what would you do if there was a better method than that?”

“A better method?”

This is a plan I agonized over for days, focusing on the shortest distance and safest routes.

To think there’s an even better plan than this.

“It’s a very safe and fast method.”

“What is it?”

I’m very intrigued.

“It’s a secret.”

“…What?”

“If I told you and you abandoned me to run away, I would be very sad.”

So in the end, he still doesn’t trust me.

It seemed he planned to tell me on the day of escape.

When I looked at him with coldly cooled eyes, Rihardt smiled gently and pulled me closer.

I was flustered as I got close to his enchantingly pretty face, but tried not to show it.

“If you’re not in pain, move away.”

“…Ow, it hurts.”

“…Are you calling that acting right now?”

“Hmm, then would this work?”

Rihardt looked at me with a pitiful expression.

Since he was making such an expression with that pretty face, I covered his eyes with my hand, afraid my heart might soften.

Safety secured.

However, Rihardt removed my hand and looked at me.

“I feel like I won’t be able to see you soon, Miss Maid.”

“…Not being able to see me?”

“You’ll find out about that soon too.”

It was a meaningful statement.

As Rihardt said, the day when I would understand the meaning of those words was approaching.

An unexpected storm was about to hit.

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[To the West Warehouse at Midnight.]

When I entered my Room after finishing work, there was a note hidden under the door.

Why is he asking to meet already?

Does he have something else for me to do?

There had been no problems so far. Rihardt had been acting crazy well.

Though anxious, I put on the pin the Maid had given me as a gift and headed to the West Warehouse.

‘If I turn the hairpin, it becomes a blade…’

It was a kind of incantation I’d been reciting like a charm lately.

Entering the Warehouse, I looked around. Seeing no sign of anyone, he hadn’t come yet…

“You came.”

Speak of the devil and he appears.

“…Do you have some task for me?”

“No, I don’t.”

“Then what’s this about…”

Before I could finish speaking, a blade was thrust toward my neck.

When something sharp and cold touched my neck, I instinctively swallowed dry saliva.

Something had gone wrong somewhere.

“Did you feed the Monster what I gave you?”

“…I fed it properly. Don’t you know the rumors about the Monster going crazy are spreading throughout the Manor?”

“It shouldn’t go crazy, but it went crazy…”

What does that mean?

I couldn’t understand the Unnamed Man’s words.

Flaret fruit causes transcendents to go berserk. In other words, if he didn’t eat the fruit, there would be no reason to go crazy.

Don’t tell me…

No way, no way.

Just as I was beginning to grasp what the problem might be, the Unnamed Man spoke.

“Did you feed him what was in the bottle I gave you a few days ago?”

“…I fed it to him.”

Though I threw it in the Incinerator.

“Then why did the Monster go crazy?”

“What?”

“That was an antidote.”

…Damn it.

It was a mistake to completely believe the Unnamed Man’s words that what was in the bottle was something more potent.

That suspicious man had thrown bait, and I had fallen for it.

I never thought he would give me an antidote, and more than anything…

【This time I’ve prepared something more potent, so use that instead.】

Having heard those words, I thought this one was definitely something potent and threw it in the Incinerator.

‘Stay calm.’

Things had gone wrong, but I hadn’t expected everything to go smoothly anyway.

I need to get through this situation well.

“…I don’t know anything about this.”

“You don’t know?”

“I definitely fed the Monster what you gave me. Something must have gone wrong.”

How should I get through this situation?

I kept biting my lips as I pondered, but no solution came to mind immediately.

With a blade pressed to my throat, it wasn’t easy to stay calm. The knife was so distracting that my mind worked slower.

Damn it.

“Don’t try anything foolish. Do you think you can get through this situation by pretending not to know?”

“But I really…!”

“I even paid you properly. I thought we could communicate well, but I was wrong.”

The man tightened his grip on the knife as if he really intended to kill me.

How should I get through this situation… Ah.

“I think I know why this situation happened.”

At my desperate cry, the man stopped moving.

“What do you suspect?”

“…Recently, strange things have been happening often. When I entered my room, the positions of objects had been slightly changed.”

“…It wouldn’t be good to lie.”

“I’m not lying. I think I know who the culprit is.”

The man’s grip on the knife loosened. He asked me in a lowered voice.

“Who is this culprit?”

“The culprit is…”

Just as I was about to continue speaking.

“Sister Roji!”

A familiar voice was heard from outside the warehouse.

…Anri?

“Sister Roji! I think she went this way, but it’s strange…”

Why is Anri here?

I didn’t know why, but it was good news for me.

“…Damn it.”

The man who had pointed the knife at my throat cursed and withdrew his blade.

He realized there would be no benefit in killing me here.

The man opened the back door of the warehouse and disappeared suddenly.

I let out a sigh of relief and rubbed the back of my neck.

That’s when it happened.

With a creaking sound, the warehouse door opened.

“Sister, what are you doing here?”

“…Anri.”

Anri’s blonde hair shone brightly like platinum in the moonlight.

Anri’s face cast in backlight looked momentarily eerie, making me almost step back.

However, when Anri stepped back from the warehouse, his figure glowing brightly in the moonlight was filled with an angelic, benevolent feeling.

“…I was in the warehouse briefly for work.”

I came out of the warehouse without showing my feelings.

“In the warehouse at this hour?”

“Being a servant isn’t a job where you can choose your hours.”

“…Mm, that’s true.”

“But what brings you here, Anri?”

“I thought I saw you coming this way, so I followed to say hello.”

Only then did I notice something strange that had been too natural to catch before. Sister…?

Anri’s way of addressing me had changed.

Perhaps noticing my puzzled expression, Anri looked at me gently and immediately responded.

“Emily is my sister.”

“Sister, you mean…”

“My real sister.”

This was news to me.

When I looked at Anri with wide eyes, he grinned.

“Ah, no wonder…”

“No wonder?”

“Emily told me not to get close to you.”

Siblings! It felt like mysterious puzzle pieces were fitting together.

Aren’t siblings usually in a relationship where they hate each other?

The contempt in Emily’s eyes when she looked at Anri made sense now.

“…Would it be okay if I called you sister? You seem close with Emily, so I felt a sense of familiarity on my own…”

“No, it’s fine, Anri. Feel free to call me sister.”

Anri’s expression brightened at my answer.

I thought he looked familiar somehow, and looking closely, he resembled Emily.

His hair color and eye color too.

“Sister, please speak casually to me too.”

“Mm… should I?”

“I’d like that, sister.”

Just knowing he’s Emily’s brother already made us feel closer.

“Sister Roji, but that blood on your neck…”

“Ah. I must have scratched myself while looking for something in the warehouse. It’s nothing to worry about.”

Anri looked at me with worried eyes, but I smiled as if it was nothing and raised my hand to cover my neck.

“Shall we go in then?”

Anri nodded at my words and followed me.

“But sister, you smell really nice.”

“…?”

“You smell good, sister.”

“…Um, thanks?”

The day after I parted with Anri.

Just as Rihardt had said, a storm struck.

“A beating is medicine for a mad dog.”

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