The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 75

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Episode 75

After enduring for several days by taking the medicine Emily gave me, my condition had improved considerably.

My condition was only slightly poor, but it didn’t interfere with my movement.

Finally, it was the day of escape.

At the same time, it was also a day when I had no idea what the demon worshippers would do.

‘I just need to get through this moment.’

Then the escape would be successful.

With that thought, I went outside my room.

Just then, someone came out of the room next door. It was Emily.

Emily was staying in the room right next to where I was staying.

‘She said she’s on vacation starting today.’

Perhaps because it was her vacation, Emily was wearing a pretty dress. A flowing dress and blonde hair cascading over her shoulders.

“You look beautiful, Emily.”

“…Thank you, Roji.”

Emily smiled shyly.

I smiled back at her as well.

If everything went according to plan, this moment would be my last with Emily.

“Emily.”

“Yes?”

“Thank you for treating me so well all this time.”

Emily’s eyes widened at my words.

“When you say it like that, it sounds like we’re parting ways.”

I smiled without saying anything.

Emily smiled back, seemingly not thinking too deeply about my words.

“You think you owe me a lot, don’t you, Roji?”

“Yes. A lot.”

Emily’s help had been crucial in allowing me to adapt well to this place.

If you hadn’t been here, I would have been a little lonely.

“Have a good time at the festival, Emily.”

With that, I gave what might be my final farewell.

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Many nobles were invited to the banquet held one day before the last day of the festival.

Many carriages came and went through the main gate of the Count’s Manor, and near the banquet hall, nobles elegantly presented their invitations.

‘Seems like I chose a good day to escape.’

It was busy and chaotic with so many people.

Today, surveillance on Rihardt would surely be reduced.

However.

“…Count Evantes moved the monster to the annex?”

This was what I heard while trying to deliver Rihardt’s meal.

Why did they suddenly move Rihardt to the annex?

I wondered if they had put him in the punishment room, but fortunately, they had confined him in another room in the annex.

I immediately took the meal and headed to the annex.

What on earth was happening?

Today was my escape day. And the day before Rihardt’s escape.

I was anxious because a sudden variable had appeared.

Sure enough.

In front of the annex was a carriage used for transporting prisoners.

Seeing the carriage blocked with iron bars reminiscent of a prison, I was bewildered and asked a nearby knight.

“…What is that?”

“A carriage to transport the monster.”

…They’re moving Rihardt again?

Since the banquet was being held and guests were bustling about, they had moved Rihardt here for now.

I was standing there dumbfounded, unable to understand the situation.

“Ah, Roji.”

Arzen approached with leisurely steps.

Arzen looked handsome, dressed up for today’s banquet. But that was all.

Those inscrutable green eyes.

When I met those cold eyes, my body grew cold.

“We’re moving the monster today.”

“…Moving the monster?”

“Something came up. There’s someone who wants to see that monster…”

An annoyed expression appeared on Arzen’s face, which usually looked down on others with leisure and mockery.

At the same time, he seemed somewhat anxious.

“I moved the monster to the annex so the banquet guests wouldn’t notice. I plan to move that monster briefly before evening, so keep that in mind.”

“…Yes.”

What kind of variable is this now?

Having finished his business, Arzen left the annex.

I was guided by the knights to the room where Rihardt was.

And…

Damn it.

Rihardt was collapsed as if dead. Familiar bottles were rolling around nearby.

Did they make him drink that opaque black liquid they had given Rihardt before?

I swallowed the curse that was about to burst out as I watched Rihardt groaning in pain.

‘After all the effort I put into helping him recover!’

I had worked hard to make contact with Rihardt so he could break his restraints and escape tomorrow.

Since it hadn’t been a month yet, there was absolutely no problem!

I felt like tearing my hair out.

“Well then, miss, we’ll be leaving now.”

“Yes, please go…”

As soon as the words ended, the door closed.

Thud!

The knights left.

I stood there dumbfounded and called out to Rihardt in despair.

“…Try to get up.”

“…Cough.”

His condition seemed to be no joke.

‘Should I just abandon him and escape by myself?’

That would be the wise choice.

Even if Rihardt couldn’t escape tomorrow, I had done enough during this time, hadn’t I?

We weren’t going to escape together anyway.

Even as I tried to rationalize it that way, the obstacle called Rihardt remained in a corner of my heart.

I crouched down weakly and looked at Rihardt, who had his eyes closed as if dead.

“…You were supposed to break your restraints and escape tomorrow.”

“…”

“What are you going to do if you’re this sick?”

“…Cough.”

“Rihardt. Please answer me, okay?”

I tried to gently coax and soothe him, but with his consciousness seeming hazy, Rihardt looked at me with unfocused eyes.

‘It’s impossible.’

Rihardt cannot break his restraints and escape tomorrow.

In this condition, it’s absolutely impossible.

They say my presence helps heal his wounds, but…

‘There’s not enough time.’

I’m escaping today.

Even if I change plans and escape together with Rihardt…

I can’t restore him by tomorrow.

‘Then what do I do?’

As I frantically racked my brain, I let out a bitter laugh.

Why was I agonizing over this?

What do I do, indeed.

Whatever happens to Rihardt, I need to survive.

And Rihardt is scheduled to escape later even without me.

When I have my own problems to worry about, who am I to worry about whom? My situation suddenly seems ridiculous.

Rihardt even has loyal subordinates.

…As planned, I must escape today.

“Shall I hold you?”

Whether he heard my words, Rihardt slowly opened his eyes.

Only the longing contained in his hazy blue eyes was clear.

“…Please hold me.”

Until I escape, let me at least do what I can for him.

Rihardt forced his seemingly immobile body to sit up.

And he embraces me.

I wrapped my arms around him with an expressionless face and patted his back.

“…Miss.”

“Yes.”

“…You must not betray me.”

Perhaps intuiting that his condition was utterly useless, Rihardt was anxious.

Worried that with the planned escape disrupted, I might abandon him.

But unfortunately.

‘I was never going to escape with you from the start.’

I tried to help you instead, but this plan failed. I felt a little sorry.

“…Just focus on recovering quickly.”

Though I couldn’t call it compensation, I held Rihardt tightly.

“…I’m sorry.”

I’m sorry, Rihardt.

For lying.

But I don’t trust anyone from the beginning.

Just as you don’t trust anyone. Right now you seem to trust me, but…

I’m just someone who’s a little more, no, much more suspicious than you.

…Those without power and full of fear have no choice but to cultivate suspicion.

“…Why are you apologizing?”

“Because I don’t think I’ve been much help.”

At those words, Rihardt smiled faintly.

“You are like salvation to me right now, yet you say you’re not helpful.”

…Salvation.

I’m probably just one of the peculiar ill-fated encounters passing through his life.

“I’m honored.”

…Though my memories before coming to this place were hazy, probably no one in my life had ever called me salvation.

“Rihardt.”

“…Yes.”

I was about to tell him that Arzen planned to send him somewhere today, but closed my mouth again.

I was afraid because I didn’t know how this fact might affect my plan as a variable.

“…Miss must be really kind to patients.”

Then Rihardt murmured from within my embrace.

“…I thought you were only kind to people you felt sorry for, but you just seem gentle with patients in general.”

“…”

“You even called me by the name you usually wouldn’t when I asked…”

Rihardt pulled away from me and met my gaze.

His disheveled glittering silver hair and sweat-dampened face made him look even more pitiful.

Though he had beautiful features, the current Rihardt seemed unstable somehow.

Yet the man smiled happily.

“Miss seems to be kind.”

…No.

It’s not like that. Why are you misunderstanding on your own?

Maybe Rihardt’s words are right.

That I’m gentle with people I feel sorry for. Because I’m about to do something terribly sorry.

“You’re saying strange things.”

Rihardt grinned happily for some reason.

I pressed my lips together and embraced Rihardt.

“Just focus on recovering quickly.”

Rihardt held me like grasping a lifeline.

I stayed by Rihardt’s side like that all day.

When evening came, knights burst into the room.

“What’s the matter?”

“It’s Count Evantes’ order. We must move the monster to the transport carriage. Please step aside for a moment.”

Finally, what was to come had come.

Rihardt didn’t resist and was dragged away by the knights.

Soon he was confined in a carriage covered with iron bars.

He looked at me. I too looked at him beyond the iron bars.

And soon I turned away.

This is the last time with Rihardt.

I’ll never see him again.

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