The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 84

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Episode 84

When he regained consciousness, it was morning.

The searing pain had also disappeared. Only traces of writhing in agony remained like wreckage.

Arzen tidily arranged his appearance.

He erased all traces around him as if he had never been in pain.

Seeing his clean appearance, Arzen smiled bitterly.

【The heir of the Marquis House is cursed. Everyone in this world will find you abhorrent.】

【It’s a disgrace to the Marquis House.】

【But don’t worry. As long as you’re not caught, it’s not a disgrace.】

Not-so-pleasant memories surfaced.

Arzen obsessively tidied his already neat appearance and coldly stared at himself in the mirror.

He must never let his shameful secret be discovered.

He had to maintain a flawless appearance.

The resolution he made every time left a belated question.

Why had he left that insolent maid who knew his shameful secret alone?

Arzen was usually a generous master, but he turned tyrannical when it came to sensitive matters.

In any case, that maid had disappeared. While knowing what his shameful secret was.

It would be better to stop these pointless thoughts.

Knock knock. A knocking sound came from outside the room.

“Come in.”

When permission was granted, the knight who entered the room bowed to Arzen.

“What is it?”

“…The investigation into Roji that you previously ordered has been completed.”

“…”

Before Roji escaped, Arzen had ordered an investigation into her.

“So what happened?”

If the investigation into Roji was complete, wouldn’t it provide clues to find her whereabouts?

Arzen thought so.

However, unexpected words flowed from the knight.

“…The person named Roji that Count Evantes asked us to investigate does not exist.”

Arzen froze at the knight’s words.

“What?”

It was a story he hadn’t expected at all.

Roji had never told him a lie until now.

Sometimes when he wondered if she was deceiving him and looked into her face, he could see right through her.

So he had been complacent. He thought that maid was in his grasp.

…He never imagined Roji was playing everyone in this place for fools.

“It seems she disguised her identity and approached the Marquis House.”

“What reason would she have for that?”

“…We’re still investigating.”

Arzen let out an irritated sigh.

“Have you found anything about the whereabouts of the Monster and Roji?”

“We haven’t found the Monster’s whereabouts, but we discovered something suspicious about Roji.”

“What is it?”

The knight carefully handed over documents while reading Arzen’s expression.

“These are documents that came from Roji’s room.”

Arzen looked through the documents the servant handed him.

It was a map with movement routes marked.

“What is this?”

“We found this while investigating Roji’s room.”

The servant continued speaking.

“It seems Roji had been planning to escape from before. And another suspicious item came out – do you remember the maid named Mari who was imprisoned before?”

“I remember.”

That maid was caught trying to put something strange in the Monster’s food, so he personally imprisoned her.

“The same fruit that the maid tried to feed the Monster back then was found in Roji’s room. Isn’t that strange?”

The knight continued recounting the strange behaviors Roji had exhibited without stopping.

“That’s not all. They say the Monster caused a disturbance before that maid disappeared. At that time, that maid said something strange: ‘Count Evantes said to lock the Monster in the punishment room if the Monster caused trouble.'”

Arzen couldn’t understand it at all.

Why did Roji say such a thing?

“I never gave such an order to Roji.”

“Yes, that’s exactly what’s strange. Perhaps Roji was even trying to help the Monster escape.”

After that, the knight continued talking about what he had discovered about Roji.

When the knight’s report ended, Arzen, who had hardened with a serious expression, issued an order to leave.

Left alone, Arzen fell into contemplation.

【I came from a village at the edge of the Empire. And my hometown people didn’t know about such things because they were ignorant.】

【The villagers wouldn’t know about unfamiliar patterns, and they wouldn’t have money to call a doctor. So they just happened upon it while applying various herbs good for the skin.】

For some reason, Roji’s voice lingered in his ears.

Even though he now knew that everything she had said was a lie.

Arzen gritted his teeth.

He was an arrogant noble by birth.

He would not let those who deceived him go unpunished.

Especially one who dared enter the Marquis House with a false identity and learned of his shameful secret.

“Find Roji by any means necessary.”

At that moment, a burning pain arose near his neck.

It was pain from the detestable curse.

Arzen, gritting his teeth, looked at the herbs Roji had personally gathered from the backhill.

“…Ha.”

He knew that applying those herbs would ease the pain, but he deliberately didn’t apply them.

The pain didn’t subside as much as it did during those moments when Roji had done it.

He couldn’t understand why the pain had clearly disappeared when Roji did it.

So he had to find Roji even more.

He would find out what method she had used.

Arzen writhed in pain for a long time.

Rumors about the disappeared Roji spread throughout the manor.

The current situation, entangled with the Monster’s escape, was like a lifeline for the servants.

Since the Monster had escaped, Arzen would surely not let those who failed to prevent the escape go unpunished.

So if they could blame this entire incident on Roji…

Those who felt threatened for their safety spread rumors about Roji, and eventually a hostile atmosphere toward her formed in the manor.

“I always thought Roji was a bit off anyway.”

Everyone agreed with that statement.

The servants who had gotten along well with Roji denied those words, but they had no choice but to keep their mouths shut under the piercing stares.

“But hey, why isn’t she around?”

“She? Who are you talking about?”

“You know, the one with blonde hair… the one who always followed Roji around…”

“Ah, Emily?”

Roji got along well with all the servants in the manor, but no servant was as close to her as Emily.

“Why Emily?”

“Why haven’t we seen her lately?”

Roji had disappeared, and Emily was gone too.

One of the servants who felt something was strange raised the question.

“She went on vacation. She’s probably one of the kids who took time off for the festival, right?”

“She went on vacation? But shouldn’t she be back by now?”

“…You’re right?”

…The situation was flowing in a strange direction.

However, when new news arrived, all talk about Roji completely disappeared.

“…Is that really true? That the heir of Herthas might change?”

Rumors spread that Dillen Herthas was severely injured and the heir might change to Yurta.

From Dillen Herthas to Yurta Herthas.

Thus the Marquis House became heated with hot topics.

* * *

When the summer festival ended, a long downpour began.

Dark clouds crept closer as if gnawing at the blue sky, and before long they darkly colored the capital’s sky.

Yurta looked at the rain falling outside the window, then turned his gaze to Dillen, who was bound and forced to kneel.

That damned bloodline that gnawed at his own flesh.

“That’s why you shouldn’t have crossed me.”

“…”

“If you had known your place and not interfered, it wouldn’t have come to this.”

Dillen and Yurta.

Both men were covered in wounds.

They faced each other, both bearing minor and deep injuries.

However, there was a difference.

Yurta’s clothes were neat, while Dillen still wore the same clothes from the moment they fought.

The victor was Yurta.

As always.

“Still, there’s affection between brothers, so I don’t want to be this harsh either.”

“…”

“Where is Sister?”

Yurta looked at Dillen, whose mouth was blocked with a gag, then turned his head and gestured to his men nearby.

Understanding Yurta’s intention, they quickly approached Dillen.

“…Mmph!”

They roughly removed the gag that blocked Dillen’s mouth.

Dillen glared at Yurta with fierce eyes.

However, Yurta sneered at that gaze as if it were ridiculous.

“I’m asking you. Where is Sister?”

“…I told you I don’t know, you bastard.”

“You expect me to believe that?”

“Then what do you want me to do.”

Dillen’s appearance, lifting his chin defiantly as if saying ‘go ahead and try,’ was astounding.

The Dillen that Yurta remembered from the old days was a coward.

How exactly had Rose changed that coward?

“This is your last chance, brother.”

“Bullshit.”

Even though he had taken paralysis drugs and couldn’t properly control his body, even though he was bound and forced to kneel.

Dillen sneered at Yurta.

“Ha!”

Yurta burst into hollow laughter. It was truly absurd.

“But isn’t it kind of funny.”

“What is.”

“That you’re looking for Rose from me.”

“…”

“Even if I knew where Rose was, I wouldn’t tell you, you damn little brother.”

Dillen pulled up the corners of his mouth.

“You’re destined to never be with Rose for the rest of your life.”

It was ridiculous.

When he had lost to him and should be begging for his life, how dare he discuss anyone’s destiny.

The thread of reason he had barely been holding onto snapped.

“Brother, do you know one of the ways a person can die painfully?”

Yurta approached Dillen with slow steps.

“Kugh!”

And without hesitation, he kicked Dillen in the solar plexus.

Dillen let out a groan and collapsed.

“I think ending one’s life writhing miserably would be best.”

Yurta looked at Dillen as if pitying him.

“I clearly gave you a chance, but it was you who missed that opportunity, brother.”

“Crazy bastard.”

Yurta sneered at Dillen’s curse and drew his sword.

“I can give you one more chance.”

“Go die.”

“If that’s how you want it.”

Yurta smiled coldly and swung his sword without hesitation.

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