The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 92

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Episode 92

Rihardt stopped in place and quietly stared at me for a while.

I felt like running away from his gaze, but the coldness of his blue eyes froze my ankles.

A gentle smile formed at the corners of his mouth, and soon those lips called out to me.

“Miss Shabrina?”

Only then did I come to my senses.

‘He didn’t recognize me.’

I felt around my face.

A hard, rough surface met my fingertips.

I was wearing a brown wig and had completely covered my face with a mask.

So he couldn’t recognize me.

“Miss Shabrina, are you feeling unwell?”

He tilted his head curiously and took a step closer to me.

I instinctively stepped back.

‘The scent…!’

Memories from the past that had been submerged for three years began to surface one by one.

Both Yurta and Rihardt had rushed at me, saying I had a scent.

Perhaps because there was still distance between us, Rihardt hadn’t noticed my identity.

‘I can’t let him get close!’

I needed to keep as much distance as possible.

However, sensing something strange, Rihardt came closer.

“Lady Shabrina?”

The knight beside him must have felt something was off too, as a voice filled with confusion called my name.

I opened my mouth to explain something to them, then closed it again.

What if Rihardt hadn’t forgotten my voice?

…There was no other way at this point.

I whispered just loud enough for the knight beside me to hear.

“…I suddenly remembered something urgent.”

“Something urgent?”

“I’m sorry. I need to go.”

I ran without looking back.

“Lady Shabrina!”

The startled knight shouted from behind, but I kept running.

Being branded as a strange person by them wasn’t the problem.

I had to escape first. If Rihardt caught me like this…

I thought I had forgotten, but Rihardt’s words from three years ago came back vividly.

【I don’t forget what was done to me.】

Those words were burned intensely into my mind, making me run away.

I could smooth over the current situation later.

I could just make an excuse that I was scared of blood. So…

“Got you!”

Just as I was frantically trying to get away from the auction house, someone suddenly grabbed my body.

Without a chance to avoid it, I was dragged into a dark alley.

My body, unable to maintain balance, collapsed helplessly and my vision flipped.

Thud!

Without time to resist, I fell backward and my head rang.

My vision was dizzy and my stomach churned, so I couldn’t gather myself for a moment and blinked slowly several times.

Through my inverted vision, I could see a sky full of dark clouds.

Drop.

Moisture fell onto my mask.

It really looked like it was going to rain.

I rolled my eyes to assess the situation.

It was a face I had seen at the auction house.

The man who had been managing the auction house. He seemed to have escaped safely from that commotion.

‘If you succeeded in escaping, you should just go your own way.’

I clicked my tongue briefly and stood up.

But before I could fully rise, a sword was pointed at my face.

“Don’t get up.”

“…”

“Stay quiet like you are now. If you even think about screaming…”

If I screamed here, all the knights over there would hear it.

However, I had no intention of screaming.

There’s no way I would come to this dangerous place without any plan, right?

I quietly moved my hand behind my back.

The gatekeeper and the man, two total. The other two seemed to be knights who were at the auction house.

‘Let’s handle this all at once.’

When they let their guard down, all at once…

I quietly took out an item and gripped it tightly behind my back.

“Did you report to the Holy Knights? Why are the Holy Knights treating you so preciously?”

“…”

“Won’t you speak? Well, fine. Whatever. Seeing how those Holy Knight bastards are acting, you’d be quite valuable as a hostage for escaping…”

The man reached out toward me.

At that moment…

Hiss!

“Ahhhhh!”

I sprayed sleeping gas all over the man’s face.

“What, what did you spray…!”

The gatekeeper stopped mid-sentence and collapsed with a thud.

I jumped up from my spot, thinking to run away immediately.

The knights behind the gatekeeper moved right away, but I threw my body forward to escape from the alley.

Looking back, the knights were reaching out as if trying to catch me.

At this rate, I’d be caught.

Gripping the spray can tightly in preparation for being caught, I looked ahead again.

But before I could even look ahead properly, I crashed nose-first into something hard.

“Ow!”

As I tumbled backward helplessly, my thought was that I was screwed.

I couldn’t be caught like this, so I had to do something, I thought at that moment.

“Ugh!”

“Ahhh!”

Screams came from behind me.

I was so startled that I couldn’t even look back and just stared ahead blankly.

Come to think of it, what I had bumped into…

I saw white priest robes.

I thoughtlessly raised my head and met blue eyes.

The chillingly beautiful man looked at me lying there and smiled slightly.

“Good. Keep looking only at me like that.”

“…What.”

“It would be best not to look back.”

I wasn’t foolish enough to not understand what he meant—that behind us were those who no longer had beating hearts, who were no longer human.

Blood flowed down the sword Rihardt held, dripping steadily and forming small puddles.

I was momentarily dazed by his gentle, soothing voice, then realized I was close to Rihardt.

I’ve been caught…

“You startled me by suddenly running off, Miss Shabrina.”

“…”

Rihardt still called me Shabrina.

As if he didn’t recognize me at all.

“I heard you had urgent business, but the situation is dangerous right now.”

“…”

“Come, take my hand and get up.”

I stared blankly at Rihardt’s hand in its pristine white glove.

“Miss Shabrina, do you perhaps lack the strength to stand?”

…Rihardt had definitely said I had a scent.

When I first met him three years ago, I thought those words were a lie, but now I know they weren’t.

But why…

Is he doing this on purpose?

I couldn’t understand it at all and was frozen in indecision when Rihardt stepped closer, slipped his arm under my knees, and lifted me up.

“What, what are you doing…!”

I closed my mouth again.

In case he recognized my voice.

“Since you couldn’t stand up.”

“…”

“You must be shocked after going through such a terrible ordeal. I’ll escort you back to the manor.”

“…I don’t need it.”

I deliberately spoke quietly, hiding my voice as I replied.

“I’m worried.”

I looked at Rihardt.

His blue eyes held only a businesslike smile, not genuine concern.

It felt like going back to when I first met Rihardt.

He walked while carrying me.

“Miss Shabrina! What is this…!”

The knights were shocked to see my disheveled, dirt-covered state. However, they fell silent after receiving Rihardt’s gaze.

Rihardt silently carried me and seated me in the carriage.

“…I can manage on my own now.”

“Understood.”

I was relieved when he stepped back more cleanly than expected.

“However, Miss Shabrina.”

“…Yes.”

Rihardt smiled meaningfully and grabbed my wrist, turning it so my palm faced the sky.

I looked at him wondering what he was doing, and Rihardt placed the Blue Diamond on my palm.

…It was Michelle’s mother’s keepsake.

“I heard you had urgent business, but I chased after you because I couldn’t return the keepsake.”

“…”

“Then I’ll see you next time.”

…Next time?

Next time, he says. That will absolutely never happen.

However, Rihardt looked at me with persistent eyes.

I have no idea what he’s thinking.

I hurriedly closed the carriage door. All I could think about was getting away from this place.

The carriage left the auction house and arrived at the familiar Sableyn Manor.

“Rina! What on earth happened to make you look like this…”

“Take this, Miss.”

I handed the keepsake to Michelle, who was shocked at my appearance.

Michelle held the keepsake preciously while keeping her gaze fixed on me.

“I just fell down a bit.”

“…Nothing else happened, right, Rina?”

“What could have happened when the Holy Knights were protecting me?”

“…Of course nothing should have happened. If something had, I would have cut off all dealings with the Temple.”

“Miss, how can you act so impulsively based on your mood?”

“…But still.”

Michelle made a displeased, sulky face.

I smiled and soothed her.

However, the main topic remained.

“Miss, you said you’re going to the North soon, right? I’ll go too.”

“Suddenly? You said you wouldn’t go before. You said you hated the North.”

“I changed my mind. You know how I am. I’m fickle.”

All I could think about was escaping to the North to avoid that madman.

And so the trip to the North with Michelle was decided.

Time passed well, and the day of departure for the North approached.

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