The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 99

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Episode 99

The hall froze.

Gilbert, who had confidently tried to drag Shabrina down as a criminal, was flustered when she readily admitted it.

However, Shabrina acted as if this situation didn’t bother her at all, even removing her wig and calmly arranging her disheveled pink hair.

The flowing pink hair complemented her red dress well.

After a brief moment of admiration for her beautiful appearance, Gilbert quickly came to his senses.

“But what’s the problem with that?”

“What?”

“I didn’t commit any crimes, and I did nothing wrong. I can do a little identity laundering, can’t I?”

What kind of fresh nonsense is that?

After being momentarily flustered by Shabrina’s unexpected unmasking, Gilbert realized this display was just bravado.

Of course it was!

There’s no way she could have any countermeasure for this situation.

“If you’re not a criminal, then you’d have no reason to launder your identity! Where do you get off spouting such nonsense!”

Shabrina smiled as if she didn’t understand.

That astounding attitude only made the atmosphere around Shabrina worse.

“How dare a criminal bewitch young Michelle and act as her advisor!?”

“Bewitch? I merely helped an abused young lady.”

Shabrina still replied with a smile.

“Well, I won’t completely deny the bewitching part. It’s easy enough to bewitch one lonely, abused young lady.”

At the word “abuse,” everyone turned to look at Gilbert. Gilbert’s face instantly turned red.

“I, I…!”

Just as the flushed Gilbert was about to shout, Michelle, who had been in the center, rushed forward.

Slap!

She struck Shabrina’s cheek without warning.

“You crazy bitch.”

The enraged Michelle shouted.

“Count! Please throw this bitch in prison immediately!”

“What are you doing! Lock up that crazy bitch right now!”

As Michelle shouted, the Count immediately gave orders to the knights.

Soon knights rushed into the banquet hall.

And so Shabrina was dragged away to prison.

The banquet hall was in an uproar over what had just happened.

“So that competent advisor was actually a fraud?”

“Good heavens, what is this all about…”

Everyone chattered noisily, not wanting to miss such gossip.

Only Michelle, who was present at the scene, maintained strict silence.

The nobles thought it was because she was trying to control her anger.

Soon Michelle left the banquet hall with the Count.

The nobles whispered that they were probably going to punish Roji, and that it was only natural.

But the reality was different.

“I’m sorry.”

Michelle stroked Roji’s cheek with tears in her eyes.

“What should I do? Your face is all red.”

“I’m fine.”

“I told you not to hit the cheek!”

Roji looked at Michelle, who was shouting, as if she found her cute.

Then the Count, who had entered the prison late, handed luggage to Roji.

“I’d like to give you two time to say goodbye, but there’s no time. You must hurry.”

“…”

“If you go through this secret passage, you’ll be fine. I’ve prepared a carriage outside, so it won’t be hard to find.”

“Thank you.”

“Take this.”

The Count handed Roji a robe.

Roji immediately put on the robe and turned toward the secret passage the Count had indicated.

“Roji.”

Then Michelle called to her.

“You said you’d tell me when you came back, but I found out your name early.”

Roji’s eyes widened at Michelle’s words.

“That’s not my name though.”

“What?”

The Count, who had been listening, was secretly surprised. Just how many identities did she have?

He thought she was extraordinary, and she really was.

“When I come back later, I’ll tell you my real name. It’s a bit unusual, so don’t be surprised.”

My name from Korea, that is.

…Of course, if I can remember what my name is.

Michelle smiled happily.

“…I’m sorry for all this time.”

The Count left a brief word to Roji as she was about to leave.

“And I’m truly grateful to you.”

“…”

“If you ever need help in the future, come find me anytime. I will never forget this debt.”

Looking at the two of them, Roji smiled brightly.

“Don’t mention it.”

* * *

Shortly after, a visitor came from Evantes.

“C-Count Evantes himself…!”

When Arzen arrived in the North personally, the nobles cried out in surprise.

“For Count Evantes to visit personally, what on earth did that woman do?”

“…This must be no ordinary matter.”

Arzen ignored the nobles’ murmuring and got straight to the point.

“So where is that woman?”

“She’s currently locked in prison.”

“Guide me there.”

At Arzen’s word, the Count immediately led the way to the prison without further comment.

However.

“Fire!”

“There’s a fire in the prison!”

Suddenly shouts about a fire in the prison echoed throughout.

“What on earth is happening!”

The flustered Count shouted.

Knights and maids alike ran frantically with buckets of water to put out the fire.

After a long while, the fire that had spread widely was finally suppressed.

“…I wonder if anyone could survive in there.”

Someone muttered, but received sharp glares and closed their mouth.

However, it was the same. Everyone had been thinking that way even without saying it out loud.

The prison that had caught fire was damaged beyond recognition.

Whether the person who had been inside was truly…

“I’m going inside, so clear away everything that’s in the way.”

While everyone clicked their tongues, Arzen gave his order.

“There’s no need for you to go in personally, Count. Inside there is currently…”

“I won’t say it twice. I intend to go inside and confirm it myself.”

The Count tried to hide his troubled expression and followed the Marquis’s words.

And they cleared away everything that was blocking the way inside.

As they entered, the acrid smell of smoke came rushing over them.

Black ash stuck to their faces, making it quite nauseating.

“That’s…”

Before long, a corpse with burn marks was discovered.

It was exactly the prison where Roji had been confined.

“Where that woman was…”

One of the soldiers muttered. That unconscious action became unintended testimony.

Arzen approached and examined the corpse.

It should have been disgusting, but he stared at the corpse for quite a while.

Then he spoke.

“Search this area.”

When Arzen’s order was given, the knights made puzzled faces.

However, Arzen’s knights never questioned him twice.

The Count clicked his tongue at the sight.

【He’s a suspicious fellow. He probably won’t believe it just from seeing the prepared fake corpse.】

The decoy corpse didn’t work at all, as expected.

However.

The Count looked around at those nearby as he left the prison.

Everyone except Arzen believed that Roji was dead. The rumors would spread soon.

With this, it was done.

He had done everything he could.

May she be safe.

* * *

The carriage ran.

Snow-covered scenery passed quickly beyond the window.

Seeing that sight made me laugh naturally.

Because I felt like I was rapidly getting away from those detestable things.

I wasn’t unaware that Arzen was looking for me. I had observed what Count Evantes’ mansion was like after my escape.

That’s why I boldly removed my mask at the banquet hall.

And I announced it.

That Shabrina who had been there, that Roji, was dead.

Evantes, Rihardt – it was all over.

‘Now let’s quietly clean up my identity and return to Michelle’s side.’

Though I wouldn’t appear at official events like now.

I would just dye my hair, change my eye color, and stay by Michelle’s side from behind with a changed appearance.

At that thought, a happy laugh burst out naturally.

Then.

Thud!

The carriage shook violently.

“Ah!”

As my body was thrown forward in an instant, I hurriedly grabbed onto the carriage.

My heart pounded hard at the thought that I had almost fallen forward and gotten seriously hurt.

“It’s an attack!”

The knight outside shouted.

An attack?

I wiped the fogged window and hurriedly looked outside.

Through the window, I could see something pure white that had appeared from somewhere charging at the knights frighteningly.

Clang!

The intense sound of two blades clashing could be heard even inside the carriage.

“…Rihardt.”

I reflexively muttered his name.

‘I need to get out the back of the carriage.’

There was no way the knights could beat Rihardt.

Soon Rihardt would defeat the knights and burst into the carriage.

I quietly got out through the back door of the carriage. And I ran.

No, I tried to run.

“Cough!”

If only it hadn’t been for the sound of a knight collapsing while violently coughing up blood, along with approaching footsteps.

The back of my neck went cold.

Had he knocked down all the knights in this short time…?

That couldn’t be…

But the moment I turned around to confirm, I first saw knights collapsed around me, bleeding.

Though I couldn’t see them all because they were hidden by the carriage…

“Shabrina.”

Then Rihardt called my name, and I snapped back to my senses.

Before I knew it, the man had approached close to me.

When exactly had he…

“Or should I call you Roji?”

Lost for words and backing away to distance myself from the man, he approached with large strides.

Just as my legs gave out and I was about to collapse, the man grabbed my waist and pulled me toward him.

“Now it’s your turn to pay the price.”

“What, what…”

“Now you can’t go anywhere without my permission.”

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