The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me Chapter 235 - Side Story Chapter 25

Yurtha showed no mercy at all.

He tore out the tongues of young nobles just because they spoke badly about me, and twisted the wrist of a servant who spilled tea on me.

And that wasn’t all.

He even tried to tame me just because I wouldn’t look back at him. Those horrible times when he forced a collar around my neck and shoved a dog’s bowl in front of me.

Not a single part of my childhood memories with Yurtha was whole.

Especially after my mother’s death, our relationship twisted beyond repair, and I planned to spend my whole life hating him and turning away from him.

……Back then, I did.

“Rose.”

It was right when I had just arrived at the cabin.

Facing the cold night air, Richard was standing in front of the door, waiting for me.

“Why are you out here, Richard?”

“I was waiting for you.”

“It’s cold. Let’s go inside.”

The night was quite chilly.

Of course, Richard was a transcendent, so he probably couldn’t feel this kind of cold, but when I shrank my body, he quickly opened the cabin door for me.

“Did you…… have a good talk with him?”

“I delivered my opinion well.”

“I see.”

The quick-witted man seemed to roughly guess the situation from my vague answer.

“If you want, I’ll drive him out of this land right now.”

“It’s fine. You both came back looking like rags anyway.”

If those two transcendent beings fought again, this cabin wouldn’t survive.

“Well, I do like that you’re stepping in for me.”

When I let out a small laugh, Richard carefully took my hand.

He pressed his lips deeply against the back of my hand and whispered softly.

“For you, I would gladly throw away my life at any time.”

As if tempting me, the corners of Richard’s eyes curved.

His tone was lazy, but knowing how far this man could go when he set his mind to it, a chill ran down my spine.

“……If it’s for me, then start packing to go up to the capital.”

“I obey, my lady.”

Honestly, he’s so sly.

It reminded me of when I worked as a maid in Evantes, how I had to stay on guard so I wouldn’t be charmed by that side of him.

……Of course, it was still the same now.

What kind of man looks that beautiful?

“……Ah, Richard. And when we go to the capital, I think Yurtha has to come with us too.”

At that moment, Richard’s playful smile disappeared instantly.

“The talk you had with him…… was about that?”

Richard’s gaze chased me persistently.

When I couldn’t find an excuse and kept my mouth shut, his voice wavered.

“I had to beg just to go with you, yet you’re taking him because you want to?”

His voice was clearly twisted with displeasure, but the hurt he felt was also obvious.

“Rose, aren’t you being too harsh on me?”

“……Richard. It’s not like that, I just need Yurtha’s help with something.”

“Is it something I cannot help you with?”

It was a desperate plea.

He wanted to do everything related to me himself.

“Only Yurtha can do it.”

“What is it that only he can do?”

“……That is.”

I paused for a moment.

At his desperate voice, I hesitated for a moment.

I could have told everything to this blindly devoted man and leaned on him.

But if I depended on him that completely…… I felt like I would end up deeply loving someone again.

The end of my love had never been good, and now that feeling was terribly frightening.

Creak.

While I hesitated, the door opened.

Yurtha, who entered the cabin, frowned harshly the moment he saw Richard and me standing facing each other.

“You……!”

“I’m glad you look fine. I was worried that if I failed to control my strength, you might have died.”

“What?”

“I don’t care if you die, but I don’t want soft-hearted Rose to worry about you.”

At that moment, the air in the cabin was crushed heavily. The killing intent pouring out from Yurtha was enough to make it hard to breathe.

“Ha! You speak nicely. You’re barely standing yourself. Can you even hold a sword? Your wrist must be completely ruined.”

At Yurtha’s words, I was startled and looked at Richard’s wrist.

The area around his wrist, exposed under his sleeve, had turned black and dead.

‘I didn’t see that in the bathroom?’

It seemed Richard had intentionally hidden his wrist.

“Ah. Come to think of it, I didn’t thank you. While you were passed out outside, thanks to you, I had a very good time in the bathroom with Rose.”

“……What?”

At Richard’s words, I blinked.

“Because I was so badly injured thanks to you, Rose took off my clothes and washed me herself.”

My eyes widened in shock.

No, you can’t just cut out all the context like that?!

“……Is that true, sister?”

Yurtha’s red eyes widened as if they would tear apart.

Cold sweat ran down my back like crazy.

When I couldn’t say anything and froze, Yurtha’s face twisted viciously.

Shing—

His bloodshot hand grabbed the sword hilt. It looked like he might split that fox-like holy knight in half at any moment.

Richard also calmly picked up his sword with his rotting wrist.

At this rate, it felt like they would really fight until one of them died.

“Come to think of it, it’s dinner time! Sh-should we eat?”

I stepped between the two and shouted desperately.

The gazes of the two men, who looked like they could burst into flames at any moment, turned to me.

“……Aren’t you all hungry?”

I forced a smile. I was afraid the cabin might break. It was a desperate smile.

……Please don’t fight.

“We can eat after I kill him, sister.”

“Rose, I’m not hungry yet either.”

They didn’t look like they would back down even a little. I was the only one panicking.

“I’m hungry though……”

I muttered weakly, letting my shoulders slump.

“……”

“……”

At that moment, the tense killing intent disappeared like a lie.

After a brief silence.

“……It would be better to eat now.”

Yurtha let go of the sword he was holding with a thud.

The beast that had been glaring in rage just moments ago was nowhere to be seen.

“If you’re hungry, I will prepare a meal right away.”

Richard also sheathed his sword with a very serious and solemn face.

The two strongest beings in the world, covered in blood, looked like they were about to stand side by side and look for aprons.

The situation was settled in an instant.

‘……Was it really this simple?’

It was so absurd.

 

 

 

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The cursed land was filled with gray dust and unknown debris scattered everywhere.

It was the terrible aftermath of that dreadful tornado that had torn apart the boundary between sky and land.

‘What is His Excellency thinking…….’

The commander who stepped into the cursed land frowned deeply.

He glanced at Argen.

The man at the front had a completely expressionless face.

The Argen the commander knew was always an extremely rational and perfect noble, almost arrogant.

A cold-blooded man who had never once made an irrational decision based on personal feelings.

<Even if it’s just a corpse, find it.>

However, the order he gave this time was impossible to understand.

Was there really a reason to push the family’s elite knights into this land filled with deadly poison just to find ‘that woman’?

The image of his lord’s unfamiliar face, with bloodshot eyes and looking as if he were being chased by something, would not leave his mind.

It was then.

“……Commander. Look over there, ahead.”

The leading group, pushing through the thick gray fog, suddenly stopped.

The commander’s eyes shook in disbelief.

“How is this…….”

In the middle of a perfect ruin, where the tornado had torn everything apart and swallowed it whole.

In that hellish landscape, there was a completely intact cabin.

“Why is there a cabin in a place like that?”

“……It’s very strange.”

The commander muttered with a stiff face.

Through the small window of the cabin, a warm yellow light was flowing out.

Inside looked cozy and peaceful at a glance, but that warmth left alone on the gray land swept by death was rather eerily unsettling.

“Ha ha……”

Suddenly, someone let out the only laugh in that suffocating silence.

It was Argen Evantes.

“Strange? It’s a truly pitiful refuge.”

A bitter smile spread across Argen’s cold lips.

“Surround the cabin. Don’t let even a single rat escape.”