The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me

Chapter 181 The hand held by Richard was warm. I twisted my hand to shake it off, but the more I did it, the more he held on. “You won’t let go?” “I don’t want to.” “What are you trying to do?” “You’re asking me to be nice.” You shameless…! I don’t see how this is a flattery gesture. “There’s no way you’ll be nice to me like this, so let me remind you of something you asked me before.” “…….” “I asked about the Savior.” The Savior. Not ‘Rosie’, but ‘Lee Shi-eon’, the real Savior. “We’ve searched for him, but he’s not been found anywhere around here, he’s gone like the wind.” Shi-eon threw me into the furnace and then disappeared. No traces of him were found in the same place where he was kidnapped. ‘Where did he go?’ Why did you appear in front of me? And why… Did he disappear after giving the pendant? I threw it in the ocean, how the hell did you retrieve it? “How did you become acquainted with the Savior?” “If you want to hear it, this time you answer my question first.” “I’m curious about…” “My relationship with the Savior?” What’s your relationship with Lee Shi-eon? I struggled to come up with a concise sentence. “I knew him briefly before.” As if that answer wasn’t enough, Richard looked down at me. “We used to know each other in my hometown. We studied together.” “Is your hometown where you lived before coming to Herthas?” I nodded my head roughly. I’m not lying because I lived in Korea before coming to Herthas. “If it’s just that, then why did he show up in front of you? You must have split up when you were very young.” I wondered.Why did he show up in front of me? We don’t have a very deep relationship. Maybe it’s just one of those passing by. “I don’t even know what he is thinking. It was just an old-fashioned relationship.” “Were you affectionate?” His expression turned cold as if he had heard something unpleasant. “… He was a good kid who tried to give me hope when I was having a hard time.” That was then. After hiding the fact that my mother died, our relationship got weird, but at least he’s a good kid. “I think that answers your question, now you answer it. What is your relationship with the Savior?” “Okay, I’ll give you my answer, it’s been three years now.” He didn’t seem impressed with my answer, but he began his story. After fleeing from Evantes to the Labyrinth Garden, he was in a cursed land.He was badly wounded and nearly dying from the cursed land, which weighed down his Transcendent powers. It was then that Shi-eon appeared. He told him that he would save him and give him everything if he would fulfill a ‘condition’. “What are the conditions?” What did Shi-eon want? “Your scent.” “What?” “To let him smell your scent. That was the Savior’s condition.” What a bizarre condition.What the hell does he need my scent for? “… Was that the reason you couldn’t smell my scent?” Richard nodded. “At that time, I thought it wouldn’t matter if I gave him anything as long as I met you again, but I regret it.” He cupped my hair in his hands and kissed me. “I would rather die than give it away.” “…….” “Or I think it would be fine to kill the Savior and get it back.” “Don’t do that.” “Why?” He just said something natural, but he looked at me like he didn’t understand.I wondered if there was any point in continuing this conversation. “He often spoke to me in my head.” “Like…?” “After being brought back to life by the Savior, he would often speak into my head, as if I had a connection to him, but at some point I stopped hearing his voice.” “…….” “I wonder why.” He looked at me as if I were the reason.Blue eyes that held almost conviction. “I don’t know what you think of the Savior, but you’d better not get too deep into it.” “You don’t say that like you know what you’re talking about.” “I don’t… know much, but I don’t know how he’ll come out the moment I get to know his heart.” I think he might be the devil.  ***** A week has passed. It was revealed that the lord was the culprit who caused the disappearance of the village. It was also discovered that he was plotting treason, and Lord Ruad met a terrible end.He was hanged in the square.Beside him, several familiar faces appeared. Hannah, who had also conspired with the lord to do terrible things, and could not escape. “There you are. I thought you wouldn’t come.”Anri said, surprised to see me in the square. “You mean you want to talk to me?” Without a word, I handed him a crumpled piece of paper. “Take a look. If you can explain what this is, I’ll think about it.” “This is…” Anri began to read the paper I handed him. It was a paper I found while searching through the room of Lord Ruad. The letter contained only the very brief details that Rose and the lord had shared. [My Lord, are the preparations going well?If you do well, the ceremony that will be held in a month can be more spectacular.I await your good news then]. The letter mentions “ceremony” a lot. However, it was not written about what the ceremony was. “What is ceremony?” “Oh, you saw this.” He had a face that knew what it was. “This is something the Savior had been planning for a very long time. She’s trying to summon something very terrible through ‘Ceremony’.” “Something terrible?” Anri nodded her head. “The lord says it’s meant to incite treason.” “Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t.” It was a vague answer. “The Savior saw exactly what her people wanted, and said it’s necessary to achieve their utopia.” “And you? What did the Savior say to you?” “For me….” Anri didn’t answer straightforwardly.“I never followed the Savior. Emily followed the Savior, not me.” “… Emily?” It was a very old relationship. I met her after escaping from Herthas and vaguely remembered how she took care of me. “Emily thinks you’re very special.” “…Why?” We’d barely known each other.But why do you consider me special, and now you follow the Savior? If there were two siblings in the Ascent family, it would be Anri and Emily, so I had assumed Emily would be involved with the Savior, but… “About six or seven years ago. Emily and I met a woman a long time ago. Her name is Celine, your mother.” “You… met my mother?” “Emily and I got help from her. So Emily sees her as her benefactor.” The time period Anri was referring to… was when Celine left Herthas after she found out I was her fake daughter. “Do you remember? Seven years ago, rumors had been circulating for a long time that there was an experiment to make ordinary human beings Transcendents.” “…….” “Emily and I were part of that experiment, and Celine saved us.” “…….” “That’s why Emily helped you when you had nothing, because you’re the daughter of her benefactor.” My head was pounding. This was going in a direction I hadn’t thought of.They knew Celine? “… Are you not a demon worshiper?” When I was a maid in Evantes, Anri told me that the demon worshipers were coming. Anri is clearly a demon worshiper. “But you said you met Celine?” Did my mom get involved with a devil worshiper? I do know that Celine had powers similar to those of a devil worshiper. Because she was a Shaman and she cast a spell on her pendant with that power. “I’m not a demon worshiper. I was once involved with them, but I’m not now. And I wasn’t a demon worshiper before I was saved by her. I told you, I was experimented.” “Then my mom….” “I don’t know about your mother. Emily, who had followed her very well, would probably know.” I wonder if the reason for this is hidden… For a moment it became difficult to breathe. “So you mean you want to save Emily?” “Yeah.” Anri’s story was plausible, but I couldn’t believe it. “Don’t you want to hear your mother’s side story?” “…….” I couldn’t help but be curious.I hesitated, then made a decision. ‘I have to meet Lee Shi-eon.’ I need to know why he gave Rosie the Savior job and what he’s thinking. “Do you know where the Savior appeared?” “I know.” The answer was quick. Maybe where Rosie came from, where Lee Shi-eon is. “You’re going to go there?” A look of confusion crossed Anri’s face. “Is there any problem?” “Rather than a problem… You need permission to go there.” “Permission? From whom?” As soon as I heard Anri’s answer, I stiffened. Marquis Evantes. Argen.