The Maid In The Reverse Harem Game Wants To Quit - Chapter 108
Translator: Nabi
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Chapter 108
As Irene wasn’t aware of her role as a manager, Ahibalthad endured beyond the ending alone. However, since she was mistaken for thinking that she was possessed into here, she had endured a time without his awareness as well.
They were perfectly positioned in each other’s absence… so much so that it made you doubt whether it might not be a trick of fate.
‘Is there a fate in which I have to love Ahibalt?’
If it wasn’t for that, how could her heart beat like this? If that wasn’t the case, then why did the feelings she threw away immediately start to linger around her again?
Irene didn’t want to love anyone anymore.
Really, she didn’t want to love anyone…
“…I’m glad you’re alive.”
Irene embraced Ahibalt and whispered quietly to him. When she remembered everything and opened her eyes, she was relieved to know that he wasn’t going to die. Even if he wouldn’t die, she felt like she’d cry the same way every time he fell down.
‘At first, I was going to take only myself and get out of this mansion.’
Though now there was a reason why she couldn’t… there were too many. In fact, it may have been hubris to think that she would leave this mansion while loving it so much.
‘Still, I don’t even have the confidence to repeat time anymore.’
Now, it was time to really see the end.
It was time to seal the gaps.
With a rattle, the chair dragged across the cold stone floor of the dungeon, making an unpleasant sound.
Irene, who was sitting in front of her, interrupted.
“You gave me the antidote, as promised.”
“I’m a person who keeps my word.”
Edith replied indifferently. Nonetheless, she couldn’t conceal the fact that she cared about Rodion in her head, and at the end of it all, she added.
“So, did my creation make him better?”
“The Youngest Master has calmed down now.”
Irene replied, swallowing the emotions that arose.
Rodion entered the state of going on a rampage, as he acted as though he had become a different person when Elios encroached on his reason. However, when he calmed down again, he would lose his memory of that time.
It wasn’t much different when he took the love potion. In any case, it was the same that Elios had consumed his reason.
The only thing that was different was that Rodion, who was impatient with his sword fighting every time he went out of control, was really docile this time. He acted in a way like it would be fine as long as Irene was by his side, and he would often project his sexualized desires onto her as well.
Irene thought this was the effect of the love potion. Of course, the Rodion she knew didn’t know how to think about these things.
He was as innocent as Louise.
Unless, of course, Rodion developed a sexual openness worthy of ‘Love or Die’ over the course of the game’s story.
When the thought reached her, Irene felt a sense of incongruity.
This was the first time she had ever had a conversation with Rodion, who had been consumed by Elios. However, he often spewed out words that were difficult to understand simply because of the effect of the love potion.
“All I need is Rea. I don’t need anyone else.”
“The other young masters would be upset if they heard that.”
“Why is Rea saying something so naive? Do you really think so?”
She didn’t think deeply about it at the time. In the first place, Rodion had always felt a distance between his half-brothers and himself, so she thought lightly that it was probably something like that.
But… what if it wasn’t?
‘Being encroached on by Elios isn’t simply a change of personality.’
His memories differed. While he didn’t remember that Charlotte had put something into the tea, Rodion could recognize people. So, was it a case of having memories from different time periods?…
Irene wanted to check. So, when she went with the antidote, she patted Rodion, who welcomed her.
“Young Master, have you ever had a bad dream?”
“Bad dream?”
“Yes. It’s like a dream where you die.”
At those words, seeing Rodion’s expression change, she was vaguely certain.
Her assumptions must have been correct to some extent. Irene clenched her fists to keep her hands from shaking. The vial in her hand felt even tighter.
“I… I had a bad dream not too long ago. It was a dream where the young master died, but the memory of it was so vivid…”
“Rea.”
A hand gripped mine. When she raised her head, she could see Rodion’s smiling face, unlike before. He didn’t look childish like she had known, nor did he look so ferocious.
“Thank you for holding my hand.”
Upon those words, Irene realized why Rodion seemed so different from the man she knew. The time he had lived through was different from the time he was living through now, so of course, he was going to be different.
In front of her was Rodion, a projection of Elios’s time.
The Rodion, who died holding her hand countless times, and who had met the ending with Louise countless times.
Perhaps he had more memories, but there was no way to know unless Rodion spoke directly.
In fact, she couldn’t even ask because Irene was crying.
Rodion kissed her wet cheek. His dry hands cupped both her cheeks as his breath touched the corners of her eyes, the bridge of her nose and lips.
“I love you so much, Rea, always have.”
She didn’t know why those words brought tears to her eyes.
Maybe it was because it proved that the love and time she put in wasn’t in vain, or maybe it was because the word ‘I loved you’ never touched her so much.
….Or maybe, it was because it was time to say goodbye to this Rodion.
Once free of Elios’s influence, Rodion would remember nothing… so the ending was predetermined.
Rodion took the vial from Irene’s hand. He drank it with a little more hesitation than he had when he took the sleeping pills, which were a struggle to even eat. Before long, he fell unconscious, and when he came to his senses, he was the same old Rodion she knew.
He remembered nothing, and wasn’t suffering from his past…
“Ah, my head… R-Rea?”
He woke up complaining of a headache, and when he saw Irene, he was horrified and held onto her.
“Rea, what’s wrong? Why are you crying? Is it because I collapsed? I’m fine!”
He had no idea how much time had passed. Rodion thought it was probably a day at most, and when he realized that time had passed more than he had imagined, he tried to reassure Irene that he would never do such a reckless thing again.
“I did it because I didn’t think Rea would be able to leave me if I got sick, and I was wrong…”
Rodion, who said so in a voice that sounded like he was crying, as he looked so pitiful, like a puppy in the rain. Because of that, she couldn’t be more upset.
Irene sighed and pulled him into a hug.
“I won’t go, so don’t do that again.”
“…Really?”
“Of course.”
His face brightened at the lightly spat answer. Whether it was when he was encroached by Elios or even now, it seemed that it had been a long time since he thought that it would be okay as long as she was by his side. On the contrary, Irene couldn’t smile as brightly as he did.
The reason was simple.
It was because refusing to leave the mansion was like a declaration that she would break the chain of her past lives. Knowing that she wasn’t possessed anyway, all that was left for her was to break off the endless loop.
‘As expected, I want to live.’
She didn’t want to die… and she didn’t want to continue living a repeating life, so Irene went to see Edith.
“Even if I’m stuck in a place like this, I won’t be bored because there are many people looking for me.”
“I guess prison life suits you quite well.”
Irene responded lightly before setting something down on the desk between them.
A stack of papers familiar to Edith.
“…Isn’t that my research material?”
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Translator’s Note: Hello, it’s Nabi! I’m the translator of this novel ପ( ๑•ᴗ•๑ )ଓ♡ If you like the novel and would like to support me, please feel free to click the button below to go to my kofi~! Thank you so much for always supporting the novels I work on, even if you don’t buy me a coffee, I really do appreciate it a lot. ❤︎
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