How to Escape from the Yandere’s Crazy Obsession - Chapter 116
Leticia’s eyes shot open.
Blink, blink.
She blinked a few more times, her dry eyelids feeling heavy as she scanned her surroundings.
“Ugh.”
The sharp smell of disinfectant hit her nose, almost overpowering her senses.
“Leticia, you’re awake? Oh my goodness…! Darling, Leticia has woken up!”
Sharon, who had been watching her daughter closely, shouted in joy as she saw Leticia stir in bed.
“Ugh… my head feels like it’s going to explode. Where am I…?”
Leticia squinted through the throbbing pain in her head and looked around, recognizing the familiar room. Her worn-out teddy bear, childhood drawings, everything here was unmistakably hers.
Her arms and legs were wrapped tightly in white bandages.
“Leticia… hiic, thank goodness…”
Sharon cried, while Tez, having heard the commotion, rushed in. Both of them stood by Leticia’s bedside, weeping with relief.
Leticia stared blankly at the ceiling of her room.
“Ha… damn it… so this is reality, and everything was just a dream.”
Of course, it couldn’t all have been real.
For a moment, she had returned to that carefree time she longed for. The freedom she thought she had grasped had slipped through her fingers like sand.
A wave of emptiness washed over her.
Why was I fighting so desperately? In the end, I even lost Richelle, the last person I thought was on my side.
Why did Richelle push her? Why did Richelle look at her with those eyes? How did she know about… that?
But what’s the point of thinking about it now? There’s no answer.
No matter what, she could never forgive Richelle for what she did to her.
The betrayal from someone she considered her friend hurt more than she could express. Every moment they’d shared together felt like trash, and it left a gaping hole in her heart.
‘What about Vallon? What happened to him?’
Did killing him in the dream mean nothing in the end?
“Mom, what happened to me?”
“Richelle said you were on a walk, slipped, and fell down the stairs… She mentioned that you’d been worrying about something. What was bothering you so much? I’m sorry I didn’t notice… hiic…”
Slipped and fell down the stairs during a walk? A bitter smile spread across Leticia’s face.
‘What a joke.’
Her emptiness quickly turned into anger, but her arms and legs, still weak and bandaged, wouldn’t respond to her will.
“How long have I been like this?”
How much time had passed? From her hoarse throat, it seemed she’d been out for a while.
“You’ve been unconscious for a month…! Sniff… we were so worried that you might never wake up. But now that you’re awake, it doesn’t matter anymore… it’s okay!”
***
Leticia spent six months recovering before returning to the academy. When she came back, many things had changed.
The biggest change was Vallon. The obsessive Vallon, who had refused to leave her side, hadn’t shown himself once since the moment Leticia woke up.
It was as if he had evaporated, like thin air, leaving no trace behind. No one knew where he was.
Even when she asked her parents, they only replied that they didn’t know.
The real reason Leticia had returned to the academy was to find out what had happened to Vallon. But no one had any information on him.
Rumor had it that he stopped coming to the academy shortly after Leticia’s accident.
Each time she thought about it, Leticia remembered the dream she had. Perhaps the version of Vallon she had struck down so many times in that dream had been the real one.
Could he truly be dead? But Leticia didn’t have the courage to go to the Kattravan Ducal Estate to confirm it.
“She’s back again?”
“How can she walk around so shamelessly? With that pretty face, I’m sure she earned a lot of money.”
“Hey, you’re too loud. She’ll hear you!”
Even now, people still whispered and avoided her when she passed by. She could clearly hear their hushed comments behind her back.
No one approached her anymore. The people who used to look at her kindly were gone. Everyone in the Arvata Academy now knew that Leticia was the new outcast.
But she had no time to care about their gossip. Leticia had things she needed to do. She absentmindedly touched a small orb in her pocket.
She never thought she’d use the orb that Vallon had once used to threaten her.
This troublesome orb, impossible to break no matter how hard she tried, finally split into two when she held it from the top and bottom. Once it was separated, it returned to its original, blank state.
After tinkering with it for a while, Leticia figured out how to use the orb properly. She realized it was a tool that could capture any situation she desired.
