I Became a Stalker in a Yandere Dating Sim

86 – 86. Change

Rica sat on the bed, staring blankly at the text Jane sent.

“…What should I tell Roxer…”

She bit her lip, full of dissatisfaction, then tossed her phone into the shadows with a frown.

After that, as if expecting someone to come, she sighed and laid down on the bed, facing upwards.

“Rica.”

Roxer, returning to the room with a bag of food in one hand, called out to Rica.

“Why, are we going to get Jane?”

As Rica knew everything, she didn’t bother to quickly respond, just lying down without looking and waiting for Roxer to answer, who fell silent.

When Rica nodded her head, Roxer stood up.

“I knew it.”

“How did you know?”

“How could I not know after spending so much time with you? But what’s in the convenience store bag you’re holding?”

Approaching with a slightly displeased tone, Rica checked the contents of the bag.

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“This is…”

She thought it was just a sandwich or something from the convenience store.

But it turned out to be a lunchbox from a high-end restaurant run by Erin’s grandmother, where they often ate together.

It was the lunchbox that Roxer had packed, excluding Jane’s portion when Erin and he went to eat while Jane was briefly away with her father.

Perhaps he bought drinks separately from the convenience store, as they were found in the same bag.

“I thought you might not have eaten anything, so I brought it.”

“…Just for me?”

“What about the others’?”

“…..”

Rica looked at Roxer with a puzzled expression.

“So, not only did you leave me out to have a meal with Erin alone, but you also brought lunchboxes for other girls?”

“I went through the trouble of getting it, and you say that…”

As Roxer grumbled, Rica grabbed his collar and pulled him closer.

With their lips almost touching, Rica, with an annoyed expression, whispered in his ear.

“Just take care of me a bit. Because I’m jealous.”

“???”

Staring at him as if demanding to be the only one, Rica blinked her red eyes at Roxer, gazing intensely.

The soft, long eyelashes surrounding her eyes, the naturally beautiful eyes, and the faintly trembling pupils all yearned for affection.

‘I wish only I could feel this warmth and those eyes… I want to swallow it…’

She wanted to deeply embrace and pull him like a rock, but she restrained herself.

In her heart, a touch where numerous emotions and memories gathered caressed the rock.

The demon of desire that Ricca had embraced watched over them in agreement.

The demon of desire, ready to whisper to her, closely followed Ricca, not missing a single murmur of her dark heart within.

Ricca, who had longed to swallow shining souls, had taken matters into her own hands.

However, as Ricca had absorbed the method of absorbing everything into shadows from Mistein’s origin, she was unknowingly absorbed by Ricca as she was.

As a result, Ricca’s eyes, which had already turned redder, faintly shimmered.

With Ricca becoming more honest about her desires, she finally acknowledged what she wanted and gave up.

Now, she could only watch as someone else did for another woman what she had done for Ricca in her childhood.

The shadow Ricca cast over Rockser, hiding the moonlight, was darker than ever.

After a moment of silence, Ricca, as if agreeing, let go of Rockser, who then accepted the lunchbox or bag.

“Ugh, how did I end up falling for someone like him.”

Now, as if indicating she would eat, she skillfully opened the lunchbox and started eating.

“…Thank you for saving me.”

As Ricca sat down next to him and watched him eat, she unexpectedly uttered those words.

For a moment, Rockser, seeming tense, focused on the future that the pale sweat on his forehead indicated.

But nothing happened, and after finishing the lunchbox, Ricca continued speaking as she tidied up.

“You’ve always saved me at important moments… even when we were kids, but…”

Having finished tidying up, Ricca washed her hands at the sink in the hospital room, dried them well with a towel, and approached Rockser sitting in front of her.

Ricca’s calm expression was somehow beautiful.

Perhaps due to the moonlight or her naturally captivating appearance, her fair skin looked even more beautiful.

Her small, red lips naturally revealed her sincerity.

“Even if you hadn’t saved me… I would have liked you all along.”

Upon a woman’s honest confession, Rockser could only gaze at her.

“Well, when you seemed to have changed strangely, I thought it was too late…”

With a somewhat sad expression, Ricca, wearing a disappointed smile, clasped her fingers under her chest.

“Still, thank you for coming to your senses and returning.”

The usually cold-looking Ricca smiled warmly and brightly instead.

With a smile that made the onlooker’s heart flutter, she expressed true happiness, tinged with a ticklish smile in her eyes.

For the first time, Ricca momentarily set aside her pride and openly confessed her feelings to Rockser.

As Rockser tried to say something, Ricca nodded, smiling slightly embarrassed.

“Don’t say anything, I’m so embarrassed right now that I could die.”

After taking a deep breath, she returned to her usual self.

More beautiful and colder than the moonlight, with red eyes more intense than blood droplets, she had an imposing, arrogant, yet enchanting appearance that one couldn’t help but gaze at.

With her arms crossed, she looked at Rockser as usual, as if nothing had happened.

“…Ricca.”

“Why, what, say it. Do you want to repay me for saving you?”

As usual, she ticked off, pretending as if nothing had happened, just as she had before. It was as if the previous scene was a fantasy.

“Could you give me that smile from before, just one more time?”

“What’s the deal? So, how are you going to bring out Jane Ginnan?”

Whether it was a hallucination or not, Rica rudely diverted the topic after pushing aside the papers on Roxer’s desk, immediately changing the subject.

Her pride must have been so strong that her back was tense, making her want to forget the words she had just uttered more than anyone else.

Still, there was a sense of relief in her eyes.

Of course, there was still a passionate obsession with Roxer inside her.

Knowing that she couldn’t possess and protect Roxer alone, she gave up.

Perhaps, by expressing her true feelings to Roxer and letting go of her lingering affection, she didn’t know that behind Rica’s cold gaze, a faint sadness was lurking.

“…We need to use all our resources. We’ll have her out within a week.”

“But the opponent is from the Three Great Guilds? What can we do?”

“Isn’t Erin also the granddaughter of the youngest from the Three Great Guilds? And you have the ability, so what can’t you do?”

“Ha…! Don’t pretend to praise me for trying to use me to find another woman.”

After giving up, Rica seemed a bit lighter as she bantered with Roxer more than before.

Perhaps due to the image she had shown earlier, Roxer stared at Rica intently.

Normally, he would have already been close to her.

But after showing a smile so different from usual, his gaze somehow became colder.

When Roxer reached out to Rica, who looked sad, she pushed his hand away.

“Why are you suddenly doing this?”

In response, Rica, who usually didn’t even reach out her hand, casually brushed off Roxer’s gesture as if asking why he suddenly did that.

“I’ll take care of the debt you owe me, so don’t worry and let’s figure out what to do quickly.”

Roxer looked at Rica intently and thought.

Various misunderstandings and coincidences intertwined, ultimately leading to his growth and development.

When the nightmare manifested in the form of a demon in his mental world was about to overwhelm him, a flash of Rica’s unwavering strength and Jane’s following power saved him.

Through saving, helping, crying, laughing, and sharing, many things accumulated to form their current relationship.

And since becoming Roxer from his childhood self in the mental world, memories with Rica gradually resurfaced.

Naturally blending into his memories, the image of Rica when they first met as children overlapped with her current appearance.

“What, what are you doing?”

Roxer stood up silently and embraced Rica.

Rica, seemingly nonchalant, tried to push away from Roxer’s embrace.

“You always had that look since you were young. Whenever you tried to hide something sad, you made that expression, Rica.”

At his words, Rica, without realizing it, reached out her hand to the emotions she had given up on.

But she didn’t hold on.

“…What are you saying.”

Rica tried to act nonchalant, but her hand, unsure whether to embrace Roxer or not, was sincere.

She wished she could monopolize and hold Roxer forever, but she knew it was impossible.

So, she decided to let go. It would be more refreshing that way.

Until she no longer felt regret for not being able to give everything to Roxer, Rica would help him, save him, and then let him go.

Since she couldn’t possess him alone, couldn’t embrace him with her selfish love, she wanted to tear out what could be called Roxer’s heart.

And so, she resolved to express her sincere feelings to Roxer as a final gesture.

Embracing Rica, who had been a great help to him so far,

while holding Rica, who had always taken care of him by his side, even when he grumbled about assisting with his first awakening, he said,

“I will definitely repay you as much as I have done so far, or even more. So trust me and follow me.”

Rica, who wondered why Roxer was saying this now, looked at the moon with sad eyes from the arms of a man she loved but could not embrace.

“There are too many things I can’t handle alone right now.”

The same words echoed in Rica’s ear as in her thoughts.

Therefore, Rica couldn’t help but feel relieved.

“Sigh, fine, I’ll help you, I will. Fool.”

She had no choice but to do her best to avoid any regrets in the end.