Male Lead Is Obsessed With My Health - Chapter 108

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Episode 108

In the windowless darkness, three massive doors each radiated a different light, casting an aura both wondrous and unsettling.
Above each door, brief words in different languages hovered in the air.
Were they written in Magic?
The problem was…….
“……Why can I read all of them?”
I stared at the doors in consternation.
They read: “Fool,” “Unlucky,” and “Affirmative”—making it impossibly hard to feign ignorance.
On a whim, I opened the door marked “Affirmative,” and three more doors appeared within.
This time, the same magical script materialized in elegant letters, though the sentences were longer now.
[Those who open this door are the greatest idiots in all the world.]
[Open this and you will go bald.]
[Beyond this lies a blessing.]
“Bald? What kind of vicious curse is that?”
Perhaps it was my imagination, but the Magical Power radiating from the text felt deeply unpleasant.
“But why can I read this at all?”
Thinking back, I’d never struggled to read anything since I’d recalled my past life.
I’d swept books from the library and read them without the slightest difficulty…….
‘Wait—now that I think about it, I never actually learned to read, did I?’
Was I somehow patched with universal language comprehension?
Unsettled by this, I opened the door marked with blessings. No actual curse befell me, but another room appeared.
Part of me wanted to get Eliminated quickly, but the curses written on the doors grew increasingly blunt, vicious, and cutting, making it impossible to bring myself to touch them.
‘This script—I know it. It’s Sobverian.’
As the sentences grew longer, the languages used became harder.
The Ancient Divine Language, foundation of Divine Magic, even appeared—alongside the Seyron Language, which forms the basis of magic circles.
Yet I could read them all with ease.
“Hmm.”
It seemed I should opt for Elimination around here.
I was mulling over which door might be the lesser evil when I heard it.
Click.
At the sound of a door opening, I turned absently—and saw vivid pink hair.
“Oh.”
“Ah.”
Chloe.
What was she doing here?
Caught off-guard, I blinked blankly until Chloe spoke to me first.
“Hi there?”
“Hi.”
She had good social instincts.
Her bright smile pulled a laugh from me before I caught myself.
That I felt a sense of intimacy from the novels while also finding her unsettling—that had to be my own weakness, didn’t it?
‘If I were Chloe, I’d act without hesitation.’
She was the heroine of sunshine itself.
I envied her bright, straightforward personality, her unblemished and shadeless manner of being.
I’d never felt envy or inferiority toward anyone in my life, and yet…….
Standing beside Chloe, my shoulders somehow always shrank inward.
“We ran into each other at the Imperial Palace before, didn’t we?”
“Yeah. I think so.”
“I’m Chloe.”
“Arelin.”
Yes—it was especially this, the way she approached so unguardedly and quickly.
I’d felt something similar around Fession.
“I was really surprised! My teacher kept pushing me to try it, but I never thought I’d meet someone here!”
Why was she treating me, someone she’d met only twice, with such warmth? Was it just her nature?
I was someone who needed at least three meetings before I could greet someone first—a completely different species from her.
I wanted to be like that.
‘If I’d had a personality like hers, would Mother have loved me…….’
The thought flitted past, and I smiled thinly.
It was a meaningless hypothesis now, yet it left traces—my shortcomings within me kept stirring.
It’s okay. Mehren liked me even like this.
“I came with friends.”
“Oh, that makes sense!”
Chloe smiled beautifully.
It was the kind of smile that seemed to light up the entire world.
“You know, if you make it this far, you can feel the Magical Power! You might have what it takes to be a mage.”
“I see.”
Standing before an ideal self I could never become, not even if reborn, was an oddly complex feeling.
Was this truly the person I’d wanted to be?
“Are you a mage?”
“Mm-hmm. I met my teacher last winter, so I’m in training now.”
Without my asking, Chloe launched into an entertaining story about meeting her teacher.
Did I deserve to hear such things?
Even as doubt crept in, the closeness of speaking with Chloe for the first time overwhelmed me with a strange sense of emotion.
It was a distant admiration I’d never felt before.
I remembered thinking many times while reading her words that I wished I had this kind of personality.
‘And yet…….’
Now I understood.
Those moments when I suffocated trying to match my mother’s ideals, and the thrill of being accepted wholly as myself.
“Oh, sorry! That wasn’t interesting, was it? I got so excited. I never expected to meet a friend here!”
“It’s fine.”
“Really? Arelin, you’re so kind.”
Chloe blushed slightly, speaking shyly.
“You know, meeting like this is such an incredible coincidence—let me tell you a secret.”
“A secret?”
“If you find the Secret Room here, you can get amazing treasure. And you’ll even get a chance to become a disciple of the Grand Mage!”
“Is that why you came in?”
“Yeah. My teacher said an opportunity like this only comes once in a thousand years, so she sent me.”
Naturally, I found myself standing before the doors with Chloe. She asked me,
“Which door are you going to choose?”
“I’m still thinking.”
Whether to accept Elimination or not.
“Can I pick first then?”
“What if I just copy what you do?”
My blunt response made Chloe laugh brightly.
“Once a door opens and closes, the options change! You don’t need to worry about that!”
“I see. Go ahead then.”
“I’ll take this one! I can feel such strong Magical Power from it.”
Chloe opened the door without hesitation.
“See you later!”
As Chloe had said, when the door closed, the text changed.
[Sanctify us through truth, we beseech you.]
“Hmm…….”
Judging by the talk of truth and sanctity, this one really did seem like the answer.
“But I can’t shake the feeling.”
I spun around.
At the far corner of the room, barely visible, sat a single door.
If I hadn’t looked carefully, I would have missed it—yet my eyes kept catching on it.
And for good reason.
“[Help me], of all things—what exactly are they asking for help with?”
Though it had no handle, when I touched it, the door opened as if it had been waiting. I swallowed dryly.
Swallowing down the unease, I stepped inside.
My eyes squinted at the sight of a completely different space from anything I’d seen before.
“This looks like…….”

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Magic Tower 1st Floor Lounge.
A cluster of children waited for one person alone.
“When is Arelin coming out?”
Fession spoke as he drained the new Sparkling Beverage he’d bought. It was sold at the Magic Tower, and it had a taste that made sparks dance across your tongue.
“Yeah, really. Arelin’s taking a while.”
“Does she actually have magical talent?”
The twins, who’d joined late and already entered once, were Eliminated at lightning speed.
Words in the continental common language floated above the heads of all the Eliminated.
Above Fession’s head glowed “Idiot,” above Harun’s “Fool,” and above the twins’ heads “Blockhead” and “Dimwit”—flickering like special effects.
Ciel complained sharply.
“Ugh, how long are these things going to float around?”
Fession shrugged.
“They disappear once you leave the Magic Tower. It’s to distinguish the Eliminated, apparently. There were so many people who couldn’t accept it and demanded a second try.”
“I hate this.”
Once Arelin came out, those unsightly words would have to go too.
Ciel was still glaring at the words floating above his head when it happened.
Boom-boom-boom-boom-crash.
The Magic Tower suddenly shook.
“Whoa?”
An earthquake?
Everyone held their breath in rigid silence.
Ding-ding-ding-ding ding-ding-ding ding ding!
A bright, cheerful melody rang out from somewhere, and everyone’s eyes went wide.
At the same time, the Magic Tower suddenly burst into chaos.

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