Male Lead Is Obsessed With My Health - Chapter 120

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Chapter 120

The Mage Tower.
For the past few weeks, the tower had mobilized all its resources in search of a single person.
An agenda that had passed through the highest council. A quest to find the apprentice-to-be of a Grand Mage!
The mages grinding away below, those who hadn’t even reached Star-rank, didn’t know the reason—but every mage with any connection to the Sky Tower was desperate.
“We even plastered advertisements everywhere.”
“We commissioned music boxes and distributed them.”
“What more could be missing?”
Just show up!
If you just come, we’ll give you anything you want—wealth, fame, whatever else—we’ll hand it all over!
With everything the Mage Tower has accumulated!
The tower’s fierce resolve to ransack its own coffers became an unexpected windfall only for the newspapers that ran the lavish ads, spawning countless aspiring mages dreaming of sudden wealth—yet the true purpose remained unfulfilled.
“Why……”
“Why won’t they appear……”
“What could be lacking……”
“Our sincerity……”
The Star-rank mages, who possessed nothing but research materials and research funds, suffered in anguish.
They had glimpsed light breaking through the curse that bound mages, the heavenly punishment they’d endured—only to taste ambrosia and have it snatched away. This rage, this sorrow, this torment—they couldn’t bear it.
By this point, it was time even the brilliant Star-rank mages used their sharp minds and came to realize something.
“Surely……”
“……they don’t want to be a mage?”
The arrogance of mages who’d been absolutely certain—in a million ways, under any circumstance, without fail, in every case—that this could never be true began to crack.
They grew serious.
“No, shouldn’t we be taking a more active approach?”
“We can’t be saved with only this passive attitude of waiting for them to come to us!”
“That’s right! We’ll find them ourselves!”
At last, the mages—their eyes gone wild—hit upon a method.
“Let’s call back all the children who participated in that event and check again.”
“……!!”
They truly were a collective of geniuses.
Mages were unmistakably brilliant humans gathered together.
How could they think of something so inspired!
“But did we record them?”
“No?”
“If not, how do we track them?”
“Elimination Magic is automatically cast once you pass the final gate, right? It’s been a while, but not that long—couldn’t we track the Mana Resonance?”
“Oh!”
Tasks were rapidly distributed among them.
“Then I’ll handle the Magic Circle Reverse Engineering.”
“And I’ll calculate the Mana Quantity.”
And so the mages sent out Letters of Fortune in bulk to those they’d tracked.
Many people—regardless of age or gender—who’d participated in the chance to become the Grand Mage’s apprentice returned to the tower.
As for the few who didn’t return, Star-rank mages went to find them in pairs.
“We just have to follow the trajectory of the Letters of Fortune that were dispatched. It’s convenient, so that’s nice.”
Muti, who had been chosen by the Darkly Burning Star and become a Fire-attribute mage of the Elemental School, was startled when she arrived at the mansion at the end of the tracking.
“Halbern?”
A few days ago, another mage had complained that her trail led to the Imperial Palace and the palace barrier cut off the tracking, so she couldn’t enter (though she gained permission later and went in anyway)—but Muti had arrived at Halbern.
Raki, Muti’s partner, tilted her head in confusion.
“Isn’t this a brush-off?”
“Come on, we’re still Star-rank mages. How could that be?”
Contrary to their concerns, Halbern accepted the Mage Tower’s visit readily enough.
However.
“The young lady? She’s stepped out, I’m afraid.”
The young lady of this household—who undoubtedly had participated in the tower’s event—happened to be away at precisely that moment.
“What do we do.”
“What can we do? We’ll just have to come back later.”
The mages left with reluctant hearts, powerless to do otherwise.
“But will this plan really work? What if we all fell into some kind of mass hallucination back then……”
It was when Raki suddenly voiced her misgivings. She should have heard some kind of rebuttal or answer from beside her, but there was nothing.
“Muti?”
She turned her head then.
Raki’s vision went dark all at once.

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Sperom, the empire’s magnate.
Sperom’s Ability, the Golden Eye, possessed a distinct character even among the imperial family and the Five Great Duchy Houses.
Beyond the obvious feature that it was visible to the naked eye, the basic concept of the Ability—’the eye that sees value’—remained the same, yet each person saw ‘what value,’ ‘what kind of value,’ and ‘in what manner it was revealed’ completely differently.
Because of this, the Sperom Duchy House boasted the most bloodline members among the Five Great Houses and was uniquely free from the history of Fraternal Strife.
How was such a thing possible, one might wonder.
But since each person’s metrics were transparent to the others’ eyes and each one’s Ability took slightly different forms, a family culture of cooperation to complement one another’s abilities naturally developed.
‘So, the House of Sperom is essentially playing a construction-management simulation game with their Ability.’
It was strange enough that a duchy in a fantasy world would run their family like a conglomerate—but what was even stranger was……
“A business exhibition?”
The twins had arrived without warning this morning and dragged her to one of the Sperom House’s grand mansions.
It wasn’t the main residence, more like a separate wing used as a hotel, but it was equally magnificent.
And today, a business exhibition was to be held here.
“Yep. People from all over the country who want to start a business or expand their ventures gather here and display their business ideas.”
“All the family members come to look and score, and then decide whether to invest or not.”
“Merchants from other trading companies come too, by the way.”
“It’s really fun!”
Right, I see. Well, that makes sense.
Up to that point, I could follow along.
But why was I here?
“Because we’re starting a business.”
“And Arelin has to help.”
You’re still minors.
“But every Sperom runs their own business from childhood.”
“A Sperom without their own venture isn’t a Sperom at all.”
I see.
The twins boasted that they had substantial capital thanks to the Dragon Byproducts they’d taken from me being sold at a high price at auction.
As I watched the twins with a lukewarm expression, two people who seemed entirely out of place in this venue.
Fession and Harun were watching us.
Particularly Fession, who regarded me with an uncomfortable expression.
“Twins.”
“Yeah?”
“What is it, Your Highness?”
Fession fixed the twins with a serious look.
“Arelin hasn’t said a word, yet how are you two conversing with her?”
Ciel and Noel glanced at each other.
“Well……”
“Arelin……”
“Her expressions tell us everything.”
Ciel grinned mischievously.
“Your Highness, your Highness—are you jealous?”
“Hmm, do we seem closer?”
I sighed deeply, caught between the clinging twins and Fession’s frown.
“Twins. I’ll help you, so stop teasing Fession.”
“We weren’t teasing.”
“We were serious.”
I shot a look at the twins as they immediately raised their hands in surrender.
Harun remained quietly at his post.
“Fession, I understand—but why did you bring Harun?”
Noel blinked.
“We thought Arelin might be bored.”
“……?”
Harun’s lashes trembled slightly.
He looked wronged.
“Just admit you took him hostage so we couldn’t abandon you two, you demons.”
“You caught us.”
The twins laughed brightly.
Noel’s eyes sparkled as he held something out to me.
“What—these are stickers.”
“Put them on us.”
At the sight of the twins puffing out their cheeks, I found myself remembering someone’s reckless behavior from somewhere, and I exhaled automatically.
Was this trend still going on?
“I want the big heart-shaped one.”
“Me too!”
The twins pointed at their choices.
Suddenly, a pale hand shot out and snatched the stickers away. Then Fession pressed a different sticker into my palm.
“You two wear these instead.”
Huh?
So you’d prepared some too.
“Tch!”
“Your Highness, that’s mean!”
The twins protested, but it didn’t work. Without hesitation, I carelessly picked out star-shaped stickers and affixed two or three to each of their cheeks.
“Hehe.”
“Ha-ha.”
The twins laughed happily.
They seemed pleased.
In that moment, I quietly approached Harun and prettily placed a star sticker beneath his eye.
“Will you put one on me too, Fession?”
“A heart for me.”
“?”
Wasn’t that the one you just snatched from the twins?
Looking at the brazenly offered heart sticker, I found myself smiling without meaning to.
Right, that makes sense.
After affixing the heart sticker to Fession’s cheek, he peeled one off and placed it on mine.
Fession’s smile looked incredibly pleased with himself.
“Now let’s go in.”

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