Male Lead Is Obsessed With My Health - Chapter 127

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Chapter 127

“Control it!”
“Contact the Magic Tower, contact the Magic Tower!”
“Damn it, what in blazes is happening?”
The Business Exhibition Venue had descended into absolute chaos.
Valere, who had rushed there in haste, stood disheveled despite his finest attire, his breathing labored as he took in the scene unfolding before him.
The mansion that had served as the exhibition venue was half-destroyed, and most of those inside had perished.
And the other half.
A semi-transparent Defensive Barrier had been erected inside the mansion, but beyond it, an ominous blood-red aura rippled and churned.
That familiar aura of the Other Side World—a reality far too sinister.
Valere’s face contorted in despair.
‘Not this again.’
It was as though disaster itself were hunting Arelin down.
As though it meant to kill her at any cost.
‘I wish this were all just paranoia.’
The aura pouring from Valere’s clenched fists was already intensifying in response to the danger he felt.
Crack—
What stopped Valere from shattering the Defensive Barrier and plunging into the Other Side World was a white hand that appeared suddenly before him.
“…….”
“…….”
No matter how distracted Valere was, he was not so careless as to miss someone’s approach.
For someone to manage such a feat…….
Golden eyes, visible through the folds of a draped robe, made Valere open his mouth.
“You are…….”
Grand Mage Mercedes.
As their eyes met, the Grand Mage spoke.
“Rampage.”
Rampage?
Valere was furrowing his brow, trying to parse the meaning of her sudden utterance, when Robert came rushing up behind him, breathless.
“Huff—huff. She says a Star-rank Mage has entered the Rampage Stage, and that we must not break this barrier,” Robert gasped, interpreting the Grand Mage’s words.
The moment Robert lifted his head, he went silent in shock.
‘Wait—isn’t that the suicide-seeker I met at the Imperial Palace?!’
She was alive?! How?! But then why is she trying to throw herself back into a place like this?!
“In any case, we cannot lower the barrier—if we do, half the Capital will be caught in the Rampage!”
“But my daughter is inside.”
The Grand Mage shook her head.
A response that amounted to a definitive declaration: she cannot be saved.
Cannot be saved…….
The Magic Tower had decided to forgo rescue and instead seal off the location to minimize damage.
Give up…….
Familiar helplessness and the flash of countless past failures made Valere’s hand drift unconsciously to his cheek.
The tactile memory of the “Good Job!” sticker his daughter had stuck there steadied his wavering mind.
There was no hesitation. The answer had been decided from the start.
“It should be fine if only I go in.”
“……!”
If the problem was the Rampage mage, there was only one way to save the others.
Kill the mage before the Rampage reached its full catastrophic stage.
Valere had made his resolve.
“Let me in. You can do it, can’t you? Grand Mage.”
“…….”
Cracks appeared in Mercedes’s expression. As Valere held her anguished gaze, golden eyes brimming with conflict, his patience gave out first, and he reached for her.
“Besides, the Crown Prince is in there too, so you’d have to let me in anyway.”
A sigh escaped her lips, and golden mana opened a breach in the barrier.
Valere disappeared into the breach.
The Imperial Knights, arriving late to the scene, begged to be allowed in as well.
“You would die the moment you entered.”
The interior was already saturated with Corrupted Stellar Energy as a precursor to the Star-rank Mage’s Rampage.
A man watching all of this unfold from a distance—Rudolph, the Regent Duke and uninvited guest to this affair—opened his mouth as he gazed after Valere’s vanished form.
“So the rumors about him neglecting his daughter were false, it seems.”
The shadow at Rudolph’s side glanced toward the mages and asked.
“Will he return alive?”
“Who knows.”
The ominous, dangerous aura continued to swell like a balloon, growing larger with each passing moment.

Ether had deployed a protective barrier, so fortunately my body remained intact—but Ether was not so fortunate.
Mrrgh—
This guy had completely lost it.
“I shall not forget your sacrifice.”
Rrrgh—
“In your next life, may you be reborn as a cute little rabbit.”
Rrrrgh—!
Here I was, not even fully conscious, yet Ether still managed to lodge a protest against me.
What could I do about it? Get your own mind straight first.
“But where is this place?”
A landscape like a burning hellscape greeted me.
Somewhere familiar, yet utterly strange.
This feeling is…… another Other Side World?
But unlike the Other Side World I’d fallen into before, this space felt unstable somehow.
I couldn’t explain it clearly, but the aura I sensed…….
“Ugh, I hate this…….”
A moan came from beside me, and I turned my head. Not far away, I found a single mage sprawled out.
Huh? This mage. That’s the mage.
“Are you alright? Come to your senses.”
The mage who had dragged me into this danger was in no state of mind, continuing to gasp and struggle.
“Run away…….”
Run away to where?
“Please…… run away…….”
The mage was crying.
Not knowing why they were crying, I couldn’t bring myself to abandon them and leave, so I stayed there, fidgeting beside them.
“Ahhhhh!”
“Aaaah!”
Leven, the mage who had become “Precious” through this business exhibition, and his fellow mages trembled in terror at the sight of me.
Or more precisely, at what was beside me.
“It’s Rampage, Rampage!”
“It’s the precursor symptoms of Rampage!”
The mages muttered about how my Stellar Aura had become corrupted, how this place was already intertwined with the mage’s star, and then they collapsed in fear, their eyes wide with panic.
“W-we’re all going to die.”
“Magic won’t work. Nothing works. We can’t escape from here.”
It was as the mages spiraled into panic and despair.
‘Wait?’
In that moment, I noticed something strange.
Black and red auras emanating from the mages’ bodies were being absorbed into the void.
And the landscape engulfing us seemed to be growing larger because of it…….
‘For some reason, I don’t think it should get any bigger.’
“Hey, try to calm down a little.”
“Ugh, to think even a child has been caught up in this……!”
“I thought every crow has its day, but never like this…….”
I had no idea where the twins and Fession were, or what had happened to the others, but I didn’t have time to search for them.
The dark aura swelling and expanding grew more and more precarious.
The more the people around me descended into fear and despair, the more solid and dangerous the space became.
I was the only one in this space who remained unaffected.
‘Why?’
By this point, I could hardly help but notice.
That I was special.
‘This kind of thing doesn’t work on me?’
When I thought about it, I was the only one who could see the stalker, and when I’d been trapped in the Other Side World before, I hadn’t suffered any mental damage the way others had.
Even the Linguistic Magic of the Non-Human Mage I’d briefly encountered didn’t work on me.
“I always thought the world was tormenting me for no reason.”
I had a vague hunch that it was connected to this miserable state of my body, but right now, survival was what mattered.
‘Father told me not to play in front of mages.’
But.
A moment like this—this is when music is truly needed.
I couldn’t just stand here and do nothing. I had to do something.
This was an emergency, so Father would understand.
“Ether.”
I grabbed Ether.
Still dazed, Ether slowly transformed into a Violin in my hand.
I steadied my breathing, bow in hand.
Spinoza said he would plant an apple tree even if the earth perished.
‘But I play.’
I closed my eyes.
In that moment, bow and string met gently.
As the bow glided slowly forward, a solemn yet gentle melody began to unfold.
Zing—
A warm tone that soothed even the most taut, sharp nerves, easing them into calm.
Bach, Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, “Air.”
Also known as Air on the G String.
The mages, who had been screaming in terror, fell suddenly silent.

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