Male Lead Is Obsessed With My Health - Chapter 164

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Chapter 164

I’d had those thoughts before, from time to time.
What if I actually had something going for me—instead of being that worthless “childhood friend extra” who does nothing and dies in the story?
Maybe because I was living a life different from what I’d read, or maybe because I kept learning new things about ‘me’ that I never knew—doubt kept bubbling up whenever I wasn’t careful.
But I’d always chalked it up to having watched too many web novels in my past life, telling myself I was just spinning wild fantasies again.
That’s what I’d convinced myself of.

[Displaying user information.]
Name: Arelin Sigria Halbern
Title: Sione’s Gift
Bloodline: Halbern, ■■■■ ■■■
Unique Characteristics:
[Reincarnator (?)]
[Music Genius (A+)]
[Blessed by Music (A)]
[Survival Instinct (S)]
[Mental Barrier (S)]
[Special■■ (?)]
Inherited Characteristics:
[Secret Keeper (S)]
[Key Inheritor (S)]
[■Origin■ ■■ (?)]
[Language of Babel (S)]
[Final ■ ■’s ■Blessing (?)]
[■■’s Fragment (?)]

I stared at the Status Window as it stretched on and on, my expression growing serious.
“Why is it this long…?”
Laplace’s Demon, is this right?
“Skip the name. And this title?”
Sione’s Gift—such an embarrassing title made my face contort in an odd way.
“Is it because I’m like a gift to Dad…?”
I’d vaguely known it before, but seeing it written out in clear letters felt different. It was embarrassing to acknowledge.
“Hmm.”
But what really caught my eye was the Bloodline section.
Seven characters next to Halbern rendered in solid black, unreadable. Curious, I kept tapping, and a warning message appeared.

※!Warning! You lack access privileges.
※Your rank is insufficient. Some hidden information may not appear in complete form.

“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
I glared at the corrupted characters before diving back into examining the Status Window.
“Reincarnator, Music Genius…”
Blessed by Music?
I tapped on this unfamiliar characteristic and confirmed it was a trait that let me play perfect music regardless of circumstance or instrument.
“Oh.”
Survival Instinct was apparently the world’s most broken sensor, and Mental Barrier explained why I always came through unscathed no matter what happened around me.
And then there was.

[Special■■ (?)]
-A variable capable of breaking free from all that has been decided, and altering all things. The world watches you.

“…?”
The unsettling description made me shiver, my whole body trembling.
The world watches me? I’m hardly the kind of person deserving such attention.
“At least I understand most of it up to here.”
But everything after this… I have no idea.

[Secret Keeper (S)]
-You have inherited the blood of those who once swore to protect the secrets of this land.
[Key Inheritor (S)]
-You may access Halbern’s secret archives, which exist in another world. Can be used to visit hidden locations.

Apart from these two characteristics, which seemed tied to my Halbern blood, most of the descriptions were too corrupted to understand.
The only other readable one was Language of Babel?
“All languages in the beginning were one. Those who remember this may speak all tongues?”
Wait, wasn’t language comprehension supposed to be part of the Reincarnator perk?
“This is confusing.”
But what really unsettled me was the information at the very bottom of the window.

[Status Abnormalities: Weakness, Body Collapse, Mental Attrition]

Three separate status abnormalities.
How am I even still alive?
As that thought crossed my mind.
A bright warning window suddenly appeared.

[!Warning! Body collapse in progress!]
[Current progress: 78% (Divine Protection active)]
[Currently active Divine Protection:
Slumbering Indolence Authority (Body Collapse Speed –2000%)]

At least now I understood how I was still managing to stay alive.

* * *

Learning new truths didn’t mean I had to be shocked all over again.
Body collapse in progress?
So what!
“I already knew I was living on borrowed time anyway!”
It was just a bit startling to find out it wasn’t simply an illness but something called body collapse—something I’d never even heard of before.
“Right, an incurable disease with no miracle cure. I remember clearly.”
Maybe it would’ve been better if it was just a normal disease.
“Hmm.”
Now I understood why my body felt like it was tearing apart if I didn’t take my medicine. It wasn’t just ‘like’ being torn apart—it was actually happening.
“Ah…”
So that’s why Dad kept saying he had dreams of losing me. Those words, about losing me no matter what, suddenly felt less like idle worry and more like a prophecy.
Maybe Dad’s been reading stories too.
“Well. It’s fine. At least I finally figured out what’s killing me.”
That’s when it happened.
The Status Window, which had been completely still, responded.
[Multiple pieces of information about you have been confirmed. Providing answers to your previous unanswered question.]
[Your current body cannot handle multiple supernatural abilities. It is collapsing due to an excess of power. Therefore, to ‘live longer,’ we recommend raising your body’s rank.]
I blinked blankly at the straightforward answer.
“Wait, how am I supposed to raise my rank?!”
If you’re going to answer, give me the full answer before you go!

* * *

Laplace’s Demon, having spat out all that massive information, promptly entered an enormous cooldown period again.
This useful and utterly useless bastard…
[Cooldown until next query: 108 days 12 hours]
How am I supposed to ask how to raise my rank now?!
“Ugh, this is infuriating.”
You’d think having an all-knowing oracle would be convenient, but you can’t use it whenever you want?
It was enough to drive me mad.
Whirrrrrr—
Ether seized the moment to make a cute little appeal, insisting she’d be more helpful, but I was too irritated for her act to work.
“Arelin, why are you so angry?”
“Right? Maybe you couldn’t check our Affinity?”
The Gathering had reconvened after a while.
Not all the children had arrived yet.
The Demon Twins, who’d come early, pushed their faces close and tried to act friendly.
“Your Affinity?”
“Yeah!”
For the record, my Affinity Scanner had been destroyed last time by Dad, who couldn’t believe the reality that he’d lost in an Affinity contest against Fession and tried repeatedly to retest it until he finally smashed the thing.
The highest number among all those attempts was 49, but he could never break through the barrier of 50.
And the Regent Duke, when I tested him as a side experiment, never got above negative 70.
“For our dear Arelin, we’ve prepared something!”
“Tada!”
The Demon Twins pulled out a new Affinity Scanner.
“It’s a degraded version without master recognition, but we worked hard to track it down!”
“It was actually in the Sperom House treasure vault.”
“We traded with Dad for it!”
The Sperom House treasure vault supposedly had everything—and apparently it wasn’t just talk.
“You bought this?”
“It’s fun.”
“It’s exciting.”
Noel emphasized the point.
“We need to check our Affinity too.”
“Exactly!”
Noel and Ciel spoke seriously, but.
They obviously liked me anyway, so I wasn’t particularly invested in confirming the numbers. I was watching with apathy when a familiar light flashed and numbers appeared.
[♥77 Curiosity/Kinship]
“Oh…”
Why is it so high?
“My turn!”
Ciel got exactly 77 as well.
Were they showing the same number because they were twins?
“You like me that much?”
At my question, the Demon Twins’ expressions turned odd.
“It’s a fair question, but why does it feel bad.”
“Because Arelin only likes us about 36.”
“While we like you 77.”
“Is this thing broken?”
I couldn’t help but laugh at the Demon Twins’ complaint.
Those cute little things.

“So you hate me then?”
Tilting my head and asking back, the Demon Twins glanced at each other’s faces.
“Ciel, Arelin’s becoming brazen by the day.”
“Yeah. Wonder who taught her that.”
These ridiculous kids.
“Who else would it be? You two.”
“We messed up.”
“Reflecting on our sins!”
While I laughed at the Demon Twins’ self-reflection, the children of the Gathering gradually began to trickle in one by one.
“New kids are coming today.”
“Do you guys know anything about them?”
The atmosphere today felt bustling and excited, and I could sense it even through my skin that things wouldn’t settle down quickly.
Ah, I think today was the first day of the reorganization.
“Demon Twins, do you know who the new people are?”
I asked without any particular expectations, but these Demon Twins proved surprisingly competent.
“A bunch are coming, but the ones we remember…”
“Gremwat, some noble kid, and an apprentice mage from the Mage Tower, I think?”
An apprentice mage?
My eyes widened involuntarily.
‘Is this when the heroine joins the childhood friend gathering?’
Since I’d stopped paying attention to the story, I’d completely forgotten. The story details that I couldn’t even remember now—I tried to force them back into my mind in that instant.
“Huh, he’s here.”
Fession, the idol of the Gathering, entered alongside Harun.
And behind them came several new faces appearing for the first time.
While multiple children came in together, the one who caught my eye most was of course the heroine, Chloe.
‘Is this how it’s supposed to play out?’
I felt an ambiguous sensation—uncertain whether this familiar flow, following the story I knew, felt welcome or unsettling.
“Huh…?”
My eyes met with familiar eyes.
“…?”
At the sight of those gently curved eyes, I barely managed to hold back a gasp of shock.
Wait, what is he doing here?!

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