Male Lead Is Obsessed With My Health - Chapter 184

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Chapter 184

On the road to the Magic Tower.
Chloe kept tilting her head, muttering, “Is this really the right thing to do?”
‘……Master said she’d naturally welcome her and even asked me to bring her by all means.’
Thinking of the Magic Tower’s sudden eagerness—so different from its usual tight closure to outsiders—and Arelin’s typical indifference to everything, the situation felt bewildering.
In truth, Chloe had been receiving requests from the Star-Ranked Mages of the Magic Tower for some time now.
All of it had begun after Chloe grew closer to Arelin and built rapport with her.
Somehow word had spread, and the Star-Ranked Mages descended all the way to the lower levels, offering Chloe bribes.

“Please, do invite Miss Arelin to the Magic Tower.”
“An invitation—!”

Even as a child, Chloe had decided never to show Arelin to these mad people…….
‘How did things come to this?’
Arelin was delighted.
“The Magic Tower! I’ve been so curious about it!”
“R-really?”
“Yeah. I was actually wondering how I’d get in, but for it to work out this easily! Life really is all about connections and luck.”
“……?”
“Being the heroine has its perks.”
“……?”
Arelin occasionally muttered things Chloe couldn’t understand, but she assumed it was just something peculiar to nobility and let it slide.
Fession and the Twins had their own strange behaviors too, after all.
“I have no idea.”

* * *

The Magic Tower.
The Star-Ranked Mages were in a frenzy.
“Miss Arelin is coming to the Magic Tower!”
“Woooooah!”
The mages had no intention of showing only the Magic Tower itself. They’d show her the Sky Tower too, and the research labs, and the indoor gardens—
They’d display the very essence of the Magic Tower!
And make her want to come back!
The mages wanted to dramatically boost Arelin’s favorable impression of the Magic Tower.
“The atmosphere’s been gloomy lately anyway, what with all these Apostates causing trouble inside and out.”
“Those Apostate bastards are mages too, yet they have no conscience! Using other people’s lives like that—do they have no shame?”
“That’s why they became Apostates in the first place. They don’t understand the beauty of magic. They call themselves Dark Mages among themselves, I hear?”
“Ugh, Dark Mages? What’s that about?”
The “Nightmare of Stars,” the mages’ natural enemies whom they feared most, had been quiet, but recently—starting from the terror incidents—the activities of Apostates had become noticeably more frequent.
And Arelin’s midday recital had been suspended because of it all. How that had grieved them.
“So, should we do some cleaning outside?”
“Better to be safe than sorry, don’t you think?”
“Ugh, I don’t want to miss this.”
They decided on the “cleaning duty” roster in the fairest way possible.
Rock-paper-scissors, of course.
As winners and losers were decided and fates diverged, many of the fortunate ones faced a dilemma about how to receive Arelin.
“She’s just a child, so we should be considerate, right?”
“First impressions matter.”
“What about this?!”
“Wow!”
The bear character that’s been popular with children lately!
“Good, good—let’s go with this.”
The mages transformed in an instant into various animal characters.
“She’s here!”
The Red-haired Mage, Robert, who had been tracking Arelin’s location through his student Chloe, announced her arrival.
“Everyone, prepare!”
The mages conjured falling flower petals with magic, set paper birds and all manner of elaborate decorations floating through the hall, and with their best effort conjured a “fantasy world” as they nervously watched the door.
Creeeeak.
The moment the Magic Tower’s door swung open—the kind that opened automatically when visitors arrived—
Bang—!
「★☆Welcome to Arelin’s Visit to the Magic Tower☆★」
Confetti exploded as a banner descended with perfect timing.
“……?”
Witnessing this entire spectacle, Arelin’s pupils trembled finely in confusion.

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Was this the Magic Tower, or some fantasy theme park?
She rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn’t seeing things, but the Magic Tower’s bizarre landscape didn’t change.
Could this possibly be an everyday occurrence in the Magic Tower?
Glancing to the side, Chloe couldn’t hide her confusion either, her mouth hanging open.
Right. She wasn’t the only one who found this strange.
“…….”
“…….”
Everyone had transformed into animal characters—with disturbingly realistic makeup at that—and were just staring at her without a word of greeting. It felt overwhelming.
What on earth was this atmosphere……?
“Um…… hello?”
She greeted them in a small, faltering voice.
“Welcome!”
“We’ve been waiting for you!”
“Welcome!!!”
“Congratulations, Arelin, on entering the Magic Tower.”
Greetings erupted from all sides as if they’d been holding them back.
What was that? Were they trying to assert dominance a moment ago?
Was that the mage way of taking the initiative……?
This was all a misunderstanding stemming from her ignorance of the secret agreement between her father and the mages—that mages could not speak to Arelin except in special cases—a fact she would not discover until the distant future.
“Come, come this way. Let me show you the Magic Tower!”
This third clause’s loophole was that mages could converse freely once Arelin herself initiated conversation, which meant all the mages who had always wanted to talk to her suddenly chattered away like a dam bursting.
She was swept along as if caught in a storm, and when she came to her senses, she was already heading toward the Sky Tower after finishing the tour of the Magic Tower.
“The Sky Tower can only be ascended by mages chosen by the Stars…….”
“But Miss Arelin is special, so we’ll have ten or more Star-Ranked Mages consent and grant her temporary access!”
The Sky Tower they ascended to was indeed magnificent enough for the mages to boast about.
“Wow…….”
Clouds visible below.
Not an ocean view, not a city view, but a cloud view. She’d heard in her past life that you could sometimes see this kind of view from ultra-high buildings…….
“I never thought I’d see it here.”
Lost in the view outside, she noticed the mages exchanging meaningful glances before they began speaking.
“When the Sky Tower ascends even higher, the scenery becomes even more magnificent. Someday I’d love to show it to Miss Arelin.”
“It’s just a shame we can’t show her right now, isn’t it?”
“……?”
At the stilted remark—almost like reading from a textbook—she tilted her head, and the mages stirred with muttered complaints: “Get him out of here,” “Ugh,” before sending the speaker far away.
……What on earth was happening around me?
A mage with a long white beard—whom she’d seen enough times now to recognize his face—asked her. His name was Hege, wasn’t it?
“Is there anything you’ve been curious about regarding the Magic Tower, or something you’d like to know?”
“The formula for making Elixirs.”
“……?”
Laughter erupted from all directions.
“Miss Arelin certainly tells good jokes.”
Why would they assume it was a joke?
“I’m serious. I came here precisely because I wanted to know—the Elixir formula.”
“Ha-ha-ha, that’s entertaining.”
“Heh. A joke worthy of a mage, and from someone who isn’t even one. Truly, you live up to the title of our Star-Ranked Mages’ savior.”
What were these old fools talking about?
Meanwhile, Chloe had abandoned her and was holding her mentor’s hand, wandering into her own world as they toured the Sky Tower.
“Master, what is that?”
“Ah, that was… some strange research result Jemelo developed.”
Hey, female lead character?
Fine. As long as you’re happy.
“You’re a Special Ability User, aren’t you? It seems Miss Arelin has no magical talent?”
“Not a single Mana Stone is reacting.”
“That’s odd though—didn’t she enter the Secret Room? How is that possible without Mana Affinity?”
“Exactly. Maybe she has some other ability we don’t know about…….”
I can hear you. I can hear every word.
The chatter from behind reached her ears clearly.
Mages seemed weak when it came to considerate conduct, probably from being buried in research all the time.
‘So I have no Mana Affinity.’
Her plan to survive by becoming a Grand Mage after becoming a Sword Master was scrapped.
This rotten world!
Only the talented can survive!
What am I, an ordinary person, supposed to do?!
“But what is this Music Box?”
“Gaaah, hide it!”
“We absolutely cannot let her find out!”
It seemed like Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz of the Flowers” from The Nutcracker Suite—the eighth piece—was playing faintly from the Music Box, but that must have been her imagination.
“H-how about I show you some magic?!”
“Yes?”
A mage who introduced himself as Raul, apparently flustered, hastily made the offer.
Mages who despised being treated like performers were now volunteering to show magic?
Had they all taken some kind of drug?
The mages were behaving so differently from what she knew that she found herself at a loss.
Or was she wrong? Maybe what she knew was correct, and they were just being considerate because she was young?
“Well, allow me to demonstrate magic’s brilliance.”
Rather than that, the Elixir formula…….
Still clinging to her original purpose for coming to the Magic Tower, she tilted her head as she watched the Spell Formula drawn in the air.
“This is how you do it.”
Wait? She could read the Spell Formula.
Why? Because she knew Celron Language?
Somehow, she sensed how that Spell Formula worked, what principle caused the phenomenon.
“Could I do that too?”
“Hm? The Floating Light is Basic Magic and looks simple, but magic fundamentally requires Mana Affinity and talent…….”
“Is it like this?”
A bright light rose gently into the air.
“?”
“?”
“??????”
It was at that moment she was inadvertently collecting the shocked expressions of the mages.
[The brightest star blesses you.]
“???”
The light she had created swelled to an enormous size.

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