Male Lead Is Obsessed With My Health - Chapter 187

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Chapter 187

The interior of the automobile was far more spacious than it appeared from outside.
This was all thanks to Mana Engineering’s prized Internal Expansion Magic, and thanks to that, even with Mehren and me plus the entire Childcare Unit, there was still plenty of room.
“Wow, the inside is even better.”
“How many different spells are actually used here?”
“Right? Impact Prevention, Vibration Prevention, Noise Blocking, Automatic Temperature and Humidity Control…… it’s just layered with magic on top of magic.”
Watching the excited chatter of the Childcare Unit, I found myself thinking of those mages who had been so confident that when this automobile entered the world, it would turn everything upside down.
“What do you think, Mother? Do you think this could really turn the world on its head?”
“Well, it seems like it could certainly overturn Albrecht’s world.”
Mehren chuckled and ruffled my hair.
“When Sperom House was going on about how this was a transportation revolution, a new symbol of wealth and all that…… I thought it was just that level of thing.”
Mehren’s eyes narrowed. I laughed at the sharp, calculating look in his gaze.
“I wish Father were here to see this.”
…….
“Ah, Father really should have seen this.”
Mehren’s expression crumpled at once.
“Where do you think Father is right now? Do you know, Mehren?”
“Who knows. He’s probably off somewhere making a mess of things as usual.”
I burst out laughing at Mehren’s blunt words. Well, so much for Father’s favorability rating.
Strangely, this moment felt both joyful and unfamiliar.
Though I’d acquired several Magical Artifacts from the Magic Tower, unfortunately none of them contained an Elixir formula.
Even if one had, I probably couldn’t have made it anyway.
[Currently Active Blessings:
-Power of Sleeping Sloth
-???’s Power (Temporary)]
My Status Window remained unchanged.
I stared at the word “temporary” and let my thoughts drift.
Chaeyen wouldn’t do me another kindness like this, so once that blessing wore off, I’d probably be bedridden again, wouldn’t I?
There was still so much I wanted to do.
I needed to visit the secret archive and grab Mac by the collar, I wanted to see the automobile test drive that Sperom would be hosting soon, and I wanted to see when El Sionel was completed.
And Fession…….
‘The mages did promise they’d find a way to treat him.’
But I couldn’t hang all my hopes on that alone. Besides, I was an extraordinarily practical person.
If there was no clear way to cure my illness, wouldn’t it be better to do what I could while I still could?
My previous life had taught me that in the end, all that remained were memories.
A violin duet matched with Mother, the fish-cake pastry Father bought me, the ocean I watched on rare occasions for a change of pace.
Moments that hadn’t seemed so profound at the time now comforted me.
When I tugged at his sleeve and pulled, Mehren turned to look at me. I gazed into his questioning pale green eyes and smiled.
“Let’s take a trip.”
“A trip, you say?”
“Yes. A trip.”
Suddenly I yearned to see the ocean.
“…… I’ve never been.”
The last outing I’d taken with Mehren was to Sharit. Mehren’s expression clouded over in an instant, and he gazed at me with tender ache.
“Let’s go on a trip.”
At his immediate, unhesitating answer, I broke into a wide smile.
“Let’s go by car!”
“But who’s going to drive it?”
At the reasonable question Mehren raised, everyone’s eyes fixed on one person: Ben, a professional with thirty years of experience driving Halbern carriages, bowed deeply.
“Just give me three months!”
* * *
We decided to take our trip without the automobile after all.
Or so we thought.
“Ether…….”
Hum-hum.
“There’s no point pretending. What are you doing right now?”
Why was I sensing the familiar aura of Ether in my automobile?
Hum-hum-hum.
“Don’t tell me you’re not doing it. You can even lie? Did you forget that I sense your aura just as you sense mine?”
Ever since I first saw the automobile’s design, Ether had been coveting it, but I never expected it to go this far.
It kept pestering me to let it swallow just one.
“How did you even manage this? Wait, you’re a weapon in the first place.”
In my hand, Ether took the form of a Violin, but strictly speaking, it was a weapon.
But an automobile as a weapon…….
“I only have one automobile, so what are you thinking swallowing it?”
Hum-hum!
Ether asserted itself powerfully, proclaiming the advantages that came from it consuming the automobile.
“You’re saying you’ll drive it for me instead……?”
That might…… actually be good.
* * *
“Wow, so an automobile can do this too!”
“Moving without a driver!”
At the Childcare Unit girls’ pure amazement, I felt strangely out of place.
No, it’s this thing that’s the weird one.
Mehren marveled as well.
“Is magic really capable of something like this?”
“Well…… I suppose.”
Ether was made with magic too, so in that sense, it was similar.
The automobile, which had nearly gone unused for lack of a driver, now smoothly raced across unpaved roads.
The world’s first autonomous driving magical automobile.
I’d managed to realize something that modern humanity could only dream of in this other world.
Hum-hum-hum!
Ether rumbled happily, amazed by this sense of speed it was experiencing for the first time.
Noisy creature.
* * *
Ether was absolutely thrilled with its current form. It had coveted it from the first sight, but actually transforming into it was even more exhilarating.
“Oh, someone’s coming!”
“Customers! Everyone to work.”
“Should we strip them today too?”
The roads of this world were not safe. Bandits, having forcibly seized a section of the road to avoid patrols maintaining order, waited for today’s victims to rob them.
“Huh? That thing has no horses, but how is it moving?”
“But it’s going really fast, isn’t it?”
“It’s already here?”
The bandits, who had gradually assembled from the moment they caught sight of it from a distance, found themselves bewildered by the automobile’s swift approach before they’d even fully gathered their numbers.
Moreover.
“It’s coming? It’s just…… coming?”
“Ahhh!”
The automobile did not stop.
The hesitant bandits eventually fled just before impact.
Watching the automobile speed past, the bandits stared dumbfounded.
The automobile had already vanished from sight.
Ether felt disappointed. These were long-lived bandits. If they’d kept blocking the road, it would have just plowed through them.
Then a new danger appeared before Ether.
Grrrowl.
A wild monster!
The monster, lacking intelligence and driven only by instinct, lunged at the automobile the moment it saw it.
If it had been a normal carriage, the horses would have panicked and passage would have been impossible.
ROOOOOAR!
Ether accelerated even further.
Bang!
The beast that lunged fearlessly was struck and knocked over. The automobile passed through without a tremor.
Even as all this happened, the interior remained perfectly comfortable—Arelin slept nestled against Mehren, while the Childcare Unit and attendants played cards.
Whenever we passed through forests or across plains, one or two monsters would always attach themselves, but the automobile never stopped.
Ensuring user safety, eliminating threatening enemies—the perfect weapon capable of both!
Hum-hum-hum!
Ether thought to itself: it had truly obtained the greatest weapon.
* * *
Our destination was Sagret, a seaside tourist city located north of the Capital, reflecting my wish to see the ocean.
Though it was a tourist city without a Warp Gate, requiring a Mana Train, we had the automobile and arrived quickly.
“Six hours—about an hour faster than when we took the Mana Train.”
“Well, we didn’t stop at any other stations.”
Everyone seemed satisfied with their first automobile trip.
Though I slept the entire way.
“……?”
But isn’t the automobile a bit…… dirty?
Or am I imagining things?
“Let’s eat! Food!”
“I hear Sagret’s grilled fish is delicious. Should we try the lobster too?”
“They say the Grimeul Soup is amazing—we have to eat some before we leave!”
Uni and Rena excitedly flipped through tourist pamphlets, shouting one thing after another.
Mehren was busy inspecting a certain noble’s summer villa that we’d rented instead of a hotel.
“……Huh?”
The moment I entered the lobby, a familiar balance scale emblem caught my eye.
The noble who owned this place was Sperom?
Something about this felt ominous.
While I stared at the Sperom crest, the Childcare Unit engaged in heated debate about where they should take me sightseeing.
“They say the best view of the Sebiru Bridge is from here.”
“The city view from this hill is supposed to be absolutely beautiful.”
“Come on, let’s hurry! Miss!”
Why were they all so excited?
Childcare without vacation must have been exhausting. I struggled to match the elevated energy of the surprisingly enthusiastic Childcare Unit today.
“I’ll catch up later—I have some things to attend to…… eh?”
“You can do that later!”
I grabbed Mehren’s arm and pulled.
“Well, here I thought I’d never live to see the day you’d scold me, Arelin.”
“If you’re here on vacation, you have to enjoy it!”
“Of course, so what should we do for fun?”
…….
Even I, who rarely had time to play, couldn’t muster much imagination on the subject.
Since I said nothing, Mehren smiled gently and suggested.
“How about we get something to eat first?”
“Sure.”
What do people do for fun anyway?
I was freshly shocked by my own question.
The only things I could think of were eating delicious food and seeing beautiful, pleasant things!
“What do people actually do when they play?”
I looked to Mehren for help, but—
“Even I’m not entirely sure, I’m afraid.”
Ah, this man was a workaholic too.

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