Male Lead Is Obsessed With My Health - Chapter 35

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Episode 35

Fession reached out his hand.
Arelin, who had been right beside him, shoved him away and vanished.
Space warped and rippled.
The dissonance, gone in an instant.
“―Young Master!”
Fession stared blankly at his empty hand, then turned at the familiar voice calling his name.
“Griham.”
“Young Master, are you all right?!”
Griham had shifted to a more formal address out of awareness for onlookers, but his deferential manner remained unchanged.
Fession continued to stare down at his own hand in a daze.
“Young Master, what on earth has happened?!”
Around the two of them, other children and their guardians had gathered, asking after one another’s well-being.
“Griham, what happened? Tell me.”
“Ah. Well, all of the Image Recording Devices that had been installed in the guardians’ quarters suddenly broke and became inoperable, and apparently the magic warding the entire Mansion malfunctioned as well. The mage in charge was so frantic that I’m afraid I don’t have the full details, but…….”
“A malfunction?”
“Yes, so we came out ourselves to search for the children. It’s fortunate, at least. That nothing has happened to you.”
Griham released a breath of relief. Fession could not agree.
“Arelin is still in there, though.”
“What do you mean?”
Mehehn, who had approached without warning, asked with a face gone pale.

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“Mmm…….”
I opened my eyes to the cold bite of chill against my cheek.
“Ugh…….”
When I came to, I was sprawled alone in a corridor.
Let me think. So I saw space twist, I pushed Fession away, and then……
“Did I get caught up in it?”
The Mansion’s surroundings remained unchanged.
Still ominous and eerie.
“……I’m done for.”
The space twisted in a strange, grotesque manner.
Even though it was supposedly the same place as before, it felt utterly different.
When I was with Fession, there was at least some sense of safety, but now……
“One wrong turn and I could lose my head.”
I looked around.
Had the positions changed too?
“Where am I now?”
Outside, darkness had fallen so completely I couldn’t see a hand’s breadth ahead.
The Mansion without a single light felt like a haunted house, emanating an indescribable dread and oppression.
Many things were different. The fixtures were gone, the decorations had changed, and……
Whoosh―
I couldn’t feel the warmth of another person, but I sensed frantic movement.
The kind I absolutely should not encounter.
“Sigh.”
When lost, I’d been taught to stay put and wait.
I wanted nothing more than to do exactly that, but a terrible premonition warned that something wandering about would find me, and the outcome would be anything but good.
‘At least the layout is the same.’
A small mercy?
I was carefully making my way through the Mansion when it happened.
Shhh―
Shhh―
From the direction where I’d played hide-and-seek with Fession.
A strange sound came from that direction. With a world-weary certainty that I absolutely should not go there, I muffled my breath and began backing away
“!”
Something flickered across the gap between corridors for just an instant, and I gasped, backpedaling without even breathing.
‘What on earth was that?!’
My mind refused to process what I’d seen, and terror made me want to understand it even less.
It was certain now.
For reasons unknown, this Mansion was surrounded by mines on all sides.
“No……”
Why must I endure this trial?
Shouldn’t Fession be the one facing this? Why am I the one paying the price?
With perfectly reasonable suspicion, I moved toward the safest places I could find.
I didn’t know the paths, but my world-weary instincts reliably warned me which places to avoid—and for that, at least, I was grateful.
If they hadn’t, I’d already be dead.
‘Can I actually get out of here?’
After what felt like hours of wandering, my body grew tired, yet the Mansion remained as sinister as before.
Had I ever felt such a strong premonition that my life was spiraling into an abyss?
Something was going terribly wrong.
That was when I realized it.
Thud.
Footsteps I should not have heard.
My body froze.
‘W-what is it?’
I stopped and held my breath.
“You.”
My eyes met a pair of golden orbs, luminous even in the darkness, set in pupils narrowed into vertical slits.
“Can you see me?”
……I had met a spirit.

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“We have to find Arelin!”
Griham, who had been relieved that even the Crown Prince had returned safely, found himself in a difficult position before Fession’s stubborn insistence.
Their troubles were not limited to the Crown Prince alone. True adversity lay elsewhere.
“Where is the Barrier Officer for the Mansion? And where is the Safety Administrator?”
Every visitor except Fession and Griham was sent away, and Sharit Street was sealed off by Halbern.
It had all happened within three hours, as soon as Mehehn took charge.
“P-please, let’s take a moment to calm down…….”
The Mage Tower and the Paral Trie Clan had both rushed out in shock at the sudden accident, but their efforts to restrain the coldly deliberate Mehehn proved futile.
“Did the Mage Tower properly complete the Barrier stability inspection? Looking at the records from the year 1654 of the previous era, I notice several gaps in the stability inspection logs. If you cannot account for these, I will refer the matter to the Bregeminmin.”
“N-no, there were circumstances beyond our control……!”
“Lord Mehehn, please calm yourself and drink some tea.”
“While reviewing the Paral Trie Clan’s financial statements, I discovered some quite interesting discrepancies. The estimated revenue from Sharit Street doesn’t align with certain entries. I’m certain His Majesty would find this fascinating.”
“……Why are you doing this to me?!”
In that brief span, Mehehn had obtained and reviewed all accumulated records of Sharit Street spanning decades, and smiled pleasantly.
Both the Mage Tower’s branch mages and the Clan head were ready to tear their hair out.
“Halbern will not let this matter pass quietly. The Mage Tower and the Paral Trie Clan must provide proper justification for this incident.”
“But this wasn’t our fault!”
“We’re doing everything we can!”
“I haven’t finished my statement.”
Mehehn’s gaze turned glacial.
“That was only if the young lady returns safely. If anything happens to her…….”
Gulp.
Someone’s audible swallow echoed through the chamber.
“……You had better be prepared.”
At this pronouncement of bloodshed to come, the mage and clan head, suddenly feeling the fire at their feet, began striking their subordinates in panic.
“Do something, now!”
“W-we’re doing our best!”
“Anything! Do you want to die by Master’s hand?!”
The scene of enthusiastic admonishment from above continued when it happened.
“W-wait, what—?!”
Crackle―
A mage who had been working on the Barrier surrounding the Mansion came running over, having realized something.
“What is it, Jenga!”
“Lord Ansen, well…….”
“What is it?!”
“While examining the Barrier installed in the Mansion, I detected a Mana Repulsion Phenomenon! Because it seemed so unusual…….”
“A Mana Repulsion Phenomenon?”
Mage Ansen spread his own mana directly to test the Mansion’s Barrier. The mana resonating with the Barrier suddenly rebounded at some point.
Crackle.
“―!”
Ansen’s eyes widened as if he’d understood something.
“I believe there must be an overlapping Barrier in the Mansion that we’re unaware of.”
“What do you mean?”
Mehehn, summoned by this new development, narrowed his brow.
“That is, even if Barriers are of the same type, you cannot layer them. And even if you could, their power or effect wouldn’t double.”
“Never mind the details. Just tell me the essential point.”
“Well, the thing is, it seems the Mansion’s Phase has been split into two.”
“Speak plainly.”
Mage Ansen looked aggrieved at being asked to explain further. He sighed and continued.
“To put it simply, this single location called the ‘Mansion’ appears to have two completely different worlds overlapping in the same Phase.”
Mehehn’s expression hardened.
“In other words.”
“It appears the young lady Arelin is trapped in the other world of this Mansion.”
Sparks flickered in Mehehn’s eyes.
Arelin was trapped?

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