The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 130

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Episode 130

“Is, is that really true? That the Grand Duchess is the real owner of that oracle?”

“It’s all my fault. I had no choice but to save Nicole…”

“You call that an excuse! Even if it was to save a life, there are lies you can tell and lies you cannot! How dare you steal the fate arranged by God!”

“Please help us, Your Holiness. If you don’t help us, Nicole will surely die…”

“She will die! She’ll die from divine punishment!”

Even looking through ancient scriptures, there had never been a single case of someone falsely claiming God’s oracle as their own.

How would anyone dare to do such a thing? Whatever the content of the oracle, it would eventually be exposed.

That’s how astounding what Nicole had done was, what Seige had covered up for her.

“Nicole aside. Let’s say she was in a life-threatening situation and spoke lies without knowing. But how could you cover it up by lying about being her birth mother!”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry…”

“You should have told me the truth at least! If you had done that…”

If he had known this fact before Nicole became Empress, that is, before Cayen became Emperor. If he had known that the oracle about becoming Empress belonged to Cecilia.

The Pope would have been certain that Lionel’s supreme position, who was engaged to Cecilia, was not the papal seat but the imperial throne.

Then on the day of the former Emperor’s funeral, he would have revealed all the truth to prevent Cayen from ascending to the throne and allow Lionel to sit on the imperial throne.

The reason he had hesitated despite knowing the former Emperor’s will was because he didn’t know whether Lionel’s oracle, the supreme position God had arranged for him, was Emperor or Pope.

‘But now it’s too late…’

…Is it too late?

No. It was something that could still be reversed even now.

Lionel had said it. If Cecilia wanted to become Empress, he would ascend to the throne. The will to lead him to the throne and thus complete the fate God had arranged belonged to Cecilia.

‘It’s only a matter of time before the real owner of the oracle is revealed.’

For now, the Former Empress was silencing people, but how long would that last?

He had to act before the Former Empress tried to force the will of Cecilia, the real owner of the oracle.

Leading the fate God had arranged to its proper course was the duty the Pope bore as God’s servant.

“Seige.”

“Yes, yes, Your Holiness…”

“Nicole now belongs to the Imperial Family, not the Temple, so there’s nothing I can do for her.”

“How can you say such heartless words… Didn’t Your Holiness watch that young child grow up right beside you!”

“You call that an excuse now? It’s too late to cover her with affection. Even if Nicole safely leaves the Imperial Palace, that child must face a religious trial!”

It was unprecedented.

But hadn’t she stolen the fate God had bestowed for personal purposes?

If Nicole faced a religious trial, she would surely receive the maximum sentence. The punishment of going to the Barren Land and spending her life only praying to God.

Unlike the past when she was unjustly exiled due to false accusations by her parents, this time it would be due to sins she committed herself.

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In the Frost Duchy, Lionel’s main duty was to rebuild the gateway to the Northern Mountain Range while crossing over to hunt monsters beyond the mountains, and Cecilia’s main duty was to go around Frost Castle caring for the estate’s people.

Geographically, the two people’s main activities were completely separated. Because of this, they rarely met during weekday afternoons.

Moreover, when Lionel crossed over to the Northern Mountain Range to camp, the days without seeing each other’s faces would extend to two or three days.

Of course, since Ruda was always by Lionel’s side, the two could converse whenever they wanted, but this was quite different from actually meeting.

So Cecilia established one rule. It was the first rule established in the Frost Duchy, which still had only the two of them.

“One day a week, we must spend time together! How about it?”

“Exactly what kind of time do you mean?”

“Anything is fine. If work is piled up, we can work together, or we can go on a picnic somewhere, take a nap together, read books, or go out to the village and look around the streets. Anyway, the important thing is that we’re together. Do you understand what I mean?”

“Yes. I understand.”

A month after the first rule was established. The two people finished their meal early today as well and left the manor together.

Knowing that Lionel and Cecilia enjoyed going out alone once a week, neither maids nor attendants, nor even guards followed them.

The only beings who could accompany their private outings were just two. Krieg and Ruda.

The two people who deliberately brought Krieg went to a deserted area of the Northern Mountain Range and released the transformation magic cast on Krieg.

“Kreung!”

“Shh, shh. If someone hears, it’ll be trouble, so you have to keep your voice down. Got it?”

“Kreung.”

“Good. Run to your heart’s content, Krieg!”

“Ruda, do you want to go together too?”

“Peep!”

While Krieg, who had returned to his original form, ran through the mountains with Ruda on his head, Cecilia climbed the mountain with Lionel, collecting herbs and mushrooms she had never seen before.

It would be good if they could cultivate them for the estate people’s food, and even better if they could sell them to other regions.

Even if not, they could send them to the Tower of Magic for research materials, so there was nothing to lose.

“Let me see… Wow! The scenery here is beautiful! We can spread a picnic blanket here and eat our lunch. Right?”

“That sounds good.”

While Lionel chose a flat area and spread the picnic blanket, Cecilia lit a magic stove and opened their lunch boxes.

When the two had leisurely eaten about half their lunch, Krieg and Ruda returned.

“Did you both have fun playing? Let’s eat!”

“Kreung.”

“Peep!”

After Krieg and Ruda also finished eating their fill, Cecilia said to Lionel.

“Then I’ll go fly around a bit too.”

“Don’t fly too high.”

“You always say that. Don’t worry, I’ll be careful and come back!”

Cecilia, who transferred her consciousness to Ruda, fluttered up into the sky and began flying high.

Lionel, who was looking up worriedly at that sight, tidied up Cecilia’s limp body and held her while leaning against the back of Krieg, who was lying down.

“Kreung…”

Krieg, who yawned long as if Lionel’s weight wasn’t particularly heavy, lowered his head onto his two neatly folded front paws.

The fact that Krieg, whose sense of smell and hearing were both developed, was relaxing like this meant there was nothing threatening nearby. Knowing this fact well, Lionel could entrust his back to Krieg.

But unlike Krieg, who had completely relaxed, Lionel maintained appropriate tension while resting his cheek against Cecilia’s head.

“Liri.”

Since she was unconscious, no answer came back even when he called her name. All Lionel could do was wait for Cecilia to open her eyes.

However, Lionel had never once thought this waiting was boring or anxious.

Because he knew she would eventually open her eyes in his arms.

Waiting for someone who would definitely return was more enjoyable than expected.

Lionel fiddled with Cecilia’s fingertips or hair while occasionally looking up at the sky.

But then, something in Lionel’s pocket began to vibrate.

The crystal orb, smaller than his fist, was a communication crystal sphere that Cecilia had specially made for use even while traveling.

-Master. This is Fry.

“What’s the matter?”

-There’s a lot to report. First… do you remember when I told you a few days ago that the Imperial Family launched a full investigation into the Roheim Family and all businesses related to Roheim?

“Yes. Did you find out the reason?”

-Yes. It seems the Former Empress, who discovered the real owner of the oracle, is trying to take Duke and Duchess Roheim hostage to threaten Your Highness.

Lionel’s eyes grew cold.

“How was the fact that Liri is the real owner of the oracle revealed?”

-This took a while to figure out, but it seems an alchemist recently entered the Imperial Palace.

Fry informed him that the Former Empress had secretly brought an alchemist into the Imperial Palace to examine the Emperor.

In that process, the fact that Nicole was an alchemist was revealed and she was confined by the Former Empress.

-Rumors that Nicole’s real identity is the daughter of Count and Countess Racal and that there’s a separate real owner of the oracle are secretly spreading. The Former Empress is trying to silence people, but it seems it’s only a matter of time before it spreads completely. And…

“And?”

-The alchemist is treating the Emperor. While it’s impossible to detoxify the old poison, he seems to have recovered his health to some extent.

And in that process, Fry added an explanation that the identity of the medicine Nicole had been secretly making in the Empress’s Palace until recently, which she had fed to the Emperor, was revealed to be a ‘puppet brainwashing drug.’

-It seems Nicole fed that drug to the Emperor to make him make her Empress.

“…”

-It appears his health deteriorated rapidly recently due to the conflict between that drug and the toxins remaining in the Emperor’s body. His health improved again thanks to the new alchemist neutralizing that poison.

Lionel fell into thought while leaning against the giant wolf’s body.

After a moment. Opening his eyes, he lowered his head to look down at Cecilia in his arms.

“By old poison, do you mean the poison that the Former Empress consumed during the Count Racal incident?”

-Yes. That’s correct.

The reason the alchemist can’t neutralize that poison must be because they don’t know the recipe.

However, there was one person in the Imperial Palace who could neutralize that poison. Nicole.

“…You definitely said you had separately transcribed the recipe for that poison, right?”

-Yes.

“Create that poison and feed it to the Emperor.”

-What?

“Make his health deteriorate again to the point where he can’t appear at official events. So that the Former Empress becomes desperate enough to seek out Nicole.”

The Emperor won’t die from the poison anyway. But even so, the Former Empress won’t be able to stand watching the Emperor suffer.

If I make her recognize the necessity, the Former Empress won’t be able to easily ‘dispose of’ Nicole.

Whatever rumors are circulating outside, as long as she remains in the Imperial Palace as Empress, the Former Empress and Emperor won’t be able to easily bring Cecilia into the Imperial Palace.

“And you all… should always be prepared to occupy the Imperial Palace in case of an emergency situation.”

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