The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 132

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Episode 132

I stared into his eyes that held my reflection completely, then clenched my fist once more with determination.

“Alright! I’ll make sure no one but Lionel can covet the place beside me.”

Isn’t fate originally something you carve out with your own hands?

Let’s go for it!

“But Liri. Wouldn’t it be better for you to remain here?”

“Huh? Why? Are you worried about both the lord and lady leaving their posts?”

“There are trustworthy people, so the estate isn’t a concern. However, there seem to be more than a few people who would try to use you—or more precisely, your oracle—so I think this place, far from the capital, would be safer.”

It was certainly a reasonable point.

It might be fine for now, but once the fact that I’m the real owner of the oracle is revealed, I’ll become the eye of the storm.

Thinking about getting swept up in that chaos, it would definitely be better to stay at the estate until everything is over, but…

“Still, I want to be by your side.”

The Former Empress always only cherished the first son and neglected the second. Even at the moment Lionel pulls down the Emperor, the Former Empress will shield the Emperor and condemn Lionel.

I didn’t want to leave Lionel alone at that time. Whatever the Former Empress might say, I wanted to cover Lionel’s ears with my own hands, telling him those words weren’t worth hearing. I wanted to let him know that he too has someone who cherishes him.

So.

“You can’t leave me behind and go alone. Got it?”

“If that is your will.”

Lionel nodded as if he had no intention of going against my wishes.

I nodded along with a satisfied expression.

“Then it’s decided.”

“Yes.”

Then this time for sure…

‘Let’s really go for it!’

To become Empress!

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Since we decided to go to the capital, there were things that needed to be done.

From the simple task of packing, to handing over responsibilities for household affairs, estate management, and Magic Item Crafting Academy matters to people who would handle them while I was away at the capital.

Fortunately, since the main tower of the Frost Tower had moved here and Master was present, along with the newly befriended mages, entrusting the Magic Item Crafting Academy wasn’t difficult.

“In exchange, please give us this much more monster materials.”

“That’s… That’s…! Ugh, I have no choice. Fine.”

While we were at it, the mages also agreed to help with the reconstruction of the North Mountain Range gateway that Lionel was working on. More precisely, to guard against monsters from beyond the North Mountain Range crossing over.

It was good for the mages because they could hunt monsters and obtain materials for magic item crafting and magical research, and good for the workers building the new gateway because they didn’t have to worry about monster threats.

As for other business ventures—expanding the magic item market to increase merchant visits and accepting immigrants—since this was just beginning, I wanted to entrust it to someone I could definitely trust.

I thought Sister was the right person for that.

“You want to entrust it to me? Get lost, do I look like I’d mess it up?”

“Why are you saying that already? Have more faith in your abilities, Sister! Maybe you could do well.”

“No? I don’t trust myself. And I don’t want to be good at estate management and stuff like that. If you entrust it to me? I might cross the North Mountain Range and never come back.”

“I know you’re not that irresponsible, Sister.”

“Right, right. This sister is overflowing with responsibility. In that sense, I’m thinking of following you when you go to the capital.”

“What?”

“This sister knows everything there is to know. Don’t think about leaving me behind. I’ll chase after you no matter what happens.”

Sister was adamant. She declared quite boldly that she would never accept heavy responsibilities like acting lord, and if I tried to dump that on her, she too would dump it on someone else and run away.

And the Northern Knights felt the same way.

“Please take us too! We are one body with His Highness the Second Prince!”

“Leaving us behind would be no different from a knight going to territorial war without his sword…”

“Kreung!”

“Krieg! Let’s join forces! Let’s cling to His Highness’s feet together and ask to be taken along… Huh? Where are you going?”

The Northern Knights didn’t know it yet, but Krieg’s trip to the capital had already been decided.

It was because Lionel had bestowed upon Krieg the important mission of being my escort.

“Are you taking the Northern Knights too?”

“No. They must guard this place.”

While the lord is away, if the lord’s knights don’t guard the estate, who will guard it?

At those words, the Northern Knights unpacked all the luggage they had prepared and carried on their backs. They were happy, thinking Lionel had finally recognized them as knights.

“Don’t worry about the duchy, my lord!”

“No matter what happens, we will protect this land.”

“This time for sure, even if we sacrifice our lives!”

Because they usually only showed such frivolous behavior, the Northern Knights had a strong image in my mind like neighborhood early morning soccer club uncles.

So this time, seeing them strengthen their resolve with words like sacrificing their lives, I felt strange.

“I don’t think it will come to that, but even if a dangerous situation arises, please prioritize your own lives.”

“That’s absolutely impossible.”

“We are people who have already failed to protect once. We don’t want to survive dishonorably twice.”

“But wouldn’t the moment my husband desperately needs your help be when he’s old? If there’s no one to protect my husband when he becomes a white-haired old man, it would be too difficult…”

“Me, me! I’ll also become a white-haired old man and stay by His Highness the Second Prince’s side!”

“I’ll guard His Highness the Second Prince’s side even if all my hair falls out and I become bald!”

“I’m counting on all of you!”

Unlike Lionel, who is so strong that he doesn’t really need the knights’ help right now, a white-haired old Lionel who would need others’ help seemed to be the ideal lord for them as knights.

The Northern Knights looked so happy imagining scenes of protecting Lionel and grinning, that I decided not to say the mean thing about how by the time Lionel is old and weak, they’ll be equally old and weak too.

“Let’s see, I’ve handled almost everything… Now there’s one thing left.”

“What is it?”

“It’s nothing major. I just want to try contacting Ruda once more.”

“Contact? …Won’t you lose consciousness then?”

“Probably.”

And with high probability, I’ll dream of another scene from the novel.

As if I had become the ‘female protagonist in the novel.’

“When I contact Ruda, I have these really… amazing dreams, you know? I want to have that dream once more.”

“What exactly do you mean by amazing dreams?”

“Hmm, I’ll tell you after I have it.”

If there’s nothing important, I’ll just brush it off, but if I see something important, I should let him know.

‘The novel’s plot and our reality have become completely different, but… just in case.’

“Even if I don’t regain consciousness for several days again, don’t be surprised, and if Sister or Master comes looking, just make some excuse about being busy.”

“Understood.”

Good, then let’s go right away.

“Ruda. Are you ready?”

“Peep!”

Ruda, whose belly had become plump from eating lots of cookies, tapped it with his wing and flew up into the air.

I sat on the bed in preparation for losing consciousness and falling, then stretched both hands toward Ruda.

“Come here, Ruda!”

“Peeep!”

With Ruda flying energetically into my arms as the last thing I remembered, I lost consciousness as expected.

And I had a dream.

A scene I couldn’t recall at all, presumably from the novel’s ending.

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