The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 133

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Episode 133

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I was sitting on the bed, swinging my legs back and forth while humming a tune.

A lullaby that Mother used to sing to me when I was little.

Bright sunlight was pouring through the small window mounted high on the wall, and though there was no one else in this spacious room but me, I found myself strangely compelled to keep humming lullabies.

“Ah… Done!”

I put the knitting needle I was holding and the remaining yarn into the basket and held up the completed sock high.

The sock, smaller than my palm, had somewhat clumsy finishing, but perhaps because of its small size, it looked quite cute and adorable.

Still, I couldn’t help but feel a bit disappointed.

“If I had known this would happen, I should have practiced knitting a lot more…”

But now I have plenty of time, so there should be enough time to practice, right?

Now that I’ve finished the sock, what should I make next? A hat? A vest? Or maybe mittens?

Or maybe I could make several small dolls and create a mobile myself – I was thinking about this when one side of the wall began to vibrate and open with a rumbling sound.

The only entrance to this place – there was only one person who could enter through that secret door.

He came earlier than expected today. Did he perhaps bring the child? I stood up with a bright smile, feeling happy.

“Lionel… Huh?”

“Cecil!”

“My baby!”

The person who entered the room wasn’t Lionel.

Father, Mother, and even Sister.

“Cecil, are you really Cecil? Really?”

“Uh, um…”

The three people who burst into tears and rushed toward me embraced me from my right, left, and front, crying loudly while stroking my cheeks.

I couldn’t say anything for a long time because the faces of my family, whom I was seeing after so long, felt so unfamiliar.

“Everyone… How did you get here?”

“How do you think! You’re alive, and you’ve been in such a nearby place, so why didn’t you contact us even once! Huh?”

“Well, that’s because…”

Because I resented you all.

Because I resented my family who pushed me toward a place I didn’t want to go, saying it was fate ordained by God or whatever.

I thought the Roheim family wasn’t a place for me to return to.

Naturally, I thought Father, Mother, Sister, and Brother would think the same way…

“Do you know how much we searched for you? Huh?”

“If His Majesty the Emperor hadn’t told us, we would never have seen you again. Oh, my baby…”

At Mother’s murmured words as she embraced me, I snapped to attention.

“His Majesty told you my location?”

“Yes. He also gave us permission to take you away.”

“…What?”

Permission to take me away?

I was so surprised that I turned my head to look toward where the door was.

Unlike us who were huddled together, he stood far away in the shadows created by the secret door and passage, his face too dark to see clearly.

But it was certain that his gaze was directed at me. With a sorrowful heart, I called out to him.

“Lionel! Why are you standing there like that?”

“…The stone tablet… is broken…”

Like a candle flame before the wind, Lionel’s voice, so faint it seemed ready to fade away at any moment, didn’t reach my ears.

Instead, it was Sister who conveyed what he was trying to say to me.

“Cecil, the stone tablet is broken.”

“What?”

“You know too. The oracle manifested in the child you gave birth to.”

I know. I saw it too. The oracle that descended upon the child I bore.

Through its contents, I guessed that the oracle that had been given to me was for this child.

But… So what?

What does that story have to do with this current situation?

As I wondered about this, Lionel’s voice reached my ears.

“You… are now free.”

“What?”

Thanks to Nicole making the neutralizing agent, his brainwashing had been largely undone.

But he was still not free from the command Nicole had given him – to start a rebellion and become emperor.

The oracle I received was that I would bear a future sage king. Therefore, Lionel had to keep me by his side, even because of the brainwashing.

For him, who had started a rebellion, killed his parents and brother, and ascended to the throne, legitimacy was necessary, and there was no greater legitimacy than having an heir guaranteed by God to be a sage king.

So, so… For Lionel to remain on the throne, he had to keep me by his side. He had to.

Just because I gave birth to a child who would become a sage king, just because I’ve fulfilled my purpose, he can’t abandon me like this…!

“Now, there’s no reason for you to be bound to this place.”

“No, no!”

I shook my head vigorously and tried to voice my objection to Lionel.

But he was holding his head with both hands, sitting down and suffering. It was because his brain was strained from acting against the brainwashing Nicole had left behind.

“Take… Take her! Quickly!”

“…Roheim will never forget this kindness.”

“Let’s go, Cecil.”

Sister immediately picked me up. I protested that I didn’t want to go, but neither Sister nor my parents would listen to me.

“No, I don’t want to! I’m still…! Lionel!”

My parents went outside first, and Sister, carrying me, passed by Lionel’s side.

Our eyes met.

Even while breathing roughly and suffering, Lionel looked at me and smiled faintly. At the same time, tears were flowing down his cheeks.

“I don’t want to, I don’t want to…!”

I should have said it earlier. Instead of keeping my mouth shut thinking I didn’t have the right, I should have told him when I had the chance.

That I didn’t stay here because of the oracle, that I wasn’t helplessly trapped here by his coercion…!

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“Gasp…!”

The moment my eyes snapped open, a single tear rolled down my cheek.

The sorrowful emotion I felt in the dream didn’t evaporate but remained, squeezing my heart. I was so sad and frustrated that tears streamed down from my eyes.

“Chirp, chirp…”

Perhaps influenced by my emotions, I could hear Ruda crying sorrowfully from somewhere, and at the same time, warmth close to hot heat touched my cheek.

“Liri, are you alright?”

It was Lionel.

Had he been watching over me the whole time? He embraced me from behind and carefully wiped away the tears flowing down my cheeks with his thumb.

But when my tears wouldn’t stop easily, he got up with a troubled expression.

“I’ll get a handkerchief…”

“Where are you going!”

I pushed down Lionel’s shoulders as he tried to get up and climbed on top of him.

Tears from my eyes fell onto Lionel’s face as he looked up at me with a surprised expression.

Then it looked exactly like Lionel was crying. The image of Lionel in my dream, who smiled while crying as he sent me back to my family, came to mind and I burst into tears again.

“You’re so mean, really…!”

“Am I?”

“Then who else would it be!”

Following my sorrowful cry, Ruda flew to Lionel and flapped his wings against Lionel’s shoulder.

As if he had no idea what was going on, Lionel looked back and forth between me and Ruda with a troubled expression.

Then, reading my mood, he slowly raised his upper body, wrapped Ruda with one hand, and wiped the tears on my cheek with his other hand.

I leaned my face into his hand and cried for a long time before I could finally compose my emotions.

I cheered on Ruda, who was flapping Lionel’s forehead instead of me, telling him he was doing well and to do more, then asked him.

“What if. We had a child. And the stone tablet broke. What would you do next?”

“What?”

“What are you going to do?”

Even knowing that the Lionel from my dream—that is, the Lionel from the novel—and the current Lionel were now completely different people, I glared at him.

I was glaring at Lionel, ready to slap him myself if he dared say something about being free from the fate arranged by God or whatever.

“We’ll have… the second child.”

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