The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 139

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Episode 139

Watching him, the alchemist clapped his hands once more to focus his attention.

“If you hear voices or see hallucinations, you must ignore them. You absolutely must not focus on them.”

“…What happens if I focus on them?”

“You’ll become entranced.”

“If I become entranced?”

The alchemist sighed as if asking why he didn’t know something so obvious.

“You’ll be unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy, and you’ll fall into the illusion.”

“Fall into the illusion…”

While recalling Cecilia’s image that had shown only a brief smile before disappearing, Cayen felt a surge of emotion without realizing it.

‘Why should I cling to mere fantasies?’

Just moments ago, Cayen had heard from the alchemist about the things Nicole had done, including how she had pretended to be the owner of the oracle.

This meant he had only now learned that the person who should have become his empress was Cecilia.

‘If it weren’t for Nicole, Cecilia would be by my side right now!’

He couldn’t forgive Nicole, who had not only fed him brainwashing drugs but also stolen Cecilia’s oracle, but bringing Cecilia back was the priority for now.

Right now, Lionel was by her side. The two had already been married for half a year. It wasn’t a short time. Surely the two had already spent their wedding night and… countless nights together.

“No! Cai, help me!”

He could see Lionel holding Cecilia as she shook her head saying no, forcibly pressing his lips to hers.

Cayen couldn’t stand it and threw whatever was in his hand at that hallucination.

“Stop!”

“Your Majesty! Even if you see hallucinations, you must ignore them!”

“Ignore them? How! My empress is being violated!”

“It’s just a hallucination! There’s no one there!”

“Even if there’s no one there, it’s what’s actually happening!”

Cayen shouted with veins bulging in his neck, still throwing objects at the empty wall.

“Get your hands off my wife right now!”

At least it was fortunate that what he was grabbing were soft cushions.

No, could this really be called fortunate?

Watching Cayen pour out harsh curses at thin air, the alchemist wore a troubled expression.

‘This is bad. The side effects aren’t just hallucinations and auditory hallucinations.’

It seemed that emotional amplification, one of the side effects of the brainwashing drug, was also progressing.

If left alone, it would only be a matter of time before Cayen literally went insane…

‘If I use new drugs to solve that problem and other side effects emerge, that would be troublesome in its own way.’

This seemed hopeless. He had no choice but to finish his business and leave the imperial palace before the Emperor went completely mad.

The alchemist signaled to the court physicians and maids, and they physically restrained the Emperor and poured sedatives into his mouth.

Fortunately, whether the medicine was effective or he was physically exhausted, Cayen became docile.

But his eyes still gleamed fiercely. With obsession toward someone, and rage toward someone else.

“…Where is Cecilia now? Is she still in the north?”

Cayen, with bloodshot eyes, asked the maid while breathing roughly, and the maid quickly answered before Cayen could go mad again.

“She came to the capital a few days ago.”

“To the capital?”

…She came to see me!

She ran away from Lionel and came to see me!

The corners of Cayen’s mouth twitched. Just imagining holding the real Cecilia in his arms and never letting her go, not some fantasy, made him feel ecstatic.

“Perfect, perfect… Give orders to the Imperial Knights immediately. Bring her to the imperial palace.”

“Pardon?”

“You mean the Grand Duchess…? To lead the Imperial Knights there…”

The maids asked back with shocked faces, and Cayen frowned as if asking whether he had to explain even this.

“Cecilia is the true owner of the oracle. Then naturally she should enter the imperial palace and become my empress!”

“But Your Majesty, you currently have an Empress.”

“Moreover, she is a Grand Duchess. No matter what Your Majesty says, you cannot bring a vassal’s wife without any justification.”

The maid deliberately emphasized that she was a married woman by saying “vassal’s wife.” She barely held back from saying she was his brother’s wife.

Moreover, sending Imperial Knights when no charges had even been confirmed.

It was called “bring her,” but in reality it was “drag her here.” It was kidnapping a noblewoman.

This would be too great a scandal. Even if the Grand Duke led troops to protest outside the imperial palace, there would be nothing to say.

“Justification… Why do you think there’s no justification?”

“Pardon?”

“Didn’t she hide the fact that she was the owner of the oracle? What greater crime could there be?”

“Your Majesty, non-royals have no obligation to reveal their oracles. Therefore, the Grand Duchess cannot be charged with any crime.”

“That’s not true.”

“Pardon?”

“She received an oracle that she would bear a future sage king. If she had deliberately hidden and avoided the oracle, the imperial bloodline might have been severed. If this isn’t treason, what is?”

It was truly unreasonable. But the maids, frightened by the word treason, had no choice but to keep their mouths shut.

But they couldn’t just stay still like this either. The maids engaged in a fierce battle of glances, and finally the lowest-ranking maid stepped forward with her eyes tightly shut.

“Your Majesty, there is one problem.”

“What problem?”

“As far as I know, the Grand Duchess is currently recuperating at the Central Temple. I heard she came down to the capital because she wasn’t feeling well.”

“So?”

So…

“The fact that she’s receiving long-term care at the Central Temple despite not being a priest means she’s under the Pope’s protection.”

“And?”

Is he really insane?

The maid explained while sweating profusely.

“Sending Imperial Knights to bring someone under the Pope’s protection without clear reason is likely to develop into a conflict between the imperial family and the temple. Moreover, in this case…”

If the temple was protecting Cecilia because she was the true owner of the oracle, the Pope would never hand Cecilia over.

And if, by any chance, Cecilia, who received the oracle about bearing a future sage king, was already pregnant with Lionel’s child, who received the oracle about ascending to a supreme position?

Since the father of the child Cecilia would bear should be the Emperor, the Pope might raise objections about whether Cayen truly had the qualifications to be Emperor, for the sake of fulfilling the oracle.

The court physicians and maids here knew that Cayen was unable to bear children. Cayen, who had ascended to the throne relying on the oracle, would ultimately fall because of the oracle.

In this situation, recklessly opposing the temple was not wise.

But just as they were wondering how to explain this to the Emperor, the maids once again only watched each other’s reactions.

“…Ugh!”

“Your Majesty?”

Cayen, who had swayed while sitting, quickly covered his mouth with his hand.

The maids thought Cayen was about to vomit. It was common since he often suffered from dizziness.

But.

“Cough, hack!”

“Your, Your Majesty!”

What burst through the gaps between his fingers covering his mouth was dark red blood.

And the amount was considerable.

The maids, who hadn’t expected him to cough up blood, screamed in horror, and the court physicians who had been waiting nearby rushed over in panic to examine Cayen.

“Cough, hack, cough!”

“Your, Your Majesty. Please calm down.”

“Alchemist! Please examine His Majesty’s condition!”

By then Cayen’s coughing up blood had stopped, but he had collapsed after losing his strength.

The alchemist first examined the Emperor’s condition, then checked the blood he had coughed up. At that moment, the Former Empress entered.

“I heard the Emperor had awakened… Cai!”

Seeing Cayen collapsed on the bed covered in dark red blood, the Former Empress was shocked and ran to him.

“Cai, Cai! What on earth happened! Didn’t you say he had regained consciousness looking perfectly fine!”

“He has been poisoned.”

“…What?”

The alchemist, who had quickly analyzed the blood that Cayen had coughed up using his own tools, answered with certainty.

“It’s not an ordinary poison, but the existing poison that Your Majesty was affected by.”

“Existing poison? What do you mean by existing poison?”

“The very poison that Emperor poisoned Your Majesty with while you were in the Former Empress’s womb, the poison that still remains in Your Majesty’s body. It’s not that the toxicity was strengthened as a side effect, but that you have recently ingested the poison again.”

“…The Emperor was affected by that poison again? Recently, anew?”

There was only one person who currently knew the recipe for that poison.

“Nicole! It’s Nicole! It must be that woman’s doing!”

The Former Empress flew into a rage.

“How dare she attempt to assassinate the Emperor! Guards! Kill Nicole immediately! Cut off her head…!”

“That won’t do.”

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