The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 148

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Episode 148

‘Ha, how satisfying!’

-Thud.

With the sight of a maid supporting the Emperor as the last thing visible, the door closed completely, and all the noise from outside was completely cut off.

I pounded on the closed door with my fist, knowing it was useless.

“Open this! Won’t you open it?”

Naturally, there was no response from outside. I wanted to use the strongest magic I could with my current magical power to blow away the wall, but the aftermath would be daunting.

‘There are too many Imperial Guards outside. If I escape without any plan, I’ll definitely get caught.’

Right now, the Emperor was full of hostility toward the child. Rather than going outside and provoking him unnecessarily, it might be safer to stay inside here.

In this situation, the best I could do was hope that Nix, who must have heard the situation from Eve, would rush to Lionel as quickly as possible.

‘Lionel will definitely come running to the Imperial Palace to find me.’

Besides, he had Ruda with him.

Since Ruda can know my location, she’ll guide Lionel well.

‘Come to think of it, this isn’t such a dangerous situation?’

I’m not trapped with someone else who could threaten my life, I’m alone.

Still, just in case, I went into the inner space. I was planning to look around to see if there was anything I could do inside here.

Fortunately, this room wasn’t a completely sealed space. There was a small window that let light seep in, and there was a bed where I could lie down and rest, plus a table and chairs…

Huh?

‘Somehow this layout seems familiar?’

A tiny window that made escape impossible to even dream of. This room that was quite spacious for a secret room. And that large bed…

There was no doubt about it.

This room was exactly the room where Lionel had confined me in the novel!

* * *

After the door to the secret room closed.

“Cough, cough!”

Cayen collapsed while coughing up blood, and a maid supported him while a court physician hurriedly examined his body.

“Your Majesty… You’ve coughed up too much blood. If you cough up blood one more time, it might really be dangerous.”

If the alchemist hadn’t used a method called ‘blood donation’ to take blood from the Former Empress’s body and put it into the Emperor’s body, the Emperor might have died.

However, that blood donation wasn’t omnipotent either. The Former Empress didn’t have infinite blood.

“So, you’re telling me to take that treatment or whatever made by that fraud?”

“…”

For now, that was the only way for the Emperor to survive.

But knowing the Emperor’s hostility toward Nicole well, they couldn’t bring themselves to nod and kept their mouths tightly shut, when the Emperor suddenly shouted.

“Why don’t you just curse me to die! What, did you also receive bribes from that woman? To kill me?”

“Ab-absolutely not!”

“We’re just concerned about Your Majesty’s health…”

“Concerned! What have you done? What have you done to treat my body!”

A vase from the bedside table flew narrowly between the court physicians and shattered with a loud crash!

Among the court physicians who cowered at that violent reaction, one bravely stepped forward.

“Your Majesty, please think of Lady Cecilia.”

“What?”

The atmosphere around the Emperor turned coldly quiet.

The court physician, instinctively realizing that saying the wrong thing here would be disastrous, swallowed hard and carefully chose his words.

“Surely Lady Cecilia would also want Your Majesty’s body to become healthy.”

Of course, none of the people here actually thought that.

They had seen with their own eyes Cecilia’s attitude toward the Emperor, and there was already another man’s child in her belly.

But what was the Emperor’s reaction to hearing those words that couldn’t even be called empty words?

He was looking at the wall where the entrance to the secret room was with trembling eyes.

Seeing this, the people thought this was their chance and added more words.

“Your Majesty, Lady Cecilia must surely be worried about Your Majesty’s body deep down.”

“That’s right. Surely Lady Cecilia showed such an intense reaction because she was shocked to see Your Majesty’s weakened state.”

“Who wouldn’t be shocked to see someone coughing up blood?”

“…Cecilia.”

The Emperor, who had been muttering blankly, turned his gaze to another strange place. Seeing him grinning at empty air, the court physicians and maids recalled the alchemist’s warning.

“Do you understand? If His Majesty seems to be seeing hallucinations or hearing voices, you must definitely make him aware of that fact. If he doesn’t realize they’re hallucinations or voices, he’ll fall deeper under their spell.”

Everyone remembered those words, but none of them dared to speak to the Emperor.

“Yes… Cecilia. So that was your true intention.”

How could they tell that satisfied, smiling face that what His Majesty was seeing was a hallucination?

They had seen with their own eyes a maid who had been dragged out after actually saying such things.

“If you’re so worried about me, then there’s no choice. I’ll go to the Empress’s Palace right now.”

“Pardon?”

“I’ll have that woman make an antidote and tell her to try it first. Then that woman won’t be able to do anything foolish. Isn’t that right?”

“Yes, yes. You’re absolutely right. How wise of you.”

“We’ll also try that antidote first together.”

“Yes. Good. Let’s all go together. Hahaha!”

The Emperor extended his hand toward empty air.

“Cecilia. Will you come with us too?”

“…”

“Good. Follow me. Hahahaha!”

The Emperor began walking, stepping slightly to the side as if accompanying someone beside him.

Following behind him, the court physicians and maids thought:

‘He seems to have fallen too… deeply into the hallucination.’

‘Shouldn’t we tell him to come to his senses even now?’

But no one had the courage to do so. All they could do was silently follow behind the Emperor.

* * *

“I’m sorry, Your Holiness the Pope. His Majesty the Emperor collapsed again after coughing up blood…”

The maid who had repeatedly said that His Majesty the Emperor would surely be able to make time today finally knelt before the Pope.

The Pope, feeling uncomfortable, first helped the maid to her feet and asked one last time.

“Is it really impossible to see His Majesty the Emperor?”

“Yes… I’m sorry. It’s not an excuse, he really collapsed after coughing up blood…”

“I see. Then there’s nothing to be done. How could I force someone who is ill?”

This too must be God’s will.

The Pope, who had muttered quietly, sighed and stood up from her seat.

“Then I’ll be going back now.”

“Yes. I’m sorry, Your Holiness the Pope.”

Leaving behind the maid who bowed her head several times, the Pope came outside and got into her carriage.

The Knight who had accompanied her spoke to the Pope with a troubled expression.

“In the end, we failed to bring Nicole.”

“Yes, it ended up like this after all…”

Inside the moving carriage, the Pope only let out heavy sighs. Seeing that her expression looked too unwell, the Knight chose his words carefully.

“Nicole… it can’t be helped. Since she committed a sin, shouldn’t she be punished?”

“Yes, you’re right.”

“Actually, Seige too…”

The Knight who had brought up Seige’s name couldn’t voice what he was going to say and let out a long sigh.

If Nicole had been with the temple for about 20 years, Seige had stayed at the temple for more than twice that, over 40 years, cultivating herself and doing volunteer work. She didn’t reach the Archbishop position for nothing.

The fact that there were many people who envied Seige meant there were also many people who liked her. Therefore, there were many who couldn’t easily accept Seige’s excommunication, but…

“If Nicole is the main culprit, then Seige is like an accomplice. Not only Nicole but Seige must also be punished.”

The Pope spoke emphatically, as if emphasizing that her visits to the Imperial Palace over the past week had been solely for his sake.

The Knight opened his mouth to object to something, but instead of saying anything, he simply nodded.

‘Even though you say that, your heart must be aching.’

No words would provide comfort, so for now, silence was the answer.

For a while, only the sound of hoofbeats and wheels echoed. Then suddenly, the outside began to grow noisy.

‘What’s going on?’

It wasn’t simply loud because people were talking, but something seemed to have happened.

The Knight wanted to open the window to check outside, but didn’t want to disturb the Pope who was praying with his eyes closed and head bowed.

‘…It’s probably nothing serious.’

The Knight thought so and lost interest in what was happening outside the window. He would realize he shouldn’t have done so only after arriving at the Central Temple.

“What, what did you say? The Imperial Guards did what now?”

“According to the priests who witnessed the scene at the time, the Imperial Guards threatened the Archduchess. And…”

At the Archbishop’s signal, the elderly priest brought a young child before the Pope.

With a face swollen from crying so much, Eve, who still couldn’t stop her sniffling sobs, told the Pope what she had seen.

“The, the Archduchess had, *sniff*, a child in her belly.”

“What?”

“I saw it. It was definitely a child blessed by God, *sniff*.”

“What did you say…!”

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