The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 155

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Episode 155

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The moment I opened my eyes again, I felt completely reborn.

‘Hmm, it is similar though.’

All my childhood memories had returned, and my mana vessel had come back too.

The gaping hole was completely sealed, and now I was no longer a broken jar but just a jar. And an incredibly huge jar at that!

“Peep…”

Unlike me, whose body was overflowing with energy thanks to regaining my mana vessel, Ruda, who had possessed the mana vessel and then had to return it, seemed listless and weakly fell onto my palm.

I gently stroked Ruda’s head.

“Sorry, you have no energy, right? Once we get out of here, I’ll give the mana vessel back to you.”

“Peep.”

Then Ruda shook his head while lying flat on my palm. As if it was natural for me to have that mana vessel since it was originally mine.

“Silly. I am you and you are me. Right?”

“…Peep!”

Ruda nodded as if that was true, and he was so cute that I gave his round little head a light kiss.

And then I realized something belatedly.

“Ah! Now we won’t faint when we touch each other!”

“Peep, peep.”

Having completely regained my lost memories and mana vessel, the soul fragment fusion was also complete. Both Ruda and my soul had stabilized, so there was no reason for us to lose consciousness just from contact anymore.

‘Right, I’m completely powered up now!’

There was nothing to be afraid of anymore.

Imperial Guards or whatever, let ten or a hundred of them appear before me!

“Let’s get out of here now, Ruda.”

“Peep.”

When I shared some mana with Ruda’s body, the energized Ruda fluttered up and settled on top of my head.

After confirming that Ruda had settled stably, I approached where the door was.

Earlier, I couldn’t do anything in front of this tightly closed door, but now it was different.

“Alright, shall I try using clairvoyance magic first?”

“Peep!”

I used clairvoyance magic to check inside the thick wall. Then I could see the complex clockwork and mechanisms installed throughout the wall.

‘Wow, this is incredibly complicated…’

While I was getting a headache wondering where to touch this to open the door, I suddenly realized I didn’t need to strain my eyes looking at the mechanisms like this.

‘I just need to pull the lever outside, right?’

The Emperor definitely touched something like a candlestick when he locked me in here.

So if I look into the bedroom with clairvoyance magic from inside here and use wind magic to touch that candlestick…

-Clunk!

“It worked! Ruda, it worked!”

“Peep peep, peep!”

Oh, wait a minute. This isn’t the time to be happy like this, is it?

Thinking there might be someone outside, I tensed up and first surrounded my entire body with defensive magic.

But fortunately, there was no one in the bedroom. The corridor outside was the same.

“What? Why is it so quiet?”

“Peep peep?”

“No. You don’t need to scout or anything. I can just keep using clairvoyance magic.”

I walked down the corridor while continuously maintaining defensive magic and clairvoyance magic. I even cast sound-dampening magic in case someone might hear my presence.

Even though I was using magic so extravagantly, my mana didn’t decrease. It was true that my mana vessel was larger than Master’s.

‘If I hadn’t lost my mana vessel when I was young, I really would have become a great mage.’

No wait. It’s not too late now either.

I can be an Empress and a great mage at the same time. There’s no law saying an Empress can’t learn magic.

“Right, Ruda?”

“Peep!”

I smiled happily and looked down at my belly that I had been reflexively stroking.

Since it hadn’t even been a month since I got pregnant, my belly was naturally flat. But inside here was definitely our child. Lionel’s and my child.

Suddenly, I missed Lionel terribly.

“Ruda. Do you know where Lionel is right now?”

“Peep!”

“Where?”

“Peep, peep.”

…Oh, I think I understand. I couldn’t tell the exact location, but I could roughly sense how far away he was from me.

“Oh, he’s nearby. Right?”

“Peep!”

“He must have come to get us.”

He knows where I am well even without Ruda.

Well, well. That’s exactly the quality of an obsessive male lead!

‘…No wait. This wasn’t a novel, was it?’

I should probably stop calling Lionel an obsessive male lead or perfect male lead now.

This isn’t some world inside a novel, but just another ordinary world that’s different from my previous life.

‘Still, I’m really glad I saw the future.’

So in the end, I was a little curious about what kind of ending we two would have met in the future I saw…

It didn’t matter. In this reality now, we just need to meet our own happy ending!

“Let’s go, Ruda! To meet Lionel!”

“Peep!”

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When he arrived at the Imperial Palace after riding Kreung like crazy, a quiet silence had settled over the entire building. This was because not only the palace’s owner but even the servants and knights had left their posts.

“Wait here.”

“Kreung!”

Lionel, who rushed into the Imperial Palace, ran down the corridor and up the stairs while concentrating all his nerves on his hearing. But he couldn’t sense any human presence anywhere…

-Rustle.

Then, some sound came from not far away. Lionel hurriedly ran down the corridor and entered the room where the sound came from.

“Liri!”

“Ah.”

But what was in the room wasn’t Cecilia. It was an old woman with an unfamiliar face.

She wasn’t dressed as a servant, nor was she dressed as a noble. An old woman in such shabby clothes in the Imperial Palace where everyone had left?

“Who are you?”

Lionel asked while placing his hand on the sword hilt at his waist. The possibility he had in mind was that she might be someone from the underworld.

If that wasn’t the case, he planned to draw his sword immediately. Perhaps realizing this fact, the old woman quickly raised both hands high.

“My, I get to greet such an honored person. I have no name worth mentioning. Please just call me an alchemist.”

“…Alchemist?”

“Yes. I was officially invited by the Former Empress and have been staying in the palace. I didn’t intrude with evil intentions, so please show mercy.”

However, Lionel didn’t lower his guard.

“If you were invited by the Former Empress, why are you in the Imperial Palace? What were you doing here?”

“That’s… What the Former Empress ordered me to do was treat the Emperor.”

“The Former Empress and Emperor were at the Empress’s Palace until just a while ago, weren’t they? Then shouldn’t you have been there too?”

“How do you…”

The alchemist’s mouth reflexively closed as she was about to ask how he knew. Lionel tightened his grip on the sword hilt.

“I’ll ask again. What were you doing here?”

A thread-thin hostility tightened around the alchemist’s neck. It had been a long time since she felt such refined yet threatening killing intent.

Realizing that if she held out any longer here, she might face nothing but death, the alchemist raised both hands again in surrender.

“I was looking for something. Something belonging to a compatriot who lost their life long ago.”

“Compatriot? Who is this compatriot that you’re looking for their belongings in the Imperial Palace?”

“An alchemist like myself. The Former Emperor, who failed to secure Dalia’s alchemist notes, massacred my fellow countrymen indiscriminately just to obtain other alchemist notes. …Yet seeing how he met such a futile death himself, isn’t the transience of worldly affairs truly meaningless?”

The cackling laughter mocking the Former Emperor echoed hollowly throughout the study.

At the same time, Lionel belatedly realized that this place was the Emperor’s study. He also noticed that there was no sign of anyone else here except for this old woman.

“If the Former Emperor really had alchemist notes, he would have hidden them somewhere. Not left them openly in a study like this.”

“Then where might he have hidden them? May I ask for the esteemed Second Prince’s opinion?”

Lionel slowly looked around the interior of the study.

“There is a secret room in this place.”

“Really?”

The alchemist’s face lit up for a moment, then immediately looked at Lionel with a face full of suspicion.

She couldn’t believe whether those words were true or not, and even if they were true, there was no reason for him to tell her the location of the secret room.

However, she absolutely had to secure the alchemist notes of her dead compatriot. Only then could she advance one step further as an alchemist.

For that purpose, she had grasped the hand of the Former Empress, who had driven them out of the Empire, and entered the Imperial Palace.

“What would I need to do for you to tell me the location of the secret room?”

The words that would come from Lionel’s mouth were already decided.

“Have you seen the Archduchess in this place?”

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