The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 157

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Episode 157

“Good job. Originally, when you’re lost, you should stay put in one place. If Lionel had stayed in one spot from the beginning, I could have found you right away, right?”

“Yes. I was wrong.”

“It wasn’t really wrong… Lionel was trying to find me too, right?”

“Yes. But I couldn’t find you.”

“Chirp.”

Ruda, who was sitting on Lionel’s shoulder, made a dejected sound as if it was her fault.

Lionel stroked Ruda’s head, saying it was okay. Watching this, Cecilia asked him as if she had just remembered something.

“But what was that magical device Sister used? How did Ruda get discovered?”

“She was trying to retrieve Liri’s soul fragment.”

“What? My soul fragment?”

“It seems the Roheim Family people think Liri’s soul fragment has merged with my soul. You’d better hear the detailed story from Liri’s family… or from Master.”

“Oh, so that means… not only my family but even Master now knows about Ruda’s existence…?”

“I don’t know if they know right now. But they will find out eventually.”

Since Belrose had already noticed Ruda’s existence.

“Oh no, this is serious. Master said I’d be expelled if I made a Spirit Familiar… Ah.”

In the middle of speaking, Cecilia made a sound as if she had realized something.

“Ah, I see! Now I understand. Why Master told me not to be interested in Spirit Familiar magic.”

“How so?”

“The fever I had when I was young. I now know the cause of it.”

“…The fever you had when you were seven years old?”

“Yes.”

Cecilia nodded and looked at Lionel with a bright smile.

Then she carefully pushed his shoulder to escape from his embrace and placed her hand on the gravestone in front of Lionel.

“This is Grandmother’s gravestone, right?”

“How did you know?”

“How did I know…”

Cecilia looked at Lionel with a mischievous smile.

“When we first met here, Lionel was crying loudly looking for Grandmother. Right?”

“When we first… met?”

“Yes. You remember, don’t you?”

Lionel moved his lips as if he didn’t know what to say, then asked Cecilia with disbelieving eyes.

“Do you… remember? Liri, do you really?”

“Yes. I remember everything now.”

Cecilia suddenly hugged Lionel’s waist and forcibly absorbed his magical power.

“Lionel remembers too, right?”

“Of course… I remember.”

Ah. The words wouldn’t come out.

The knot that had been lodged in his chest seemed to flow back up through his throat, completely blocking his airway.

He had thought it was okay if she didn’t remember. He had thought it was enough that she came back alive. He had thought it was fine since he remembered, that was enough, but…

“Do you remember… the flower you gave me as a gift?”

“Of course! What was the name of that flower… When I was living at the Duke’s Residence before our marriage, Lionel brought it to the bedroom and decorated with it. …Ah! You decorated it on purpose because you remembered!”

“And when you sang me lullabies?”

“Of course. Lionel always fell asleep in the middle. I wondered why you only knew up to the middle. You’re too susceptible to lullaby effects, aren’t you?”

“Did you… did you not…”

Transparent tears flowed from Lionel’s eyes as he closed them tightly once and opened them.

“Didn’t you resent me?”

“Why would I resent Lionel? …Ah, that, about not being able to protect me?”

Instantly, more tears poured from Lionel’s eyes. Seeing this, Cecilia made an “oh my” sound and wiped Lionel’s wet cheeks with her hands.

“I don’t resent you. The bad guy is someone else, so why would I resent Lionel?”

“I resented myself. I resented myself to death for not being able to protect Liri.”

“So that’s why you said you wanted to protect me this time? It’s okay. I’m perfectly fine, aren’t I?”

However, Cecilia’s comfort couldn’t stop Lionel’s tears.

Watching Lionel, who was now sobbing and couldn’t even speak properly, Cecilia didn’t know what to do and patted his shoulder.

“You’re crying all the tears you’ll cry in your lifetime today. Stop crying now, okay? Your face will get all swollen.”

“Liri…”

“Stop! Stop crying! Now we need to greet Grandmother!”

With his face entrusted to Cecilia’s hands wiping his wet cheeks, Lionel nodded.

He stood in front of the gravestone with reddened eyes, tightly holding Cecilia’s hand.

“Grandmother. Let me introduce her. This is my wife and… my only family.”

“Oh, wait. That’s not right. Only family?”

“Chirp!”

Ruda, who had brought wildflowers from somewhere, protested along. Lionel made an “ah” sound and spoke again.

“My family, Liri and Ruda…”

“Kreung.”

“…And my friend Krieg.”

The giant wolf wrinkled its nose as if it didn’t like the name Krieg, but soon lay down with a thud.

Watching this and giggling, Cecilia offered the wildflowers Ruda had brought in front of the gravestone.

And now she made a definitive correction.

“When I said I wasn’t your only family, it wasn’t because of Ruda.”

“What?”

“Ruda and I are one body, after all.”

“Chirp.”

Ruda nodded as if agreeing with those words, and Lionel asked with a puzzled face.

“Then who are you referring to?”

Could she be talking about other members of the Roheim Family?

That was all Lionel could guess. So even as he watched Cecilia grab his hand and bring it to her belly, he couldn’t think of the answer.

“They’re here. Our new family member.”

“…”

“We’re really amazing, aren’t we? It was just one night back then, how did we manage in one shot… Kyah!”

Cecilia’s body was trapped in Lionel’s embrace again.

The moment the startled Cecilia relaxed and put her hands around Lionel’s back, Lionel couldn’t help but bury his face in her shoulder.

“So I’m… holding two people right now.”

“That’s right. Me and the child in my belly.”

“Chirp, chirp.”

“It’s still a long way before we can meet them, but I’m already curious whether it’ll be a daughter or son. What gender would Lionel prefer?”

“It doesn’t matter either way.”

Whether it’s a daughter or son, what does that matter?

Just the fact that it’s Cecilia’s and his child is already enough.

“Whatever child is born, I’ll love them. Just like Liri did for me.”

“Oh, um, hmm… What did I do for Lionel…?”

To Cecilia’s slightly flustered voice, Lionel answered with a puzzled tone.

“You baked cookies for me, held my hand, sang lullabies…”

“Ah, oh, that kind of thing? I thought it was something else! …Right, we don’t need to be obsessive with our children.”

Cecilia, who let out a sigh of relief, soon gave a light cough.

Having erased her embarrassed expression with that, she smiled brightly and said to Lionel.

“Not just what I did for Lionel, but if you do for them what Lionel did for me, you’ll be able to become a good father.”

“Do you think so?”

“Of course! You’re already a good husband to me!”

The sound of cheerful laughter carries far on the pleasant wind.

Lionel, who had been looking at her lovingly, could no longer hold back and pulled her into his arms, kissing her.

Cecilia tried to push against Lionel’s shoulders as if asking how they could do this in front of Grandmother’s gravestone, but in the end, she wrapped her arms tightly around his waist.

“Chirp chirp.”

“Kreung.”

As if apologizing on behalf of the two people, Ruda perched on the gravestone hummed a cute tune, and Krieg slowly wagged his tail.

Though the two animals were of different species, if anyone had been watching that scene, they surely would have felt the following.

What a truly harmonious family.

* * *

The occupation of the Imperial Palace by the Underworld’s elite was carried out so quietly and secretly that people outside the palace had no idea such a major event had occurred.

Especially those who couldn’t recognize that the sudden ringing from the temple was the bell of war’s end were shocked like lightning from a clear sky when they saw the official notices posted throughout the capital.

“The real will of His Late Majesty has been revealed?”

“Didn’t they say the Late Emperor’s Maid Manager ran away with it?”

“No, apparently Her Late Majesty the Empress harmed the Maid Manager to destroy the will and then spread those rumors!”

But the Late Emperor’s Maid Manager barely escaped with his life and entrusted it to the Pope.

In fact, what the Maid Manager had wasn’t the original will. The real one was in the Pope’s possession.

The Pope revealed this fact along with a copy of the real will left by the Late Emperor to the world.

[On such and such date of such and such month and year.

I am writing this new will because I realized from the hunting competition incident a month ago that there is someone who seeks my life.

Therefore, I write this will to entrust it to His Holiness the Pope. This will must be announced by His Holiness the Pope, or with his guarantee.

This is the second will I am writing, and if this will has been revealed to the world, it means Lionel von Altehaide, the Second Prince I designated as successor, has not ascended to the throne.

If the Maid Manager who had the first will has gone missing, or if First Prince Cayen von Altehaide ascended to the throne despite his announcement of my will, then I was murdered by someone and even my will was stolen or manipulated.

In this case, regardless of how my death was announced, it must be thoroughly investigated.

This investigation shall be entrusted to His Holiness the Pope and the Temple’s Knights, and all nobles as well as the royal family must faithfully cooperate with the investigation.

I say again, the successor I have designated is Second Prince Lionel von Altehaide.

Even after my death, I can be certain that the motive of whoever killed me was to place the First Prince on the throne.

Therefore, place all those who tried to put the First Prince on the throne, or those who benefited from the First Prince becoming Emperor, under suspicion.

This is the final imperial command I give as Emperor.]

The content was truly shocking.

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