The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 18

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Episode 18

‘I don’t remember anything at all.’

According to my family’s story, I suffered from a severe fever that threatened my life when I was seven years old.

My memories in this world also began exactly from that point. The scene of opening my eyes while lying listlessly in bed.

I had no memories from before that, and most crucially, my enormous magical vessel that had been so tremendous that the Owners of the Tower of Magic made every effort to win my favor was completely shattered.

A mage without a magical vessel is like a swordsman without both arms.

Therefore, the Owners of the Tower of Magic and their subordinate mages who had been persistently trying to recruit me as their disciple every single day returned to their towers without looking back.

Among them, only the owner of the Frost Tower who pitied me, my current Master, remained by my side.

Furthermore, Master taught me the basics of magic while I was bedridden for about half a year due to the aftereffects of the fever.

Rather than actually teaching magic, it was more like telling stories he knew to me as if reading fairy tales to a young child…

Was it really not an exaggeration to call me a genius worthy of the Owners of the Tower of Magic’s obsession?

Having lost my magical vessel, I couldn’t become a mage, and even now I can’t use magic.

Instead, I became a genius magical tool creator.

“It’s done! Complete!”

A whole two weeks. For someone like me who usually creates ordinary magical tools in one sitting, this took quite a long time.

But it couldn’t be helped. This bird-shaped magical tool started from carving a large magic stone to create the desired form.

“Uni, take a look. How is it?”

I took off my work safety glasses and shook off the magical powder from my apron, then called Uni, who had been waiting outside the workshop, inside first.

“This is a magical tool? …Ah! Now that I’ve touched it, it really feels like a cold stone. But its appearance looks like a real bird with soft feathers.”

“Hehe, I carved in an illusion magic circuit to make it look that way. Seamless, right?”

Illusion magic requires less disparity between the original and the illusion for the circuit to be simpler.

So I spent three whole days carving the large magic stone into the shape of a bird. Actually, I don’t have much talent for sculpting, so I failed nearly ten times.

“But Miss, what function does this magical tool have?”

“Hehe, don’t be surprised!”

I showed Uni the crystal orb and controller placed on the workbench.

“Behold, the magic drone!”

“Drone? What’s that?”

“I’ll show you directly. Now, watch carefully.”

I placed the bird-shaped drone magical tool on Uni’s hands, then picked up the controller and pressed the activation button.

Then light flickered in the crystal orb on the desk, and Uni’s face began to appear. It was from a diagonal downward angle.

“Why is my face…? Could this magical tool be a video communication device?”

“Correct! And watch this.”

I moved the controller’s stick to operate the drone magical tool.

The bird-form illusion magic I had cast made it look like the bird was flapping its wings whenever the drone magical tool moved, and each time, the image reflected in the crystal orb changed in real time.

“Ta-da! It’s a magical tool that can move in real time while transmitting images from distant places. Amazing, right?”

“It can transmit images while moving? That’s truly incredible!”

The reason this was amazing and incredible was because the video communication devices currently on the market couldn’t move from their spot once they started operating.

To explain it simply, if existing video communication devices were landline phones, this was a portable phone you could carry around.

Even though I made it myself, it was truly revolutionary!

“And this isn’t the end. There might be people who notice something strange and become suspicious, right? For such cases…”

When I moved the controller’s stick, the blue bird that had been circling in large loops descended and perched on the workbench.

“This is hopping.”

When I moved the second stick, the blue bird walked across the workbench with bouncing hops. Easily avoiding the tools placed like obstacles in between was a bonus.

“This is head tilting. This is wing flapping. This is tail feather grooming. This is pecking at berries. This is sitting on the ground.”

Each time I pressed the buttons on the controller, the blue bird followed the programmed actions exactly.

“And the secret weapon! Chirping!”

“Chirp!”

When I pressed the sound button once, the bird’s beak opened slightly and made a chirping sound. This also varied depending on how many times I pressed the button – chirp, chirp-chirp, chirp-chirp-tweet, etc.

“How is it? This should be enough to fool others, right?”

“Yes. With this much, unless someone touches it directly, no one would notice this bird is fake.”

As if she herself was confused despite knowing the truth, Uni poked the blue bird on the workbench with her index finger.

“But Miss, what exactly are you planning to do with this magical tool that you put so much effort into it?”

“I’m going to spy on my fiancé.”

“…What did you say you’re going to do?”

She wasn’t making a shocked expression but rather a puzzled one, so it seemed she was convinced she had misheard.

I smiled brightly at Uni.

“I said I’m going to spy. On Lionel’s bedroom.”

“M-Miss!”

“Shh, I know what you want to say. But before that, did you finish reading the book I gave you?”

“Huh? Ah… I’m sorry. The male lead was such trash that I got so angry I couldn’t read more than twenty pages at a time.”

“Right! Complete trash! He cheats on his perfectly fine fiancée first, then when she asks for an annulment, he goes crazy and kidnaps and confines her!”

Besides that, he does so much trash behavior like gambling and threatening the female lead’s family that you’d wonder if he’s really the male lead. The reason I obtained this trashy romance novel and gave it to Uni was as follows:

“But what if Lionel is also that kind of trash?”

“What? …Surely not.”

“They say ‘surely not’ kills people. Who knows? Lionel might be a strange person like that male lead in the novel.”

At my lengthy explanation that it would be better to uncover his true nature in advance and break off the engagement rather than discover a bad man’s nature too late and cry into my pillowcase every night, Uni nodded as if convinced.

“That’s certainly an important matter. What happens in intimate places like bedrooms is hard for others to help with…”

“Right, right? But you can’t just ask directly and expect them to answer ‘Yes, actually I have violent tendencies. I’ll beat you mercilessly with a whip after marriage.'”

Then Uni said to me with a serious face.

“Let’s infiltrate that blue bird into the Second Prince’s bedroom right now.”

As expected, Uni was on my side.

“Right! We must check this important matter before marriage, right?”

“Yes. If it comes to it, I’ll infiltrate the Second Prince’s Palace myself.”

“No, that’s too dangerous. This blue bird will be enough.”

Now that the magical tool was complete and I had gained Uni’s cooperation, there was no need to hesitate.

I practiced controlling the blue bird diligently to avoid any mistakes, then took advantage of the darkened night sky to send the blue bird flying toward the direction of the Imperial Palace.

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Though it was dark, finding the Imperial Palace was easy. I just had to look for the largest and most splendid building in the capital.

“Good! I finally crossed the Imperial Palace’s outer wall!”

“I know the way from here. The Second Prince’s Palace is… this way.”

Though it was late and most buildings had their lights off, the Imperial Palace was different.

Guards carrying magic lanterns patrolled in pairs to watch for potential intruders, and magic lamps illuminated the buildings and paths everywhere.

Thanks to this, I could quickly find the Second Prince’s Palace without wandering in the darkness.

“Found it, the Second Prince’s Palace.”

Now the important thing was finding Lionel’s bedroom.

‘According to his schedule, this should be exactly when he went to bed…’

Muttering “please be awake, please be awake” like a chant, I climbed onto the windowsill of a lit room on the third floor.

‘Jackpot!’

A brightly lit bedroom. The image of Lionel sitting in comfortable clothes at the desk beside his bed appeared in the crystal orb.

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