The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 19

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Episode 19

“Wow, found it in one try!”

“Fortunately, he’s still awake.”

“Right. Whoa, with his bangs down, he actually looks his age?”

Usually he wore uniform-like clothes buttoned up neatly to the collar and had his bangs swept back properly, making him look more mature than his age.

It’s amazing how a hairstyle alone can make someone look several years older or younger, and it’s also somewhat unfamiliar.

‘Anyway, he is handsome.’

I stared intently at Lionel through the crystal ball, reflected beyond the tightly closed glass window, sitting with his back straight in perfect posture, moving his quill pen without rest.

“Amazing, really…”

“What is?”

“There’s no one watching, but his sitting posture is perfect.”

This isn’t school or an office, and when you’re in your own room, isn’t it normal to put one leg up on the chair or lean back completely as if lying down?

Looking at Lionel made me feel sorry for my spine, so I straightened my slightly hunched back.

Unlike me, Uni, who had been sitting with proper posture from the beginning, adjusted the shawl that had slipped down my shoulder and said.

“Perhaps His Highness the Second Prince finds that position more comfortable.”

“How can a person find that posture comfortable…?”

Maybe Lionel isn’t human?

While thinking such thoughts and still looking at Lionel sitting in his upright posture.

“…Huh?”

Our eyes met.

“Oh my, I’m caught!”

I quickly tried to escape by pressing the flight button, lifting the controller, but oh no, I dropped it!

“Ah, Miss! His Highness is approaching!”

“Wait a moment!”

This isn’t something to panic about, so why am I panicking like this? I picked up the controller from the floor and quickly pressed the flight button, but there was no response.

…It seemed the magical circuit had been shocked and temporarily stopped functioning!

“Kyaah! What do I do about this!”

“Stay calm, Miss… Th-the window is opening!”

“Uaah, please work! Fly, fly!”

I prayed for it to work and tapped the controller.

Usually when electronic devices don’t listen, hitting them like this should make them work!

-Liri?

“Fly, fly! …I said fly!”

At that moment, Lionel’s face, which had come right up close, moved away. The flight was successful!

“Whoa, that’s a relief…”

“Miss, let’s retreat for now.”

“Should we? We might get caught if we’re not careful.”

There was no guarantee that the controller, which had stopped working once due to shock, wouldn’t malfunction a second time. If we weren’t careful, this blue bird could end up in Lionel’s hands.

‘If the illusion magic is dispelled, it would just look like a rock on the outside… But it would be terrible if a passing mage analyzed the magical circuit.’

“Miss? Why are you going into His Highness the Second Prince’s bedroom?”

“Huh? Why is this going in there? …I’m doomed! The controller must be broken!”

Come to think of it, this was a new magical device created for the first time.

It should have gone through multiple experiments and verifications, but I was impatient and put it into actual use right away, causing this trouble. I was completely foolish.

“Uaah, it’s moving in reverse! Not that way! This way!”

“Miss? I think I just heard the window closing.”

“What? Really?”

Somehow managing the stick that had reversed its control directions, I succeeded in landing the blue bird on top of a tall wardrobe.

Should I call this the perfect CCTV view angle-wise? It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say I’d secured a prime spot, and the window visible below was indeed closed again.

“No, what am I supposed to do if you close that? What about me?”

“By any chance, can this magical device open windows?”

“There’s no such function…”

Lionel, you idiot fool!

If a bird of unknown identity enters your room, you should quickly chase it out. What are you doing blocking the escape route?

“…No, wait. Thinking about it, this might actually be better. My purpose was to observe Lionel anyway.”

After all, watching from inside the room would let me see more details than watching from outside a closed window.

“That’s certainly true, but… Am I imagining things?”

“What?”

“Somehow His Highness’s gaze looking this way seems… rather gentle, doesn’t it?”

“…You felt it too, Uni?”

How should I put this? Without any sign of chasing or trying to catch it, the gaze quietly looking up from below somehow felt soft.

How to say it, it seemed to show a hint of longing…

“That’s right! Lionel used to raise a blue bird when he was young.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. The blue bird he raised back then probably resembles the blue bird I covered with illusion.”

No wonder. When I was making this magical device, I wanted to create a blue bird illusion instead of common pigeons or sparrows.

My unconscious mind must have aimed for this effect without me knowing.

I really am a genius!

“But Miss, how did you know that fact? I don’t think such content was written in the documents from the information broker.”

“Huh? Well, there are ways to know everything… I heard it from Lionel! When I baked cookies for him!”

“I see.”

Wait, could it be that the story about the Second Prince raising a blue bird as a child isn’t known to the outside?

‘Well, it might be one thing if he just raised it, but since the First Prince killed the bird the Second Prince was raising… The Empress must have thoroughly silenced everyone.’

I should be careful what I say elsewhere.

While I was thinking such thoughts, Lionel turned around and sat back at his desk.

And he was turning pages of a thick book while copying something into his notebook… Watching him just continue doing that, I couldn’t hide my bewilderment.

“What’s this? He’s just ignoring it?”

“It seems that way.”

“Then why did he trap it in the room?”

Usually when you see a bird that resembles one you raised as a child, don’t you reach out or give it food or show some kind of interest?

I hadn’t expected to be ignored this thoroughly. Somehow the situation was flowing completely differently from my expectations, which sparked my competitive spirit.

“…Let’s approach him.”

“What? What if you get caught?”

“Don’t worry. If it looks like that might happen, I’ll quickly run away.”

I won’t make the same mistake as before. I firmly gripped the controller with both hands and moved the stick to relocate the blue bird onto the desk.

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Lionel had raised a bird when he was seven years old.

Actually, saying he ‘raised’ a bird was somewhat inaccurate. He had never once put the small bird inside a cage.

Their first meeting was outside, and their second meeting was when it flew into his room through an open window.

The blue bird that flew to his side on its own whim would quickly escape outside whenever he tried to show interest.

After such incidents repeated several times, instead of reaching out to the blue bird first, Lionel only left water and small fruit berries by the window.

The blue bird, which initially didn’t even glance at those things, began pecking at the fruit at some point, and from some time on, it would make sounds like humming a tune when in a good mood.

Little by little, very little by little, it took about three months for the distance to close enough that the blue bird wouldn’t run away even when he reached out first.

Because that memory was still vivid, Lionel knew well how to handle birds.

Though it had boldly invaded human territory, small creatures naturally have high wariness. If Lionel reached out, it would run away.

Therefore, Lionel left the bird that reminded him of his childhood friend alone.

“Chirp!”

He had anticipated that it would eventually come down and approach like this.

‘It really does resemble her.’

The feathers from head to toe being the same clear sky-blue color, the downy feathers on the belly being white.

Even the movements of tilting its head and hopping closer step by step were exactly like Liri from his memories.

As if Liri had come back to life.

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