The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 26

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Episode 26

“Another woman… you mean?”

“Yes! I absolutely cannot tolerate a mistress!”

What’s important right now? Momentum.

Let’s push my opinion strongly before Lionel can think of anything else!

“For life! Until death! Even if my husband and I fight and bicker, I think it’s better not to use separate bedrooms, you know? A man who leaves his perfectly fine wife to go make illegitimate children? Complete trash!”

“…”

“What’s Your Highness’s opinion? Do you agree with me? You’re not thinking something ridiculous like ‘well, it’s fine for a man to have a mistress or two,’ are you?”

“I’m not.”

“Right, of course you’d answer like that. But you might say ‘I won’t take a mistress, you’re the only woman for me’ to my face while secretly meeting someone behind my back.”

Then Lionel made an expression as if he had realized something.

“So that’s why you checked the bedroom? You were worried I might have brought another woman into my bedroom?”

“Yes!”

After nodding my head vigorously for now, I watched Lionel, who was silently lost in thought, and felt a little regretful.

‘…Did I go too far?’

It seemed like it would be better to apologize around now.

Just as I was about to speak with that thought, Lionel’s words reached me first.

“Then checking for just a day or two won’t clear those suspicions.”

“Huh?”

“Isn’t that right? Even if I didn’t bring another woman into my bedroom yesterday, today is a different story.”

My mouth fell open at those words.

“So, so, so you’re saying you’ll bring another woman besides me into your bedroom?”

“I won’t. …Even if I say that, didn’t you just say you can’t trust what I might do behind your back even though I say this to your face?”

“Still, you should at least say you absolutely won’t do that in front of me!”

“I won’t.”

Having said that, Lionel tilted his head slightly and spoke again.

“Can you believe me?”

“I can’t!”

Why are you speaking so meaningfully in the first place!

“Then you’ll have to monitor me tonight as well.”

“That’s… right, isn’t it?”

Then Lionel held out the bluebird he was holding to me.

“Then I’ll be waiting.”

“…”

What, what is this?

It seems like it went well, but it also feels unsettling, and it feels like I’ve fallen into some kind of trap…

‘Anyway, let me retrieve the bluebird first.’

Just as I was about to receive the bluebird from Lionel.

-Crack!

“Ah, that stings!”

The moment the cold magic stone and the soft texture of lace touched my hand.

I felt a tingling current flow from my fingertips to the top of my head and down to my toes, like static electricity.

Startled by that unfamiliar feeling and pain, I unconsciously hit Lionel’s hand, and the bluebird-shaped magic device fell to the floor.

“Ah! I’m sorry!”

“It’s fine. More importantly, it seems like magic sparked – are you hurt?”

“Ah, so that was magic sparking? It did sting, but I’m fine now.”

Aside from my heart pounding from the surprise, I really was completely fine.

Lionel, who had been examining me with his eyes and seemed to think there was no problem, bent his waist while sitting and picked up the bluebird that had fallen to the floor.

Then he examined the bluebird from various angles and held it out to me with a slightly relieved expression.

“There doesn’t seem to be any damage or cracks.”

“Yes. But just to be safe, I should take it apart and check the circuits.”

“…What?”

As I tried to take the bluebird from Lionel’s hand, his hand quickly pulled back before my fingertips could touch it.

‘Huh?’

When I looked at Lionel with confusion, he was blinking with a surprised expression.

I watched him quietly for a moment, then reached for the magic device he was holding again.

However.

Swoosh. Swoosh. Swoosh.

My hand only cut through empty air several times. Each time, Lionel quickly moved his hand to prevent mine from touching the magic device.

‘What? Why are you suddenly acting like a Turkish ice cream vendor?’

Getting annoyed, I was about to roll up my sleeves to seriously try to catch it, when Lionel completely enclosed the magic device with both hands and asked me.

“You said you’d take it apart to check the circuits.”

“Yes. Since the connection was cut once, I’m worried it might be broken, and I need to inject magic power too.”

“What exactly do you mean by taking it apart?”

“Um, it’s really complicated to explain… Do you know anything about magic circuits?”

“I don’t. But…”

Did my words about taking apart the magic device to check the magic circuits sound like I was going to dissect a perfectly fine bird?

Lionel said to me while covering the bluebird with both hands.

“I’ll keep it with me. I’ll provide the magic power too.”

“What?”

“Won’t that work?”

“No, well… I’d like to at least check if it’s broken or not.”

“If we confirm that the connection doesn’t work, I’ll send it to you then.”

“No…”

“It would be easier for you to monitor me anytime if I’m the one holding it, wouldn’t it?”

That’s not something the person being monitored should say, is it?

While I was unable to continue speaking due to my bewilderment, Lionel pulled the hand holding the magic device toward himself and spoke in a serious voice.

“This is mine. Give it to me.”

“Huh?”

What is this about now!

‘More than that, those words sound strangely familiar somehow.’

No way. It must be my imagination.

While I was thinking that, Lionel’s words continued.

“Give it to me.”

“…No, well.”

“Give it to me. Won’t you?”

Ugh. It really wasn’t my imagination after all.

‘This isn’t what I taught you to use on me…’

Why are you using the words I taught you to use on the First Prince and Empress – who take your things as they please and fire people who gave them everything – on me? If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have taught you.

“Cecil…”

“…”

Wow, but this person is really cunning.

Only making pitiful expressions when he needs something!

This is all calculated. No doubt about it. This guilty human!

“Fine. I give up. I’ll give it to you.”

“Really?”

…Why is his smiling face so bright again?

This is the second time. Moreover, this time his face was so bright and radiant that I couldn’t even think it was my imagination, and I found myself staring blankly.

It was a moment when I realized once again that this man wasn’t an emotionless doll but a real living person.

“But this is our secret. The fact that this magic device has real-time video and audio transmission magic cast on it is a secret. Got it?”

“Understood.”

“…But really, is it okay if I activate it randomly anytime to monitor you?”

“It’s fine.”

Always saying it’s fine every single day.

Will there ever come a day when this person says it’s not fine?

I pouted my lips for no reason.

“Why? Why is it fine?”

“Well…”

During the brief pause, as if recalling some thought, the corners of Lionel’s mouth curled up slightly.

“Aren’t we the kind of relationship that will share the same bedroom for life until death, even while constantly bickering and fighting?”

“Wh-what…”

How could it sound so meaningful even without any suggestive words or nuances?

‘Scary person.’

The most guilty human being I’ve ever met in my life.

The small smile that had been on his lips disappeared, and Lionel was fiddling with the bluebird with his usual calm expression.

However, there was a sense of tenderness somewhere in those gestures. I finally felt like I had gained some insight into the person called Lionel who was hidden behind that face that cleanly erased emotions.

And that was completely different from the ‘obsessive male lead’ I knew.

‘At this point, it really seems like I’m misunderstanding something.’

No matter how I looked at it, this man didn’t seem like someone hiding a violent nature.

That means being sent to the temple as if driven from home must have been an incredibly strong shock to him.

‘Good. Let’s prevent that!’

I should go home and think hard about how to prevent what will happen in the future and the future where Lionel loses everything.

Since the magic tool matter was resolved well, I got up from my seat saying I would head back now.

“You don’t need to see me off… No. Let’s go out together.”

“Understood.”

Just out of fear of what people might be talking about outside, I should hold onto Lionel’s arm tightly as we go out.

If we go out laughing and chatting, whatever it is will be resolved well…right?

I watched the magic tool going back into Lionel’s pocket and asked him as he offered me his arm.

“But there’s one thing I want to ask. You called this bluebird Liri when you saw it.”

“Yes. It’s the name of a bird I raised when I was young.”

Ah, as I thought?

“Who gave it that name?”

“Why do you ask that?”

For the first time, Lionel, who had always given me immediate answers when I asked something, asked me back.

‘It wasn’t a particularly difficult question to answer, was it?’

I felt slightly puzzled, but thinking he was just curious, I obediently answered.

“When I was young, my family used to call me by the pet name Liri.”

“I see…”

Suddenly, Lionel’s steps stopped.

“A pet name, you said?”

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