The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 28

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Episode 28

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“What a really long day…”

I flopped down on the bed and let out a long sigh while looking up at the ceiling.

‘Still, I’m glad it worked out well.’

Even until I rushed to the Imperial Palace, I was worried about being charged with treason, but I was truly relieved when Lionel said it was okay.

“So dear, what happened to that thing about maybe having something to say or maybe not?”

If Lionel hadn’t forgiven me, I would have had to reveal everything, but since he made it as if nothing happened, there was no need to stir up unnecessary trouble, right?

So I told Mother the excuse that Uni had told the people at the Second Prince’s Palace, which she had shared with me in the carriage.

The bridal lesson teachers had told me about the realities of married life, and I couldn’t sleep at night from worry, then had a very realistic nightmare about my fiancé having an affair. So I rushed to the Imperial Palace to confirm whether he really had another woman he was meeting…

After hearing this story with a bit of truth mixed with a lot of exaggeration, Mother comforted me, asking if I had such worries.

“Don’t worry. With us behind you, how could His Highness the Prince make you suffer?”

Of course, that wasn’t the end of it.

“But dear, your actions today were a bit reckless. The Imperial Palace is a place where smoke rises very easily from chimneys that aren’t even lit. Your actions could have harmed the Second Prince.”

“Yes… I’m reflecting on it.”

“You are the Second Prince’s fiancée, so always remember that the Second Prince’s flaws can also become your flaws.”

Mother’s words were absolutely right a hundred, a thousand times over.

I wrote a letter of reflection, and Sister, who didn’t stop me from going to the Second Prince’s Palace, also wrote a letter of reflection with me.

And after eating dinner and returning to my room, it was now this time.

I was blankly looking up at the ceiling when I suddenly muttered.

“Is Lionel really the obsessive male lead I saw in the novel?”

The words I muttered aloud floated emptily around the room before returning to my head again.

‘No matter how I think about it, he doesn’t seem like someone who would do such things.’

Lionel’s actions in the novel as I remember them were as follows.

First of all, first. To make the First Prince the crown prince, the Empress sent Lionel to the Central Temple.

Why the temple of all places? It was because of the oracle Lionel had received.

[You will rise to a supreme position regardless of your own will]

When thinking of a ‘supreme position’, what comes to mind is naturally the Emperor.

But if you think about it carefully, there was one other supreme position in this empire.

Namely, the Pope.

Since the founding of the empire until now, the oracle of fate received from God had never gone astray even once.

In other words, the Empress tried to fulfill his oracle by making Lionel become Pope instead of Emperor.

Anyway, the Temple’s position also didn’t deny the fact that Lionel’s oracle could be interpreted in that direction.

So they accepted Lionel and ordained him, and Lionel started from the position of Bishop as a future Pope.

And after 3 years passed. Lionel staged a rebellion, and succeeded.

The key point of this rebellion was that the clergy and Holy Knights took Lionel’s side.

In this country, God gives oracles to the royal family, and if the oracle is misinterpreted and the wrong person ascends to the throne, the Pope can raise objections.

So in a situation where even the Emperor couldn’t treat the clergy carelessly, Lionel, who had the support of the clergy and Holy Knights, was already occupying an advantageous position.

Hadn’t God already guaranteed it? That he was a person who would rise to a supreme position.

“…Huh?”

Wait a minute. Isn’t this something strange?

‘Surely the oracle that Lionel received was…’

-Flash!

“Huh? What’s that?”

Just when something was about to come to mind, suddenly light flickered from over there.

Wondering what it was, I bolted upright and saw light coming into the crystal ball on the desk.

The crystal ball connected to the blue bird!

“Kyaaah! What is that! Why is that operating on its own!”

It really is broken after all!

Whether Lionel acted pitifully like a dog caught in the rain or not, I should have ruthlessly retrieved the blue bird!

-Cecil? Is that you?

“Hueok!”

What, he knew the crystal ball turned on? How? There shouldn’t be such a function!

I hurriedly rushed to the desk and sat in front of the crystal ball.

As expected, Lionel’s face was reflected in the crystal ball.

He too seemed a bit surprised as he stared this way, and the screen was shaking little by little.

And I knew why it was shaking like this.

“It’s flying? How? I didn’t even touch the controller.”

-Are you saying that you’re not the one moving this blue bird right now?

“Yes! It’s not me… Huh?”

What? …What, what!

“Can you hear my voice right now?”

-Yes. I can hear it very clearly. So there was this function too.

“No! There’s no such function!”

I couldn’t understand this phenomenon at all.

Being able to hear Lionel’s voice and see his appearance through the crystal ball was because the blue bird had transmission function and the crystal ball had reception function.

In other words, this crystal ball has no transmission function. The blue bird has no reception function either. I made it, so I know better than anyone.

‘But how on earth is my voice reaching over there!’

-Didn’t the person who made this magical device secretly implant circuits without Cecil knowing?

“No, I made this magical device myself… Hup!”

I covered my mouth with both hands, but it was already too late.

-You made this magical device yourself, Cecil?

“…Is it too late a timing to deny that it wasn’t me?”

-You can even make magical devices. That’s an amazing ability.

It didn’t work at all. It seemed it really was too late.

‘He could at least pretend not to know…’

Since I was already caught, I thought about bragging that half of the magical devices currently being made and sold with Roheim’s sponsorship at the Frost Tower were directly developed by me, but I stopped.

‘I should save that to use as emergency money after marriage later.’

-If you can make magical devices, you must also know how to use magic.

“No. I can’t use magic.”

-What?

Like his voice, the face visible through the crystal ball was colored with puzzlement.

It was natural for Lionel, who rarely showed expression changes, to be so surprised.

Actually, the method of making magical devices itself was simple. Implant magic circuits into magic stones. That’s all there is to it.

However, creating the magic circuits to implant into magic stones was quite a tricky task. It was even more so because encryption work had to be done to prevent others from taking it apart and stealing it.

Like this, the process of converting magic into magic circuits was only possible if you perfectly understood that magic.

But who in the world would have perfect magical knowledge while not even being able to use magic?

“But the reason I can’t use magic is because I lost my mana vessel. I can use magic if I have magic stones, but honestly, that can’t really be called being a mage…”

-You lost your mana vessel?

“Yes. I had a terribly severe fever when I was young. At that time, all my memories flew away along with my mana vessel. You can imagine how severe the fever was, right?”

I smiled bitterly and picked up the controller that was rolling around on the desk. Even though I knew it wouldn’t work because the mana was all depleted, I pressed the button anyway.

‘If I had mana, it would have worked without separate charging…’

-Chirp! Chirp chirp!

‘Right, just like thi… Huh?’

-Now it’s even crying. Are you really not controlling it, Cecil?

“Uh uh? It shouldn’t be… right?”

I pressed the crying sound button once more.

-Chirp!

The timing is too perfect to say no…

-Chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp chirp.

The timing….

-Beep! Beep beep beep! Beep beep, beep beep beep!

“Wh-why is this thing working!”

-Cecil?

There was only one reason why a magical device that should have been completely dead from depleted mana was functioning.

In my body.

My mana had returned.

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