The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 31

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Episode 31

“Right. Then go upstairs now. I have something to discuss with your mother.”

“What? Is it something I can’t hear?”

I wanted to chat about all sorts of things since it had been so long since I’d seen Master…

Perhaps seeing how dejected I looked, Mother consoled me with a gentle voice.

“Do you want to stay here? I thought you’d be bored since we’ll be discussing Tower of Magic sponsorship with your master…”

“Ugh, then I’ll go upstairs.”

I absolutely hated long, complicated, and boring stories like sponsorship talks. I figured I’d just end up dozing off if I sat here, so I just got up.

“But can I take Snowy with me?”

“Sure. But don’t give him any more snacks. That fellow has gotten quite plump.”

“Where? Isn’t it just his feathers getting fluffier?”

“That’s the first time I’ve heard that expression. Anyway, you can’t give him any.”

“Yes…”

Hmm, but I don’t think I’ll be able to resist when Snowy acts cute and begs for snacks.

Sure enough, the moment I entered my room, Snowy started rubbing his head against my cheek and begging for treats.

I firmly refused, saying no, and kept refusing, and kept refusing…

“…It’s a secret from Master, okay?”

“Hoot!”

Fortunately, I had some leftover cookies from yesterday’s baking. I broke them into small pieces and put them on a plate for easy eating, and Snowy hooted joyfully as he devoured the cookies.

“Is it delicious?”

“Hoot!”

Snowy’s face looked happy, as if he liked the cookies.

I was stroking his head with my index finger because he was so cute, when Uni asked me with a curious expression.

“But Miss, aren’t spirit familiars magical life forms created by tearing off part of a mage’s soul? How can he eat cookies?”

“Because he’s literally a magical ‘life form.’ He basically follows all the characteristics of living beings.”

Before spirit familiars are perfectly completed, while they’re ‘being created,’ they can only move when directly controlled by the caster.

But once completed as a life form, they have their own consciousness and move independently.

Moreover, since they’re made from fragments of the mage’s soul, the owner mage can connect their consciousness at any time to communicate with other people.

“That’s why mages don’t get close to unfamiliar animals. They might be spirit familiars of other mages who approached to gather information.”

According to Master, I heard there are even eccentrics who wander around noble residences with spirit familiars in the form of common and easily beloved animals like cats and dogs, secretly gathering and selling confidential information.

“But that’s a really special case. It’s already such a difficult magic that only about four or five mages in the tower have succeeded, and the risk is too great to use them for such dangerous tasks like infiltration.”

“What kind of risk?”

“If a spirit familiar dies, it’s like the soul fragment being destroyed, so the caster suffers a huge blow.”

That’s why this magic must only be cast after becoming an adult.

It’s such difficult magic that it’s impossible for a child to complete it in the first place, but if a still-growing child suffers damage to their soul, there’s a high probability they’ll die.

Even adults might not wake up for one or two years in severe cases.

“Hoot!”

“Hm? No, you can’t. Really can’t now. I said just one.”

“Hoot, hooooot.”

“Ugh, look at him acting cute…”

I really tried my best. I struggled to resist until the end. So Master should forgive me, right?

“Hoooot.”

“Fine, fine. It’s not like getting a little fat will make you sick.”

“Hooooot!”

“Aww, so cute. Our Snowy is the cutest in the world.”

Ah, it’s really such a shame.

If I could use magic too, I would have made a spirit familiar.

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“Then Mother, Master! See you at dinner time later!”

After Cecilia waved her hands widely and went outside.

The Duchess, Sofia Roheim, and the owner of the Frost Tower, Melania, let out long sighs as if they had made a promise.

“That child is so innocent, even though she’s already sixteen years old.”

“Hehe. Isn’t she lovely? At sixteen, she’s still at an age to be wrapped in her mother’s skirts.”

“Isn’t she at an age where she should have matured long ago and be doing her share?”

“Our child doesn’t need to mature yet.”

The beloved youngest daughter of House of Roheim.

Cecilia had no reason to mature, no need to, and was deliberately raised being spoiled so she wouldn’t mature.

Perhaps such feelings influenced why Bellows and Albert still haven’t found fiancés and remain single.

Stay as our child in our arms forever. Stay in the comfortable and peaceful greenhouse we’ve prepared.

…Even though they know better than anyone that this can’t last forever.

“More importantly, Lady Melania. Since you deliberately sent Cecil away, you must have something to tell me separately?”

“That’s right.”

Melania lightly flicked her finger. Then a thin sound barrier formed around the two women.

Inside the sound barrier where no one could eavesdrop, Melania spoke in a rather serious voice.

“You remember everything I said before about Cecil’s mana vessel, right?”

“Yes. You said it was impossible for Cecil to recover her mana vessel.”

Melania nodded.

“I said that because I thought Cecil’s mana vessel itself was destroyed when her spirit familiar disappeared.”

Casting spirit familiar magic at the mere age of seven wasn’t something to be praised, but something to be severely scolded for.

However, before anyone could notice this fact, Cecilia’s spirit familiar was destroyed, and Cecilia, whose soul fragment was destroyed, nearly died but survived.

Instead, she lost all her memories and her mana vessel. It was too heavy a price for a young mage who was said to be a prodigy, a genius beyond any words.

There was no way to recover a destroyed mana vessel. So Melania thought it was rather fortunate that Cecilia had lost her past memories…

“My guess was wrong. It seems Cecil’s mana vessel wasn’t destroyed.”

Sofia asked with a joyful expression.

“Does that mean there’s a way for Cecil’s mana vessel to recover?”

“No, not recovery. It wasn’t destroyed in the first place—Cecil’s mana vessel was lost.”

“Lost?”

“I don’t know how it happened either. But the residual mana remaining in Cecil’s body was definitely that child’s mana from when she was young.”

A mage’s mana springs from the mana vessel generated within the body.

If the mana vessel is destroyed, mana absolutely cannot spring from within the body.

However, the mana remaining in Cecilia’s body was definitely hers, and there were traces of it flowing in from outside…

Which means.

“What I told Cecil was a lie. She didn’t receive someone else’s mana. Since she said she went to the Imperial Palace, her mana vessel is probably floating around somewhere in the Imperial Palace. Her own mana flowed in from there.”

“A mana vessel floating around… Is that possible?”

“It’s not impossible.”

The exact location where mana vessels are generated is not the body, but the soul.

If Cecilia had torn off the entire soul part containing the mana vessel when creating her spirit familiar…

“When Cecil’s spirit familiar disappeared… her mana vessel might have instinctively protected the soul fragment.”

That would also explain why young Cecilia survived instead of dying. Because Cecilia’s soul fragment didn’t disappear but remains somewhere.

‘But how on earth… could a soul fragment separated from the body survive outside for nine whole years?’

Did it settle somewhere? But where exactly?

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