The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 34

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Episode 34

 

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It’s a dream.

 

The moment I realized that fact, I saw two people, a man and woman, down below.

 

The woman was someone I didn’t know, and the man looked like Lionel…

 

‘Huh, did he age a bit?’

 

The current Lionel already looked quite mature for his age, but when he let his hair down and took off his stiff uniform, you could sense a fresh boyish charm.

 

But ‘that’ Lionel was different.

 

Wearing pure white clothes without any patterns or decorations, he had his usual expressionless face, but in his indifferent yet heavily sunken eyes, I could feel the depth of years.

 

‘Just looking at his face, he doesn’t seem that much older…’

 

At most twenty-two? Twenty-three?

 

That age wasn’t old at all, but the gloomy atmosphere and fatigue felt from his firmly set lips made him look like an adult worn out by the world.

 

-I don’t understand what you’re saying, Bishop.

 

-…Don’t you hate them? The family that abandoned you, the fiancée who abandoned you?

 

Hey, I never abandoned Lionel! The fiancée is right here above you – what kind of false rumor is this!

 

Feeling wronged, I tried to go down immediately, but I had no body right now.

 

While I was flustered by that fact, Lionel’s voice, sounding even heavier and more sunken than before, like it was soaked in water, reached me.

 

-I have no family or fiancée, having severed my worldly ties.

 

-Second Prince…!

 

-Please don’t call me that. I am no longer a prince.

 

His figure turning away as if he had nothing more to say was truly cold and heartless.

 

The woman called Bishop, left alone, could only watch Lionel’s retreating figure with disbelieving eyes.

 

-You don’t feel vengeful? Why?

 

Her tone felt somewhat strange. As if Lionel absolutely had to harbor revenge.

 

-…If that’s how you’re going to be, then I have my own thoughts too.

 

Hatred settled in her previously hollow eyes.

 

Soon, not even a hint of hesitation could be felt from the retreating figure walking away with her back turned.

 

Suddenly, I realized something.

 

‘Isn’t this a scene from the novel?’

 

If so, exactly which point in time would this scene be from?

 

I didn’t need to think about it. Certainly, after Lionel entered the Central Temple, and…

 

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

 

Regardless of his own will – this was before he started the rebellion.

 

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“Mmm…”

 

“Dear, are you coming to?”

 

“Cecil! Are you okay? Does anything hurt?”

 

“Lower your voice. Cecil. Do you recognize who we are?”

 

When I woke up from the short dream, I was surrounded by my family members.

 

“Miss, you’ve regained consciousness! I’ll quickly bring Lady Melania!”

 

As Uni’s footsteps faded away, my consciousness gradually became clearer. Blinking dazedly, I looked at the three people gazing down at me with tense faces.

 

“…Why are you all like this?”

 

“Why are we like this! Well, you…!”

 

“Cecil, you do remember who we are, right?”

 

Brother’s voice asking that was quite serious.

 

No, it wasn’t just Brother. Sister and Mother were also looking down at me while tightly holding each other’s hands.

 

‘Ah, I see.’

 

I had lost my memory when I was young. It was so long ago that I had forgotten about it for a moment.

 

The three of them looked so serious that I thought about lightening the mood with a joke, but if I did that, Father from our territory would probably fly over immediately, so I gave them the answer they wanted to hear.

 

“Of course I remember. Mother, Sister, Brother.”

 

“Ah! Cecil, thank goodness…!”

 

“We were so worried you might lose your memory again…”

 

As if it wasn’t a joke, Mother wiped her eyes with a handkerchief, and Brother also made sniffling sounds.

 

Flustered by that atmosphere, I carefully sat up.

 

“No, I don’t hurt at all, so why…”

 

“Cecil! Lie down!”

 

“That’s right. Stay still and wait until Lady Melania arrives.”

 

“No, I really don’t hurt at all?”

 

“You don’t hurt at all but were unconscious for two days?”

 

“What? Two days?”

 

I had been lying down for that long? The dream was really short though?

 

“Cecil, do you remember what happened before you collapsed?”

 

“The memory before I collapsed?”

 

I thought for a moment and then answered.

 

“I was talking with Second Prince at the Imperial Palace… Ah.”

 

Blue Bird. I touched the Blue Bird and lost consciousness.

 

“Do you have any idea why you collapsed?”

 

I do. I do, but…

 

‘I, I can’t say.’

 

If they ask what the Blue Bird is, I’d have to answer that it’s a magical tool I made, and if they ask what purpose I made the magical tool for…

 

“Miss! Lady Melania has arrived!”

 

The first to fly inside was Snowy.

 

The pure white owl that landed by my bedside made a mournful cry as if worried about me.

 

While I was patting Snowy’s head to tell it I was okay, Mother made room for Master.

 

“Cecil, hold out your hand.”

 

Master immediately held out her hand to me without any other questions. I felt somewhat hesitant, but I carefully took that hand.

 

As always, cool-feeling magic power rushed into me. However, an abnormal phenomenon occurred.

 

-Pop!

 

At the same time as a bluish energy appeared at my fingertips, Master’s magic power that had been rushing into my body was repelled outward.

 

“Ow!”

 

“Cecil!”

 

While I was holding my tingling fingertips from that rebound, Mother grabbed my hand asking if I was okay, and Sister and Brother demanded an explanation from Master about what had happened.

 

However, unlike everyone who was surprised, Master was looking at me with a face that wasn’t surprised at all.

 

“What happened just now… Cecil, you can guess, can’t you?”

 

“…Yes. Master.”

 

What had just happened occurred regardless of my will.

 

However, I instinctively realized why such a thing had happened. I cupped my fingertips with a bewildered feeling.

 

“Magic power has… settled in my body again.”

 

The reason Master’s magic power couldn’t enter my body and was repelled.

 

It was because the magic power settled in my body had reflexively driven out Master’s magic power.

 

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Late at night. It had been quite some time since he sat down at his desk.

 

But Lionel remained lost in deep thought with his gaze fixed on the open book. His mind was complicated.

 

“Was my order to bring an attendant so difficult? You absolutely had to drag that frail young lady outside and make her collapse?”

 

“If she collapsed so suddenly, her complexion must have looked bad, but just how indifferent must you be to not notice your fiancée’s condition? …Well, you don’t even come to visit me when I’m sick unless I call for you.”

 

The time Lionel and Cecilia spent walking together wasn’t even 10 minutes. So Cecilia’s sudden collapse wouldn’t have been due to the walk with Lionel.

 

However, because of the Empress who rushed over immediately upon hearing that Cecilia had collapsed, Cecilia’s collapse became entirely Lionel’s fault.

 

Therefore, the Emperor summoned Lionel and commanded thus:

 

“Suspend official duties for the time being and reflect on your actions.”

 

It wasn’t because he agreed with the Empress’s words, but because the Roheim Family could hold him responsible for this, so he was making the first move.

 

Lionel also understood the Emperor’s intentions. Therefore, he didn’t concern himself with the house arrest order that had been issued.

 

But the reason his feelings were so complicated was because.

 

“Oh, Miss!”

 

The moment Cecilia collapsed like a puppet with severed strings, Lionel reflexively caught her in his arms.

 

Fortunately, she appeared to be sleeping.

 

However, Cecilia’s delicate body was as light as a feather. Just as he was beginning to think something might be wrong.

 

“I will take care of Miss. I’m sorry!”

 

Before he could even say whether it was acceptable or not, the maid instantly whisked Cecilia away.

 

His arms, which had been filled with that soft warmth and sweet fragrance, were suddenly left completely empty.

 

The sense of loss from that moment still left him feeling hollow.

 

How strange indeed.

 

Robbery should no longer be an act that stirred any emotion in him.

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