The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 39

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Episode 39

Not noticing her approach, the Second Prince was embraced by the lady, and the people who had been watching the Second Prince were startled by the friendly and informal contact.

However, the Second Prince turned around with a calm face, not particularly surprised. In his hands as he helped down the lady clinging to him, there was a carefulness as if he were handling his own doll.

“How did you know to come here?”

“How did I know? I asked around and found this place. Do you know how hard it was to figure out where this was?”

The lady, with both hands on her hips and one cheek puffed out, looked immature in a way that matched her youthful appearance.

But it wasn’t unpleasant to watch.

The bright and innocent atmosphere typical of a spoiled child who had been loved abundantly helped ventilate the stiff air floating around the Second Prince.

“You know I go to the Imperial Palace to meet you every time, so what are you supposed to do when your schedule changes but you don’t leave any message? I searched the entire capital.”

“Did you? I didn’t expect you to come looking. Didn’t you say you wouldn’t be able to go out for a while because your family’s overprotectiveness was severe?”

“I overcame it! I’m perfectly healthy without a single thing wrong with me!”

“But…”

“Enough!”

The Second Prince tried to say something, but the lady, presumably his fiancée and likely the youngest daughter of Roheim, smiled brightly at the people who were staring at her with dumbfounded faces.

“I’m sorry. Did I interrupt everyone’s work?”

“Oh, no.”

“I’ll help too. What do you record on this list?”

“Huh? Oh, um… You are Lady Cecilia Roheim, right? We heard you had collapsed…”

“Oh my, that became a rumor already? I didn’t collapse. The people around me make such a fuss that a light cold becomes pneumonia and a broken nail becomes a broken arm. There’s nothing wrong with me at all!”

Lady Cecilia Roheim, waving her hand and laughing cheerfully, had good color and clear skin, and no matter how you looked at her, she didn’t appear to be a patient.

Her appearance sitting at the table with documents and a fountain pen, energetically writing down names, also didn’t seem like someone who was sick anywhere.

“Next person! Please come this way!”

“Ah, oh, yes, yes.”

A burly man standing at the very front of the long line walked forward hesitantly.

With a large scar across his face and a bushy beard, the man whose specialty was making children cry just by grinning was uncharacteristically shy as he glanced at the Duke’s daughter.

“Your name?”

“F-Fry, it’s Fry.”

“Yes, Mr. Fry…”

Fry, who had been watching with curious eyes as the Duke’s daughter wrote his name, belatedly made a “huh” sound and asked her.

“By any chance… are you His Highness the Second Prince’s fiancée?”

“That’s right. How do you think? Do we look good together?”

Looking at Lady Cecilia Roheim smiling brightly, Fry stuck out both thumbs forward.

“You look incredibly good together. I truly think it’s a match made in heaven!”

“You have good eyes! As a commemoration, two pieces of bread… can I give them? How many per person?”

The Second Prince, who had been quietly watching the two people chatting amicably with smiling faces, finally opened his mouth.

“One per person. And this person already received his earlier.”

“Oh, really? That’s too bad. I can’t give you more today, so please come again tomorrow!”

“Yes. Sorry for standing in line twice. Farewell. And you two really look great together. I’m not just saying that, I mean it.”

“Thank you!”

Lady Cecilia Roheim smiled brightly and extended her hand as a commemoration, and the man glanced at the Second Prince once before rubbing his palm hard on his clothes and bowing as he extended his hand.

Lady Cecilia Roheim shook hands cheerfully with the man who respectfully held her hand with both hands, then called out in a lively voice for the next person.

Watching Lady Cecilia Roheim naturally join the Second Prince’s volunteer work, people forgot to speak before finally opening their mouths.

“No matter how you look at it, she’s not a lady who’s been abused…”

“Didn’t they say His Highness the Second Prince hit her? That she rolled around at home wanting to break off the engagement?”

Among those rumors, the only true part was that Cecilia had rolled around on the floor.

However, people didn’t realize this fact and focused their attention on Lady Cecilia Roheim, who was smiling brightly at the Second Prince.

On the innocent lady who couldn’t possibly show such a lively expression if she had been abused, whether physically or mentally.

“And just looking at that…”

“Lady Cecilia seems completely smitten with His Highness the Second Prince?”

“Actually, my younger sibling works at the Imperial Palace…”

The Duke’s daughter fell for the Second Prince at first sight, so she’s been visiting the Second Prince’s Palace daily, wearing down the threshold, she was shocked to hear the Second Prince call another woman flower-like, so she rushed to the Second Prince’s Palace from dawn…

This time, those fact-based rumors spread widely among the people.

All while the people involved remained completely unaware.

* * *

I got time to talk alone with Lionel when the sun was setting and it was time to take down the relief tent.

Lionel offered to help take down the tent too, but the priests waved their hands insistently saying that much was fine, so he just stepped back. Maybe they were being considerate in case I would also offer to help with that.

‘Hmm, certainly my arms are too slender to help with such physical work.’

“More importantly, Your Highness should escort Lady Cecilia.”

“Of course. Hasn’t it gotten late? We’re fine, so please head back now.”

“Yes, thank you! We’ll be going now!”

I pushed Lionel’s back and got him into my carriage. Then I instructed Uni.

“Tell the coachman to drive very slowly. Or tell him it’s fine to go around the entire capital once.”

“Yes. I’ll make sure to delay appropriately.”

Reliable Uni sat with the coachman on the driver’s seat, and I got into the carriage alone with Lionel.

The door closed, and the carriage began to move slowly. At first, I sat across from Lionel, but then I moved to sit beside him and whispered to him in a low voice.

“We’re finally alone.”

I looked at Lionel with a meaningful gaze.

“Do you know how long I’ve been waiting for this time?”

I reached out toward Lionel, but Lionel lifting me up and returning me to my original seat was faster than me grabbing his hand.

…Huh?

“Sitting facing backward makes you prone to motion sickness.”

“What? No, I don’t get motion sickness.”

“Still, it’s better to sit facing forward rather than backward.”

Then Lionel placed his hand on my forehead to check if I had a fever and asked if I was cold.

“The evening breeze is chilly. I’ll close the window.”

“Yes, clo… No! That’s not what’s important right now!”

Why is this person suddenly acting like my guardian?

I moved to sit beside Lionel once more, but again I was lifted by his hands and had to return to my original seat.

“Please sit facing forward.”

“Ugh, really! Then you come over here, Lionel!”

“Understood.”

What? Was facing backward really the problem?

I looked at Lionel with a bewildered face as he came to sit beside me, then extended my hand to him, feeling sorry for the time being wasted.

“Give me your hand first. I’m all out of mana. Hurry.”

“…”

Lionel quietly looked down at the hand I extended, then asked me.

“May I check something first?”

“What kind of check?”

Instead of answering my question, Lionel took off the glove he was wearing and interlaced his fingers with mine.

‘Gasp!’

I had only been thinking of a simple embrace, so at the sudden hot sensation of thick, long fingers pushing between my fingers, I could only blink, not knowing what to do.

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