The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 59

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Episode 59

 

-Grooooowl!

 

Following the howl of what seemed to be the pack leader, the howls of other wolves joined in one by one.

 

The intimidating atmosphere that made one’s skin crawl tightened around the maid’s neck.

 

Cold sweat that had instantly sprung forth rolled down her forehead. Her frozen legs trembled violently.

 

The maid instinctively realized.

 

That the howling from before was the giant wolves’ declaration of territory. That it was a notice declaring they would bite to death all enemies in this area.

 

The plan had gone terribly wrong.

 

‘I’m… going to die.’

 

Not a single hair from a giant wolf’s tail was visible in this location. Yet the fear that one wrong step would result in having her throat torn out consumed her entire body.

 

Lionel passed by her side as she finally collapsed with a thud.

 

“If you can’t walk, crouch and hide under that tree over there. Try not to make any noise if possible.”

 

“…Yes, yes?”

 

“When strength returns to your legs, flee toward headquarters. Don’t ever use the hidden fireworks. They’ll provoke the beasts.”

 

“You, you knew…?”

 

Leaving behind the maid who had started hiccupping from being so frightened, Lionel picked up the quiver the maid had been carrying and began running toward where the screams were coming from.

 

“It’s dangerous, Your Highness! It’s dangerous!”

 

Without time to think of anything, those words burst from her open mouth.

 

But Lionel ran toward where the wolves’ howls were coming from as if he hadn’t heard anything.

 

“Your Highness, Your Highness! You mustn’t go!”

 

It wasn’t as if she had heard any kind words. So why was she starting to regret what she had done?

 

She could only resent her still-trembling legs. The maid called for Lionel several more times, then finally took out fireworks from her pocket and set them off.

 

“His Highness the Second Prince! Has gone to face the giant wolves!”

 

The maid continued to shout.

 

How much time had passed? When her throat was completely hoarse and only croaking sounds leaked out, she finally heard approaching footsteps.

 

“Is someone there!”

 

It was an Imperial Knight who had been assigned as security for today’s hunting competition. Various parts of the two knights’ bodies clearly showed traces of having gone through fierce combat.

 

“Here! There’s an injured person here!”

 

“Can you stand up?”

 

“I, I, I’m fine. But Your Highness! His Highness the Second Prince went to where the giant wolf pack is. We need to hurry and rescue him…!”

 

“We know that too.”

 

“What?”

 

The two Imperial Knights who helped the maid stand on her own feet bit their lips with grim expressions.

 

“We were at that scene until just a moment ago.”

 

“You were at the scene…”

 

Only then did the maid realize that the injuries the two Imperial Knights had sustained were from beasts.

 

The injuries seemed quite severe, as she could see bandages wrapped under the armor they were wearing.

 

With injuries this serious, they should be resting, but unable to do so, they had only given themselves first aid and come back to the scene to handle the damage.

 

“What on earth happened? Why did a giant wolf pack appear in a place like this in the first place?”

 

“A young one lost its way and came down here, and it seems the adults came down together in a pack looking for the cub.”

 

The maid knew this much too. The beater who lured the giant wolves was supposed to use a cub as bait.

 

“But someone attending the hunting competition mistook that cub for a silver fox and shot it with an arrow.”

 

“Good heavens, the giant wolves…”

 

“Yes. They already have a good sense of smell, but they’re even more sensitive to the scent of their kin’s blood.”

 

Moreover, it was the scent of a cub’s blood. The giant wolves would have been completely enraged.

 

At the same time, the maid realized the inside story of this major accident.

 

‘They lost the cub, or the cub escaped on its own.’

 

But it would have been exhausted. That’s why it was hit by an arrow. If it had been an adult’s hide, it couldn’t have been pierced by an ordinary arrowhead, but because it happened to be a cub, it was wounded, and this chaos ensued.

 

‘So that’s why they howled!’

 

The reason giant wolves always moved in packs was because their family bonds and camaraderie were exceptional, making their unity strong.

 

They harmed such a giant wolf’s cub?

 

If they had followed the original plan and only harmed Lionel in a secluded place before returning the cub, the casualties would have been just that one person, at most five or six.

 

But now that the cub had bled, the giant wolves would try to kill everyone in this area. At least everyone who had been within hearing distance of the howling could be considered as good as dead.

 

And with very high probability…

 

“Is, is His Majesty the Emperor safe?”

 

The headquarters where the Emperor was staying might have been included within the territory the giant wolves had declared.

 

If the Emperor was even slightly injured…

 

‘This matter absolutely won’t be overlooked. They’ll investigate every detail!’

 

As the maid trembled while imagining a future of being dragged away for treason, the knight delivered fortunate news.

 

“His Majesty is safe. His Highness the Second Prince took the giant wolf cub and lured the giant wolves away.”

 

“Lured them where?”

 

The Imperial Knights shook their heads.

 

“All we know is that it was in the opposite direction from the lakeside.”

 

“A tracking party was organized belatedly and is following the traces left by the giant wolves, but…”

 

The Imperial Knights’ expressions darkened. Since they couldn’t dare speak ominous words about a prince, they didn’t add anything more, but the maid could tell what words they had swallowed.

 

Because she too had the intuition that the Second Prince definitely wouldn’t return in one piece.

 

* * *

 

“Perfect!”

 

I put down the fountain pen I had been holding and raised the notebook with the magic formula drawn on it high with both hands.

 

Watching me, Uni asked.

 

“Did you learn another new magic today?”

 

“Yes! I got the perfect feeling. It’s perfect!”

 

“What kind of feeling are you referring to?”

 

Saying she was curious about that, Uni asked again.

 

“Isn’t magic different between theory and practice? I was thinking that you can’t know whether you’ve mastered it perfectly until you actually recite the incantation.”

 

“That’s right. You don’t know until you actually try it. But I have five years of experience making magic tools, don’t I?”

 

Having made magic tools for the past five years meant that I had been converting basic magic formulas into complex magic circuits for five years.

 

To put it simply, it was like taking magic that only needed ‘1+1=2’ and complicating it into something like ‘complicated formula’.

 

Anyway, there was no way I, who had been making magic tools by adding unnecessary calculation processes, couldn’t use magic that only required extracting the necessary formulas simply.

 

This wasn’t baseless confidence.

 

It was very well-founded confidence, like how someone who had spent their lifetime diving underwater with their bare body without oxygen tanks to catch abalone and sea squirts couldn’t possibly be unable to do freestyle swimming.

 

“Of course, just guessing and actually trying it are different things.”

 

“Then next time you receive mana from His Highness the Second Prince, try using it then.”

 

“Mmm, no. I can’t use this one.”

 

“What? Why not?”

 

“Well, you see…”

 

I rolled my eyes around once before telling Uni.

 

“It’s Hellfire. What I learned.”

 

“Hellfire?”

 

Uni, who had been blinking blankly, asked me with an incredulous expression.

 

“…That fire attribute magic that boasts tremendous destructive power among attack magic, the worst magic?”

 

“Huh? No, it’s not the worst, is it?”

 

It deserved the modifier ‘worst’ in that only the caster could cancel it, and if the caster didn’t cancel it, it would continue burning until the target was completely reduced to ash, but…

 

“It is the worst magic! The Flame Tower registered it as a forbidden spell!”

 

“What? Forbidden spell? When? Why? I didn’t hear about that! No, more importantly, how do you know something I don’t?”

 

“Well, I always read the newsletters published by the Five Towers.”

 

“Ah.”

 

It was I who had told Uni to read the newsletters published quarterly by the towers.

 

A newsletter written by people who could freely use magic that I couldn’t even use. Honestly, I didn’t even want to look at it.

 

But not reading it at all seemed wasteful since it contained many interesting stories like Master’s stories and reviews analyzing the magic tools I had developed.

 

So I had asked Uni to do that for me. To read the newsletters and pick out only the stories I might find interesting to tell me.

 

“Hellfire being registered as a forbidden spell… That’s certainly not a story the old me would have been interested in.”

 

“From now on, I’ll let you know right away if any magic gets registered as a forbidden spell. No wait. I’ll organize and bring you a list of what magic is currently registered as forbidden spells right now.”

 

“Yeah, thanks.”

 

Uni said she’d handle it right away since it came up and went outside, leaving me alone in the room.

 

I looked down at the notebook with Hellfire’s magic formula organized in it and let out a regretful sigh.

 

‘I really wanted to try using this magic at least once.’

 

A magic that chases after and burns the enemy I designate to the very end. Isn’t that incredibly cool!

 

But it was true that it was equally dangerous. If cast on a person, they would definitely die.

 

I swallowed my regretful feelings and tore out the page with Hellfire’s magic formula organized on it.

 

‘Still… I could try using it somewhere where no one’s watching, couldn’t I?’

 

I left that one strand of lingering attachment behind.

 

* * *

 

Crackle, crackle.

 

A massive wall of flames spewing hot heat surrounded the giant wolves, emitting threatening heat as if it would devour them at any moment.

 

“Grroooowl!”

 

The giant wolves trapped inside struggled desperately to escape from the thick wall of flames surrounding them.

 

But as if toying with those wolves, the wall of flames danced with the wind, growing in volume, thickness, and height.

 

The heat touching my cheeks and forehead was real. Fire had actually spread to the bushes and trees, blazing fiercely.

 

If we didn’t extinguish it quickly, it would become a forest fire and burn down this entire area.

 

Even knowing this fact, Lionel couldn’t move rashly.

 

Not because he too was trapped in this threatening blaze surrounding the giant wolves…

 

“Chirp, chirp chirp!”

 

But because that small blue bird flying high in the sky, letting out cries as if mocking them with great satisfaction.

 

Was the culprit… no, the culbird that had created this fierce blaze.

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