The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 63

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Episode 63

 

-Please wait a moment.

 

Lionel’s face appeared briefly through the crystal ball and then disappeared again.

 

Since I couldn’t see the interior of the room, I thought the connection was a bit unstable, but after a moment, Lionel’s face appeared in the crystal ball again.

 

-Can you hear me?

 

“Yes. …Did you just finish washing up?”

 

-Yes.

 

The reason I noticed this fact wasn’t anything special. Lionel’s hair was slightly wet, and he was wearing a robe instead of clothes.

 

It wasn’t the first time I’d seen Lionel’s face like this, but today I felt particularly embarrassed, as if I was peeking at his private side.

 

I couldn’t meet eyes with Lionel through the crystal ball and just rolled my eyes around for no reason, then quickly spoke up, worried he might notice my state.

 

“I heard there was a really big incident at today’s hunting competition. Are you okay? You didn’t get hurt anywhere, did you?”

 

-Yes. I wasn’t injured.

 

“That’s a relief. If you have any injuries, don’t hide them. Get treated right away. Got it?”

 

-I understand.

 

…So does that mean you’re injured or not?

 

Through the crystal ball, I could only see from his head to his collarbone, so I couldn’t tell if he was hurt or not.

 

It would be nice if I could see his whole body.

 

“Hueok!”

 

-Liri? What’s wrong?

 

“No, no, no, no! It’s nothing!”

 

Wow, that startled me. What was that just now?

 

‘I’m sure I saw Lionel as if I was looking directly with my eyes instead of through the crystal ball?’

 

Have I become weak because I’ve been staying up all night studying magic lately? Did I see something that wasn’t there?

 

I should probably take some health supplements.

 

I patted both my cheeks with my hands and asked Lionel, who was making a puzzled expression through the crystal ball.

 

“I have something I’m curious about. I heard you told my sister to give me the Tower of Magic newsletter.”

 

-Yes. Did you receive it properly?

 

“I received it fine… But why did you give this to me?”

 

Whether he knew my anxious heart or not, Lionel answered in a calm tone.

 

-Because there’s something Liri needs to know.

 

“…Something I need to know?”

 

-Page 2. Please read it.

 

Page 2, page 2…

 

I didn’t need to check. On page 2, right after turning from page 1 with the table of contents, there was a notice written in huge, bright red letters designating Hellfire as forbidden magic.

 

Only that.

 

It meant it was such a serious warning, and Lionel’s intention in giving me this newsletter became clear.

 

But I played dumb until the end.

 

“Ah, so Hellfire was forbidden magic… But why do I need to know this…?”

 

-Didn’t you learn Hellfire magic? Since it’s become forbidden magic, you can’t use it anymore.

 

Oh my goodness, he really knew when he sent it!

 

“How does Lionel know whether I learned that magic or not?”

 

-I found out because the blue bird used Hellfire magic.

 

“…What?”

 

-When the giant wolf pack appeared, the blue bird used Hellfire magic to drive them away.

 

“What did you say? Who did what how?”

 

-The blue bird…

 

“No, no, no!”

 

When I raised my voice, Lionel, who was about to explain something in more detail, closed his mouth.

 

I took advantage of that gap to speak quickly.

 

“Aren’t you mistaken about something? The blue bird suddenly connecting communication, that can happen. After all, I did implant a magic circuit in it. But Hellfire is magic I learned just a while ago, this afternoon!”

 

-So you’re saying you did learn the magic.

 

“That’s…!”

 

Wait.

 

Is this some kind of trap investigation? Did I fall for it?

 

“Um… I really didn’t know that Hellfire was forbidden magic?”

 

-Yes. I thought that would be the case, so I told you to look at that newsletter. To prevent a spirit familiar with its own consciousness from using magic carelessly, the caster themselves needs to have the awareness not to use magic.

 

“What? With its own consciousness… what did you say?”

 

-Spirit familiar.

 

“…The spirit familiar I know? The spirit familiar that mages create from soul fragments?”

 

-Yes.

 

I stared blankly at Lionel’s face reflected in the crystal ball.

 

What on earth is he talking about?

 

‘That blue bird is my spirit familiar?’

 

He didn’t look like he was joking. No, Lionel was far from being someone who joked in the first place. He really considered the blue bird to be my spirit familiar.

 

“How on earth did you come to think that blue bird is my spirit familiar?”

 

-I read a book about spirit familiars. Looking at various circumstances, it would be stranger if this blue bird wasn’t Liri’s spirit familiar.

 

…Now that I heard it, that was true.

 

Though it was really unbelievable, if I assumed the blue bird was my spirit familiar, all the questions I’d had so far were resolved.

 

Like how a magic tool that should have run out of mana operated on its own, how my voice was transmitted to Lionel, how Lionel noticed that I had learned Hellfire, and so on.

 

But is this even possible? I’ve never used spirit familiar magic, have I? Did a spirit familiar just come into being on its own without me even being aware of wanting to do so?

 

‘Come to think of it… I did put a lot of effort into carving that magic stone.’

 

Isn’t there a saying like that? When artists create works, they breathe soul into them or something like that.

 

Maybe I unknowingly breathed a fragment of my soul into the magic stone? So that blue bird became my spirit familiar… But I don’t have mana, so is that even possible?

 

‘If I ask Master… No, no. I can’t. I’ll get in terrible trouble!’

 

Didn’t I get scolded until my tears dried up when I said I wanted to try making a spirit familiar when I was young?

 

And at that time, Master said this…

 

“If I hear you say you want to make a spirit familiar one more time, know that you’ll be expelled!”

 

Master was someone who did what they said they would do.

 

Whether it was a mistake or intentional, if they found out I had created a spirit familiar, they might really expel me.

 

“Lionel, can I ask you for one favor?”

 

-What is it?

 

“That blue bird, please don’t tell anyone that it’s my spirit familiar. Not even my family.”

 

-Not tell anyone, you say?

 

“Yes! Not anyone!”

 

Lionel fell into thought for a moment. He seemed to be considering whether he could grant that request.

 

Then he answered. Without asking anything.

 

-I understand.

 

If it were someone else, I would have doubted how I could trust those words, but since it was Lionel.

 

I could believe without a doubt that this man would definitely keep the secret.

 

“Thank you! Since it’s come to this, the fact that my spirit familiar learned Hellfire too… Ah! You said my blue bird used Hellfire. Did anyone else see that?”

 

-No. No one else saw it besides me.

 

“My sister doesn’t know either?”

 

-No. I didn’t tell her.

 

Hooray!

 

“Thank you! Please keep it secret in the future too!”

 

-Yes.

 

Wow, this is really, really fortunate.

 

I was really, really glad that such a tight-lipped man was my fiancé, that he was the one with my spirit familiar!

 

“Was it because it’s my spirit familiar that you told me to give that blue bird a name?”

 

-Yes. I read it in a book. You need to give a name to a spirit familiar that has developed consciousness for it to be perfectly synchronized.

 

“That’s right. I saw it too.”

 

Since the material for spirit familiars is soul fragments, the moment they establish self-awareness they’re already like my alter ego, but I’d have to say that only after giving them a name can I truly stamp them as “my alter ego – thump!”

 

The fact that they hadn’t noticed that Blue Bird was my spirit familiar was most likely because I hadn’t given it a name yet.

 

‘Right. If I give it a name, I’ll be able to confirm whether Blue Bird is really my spirit familiar.’

 

“No wonder I couldn’t just give it any random name. Actually, I still haven’t come up with a name.”

 

-Since you can’t change it once you give it one, I think it would be fine to think about it more carefully.

 

“Mm, mm. No. I want to give it one quickly.”

 

To think that I could have a spirit familiar that I had longed for so much! No, that I already had one!

 

I felt like I wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight from excitement.

 

“I’ll definitely think of a cool name. Can I come to the Imperial Palace tomorrow?”

 

-Wait a moment.

 

Lionel checked his schedule and let me know.

 

-Because of today’s events, there might be changes to the schedule… But I should be able to make time for a little while.

 

“Yes, thank you!”

 

That night. I thought of about ten name candidates to give to Blue Bird, my spirit familiar, before falling asleep late.

 

Because of that, when I opened my eyes, the sun was already high in the sky, and Uni brought me shocking news.

 

“Lady, this is terrible!”

 

“…Terrible? What’s terrible?”

 

“A monster wave occurred in the North Mountain Range and they can’t stop it, so the north is in chaos!”

 

Hearing those words, I remembered.

 

An important event I had seen in the novel that happened around this time.

 

That was the monster wave.

 

The incident where Lionel received the mission to stabilize the north and was dispatched there as supreme commander, thus becoming the cause of him leaving the capital for five whole years!

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