The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 66

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Episode 66

 

“What? Why Father?”

 

“It’s not just your father. Lords from across the entire empire are being summoned to the capital.”

 

“His Majesty the Emperor will want to empty the lords’ pockets by any means necessary, and the lords will try to protect their own pockets by targeting other people’s pockets.”

 

And in situations like this, it’s better to target one big pocket rather than several small ones.

 

“Then everyone must be desperately trying to open our family’s treasure vault?”

 

“That’s right. If we carelessly set foot in the imperial palace in this situation, everyone will surround us and try to induce us into making mistakes.”

 

My brother shook his head, saying he had no confidence in avoiding being caught by people who would swarm like a pack of hyenas.

 

And he also warned me.

 

“Cecil, you absolutely must not go to the imperial palace until Father comes and finishes the negotiations.”

 

“Right. Her Majesty the Empress might grab you and not let you go.”

 

Currently, I was the Second Prince’s fiancée. Moreover, since I was also receiving bridal lessons at the imperial palace, if the Empress was determined, it wouldn’t be impossible for her to keep me at the imperial palace as a hostage in all but name.

 

“I guess it’s fortunate that entry to the imperial palace is forbidden?”

 

“That’s right. In this situation, they can’t specifically tell only you to enter the palace. But if you walk in there on your own, they’ll absolutely never let you go.”

 

“Mmm…”

 

Actually, I had thought about secretly sneaking into the imperial palace, but I absolutely must not do that.

 

After promising my mother and brother that I would stay quietly at home for the time being, I went up to my room.

 

A little later, Uni, who had gone to visit an information broker in the underworld, returned.

 

“Lady, I’m back.”

 

“Uni! How was it? Did you get any useful information?”

 

“Yes. First of all, the situation in the north seems very serious. An evacuation order has been issued for the entire area north of the Sernan River.”

 

“The Sernan River?”

 

If my memory was correct, the Sernan River was a large river that crossed through the center of the northern region.

 

That meant, despite the monster wave having just erupted, they had already essentially given up half of the northern region.

 

“Are there that many monsters?”

 

“There are many monsters, but the bigger issue is that they don’t know the exact locations of the scattered monsters.”

 

It seemed they wanted to play it safe from the beginning rather than set up a defense line further north only to have it broken through.

 

“The immediate priority is establishing a defense line. It looks like the first support army will be dispatched within a week with minimal preparations.”

 

“…Is Lionel included in that first support army too?”

 

“Most likely…”

 

Uni carefully nodded while watching my expression.

 

‘So it ends up like this after all.’

 

Uni comforted me as I became dejected.

 

“Don’t worry too much, Lady. His Highness the Second Prince has the oracle. He’ll surely return safely.”

 

“Ah… Yes, I want to organize my thoughts for a moment.”

 

“Yes. I’ll be outside. Please let me know anytime if you need anything, Lady.”

 

After sending Uni away, I lay down on my bed and pondered what I could do to help.

 

‘In the novel, surely… Lionel’s return from the north was five years later.’

 

Lionel doesn’t return in triumph. Although he manages to defeat the monster king after great hardships, he fails to completely eliminate all the other monsters.

 

This was nearly impossible from the start. How could they eliminate all the monsters when they didn’t even know how many living monsters there were or where they had gone?

 

Eventually, Lionel abandons the northern territory and withdraws. Separate from defeating the monster king, he fails in his mission to protect the northern lands.

 

Meanwhile, the recovered First Prince, with the Empress’s full support, draws major nobles to his side and is finally appointed as Crown Prince.

 

And Lionel is driven to the temple, taking responsibility for all the failures in not properly stopping the monster wave.

 

Since it was a fairly important event, I think it was described somewhat in the novel.

 

But when I try to recall that part by retracing my memories, I only get a feeling like something is flashing by…

 

‘Did I flip through the pages quickly because I found fighting monsters boring?’

 

Seeing how I only remember scenes of the male lead kidnapping and confining the female lead, I probably only enjoyed reading those parts! Why did my past self only like such things!

 

‘Come to think of it, that’s strange. I don’t really like dark stories like that.’

 

Actually, that was still true now. If scenes came up where the male lead forcibly kidnapped and confined the female lead, then coercively did terrible things, I would immediately close the book.

 

But why did I read that novel to the end?

 

No, did I even read it to the end?

 

‘How did the novel end?’

 

Even when I tried to recall, that part was hazy. I didn’t know if it was a happy ending or bad ending, or how Lionel, who killed his entire family and ascended to the throne, ruled the empire.

 

Well, it wouldn’t be easy to recall in detail a novel I read in my previous life after 16 years since being born.

 

‘Forget the novel. There probably won’t be any particularly new content at this point anyway.’

 

My goal was one thing from the beginning.

 

Prevent Lionel’s corruption. So that Lionel would never kidnap and confine me!

 

‘To do that, I need to help Lionel.’

 

Moreover, didn’t the Emperor publicly declare it? That if Lionel successfully stops the monster wave, he would make him Crown Prince.

 

Once he becomes Crown Prince, Lionel won’t be deposed unless he rebels.

 

If he safely becomes Emperor after becoming Crown Prince, and I become Empress too?

 

Since there would be no one who could take anything away from him as Emperor, I could completely prevent Lionel’s corruption.

 

‘Good. Now let me think about how to help Lionel.’

 

First, before making that plan, I’d like to have a conversation with Lionel…

 

‘It would be troublesome if other people are around when I try to talk to him.’

 

I can’t carelessly talk to him since he might be in meetings even late at night… Huh? Wait.

 

‘Come to think of it, the blue bird is my spirit familiar.’

 

The common use of spirit familiars was as messengers.

 

And the method of using spirit familiars as messengers was to transfer the caster’s consciousness to the spirit familiar to directly see and converse with the other person.

 

Just like how Master conversed with me through Snowy.

 

‘But how do you do that? Transferring consciousness.’

 

What constitutes a spirit familiar’s body is a fragment of the caster’s soul and magical power.

 

So I should start by finding the fragment of my soul that separated from my body…

 

‘Ah, I get it!’

 

With that realization, I felt my consciousness being sucked somewhere.

 

At the same time, my consciousness flickered like when losing consciousness and fainting.

 

* * *

 

Blink.

 

When I came to my senses, I was trapped in a dark place.

 

But I didn’t feel any sense of crisis. The mysterious wall surrounding me was very cozy, soft, and warm.

 

It felt exactly like being inside a nest that fit my body perfectly.

 

Moreover, a heavy body scent I had smelled somewhere before and the slow pulse I felt from the wall I was leaning against made my body feel drowsy.

 

‘I’m sleepy…’

 

Maybe because I’m the type who originally sleeps leaning against a wall? My body naturally relaxed.

 

Just as my consciousness was about to drift off, I felt my body floating in mid-air.

 

‘Oh my!’

 

Fortunately, the wall surrounding my body fit me perfectly, so I didn’t roll around ungracefully.

 

‘What? Where are we going?’

 

I tapped the moving wall in protest. At the same time, I realized that my hands weren’t hands but small wings.

 

‘Wings?’

 

While I was surprised by this fact and blinking in the darkness, someone gently patted me through the soft wall. It felt like they were comforting me, saying it was okay and I could relax.

 

Strangely, that touch made my heart feel peaceful. Even though I was trapped in darkness and couldn’t move at all…

 

‘I just want to relax and sleep.’

 

The swaying sensation became comfortable once I got used to it. It felt exactly like being in a cradle gently rocking back and forth. It was very comfortable.

 

Just as my eyes were naturally closing in that comfortable swaying motion, I heard someone’s voice from outside.

 

“Your Highness, do you need anything?”

 

“Bring cookies. Clean water too.”

 

“Yes, understood.”

 

Though the voices were slightly muffled and echoing through the thick wall, it wasn’t to the point where I couldn’t understand them.

 

‘Cookies? Water?’

 

Is it break time right now?

 

‘Then it should be okay to go outside, right?’

 

I was perking up my ears to check if there was anyone other than Lionel outside, when my body started swaying gently again.

 

However, that vibration didn’t last long. Instead, I felt some wind coming from above, and then something large wrapped around my body.

 

“Eek!”

 

When I screamed in surprise, the movement of the large something that was trying to grab my body stopped.

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