The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 69

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Episode 69

 

“You’re returning later than expected. So, you had negotiations with the mage from the Sumu Tree Mage Tower today?”

 

Seeing Cayen’s sly expression as if he knew everything that had happened, a certain realization flashed through Lionel’s mind.

 

‘Don’t tell me even the Magic Tower…’

 

“You must be busy preparing to depart for the Northern Region, so you’re going through a lot of trouble. Well then, I’ve prepared a gift for you today. Come forward.”

 

At Cayen’s gesture, two maids who had been waiting behind stepped forward and presented a large box to Lionel.

 

Inside the box was a brilliantly shining golden armor.

 

“It’s a very precious armor made of pure gold. I hope this armor will protect you from the monsters.”

 

Being so flashy, it would surely attract the monsters’ attention, and being made of pure gold, its durability would obviously be terrible.

 

However, instead of pointing out that fact, Lionel only uttered words of gratitude.

 

“I will return safely so that you need not worry, Brother.”

 

“Good. You don’t need to worry about the capital’s affairs while you’re in the Northern Region either.”

 

As if that was all the business, Cayen rose from his seat and brushed past Lionel, whispering quietly in his ear.

 

“Including your fiancée who will be lonely with her fiancé away.”

 

“…”

 

“Don’t worry. I’ll make sure she doesn’t feel your absence at all.”

 

After Cayen lightly patted Lionel’s shoulder and left, only the box containing the golden armor remained in the study.

 

“…”

 

Watching Lionel silently staring down at the golden armor in the box, the maids held their breath and only watched his mood.

 

After a moment, Lionel gestured to them.

 

“Withdraw.”

 

“Yes, Your Highness.”

 

After the maids hurriedly left, Lionel, now alone in the study, took the blue bird out of his inner pocket and sat at his desk.

 

“Tweet! Chirp?”

 

The blue bird that came out flew around here and there on the high bookshelves to relieve its stuffiness, then landed on the golden armor in the box.

 

Just from the blue bird pecking at it with its beak, scratches appeared on the armor.

 

Even after confirming this sight, Lionel didn’t stop the blue bird.

 

“Is it fun?”

 

“Chirp!”

 

“Keep playing with it.”

 

Having given the golden armor to the bird as a new toy, Lionel opened a monster encyclopedia.

 

“Chirp, tweet tweet, tweet.”

 

A completely off-beat singing voice echoed through the study. Along with the loud sound of the blue bird pecking at the golden armor with its beak.

 

Though it had never happened before, the words in the book wouldn’t enter his eyes easily.

 

“Don’t worry. I’ll make sure she doesn’t feel your absence at all.”

 

Looking outside the window, it was already pitch-black night. Even though nothing was visible, Lionel continued to stare only outside the window.

 

“Chirp?”

 

Had it already grown tired of playing with its toy?

 

The blue bird flew over and landed on Lionel’s shoulder.

 

“Tweet, chirp?”

 

As if asking what he was thinking about, the blue bird gently nudged Lionel’s cheek with its head.

 

Lionel belatedly turned his head and carefully stroked the blue bird on his shoulder.

 

“I’m going to your master now.”

 

“Chirp!”

 

“Want to come along?”

 

“Tweet!”

 

After putting the blue bird, which flew up happily as if it agreed, into his chest pocket.

 

Lionel quietly slipped out of the Imperial Palace without anyone knowing.

 

Though he had never been there before, finding the Roheim Family Town House, specifically Cecilia’s bedroom, wasn’t difficult. The blue bird guided him.

 

“Tweet chirp, chirp!”

 

In the quiet night, the sound of the blue bird tapping the window with its beak, as if telling her to come out quickly, rang quite loudly. Perhaps because of that, Cecilia immediately opened the window.

 

“What is this… Huh? Lionel?”

 

After being startled by the blue bird, Cecilia’s face lit up with joy upon discovering him.

 

Suddenly, Lionel recalled Liri, who used to tap the window with her beak whenever she came to visit his younger self.

 

‘What kind of expression was I making back then?’

 

It should have been worthwhile for you to willingly visit me so many times.

 

* * *

 

I’m not seeing things right now, am I?

 

With that thought, I rubbed both eyes with my clenched fists, and a lively sound came from beside me.

 

“Tweet, chirp!”

 

That clear cry told me that what I was seeing wasn’t a hallucination.

 

‘My spirit familiar!’

 

It was the moment I was about to unconsciously reach out toward the blue bird.

 

“Liri.”

 

Lionel called me from below. I stuck my head out the window and looked down at him.

 

“Did you call me?”

 

“Yes. Do you have any mana left right now?”

 

“Mana? No, I don’t have any.”

 

The last time we met was several days ago. My mana had long since run out.

 

But after honestly confessing this fact, I felt a little embarrassed.

 

How should I put it, it felt like confessing to mom that I’d already spent all the allowance she gave me.

 

“Ahem, well, you know I don’t have a mana vessel, right? It all leaked out like a bottomless bucket…”

 

“Between me coming up and Liri coming down, which would be better?”

 

“Huh? Uh, if it’s between those two…”

 

I quickly surveyed my room.

 

Several books scattered on the bed. On the table, a plate of leftover cookies and a juice bottle. Cushions rolling around on the floor.

 

It wasn’t in a state to show Lionel, who always sat with proper posture in a neat room.

 

Feeling unnecessarily self-conscious, I pulled the curtains on both sides of the window toward me to hide the inside of my room.

 

“I’ll come down. Just wait there for a moment!”

 

I was about to go outside through the door but paused for a moment.

 

‘There would be maids or servants in the corridor and the first-floor lobby…’

 

They would ask where I was going at this hour, and if I answered that I couldn’t sleep and was going for a walk?

 

Someone would definitely follow me. Maybe even Mother or Sister or Brother might come outside.

 

‘That can’t happen!’

 

A secret meeting with my fiancé in the middle of the night… well, not quite that, but anyway, there was nothing good about Lionel being caught coming here in the middle of the night.

 

After much deliberation, I asked the blue bird flying around me in circles.

 

“You received mana from Lionel so you have mana, right? Could you possibly use wind magic to get me down there?”

 

“Chirp!”

 

As if it was a piece of cake, the blue bird lightly flapped its wings, and a warm breeze from somewhere wrapped around my body and lowered me outside the window.

 

‘Wow! I’m flying through the sky!’

 

Rather than flying through the sky, it was more like gliding, closer to a safe descent.

 

The speed was slow so there was no danger of me getting hurt. But perhaps worried about the slightest possibility, Lionel caught my body like a princess.

 

“Are you alright?”

 

“Of course! Wow, that was fun. I want to try it again.”

 

“Chirp?”

 

The blue bird tilted its head as if asking whether to do it once more.

 

Though I was briefly tempted, I shook my head.

 

“Not now, do it next time.”

 

It would be troublesome if any passing guard discovered Lionel’s presence.

 

‘Wait, come to think of it, when is the guards’ patrol time?’

 

I wasn’t sure exactly what was happening, but staying here didn’t seem like a good idea.

 

While being held in Lionel’s arms, I looked around and then whispered in his ear.

 

“Let’s go somewhere else first. If we stay here, the guards might catch us.”

 

“Somewhere else?”

 

“Hmm….”

 

A place where there wouldn’t be people at this hour….

 

“Ah! Let’s go to Mother’s Greenhouse. Only a few people can enter there.”

 

And Mother would be sleeping right now or spending sweet time with Father through the crystal orb.

 

She wouldn’t come to the greenhouse this late at night, so it was perfect for a midnight rendezvous… or something like that.

 

“Where is the greenhouse?”

 

“Well, it’s….”

 

“Tweet!”

 

Blue Bird began flying ahead as if telling us to follow.

 

‘I heard spirit familiars share knowledge with their masters. Does it know about this too?’

 

…But why isn’t this man putting me down?

 

I tapped Lionel’s shoulder as he naturally began following Blue Bird while still carrying me.

 

“I’m wearing slippers, so I can walk by myself.”

 

“I see.”

 

That was it. Lionel still didn’t put me down.

 

As he continued walking without stopping, I said again in confusion.

 

“I said I can walk by myself?”

 

“Yes. I can also walk while carrying you.”

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