The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 70
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Episode 70
True to his words, Lionel’s posture as he walked while holding me was extremely stable.
Suddenly, I recalled the warmth and heartbeat I had felt from inside his pocket when I had transferred my consciousness to the Blue Bird.
Being inside his pocket in bird form versus being held in a man’s arms in human form felt completely different. But the gentle swaying that had given me comfort remained the same.
However, his heartbeat… seemed a little faster perhaps?
‘He really is pushing himself a bit, isn’t he?’
No matter how strong he was, carrying a person while walking couldn’t be comfortable.
I pulled away from where I had been leaning against Lionel’s chest and spoke to him as he maintained his calm expression.
“Just put me down. I want to walk myself.”
“I refuse.”
“You refuse? Why?”
Then Lionel, who had been looking ahead as he walked, turned his head to look at me.
Though the moon in the night sky was bright, his face wasn’t clearly visible due to the backlighting.
Was that why? Even though he wore the same calm expression as usual, somehow his deep gaze felt like a deep swamp.
One you couldn’t escape from once you fell in.
“I just don’t want to.”
“…Just?”
“Yes. I just don’t want to.”
Nevertheless, as I stared endlessly into his eyes as if being drawn in, I belatedly registered Lionel’s words. At the same time, I came to my senses.
‘Wow, I was momentarily enchanted.’
He seemed to have no particular thoughts, yet I alone had fallen for his handsome looks.
This was why good-looking men were dangerous.
I consciously averted my gaze from Lionel’s face and cleared my throat lightly.
“Are you cold by any chance? Is that why you need a heater?”
“I’m not cold. But is this position uncomfortable for you?”
“No, I’m fine, but…”
Ah, I don’t know.
“I asked you to put me down. Don’t blame me if you get muscle pain tomorrow. Got it?”
“Muscle pain?”
As if he didn’t understand why that word would come up, Lionel tilted his head in confusion before nodding.
‘Does this mean he won’t get muscle pain from something like this?’
Can he easily handle three hundred reps or so?
As I narrowed my eyes and examined Lionel’s arms, a massive greenhouse appeared before us.
This Rose Greenhouse could only be entered by authorized people, but there weren’t any particular magical security devices. The servants just naturally avoided the restricted areas.
So there was no problem bringing Lionel inside.
‘I’m sorry, Mother. I’ll use it cleanly.’
The magically maintained greenhouse wasn’t much different in air quality from outside, except that it was slightly warmer.
I pointed to a pure white table that was glimpsed between the gorgeously blooming roses.
“There, do you see that table? Let’s sit there and talk.”
“Understood.”
“Tweet, chirp!”
Having successfully completed its role as guide, the Blue Bird landed on the table first and began grooming its long tail feathers with its beak.
While I looked around for snacks to give the Blue Bird, Lionel sat down in a chair while still holding me.
He didn’t put me down in another chair, but seated me on his lap.
“Excuse me?”
When I looked at him in bewilderment, Lionel made an “ah” expression as if realizing something.
Then he wrapped his left arm around my waist while interlacing the fingers of his other hand with mine. At the same time, mana began flowing into my body.
“No, that’s not what I… Ahhhh, this feels good.”
How should I describe this feeling of mana filling my empty body?
It was like chugging cool water when feeling terrible thirst under the blazing sun, or like sinking a tired body into hot water.
Though we were both clothed, perhaps because we were embracing and had more contact area? I felt a deeper satisfaction than usual.
‘How did I manage with just holding hands before?’
Now that I knew, I couldn’t go back to how things were.
I clung to Lionel like a sloth, then just lifted my head to ask him.
“But why did you really come here? To recharge my mana?”
Lionel shook his head.
“I came because I wanted to see you.”
“…Me?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
Since these were words coming from someone who seemed like he would never say such things, honestly I felt more puzzled than fluttered.
‘Does he have some other business? Is that why he wanted to see me?’
While I was speculating on my own, Lionel remained silent for a long time with his eyes downcast.
And finally he opened his mouth.
“…Just because.”
“Just because again?”
“Yes.”
Lionel nodded, and I stared at him intently.
“So you’re saying you came not because you had business with me, but just because you wanted to see me?”
“Yes.”
Lionel nodded lightly and asked me in a somewhat troubled tone.
“Do I need to have a clear reason?”
“It’s not that. Anyway, you don’t know why you wanted to see me.”
After a brief silence, Lionel nodded.
Perhaps feeling awkward about answering that he didn’t know, he subtly avoided my gaze, which I found a little cute.
‘Really now. He just wanted to see me.’
And yet he doesn’t know why. What am I to do with this blockhead?
I barely managed to suppress the laughter trying to escape through my lips, but eventually burst out laughing.
“You really don’t know? Dummy. I think I know.”
“Really?”
“Of course.”
Wanting to see someone for no reason, wanting to stay close for no reason.
What other reason could there be for a person to feel this way?
“You’ve fallen for me, haven’t you?”
Yes, I knew it would come to this eventually.
But even so, isn’t this too fast?
‘Though I am charming.’
How could he not fall head over heels when such a pretty Lady keeps visiting, baking cookies, and holding hands?
I looked at Lionel with a triumphant expression.
‘Come on! Just admit it honestly!’
But perhaps my gaze was too burdensome. Lionel, who had been blinking as if at a loss for words, lowered his gaze slightly and moved his lips.
“Is that… what it is?”
“That’s… probably it. It’s your own heart. Don’t you know yourself?”
“I don’t know.”
As if contemplating his answer once more, Lionel kept his mouth shut with his gaze lowered.
As if even he found this frustrating, the Blue Bird that had been sitting on the table fluttered over and landed on Lionel’s head.
Then, as if urging an answer with ‘Don’t you know even now? Even now? Even now?’, it pecked at Lionel’s head with its beak – peck, peck, peck.
Lionel released our interlaced hands and carefully cupped the Blue Bird on his head, but the Blue Bird instantly escaped from his grasp and flew to hide amongst the rose flowers in full bloom.
‘What if it gets hurt by the thorns?’
The moment I tried to get up to catch the Blue Bird, the force pulling at my waist made me have to sit back down on Lionel’s lap.
“Oh my!”
It didn’t end with simply sitting down, but the distance between our faces also narrowed to where our breaths could touch.
I froze in surprise, but despite the incredibly close distance, he looked straight into my eyes without caring.
“However, there’s one thing I know for certain.”
“…What’s that?”
“I want to protect you. This time, for sure.”
At his sudden words, I couldn’t think of anything for a moment and closed my mouth.
When he says “this time, for sure…” he must be thinking of ‘Liri’ whom he couldn’t protect when he was young, right?
Suddenly, thinking that ‘Liri’ had left such a deep wound on Lionel made my heart ache a little.
‘I wish it could have remained only as a good memory.’
Somehow that thought came rushing in strongly. That I didn’t want to see this man blame himself for what happened back then.
Was it because the name Lionel called me was the same? Even though I wasn’t that ‘Liri’, I felt strangely empathetic and hurt.
“And.”
“And? …What else?”
The distance was far too close for comfort, so I asked in a small voice while dropping my gaze downward.
‘With the distance this close, am I the only one who’s bothered by it?’
Suddenly, I wondered if his rapid heartbeat from earlier was really because carrying me while walking was difficult.
Since I was already in his arms anyway, I quietly placed my hand on his chest so I could feel his heartbeat.
‘…Huh? Isn’t it a bit fast right now?’
Was it my imagination or not? As I was looking down uncertainly at my hand pressed against Lionel’s chest, something warm and soft touched my forehead.
“Huh?”
The moment I looked up in surprise, his lips brushed against my forehead once more.
Unlike me who was startled again, Lionel didn’t move at all. As if it wasn’t a mistake or accident on his part.
At the same time, I realized it. His heartbeat that had gotten a little faster than before.
So it wasn’t my imagination after all.
“I don’t know for sure right now, but someday I’ll say with certainty that this feeling is love.”
“…”
“So…”
His Adam’s apple kept bobbing restlessly as if he didn’t know what to say.
I watched Lionel’s lips moving meaninglessly, then closed my eyes and kissed him.
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