The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 73
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Episode 73
But I couldn’t just lie there shedding tears mournfully like some tragic heroine.
“Miss! You’re awake!”
“Cecil, what on earth… What, are you crying? Why are you crying!”
“What’s wrong!”
Startled by the commotion coming from all directions, I blinked several times and my vision cleared.
At the same time, I could see my family, Master, Uni, and the doctor standing around my bed.
“Huh…? Why is everyone gathered here?”
“Why do you think? Really, what a troublesome disciple.”
“Cecil, are you feeling alright? Is there anywhere that feels uncomfortable?”
“Just a moment. Let me examine the Lady’s condition.”
While the doctor examined me, I could tell from my family’s worried gazes that something had happened.
“Don’t tell me I was asleep for several days again?”
“Yes. You were asleep for four days.”
“Four days…”
It was longer than before.
And I thought I knew why I had been asleep for such a long time.
‘The dream was vivid and long.’
Moreover, I remembered its contents clearly. While I was blankly staring into space, mulling over the dream’s contents, the doctor announced his examination results.
“Fortunately, there’s nothing seriously wrong. However, your energy seems a bit depleted, so you’ll need to take some tonic medicine.”
“Tonic medicine? Again?”
“You collapsed again, so there’s no choice. Right?”
Sister looked at me with a stern expression. It didn’t seem like the right situation to throw a tantrum about not wanting to take bitter medicine, so I quietly kept my mouth shut.
“Then I’ll go prepare the medicine right away.”
“There’s no need to rush so…”
“Please hurry back, Doctor.”
“Don’t worry too much, Lady. I’ll prepare some chocolate for you to have after taking the medicine.”
That was truly kind consideration.
I couldn’t bring myself to tell them not to go, so I just wistfully watched the backs of the doctor and Uni as they left.
“Cecil.”
My instincts started blaring sirens.
The atmosphere suggested I was about to get scolded until my tears dried up, so I looked at Mother with hunched shoulders.
“What, what is it, Mother?”
Just as I expected.
“Did you perhaps meet with the Second Prince privately before you collapsed?”
Kyaaah! Emergency!
I screamed internally, but outwardly I played completely innocent.
“No? I didn’t.”
“Really not?”
“Yes. The Second Prince is busy right now. How could I possibly meet with him privately?”
Playing innocent. Playing innocent.
Fortunately, my acting skills hadn’t gone anywhere, as Mother seemed not to notice anything strange even while scrutinizing my face from every angle.
“You really didn’t meet him?”
“I told you I didn’t.”
“Then what are these?”
Mother showed me two objects as if revealing her secret weapon.
One was long and pure white… a stone? I couldn’t tell what it was, and the other was a small flute that looked like a dog whistle.
“What are those?”
“…You really don’t know?”
“No. I really don’t know.”
I genuinely didn’t know, so I answered that I really didn’t know, but not only Mother but also Sister and Brother’s expressions became serious.
“It seems there really was another intruder. This is my oversight.”
“We need to find the security captain right now and thoroughly investigate whether someone broke into the house…”
“Why, why? What are those two things?”
At my urgently blurted question, Mother gave me an answer with a serious face.
“They were placed by your bedside.”
“…By my bedside?”
“Yes. But if you don’t know what they are, then surely some intruder came all the way to your room and left them behind.”
“Mother. Those objects might have strange magic cast on them.”
“We can’t overlook that possibility either. I’ll investigate them.”
“Please do, Lady Melania.”
“Wait a minute!”
I quickly grabbed the two objects as they were being passed from Mother’s hands to Master’s hands.
Everyone’s gaze turned to me.
I held one object in each hand – the items presumably left by Lionel – and quietly put my hands behind my back.
Then I quietly knelt on the bed.
“I… I met him…”
“What?”
“Well, you see…”
Whoa, wait. How do I explain this?
I never asked him to come, but Lionel came first saying he wanted to see me?
Mother would immediately file a formal complaint with the Imperial Palace. And Lionel would become a playboy who secretly visited his fiancée’s bedroom at night during these times.
‘No way. I can’t ruin my future husband’s reputation.’
To think I’d end up ruining my own reputation in front of my family.
Hoping Lionel would appreciate my sacrifice, I opened my mouth with tears in my eyes.
“I asked him to come. I told him to come whenever he could, regardless of the time.”
“Cecil, you…”
“But! Once he leaves for the Northern Region, who knows when he’ll return! Everyone says it’ll take at least 5 years to come back, and if it takes long, it might be over 10 years!”
Actually, thinking about it, this is really unfair!
We even had our first kiss, and although he hasn’t realized his feelings yet, he promised to confess his love someday!
At this perfect timing when I should strike while the iron is hot, we have to become like the separated lovers Gyeonu and Jiknyeo? Even girlfriends sending their boyfriends to the military only have to wait a year and a half!
And I have to wait 5 years? And that’s the minimum?
“Besides, there’s no guarantee he’ll return with all his limbs intact! What if he gets seriously injured somewhere?”
“But the Second Prince has the Oracle…”
“That only guarantees his life. What if he gets scars on his face!”
Whoa, wait.
Just imagining that national treasure-level face getting badly scarred made me so upset that tears welled up.
“Huuung, how can this happen? Why did those damn monsters have to invade at this timing of all times, huuung, waaah!”
Suddenly I was overwhelmed with grief. Even though I wasn’t forcing it, tears gushed out. It was probably because of the dream’s contents that still felt so vivid.
I take back everything I thought about Lionel looking like a doll when I first saw him.
Saying someone looks like a doll should only apply to people who have truly lost their sense of self and reason.
Like Lionel in the dream.
Someone who became a tool to harm others, regardless of their own will.
“Huuung, it’s so pitiful, huuung, waaaah…!”
“Oh my, dear. Stop crying.”
“Good girl, our Cecil. The Second Prince will be fine. Think of how many people are there to protect him.”
Surprised by my sobbing and wailing, Mother, Sister, and Brother surrounded me and patted my shoulders and back to comfort me.
“If the Second Prince knew you were crying like this, he’d be upset too.”
“That’s right, that’s right. You need to take care of yourself first.”
“Here, drink some water first… That’s right, that’s right.”
After drinking warm water, wiping my face with a warm towel, and stopping my tears amid my family’s comforting, I felt a bit embarrassed.
‘It wasn’t really something to cry that much over…’
Still, I felt a bit self-conscious and was sniffling for no reason, when Mother comforted me with a pitying expression.
“You must be very tired, and we pressured you too much. I’m sorry, dear.”
“No… I’m the one who’s sorry.”
“There’s nothing to be sorry about.”
“Right. You must be very upset too, and we’re sorry for not being more considerate.”
“…Hiiing.”
When I pouted my lips as if I was about to cry again, Master clicked his tongue briefly.
“How can you cry like a child when you’re all grown up? You’ll get puffy eyes at this rate. Stop it right now.”
“Yees…”
As I sniffled while drooping my shoulders dejectedly, Sister quickly laid me down on the bed.
“Rest more. Rest more, eat something delicious, and cheer up. Okay?”
“Mm… Sniffle.”
They said I had been asleep for four whole days, but the moment I lay back down on the bed, I felt amazingly drowsy.
‘Huh, could this be sleep magic…’
Without being able to finish my thought, the moment my eyes met Master’s, I fell asleep again.
* * *
After confirming that Cecilia had fallen asleep, everyone came out of the bedroom so she could rest comfortably.
Click, after closing the door.
As if there was no time to waste moving to the reception room, Melania immediately spoke up.
“Cecil’s body contains a mixture of the Second Prince’s mana and her own mana.”
“What?”
“That means…”
“It means Cecil came into contact with her own mana vessel together with the Second Prince.”
Everyone wore serious expressions at those words.
“Wasn’t Cecil’s mana vessel somewhere in the Imperial Palace?”
“I thought so too until now… You’re certain she didn’t go to the Imperial Palace?”
“Yes. That’s certain.”
Other places aside, the Imperial Palace wasn’t somewhere Cecilia could secretly visit.
“Then perhaps a fragment of Cecil’s soul is dwelling in some object the Second Prince possesses?”
“For that assumption to be correct, the Second Prince would have to still possess something he had ten years ago, but is that possible?”
“Ah…”
Everyone fell into worry.
Cecil’s spirit familiar disappeared when she was seven years old.
Lionel was also seven at that time, so there’s no way he’d still have something he possessed back then.
Most importantly, Lionel had a wicked older brother who took away everything he cherished.
“Then where exactly is the soul fragment containing Cecil’s mana vessel?”
It was flying diligently through the sky.
However, the people of House Roheim, who had no way of knowing this fact, wore dark expressions, and only Melania, being a mage, came up with a plausible thought.
“Perhaps…”
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