The Male Lead Is Obsessed With My Health Chapter 176
Pession, pressed flat against the wall, narrowed his eyes. Right beside him, the twins and Harun were stuck to the wall the same way, blankly watching the exact same scene.
“Arellin~.”
A lovely girl smiled brightly as she called Arellin in a soft, gentle voice.
This girl named Chloe was currently Pession’s mortal enemy.
When did she start speaking so casually to her?
She had always politely called her Lady Arellin, but in the blink of an eye, she had dropped the honorifics.
Pession clenched his fist tightly.
“Your Highness, Your Highness, why are we doing this?”
“Can’t we just go say hi to Arell?”
The twins, who had absolutely zero patience, whined, but Pession was firm.
“No.”
“Why not?!”
“Because Arell would find it annoying.”
Pession still couldn’t forget the time when Arellin had put up walls and pushed him away.
She doesn’t anymore, though.
She smiled when she saw him now, came up to him first, called him pretty, and listened to almost everything he said—but lately, that very gentleness was making Pession uneasy.
And more than anything, the now-softened Arellin didn’t only like him.
Pession’s long eyelashes trembled.
He was happy that Arellin had more friends.
It was something to celebrate that more people liked Arellin, but…!
“You’re seriously far gone.”
From a distance, Graham, the head butler, shook his head as he watched Pession. But it was already too late to turn back.
“The twin young masters are the same.”
“Hehe, thanks to Lady Arellin, the Spherom family has found peace again.”
The twins’ guardians laughed darkly, and Graham subtly distanced himself from them while looking at Pession, who still couldn’t take his eyes off Arellin.
By now, even Pession acting like this felt familiar.
Graham had reached enlightenment.
“So last time—”
“Ah.”
Pession stared silently at Arellin, who was chatting cheerfully with Chloe.
Arellin had said casually that she was just helping Chloe shop.
You’ve never hung out alone with me…
He wanted to act bold and confident, like a crown prince should, but he couldn’t stop these thoughts.
He’d never spent time alone with her because the twins and Harun were always there.
So why was it okay with her…?!
Pession truly did not like Chloe.
“Isn’t it because she has a similar image to you, Your Highness?”
“Yeah, they do kind of feel similar.”
“What’s similar?!”
The twins offered their opinions, calling it same-type rejection, but Pession recoiled in disgust.
“Being compared to something like that is a disgrace to royalty.”
Not realizing that only strengthened the twins’ argument.
“But seriously, how long are we just going to watch?”
“I wanna play with Arell too~.”
With the whining twins and Harun silently standing guard as usual, Pession frowned.
“Oh? They’re moving.”
“What do we do? Follow them?”
His reason screamed that they should stop here and go back—
“Let’s go!”
Pession had no reason left.
Surprisingly, the outing with Chloe went smoothly.
“I told you before—I don’t really go out much, so I honestly don’t know.”
“It’s okay! I’m grateful just that you’re with me!”
“Okay…”
Just being with me already meant safety was guaranteed.
How many guards were even attached to me?
Ever since I almost collapsed on the street once, there had been way too many guards pretending not to follow me every time I went out.
Wooooong—
Aether told me to trust only him.
But all you can turn into is a violin.
Wooooong—!
Why are you getting angry? I’m just stating facts.
“Found it! Arellin, over there!”
The place Chloe dragged me to was none other than the Spherom Department Store.
“Oh…”
I admired the building, which looked more like an art museum or gallery than a department store.
And again, Spherom? This multinational-corporation-level family really was everywhere.
The twins suddenly came to mind.
Come to think of it, I’d heard they’d succeeded in making a prototype automobile.
“I really wanted to come here.”
“Really?”
Chloe was buying gifts for her mentor and her family.
“I saved up my allowance!”
“Allowance…”
To someone whose sense of money was completely broken, Chloe’s fifty silver coins just looked cute.
How much money was in my Spherom bank account again?
“Should I buy something too?”
Now that I thought about it, I don’t think I’d ever given gifts before.
Seeing a fountain pen reminded me of Mehen, so I bought one. Then, as I walked around, I picked up items whenever someone came to mind.
If I gave something only to Mom, Dad would feel left out.
I chuckled while thinking of Dad, who attacked with his face every chance he got.
I grabbed friendship chocolates for the house guest living with us, and maybe something for Pession too? The twins would throw a fit, so them too—and Harun as well…
“Arellin, can you really carry all that?”
“Hmm.”
Did I buy too much?
“It’s fine.”
“Are you sure it’s fine?”
“Yeah. I can just do this. Help!”
The moment I asked for help, a guard who had been pretending to be a customer hurried over like he’d been waiting.
“Please.”
“Leave it to me, miss.”
Watching the guard disappear with my bags, Chloe laughed in disbelief.
“You really are a high noble.”
“What does that even mean?”
“It means something like that.”
Chloe brushed it off and smiled prettily. She uses face attacks when she’s flustered too.
I didn’t like it—but she was pretty, so I let it slide.
“I’m going to buy a present for Lord Harun too!”
Watching Chloe pick out a gift for Harun, I sank into thought.
In the novel I Said Something About My Childhood Friend and They Became Obsessed, Chloe first connected with Harun when she joined the childhood friend group, developed a crush, and then got tangled up with Pession.
I’d guessed something had happened since she already liked Harun.
“So, you got into trouble while sightseeing in the capital, and Harun helped you?”
“Yeah!”
After that, Chloe found out Harun was part of the childhood friend group and joined because she wanted to get closer to him.
“Why was Harun there?”
“He was on patrol in the capital, helping the security force.”
It was part of the Mubisk family’s duty—he’d been doing it with his older brother.
Oh right, the Duke of Mubisk is staying at the northern fortress right now.
“That was the first time I met him.”
Chloe smiled shyly.
A spring-day smile with petals fluttering around—anyone could tell she liked Harun.
It made my feelings complicated.
Is this the novel’s forced plot correction?
I’d wondered when the two of them got connected, but…
After quietly watching Chloe giggle, I asked,
“What do you think about Pession?”
Chloe’s expression instantly turned fierce.
“Why are you suddenly bringing up His Highness?”
“I was just curious.”
“I don’t like him.”
She said it bluntly.
Suddenly switching to formal speech, too.
“I really, really don’t like him. You think so too, right, Lady Arellin?”
“Well… not really.”
“He has everything and grew up pampered, so he thinks the whole world revolves around him.”
“That’s… um.”
But Pession really does have everything.
And since he’s the male lead, the world revolving around him wasn’t entirely wrong.
“He has way too much talent for no reason.”
That applies to you too, female lead.
“And I don’t like his face. He’s prettier and more handsome than me!”
—complained the female lead, who was just as pretty as the male lead.
“Arellin is wasted on him!”
She looked at him not as a love interest, but like an enemy.
I could only laugh awkwardly.
At this point, I really don’t know anymore.
*****
After returning from my outing with Chloe, I left the pile of gifts I’d bought in my room, grabbed a single chocolate, and hurried straight back to the Halbern Secret Archive.
“Why did you come back?!”
The baby elephant, still sulking, shrieked at me when it saw me.
“Want to eat this?”
As the saying goes, you give something sweet to a hungry beast. When I held out the chocolate as a bribe, the elephant narrowed its black eyes and stared at it.
“Oh. There’s a story inside.”
Watching Dream Fairy Mac happily snatch the chocolate with his trunk and eat it, I felt relieved.
“Then you’ll give me an access pass now?”
“……”
“Want more chocolate?”
“Tch.”
Either he thought he couldn’t push his luck any further, or he liked the bribe I fed him—Dream Fairy Mac pulled out some kind of balloon and looped it around my wrist.
“This is the access pass?”
It felt like I’d come to an amusement park.
“Does Dad’s access pass look like this too?”
“A child’s pass and an adult’s pass are different! Adult invitations are badges.”
“Ah. I see.”
Learning that without this pass I couldn’t go anywhere except the archive bearing my name, the more I realized just how absurdly advanced the security here was. At this point, it felt stranger to think that secrets would leak.
“So, where do you want to go first?”
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