The Male Lead Is Obsessed With My Health Chapter 369

—Hey.

Seeing Valer casually wave and greet him, the feeling Mehen felt was emptiness.
Wasn’t this the guy who had made him worry all day, now smiling and waving like he had no care in the world?

The next emotion that surged up was anger.

“You bastard!”

Instead of grabbing Valer by the collar, Mehen grabbed the communicator and shook it.

“If you’re alive, shouldn’t you contact us right away?! Do you know how worried I was?! Do you want to die?!”

—Ah, sorry.

Normally, Valer would have said something like “Why are you getting mad over something like that?”, but for once, he apologized easily.

—I got dropped in an unfamiliar place and needed some time to adjust.
My communicator got smashed too, so I borrowed this one to call.

“An unfamiliar place?”

Thinking about it, the communicator’s location was Lemuren.
Mehen blocked Pession from butting in and spoke stiffly.

“Why are you in Lemuren?”

—Good question.

“Don’t agree with me. Tell me why.”

—I don’t know either. I just woke up here.
And the reason I’m late is because something very interesting happened.

Mehen openly clenched his fist at the smiling Valer on the screen, looking like he was about to smash the communicator instead of Valer himself.

—Ta-da.

“…?”

Valer lifted a small child and held her in his arms.
For a moment, Mehen thought, Who is that?

Then he froze when he saw the platinum-blond hair and doll-like face that looked exactly like Valer.

That’s… Arellin…?

—Waaah! Daddy, I hate you! I said I didn’t wanna show this!

—So what? You’re just cute.

—I’m embarrassed!

Arellin sniffled, but Valer only smiled happily.
Mehen stared at Valer, clearly demanding an explanation.

Only then did Valer explain.

—A side effect, I guess.

—Mommy, P-P-Pession is a se-cret!

The younger Arellin forced each syllable out clearly with her clumsy tongue.

Mehen glanced to the side.

…Arell. Pession is already watching this video call.

—Anyway, the Saintess here is keeping us for now, so we probably can’t go back for a while.
I called to say not to worry too much. Got it, honey?

“…Please disappear.”

With Mehen’s anger-filled reply, the call ended.

“……”

Even after the call ended, Mehen and Pession were thinking the same thing.

“Let’s go.”

“Let’s go. To Lemuren.”

 

 

 

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The place where we were found was one of the most sacred locations in the Holy Kingdom of Lemuren.

‘Wouldn’t this turn into a diplomatic issue?’

A foreign person illegally entering a holy site of the Holy Kingdom!

That thought made me serious, so I looked carefully at the older priests around me—but no one except me seemed worried.

“Heheh. This must also be part of His guidance.”

Instead, they even brought a child-sized priest robe for me, since I was wearing loose adult priest clothes.

Come to think of it, where did the Saintess who brought us here go?

“The Saintess has gone to rest again. She said she will meet you separately later.”

“I see.”

When I went outside wearing the small priest robe, Dad’s eyes sparkled, and he lightly picked me up and spun me around once.

Ugh, I’m dizzy.

“Put me dowwwn.”

“No way, you’re too cute.”

“I’ll bite you.”

When I bit Dad’s hand, he laughed even more.
He probably thought my teeth hurting was cute.

“Haha. So cute.”

After squishing my soft cheeks, Dad put me on his shoulders.
Once my view got higher, life felt a bit better.

Is the air always this clean up here…?

“I wish all tall people would disappear. (I wish all tall people were dead.)”

“Haha. Then Daddy would have to die too.”

“Goodbye.”

“You’re just going to send your dad off that easily?!”

Valer looked hurt, but I had already experienced his beauty attack: advanced version, so it didn’t work on me anymore.

Hmph.

Dad shed a single real tear, but when I just stared blankly, he pouted.

“Tch.”

“Do that stuff to your new wife.”

“You know there’s no such thing as a new wife in your life, Arell.”

“That’s why I said it.”

“This isn’t working.”

“Dad doesn’t work on me.”

I made the hierarchy clear.
Dad (second from the bottom in our family ranking) nodded like it was obvious.

“It’d be ugly if I seriously tried to beat you anyway.”

“You did seriously try earlier.”

“Ahem.”

Caught off guard, Dad walked around the grand halls of Lemuren to distract me.

“Look over there. The pillar placement and shapes are different from the Albert Imperial Palace, right?
This is all ancient style. It’s hard to find architecture this old in human civilization.
If you really compare it, you could compare it to elven buildings—but elves don’t really have a civilization.”

“?”

Did I just hear elf discrimination?
Why don’t elves have civilization?!

But Dad’s history lecture about Lemuren pulled me in so much that I completely forgot to ask about elf civilization.

The only holy nation in the world, home to priests and Saintesses who can still use divine power.

And a land where people who still worship the “Last God” gather, even though the Age of Myths has ended.

“For reference, the divine power the priests of Lemuren use comes from a relic called the ‘Holy Grail.’
It’s an artifact that converts their faith in the Lemuren god into divine power.”

“Ooo.”

“According to legend, it was made from the body of the Last God.”

“…?”

What even is that?

I was shocked.
It felt similar to when I learned that relics are actually saints’ remains.

“Anyway, since the end of the Age of Myths, Lemuren has always led human relief efforts.
It’s extremely symbolic, so things like the international court are all located in Lemuren.”

More than anything, the fact that anyone could gain divine power through faith alone gave hope to people at the very bottom of society, earning overwhelming support.

“That’s why other countries can’t easily mess with Lemuren.
Not that there’s any real reason to.”

“I see.”

While receiving this useful history lesson, a thought suddenly crossed my mind.

Wait… isn’t this not the time to be sightseeing so calmly?

“Right. This isn’t the important part.”

Dad said seriously for once.
I guess even Dad grows up after going through something big…

“Arellin, who do you love the most?”

Dad looked up at me with sparkling eyes.
Seeing him openly point at himself, it was clear this man had no shame.

“Huh? Who~?”

“Mehen.”

“No, think again.”

“Mehen.”

“Tch, that didn’t work.”

Of course it wouldn’t.

“By the way… Dad, are you okay?”

Since something huge had happened, I looked at him worriedly.
Dad looked confused, then laughed brightly.

“Yeah. I’m fine!”

“Do you re-mem-ber what hap-pened there?”

I pronounced each syllable carefully.
Dad answered while holding back laughter.

“No, I don’t remember anything.”

“Re-al-ly?”

“Hmm. I think I just… saw my older sister.”

I felt a little wronged that he didn’t remember my amazing achievements.

‘But thinking about it again, it’s probably better not to remember a world where you kill yourself infinitely.’

Alright, I’ll let it go.

As I nodded to myself, Dad set me down, knelt on one knee, and met my eyes.

“My daughter saved me again.”

“You saved me first.”

Ugh, my pronunciation.

“First. You did.”

When I pronounced each word carefully, Dad suddenly burst into laughter.
Clutching his stomach, he laughed hard before saying,

“Just talk comfortably. Daddy will understand everything.”

“No… it hurts my pride somehow…”

“Well, our daughter did speak clearly even when she was young.”

[!Side Effect of Divine Power Overload!]

[Status Effect: Regressed]

Staring at the floating status window, I said,

“It feels like I’m cursed.”

Dad burst out laughing again.

Watching him roll on the floor laughing, I thought—

Even if I ended up like this, at least one of us is happy…

‘Yeah. I should absolutely keep this a secret from Pession.’