The Male Lead Is Obsessed With My Health Chapter 376

Several hours after Arellin said her goodbyes and received the backpack from Mehen.

A request to Spherom for free support of Northern Castle supplies, a request to the imperial family for assistance with evacuation plans for northern residents in case the worst happened, follow-ups, more requests, more follow-ups.

Mehen didn’t stop, even though she knew that the sheer volume of work she was pouring out through proper procedures had thrown the Albrecht Imperial Palace into emergency mode.

After all, central bureaucrats were the kind of people who wouldn’t move unless fire was already burning under their feet.

‘Still, if there’s one piece of good news… it’s that the Sky Tower has started moving north.’

She didn’t know whether high-ranking mages were moving to intervene in the northern crisis, but given the situation, she couldn’t help but cling to hope.

“I should go back to Albrecht and squeeze the central government even more—”

Just as Mehen was planning how to thoroughly wring resources out of the imperial palace and other noble houses—

Bang!

Pession, who had just finished a private meeting via communicator with Emperor Edward (written as “private meeting,” read as “got scolded and told to come back”), burst the door open and scanned the room.

Then, with a tense expression, he asked Mehen,

“Where’s Arellin?”

Mehen tilted her head.

“Didn’t you say goodbye? She already left for the north.”

“What? All the warp gates are down—how did she go?!”

“She’s a mage.”

“Ah.”

Pession grimaced, as if caught off guard, and muttered,

“I need to go too.”

And just like that, Pession’s trip to the north was decided.

 

 

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At the same time Pession was running around looking for Arellin, Arellin actually hadn’t left for the Northern Castle yet.

“Here, you should take this as well.”

“It’s too much……”

With a backpack on her back, Arellin was toddling along when some elderly priests saw her and asked where she was rushing off to.

“Ah, in that case, I have something that might help too. Please take it!”

—saying that, they pulled out items one by one like they were emptying secret savings, which ended up delaying her.

‘If it were just artifacts, I could’ve politely refused, but these are all relics!’

Having received so much help from relics in unexpected situations before, there was no way she could ignore them.

“Thank you.”

When she bowed deeply at a perfect ninety-degree angle with her hands neatly together, the elders chuckled.

“So cute.”

“Very cute indeed.”

This was strange.

She had clearly explained that there was a twenty-something adult inside this child’s body, so why was everyone still calling her cute?

She tried puffing up her cheeks, but that only made the elders smile even more.

‘Still, I got relics. Ten of them!’

Relics you couldn’t buy even with money.

Relics that were piled up in the Halbern secret archive—but she couldn’t retrieve them because the archive had collapsed!

I’m rich.

She giggled while looking at the relics.

Now all that was left was to go to the Northern Castle.

Just as she took a step forward—

Wooooong—

“……?”

Her foot suddenly slipped into a mysterious crack that appeared out of nowhere.

“Huh?”

Wah, what is this?!

 

 

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There was once a boy.

A boy whom the queen of the giants—who ruled the continent in the age of gods—had carried for ten years before finally giving birth to.

“He’s too small.”

“That’s a giant?”

“Doesn’t he look human?”

“The queen gave birth to a human!”

The boy was too small and frail to be called a giant, but he was extraordinarily special.

So special that he was the first to prophesy an end that even the gods could not foresee.

“This world will end.”

The world descended into chaos, and the gods decided to abandon it. For speaking of the end, the boy was branded an apostle of doom and suffered greatly.

“If you hadn’t spoken of the end!”

“It’s all the author’s fault!”

“Die! Die!”

“Kill him! Kill him!”

Though others’ accusations tore into him, the boy’s heart was pure, and he tried desperately to change the gods’ minds.

Alone, he went to Dragon Mountain, where the dragons lived, and begged the Dragon Lord to persuade the gods.

“You who brought this chaos dare speak to me?!”

The boy nearly turned to ash under that blazing fury, but his mother did not stand by and watch.

“I shall never forget this grudge, Karjien.”

After that, what became of the boy?

Tainted by the sorrow spewed forth by the tyrant, the boy—who had once resisted the whispers of the end with a pure heart—was gradually corrupted.

“Mother, I-I see a terrible future.”

“Don’t look at anything.”

“Everyone will die.”

“Close your eyes.”

“I hear screams… screams everywhere……”

“None of that is your fault!”

At last—

Shedding black tears, the boy begged.

“Please kill me.”

“How could I ever do that?”

A wailing voice screamed. Between ragged breaths, a fragile plea echoed.

“Please kill me. Mother.”

—before I lose my mind completely.

 

 

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“Gasp.”

I jolted awake to see the status window flashing in front of my eyes.

[Sturdy Mental Barrier (S) is protecting the reincarnator’s mind]
[Sturdy Mental Barrier (S) is protecting the reincarnator’s mind]
[Sturdy Mental Barrier (S) is protecting the reincarnator’s mind]

It was such an intense dream that the status window popped up repeatedly.

No—was it really a dream?

It felt like I had been forced to experience someone else’s memories.

As I tried to slowly piece together what I had seen, something caught my eye between the flashing windows.

What is that……?

When I dismissed all the status windows that had reappeared after so long, I finally saw someone standing there, staring down at me without moving.

‘Wait, is that even a person?’

I fell into a mysterious crack, saw strange memories—dreams?—and when I opened my eyes, a boy I’d never seen before was standing right in front of me.

In this case, calculate the probability that the other party is a normal person. (5 points)

He even looked about my age—that is, similar to my current, younger appearance……

Something about the way he stared at me without moving felt deeply unsettling.

Ah, I know this pattern.

Did he reincarnate too?

His ash-gray hair and pale violet eyes—rare even in this world—made me stare at him.

Normally, when you make eye contact, you greet each other, but maybe his social skills were completely broken, because the boy just stared back without so much as a nod.

“Who… are you?”

I, the adult here, tried hard to show some social skills, but—

‘I got ignored!’

What a terrible personality!

Those lifeless pale violet eyes swept over me from head to toe with clear displeasure.

This kid… the way he acts is seriously annoying.

“Up we go.”

With this child’s body, even standing up took effort.

When is this stupid side effect ever going to end?

I stood up energetically and looked around—and realized I had come to an utterly absurd place.

Where am I? Who am I?

Anyone would feel confused looking at this unreal scene: magnificent pillars carved with countless dragons, beautifully cut jewels scattered everywhere like stardust, glowing on their own.

“Uh……”

The problem was that the space was huge. No—massive. Ridiculously so.

How massive?

‘I can’t see the end.’

If there are pillars, shouldn’t there be walls too?

Are the pillars just decoration?!

The sheer vastness of the space, and the instinctive sense of unreality, strongly told me one thing.

I’m screwed.

Wow… how am I supposed to deal with this?

Just as I shut my eyes tightly in distress—

The boy finally spoke.

And from his lips came an arrogant voice.

“Did I summon the wrong one?”

Yeah. I knew it. You’re the culprit.

But I couldn’t just start yelling at him.

“That shouldn’t be possible.”

He muttered incomprehensible things, like how he couldn’t have made a mistake.

Then—

“Answer me. Are you a disciple of the ‘Star of Longing’?”

He asked again, releasing an icy presence. The chill was so sharp it made my skin crawl.

I had suspected it, but at this point, not realizing it would make me an idiot.

That arrogant tone. That gaze that looked at me like I was an insect.

I was sure now.

‘Mother Shione in the heavens… I think I just met the boss.’

Save me.