The Obsessive Male Leads Want to Eat Me Alive

Episode 47: Plan B (III)

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I explained the story to Sordi and Um, and they listened seriously.

“So this is what happened, does Prince Gerard know of my powers?”

“…Hmmm. I’m worried.”

Um, who listened seriously with his thick arms crossed, reached out and rubbed my cheeks like they were sticky rice cakes.

Then he fell into thought.

‘…Why? Why are you so lost in thought while touching my cheeks?’

“Oh sorry. When I touch something that is soft, I feel a little better. Hahaha!”

“Thwt’s rwight… (That’s right).”

As soon as my pronunciation became wobbly, Um, who released my cheeks just then, waved his hands out of disappointment before answering.

“If the aide said that, then Prince Gerard definitely applied for adoption targeting your ability.”

Oh, I knew it!

“Maybe… Gerard must be able to see your soul. What do you think, Sordi?”

“I think so too.”

I couldn’t believe he could see my soul.

‘Then does it mean he has the same eyes as Madam Mimosa?’

The fact that Madam Mimosa could see the color of one’s soul was stated in the original story.

This was the information that came out when unraveling the settings for the ‘Forest’, the childhood of the main characters.

‘There was nothing about Gerard in the original.’

“Please explain a little more.”

At my request, the handsome lily man smiled neatly and began to speak gently.

“After Exordium, the first shaman, other sorcerers emerged in this land. But not all of them were good.”

“Yes. Wicked sorcerers who enjoyed deceiving others and living for personal gain, or corrupting humans. Purely for their own pleasure!”

‘Not all sorcerers were good people.’

Gulp. I swallowed my saliva.

Raising his thick eyebrows, Um said,

“They lived like dog crap— ah, no, I was harsh in front of the baby.”

When Sordi tapped Um’s side at the ‘dog crap’ part (he was smiling beautifully, but he was quite firm), Um flinched and quickly covered his lips, oop! He corrected his words.

“Most of the sorcerers who lived a bad life lose their souls when they die, but some parasitize humans by using their souls.”

The handsome lily continued the wolf’s words.

“Just as Exordium inherits its soul to one who is kind and warm like our baby—”

“Those bad things choose people similar to themselves and make a contract with them, and then they get ‘sorcerer’s eyes’… They can see the soul with those eyes.”
(TL/N: remember how Annette described Mimosa’s eye to be a ‘casted/incarnated eye’? That’s the sorcerer’s eye(s). She didn’t know what it really was then, that’s why we also didn’t know the proper term till now.)

“Aha.”

As I nodded, Sordi continued.

“Then the contractor can use the power of the sorcerer’s soul. Also, the ‘sorcerer’s eyes’ will allow them to identify and possess talented people.”