Fostering the Male Lead

Chapter 52

I couldn’t even blink at his smile and just stared at him blankly. Even though his lower body was just covered with a blanket and he looked silly enough to be not considered charming even jokingly, his gorgeous smile made me forget everything in an instant,

‘Wow, no joke, he has the number one visual.’

A beauty from another world that I had never seen in my previous or current lives was right in front of my eyes. The male lead was, as expected, in a different league.

‘He looks fantastic, despite the fact that he has only just awoken.’

Even his unkempt hair, which poked out here and there, looked good. I couldn’t take my eyes off him no matter where I looked. Broad shoulders, a strong chest, and well-defined abs! The muscles he gained from rolling around the battlefield were also perfect.

‘I used to call him a pig because of his belly fat, but I have to take it back now.’

When Sihael said that it wouldn’t be noticeable if he gained weight, I assumed it was an excuse, but it wasn’t.

‘Where did all that fat go?’

Sihael’s grip on the blanket tightened as I gradually lowered my head to scan his slender body. At the same time, my gaze was drawn to his veins that rose up on the back of his hand, and I forgot about the purpose of finding his fat and admired it, before raising my head in awe at the voice I heard over my head.

“Where are you looking at?”

“You used to be so chubby, but now there’s no fat at all. I was looking for where all the fat went… Wait, why are you looking at me like that? I didn’t do anything.”

“Your eyes are so insidious. And it’s not like you didn’t do anything. You groped my chest.”

Sihael took a step away from me and covered his chest with one arm, pretending to be ashamed. I was startled by his innocent look and burst out laughing. If I really groped him, I would have felt bad about it. But I didn’t grope him; I just touched him in my sleep.

“Hey, I didn’t even touch it properly. It was a total mistake.”

“…Do you want to touch it now?”

“Don’t say anything silly! Why would I want to touch it?!”

He liked to tease people whenever he got an opportunity. Look at his momentum now that he’s back to being a human. As he laughed out hysterically, I got out of bed and glared at him.

‘I need to go get Nanabi… Oh, she’s not here right now. She said she’d leave early in the morning.’

Then there was only one option left.

“I’ll go and call Lanoa. You wait here calmly, okay?”

“Okay.”

I turned my back on Sihael and covered my face, pretending to fix my unkempt hair. I pretended to be calm until now, but it was actually very burdensome and awkward. I was embarrassed that Sihael had suddenly become a person, but I couldn’t believe we’d met for the first time in this manner. I sped up my steps, using the back of my hand to cool my burning cheeks.

Click!

As I stepped out into the hallway, I quickly shut the door and took a look around. I hit my head against the wall after checking the empty hallway.

‘Shit! This is crazy! What should I do now…’

I was looking forward to an emotional reunion with Sihael after he became a human, but… what I ended up feeling was shame, awkwardness and embarrassment.

‘I know the original novel is 18+ rated, but I didn’t expect to see 18+ stuff. How could he be like that in front of me?’

My face, which had barely cooled, flushed with heat again as soon as his thing I saw came to mind.

I slapped both of my cheeks with my hand.

‘Forget about it, forget about it!’

I was holding my tingling cheeks from slapping them so hard when the door burst open. A silk gown was gently draped over my trembling shoulders.

“Don’t walk around in your nightgown.”

I alternated between looking at the gown draped lightly over my shoulder and Sihael’s frowning eyes.

Regardless of how one looked at it, he was the one who needed this gown the most, not me. It wasn’t the right size, so putting it on would make it look even weirder.

“Your Highness, don’t just walk around with your lower body covered. What are you going to do if someone sees you? Please go inside.”

“Wait…!”

As I forced Sihael, who was about to say something, to close the door, I patted my surprised heart.

‘He came out so suddenly. It really scared me!’

I removed the gown draped by Sihael, lightly patting my still pounding chest.

‘Is the curse really purified? Did he maybe imprint on me?’

I stopped walking at the hypothesis that suddenly came to my mind, but then shook my head. Imprinting had to be done a total of two times: Spiritual imprinting and Physical imprinting. Spiritual imprinting meant feeling love and affection for the other person and connecting with them mentally.

That is, it had to be a pure and devoted love.

In contrast, physical imprinting was making love to the other person. The moment when both people’s bodies connected and became completely one, the imprint would be made.

In order to completely remove the curse, both of the above had to be satisfied regardless of the order. If even one condition was not satisfied, Sihael would not be able to completely revert back to his human form because of the incomplete imprint. In fact, in the original novel, Sihael made a physical imprint with Liliana but still became a wolf when the full moon came.

He didn’t return to his human form until he made a spiritual imprint with Lilliana.

‘And I didn’t fulfill any of these conditions.’