It’s Trouble Because Unrequited Love Is So Fun - Chapter 16

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7. Baby Messenger, Jacob

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“Hmph, what idiots. All of you get lost! I don’t need any of you!”

At the same time, in the room at the end of the third floor of Kairozen Castle.

Currently 10 years old.

The boy, Jacob Kairozen.

With white hair and gray eyes, he looked at his tutor with a sharp, sarcastic tone.

“Try applying the supernatural principle of mana flow to this structure, teacher. Just how is our Castle floating through some magical action and reaction? Can’t you even understand that?”

“Yes, well, uh, um… Then let’s talk about mana conductors…”

“I already finished previewing mana conductors though?”

“I’m, I’m sorry…”

Unable to withstand Jacob’s pressure, the tutor left his seat while sniffling.

Jacob clicked his tongue as if finding it pathetic.

“Anyway, it’s full of idiots, absolutely full of them. I don’t want to stay in a Castle where such idiots reside!”

Jacob glared through the window at the Garden where new buds were just beginning to sprout.

It was the very Garden where his parents’ funeral had been held.

But their funeral was already over, and the Garden was now only waiting for clean restoration.

‘Uncle is erasing all traces of our father.’

Jacob turned his gaze away sharply and muttered.

“I’m going to disappear quickly too. I don’t want to live among idiots who don’t know a single thing about formulas or magical engineering.”

Then he irritably scribbled formulas on his precious mathematics textbook.

Before he could even finish speaking, the door opened slightly.

It was a servant.

Jacob, who wasn’t prickly with servants unlike with tutors, asked briefly.

“What is it?”

“Ah, well… The blueprints that Jacob requested from Raphael…”

“Ha, those new Annex blueprints again?”

Jacob received the blueprints with a listless expression.

‘How bothersome. It’s probably nothing special anyway.’

But after a few minutes passed.

Jacob’s eyes widened after checking all the blueprints.

“Wh, wh, how could someone do such crazy things!”

“The further down the pillars go, they’re designed so they can’t properly bear the load…! And it’s done so that no one except a smart expert like me would notice!”

To make pillars support the roof’s weight, mana circuits had to be wound around the columns.

But if 10 mana circuits were needed, the facts were cleverly distorted to say only 9.9 were needed…!

By ordinary people’s standards, this was…

A canker sore in your mouth that won’t go away for 10 days!

A single mosquito that won’t die and buzzes in your ear every night for a whole week!

A small pebble in your shoe that moves back and forth throughout an entire hike!

…It was such a destructive act.

Jacob’s hobby was usually to harshly criticize house blueprints as soon as he received them, saying he didn’t like them, then throw them in the trash. But…

“I can’t let whoever made this vicious blueprint get away with it.”

Jacob gritted his teeth and clenched both fists tightly.

He absolutely wouldn’t let this slide!

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“How dare you design such blueprints! Are you completely insane?”

When he first met the woman with long tangled silver hair and flashing purple eyes, Jacob had dismissed her with a “hmph.”

But this woman approached Jacob and shamelessly introduced herself, saying ‘Hello! I’m Serenthia Rosemary. I’m going to be your aunt soon.’

When he said ‘Hmph, I don’t care if you’re an aunt or whatever,’ she shot back with ‘Well then, call me big sister!’

It was outrageous, but Jacob wasn’t one to fall for such tricks.

He planned to ignore her and criticize her blueprints thoroughly.

But…!

“Right, they’re completely insane blueprints.”

“…?”

“Don’t let this big sister off the hook, absolutely not!”

“Ahhh.”

“Why.”

“Th, th, these blueprints are… Right! They’re crazy! But why are you, big sister, admitting it first!”

To think she’d make the first move herself!

“I guess it’s because I’m an idiot.”

“…”

Do adults usually use such expressions?

Faced with this mysterious being who admitted to being an idiot, Jacob’s eyes wavered like a candle in the wind.

Then, Serenthia opened her mouth and spoke ominously.

“So, smart math genius Jacob, will you teach me?”

“Te, teach…?”

Then this was an opportunity to show off his knowledge and give advice…?

After stopping his excitement for a moment, Jacob smoothly pushed up his wire-rimmed glasses and looked at Serenthia.

“I’ve been longing for someone like me for a long time. Jacob, you need to become my secret agent.”

“Se, secret agent? What’s that?”

No matter how much they pretend to be adults, ten-year-old kids are seriously drawn to words like ‘secret agent.’

“You’d work with me designing buildings. Jacob, wouldn’t it be really fun if you reviewed whether this building is okay from a magical engineering perspective? How about it?”

“How dare you say you’ll use me as a secret agent, asking me to help with building design for free. You’re the first person I’ve seen who’s crazier than me!”

“Thanks for the compliment.”

Jacob’s eyes flashed.

“Right, it’s a compliment! Everyone else couldn’t tell when I complimented them like this!”

“I can tell it’s a compliment. Cool, right?”

At Serenthia’s words, Jacob shuddered and then hesitated.

The moment his eyes wavered, Jacob muttered.

“…Still don’t want to. Get lost.”

Bang!

The door closed with a loud noise.

But Serenthia had no intention of giving up like this.

If her husband was a cunning cat and Isidel was an elegant black panther, then Jacob was…

“Like a really cute snow leopard.”

A baby snow leopard wearing round glasses, that is.

‘But he’s still quite prickly.’

Even more so than the black panther.

Serenthia smiled slightly while imagining petting the prickly baby snow leopard…

‘This isn’t the time to be smiling.’

…She tried to smile, but her vision suddenly became blurry and her head felt dizzy.

A day had already passed.

It meant her life was hanging by a thread.

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At the same time, at the northernmost point of the Northern Kairozen Estate.

This place where blade-like snow fell fiercely was a ravine where snow giants once lived.

Raphael stood before the Ravine and slowly raised his hand.

Blue flames were flowing from his fingertips.

Those flames, like vivid sword energy, sliced through the air…

Thud, thunk.

Even the small traces of demons that had been writhing with newfound life turned to ash and disappeared.

If touched by the blue light flowing from his hands, death was certain.

But at some moment when the blue light was flowing.

A hallucination flowed into his mind.

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