It’s Trouble Because Unrequited Love Is So Fun - Chapter 18

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I had only approached with the ambition of creating a baby messenger!

‘Jacob really seems just like me.’

Like my past self who was lonely from lack of affection.

Somehow, I developed a strange sense of mission toward this child named Jacob.

After pondering for a long time (since I’m going to die soon, even thirty minutes of contemplation counts as a long time), I went to find Jacob again.

Though I only have about 6 hours left to live, I still have something to say.

“What? Why did you come looking for me, and where are we going now?”

“You’re grumbling, but you’re following me like you were waiting for this.”

“That’s not it!”

I showed Jacob the Stable Keeper’s Cottage in the outer castle of Kairozen Castle.

“How about this log cabin?”

“Huh? What’s this log cabin? Do bandits live here?”

“Bandits? This is where the stable keepers live. They built it themselves.”

“Oh. It’s built better than I thought from a magical engineering perspective…?”

“Yes, but the important thing isn’t the magical engineering. It’s the light that comes into this place.”

“Light?”

“Yes, the house I’m going to design will probably have this kind of warm atmosphere with good lighting.”

“…You still haven’t given up?”

I rolled up the sleeves of my fancy dress and plopped down on the ground.

Jacob looked at me with a curious expression, seeing how I didn’t care about the dirt floor.

I chuckled at his reaction.

“I made a design blueprint like this.”

“…Wh, what.”

“I’m going to build the manor’s roof not as a regular roof, but round like a small donut. How about it, want to take a look?”

I sketched the house’s roof again.

Uniquely, the roof was shaped like a round donut.

“I’ll make a small ladder going up to the donut roof.”

“A ladder…?”

“Yes. So you can take walks up there anytime. It’s a very simple design, but that makes it more interesting, doesn’t it?”

Jacob pouted his lips but didn’t respond to my words anymore.

“Um, and you know what. Since this house will be designed with flowing lines, the light will embrace the interior in a circular way. Like… the light coming down from heaven warmly embracing you, Jacob.”

I smiled brightly.

Then Jacob muttered.

“Coming down… from heaven?”

“Yes, I want this house, the sunlight coming into this house, to warmly embrace you, Jacob. …In place of your parents.”

But at my words, Jacob’s face had turned pale. He gritted his teeth and said.

“…I don’t like it.”

“Why?”

The boy’s eyes were shaking.

“You’re the same as everyone else. You’re pitying me because I’m a kid who lost his parents!”

“I’m not pitying you.”

I shrugged and said.

“For me, my house was the only thing that embraced me.”

“What are you talking about…”

“After finishing all the painful outside work, when I returned to my small house. When I lay on the soft cotton blanket I chose myself and looked up at the ceiling… Even if the whole world blamed me, I felt like this house at least quietly embraced and protected me.”

My life before regression was entirely a shadow life exploited by my family.

Before that, my first life in Korea was as an unhappy assistant exploited by a master.

So someone might say my life was cursed fate.

But I’m not sad about that.

Because I have… something that seems to warmly embrace all the deficiencies within me.

I have the power to create wonderful houses that can comfort someone.

That’s why I became an architect in my previous life.

“I just want to build you a good house. That’s my true intention.”

Of course, I did have a slightly, just slightly cunning scheme to make Jacob my baby messenger…

I could feel ten-year-old Jacob staring at me intently through his glasses.

At that moment, the boy’s mouth slowly opened.

However, even though his mouth opened, Jacob didn’t say anything.

He just looked at me.

So I carefully spoke first.

“I’m not rashly pitying another person.”

Jacob’s eyes wavered.

“…”

Jacob didn’t say anything more.

He didn’t cry either.

Just…

At that moment, the boy’s tiny hand gently grasped mine.

I closed my eyes, feeling the warm temperature flowing from Jacob’s hand.

‘I hope you’ll be happy.’

With the feeling of emotions connecting and my heart gradually filling up…

Squirrel’s telepathic message rang in my ears.

“I know it’s really touching, but Serenthia. You have **1 hour** left to live!”

…Should I think of my last words.

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Again, inside the ravine where Raphael was staying.

Raphael had been contemplating for about a day regarding variables beyond his control.

But just then.

Suddenly, an emergency bell rang over his hand.

Raphael listened to the emergency bell sound indifferently, then clicked on the magical device.

“What, did some monster appear?”

“Th, th, that’s not it!”

“If that’s not it, then what.”

“Master Jacob is walking around the outer castle…”

At the mention of Jacob, Raphael raised his eyebrows.

“…He’s smiling.”

After Older Brother died, his nephew had shut himself in his room, devoted only to equations.

But he’s smiling?

“And he’s chosen an architect to build the annex in the outer castle, and he’d like you to come quickly. Will you… return?”

Looking around the place where Older Brother died, Raphael tilted the magical device in his hand.

Jacob was the only being toward whom Raphael felt guilt.

When it came to Jacob’s matters, he prioritized them above all else.

“Yes, I’ll return.”

When he returned, he would get rid of that woman who stirred up waves in his emotions.

He had experienced far too many deaths to be swept away by that woman’s vitality.

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As he returned to Kairozen Castle, Raphael speculated about what kind of blueprint had won Jacob’s heart.

Would it be from a promising architect from the Southern Region?

Or perhaps from a sophisticated architect from the Capital City?

He thought of many possibilities, but couldn’t come up with a definitive answer.

“Where is Jacob?”

“Th-they’re in front of the Portrait Gallery with the architect. But, please don’t be too surprised. It’s insane.”

“There’s nothing left in my life that could surprise me.”

Raphael said calmly, glancing up with his eyes.

“It must be ‘mind’-blowing and ‘crush’-ing, right?”

Tein stared at him blankly for a moment, then clutched his stomach.

“Ahahaha! What wit, Your Grace the Grand Duke!”

Even amid that belly-clutching laughter, Raphael keenly grasped the situation.

Today, Tein’s laughter was delayed by about 3 seconds.

‘What’s going on? He’s so flustered.’

With subtle suspicion, Raphael moved his steps. He was finally able to face Jacob standing in front of the Portrait Gallery.

No, Jacob wasn’t the only one there.

“Ahaha!”

“Donuts are cool, right?”

“Yeah! But if you take a bite like this, it’s not a perfect circle anymore. Hmph.”

“But there’s a perfect circle in the Annex, isn’t there?”

“Wow, that’s right! As expected, a torus…!”

Raphael slightly furrowed his brow as he watched the two people chatting warmly while standing in front of the Portrait Gallery.

That was the moment.

Serenthia, who had been holding Jacob’s hand and eating a donut, suddenly turned her head to look at him.

“Lord Raphael! Finally, you’ve finally come…!”

Her eyes were sparkling brightly.

As if she was looking at the most beloved savior in the world.

‘What on earth did I do?’

And…

A shocking statement flowed from her lips.

“I’m going to build Lord Jacob’s Annex!”

A suspicious woman infiltrating his daily life.

A woman with a strangely pale complexion who, despite that, was looking at him with a bright smile.

Having just returned from killing monsters in the Ravine, his body must reek of blood.

Yet that woman was simply smiling brightly.

“Please continue to treat me well in the future!”

Again.

Once again, it was that woman, Serenthia Rosemary, saying “please treat me well.”

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