It’s Trouble Because Unrequited Love Is So Fun - Chapter 20

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“That box, don’t tell me uncle bought it for me?”

Moreover, Serenthia smiled brightly and hammered the final nail.

“Of course, uncle bought it for you! Jacob! You know today is 【Saint Nicholas Day】 when children receive gifts, right?”

Serenthia winked at Raphael. Raphael quietly handed over the gift box and said.

“Here… it is, a gift.”

Though he had given gifts through others before, this was his first time giving one directly.

After 3 seconds of feeling like his fingertips were cramping and wanting to annihilate everything like a demon.

Jacob smiled brightly and bowed deeply.

“Wow, uncle! Thank you!”

Right after quickly unwrapping the gift box Raphael had given him, Jacob’s eyes widened enormously.

“But, wh-what, what is this? It’s, it’s, it’s an engineering calculator…! Not just any calculator, but a limited edition with donut-shaped keys!”

“We chose it together, hoping you’ll grow up to become a wonderful magical engineer.”

Jacob tightly grasped Serenthia’s hand and Raphael’s sleeve hem, smiling innocently.

Raphael unconsciously clenched his fingertips briefly. However, the two people’s hands remained touching.

Jacob’s warmth seeping through the sleeve, Serenthia’s gaze was like warm sunlight illuminating the North.

At that moment.

For an instant, he had the illusion of flower fragrance spreading to his nose on the wind.

***

The next morning, inside the mansion’s dining room.

I collapsed face-down on the floor with rotten, dejected eyes.

“What’s wrong, sister?”

“Sniff…”

I sent a message today saying I wanted to meet Raphael again, but got rejected.

‘Can’t meet again, again.’

The building was being constructed and I was getting closer to those around me, but my lip color in the mirror was a patient’s purple.

‘My blood Raphael concentration is insufficient.’

Should I just give up on life like this…

‘I can’t. Absolutely not.’

Because I’m different from the days when I was headbutting bare ground.

Now I have a precious baby messenger!

I ominously lifted my head and looked at Jacob.

“Jacob. Teach me how to get close to uncle.”

Then Jacob shook his head back and forth and said.

“Sister, you really like our uncle a lot, don’t you?”

“Yeah, completely. I like him with one hundred percent pure sincerity.”

“…Don’t you have any shame or anything?”

“I don’t know about that stuff. I gave it to a dog.”

“Ah… I see. You can give shame to a doggy too? That’s amazing.”

“Uh, yeah…”

Jacob seemed to genuinely believe it in his innocence. Just as a slight guilt was rising within me, the guilt, no, Jacob spoke.

“Alright, I’ll teach you how to get close to uncle. I have a girlfriend, you know.”

“Gasp.”

“My girlfriend is nine years old. We’ve already held hands.”

…What is this precocious little kid.

‘He’s moving faster than me? And when did he get a girlfriend when he’s only been at Kairozen Castle…?’

…This is a bit bewildering?

Right after witnessing my eyes wavering, Jacob puffed out his shoulders and boasted.

“Ahem, I’ll give you some advice!”

What kind of advice could this little one give…

“I’ll teach you how to write letters. Uncle will like the letters I write too, right?”

“Thank you, master.”

Good.

My precious baby messenger, let’s give it our best!

And after much trial and tribulation.

The letter Jacob and I wrote with our heads together was delivered to Raphael.

***

Reading the report about the 【Donut Shop】 that Serenthia had written, Raphael casually propped his chin.

[…The 【Donut Shop】 report ends here.

Now, I’ll wait for detailed coordination with the construction company 【Kairozen Castle Reconstruction Team】.

Ah!

And there’s something I’d like to say lastly.

It’s something very important.]

‘Is there anything more important to discuss.’

Raphael casually read the postscript written below.

[p.s

(x^2 + y^2 – 1)^3 – x^2y^3=0

This is my heart.

Please check it later.

That’s all.]

Raphael unconsciously drew the graph with his fingertip.

“…It’s a heart graph.”

Again.

This crazy woman had confessed her love to him again.

“This is the second time already.”

But perhaps because it was a variation of the heart blueprint, he was already used to it.

“…Wait. Am I getting used to this kind of thing?”

He felt momentarily shocked and bewildered, but Raphael quickly recovered.

‘No, it doesn’t have much meaning.’

Just as he had composed himself with that thought.

He ended up seeing the next postscript Serenthia had written below the heart graph.

[Then please take care of me until marriage, honey!]

“I told you how many times not to call me honey…”

[I didn’t call you honey.

Honey!

…I meant I’d try making a two-line poem.

Ho: I’m working hard on marriage preparations too!

Ney: Please take good care of me!]

Setting aside the ridiculous two-line poem, Raphael looked at the pressed flower she had attached to the postscript letter.

The flower gave off a faint fragrance, then quickly disappeared.

The unexpected turmoil that woman stirred up was slightly irritating.

‘Marriage, with this woman.’

With a ripping sound, the report crumpled as if it would tear.

And an hour later.

Raphael realized his reading speed for reports had become slightly slower than usual.

Normally, he would read exactly 50 pages of 【Kairozen Castle Reconstruction Status Report】 in precisely 55 minutes and stamp it.

But now it was different.

An hour had passed, and only 40 pages of the report had been turned.

Raphael aligned another report of the same volume at the same angle and read it again.

However, this time…

“45 pages.”

Raphael alternately checked his watch and the report while slowly raising one eyebrow.

It was inconsistent.

Raphael alternately checked his watch and the report, then smoothed out the crumpled corners of the report to align them perfectly.

He tried to restore the study’s atmosphere to normal, but…

His routine was going awry. This was a crisis situation.

“Perhaps it’s time for me to die.”

He kept hearing Serenthia’s voice like an auditory hallucination, and she was roaming freely throughout Kairozen Castle.

However, because of Jacob, he couldn’t immediately eliminate the problematic element.

Serenthia Rosemary.

For the first time in his life, an unmanageable troublemaker had appeared.

***

Meanwhile, Raphael arrived in front of the old military barracks that had not yet been rebuilt.

In the wide training grounds, numerous knights were in the midst of sparring.

“We greet Your Grace the Grand Duke. Would you perhaps assist us with sparring?”

When the knights looked at him with eager expressions.

Raphael nodded lightly and raised his sword.

“Let’s begin.”

The sparring proceeded smoothly until…

“Oh, this is…”

A problem arose when the knight who received his sword accidentally fell over.

It wasn’t a particularly serious injury.

Instead of extending his hand, Raphael said indifferently.

“You seem to have twisted your ankle. Take him to the infirmary for treatment.”

It was an extremely restrained, peaceful conclusion to the sparring with no contact whatsoever.

Next, Raphael still expressionlessly designated his sparring partner.

The problem occurred right then.

After just a few exchanges, he felt a gaze upon him.

Of course, feeling gazes was something extremely familiar in his life.

However…

Raphael’s gaze briefly glanced into the distance.

Serenthia and Jacob were looking at him.

Serenthia waved her hand vigorously, then was led away by Jacob’s hand.

This all happened in less than 30 seconds.

Normally, it would have been a matter he wouldn’t have cared about at all.

However, at least in that moment.

The heart graph she had sent flashed through Raphael’s mind.

‘Really… how noisy.’

Raphael immediately turned his gaze to the knight he was sparring with.

In a split second of 0.1 seconds.

The tip of the sparring knight’s sword…

Crack, crackle.

…broke apart with that sound.

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