It’s Trouble Because Unrequited Love Is So Fun - Chapter 33

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‘As expected, he’s not falling for it.’

 

It seems that gaining an ally with a single honest confession only happens in fairy tales.

 

‘I did think he wouldn’t be swayed by just one attempt at persuasion.’

 

So, the method I’ve devised now is this.

 

To pester Raphael for hints!

 

I sat facing him in Raphael’s study.

 

“I don’t know why I’m helping you at this late hour when I should be sleeping soundly according to plan, but anyway, since your marriage has been incorporated into my plans, I’ll answer. I do know a bit more than what everyone knows about the Chairman’s past.”

 

“What kind of thing?”

 

“The woman the Chairman loved also used to construct buildings. The building where the Chairman lives now was made by that woman.”

 

“A building made by that woman? Hmm, I’d like to hear more details about that building.”

 

“Well, it’s nothing special. They say that woman was quite skilled at design.”

 

“That’s… it?”

 

“What she said before she died was peculiar. She said the architectural style of the building I made is Labyrinth, or something like that.”

 

Labyrinth architectural style.

 

My memories of what I’d heard about Chairman Pasan before my regression combined with my architectural knowledge to produce a perfect answer in my mind.

 

“Could you give me access to the building where the Chairman stays?”

 

“Now?”

 

“No, in the deep, dark night. Precisely at midnight.”

 

A method worth trying had come to mind.

 

I approached the door and turned back to look at him with a playful wink.

 

“Ah! And I understand very well why Lord Raphael is helping me?”

 

“It’s simply because I’ve already decided to marry you.”

 

That would be correct, but!

 

I sparkled my eyes again, trying to brainwash him.

 

“Perhaps you’ve come to like me a little…”

 

“Get out.”

 

…This isn’t working.

 

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In the night shrouded in deep darkness.

 

Serenthia was walking ominously, wearing a black dress and black veil hat while holding an ill-fitting shovel.

 

Her steps were leisurely yet somehow seemed anxious.

 

With Raphael’s help, she reached Chairman Pasan’s private annex.

 

‘It should be around here, probably.’

 

Midnight would come soon. Serenthia gripped and turned the shovel like a sword with an ominous expression.

 

But just then.

 

A dark shadow fell in front of her.

 

“What on earth… are you doing?”

 

Pasan, who always smiled leisurely, had a rarely seen angry expression today.

 

“Hello?”

 

Serenthia looked up at him as if she knew nothing.

 

‘Does she really know nothing? No, there’s no way she knows nothing.’

 

His Adam’s apple bobbed.

 

“This is a restricted area. Didn’t you hear from Lord Raphael?”

 

“But His Grace the Duke of Kairozen said I could enter?”

 

“Do you know why entry to this place is forbidden?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“Lady Serenthia said she didn’t know… what?”

 

Pasan, who hadn’t expected her to admit she knew, momentarily wore a dumbfounded expression. Then Serenthia smiled brightly.

 

“It’s because your lover took her own life here, right? Because you hate having someone enter the place where she last stayed. That’s why you deliberately blocked access to this place, isn’t it?”

 

Upon hearing those words, Pasan felt clear murderous intent for the first time in a long while. As if there was no more respect to be shown, he spat out words at her in informal speech.

 

“There’s a limit to being rude and having your head in the clouds.”

 

Before long, his fingertips were trembling finely.

 

“…So, what is it you want to say?”

 

Serenthia smiled slyly and looked at the moon.

 

“3, 2, 1…”

 

Along with a mysterious countdown, she looked down at the tiles on the floor where moonlight shadows were cast.

 

Precisely at midnight when the full moon rose.

 

Serenthia cheerfully pointed beneath his feet.

 

“This architectural style is made using Labyrinth, that is, maze design methods. According to Labyrinth design principles… maze architecture reveals hidden spaces when conditions are satisfied.”

 

“…”

 

“It has the characteristic of containing small secret spaces that only the architect knows, not even on the blueprints. Usually, they hide one very small secret space in the floor.”

 

“I know about Labyrinth architectural style too. I searched extensively. But there was nothing here.”

 

Serenthia nodded.

 

“Yes, of course you would have searched. But what if the designer deliberately designed it irregularly?”

 

“…What?”

 

“Secret spaces in Labyrinth architectural style are mainly created in mid-air through magic. But she was different. She used natural phenomena instead of magic. …The time she spent with you must have been moonlit nights?”

 

“How do you know that…”

 

“10 seconds before and after midnight. During that time, there’s a tile here whose color changes subtly on the floor.”

 

“…”

 

“There should be a secret space beneath it.”

 

“That’s…”

 

“It’s a design method that no one knows now, not even in textbooks.”

 

Pasan unconsciously looked down at the floor quickly.

 

Serenthia’s words were correct.

 

Under the full moon’s light, among thousands of tiles, only one tile right in front of her had a slightly different pattern.

 

“Ha, so what? If there’s a secret space, what changes…”

 

Serenthia stepped on the tile with her foot and raised the shovel…

 

Thud, crash!

 

She smashed the tile with loud noise.

 

There was no time for Chairman Pasan to be shocked at her crazy act.

 

Between the broken tiles, a clean piece of paper was hidden.

 

Somehow his spine tingled.

 

Chairman Pasan lowered his trembling hand and slowly lifted the paper.

 

“She seems to have left something for you. …From here on, I don’t know either. What the contents might be.”

 

Pasan’s hands trembled violently.

 

He quietly unfolded the letter.

 

[I loved you]

 

…A real suicide note with just those few words written.

 

Written in her peculiar handwriting that he couldn’t mistake…

 

Pasan’s hands trembled violently as he glared at Serenthia. However, she calmly and quietly opened her lips.

 

“She was a half-demon. The most despised existence in the world.”

 

“…”

 

“…It’s information that circulates quietly in the Duke’s castle, so I think you would have found out this much too. You just didn’t reveal it openly for her honor’s sake. Isn’t that right?”

 

Pasan remained silent. Regardless, Serenthia continued speaking.

 

“But that woman truly loved you.”

 

Pasan’s lips trembled violently. Serenthia spoke dryly.

 

“You know what kind of impulses half-demons have, right?”

 

“I know. They are…”

 

“Like them, the more she was with you, the more she would have suffered from impulses. From two kinds of impulses – loving you while wanting to kill you. Because demons instinctively try to kill humans.”

 

“So…”

 

“She only had two choices. As a half-demon, either manifest her demonic blood and kill you. Or die cleanly as a human before that happened.”

 

“….”

 

“So she threw herself away. But she wouldn’t have wanted you to despair over her death.”

 

“…No, I wouldn’t have minded dying by her hand.”

 

I shrugged my shoulders.

 

“She didn’t think that way.”

 

“…Why did she write different suicide notes.”

 

“She wrote a fake suicide note so you wouldn’t grieve, but even so, she might have wanted to leave behind a confession of love.”

 

Pasan gasped for breath and then staggered.

 

But Serenthia didn’t extend her hand to him.

 

This wasn’t the kind of emotion that could be overcome just because someone nearby reached out to help.

 

In the end, it was something he had to resolve on his own.

 

Under the moonlight, Serenthia looked up at him.

 

Then she whispered provocatively.

 

“How about it? Do you still not believe in love?”

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