It’s Trouble Because Unrequited Love Is So Fun - Chapter 56

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“…What? Ruin Serenthia’s future?”

 

When Max showed a flustered expression, Count Rosemary smiled menacingly.

 

“I thought Serenthia would become much more miserable than now in the North.”

 

Max thought stupidly.

 

Had Count Rosemary, had Father, heard news about Serenthia…?

 

“Yes, yes?”

 

“My eyes must have gotten a bit cloudy. Don’t you think so?”

 

Max had thought he knew well what kind of person his father, Count Rosemary, was. But now he seemed strangely like a different person.

 

“Father, what’s wrong with you?”

 

However, Count Rosemary seemed to no longer be listening to Max’s words. He whispered low and quickly in Max’s ear with an excited voice.

 

“Listen carefully. Go back to the Empire and become a great architect who pleases His Majesty the Emperor. And, and then.”

 

“Yes?”

 

“Send me a report on what happened to your younger sister Serenthia.”

 

“Serenthia again? Father, what on earth is this.”

 

“Shut up and do as I tell you!”

 

Being a mama’s boy and weak man, Max barely listened to his father’s words.

 

“And bring that child back to our family. Do you understand?”

 

“What? But she went as His Grace the Grand Duke’s wife…”

 

That was the moment.

 

Count Rosemary, who despite having eccentric tendencies always smiled, widened his eyes and grabbed his proud eldest son’s collar.

 

“Shut up and do as I tell you. Do you understand?”

 

Max tried not to frown.

 

Under Count Rosemary’s nose, his mustache area was bluish, and a faint smell of alcohol came from between his lips. Max wanted to ask why he had changed like this, but he endured with difficulty and said.

 

“Father. I under…stand. First, please let go of this collar!”

 

“Don’t forget that our family must remain unchanged, forever, as a prestigious family. Do you understand?”

 

Max, facing his father’s bloodshot eyes, trembled.

 

‘What on earth is happening…’

 

Count Rosemary roughly released his collar as if all business was now finished.

 

Then he began checking the blueprints again and applying antique-colored paint to the model for the design. Though his hands were still trembling like a madman.

 

Max nodded with a trembling expression, biting his lips.

 

Then Count Rosemary muttered in a casual tone.

 

“…Note box.”

 

“Yes?”

 

“There’s a note box at your feet. Take it and unfold one sheet whenever your path is blocked.”

 

Max blinked as he picked up the wooden box rolling roughly on the floor.

 

He didn’t know what it was, but since it was his father’s order, he intended to follow it.

 

***

 

The next morning.

 

Today too, I entered Raphael’s office holding the 【Butterfly Pair】 in my hand.

 

Even so, the moment when I kissed Raphael’s forehead kept replaying in my head.

 

“Kiss mission success! The next survival mission is still…”

 

After the kiss, Squirrel sent quite an ominous telepathic message…

 

Anyway, it doesn’t matter.

 

Because Raphael is right in front of me now!

 

Then, I looked at Raphael and my earlobes turned red…

 

‘…They’re not turning red, absolutely not!’

 

I absolutely won’t think about yesterday’s forehead kiss.

 

Raphael said it was his second forehead kiss, but I absolutely wasn’t angry or furious that it was my first.

 

I looked at Raphael with a determined expression.

 

Then Raphael opened his mouth.

 

“Your face is red.”

 

It was a simple and clear, yet unbearably accurate observation.

 

However…

 

“But you know.”

 

“What.”

 

“Raphael, your face is red too.”

 

I could understand myself being like this, but why is this person red? Is he sick somewhere?

 

“…Report.”

 

Looking at his face up close made me a little breathless, so I forgot about the report.

 

But I soon came to my senses and opened my mouth without delay.

 

“Uh, um, so, I, uh, um, today’s report is…”

 

Raphael’s fingertips made tapping sounds as he halfheartedly drummed the table. After listening to my stammering report for one minute, he opened his mouth.

 

“The conclusion of the report is.”

 

“Uh, um.”

 

“No conclusion?”

 

Five minutes were slowly passing. I felt a sense of crisis. But I had to say what needed to be said.

 

“There’s a very important conclusion today.”

 

“What is it?”

 

Looking at Raphael’s indifferent expression, I said seriously.

 

“Yesterday’s kiss was really good.”

 

“That’s not a report.”

 

Raphael put down documents on the table with a thud and rested his chin on his hand.

 

“So.”

 

“I’ll look forward to the next kiss too.”

 

“I never said we’d kiss again, tomato.”

 

My face must still be red.

 

‘Even after kissing my forehead, what a cruel man…’

 

My heart was hurt…

 

‘Of course it’s not hurt.’

 

I nodded and said to him.

 

“We might do it in the distant future.”

 

“Do something about that red face before talking.”

 

“…You’re observing my face…”

 

“I wasn’t.”

 

Raphael carefully stood up and opened the door for me.

 

“Now, go out.”

 

…I was escorted out.

 

The moment the office door closed with a bang. I turned around with a puzzled expression.

 

‘Huh, wait. Did I see wrong?’

 

Come to think of it, Raphael’s expression when he came close seemed a bit…

 

His face seemed to be a bit flushed.

 

‘It must be a dream.’

 

Right now my face is so red that even my eyes have turned red, making the world look red.

 

Anyway, I properly expressed my aspirations after the kiss!

 

‘Next time too, we’ll kiss!’

 

The traces of abuse on my body… I don’t want to show them, and it’s a bit scary.

 

But even from a hundred meters away, the wedding night is still incredibly far away, so whatever!

 

‘As expected, it seems like we’re getting closer little by little, so my heart is pounding.’

 

On my way out, closing the door with a thud.

 

Raphael whispered low against my back.

 

“Not at night or in the bedroom. …If we’re going to kiss.”

 

I opened my eyes wide.

 

‘So that means it’s okay at other times?’

 

…Isn’t this practically being married?

 

‘Oh, we are married, aren’t we?’

 

Anyway!

 

Somehow I kept humming and felt good.

 

It felt like everything would truly be a perfect day!

 

***

 

Around that time, another upheaval was brewing in the Southern Rosemary Family as well.

 

Max Rosemary, the family’s pride and eldest son, had crossed the Eastern Continent and arrived at the Empire to enter the Rosemary Family.

 

“I’m here, so why is the atmosphere so gloomy?”

 

Evelyn should have come running toward Max with a lively expression, but she didn’t.

 

“Our youngest. Why do you look like that?”

 

“Well….”

 

Evelyn hugged her brother tightly and poured out all the stories of what had happened so far.

 

Pouting her lips with a gloomy expression was a bonus.

 

Watching such Evelyn, Max said indifferently.

 

“I see, I see. So in short, Serenthia has built tremendous fame? Incomparably more than you, Evelyn.”

 

Evelyn herself was certainly a good daughter and younger sister. But lately, she was displeased that people kept comparing her with Sister Serenthia.

 

She frowned with an annoyed expression.

 

“Why are you like that too, brother! Then I want to try architectural design too! Wouldn’t my skills be better than sister’s?”

 

At Evelyn’s sweet words, Max gently wrapped his arms around her shoulders.

 

“That’s right, Evelyn. Our lovely youngest.”

 

Max was truly a specimen of ‘even a hedgehog thinks its babies are soft’….

 

“But what are you talking about. That’s not something for you to do.”

 

…or not.

 

Max was quite objective, as befitting someone who exploited others.

 

He smiled sweetly at Evelyn and advised her.

 

“So you just smile prettily and stay put.”

 

He was planning to follow Father’s orders to crush Serenthia in the meantime.

 

There’s a fact that idiots who think this world runs on meritocracy don’t know.

 

That talented individuals who are just beginning to bloom are literally the easiest to break.

 

For that….

 

“There’s a way to make Serenthia our puppet again. So just wait a little, Evelyn.”

 

“Huh?”

 

“I’ll make Serenthia kneel and apologize to you.”

 

Serenthia, my dear younger sister.

 

How many days do you think it will take for you to submit to this Rosemary Family again?

 

A week? Three days? Two days?

 

Well….

 

I think I can bring you back no matter what scandal I attach to you.

 

“Then first, shall we simply test the waters?”

 

Just to see how Serenthia has grown, a little probing.

 

As a big brother, when my younger sister acted like a delinquent, I used to give her some physical discipline sometimes.

 

“All fun memories from long ago.”

 

This time too, I should be able to correct her delinquent behavior.

 

Max smiled vilely as he folded and sent the letter.

 

Next, to discipline his impudent younger sister, he decided to lightly use the connections he knew.

 

He could mobilize slightly stronger connections, but….

 

When catching ants, you use ant poison.

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