It’s Trouble Because Unrequited Love Is So Fun - Chapter 81

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“So… when Older Brother was about to go berserk, he held Serenthia’s hand and didn’t go berserk after that.”

“Right.”

“And then… the watch chain changed, Older Brother?”

“Right.”

When Raphael showed the watch chain in the crystal orb, Valen’s expression became quite serious.

“What’s going on.”

“Ah, well…”

Valen, who had been the one to plant the easter egg that changed the watch chain, opened his mouth with an uncomfortable expression.

“You might not be able to escape from Serenthia, no, sister-in-law.”

“What?”

“That easter egg, you see, activates when someone who can calm a rampage appears.”

Checking that Raphael’s expression changed slightly, Valen spoke.

“…Are you certain it stopped when you held Serenthia’s hand right before going berserk?”

Instead of answering, Raphael slowly closed his eyes and opened them again.

Right now, this moment.

Now that the rampage had stopped and his mind had survived intact from the midst of confusion.

And now, this moment when his younger brother was chattering away before his eyes.

“I never expected the easter egg I installed to actually work… This is quite unexpected for me too, Older Brother.”

Raphael had received perfect confirmation.

The fact that Serenthia was the one who could heal his uncontrolled rampage.

‘How should I treat you from today on.’

…From the moment I perfectly recognized that you are an absolutely necessary existence to me.

I might monitor your every move, obsess over you, and try to control you.

No, more than that, I might lock you up so you can’t leave the bedroom.

Forever, so you can never escape from me.

But could a woman as free as you handle that?

Wouldn’t that flower-like smile of yours wither away?

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When the promised thirty minutes had passed and he sat facing Serenthia in the drawing room.

“Honey~ I’m here~”

That damn honey…

Raphael honestly sat facing her on the sofa and turned his gaze.

“So, what you wanted to say.”

“I seem to be like a stabilizer that calms Raphael’s rampage, something like that.”

Raphael stared into her eyes and tilted his head sideways.

“I agree with that statement too.”

It was just that one sentence, but Serenthia’s eyes grew wide.

She clasped both hands together in front of her like praying and sparkled her eyes seriously.

“Then if I’m by your side, Raphael won’t go berserk either. This is like fate, so does this mean we have a lifetime contract?”

Raphael handed her a freshly prepared hot-off-the-press report.

[【Report on Calming Raphael Kairozen’s Rampage】

1. Checking Serenthia’s health condition

2. Checking Raphael’s rampage levels

3. Checking Raphael’s abilities

4. Checking Serenthia’s emotional state]

It was a report with these four main topics, plus all sorts of variables and factors for ‘rampage-related experiments’ written densely.

Serenthia read the report a little, then closed it with a snap and said.

“So in the end, it’s this. Checking rampage, abilities, and health conditions through continuous contact!”

“Right. That’s basically it.”

“Then, hehehe… Honey, you absolutely can’t escape from me.”

With those words, she flashed her eyes and firmly grasped his hand.

“Absolutely not!”

…Does this woman know.

Exactly how his attitude toward her is changing.

When facing the texture of the soft, warm hand gripping his, how his fingertips writhe.

But since Raphael had always excellently hidden his emotions and sensations…

“From today on, we’ll make contact every day.”

…With this one sentence, he could substitute his emotions with just letting out a short, hot breath.

“Huh.”

Serenthia gulped.

“Then shall we sleep holding hands starting tonight? Am I finally freed from separate rooms?”

The fact of sharing a bed with this woman seemed to make his screws come slightly loose…

Raphael threw the magical device on his wrist into the trash and answered.

“Just, figure it out yourself.”

Now even magical devices seemed meaningless.

Because from the moment he made eye contact with this woman, his mind kept getting dirtier.

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“Ah, really busy, so busy.”

The next morning.

I had promised to sleep holding hands tightly with Raphael starting last night.

Of course, I wanted to take the next step too, but…

‘The traces of abuse still remaining on my body still bothered me.’

…Without realizing it, I was putting up walls with my body little by little.

‘I don’t know if Raphael noticed that, but anyway, I’m starting step by step from holding hands!’

Next would be a forehead kiss, and after that…

“Hehehe.”

So, my condition was definitely at its best!

…Or so it was supposed to be.

‘I had a conversation with Raphael. This rampage seemed like it was definitely intentionally caused, and Max Rosemary was particularly suspicious.’

Moreover, ‘Squirrel’ had also demonstrated his abilities.

“Max Rosemary, that bastard, left for the Eastern Continent… From what I can see, it seems like Max caused the rampage problem just like you suspected. He looked extremely anxious. …The family atmosphere is really terrible too.”

Recalling Squirrel’s words as he badmouthed for a while, I nodded inwardly.

‘Then I should go visit directly.’

So I had come to scout the Rosemary Estate just like ‘visiting my parents’ home.’

“Max Rosemary is away?”

Evelyn, who came out to meet me privately in Max’s place, looked quite tired.

“Yeah. Don’t even think about meeting Max since he’s become strange.”

I didn’t know if she didn’t know Max had gone to the Eastern Continent, or if she was hiding it.

But there was something I absolutely had to tell Evelyn.

“He was strange from the beginning.”

But Evelyn seemed to have quite thick rose-colored glasses.

“No, he was a loving older brother… It’s all because of you, sister. Right?”

“He was strange from the beginning.”

“No. My older brother is…”

Evelyn fell silent for a while, then got up.

“…Anyway, get out. I have nothing more to say to you, sister.”

I looked around the interior of the Rosemary Estate.

Then I looked at Evelyn’s fingertips stained with plant sap and smiled brightly.

“Evelyn. Where have you been?”

“…What? Ha. That’s…”

“What, did you pick some herbs or something?”

When I spoke casually, Evelyn’s face turned bright red.

“…It’s none of your business, sister.”

As if embarrassed, Evelyn hid her hands under her dress.

I looked at her hands stained with plant juice and thought to myself.

‘Come to think of it, Father was quite obsessed with the Eastern Continent, and he was knowledgeable about Eastern Continent herbs too.’

When did it start?

I remembered Father bringing Eastern Continent herbs to the manor and drying them in the sunlight.

‘And among the herbs, there were some unusual ones too…’

I recalled the contents of a paper that Ellen had written before my regression.

I couldn’t remember the details, but there seemed to be something written about the correlation between rampage and herbs.

Even now, she probably has considerable knowledge about rampage symptoms.

‘If I invite Ellen to the Kairozen Estate…’

…Perhaps I could get a clue about Raphael’s sudden rampage?

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