It’s Trouble Because Unrequited Love Is So Fun - Chapter 86

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When I arrived at the bedroom, I was excitedly anticipating some romantic skinship event.

But…

“I finished searching the Princess’s Palace. …This means we’ve found traces of fairy grass.”

At those words, my heart that had been excitedly anticipating an event dropped with a thud, but…

“Look at this trace.”

…Even so, the excitement of being able to catch the person who caused Raphael’s rampage was greater.

I examined the black box that Raphael handed to me.

The box contained powder stored in a Perilld mineral container. It was so transparent that it was barely visible, but if I squinted carefully, I could see the powder.

“Normally this substance would have disappeared, but since it’s preserved with Perilld mineral, some degree of preservation is possible, or so Ellen said.”

“Gasp…!”

…Raphael, you accomplished quite a lot while I was away.

My eyes lit up.

“…So, can we identify the person who sprinkled this fairy grass powder?”

But at those words, Raphael shook his head.

“The fairy grass powder should leave traces. We need to directly compare it with Max Rosemary. But Max Rosemary is currently absent.”

“Ah.”

…Damn bastard, that’s right.

He fled to the Eastern Continent…

As I swallowed an annoyed sigh, Raphael raised only one corner of his mouth crookedly.

“Don’t worry.”

“Yes?”

“I’ll keep this preserved, and …Max Rosemary will be punished.”

I became puzzled as soon as I heard Raphael’s surprisingly strong declaration.

But Max hasn’t been revealed as the culprit yet, has he…?

“Honestly, Max is the only one who would scheme against us, but I think we should still keep other possibilities open.”

However, contrary to my reasonable doubt, Raphael said lightly.

“Ah, I’ll continue searching for the culprit. I’m also planning to receive a report on references related to ‘fairy grass’ from Ellen… that woman. But separately from that, I happen to have a personal grudge against Max Rosemary.”

…A personal grudge? Max, what exactly did you do while going around?

But Raphael now had an attitude as if he didn’t want to care about such matters anymore.

He said leisurely.

“So until then, you should…”

…Until then?

I clenched my sweaty hands. And the words that came next were…

“Lunch.”

“…Pardon?”

“Tomorrow lunchtime, keep it free.”

I stared intently at Raphael with a seriously puzzled expression.

“Yes! How long should I keep it free? Should I keep it free every single day?”

“…For now, let’s eat together every day while we’re in the capital.”

I asked him with a puzzled expression.

“Why?”

To catch Max Rosemary, there shouldn’t be any particular reason for us to eat together every day.

…After thinking this far logically, I quickly raised my hand.

“No, no, no. I’ll withdraw the question.”

Whatever it is…!

‘What a stroke of luck!’

Maybe heaven sent down a blessing because I’ve been living virtuously?

“It’s not related to Max Rosemary.”

“Then a date…”

“No, just a meal.”

It seems like he’s cutting it off sharply as usual.

‘Ah, really what is this? I’m getting a different feeling somehow.’

Ever since I entered his ‘control zone’, Raphael has been gradually changing, but…

From some time ago, I’ve been getting a slightly stranger feeling.

‘How should I put it, like feeding cats and dogs?’

…This can’t be.

Did I perhaps get upgraded from a bothersome temporary rescue animal to a companion animal that needs to be taken care of?

My eyes shook intensely.

‘If it’s a companion animal, that’s the position of a top predator!’

Please, please, let me have leveled up…!

“Anyway, I’m going to think of it as a date… Meals are dates.”

Excitement and anticipation rippled within my serious expression.

Raphael didn’t respond to those words. Then he stared at me intently and asked.

“Meals are dates?”

It was a statement filled with considerable doubt. I nodded my head seriously to brainwash him.

“…Yes, I understand that having meals counts as dating. Meals are the most important dating course.”

So our lunch is definitely a date.

I know it’s ridiculous sophistry.

But…!

Then.

Tap, tap, tap.

Raphael tapped the table several times at regular intervals like a metronome. Then he opened his mouth.

“Then your meal with that Prince Saxen.”

No, we’re alone together in the bedroom in the deep of night right now…

“Why is that person’s name suddenly coming up here?”

At this very moment when we’re busy discussing our beautiful lovey-dovey date just between us two?

When my gaze became sharp, Raphael opened his mouth again.

“…Saxen is.”

“Ah, should I write up a report about what I discussed with Prince Saxen and submit it?”

At those words, Raphael’s lips curved into an arc.

“Yes. Do that.”

“I see.”

And honestly speaking, I’m not an idiot. I’m saying I have some sense. I carefully raised my hand and said.

“From earlier, every time you mention Prince Saxen, you definitely seem to be jealous.”

“Ah.”

“I really like it though?”

“…Usually even if people think that, they don’t say it out loud.”

“Hmm, expecting common sense from me is also a bit…”

Raphael quickly changed to an expression that said ‘Well, that’s true.’

I smiled contentedly and wrapped the blanket around my body like a cocoon.

Then I looked at him.

Raphael stared at me with a speechless expression, then opened his mouth.

“…The blanket.”

“Yes? You seemed to like it…”

At that moment, a flash of dismay seemed to cross Raphael’s face.

…What?

I looked up at him with a puzzled expression.

He muttered in a murky voice.

“…Never mind. Lie down.”

At his words, I obediently closed my eyes tightly, then immediately opened them with a flash.

“Ah! …How about a goodnight kiss? We need to make contact for rampage prevention purposes.”

Raphael alternately stared at the blanket wrapped around my entire body and my face.

“What nonsense.”

…I guess that failed, I thought as I carelessly closed my eyes.

With a soft sound, lips touched near my eyes.

“…I’ll gladly fall for that nonsense.”

I opened my eyes with a flash.

At the same time as his touch, my heart went into a crazy rampage.

What, what was that…?

***

That night, I couldn’t sleep a wink.

Since I absolutely couldn’t fall asleep, I secretly headed to the balcony at dawn!

I immediately took out the crystal orb.

And the moment the crystal orb connected.

“Jacob!”

My precious baby messenger, Jacob, flickered on the screen.

“What’s wrong?”

“I’ve had some really good things happen so far, want to hear about it?”

Jacob, who has a nine-year-old girlfriend, is by my standards a romance master among masters.

After hearing all the events so far, appropriately censored so children could listen, Jacob concluded with one statement.

“…Do you know when a perfect building in magical engineering collapses?”

“Huh?”

“I mean, the reason a perfect building crumbles is because it lacks pillars….”

Suddenly talking about buildings….

My romantic eyes quickly went blank. Jacob pushed his glasses up with a click and muttered.

“Anyway, what I’m saying is, Uncle seems like he’s about to fall soon! No, maybe he’s already fallen?”

…What?

I decided to worship my precious baby messenger, no, romance genius Jacob like a god.

“Then what should I do?”

“Just keep doing what you’re doing. I think he’ll fall within a month.”

“Ooh…!”

Jacob said with a firm expression.

“No, a week. …No, hmm, maybe even a day?”

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“Hmm, I see….”

Jacob cut off the video communication device with Serenthia with a click.

Then he hummed as he tried to go outside the annex….

“…Huh, Uncle Valen?”

Valen, who had been standing alone at the very top of Jacob’s , raised one eyebrow. Jacob cracked the door open slightly and stared at him.

“Don’t tell me Uncle…. Did you eavesdrop on my conversation with Sister Serenthia?”

“…Jacob Kairozen. She’s not your sister.”

“I’m more used to calling her sister…. And Uncle Valen, why are you avoiding the question? Did you eavesdrop or not?”

“Should I answer that?”

Jacob pushed his glasses up with a click and closely observed Valen’s expression. Then he said bluntly.

“You don’t have to answer. I quickly calculated magical engineering formulas in my head, and it seems my words properly reached Uncle’s ears…. So, Uncle Valen, you have a hobby of eavesdropping, right?”

A hobby of eavesdropping.

Seeing Jacob’s eyes become sly, it seemed he thought Valen had intentionally eavesdropped on his conversation with Serenthia.

Feeling strangely like he’d become the worst uncle, Valen smiled with curved eyes.

“Hmm, well? I just developed it.”

And Valen had no particular qualms about becoming the worst uncle.

Looking at such a Valen, Jacob clicked his tongue.

“I see…. Uncle, you’re really the worst. It feels exactly like a torus split in half.”

“Well, what exactly would that feel like, nephew?”

Jacob said primly.

“It means Uncle’s hobby is a bad hobby. So if you have no business here, could you please leave?”

“No, I actually came to give you a gift.”

Unlike Raphael who was indifferent to everyone, Valen had a capricious side where he selectively looked after his nephew.

While he couldn’t exactly be called a virtuous person, anyway Valen was taking care of his nephew in his own way.

“A gift…?”

He shrugged his shoulders and grinned.

Well, yeah.

Everything else aside….

Valen took out a gift box and chuckled softly.

‘Older Brother’s situation is going to get quite interesting.’

It was the expression of a mischievous troublemaker younger brother who had absolutely no interest in the chaos that would ensue.

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