This BL Novel Is Ruined Now - Chapter 229

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Chapter 229

Translator: Yonnee

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“Ah… damn it…!”

Frustrated by six months of continuous failures, Paul threw the glass he was holding onto the floor. It shattered with a loud crash, sending glass fragments scattering in all directions.

“Good grief. There he goes again.”

Reina’s arrival no longer surprised Paul. He naturally greeted her and wiped his face.

“Ah… you came?”

“Yeah. Failed again?”

“…Yeah. Why does it keep failing?”

It was unclear when she had come to the Bohr domain again, but she had now frequently invaded his secret space.

At first, he tried to push her away.

However.

“Hey? You got that wrong again.”

“You dummy, there’re supposed to be five circles there.”

“That rune looks different from this one.”

Unfortunately, Reina was quite useful. Moreover, she even kept her mouth shut about it.

So, when he started allowing her meddling, she soon became a significant part of his daily life.

“Reina, check this out. Does this seem wrong?”

“Um… It’s a bit off. It should be like this… and like this…”

Eventually, Paul had unwittingly opened up to Reina.

“Why is it wrong again this time? Let me see.”

Watching Paul frustrated by repeated failures, Reina stepped forward briskly. She rested her chin on his shoulder and scanned the magic circle with a hum.

“There, it’s wrong again.”

“Where?”

Following the direction her pale face pointed, he saw ‘Turbulent Waves’, the most difficult part of the magic circle.

By the way, that simple naming was Reina’s preference.

“Ah… it really is wrong.”

“Paul. You really have no sense for art, do you?”

Unaware that this was dark sorcery, she just thought Paul had a secretive and bizarre hobby of drawing creepy pictures.

Well… not a completely accurate interpretation, but if she was just misunderstanding on her own, that’s fine.

“The book says the wave repeats seventeen times, but you drew it eighteen times.”

Paul sighed deeply, gently pushed Reina away, and stood up.

“Here?”

“Yeah.”

After making the correction guided by her, Reina came back and crouched beside him again.

“Am I useful?”

“Yeah.”

“So you better treat this Big Sister well.”

“Big Sister?”

Pausing briefly and rolling her eyes, Reina quickly shook her head.

“Ah, no. I just mean take good care of your precious friend. You hardly have any friends other than me.”

“Isn’t that the same for you?”

“Oh, look at you? Even if your mouth is crooked, you speak straight.”

Paul let out a small laugh at the absurd sentence.

“What does having a crooked mouth have to do with speaking straight?”

“Wow, when you wear that hypocritical mask, you agree with everything I say, but now you’re showing your true character?”

Hypocritical mask?

Paul paused his hands, which were still adjusting the magic circle.

“…When have I ever been hypocritical?”

“Seriously? You’re denying it?”

“……”

Paul closed his mouth tightly in response to her continuous teasing. Why did such an innocuous statement feel so embarrassing?

Watching Paul closely, Reina burst out laughing.

“You look better like this than when you’re being pretentious. But still, it’d be nice if you smiled more now that we’ve gotten closer. Don’t you ever smile?”

“……”

“Ah, right. Not just that. You only ever have me come over to the Bohr residence, and only I’m the one contacting you. How come it’s always me who has to reach out to you?”

The conversation veered off the original topic and became increasingly verbose. And subtly, the taunting in her words grew sharper.

“Besides, I’ve been so helpful, yet it took you half a year to open up. Anyone would think you’re a prince.”

Then, suddenly.

“That’s why Ailee was the only one who played with you.”

A forbidden word slipped out, instantly chilling the atmosphere in the room.

“Get out. Now.”

Reina paused briefly at the sight of Paul’s expression, completely brutal as though he could kill someone right here and now.

“I think you’re mistaken because I’ve been nice to you. Friend? Don’t be mistaken. I’m just playing with you because I pity you.”

Did those words grate on Reina’s nerves? She crossed her arms and let out a hollow laugh after a moment of silence.

“You really know how to talk nonsense, don’t you?”

“You’re the one who’s talking nonsense. And don’t you dare bring up Ailee’s name with that filthy mouth.”

“Filthy? Are you done talking now?”

“Yes. I’m done. Why?”

“How have you managed to hold back all this time if you wanted to argue with me this badly?”

“Yeah, that’s right. I thought I was going to die holding it back. So now that it’s come to this, I might as well say everything.”

As they started spilling petty arguments, it felt like a blocked vein had been opened, releasing all the accumulated grievances.

“Even the elders of the family are tired of your crap, so who are you to criticize? Everywhere they talk about the black sheep of the Chantra family. That’s you, Reina.”

He knew it himself. His words were out of context and they carried complete condemnation. Moreover, he really didn’t have ‘accumulated resentment’ towards Reina.

It was just the trigger word ‘Ailee’ that had exploded all the emotions he had been suppressing.

“Your engagement had even gotten broken.”

He also had no fiancée, but that was due to his own unique circumstances.

If someone with mediocre magical power was exposed for a long time to the excessive divine power of Chetrasiu, anomalies begin to occur in their body.

He didn’t know why, but seeing his mother, who had already seen two husbands die, confirmed this as a fact.

But unlike himself, wasn’t it just Reina Chantra’s bad character that left her without a fiancé?

“And now you bring up ‘friendship’? As if you have any right.”