"Hey! What are you doing now?! Huh!?"

Allie, who was leading the construction of the new square. She, with her hair tied up high, was shouting at the workers.

Allie, who associated everything with money, did not even waste a single brick.

"Hey! Where's the masonry foreman?!"

Allie's expression, who was looking for the foreman of the masonry team, was fierce.

"W-why are you doing that?"

The expression of the masonry foreman, who had rushed over at Allie's call, was not good.

And for good reason, he knew that no good words would come out when Allie was looking for him with that expression.

"Foreman? No, why are there no bricks already? I'm sure I bought and put in plenty?"

"T-that's... some of the bricks were broken..."

"Broken? Even if they were broken, this is too much, isn't it? Foreman, didn't you and your team eat bricks instead of snacks?"

Allie shook her head as if she couldn't understand at all.

The foreman in front of her also had a constipated expression.

Ate bricks instead of snacks?! What kind of nonsense was that!

"Ha, so how many more do you need?"

"About three thousand..."

"Three thousand~!? Foreman! You could build a house with three thousand bricks!!!"

"..."

"Ah, I don't know. I'll put in another thousand, so you take care of it!"

Unexpected variables always arose during construction.

There were times when bricks broke, or when they had to build one more row of walls than planned, or when the design was slightly off, so they were always short of materials.

But that picky woman would find fault with every single brick, so he couldn't work properly because of the stress.

"Ugh..."

But because of this, all the workers also handled the materials with care.

They would use the leftover wood scraps in the right places, and they would also use the half-used bricks or tiles in other places, which they would have originally thrown away.

Allie was amazing. She squeezed the workers like squeezing juice from a dried squid and achieved the best efficiency.

That's why the workers had reached the point where they would shudder at the sight of the bright yellow straw that resembled her hair.

"Hey! Don't play around, get to work!"

Allie shouted at the man who was standing tall in the middle of the construction site.

But the man did not move at all, despite Allie's shout.

"Huh? Is he not a worker?"

The man seemed to be turning his body and walking towards Allie, but he stopped in his tracks again.

"Isn't that him? That insolent..."

It was when she was narrowing her eyes and trying to recognize him.

-KABOOM! KABOOM!!

Hazy dust rose from the magic that had burst out in an instant, and the site became a mess, and the workers began to run away in a panic.

"Aaaah!! Run away!!"

Allie, who had no time to avoid the suddenly shot magic, was hit squarely by that magic.

"You... son of a b-tch..."

"H-how!"

But the man was terrified at the sight of the woman coming out of the hazy dust.

"You son of a b-tch, how dare you... my money!!!"

-Thump! Thump!

The earth began to shake in time with Allie's angry voice.

"Kh, khahaha! What a funny wench. But that momentum will end today!"

The man who had suddenly appeared and had attacked Allie was Stun.

"Your eyes have gone bad, haven't they? You son of a b-tch!"

-Rumble, kaboom!

The shaking earth seemed to rise up and then attacked Stun.

"Khaha! Did you think you could be a match for me with something like this!?"

"...?"

Stun, who had easily blocked Allie's magic with one hand, touched his forehead and laughed exaggeratedly.

"...What's that? Is it puberty?"

Allie frowned at his annoying appearance, momentarily surprised by Stun's dramatic growth.

"It's a pity... you're quite pretty, though... that pretty face will end today."

-Fwoosh

Flames began to rise from Stun's hand.

The flames seemed to grow larger and larger, and then they began to rage like a storm.

"You're making a scene. A scene."

But Allie just snorted at the sight of the flames.

"Die!!!"

-Rumble! Bang!

The huge flame that was shot with Stun's shout came at her as if to swallow her.

"Ha! You're the one who's going to die!"

-Bang!

Allie, who had scattered the flame so easily with one hand, began to walk slowly.

"W-what is this..."

Stun had raised the firestorm, his best magic, to the limit of his ability.

It was his last resort to not be played with by Allie anymore, and it was his secret weapon to send her away in one go.

But his magic had become nothing with a single gesture of Allie's hand.

"Are you done? You crazy bastard?"

The flustered Stun stepped back, looking at the approaching Allie.

It was the end. There was no more mana left.

The power that had been boiling up after absorbing the artifact he had received from Alberto was enormous.

It was a power of a level that he could not reach even if he devoted his life to magic training.

But that woman in front of him had scattered his magic as if swatting away the fist of a three-year-old child.

"Khuk..."

He was so angry and resentful. Why... why!

"Hey, you psycho. Are you done?"

Allie, who had come right in front of him at some point, was looking at him with her hands on her hips.

"Kill me."

"Ha! Of course I have to kill you. But how are you going to compensate for this mess? Huh? Your eyes have gone bad... what did you use?"

"Don't ask, just kill me."

"You're talking nonsense!"

-KABOOM!

The magic that burst from Allie's hand overturned the earth.

Blood gushed from the mouth of Stun, who had been helplessly hit by the overturned earth.

"Khuk! Gak!"

"Hey, I wanted to spare you, you know? I have to get compensation for this, right?"

"Cough... gak...!"

"But I've figured out what kind of pathetic trick you used."

"K-kill... me..."

"Yes. I'll kill you."

Allie's eyes, who smiled brightly, flashed with murderous intent.

"...You son of a b-tch."

"Ah, don't leave any last words. I don't like that kind of thing."

-Rumble... thump!

The ground shook at her single gesture... and then it swallowed Stun.

"Ugh~ I hate blood!"

Allie, who had turned around, dusted off her hands.

***

"What... do you mean by that?"

"I couldn't help it. The kid's eyes had gone bad. But I buried him cleanly. So much so that the goddess of the earth would embrace him warmly."

"So... you're saying Stun is dead?"

"Yes. Actually, I was thinking of killing him without anyone knowing... but I thought I should tell the Count."

The Count, who had rushed over after hearing that the square had become a mess, seemed to be out of his mind at the news she had delivered.

Stun was dead? His godson was dead...!

"Count? I said I couldn't help it. I'm sorry."

Allie apologized awkwardly, looking at the Count's expression.

"Stun... Stun..."

The Count's expression was empty as he called his godson's name.

Even if he was a crooked child, he didn't want to send him off like this. In addition, the friendship with Duke Cirus, which he had just regained, would all be ruined.

It was an accident that had happened in his territory, and a parent who had lost a child would find it difficult to accept, no matter what the reason was.

The Count also knew. That even if a child had abandoned the family, the parent could not abandon the child.

Even if Lucas had made the same decision as Stun, he would not have been able to cast him out.

"What should I do?"

"The child... where is he now..."

"I buried him first... should I dig him up?"

"Khuk..."

The Count finally collapsed on the spot and began to shed tears like beads.

He felt it was his fault. No matter how much Stun had attacked him sincerely, he should have guided him on the right path somehow.

The Count felt that this had happened because he had not been able to do so.

Allie was fidgeting as she looked at the Count.

She couldn't understand. The man named Stun had clearly tried to kill the Count that day.

But to be so sad after he had been buried in the ground and sent off well...?

"D-don't cry. I'll go and dig him up..."

Allie, who had left the Count, who was sitting on the floor and sobbing pitifully, behind, headed to the square again.

When she arrived at the square, Allie began to dig up the ground to find Stun.

"Strange... this is the right place, but?"

Her insides churned as she looked at the messy construction site, but Allie dug up the ground for a long time to comfort the lord of the territory and her customer, the Count.

But he wasn't there.

It was certain that she had buried Stun here, but there was no sign of a corpse, let alone a piece of clothing.

"...Could it be?"

He might not be dead. No, this pathetic human bastard must have squeezed out his last strength and escaped from the ground.

"You son of a b-tch?! To the end...!!"

***

"Gaaah... gak!"

Stun had squeezed out his last remaining mana and had teleported, thinking of any coordinates that came to mind.

He was suffocating from the gushing blood.

Buried alive! While cursing the wench's cruelty, he couldn't help but laugh at her stupidity.

"Khuk! Khuk...!"

No matter how much his mana had run out, it was a clear mistake to have buried him in the ground without completely killing him.

As if to prove it, Stun had come back to life, as if to show off.

Blood continued to flow from his mouth, as if his internal organs were damaged.

"Gaaah...!"

Stun's eyes, who was holding his chest and vomiting blood, were full of madness.

It would have been better to kill him. But the fact that his skills were so insignificant that he had been buried in the ground without being completely killed was so resentful.

He had obtained a power that he could not obtain even if he devoted his life to it in one morning.

But that wench, who seemed to be about the same age as him or a little older, had trampled him so easily, as if laughing at that fact.

"The Rodrigo County...!"

The Rodrigo County came to mind in his fading consciousness, as if he had used up his strength excessively, and the power contained in the artifact was consuming his whole body faster than expected.

'If it weren't for that son of a b-tch of a Rodrigo County... if it weren't for them!'

Stun, who had woken up after a long time in a place he didn't even know, slowly got up.

"Khuk..."

There was still pain, but he could feel a completely different body condition from when he had collapsed, as if it were the power of the artifact.

So much so that he could feel that his faded mana had almost been replenished.

"Khuk, khahaha!!!"

Stun, who felt the mana that had filled his body, threw his head back and laughed loudly, forgetting the pain.

"...I'll make you feel it desperately. What the result of messing with me is."

A light appeared on his body as he got up from his seat.

***

Stun, who had teleported to the academy, began to look for Skir's whereabouts first.

Since he couldn't beat that wench in the Rodrigo County, he was planning to harm the son that the pathetic county cherished.

His younger brother, Skir, and Lucas were friends. Stun, who knew that fact, thought that it would be easy to find his younger brother first.

The first place he went to was the dormitory. The children were supposed to return here after class, so he was planning to wait for him in Skir's room first.

A sly smile hung on his lips as he looked around Skir's room.

Skir's diary on the desk.

Stun's face began to be filled with anger as he slowly flipped through the diary.

It was pathetic and disgusting that his younger brother was writing a diary, but the contents inside were even more so.

It was full of contents about spending every day with Lucas, Pola, and a child named Nella.

And the place where his eyes stopped was the story of the night he had left the duchy.

There, it was written in detail how Skir thought of his older brother, Stun, and how he would be filial to his parents when he grew up.

Stun snorted as he looked at the contents. He wanted to deal with his younger brother first, not the Rodrigo County.

'You son of a b-tch...?'

But the last line stopped Stun's anger for a moment.

-But I hope my older brother will come back anytime. I miss my older brother.-

"...Sh-t."

He felt like crap. Unidentifiable emotions were swirling and tormenting him.

-Clack.

Then, at the sound of the door opening, Stun closed the diary and composed his emotions.

'Come back? You're talking nonsense.'

(End of Chapter)