Jobless Reincarnation: The King with a Mental Problem

Kino still behaved like a human-machine hybrid.

But... now his face is covered in bruises...

"Kino".

"Yes, brother!"

"What happened to the injury on your face?"

"...I accidentally...fell."

"Oops... you accidentally bumped into Nina's fist?"

After the name Nina appeared, the human and machine finally reacted.

"Because of Nina..."

"well......"

He really did sneak off to enjoy himself with Nina...

I spent ages painstakingly installing the system, only to have it reset to factory settings the moment I saw Nina...

......

......

I really want to punch him...

But I held back...

Because I know that he only cares about Nina.

At first, he knew nothing but how to wield a sword and obey orders.

And he... doesn't like wielding a sword...

He only started wielding his sword because his sword-emperor father had demanded it of him, and everyone around him was doing the same, so he just followed suit...

People...shouldn't be like this...

Everyone is born wanting to pursue happiness.

I wasn't really confident I could help him win Nina's heart, so during the time he lived with me, I didn't just treat him like a slave; I also taught him a lot of things.

For example, cooking, skiing, painting, sculpting...

I taught him everything I knew, hoping he could find something else that would make him happy besides his love of letters and Nina.

He accepted everything I gave him, but...

He didn't want any of them.

He was an empty shell, and the only thing that could fill that empty shell was Nina.

snort!

This king will not give up so easily!

PLAN-B!

start up!!!

【after a while】

I went to see Old Deng, and after a string of silver tongues, I got a beating, but I still managed to achieve my goal.

So what needs to be done next is!

Two little devils during military training!!!

That's right!

Instead of going through all the trouble of pulling Kino out of Nina's world and then stuffing him back in with an even higher status, it's better to just throw them both into the same pit.

Let them suffer together, get beaten together, and be treated like dogs by me!

Adversity sees the truth.

Just like back in school, whenever the same annoying headmaster was mentioned!

Then the two will become comrades-in-arms who share a common hatred for the enemy!

But......

Failed again...

Thinking of those drill instructors in American movies I watched in my past life, how they rigorously trained their soldiers, I then severely bullied and disciplined those two little guys...

To achieve my goals, I have always gone to great lengths.

This king has fully demonstrated his inhuman nature.

During this time, I am not a powerful person, but a vengeful ghost harming people.

The only difference between a bad person and me is that a bad person is a good person...

I'm going to find all sorts of ways to torment these two little ones.

I had hoped it would foster some camaraderie between them...

result......

Kino was thrilled...

[Kino's Perspective]

Practice swordplay, go home, eat, sleep, then practice swordplay again.

This was my life before...

My father doesn't care about me, and I don't care about him either.

He only recognizes the sword, nothing else...

All I know how to do is wield a sword, nothing else...

But... Nina...

My older sister, who is four years older than me, was her earliest...

She wasn't like this before...

She is gentle, kind, and... charming...

But later she also experienced some terrible things.

I only know how to wield a sword; I don't know how to help her...

But there are still things I can do.

No matter what happens, I will stand by her side.

I don't like practicing swordsmanship, but everyone does, including Nina. She used to need a sparring partner of similar skill level.

I wish that person were me, so I practiced swordsmanship even harder.

She was in a bad mood, so when she yelled at me, I just listened. When she hit me, I just put up with it.

As long as this makes him feel a little better...

She ignored me, so I waited by the training field for her to remember me again.

As she ignored me for longer and longer periods, I stood by the training field for even longer.

The wind hurts my ears, but I can wait.

This is my life, and I think it's fine.

Then......

Trevor appeared.

He's...very capable...

More capable than anyone else...

But... after he arrived...

Nina stopped paying much attention to me.

She went to see him every day, and each time he bullied her until she cried, but she would still go to see him the next day.

I hated him at first.

It's not because he bullied Nina; Nina herself was willing to be bullied by him, so it's none of my business.

The reason I dislike him is...

He distracted her.

Before, after she beat me up, she would sit next to me for a while, catching her breath and cursing a few times.

Sometimes they would ask me, "Why don't you fight back?"

She stopped asking later.

after that......

She doesn't even contact me anymore...

Because she has the Sword God accompanying her to learn swordsmanship...

I'm not needed...

I stood on the training field, watching her blue hair sway in the wind, pushing the distance between us further and further.

I don't want this to happen...

But being as clever as I am, I still found a solution.

Since she always goes to the older brother, I'll become his younger brother.

That way, at least... I can see Nina.

The older brother easily accepted me as his subordinate.

I don't know why, but he said he had his reasons, like wanting to annoy Nina, but I always felt that wasn't the whole story.

He taught me swordsmanship, and he taught me very seriously...

Besides swordsmanship, he also taught me many strange things.

Literacy, arithmetic, drawing, art appreciation—he said art appreciation is about looking at beautiful things and then asking me what I think.

He took me to an old watchtower at the foot of the mountain in the Land of the Sword Saint, where I could see the entire snowfield.

He asked me how I felt. I stood there for a long time and then told him that I used to see this mountain every day, but when Nina was there, the mountain was white, and when she wasn't there, the mountain was gray.

He was silent for a moment, then said that this is called liking.

So this feeling has a name.

He taught me how to cook, and when I was cutting potato shreds, he said I had good knife skills.

He took me to town to buy new clothes. The shopkeeper said she had never seen a child look so stylish in this outfit.

He said that clothes make the man, and if you want Nina to take a second look at you, you have to make yourself look worthy of being looked at first.

I stood in front of the mirror, looking at the unfamiliar person inside, and suddenly remembered that my father had never taken me to buy clothes.

He said he hoped I could find something that would make me happy, and at first I thought he wanted me to give up on Nina.

But later he told me that he just wanted me to laugh more genuinely.

Life shouldn't just be about swords and women; you should have your own preferences. If you like something, it should be because you genuinely like it.

This is the first time I've ever heard such a thing.

I've thought about it for a long time, but I still don't know what I really like.

Nina... is more than just a "preference".

Nina is a "must" to me.

I can still tell the difference between the two.

Everything he did to me—scraping my fascia, teaching me to read, taking me to see the sights, making me wear new clothes, forcing me to talk to strange children...

He always did things that I didn't understand at first, but in hindsight, those things made me a little better.

My older brother turned me into someone who looks alright.

I've developed muscles, and my swordsmanship has improved a lot.

The little girls in town would write me pink letters and watch me practice swordsmanship from outside the training ground fence.

I didn't quite know what to do with these letters. My older brother told me to leave them alone; they were my spoils.

The time I spent living with my older brother...

I've been thinking about one thing: he seems more like family to me...

Every single thing my older brother asked me to do has indeed yielded good results.

For example, Nina comes to beat me up every day now.

More frequently than before, and with more force than before.

Every time she punched me, I could feel my brother's foresight.

—He must have known all along that Nina would be even angrier if I became stronger.

The more I become like him, the more Nina will want to hit me.

As long as I keep standing in front of her, she will continue to pay attention to me.

He designed the shortest route to Nina for me.

Perhaps all his current orders are just to help me land this punch more accurately.

My older brother's love is complex, hidden beneath many layers, and I am learning to savor its flavor.

but......

He truly lives up to his reputation as the eldest brother!

I felt joy~~~

[Trevor's Perspective]

Like Forrest Gump, Kino carried out all of the King's orders without the slightest hesitation.

He was completely obedient to me...it was almost as if he had become my shape...

As for Nina... it's unclear whether she's jealous or under too much pressure...

She bullies Kino every day...

Looking at Kino's blissful expression...

I have serious doubts—is there any hope for this person?

after all......

How did it turn out like this?

never mind......

I have one last plan left...