Jobless Reincarnation: The King with a Mental Problem

"Lord of Shadows, after touring your territory today—is the child on your back your reward?"

Rudius smiled, clearly mocking the king's disheveled state.

"That's right!" The king, whose legs were trembling from exhaustion, said righteously, "Since this is my territory, of course I will protect my people."

It's not that I'm unable to walk, but that the world owes me something.

Why is no one observant enough to lend a hand?

Finally, Senis and Lilia came out and saw the unconscious child on their backs, so they rushed over to check on him.

"What happened? Can you explain, Trevor?"

The sensible adult has finally appeared. Thank you, Senis.

"Her name is Silphiet, and she's just unconscious because she ran out of magic. I'll explain everything else when I wash up and we get to the table."

After returning to the room, I went into the bathroom and immediately wrapped myself in a large water balloon, making the water balloon spin around.

Luo Qixi... is even prettier in person than I remember...

But why did we have to meet today when I'm in such a sorry state?!

Panda eyes, muddy, and carrying a child on her back—

My first impression was completely ruined!

It's all that fat tiger's fault! He'll pay for this next time.

Lilia had already prepared clean clothes, and after a few minutes, she transformed into human form and sat down at the dining table.

"Trevor," Paul finally remembered the important matter, "this is Miss Roche, who will be your and Rudy's governess from today onwards."

"I understand." After tidying her hair a little, trying not to look too embarrassed, she nodded slightly to Lokishi. "Teacher Lokishi. I am Trevor Greirat."

After a brief introduction, I finally began to recount my great epic of the day. It wasn't anything special; it was simply about witnessing the Shadow King of Buena Village single-handedly suppress the Tiger Emperor and his gang of henchmen after witnessing the bullying incident, and then attempting to take on a disciple to teach magic.

Paul was terrified.

"You attacked a group of people? Did you use a sword? Did you use magic? Were any people injured? Did anyone die?"

That last question was just too outrageous...

Thinking about it, it makes sense. Paul just gave me a sword yesterday, and today he's getting into a fight. If things go wrong, someone could really die. Besides, Paul is, after all, the knight who protects the village.

"How could that be?" I rolled my eyes. "I didn't use magic or draw my sword. Otherwise, those brats wouldn't have been able to even touch my clothes. I just used my fists to teach them a lesson on behalf of their parents."

Wang was quite proud.

"I knew Trevor was a good kid, not only strong, but also kind-hearted~"

Senis kept praising me while adding rice to my bowl.

I just hope that Senis will think the same way after seeing Gian's injury...

"After that, I asked the child about her situation and tried to teach her magic. I accidentally ran out of magic power, and since I didn't know where she lived, I brought her back."

"I know that child. She's from the Rolz family. Her mother passed away early, and Rolz took care of her alone. But since he was stationed at his post, his children would run errands and deliver things to him."

"She's too careless. Silphie is only three years old and has green hair. She's often bullied in the village, and according to her, this isn't the first time. Lord Paul, you should do something about this."

"I really don't know anything about this. I'll personally take the girl home tonight and find out what happened."

Paul was unusually serious. After all, he was a resident knight, and whether out of a sense of responsibility or obligation, Paul earnestly agreed.

"After that, I taught Sylphie magic, thinking that she would fight back herself in a few days. Once she overcame her fear, she wouldn't be a doormat anymore."

That's why I didn't just help her beat everyone into submission.

"May I ask what kind of magic you taught me?" Finally, the conversation touched on a topic that Loki was interested in, so she quickly asked.

"They only taught me water polo."

"Brother, how are the teaching results?" Rudy seemed to want to know the differences between himself and his peers.

"He learned it in one lesson and fainted after launching 29 water balloons in a row."

"Is the latest genius the potato in the market? But 29 water spheres? That's a bit too little magic power. Magic power is usually fixed at birth, so it's hard to progress with that kind of magic power," Loki said with some regret.

"That's not necessarily true. My brother and I didn't have much magic power back then, but through repeated depletion and replenishment of our magic power, we improved a lot."

"Really? Can magical power be trained?"

"It is certain that magical power is not fixed at birth. The likely condition is that repeated training during early childhood can greatly increase the upper limit of magical power, but there are other possibilities as well."

"Could you share it?"

"My first guess is the uniqueness of the individual—Rudy and I may be special cases. The magical power we gained during our growth period is related to our own potential, not to training."

The second guess is a general rule—during the body's growth period, the repeated process of consuming and replenishing magic power allows the body to become more adapted to magic power and increase its potential.

The third is the time window—magical power only increases with physical growth during early childhood; after this stage, it becomes fixed.

"It's a remarkable guess, but the limitations of verification are still too great. Geniuses who can start learning magic at the age of two or three are not everywhere."

"Yeah, it's not very meaningful. I just jotted it down. Maybe in the future we can create a device that can forcibly absorb people's magic power, and then we can mass-produce magicians with high magic power."

"I've heard of devices that absorb released magic, but I've never heard of anything that directly extracts magic from the body. But if it really existed, the status of magicians might change."

"In any case, none of these are things that can be achieved in the short term, so let's put them aside for now."

"Yeah, yeah," Rudy finally chimed in. "Have you learned Silphie's non-chanting technique yet?"

Upon hearing the words "no chanting," I focused my attention again, trying to hear them more clearly.

"I've learned it. The first time I launched it successfully by chanting along with me, the second time I launched it successfully by chanting silently in my mind, and the rest were all continuous launches without chanting. I launched a total of 29 water balls."

"I think I only had two the first time..." Rudy seemed to have lost confidence.

"I don't even know how much my first time was..." The system drained all my magic power right then and there.

Luo Qixi's eyes widened. "Why is your so-called 'no chanting' method so simple?"

Luo Qixi no longer knew what expression to wear when facing the two children.

She picked up the long-cooled black tea and drank it all in one gulp.

"Calm down. Calm down. This world is vast; anything can happen."

"But this is just too outrageous!"