The Failed and Useless Noble Lady Will Be Reborn into Overwhelming Love!? - 00. Prologue: The magician is starved for stimulation. A cold-hearted colleague’s love life? That’s the best.

On a night when the moon hid itself in the darkness, and the stars shone so brightly they seemed ready to overflow from the sky…

North, a magician affiliated with the Magic Tower, twirled his finger in the air to stop the magic he had been using to pick up sounds and excitedly announced:

“Found her. She’s finally left the barrier!”

“I see.”

That curt reply made North visibly exasperated.

“The moment you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived, you know.”

Despite those words, Serhi—the Tower’s top magician and North’s colleague—only slightly curled his lips, keeping his cold eyes unchanged.

But North knew.

He knew the true nature of this seemingly coldhearted genius magician.

So, watching Serhi’s expression carefully, he added:

“By the way, she’s also been officially removed from the Listella family registry.”

“…I see.”

(Ahhh… he doesn’t even know whether he should be angry or happy.)

“So? I’m going to pick her up as planned, right?”

“Yes. It would be far too dangerous for her to walk alone in this darkness. Hurry up and go.”

“…I’m going.”

A question bubbled up in his mind.

(Why is this guy trying to act cool even in front of me??)

But—he wasn’t cool at all.

His eyes were darting around nervously, and he was failing to keep a composed expression. If anything, it was rather uncool.

And if one looked more closely at the document-strewn desk, there were several books hiding among the magic texts with faces that practically said, “What? I’m a magical tome, obviously.”

Romance novels.

Romance novels.

And more romance novels…

Even the wall-sized bookshelf reaching up to the ceiling was crammed with romance novels competing for space with hardcore tomes like Magical Theory and Magic Circle Equations. Very few people knew the unbelievable truth that this cold and fearsome magician’s secret hobby was reading romance novels and fantasizing about fateful, storybook-like love.

(You pathetic, hopeless, romance-obsessed loser…)

And so, North couldn’t help but tease him.

“Ahhh, I’m just too cool—swooping in like a prince to rescue a heartbroken girl. What if she falls for me~?”

“Wha—!?”

“Off I go~”

He leapt lightly out of the top-floor window of the five-story tower. A shouting voice chased after him, but he deserved it. If Serhi didn’t have the guts to go pick her up himself, that was on him.

“Puhaha. Well, looks like things are gonna get interesting for a while.”

Magicians are always curious. They’re always starved for stimulation.

And a love story involving a stiff, coldhearted, starry-eyed genius? That’s nothing but pure entertainment.

But—

North didn’t yet know.

He had no idea what this dreamy yet cold colleague would be like in front of the one he truly falls for.

Nor did he know that it would blow right past his imagination… into a level of absurd hilarity he never expected.