"Young Master… do you ever fall in love with someone?"

"Huh? Fall in love?" Little Jean thought that he had heard it wrong. But Matthew looked so serious with his question.

Jean pondered for a moment and replied, "Jean loves Big brother Maximillien, loves Angel Raphael, Jean's fiancee! And Jean also loves Matthew!"

"No, that's not what I meant," Matthew rebuked immediately. He didn't know how to utter it to Little Jean, who had zero ideas about what he meant.

Because it was two separate things.

Family love, platonic love, friendship love, and romantic love. They were all different.

And what Matthew wanted was the last one, a romantic love.

He wanted to own Little Jean's romantic love, and he didn't like to share it, no matter how many people wanted Little Jean in the future.

"Young Master Jean, what I mean about love is… when you want to stay together with someone forever, just like my parents. They get together because of love, and they got married."

"Ooohh! Jean understands!" Little Jean nodded happily. "Jean will marry Angel Raphael once Jean becomes big!"

"Raphael?!" Matthew immediately remembered the next holy saint, Prince Raphael De Argent. Matthew heard that Raphael and Little Jean were fiancees. But he thought it was just a formal engagement since nobles often did such things to strengthen ties.

"Do you… really love Prince Raphael?" Matthew asked.

"Love! Jean loves Angel! Jean will stay with Angel in the future!" Little Jean said. And then he paused for a moment, and his expression turned gloomy.

"But Jean also wants to live with Big brother forever…." Little Jean admitted. "Wuwu… Jean wants to stay with Big brother. Jean loves Big brother…."

"Do you love Raphael or your Big brother more?" Matthew asked. He kept prying on the oblivious Little Jean.

"Un? Jean loves both equally! Jean wants to stay with them together!"

…

"What do you think about me, Young Master?"

"Jean also wants you to stay with me! We can live togetherrrrr!" Little Jean innocently said.

Matthew chuckled the moment he heard that. He really thought they were on the same page, but Little Jean talked about staying as a family.

It seemed that he still didn't understand what romantic love was. This was understandable since he was just five years old. He was very sheltered, especially how Archduke Maximillien seemed to spoil and guard Little Jean a lot.

But that was also an advantage for Matthew because that implied he also had the same ground with Archduke Maximillien and Prince Raphael.

'As long as I can get an advantage later on….'

Matthew was thinking about the next step he should take while Jean was still busy perfecting his painting, giving few strokes to make it look even more vibrant. He also added few small fairies around the rose.

After that, he used his magic, "Twinkle, twinkle, my rose, and the fairies will sparkle!"

The fairies inside the painting started moving on their own. Little Jean clapped his hand happily once he saw the fairy was circling around the red rose, sprinkling their fairy dust to make the rose even more vibrant and beautiful.

"It looks pretty, like Jean!" Little Jean exclaimed proudly.

Matthew smiled, "Yes, it looks pretty, like you, Young Master."

He saw that Little Jean was so delighted after seeing that kind of magic. Thus Matthew said, "Young Master, I can also do the trick. I learned it last night."

"Ah? Matthew can do a magic trick? Uwaa, show, show!" Little Jean got excited.

Matthew still hadn't known the extent of his power, nor he knew what kind of power he actually had.

But he had practiced this for a while, and it should work perfectly safe.

Matthew darted his eyes at the painting of a bunny hanging on the wall. He flicked his finger, and the bunny started moving. Not only that, but the bunny also jumped out of the painting and started hopping around in the air.

It hopped on top of Little Jean's head, and Little Jean was so amazed by it, "Matthew is amazing! Bunny is so cute!" Little Jean praised.

"Jean wants to touch!" Little Jean tried to reach the bunny with his hand.

"No, don't!" Matthew tried to stop Little Jean, but it was too late.

Little Jean's finger touched the bunny, and the cute bunny suddenly morphed into a black sphere.

The black sphere then expanded, bigger and bigger, and turned into an egg.

The egg cracked, and a faceless monster with only his sharp fangs showed in front of him. He grinned maliciously and opened his arms, and unsheathed his claws, "My beautiful Jean, you're mine. Everything about you is mine!"

"Let's go, my beautiful Jean…" the monster tried to grab the petrified Little Jean.

Matthew hurriedly grabbed the monster's wrist and opened his mouth. The monster was sucked back into Matthew's mouth, and it struggled to break away from Matthew.

"LET ME GO! MY BEAUTIFUL JEAN IS HERE! HE IS MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! HE IS MINE! ARRRGGHHH!!!"

Matthew sucked the monster back into his body. He coughed blood a few times, and his skin slowly turned ashen. He wiped the blood with his shirt, afraid of getting caught.

Little Jean saw everything, including the monster and Matthew, who was coughing blood.

"I—I'm okay, Young Master. Please don't be scared—"

"WAAAAAAA!!!!" Little Jean wailed as hard as he could. He was too scared and shocked when he saw that monster. Matthew got panicked. He didn't know how to silence Young Master Jean.

"Y—Young Master, please calm down. There's no more monster here."

"MONSTERRR!! WUAAAAAA!!!"

The guard who was dozed off outside finally got alerted, and he slammed the door open.

"Young Master!"

The guard was stunned when he saw Little Jean was wailing while Matthew was trying to calm the Young master.

"What the hell happened here!?" The guard approached Little Jean. But the moment he was about to grab the Young Master, Little Jean suddenly lost his consciousness.

"Young Master!"

"Jean!"