The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 148

How to Protect the Heroine’s Older Brother – Episode 148

Pajik.

At that moment, a faint vein popped out on Jeremy’s forehead.

Suddenly, Asil’s doll, which bore a striking resemblance to Roxana, flickered before his eyes, making him feel even more unpleasant.

Frankly, as Sylvia said, Jeremy didn’t look that much like Roxana on the surface.

He swallowed his annoyance and retorted in a blunt tone.

“No, I don’t. I look the most like my sister out of everyone in the world, not just in Agrigent.”

“Oh, I don’t think that’s true.”

Sylvia smiled brightly again, denying Jeremy’s words.

Jeremy felt the urge to flip the table in a fit of temper, but he struggled to maintain his composure.

Still, thanks to suppressing his temper for a while, he was able to regain his composure fairly quickly.

“Well, it doesn’t change the fact that I’m the only brother my sister cherishes.”

Yes, what does appearance matter? He was Roxana’s brother, personally acknowledged by her.

“Come to think of it, Miss Fedelian only has one older brother.”

Thinking that, the composure he had briefly lost seemed to return.

Jeremy leaned deeper into the back of his chair and languidly raised the corners of his lips.

“I have older brothers, sisters, and younger siblings, but even if I had a hundred other siblings, it wouldn’t be as good as having one sister. I feel so sorry and pathetic for people who will never feel this way in their lives…….”

Then, suddenly, Jeremy exclaimed, ‘Ah!’ as if he had realized something.

“Come to think of it, Miss Fedelian has never felt what it’s like to have an older sister! Oh dear, I’ve had a sister since I was born, so I can’t even imagine what it’s like. Well, it’s a feeling I’ll never know until I die, and I don’t want to experience it, so I’m not particularly curious.”

A sly smile appeared on Jeremy’s lips.

Pajik.

This time, veins bulged on Sylvia’s tightly clenched fist.

Jeremy and Sylvia’s eyes met in the air.

“I don’t have a sister, but… I have a brother who is just as good.”

“Ah, yes. Miss Fedelian has a good brother, and I have a good sister.”

Jeremy readily agreed with Sylvia’s words and nodded.

But his eyes towards Sylvia were saying, ‘I’m not jealous, okay?’

The two smiled reflexively at each other.

“Hehe.”

But the laughter that flowed from their mouths was somehow eerie, and for some reason, it felt as if lightning was striking between them.

‘What an annoying guy.’

‘What an annoying girl.’

Sylvia and Jeremy thought at the same time.

‘I don’t get along with her/him.’

But on the surface, Jeremy and Sylvia, wearing seemingly friendly smiles, lifted the teacups on the table side by side and drank the lukewarm tea.

The conversation was cut off for a moment, and a desolate wind blew between them.

“What are you two talking about so interestingly?”

It was at that moment that a third person’s voice was heard from the side.

Approaching the two was a rather cute-looking girl with curly red hair and green eyes.

She was Charlotte, Jeremy’s half-sister.

Jeremy frowned at Charlotte’s words, which she suddenly said with a smile.

*Interesting my ass.* He wanted to ask Charlotte if her eyes were crooked.

But then, Jeremy suddenly cooled his expression.

“Charlotte, you…”

Still, in front of Sylvia, Jeremy imitated a kind voice in his own way, but spoke to Charlotte with a warning in it.

“Can’t you tell when to butt in and when not to?”

“Why are you like that? Isn’t this a place made to get along with everyone anyway?”

But Charlotte lightly brushed off Jeremy’s words.

Then she smiled harmlessly at Sylvia.

“Hello, Miss Fedelian. Nice to meet you.”

“Nice to meet you too. Are you from Agrigent?”

“Yes, my name is Charlotte.”

Sylvia also smiled and greeted her.

But unlike before, there was a sense of drawing a line in her smile. The words she gave to Charlotte were kind, but they were only formal greetings.

No matter how basically bright and friendly Sylvia was, she didn’t feel favorably towards all the people of Agrigent [the family/territory of Roxana and Jeremy].

Of course, she wouldn’t reject them as this was a social gathering, but she wasn’t so naive as to forget what had happened between her brother, Cassis, and Agrigent three years ago.

The reason why Roxana, despite being from Agrigent, felt almost unconditional favor from the first meeting was because she was the one who helped Cassis.

Sylvia still had uncomfortable feelings towards other people from Agrigent.

The only reason Jeremy was an exception was because he was close to Roxana.

Jeremy also felt the subtle difference in Sylvia’s attitude and looked at her.

Meanwhile, shamelessly, Charlotte even sat down next to Jeremy.

Jeremy kicked her foot under the table, meaning to tell her to get lost right away, but Charlotte lifted her leg to avoid the attack.

“Looking at you up close, Miss Fedelian, you look a lot like your brother, the Azure Noble.”

“Really?”

Jeremy, guessing her intentions from Charlotte’s words, almost cursed without realizing it.

*Shibal [Korean slang, similar to ‘damn it’], is she crazy? Seriously disgusting.*

Come to think of it, Charlotte was eager to make Cassis Fedelian her toy even when he was in Agrigent three years ago.

As Jeremy felt, Sylvia resembled her brother, Cassis Fedelian. So, just as Cassis was Charlotte’s type, Sylvia was bound to be the same.

Of course, even if she was a brainless idiot, she wouldn’t do anything to harm the princess of Fedelian in Wigdrashil [Sylvia’s home territory].

Besides, Charlotte didn’t seem to notice because her abilities were lacking, but there were more than one or two Fedelian subordinates invisibly protecting Sylvia around her right now.

So, even if Charlotte had any absurd intentions, it wouldn’t work out as she wished.

But even while thinking that, Jeremy’s gaze grew colder and colder.

He had been letting her off easy because she had been behaving well, but it seemed like she wasn’t beaten enough when he dealt with his half-siblings this time, so she was acting so annoyingly.

He felt the need to re-educate her separately before Charlotte did anything to upset Roxana even in the slightest case.

While Jeremy was looking at her with such cold eyes, Charlotte was still trying to flirt with Sylvia, unaware of her future.

“If you’re okay with it, why don’t you leave Jeremy *oppa* [Korean term for ‘older brother’ used by females] and talk to me a little more….”

“Charlotte, you were here.”

However, Charlotte couldn’t finish her words as a spring breeze-like voice flowed into her ear.

The moment the sweet voice wrapped around her ear, Charlotte’s body stiffened.

The touch that lightly landed on her shoulder was as light as a feather, but she felt a chilling sensation as if the tip of a knife was pointed at her neck.

“Sana, *Nuna* [Korean term for ‘older sister’ used by males]!”

Jeremy, who was next to Charlotte, was the first to check the face of the person behind her and was overjoyed.

With an unnatural movement that seemed to creak at any moment, Charlotte turned her head.

Then, what came into her view was the figure of her half-sister, who seemed to have become even more beautiful in the meantime.

“Roxana *Unnie* [Korean term for ‘older sister’ used by females]….”

The moment her eyes met, a smile like spring sunshine melted on Roxana’s face.

“It’s been a while since I’ve seen your face like this. Nice to see you.”

Truly gentle and sweet voice brushed against her ear.

Sarack.

Following the slowly tilting head, Roxana’s long blonde hair flowed down to Charlotte’s shoulder.

But Charlotte stiffened her body even more as if she had touched the cold scales of a snake on her skin.

“But what kind of conversation were you having so pleasantly?”

The slender fingers that were resting on Charlotte’s shoulder moved slowly and slipped to near her neck.

Charlotte’s body tensed up as the touch crawled up her nape.

At the same time as the fingertips that finally touched the vital point of her neck pressed down with force, Roxana smiled even more deeply and whispered in a slow tone.

“Is it a story I can hear? Huh, Charlotte?”

In Roxana’s rose-colored eyes, which were cast downwards, a chilling light seemed to flash for a moment.

At that moment, Charlotte felt goosebumps all over her body.

She couldn’t stand it any longer and jumped up from her seat.

“I, I suddenly remembered another urgent matter, so I’ll be going now!”

Charlotte fluttered her long hair and ran away in a hurry.

‘What is this! I thought she wasn’t going to attend today’s meeting!’

She had approached with interest after seeing Sylvia, Cassis Fedelian’s younger sister, with Jeremy in the flower garden, but she never dreamed that Roxana would appear in the middle.

Of course, as Jeremy thought, she didn’t intend to harm Sylvia.

She wasn’t crazy, and knowing how her father, Lant Agrigent, died, there was no way she would want to follow in his footsteps, right?

Charlotte had only spoken to Sylvia because she was interested in her, as she seemed to have dotted her taste just like Cassis Fedelian.

But it seemed that it had upset Roxana.

If it were when she was young, she would have confronted Roxana, saying, ‘Are you trying to monopolize both Cassis Fedelian and Sylvia Fedelian?’, but she didn’t have the courage to do that now.

Ever since she was almost eaten by Roxana’s poisonous butterfly in the past, the fear of Roxana was clearly engraved in Charlotte’s mind.

In the first place, if she had known that Roxana was coming to this tea party, she wouldn’t have attended this place now.

Charlotte ran away without looking back, escaping from Roxana’s gaze.

“Oh dear. It seems Charlotte forgot about her urgent business.”

Roxana murmured languidly, watching Charlotte’s retreating figure.

The moment she appeared in the rose garden, she was drawing everyone’s attention.

Roxana was also wearing a black dress, the family’s symbolic color, like Jeremy.

But the black dress, which could have looked dark and drab, looked very elegant and sophisticated on Roxana.

Rather, her jade-like white and smooth skin, bright blonde hair, and red eyes stood out even more, giving a strong impression.

“*Nuna*, I thought you were resting in your room today.”

Jeremy quickly got up from his seat and pulled out a chair for Roxana.

But he soon realized that it was the chair Charlotte had been sitting on until just now, and he threw it back roughly as if getting rid of garbage. Then Jeremy naturally moved a new chair.

Charlotte, who had been scratching his nerves until just now, had already been pushed out of his interest.

Of course, the fact that he was going to re-educate her in the Agrigent way soon did not change.

“I was a little tired because I hadn’t fully recovered from my fatigue, but I’m fine now.”

Roxana smiled and answered Jeremy, then looked at Sylvia and asked.

“Miss Fedelian. If it’s not rude, may I join you?”

Of course, Sylvia nodded her head quickly as if she had been waiting for it. Her cheeks were already flushed red.

“Of course! Please, have a seat.”

Roxana gracefully took a seat on the chair that Jeremy had pulled out for her.