The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 157

At that moment, Roxana paused.

She was feeling displeased with Griselda’s willful behavior, but Cassis was saying that he had used Griselda instead.

Hearing that, she felt somewhat better, ridiculously enough.

“It might sound strange, but I think I feel a bit better now.”

As she said that, Cassis gave her a subtle look, as if he didn’t understand.

Roxana took a shallow breath and then parted her lips again.

“It’s only natural that you couldn’t bring it up since I’ve been subtly avoiding the topic. And there were things I couldn’t explain to you either.”

So, it wasn’t Cassis’s fault.

She would have been upset if he had been hiding things from her and contacting Griselda separately, but even so, Roxana hadn’t been able to clearly explain things about Deon to Cassis either.

Still, she thought it was good that she had roughly told Cassis about what happened with Deon in the garden the night they met last time.

Also, secretly investigating people around her… Roxana was doing that too, actually.

More than anything, she didn’t care at all even if Cassis had used Griselda.

She wasn’t connected to her by a strong bond like sisterly affection.

“I wish we had had this conversation sooner.”

Roxana thought so and smiled faintly.

“We needed a conversation too.”

When Roxana smiled, Cassis finally relaxed, as if relieved.

“Sister!”

At that moment, a voice calling for Roxana echoed from the entrance of the greenhouse.

Various overgrown plants were blocking the view, so she couldn’t see the person who had entered the greenhouse.

But there was only one person who would come looking for her while calling her like that.

Roxana glanced in the direction of the sound and then turned her gaze back to Cassis.

“Unfortunately, it’s…”

“It’s time to go.”

Cassis frowned slightly at the unwelcome intruder.

Roxana looked at Cassis and smiled, half-folding her eyes.

“Then I hope you have a chance to open your heart to your younger brother, Azure Young Master.”

At the playful words, Cassis smiled shallowly and responded.

“Thank you for your thoughtful advice, Roxana. This is a small token of my gratitude.”

Cassis plucked a flower next to him and handed it to Roxana, then kissed the back of her hand.

“Roxana, Sister…!”

The sound got closer.

It seemed Jeremy didn’t know that Roxana and Cassis were here together.

His voice, urgently calling for her, was filled with excitement. But it wasn’t a negative emotion like annoyance, but rather something closer to elation.

Roxana pulled Cassis’s hand, which she was still holding.

And just like Cassis had done a moment ago, she returned the kiss to his fingers before moving away.

“I’ll go first.”

“See you later.”

Cassis suppressed the urge to bow his head and kiss Roxana’s faintly smiling lips, and smiled back at her.

“Jeremy.”

“Sister! Roxana, Sister! I’ve been looking for you!”

“Is that so? But you seem to be in a good mood.”

“Yeah, do you know who I just met?”

The conversation between Roxana and Jeremy Agriche was faintly heard from afar.

Just from Jeremy’s voice, it was as if she could see his tail wagging wildly from side to side behind him.

It was also an excessively bright voice for someone who had snatched away the person Cassis had been with until just now.

Cassis listened to the fading sound and vaguely thought that he still couldn’t like Jeremy Agriche.

* * *

At the same time, in one of the many rooms prepared in Yggdrasil, a dangerous game was in full swing.

“Ah, wait a minute. This isn’t the card! I played the wrong one!”

“Pfft. Are you an idiot? Are your eyes just for decoration?”

“Wow, you were about to win, but you ruined it like this.”

“Seriously, why did you play that card here?”

Sitting around a large round table, and leisurely watching the situation on the table from the side, were all Agriche people.

They had been dying of boredom from attending the tedious social gatherings since the start of the social event.

But Jeremy, who had become their new leader, had already firmly threatened and warned them to behave properly while in Yggdrasil.

So, having nothing to do, they put their heads together to discuss a question that had been lingering in their minds since they arrived in Yggdrasil.

Why did Deon suddenly appear in Yggdrasil, and why was he acting separately instead of with the other Agriche people?

Didn’t one of their half-siblings get beaten to a pulp for mistakenly saying that ‘it would have been better if Deon had been the leader’ when they were in Agriche before?

So, after that incident, everyone had been careful not to mention Deon in front of Jeremy.

As such, at first, they thought that Deon and Jeremy, who had appeared in Yggdrasil, might be having a bloody power struggle over the leadership position. But that didn’t happen.

Some time ago, Jeremy had looked for Deon with a very angry face, but he had disappeared to somewhere and they couldn’t find even a strand of his hair.

So they decided not to worry about Deon anymore.

And next was Roxana and the Azure Young Master, Cassis Fedelian.

Their relationship aroused serious curiosity in everyone in Yggdrasil.

Starting with the surprising event at the banquet on the first day of the social event, they seemed to be building friendship through daily interactions.

In fact, from the perspective of the Agriche people, the fact that Cassis Fedelian was still alive was a very big question that had remained since long ago.

He was Roxana’s toy in Agriche three years ago, and at that time, it was known that he had died at Roxana’s hands.

But Cassis Fedelian had come back to life and even avenged their father, Lant Agriche.

Seeing that Roxana was not the target of that revenge, it seemed that there was a story between them that other people didn’t know….

Wasn’t Roxana originally Lant’s most beloved daughter?

Well, even Deon, who was almost confirmed as the next leader, betrayed his father just before the Fedelian attacked, so there was no reason why Roxana couldn’t do that….

As they followed the train of thought, there were more than one or two points that were questionable.

However, no matter how much they put their heads together and discussed, the truth hidden behind the veil would not be revealed on its own.

That said, it was difficult to go and ask directly because of Jeremy’s ironclad protection, and in the first place, Deon and Roxana themselves were by no means easy people to approach first.

In fact, due to the nature of the Agriche people, they would soon get tired of worrying like this, and they would think, ‘It’s not my business anyway, so who cares?’

As a result, a week after the social event started, they were back to square one, with nothing to do but attend social gatherings.

So they found a way to pass the time in a very wholesome way.

“Just let me take it back once.”

“Take back what? It’s over once you bet.”

Of course, that was a wholesome way in the standards of the Agriche people.

On the surface, what they were doing now could be said to be a simple card game.

Originally, the cards were not brought by the Agriche people, but they had found them in the lounge after people from other families had used them to pass the time and left them there, and they had borrowed them for a while.

But what they started using it for was not just a card game, but gambling.

There were several gambling houses secretly run by Agriche in the neutral zone’s entertainment district. So, gambling was not unfamiliar to the Agriche people, who were educated to take over the family business from a young age.

So here’s the question.

What should you do when you have a feeling that you’re going to fail miserably while gambling?

The answer.

Flip the table and run away.

Thud!

The half-sibling who was in the most disadvantageous position among those sitting in their seats glanced around and then lifted his foot to kick the table.

“Oh my, look at him doing dirty tricks.”

But the plan failed.

This was because the other half-siblings who had participated in the game noticed the suspicious signs and moved immediately.

One person kicked the table back from the opposite side to restore balance, and in the meantime, the other two quickly snatched the scattering cards and the tea sets sliding on the tablecloth and returned them to their original positions.

They also quickly stretched out their legs to catch the flower vase falling to the floor with the instep of their feet, preventing it from breaking.

“Ah, damn it!”

At the same time, they didn’t forget to grab the nape of the half-sibling who was trying to commit the outrageous act and slam him on the table.

“Wow, he’s trying to flip the table; he has no conscience.”

“I can’t believe there’s such a dirty and mean person among our brothers.”

“Hey, don’t you know we’re short on money these days? If you break something here, it’ll all be billed to Agriche.”

“I’m telling Jeremy.”

“That’s a capital crime, a capital crime.”

The brothers who were watching from the side chuckled and threw jokes at each other.

“From now on, your collection item number 21 is mine.”

“Ah, that’s really not allowed! I got that with so much difficulty!”

“You’re talking too much for a loser. Then give me your wrist to be stuffed instead.”

Stab!

As if to let him know that it wasn’t an empty threat, the fork that had been used to eat the cake a little while ago was stuck between his fingers.

“It won’t be a clean cut because it’s not a knife, but I can dismantle one wrist with this.”

“A shrimp tail-like wrist won’t take even a minute.”

“A shrimp instead of Carrow’s right foot taxidermy, that’s too much of a loss.”

“No, if you look closely at his hand, it looks similar to Carrow’s forefoot. If you cut it off and dry it well, it might look somewhat similar.”

“If you sell it on the black market, wouldn’t about one in ten blind idiots fall for it?”

“Yeah, cut off my right hand instead! I can never give you my 21st collection item!”

A conversation that sounded brutal at first glance went back and forth.

But it was the same as the usual affectionate conversation that they often had.

It was when the Agriche people were having a friendly time like that.

Bang!

The door suddenly opened without warning.