The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 203

How to Protect the Heroine’s Older Brother – Episode 203

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A languid afternoon.

The scene inside the narrow room was quiet and peaceful.

A thin curtain fluttered in the breeze coming through the open window, and bright sunlight settled on the white bedding of the bed.

“……”

Cassis silently looked down at Deon, who lay as if asleep in the quiet room.

Though others were in the mansion, it hadn’t been too difficult to slip in unnoticed.

Deon Agriche.

A man who had been his enemy from their first meeting.

He now lay defenseless before Cassis.

With his eyes closed and no movement, his face looked quite peaceful.

However, Cassis could sense the aura of death swirling around him.

Even as Cassis stood there, it grew stronger every moment.

A quick glance caught sight of a red butterfly perched on a potted plant by the window.

Cassis’s gaze lingered there for a moment.

“Deon Agriche.”

Soon, a low voice escaped Cassis’s lips.

It was a call, as if trying to wake a sleeping person.

But there was still no response, and Cassis turned his head to stare at Deon with cold eyes.

The image of Deon pushing Roxana toward him amidst the shattering glass fragments flashed in his mind.

“Are you planning to die alone, satisfied like this?”

Cassis felt he could vaguely understand what Deon Agriche was feeling.

“If you ever get completely tired or fed up with me and try to leave me……”

Roxana’s words from a while ago echoed in his head.

“I’ll kill you with my own hands.”

The feelings Cassis felt weren’t exactly the same, but they couldn’t be too different, could they?

Sacrificing himself to save Roxana from danger, dying in front of her, facing the last moments of his life.

It was an excessively perfect ending.

So Deon wore such a comfortable expression, without any regrets.

Cassis’s eyes darkened as he watched him.

In truth, Cassis hadn’t wanted to send Roxana away that day.

Whether Deon Agriche and Nix killed each other or not didn’t really matter to him.

In fact, their simultaneous disappearance was something he would have welcomed.

They were like thorns in Roxana’s side.

So Cassis often felt the urge to remove them without a trace.

But Roxana didn’t want that, and without her permission, he couldn’t act as he pleased.

So if those two rejected each other and fell together, it wouldn’t have been a bad outcome for Cassis.

But…….

When such a moment arrived, Cassis didn’t feel happy at all.

Even he felt this way, so it was obvious that Roxana wouldn’t be able to easily shake off this incident if they met their end like this.

Moreover, their final moments were something that would deeply wound her heart.

So Cassis had no choice but to send Roxana to them that day.

Cassis didn’t witness what happened afterward.

But looking at Deon’s peaceful face, he felt that Roxana had somehow influenced his last moments.

And that was something Cassis did not want.

“……Don’t misunderstand, Deon Agriche.”

A low murmur, like frost, fell over the man lying quietly.

“I didn’t send Roxana for you.”

To tell the truth, Cassis didn’t want Deon Agriche to die or live like this.

“But to be satisfied and die alone like this.”

Knowing that this wasn’t the ending Roxana wanted.

“Don’t you think that’s too selfish?”

So Cassis could not tolerate Deon Agriche’s death.

Soon, Cassis’s hand reached out to the man in bed.

Even if he strangled Deon Agriche’s neck, no one would stop him.

In fact, even now, he wasn’t completely free from that impulse.

Because the man before him was his adversary, whom Cassis had faced with murderous intent several times.

Finally, Cassis’s cold hand touched Deon Agriche’s body.

The sight of the man, who he thought was the greatest threat to Roxana, protecting her, was still vivid.

The afterimage of that day was deeply etched in Cassis’s mind and wouldn’t be forgotten.

That’s why Cassis had decided.

If the last image of Deon Agriche that Cassis had seen had been different, he wouldn’t be standing here now.

And…….

Another reason that motivated Cassis could be considered quite selfish.

Cassis put strength into his hand with self-deprecating cynicism.

If Deon Agriche died now, he would be engraved in Roxana’s memory as an indelible figure.

Hwaa-at.

A pure energy flowed into the touched area.

Returning what he had taken away during their two previous encounters.

That was all Cassis had to do.

The vitality that he had once plundered with his own hands flowed back into Deon’s body.

The aura of death that had gathered around him slowly faded.

Cassis took one last look at the red butterfly by the window.

Then he turned and left.

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At that time, Roxana was staying at Grizelda’s hideout.

The moment the signal came from the butterfly, Roxana’s eyes twitched.

She quietly shared her vision with the poison butterfly.

It was definitely Cassis in Deon’s room.

Roxana had never told him about Deon.

Cassis had left for Vertium soon after, and even right before that, they were too busy with their families to talk, so it was natural.

But now Cassis was clearly in Sierra’s mansion, where Deon was.

Moreover, he was going inside without anyone knowing and facing Deon.

Through the eyes of the poison butterfly, she saw Cassis’s hand reaching out to Deon.

She didn’t even think, ‘Is he trying to kill him?’

Because Cassis, whom Roxana knew, wasn’t someone who would do that.

And as expected…….

Seeing his subsequent actions, Roxana clenched her hand in her lap.

Her breathing grew even quieter.

Just before Cassis took his hand away from Deon and turned, their eyes met for a moment.

Cassis glanced at the poison butterfly that Roxana had left in the room and left.

Even after disconnecting from the butterfly, Roxana sat still for a while.

Her gaze moved to the door of Nix’s room.

She somehow felt she understood what Cassis’s gaze, which had shared her vision, meant for the poison butterfly.

After a while, Roxana finally got up.

“I’m going out for a bit.”

“I’ll go with you.”

Jeremy followed without asking where she was going, as if it were natural.

Grizelda waved dismissively, as if she didn’t care.

While Roxana and Jeremy were staying there, the stimulants ran out, and Grizelda had no choice but to succumb to the temptation of sleep.

Although it was only a nap, she had taken occasional naps, and her complexion was clearly better than before.

Roxana and Jeremy left Grizelda behind and headed to Sierra’s house.

“Ah, what? Aunt Maria was here too?”

“Oh my, Jeremy came with you today too.”

As soon as they arrived, opened the door, and went inside, Maria greeted them.

Jeremy, who didn’t know she was there, looked horrified.

He was once again surprised by Maria’s obsession with finding Sierra.

“Sana, welcome.”

Sierra, who was next to Maria, also welcomed Roxana.

Judging from the reactions of the people inside, it seemed no one knew Cassis had visited a little while ago.

Roxana immediately moved.

“Are you going in again today?”

Sierra quietly asked as she saw where Roxana was heading.

“The doctor came this morning. He said the patient’s condition is getting worse.”

Sierra’s voice was so monotonous that it felt indifferent, and there was a subtle coldness in it.

But her expression was strangely subdued.

Maria, who was next to her, looked at Sierra with a worried expression.

However, it was unclear whether it was concern for her son, Deon, or for the emaciated Sierra.

“It’s okay.”

Roxana turned her head as she put her hand on the doorknob.

And she said to the others.

“Because he’ll wake up today.”

It was a conviction that others couldn’t understand.

But somehow, a strange trust was conveyed.

Roxana turned her head again and turned the doorknob.

Soon, the door to the room where Cassis’s energy faintly remained opened.