The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 120

It was the first time he’d been so severely injured.

The situation was truly awful, but he still hadn’t given up.

As long as he was still breathing, Noel could fix most things.

Still…

“Damn it, it hurts like hell…”

Unlike the dolls, who didn’t feel pain, he felt it.

It was one of the damn disadvantages of this body.

Roxana stood before Nix, coldly looking down at him.

The murmuring was getting closer.

Nix’s resistance was stronger than expected, and it was taking longer than anticipated.

“Your goal is to stop this body completely, right?”

Coughing and shuddering, Nix spat out blood and said to Roxana.

“Then break the heart. The spell that holds my soul is engraved there.”

Roxana could tell that he wasn’t lying.

Like Nix said, other fatal wounds clearly wouldn’t have a decisive effect on him.

If so, then she had to attack the heart, the body’s weakest point.

In the end, she had to kill Nix the same way Asil had died.

Sway.

White blossoms fell from the flowering tree above.

Light and flowers mixed and fell over the bloodied Nix. Their eyes met briefly in the air.

‘I should have plucked out his eyes earlier.’

Looking at Nix lying on the pile of white flowers, Roxana felt a little regret for the first time.

With his heterochromatic [different colored] magenta eyes gone, Nix reminded her even more of Asil than when he was whole.

Still, Roxana moved her hand to end his last breath.

At that moment, Nix’s lips moved slightly.

“Sana.”

The moment the faint whisper, so tender it felt heartbreaking, mixed with the breeze and reached her ears, Roxana’s hand paused.

It was a hesitation for just a fleeting moment.

In that brief interval, Nix’s hand lunged.

Whack!

But it didn’t reach Roxana.

“Where are you reaching with that filthy hand?”

At the same time as blood splattered from Nix’s hand, which had been reaching straight for Roxana, a low voice rang in her ear.

Immediately after, a familiar hand grabbed Roxana and pulled her away.

Reflexively, she looked up, and the face of the person she missed came into view.

“Cassis.”

Everything had happened so suddenly that Roxana couldn’t even question why he was here.

After putting a reasonable distance between himself and Nix, Cassis scanned Roxana’s body as if to check her condition.

His eyes turned cold when he found bloodstains.

But there were no major injuries, and Cassis, thinking of dealing with the obstacle in front of him first, turned his gaze forward again.

“This is…”

It was at that moment that Cassis’s face changed temperature in an instant.

It was right after he confirmed Nix’s face, which resembled Roxana.

“Ugh, agh…”

Nix groaned, clutching the hand that Cassis’s dagger had grazed. Blood was gushing from the half-severed hand.

Paradoxically, the doll seemed more vulnerable to pain than a human.

Roxana couldn’t take her eyes off his painful face.

There wasn’t a trace of warm emotion in her eyes.

But Cassis, having discovered something in Roxana’s cold face, lowered his hand without attacking Nix any further.

“Nix! Lady Roxana…!”

At that moment, someone’s shout pierced their ears.

It was Dante.

Having barely escaped from the chaos first, one side of his face was covered in blood, as if his forehead had been torn.

Dante hesitated when he found Cassis.

“Cassis Fedelian… Why are you here now?”

He seemed quite embarrassed by Cassis’s sudden appearance.

In response, Cassis’s sharp blue gaze flew and landed on Dante’s face.

“I think I should be asking the questions. What the hell is going on?”

Dante stiffened under the sharp gaze.

“Why is Roxana being threatened in Vertium?”

“Threatened, you say…”

Dante’s gaze darted to the side.

As he said, there were minor injuries on Roxana’s body.

Nix was in worse condition.

‘Damn it. What the hell happened while I was away for a moment?’

Even if he didn’t know the details, it was clear that Nix’s strategy to poison Roxana and keep her tied to Vertium had failed.

But he wondered why they were out here instead of in the drawing room.

If they had stayed quietly inside the building, they wouldn’t have run into Cassis Fedelian.

Besides, he couldn’t understand why Cassis Fedelian had visited Vertium at such an inopportune time.

“Besides, that face is disturbingly similar to Roxana’s.”

Dante could only tremble at the series of sharp remarks.

“Luna!”

Noel was seen running from over there.

It seemed he had succeeded in completely subduing the people in the back garden using the combat dolls.

Since his job was making dolls in his room every day, he seemed overwhelmed just by moving his body this much.

Noel, who had been running with the dolls behind him, widened his eyes when he saw Roxana.

“What is this! You’re hurt? You’re bleeding!”

He didn’t seem to care about the other people next to him.

Seeing Noel fussing over Roxana, the chill on Cassis’s face intensified.

Roxana coldly brushed off Noel’s hand, which had reached out to her without hesitation.

Then, finally, Nix, who had been hidden behind Roxana, came into Noel’s sight.

“Gasp, Nix!”

Dante quickly grasped the situation.

Even if it was just Roxana alone, the situation was not good with the Blue Dignitary [Cassis’s title] here.

Since there was a witness, they couldn’t just cover up Nix’s attack on Roxana.

“Nix, did you really attack Lady Roxana?”

Nix’s gaze, who was groaning in a battered state, reached Dante.

Dante looked down at Nix and coldly recited.

“I knew it, but you’re really hopeless.”

Snap!

Immediately after Dante took off his glove and stretched out his right hand, Nix collapsed forward.

He wasn’t dead, but his functions had been stopped.

Considering that Nix’s body was not that of a normal doll, it could be regarded as a knockout.

Judging from the pattern that flashed on his right hand for a moment, it seemed that Dante also had a power similar to Roxana’s confidant, Emily.

“N, Nix!”

Noel looked as if the sky had fallen when he saw Nix collapsed on the floor.

His face was so miserable that anyone would think Nix had died.

“I have committed a great discourtesy, Lady Roxana.”

Dante’s hand grabbed Noel’s arm as he tried to run to Nix.

“He is not a human, but a doll. That’s why he is imperfect. It is very rare, but things can go wrong. That’s why this big accident happened unexpectedly.”

Listening to his words, Cassis rebuked in a low voice.

“Are you saying that now? That’s a pretty poor excuse.”

“I have nothing to say but sorry.”

While listening to Dante’s words, Roxana’s eyes also sank coldly.

“We will properly dispose of that broken doll.”

He was going to make it seem like everything was Nix’s independent action.

A cold smile spread across Roxana’s face.

“To entrust my care to such a dangerous doll…”

Yes, if so, she was willing to use it.

“I’ve felt it since I was invited, but I’m wondering if Vertium always treats guests like this.”

At her cold words, Noel opened his mouth in embarrassment.

He stammered, fidgeting as if he was afraid Roxana would get angry.

“N, no, Luna. That’s a misunderstanding…”

“Don’t call me by that name.”

A gaze like shards of glass pierced Noel’s face.

At that moment, Noel stopped breathing as if his heart had been twisted.

Then, Cassis and Roxana’s eyes met.

Cassis’s head moved slightly. As if to say do whatever you want.

“Dante. You said I was greatly rude to you a little while ago.”

Roxana turned her gaze to Dante this time.

“Then can I assume that Vertium also feels deep regret for what that doll did?”

Dante’s face hardened slightly at the demanding look.

But he couldn’t remain silent forever, so he finally opened his mouth and said.

“…Yes.”

“Then shouldn’t you show sincerity?”

Dante closed his lips again.

Somehow, he felt that the situation was turning out unexpectedly.

But Noel, unaware of Dante’s feelings, was just trying to ease Roxana’s mood and chimed in.

“Then, then! Of course, we have to show sincerity. If there’s anything you want, tell me…”

“That doll.”

However, at Roxana’s request that followed, Noel could only gape.

“I want that doll.”