The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 133

How to Protect the Heroine’s Older Brother – Episode 133

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“But, miss…”

“Is it really not allowed?”

The guard stationed at the underground prison looked troubled.

It was because Sylvia had asked him to open the door, saying she wanted to see the doll locked inside.

“Or perhaps, were you specifically ordered not to let me enter?”

Sylvia’s innocent eyes stared intently at the guard.

At those words, the guard hesitated.

Though it felt somewhat awkward, as Sylvia pointed out, there were no specific orders from above preventing her from entering the underground prison.

Of course, in such cases, he should confirm…

“It’s just that it’s my first time seeing a Bertium doll [referring to Nix, a person from Bertium], so I’m curious. I won’t even go near the bars. I’ll just look at his face from about twenty steps away. If you’re worried, you can come in with me.”

It wasn’t easy to refuse Sylvia’s earnest request.

Sylvia was a girl cherished by everyone in Fedelian.

Always lovely and cheerful, with a bright smile on her face, everyone who saw Sylvia couldn’t help but smile along with her.

Seeing Sylvia with such a pitiful expression made it impossible to refuse.

In the end, he struggled with his conscience before agreeing to Sylvia’s request.

“You really will only look at his face and come out, right?”

“Thank you!”

“However, I will accompany you inside.”

Sylvia’s face immediately brightened.

And so, the two of them entered the underground prison together.

Sylvia looked around the inside of the prison with curious eyes.

She had never had the chance to come directly into the underground prison like this, so the interior felt quite novel.

As she looked around with sparkling eyes, the figure of the doll she had been so curious about came into view.

Nix was clean, as if his previously disheveled appearance had been a lie from just half a day ago.

This was because, after Roxana’s visit, he had been ordered to be cleaned up.

It was a consideration for his comfort, and since then, Nix had stopped causing trouble and had become quiet.

Nix was keenly focused, trying to decipher Roxana’s intentions.

‘Damn it. If I had my Evil Eye, I could have known what that bitch was up to.’

Then, he realized someone had entered the underground prison.

Behind the familiar footsteps of the guard, lighter and more cheerful footsteps followed. It was definitely not Roxana or Cassis, who had visited the prison earlier.

Finally, Sylvia appeared around the corner.

Nix and Sylvia’s eyes met.

Sylvia was instantly captivated by the beautiful boy leaning against the wall of the underground prison.

The light from the candelabra on the wall tinged his pale face with a deep orange hue, making it seem almost ethereal.

The golden hair that partially covered his left eye was like the melting sunlight of twilight.

The eyes that stared straight at her were a clear and transparent blue.

The way he quietly looked at her was so elegant and beautiful that she could hardly imagine he was the same person who had screamed and yelled on Cassis’s shoulder yesterday.

As Sylvia watched Nix, holding her breath without realizing it, Nix also observed her.

Long silver hair like pure silver and vivid golden eyes.

A girl who immediately reminded him of Cassis Fedelian.

‘The Fedelian princess, huh.’

A fleeting glint flashed in Nix’s eyes.

‘Yes… I might be able to use this.’

Having finished his calculations, Nix put on Asil’s mask [referring to a persona he adopts].

“…Who are you?”

A voice that exuded an innocent and pure feeling echoed in the underground prison.

It was the beginning of a new connection that no one had anticipated.

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Bertium, after the storm, was quiet.

But the fuse had not yet completely burned out.

Dante felt a splitting headache whenever he thought about the people in the annex. The people in the annex were like explosives waiting to go off.

For now, they were quietly healing their injured bodies, but that didn’t mean all the festering emotions had disappeared.

Rather, because the dolls’ power had been used to restrain them, the people in the annex seemed even more embittered.

Noel had been in despair for days, depressed about losing Nix and Roxana to Fedelian, and had only just fallen asleep.

Dante had to exhaust himself going back and forth between Noel and the people in the annex, trying to appease them.

Tak.

He confirmed that Noel, who had been clinging to him and sobbing, was completely asleep and left the room.

No matter how youthful he looked, it was unbearable to watch a grown man call out the names ‘Nix’ and ‘Luna’ while crying as if the world had fallen apart.

Moreover, thinking about the tasks he had to solve in the future made his head throb.

“Hey, if Noel wakes up while I’m away, tell him—”

Dante grabbed a doll that was passing by and gave an order.

“It’s impossible to create a doll that looks exactly like Nix from head to toe in time, so as I said yesterday, you must make at least one that resembles his face. There’s no need to put too much effort into it, just make it look passable.”

Dante was planning to intercept Nix somehow.

He had to prevent Fedelian from taking Nix into Yggdrasil [a significant location] at all costs.

To do that, he was thinking of making a doll that resembled Nix in preparation for any possible situation.

With Noel’s skills, he should be able to make a doll that roughly resembled his face in two days.

“And… since Fedelian is involved, tell him to give up on Roxana. Instead, I’ll try to do something about Nix.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Dante turned away from the doll and left Noel’s room.

From now on, Dante was going to be extremely busy. He no longer had time to deal with Noel and the humans in the annex.

Still, the annex was quiet, and Noel would surely be engrossed in making the doll, even staying up all night, if it was necessary to retrieve Nix.

Of course, although he told Noel that, if it was difficult to recover Nix, he was thinking of killing him to at least get rid of the body.

“Damn it, if Cassis Fedelian hadn’t suddenly come…”

Dante turned the corner of the hallway and muttered a low curse with a stiff face.

It was then.

Whoosh!

Thump…!

A brutal force suddenly slammed into Dante, pinning him against the wall.

“Ugh, cough…!”

Immediately, someone’s strong grip seized his neck. His breath was immediately constricted, and blood rushed to his face.

“What does it mean that Fedelian is involved?”

A chillingly low voice scratched at his eardrums.

Dante’s fingernails dug into the back of the hand that was tightly gripping his neck.

He tried to shake off the person in front of him, but he didn’t budge.

Dante was horrified.

He hadn’t felt any sign of approach, how!

Because it had happened so suddenly and he had been immediately attacked and pinned against the wall, he hadn’t even seen the face of the person who had ambushed him properly.

“Who… are you, how…”

A strangled voice barely escaped Dante’s lips.

“Roxana went with Cassis Fedelian?”

Instead of an answer to his question, another question flew at Dante.

But something was strange about the question.

Roxana and Cassis Fedelian?

Even in his dazed state, those names were clearly etched into his eardrums.

Dante tried to focus on the shadowy face in front of him, recalling the question that had flowed into his ears.

Then, finally, the moment his eyes met the vivid red eyes that were staring straight through him…

“That’s what it means.”

“Deon Agriche…?”

Crack.