The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 137

Protecting the Heroine’s Older Brother – Episode 137

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Nix felt uneasy and uncomfortable.

Just as Roxana had said, he was indeed being moved from the underground prison to somewhere else.

Judging by the direction the procession was moving, it seemed they were heading towards the neutral zone….

Coincidentally, if they continued straight past the neutral zone, they would reach the territory of Vertium.

So, Nix was confused.

It felt like everything Roxana had said in the underground prison was true.

Perhaps she really intended to return him to Vertium.

However, he was still suspicious of how much of it was genuine, so Nix was constantly looking for a chance to escape.

But there were too many people guarding him.

Everyone was watching him every minute, every second, so Nix never had a moment alone.

Even at night, when everyone was asleep, there were many people guarding the outside of the carriage where Nix was.

Moreover, Nix had been constantly bound since he left the underground prison, so he couldn’t move freely.

Of course, he complained about the discomfort, but the heartless people didn’t even twitch an eyebrow.

It seemed they were even less considerate of him because Nix was a doll without much metabolism.

For some reason, Roxana was not to be seen in the group, which also bothered Nix.

He thought he could use the Fedelian princess he had met in the underground prison last time, but for some reason, she didn’t show her face.

So, the only familiar face Nix saw here was Cassis Fedelian.

Nix uncomfortably tossed and turned inside the carriage, his limbs bound and his freedom taken away.

Deep night.

It was a very quiet and still time, as if he were the only one awake in the world.

Screech.

The door opened silently just then.

The door opened so smoothly without a single noise that Nix didn’t realize the tightly closed door had opened before his eyes until the white moonlight melted and flowed into his vision.

“Huh?”

A questioning voice escaped Nix’s mouth as he belatedly realized the situation.

Because there was no one who would come to find him at this hour.

Thud.

Finally, ‘that person’ appeared, silhouetted against the starry night sky.

A huge darkness that filled his vision and more.

That was how Nix felt the moment he recognized the existence standing before him.

‘He’ was a man with an intense aura that made his spine tingle.

Jet-black hair, as if absorbing all light, scattered finely in the air, following the blowing wind.

Through it, chillingly cold and merciless red eyes pierced straight through Nix.

“……!”

The moment their eyes met in the darkness, both of them stopped breathing at the same time.

Swish…….

The sound of leaves rustling and swaying in the distance echoed faintly in his ears like rain.

Deon saw the boy in his sight and wondered for a moment if he was seeing a hallucination.

He had been hiding in the darkness, watching the Fedelian procession.

Then, he spotted a familiar head of blonde hair disappearing in this direction, and he moved, taking advantage of the lax surveillance late at night….

But when he opened the door, the person who caught his eye was someone he never expected.

Standing before the frozen blue eyes that he thought he would never see again, Deon thought.

*Is this a vain illusion of the night, or a ghost come to find him?*

The last time he faced this face was in the distant past, yet it remained so vividly in Deon’s memory as if he had met him just a day ago.

As if it were etched on his retina as a stain that would never be erased.

Because he was the first person Deon had killed.

“……Ashil.”

A terribly low call, like scraping the floor, vibrated Deon’s vocal cords and was embedded in the moonlight.

It was at that moment.

Nix felt a huge fear that he had never felt before engulf him helplessly.

A cold snake, coiling from his feet and crawling up his body, finally strangled him.

He wanted to scream like crazy, but his tongue was stiff and he couldn’t.

His wide eyes and foolishly opened lips were trembling terribly.

His whole body felt coldly frozen, sinking into a deep abyss.

It was an intense storm of emotions that he himself could not understand, an unacceptable feeling.

In the shattered fragments of time, Deon and Nix stared at each other in amazement, pierced by the same clock hand.

Deon was the first to move.

Without even realizing his own actions, he reached out to ‘Ashil’ in front of him.

It wasn’t because he had any purpose, but just a part of his unconsciousness.

In a way, it was a gesture to confirm whether the person here was a real entity, not a ghost or an illusion.

Nix was cornered, unable to move like a rat with its head in front of a snake’s mouth.

Just as Deon’s hand was about to touch Nix.

Swish!

A wave of air containing a premonition rushed towards Deon like a wave.

If he had been a second late in noticing it and backing away, it would have been his arm, not his clothes, that would have been cut off.

“So it’s you, Deon Agriche.”

The pure white radiance mixed with moonlight was reflected on the sharp blade and shattered in his vision.

Red eyes with a chilling glint and cold golden eyes like broken pieces of the moon collided in the air.

Scattered and broken gazes pierced sharply as if to dig into the opponent’s lungs in front of him.

In an instant, the air around them became tense.

Deon stepped back, tensing his body, and briefly looked around.

He had heard the news from Vertium and went straight to Fedelian.

Then, he discovered the Fedelian procession entering the neutral zone and waited for the night.

But Roxana was not there, and for some reason, a person who looked exactly like the dead Ashil appeared before his eyes.

“It was bait.”

Was he deliberately creating an opening by diverting people just now? No wonder he thought it was strange that Roxana’s poison butterflies were not around.

“It’s not like it was bait.”

However, Cassis did not agree with Deon’s words.

“We didn’t even think of inviting you, but you came crawling in on your own.”

A bleak and eerie smile bloomed on Cassis’s lips.

From the moment he heard that Deon had gone to Vertium, he had kept in mind the possibility that he might come to find Roxana.

But the guest that Fedelian was waiting for was Vertium.

He could have sent a signal immediately to call in the waiting subordinates, but Cassis did not.

Meanwhile, Deon connected the information he had heard from Vertium and came to his own conclusion.

“Vertium’s doll.”

A piercing gaze was fixed on Nix, who was trembling in the corner of the carriage.

But to think that it would have such a similar appearance to Ashil.

Even the left eye, which was injured before his death, is identical to his memory?

Besides, why is that in Fedelian’s hands?

“It’s also the real Ashil.”

Deon could not understand Cassis’s added words.

But what Deon needed to find out right now was not such a doll.

“Where is Roxana?”

The temperature of the air around Cassis’s body changed at the name finally uttered from Deon’s mouth.

Deon was also exuding a rough and sharp aura from his whole body.

Because he could not accept or tolerate the current situation of asking Cassis Fedelian about Roxana’s whereabouts.

“Is there a reason why I should tell you that?”

A chill like an awl ripened in the black night wind.

It was as if it was not spring now, but the middle of winter when the north wind was raging.

Just like when the two met in Agriche a season ago.

Two huge currents swirled violently as if to crush the person in front of them to death right now.

“Deon Agriche. Don’t be mistaken. Questions are not your privilege.”

The two men faced each other with an uncontrollable, intense murderous intent.

“I should be asking. What is the reason you are trying to meet Roxana?”

But they endured.

At this moment, Cassis and Deon both had the same control device working like a leash.

But in the end, the raging impulse wriggling inside suppressed reason.

“How amusing.”

A mocking, cold voice leaked from Deon’s slowly opened lips.

“I have no reason to answer such a question.”

The moon, embracing the madness of the night, shone as white as it could above their heads.

“Is that so.”

Subsequently, a smile resembling a winter ice wall shattered on Cassis’s face.

“If you don’t intend to answer, I’ll make you speak by force.”

The next moment, the two men clashed.

A dazzling flash of light flickered sharply, as if to paralyze their vision.