The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 149

“I was wondering if Charlotte might have troubled Miss Fedelian, as she is still young.”

As Roxana sat down, a servant who was always on standby in the rose garden quickly approached and began to prepare refreshments for her.

“No, not at all. We simply exchanged greetings.”

“That’s a relief, then.”

Roxana smiled at Sylvia, who shook her head in denial.

Even just maintaining a blank expression, she was a beauty that drew admiration, and when she added a smile to her red lips, the people around her couldn’t help but gasp. (Her beauty was captivating.)

Sylvia, unlike how she had treated others until now, hesitated with reddened cheeks and carefully asked,

“Is Charlotte perhaps a close younger sister of yours?”

“What are you saying? Absolutely not.”

Jeremy blurted out the answer. He remembered Roxana’s attitude towards Charlotte earlier seemed somewhat ambiguous—neither friendly nor unfriendly—and he wanted to clarify the situation.

He cleared his throat awkwardly and continued,

“As I mentioned before, the only younger sibling my sister cherishes, ahem, is me.”

“……”

Roxana stared at Jeremy silently for a moment.

Jeremy couldn’t hide his face, which displayed a mix of pride and shyness.

She wondered what kind of conversation he had been having with Sylvia until just now, but looking at his face, she felt like she could guess without having to ask.

On the other hand, Sylvia looked at Jeremy with a subtly annoyed expression, but the moment her eyes met Roxana’s again, she miraculously reverted to a bright face.

Roxana smiled and said briefly,

“The people of Agriche have strong individualistic tendencies, so there is little interaction even among family members.”

That was all, but Sylvia interpreted the meaning on her own.

*Ah, so like that girl Charlotte from earlier, there’s no need to get particularly close to other Agriche people beyond what’s necessary.*

*Wait a minute. Then, is what Jeremy Agriche said with such arrogance really true?*

It was at that moment, when Sylvia was starting to have difficulty managing her expression, that a new voice interrupted.

“Oh my, the most beautiful people from Wigdrashil are gathered in one place.”

Just then, a familiar, smooth voice cut across the table. (Wigdrashil is likely a region or city known for its beautiful people.)

It was Orca Hyperion, the white mage, appearing with a bright smile, the dazzling sunlight like a halo behind him.

* * *

Cassis headed to the room where Nyx was imprisoned after leaving the rose garden.

Fedelian was on guard duty in front of the door that day, so he was able to hear about what happened inside faster than anyone else.

Cassis heard the whispered report from the subordinate who came to find him in the rose garden and stood up. Before leaving, he made sure to position his subordinates around Sylvia to protect her.

“He was quiet for a while, so why the commotion again?”

Cassis spoke in a chilling voice in front of Nyx, whom he faced after that.

For some reason, Nyx looked even paler than before.

He didn’t know if dolls even had a complexion, but looking at him now, his face seemed noticeably paler than before.

Nyx, who had already exchanged the same questions and answers several times before Cassis arrived, distorted his face as if frustrated and raised his voice.

“How many times do I have to say it? I didn’t do that for no reason! Just now, ‘that man’ came into this room……!”

Indeed, it was exactly what Cassis had heard from the subordinate who had come to deliver the news.

Cassis’s gaze shifted to the subordinate standing by the door.

Then, the man who received Cassis’s gaze shook his head firmly.

“No one has entered while I was on guard.”

“So he was seeing things again.”

Cassis said it as if he expected it.

Nyx felt wronged by the cold reaction and shouted.

“I didn’t see things, it’s real! That Deon Agriche guy was really standing in front of me!”

However, Cassis and the subordinate’s reactions were still cold. They ignored Nyx’s desperate cries and turned back towards the door.

Seeing that, Nyx gritted his teeth and sharply questioned the subordinate who was on guard.

“You, tell me honestly! Weren’t you doing something else while on guard? That’s why you didn’t even know someone came in!”

“Watch your mouth, doll. As a vassal of Fedelian, I have never done anything that would tarnish that name.”

Nyx’s eyes twitched for a moment at the sharp gaze from the subordinate who felt insulted.

In fact, he himself was secretly aware that there was a high probability that he had seen another hallucination this time, just like the dream he had yesterday.

“Damn it. If that bitch hadn’t said such nonsense yesterday…….”

Nyx cursed under his breath, thinking that Roxana had caused this by spouting unnecessary words yesterday.

“Deon Agriche came into this room, did she tell you that yesterday?”

At that moment, Cassis, who heard Nyx’s small murmur, turned to him and asked.

“Yes. At first, I thought it was an obvious lie, but somehow it felt like it wasn’t just empty words…….”

“I see.”

Cassis interrupted Nyx and briefly looked around the room.

There was still no visible sense of incongruity.

Roxana’s poison butterflies, which were presumed to be in this room, were also not visible.

Only Roxana’s energy, which was not unfamiliar to Cassis, was faintly felt like a faint afterimage.

Cassis, who was silently thinking about something, fixed his gaze on Nyx again.

“I’ll move you to another room if you want.”

“Really?”

“If you keep seeing things and causing a ruckus in a state of mental weakness like this, it will become troublesome.”

Nyx bristled at those words. However, he was relieved to hear that he would be moved to another room, so he didn’t argue any further.

Cassis really took Nyx out of the current room and locked him in another room on the same floor.

Nyx’s uneasy mind calmed down a bit as he got out of the room where Deon Agriche might have invaded.

While Fedelian’s subordinate, who had come with them, was fixing the chain connected to the shackles in the room, Nyx looked around with a face that was clearly brighter than before.

Cassis also stood by the door and scanned the room once.

There were no Roxana’s poison butterflies in this room.

After confirming that, Cassis lowered his gaze to the doll in front of him.

Fedelian’s subordinate, who had finished his task, received a signal from Cassis and left the room first.

*Clang.*

The sound of the door closing behind him was heard.

“Do you feel a little more at ease now?”

Nyx seemed relieved just by changing rooms and had a much more relaxed expression.

“More than before.”

Then, he belatedly became embarrassed as he remembered how excited he had been until just now, and he became prickly again.

“If you had been on guard properly from the beginning, this wouldn’t have happened. Yesterday, that woman entered my room as she pleased, and on top of that, she spouted ridiculous nonsense.”

Cassis stared at him silently, then moved his legs, which had been fixed in place.

“Are you only afraid of Deon Agriche?”

“What?”

Nyx, who was settling in the corner of the room, raised his head at the low murmur that strangely touched his instincts.

It was the very next moment that Cassis, who had already narrowed the distance, bent down and grabbed the upper part of Nyx’s wrist, which was in shackles.

*Crack.*

Following that, a sound of something crumbling was heard, and a sharp pain pierced Nyx’s wrist.

“Ack……!”

A scream of agony echoed in the quiet room.

Nyx tried to tear off Cassis, who was holding his broken wrist, but his hand, which was pressed down and fixed to the floor, did not budge.

“Let go, now……!”

Rather, Cassis grabbed Nyx’s other hand, which was flying in with the sound of a chain, and repeated the same thing once more.

“Kuh, heok!”

Even while looking at Nyx, who was complaining of pain, not a trace of emotion appeared on Cassis’s face.

“Bertium’s doll.”

A voice like a boulder fell over Nyx’s head as he trembled and suppressed the pain. (Bertium is likely the name of the doll maker or the type of doll.)

“I don’t like you very much.”

Cassis’s voice, which seeped into Nyx’s ear, was so calm and composed that it felt almost emotionless, as if all emotion was completely excluded from it.

“I don’t want to leave anything in this world that could harm her, even in the slightest.”

But the next moment, in Cassis’s eyes, which he raised his head while groaning and faced directly…….

Nyx could not help but feel as if every hair on his body was standing on end.

“And you are also included in what I want to erase from her sight without a trace.”

As Cassis steadily applied force to the dangling wrist, Nyx’s piercing scream echoed in his ear again.

Cassis whispered ‘Quiet’ to Nyx, then sent a different force to the touching area this time.

The wrist, which had been broken as brutally as a twig in his hand, began to heal at a rapid pace.

“But the reason I don’t kill off the things that bother me as I please…….”

Even during that time, the soft whisper continued.

“It’s because I’m afraid that my actions might hurt her instead.”

Even though the broken wrist had been healed so perfectly that it was amazing, Nyx was still held in Cassis’s hand and couldn’t move.

The man, who was bending his knees and bowing his body to the point of touching the floor like Nyx, felt so huge for some reason that he was suffocating.

It was as if a hungry beast was opening its mouth wide behind his back, and if he moved even a little, the sharp teeth touching his jugular would not hesitate for even a second and would immediately pierce through his flesh as if they had been waiting for it.

He couldn’t take his eyes off the fierce golden eyes he was looking at right now.

“In other words, the only reason you can live and breathe in front of me like this is because of Roxana.”

*Adduk!*

As if to make the fact that he had just finished treatment meaningless, this time an even stronger force rode Nyx’s wrist, which had been touched, and wrapped around his shoulder.

Every place where the intangible force passed, the bones and flesh lost their original form and were brutally shattered into dozens, hundreds of pieces without exception.

“……!”

This time, not even a proper scream could be uttered from Nyx’s mouth.

“Euh, heueu, ah…….”

“But when I see you.”

Cassis looked down at Nyx, who had eventually slumped over due to the tremendous pain, with cold, frozen eyes and said.

“Even at this moment, it seems that you lack a lot of respect for the person who is protecting you from me.”