The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 155

How to Protect the Heroine’s Older Brother – 155

How to Protect the Heroine’s Older Brother 155

The two men, meeting face to face after some time, maintained their composed expressions.

“Looks like you’ve been playing the storyteller again.”

“Haha, there must be quite a few people in Yggdrasil who are looking for me. It’s the destiny of a popular person, you might say.”

Cassis wore a calm and collected expression, while Orca sported his usual beaming smile.

However, beneath his cheerful exterior, Orca harbored a sharp suspicion.

He suspected that the man before him was the culprit who had eliminated all his magical creatures some time ago, but he had only suspicions and no concrete evidence.

Orca’s memory was blank from the moment he was struck in a vital spot at the border of Fedelian and collapsed, until he woke up again in the carriage.

The Fedelian confidant who had taken Orca to Hyperion said that he had accidentally found him collapsed on the roadside while heading to Yggdrasil.

That implied there was someone else behind the attack, but Orca wasn’t naive enough to believe that.

The real culprit was definitely within Fedelian.

Among them, the Blue Young Lord [Cassis Fedelian] was the most suspicious, based on his gut feeling.

However, Cassis Fedelian was not an easy opponent to confront with mere suspicion without solid evidence.

Furthermore, Orca was in Fedelian’s territory at the time.

Even if he were to question what happened then, he would find it difficult to explain why he didn’t return to Hyperion immediately.

Even if he could somehow gloss over that, the next problem would be:

Orca had even set up a spell formation to conceal his presence at the time.

There was no way the person who approached him so closely and attacked him wouldn’t have noticed it.

“By the way, Blue Young Lord, were you perhaps on your way to the conference room?”

So, in the end, there was nothing he could do right now, no matter how much his anger burned inside.

Cassis nodded slightly at Orca’s words, which were delivered with a smile concealing his true feelings.

“It seems our destinations are the same, judging by the direction.”

“Yes, I was also on my way to the conference room. It’s annoying, but as a successor, I have no choice.”

Orca replied, scratching his head.

Soon, the heads of each family and their successors were scheduled to gather for a meeting. It was a time for productive and serious conversation that Orca loathed.

Since their destinations were the same, Cassis and Orca ended up walking side by side down the hallway.

After a moment, Cassis spoke first.

“I thought you might not attend this social gathering, but it’s unexpected.”

Orca subtly twitched his eyes at the words that were uttered as if in passing.

“Oh, why did you think that?”

He didn’t know if it was just his imagination, but he felt like there was another hidden meaning in Cassis’s words.

Perhaps it was because Orca was suspicious of Cassis that he felt that way even more.

“Didn’t you originally dislike these kinds of gatherings?”

“Ah, that’s what you meant. Well, that’s true.”

However, Cassis’s response was indifferent, and he couldn’t detect anything suspicious on his face either.

Orca slightly twisted his lips before speaking.

“Still, I like beautiful women, so I feel it’s worth attending this social gathering.”

Cassis’s gaze slid sideways at the subtly laced words.

“If I had known Yggdrasil was such a beautiful flower garden, I would have visited more often.”

Looking at Cassis, Orca added an even broader smile to his face.

“Of course, the most beautiful flower among them was the one that bloomed in Fedelian until recently, but now it’s out of the fence… It might take root somewhere else in the future.”

Unless someone was a fool, they couldn’t miss the implication in Orca’s words.

It was a blatant provocation, but not worth responding to.

Cassis spoke in a voice as calm as his expression.

“It’s amusing to hear those words from someone who is better suited to a monster habitat than a fragrant flower garden.”

“Haha. That’s also true.”

Orca lightly retorted with a laugh, as if he had never been serious.

In the meantime, they arrived at the conference hall, their destination.

“White Beast Master.”

Cassis muttered in a low voice as he pushed the door open.

“Yes.”

Orca was slowly growing weary of Cassis, who maintained a consistently indifferent attitude.

So, he responded listlessly, expecting another boring topic to come out of his mouth.

“I’m saying this out of concern…”

However, Orca could no longer maintain his composure after hearing the following words.

“Wouldn’t it be better to use both presence-erasing and presence-detecting spells simultaneously when going out to hunt monsters in the future?”

Pause.

Orca felt his blood run cold from the tips of his toes and stopped in front of the door.

“Of course, relying too much on magic stones is not a good method in itself.”

Squeak.

As he pushed open the heavy door, a sharp friction sound rang out thinly from the joints.

Cassis’s voice that echoed in his ear was very calm, but Orca’s heart could not remain the same while listening to it.

Orca stopped his stiff legs and stood still, looking at the back in his sight.

“That means…”

Soon, his dry lips moved stiffly.

Cassis turned to look at Orca.

His face was still calm and composed.

However, the thin smile that was soon added on top of it was as cold and dry as the bare branches of winter.

“I hope you have a pleasant time while you’re in Yggdrasil, Orca Hyperion.”

* * *

Damn it, my head is splitting.

Jeremy left the conference hall with a bitter look on his face.

Like Orca, there was one more person here who hated complicated and serious discussions.

Today, they discussed material transactions between families and defense of border areas.

The agenda for the large-scale monster subjugation in the summer also came up, so they had to select people from each family to participate in advance.

In particular, the number of monsters on the border of the neutral zone has increased sharply since this winter, so it was decided to gather people once before the end of spring to reduce the number of individuals.

This was not the first time he had attended this kind of meeting, but he still hadn’t fully adapted.

The people in this place seemed to have the useless talent of deliberately using the same words in a difficult way.

However, he was able to control his expression more delicately than before, so now Jeremy could pretend to understand everything and make a haughty face even when conversations he didn’t understand were going on in front of him.

Of course, it was a harvest with not much substance.

“The Black Chief seems to have already adapted quite well, even though he must still be unfamiliar with this kind of setting.”

As he left the conference hall and walked for a while, someone approached from behind.

Since no one from the other families had accommodations in this direction, Jeremy looked back in bewilderment.

Standing there was a woman with red hair pulled up and purple eyes.

She was Badrissa, the head of the Gastor family [one of the most influential families in the region and often rivals to the Agriche family].

Behind her, her son Ryuzak stood like a guard.

What, why is this person talking to me?

Badrissa ignored Jeremy as if he didn’t exist whenever he was in the same place, or always looked at him with displeasure.

He heard that she didn’t get along very well with Lant Agriche, though not as much as Lisel Fedelian.

So, in fact, Jeremy initially thought that Gastor would oppose the restoration of Agriche.

But surprisingly, Badrissa sided with the side that would revive Agriche, with Jeremy at the forefront.

“My adaptability is originally quite excellent.”

Jeremy hid his doubts and replied shamelessly for now.

At that, Ryuzak frowned slightly, and Badrissa narrowed her eyes slightly.

Jeremy racked his brain to figure out what purpose the two people had in following him. But there was nothing particularly suspicious.

“I told you, Jeremy, we just have to wait.”

“In time, you’ll naturally know.”

However, Roxana’s words faintly flashed through his mind at that moment.

“Yes. Excellent adaptability is also one of the virtues needed for someone who leads a family.”

Badrissa casually brushed off Jeremy’s words as if understanding the youth’s impetuosity.

“If you don’t have any other plans, would you like to have tea with me?”

Then, when she made the invitation with a leisurely smile on her lips, the intuition that had penetrated Jeremy became even more certain.

The blue eyes with a faint, sharp light swept over the people in front of him once.

They, too, were facing Jeremy with faces that could not be seen through.

Soon, a deep smile appeared on Jeremy’s lips as well.

“If you invite me, I will gladly accept.”