The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 168

Just before coming to Yggdrasil, Badrissa received a letter.

Inside, it contained the signals used when her husband conducted drug trafficking with Agrit.

Since the letter didn’t originate from within Gastor, it was clear that Agrit had sent it directly to Badrissa. The intention was obvious.

Afterward, she pretended not to know and requested a transaction from Agrit using a pseudonym, but was flatly rejected each time.

In reality, Jeremy was too busy supporting the family to care about illegal dealings, so he had lost interest, and there was no other reason.

However, from Badrissa’s perspective, who didn’t know this, it seemed that Agrit knew all the truth and was trying to pressure Gastor.

She was able to gain certainty from Jeremy’s attitude in front of her during their last meeting.

It was clear that Agrit was trying to gain something from Gastor using this as an excuse.

Originally, that was the corrupt habit of Agrit, so it was not surprising.

So Badrissa asked them directly what they wanted.

Jeremy silently stared at Badrissa’s frosty face for a moment.

He said Roxana didn’t have any ill feelings towards Gastor, and rather, she had goodwill towards Badrissa Gastor.

Certainly, someone like her was not common.

So Jeremy and Roxana made a decision together.

“I know that the head of the enemy has disliked me from the beginning.”

A low voice flowed from Jeremy’s slightly opened lips.

“I fully understand that it is due to the antipathy towards Agrit itself, and I do not deny that I am also a member of that Agrit.”

Perhaps because she thought Agrit held the upper hand, Badrissa listened to Jeremy’s long speech without interruption.

However, she faintly twitched her eyes at the sound that followed.

“However, do you know that Lant Agrit, who was the head just before Agrit collapsed, had already been deposed by his children?”

From the beginning, Gastor was far from doing behind-the-scenes work.

So they didn’t know that Lant was no longer the head before Agrit was overthrown by Pedelian.

Moreover, the reason was a coup [a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government].

“We are clearly the children of the father who was born and raised in Agrit, but there has been a considerable ideological difference between our siblings and our father who are maintaining Agrit now.”

Jeremy continued to speak calmly.

In fact, the reason for ousting Lant wasn’t such a grand thing, but this level of packaging was necessary to justify the current Agrit.

“You will remember that I bowed my head in front of other leaders to protect Agrit.”

At that time, I thought it was truly awful, but now I thought that lowering myself at that time would help improve Agrit’s image.

“The reason I did that was to protect our siblings’ own beliefs.”

“Beliefs?”

The word that flowed from the mouth of the person whom she had never imagined would say such a thing was enough to raise Badrissa’s voice.

The word Jeremy recited felt somehow very unfamiliar, so she unknowingly asked back.

Regardless of such Badrissa, Jeremy put more strength into his voice.

“My other siblings and I hope to create a different Agrit from what it has been until now.”

Badrissa looked at Jeremy with eyes looking at something strange. It was the same with Ryuzak next to her.

Ryuzak was shocked by the unexpected truth of the family, and then made an indescribable expression after hearing the unexpected words coming from Jeremy’s mouth.

“From now on, the path we take will be completely different from the path my father took.”

However, Jeremy’s face was serious, and there was undeniable sincerity in his words.

Badrissa saw through it with the insight gained from her past experiences and felt speechless.

“Since Gastor’s work was also sown in Agrit, I think it is right to reap it in Agrit.”

The face of the young man in front of her seemed to come into her eyes a little more clearly than before.

A young leader with black hair like Lant Agrit, whom Badrissa despised. But his eyes were clear blue, completely different from Lant.

“So what we want to propose is…….”

The content she was listening to now would have been unimaginable if the other party was Lant Agrit.

So the moment Jeremy looked into her eyes and proposed.

“I want you to trade the antidote, not the drug, with Gastor.”

Badrissa felt her heart sink for a moment.

“You mean there’s an antidote?”

Knowing that revealing emotions in this place is to fully reveal my hand, Ryuzak had no choice but to ask back urgently.

If Ryuzak hadn’t done that, Badrissa would have shown the same reaction.

“Although it is kept strictly secret from the outside, all drugs that have been improved and commercialized in Agrit originally have antidotes. This is because simultaneous experiments are conducted in preparation for any unforeseen circumstances.”

Then Jeremy showed a somewhat blurry expression.

“I apologize for my unclear attitude last time. Everything inside Agrit was severely damaged by the winter, so it hasn’t been long since I transplanted the seedlings of the herbs that were still alive. So I needed a final confirmation on whether I could reproduce the required amount of antidote.”

Jeremy’s attitude, which Badrissa and Ryuzak didn’t like last time, was no longer important at all.

“And as a result of sending people to Agrit to check one last time, I can now give you a definite answer in this place.”

*I swear*, it was a change of direction that I had never even imagined.

So the words I heard from the person in front of me felt very unrealistic.

But…….

As the sense of reality slowly began to return, my heavily beating heart began to stir greatly.

For Gastor, having a way to solve drug addiction was, without a doubt, a hopeful piece of news that could not be compared to anything else.

Even when sitting at this negotiating table and facing the negotiating partner, Badrissa was gnawing at her insides with a sense of shame and self-reproach that made her shudder.

From the beginning, she hated Agrit for making such inhumane drugs, but it was Gastor’s will to bring them in.

So Badrissa despised and hated Agrit, but she could not pass all the responsibility on to them.

But now, a ray of light shining into her heart was slowly driving out such negative feelings.

Just glimpsing a new possibility made me feel like something was rising from within and choking my throat.

“Why is Agrit making such a proposal to Gastor?”

But Badrissa stared at Jeremy with sharp eyes that did not waver, unlike her noisy inner thoughts.

Can I trust this person’s words? Is he perhaps lying to deceive Gastor? Or does he have other intentions?

Yes, it might be a new trap after all.

However, Jeremy faced such Badrissa’s suspicion and answered without hesitation with a firm voice that did not waver at all.

“Because I, who am sitting in front of you now, am not Lant Agrit.”

The quiet, low, and calm words of the young man struck his heart more dully than any other sweet rhetoric brought to persuade the other person.

“Also, because the current Agrit is not the Agrit when my father was alive.”

It was a statement consistent with what he had declared earlier.

If that was a lie, it would be obvious sooner or later anyway.

Besides, the blue eyes I’m facing now seemed to be telling a transparent truth.

Badrissa looked at the person sitting across from her with an indescribable feeling.

She didn’t fully trust the person in front of her yet.

But…….

But if there is really a possibility that we can get the antidote and no longer be swayed by evil things, as the young black-haired leader said…….

It was natural to want to put faith in it.

How much time has passed?

Badrissa’s mouth finally opened slowly, sending only motionless gazes in silence for a long time.

“What does Agrit want from Gastor?”

It was the same word she asked Jeremy earlier, but in reality, the essence contained within it was not the same at all.

“Agrit does not want anything in return from Gastor. Just…….”

Jeremy looked at the two people from Gastor who were looking at him with different eyes than before, and drew a benevolent smile learned from Roxana on his face.

“With this, black and red will have the opportunity to form a new relationship different from what it has been until now.”