The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 17

Protecting the Heroine’s Older Brother – Episode 17

Protecting the Heroine’s Older Brother 17

“My lady!”

The men holding Cassis were startled and called out to the woman.

She had suddenly reached out to Cassis.

Cassis was also surprised by the soft touch on his face and almost flinched.

The woman gently lifted Cassis’s head, which had been drooping. Immediately after, she suddenly stopped moving.

“Asil…….”

A small murmur, almost a soliloquy, echoed in the air.

Of course, Cassis didn’t know what her words meant.

The gaze he felt so close made him uncomfortable in a slightly different way than before.

“My lady, you’ll get your hands dirty.”

The men beside her, looking several times more uncomfortable than Cassis, tried to dissuade her.

The woman seemed to snap out of it then.

“Ah……. Yes, I misspoke for a moment.”

Finally, the hand supporting Cassis’s face was removed.

“What about treatment? Surely you’re not just going to leave him like this?”

“Lady Roxana specifically ordered them to call a doctor.”

“Then it would be best to take him inside and let him rest.”

After that, the woman looked down at Cassis once more before leaving.

She had said she came to see him as Roxana’s toy, but it seemed she was satisfied with just a brief look.

Subsequently, the men dragged Cassis to a room right next to where they had been standing.

Cassis couldn’t help but frown, trying not to show it, as he hadn’t expected their destination to be so close.

It seemed the woman had been lingering near the room where Roxana planned to keep her toy, Cassis, in order to see him.

In the end, Cassis decided to postpone his escape attempt. Instead, he subtly opened his eyes and carefully surveyed his surroundings.

Even so, his vision was still blurry, but it was enough to identify the location of the room and the door’s locking mechanism.

“Ugh, my shoulders are going to fall off.”

The men carelessly dumped Cassis on the floor.

“Ugh, what is this? It’s like bringing in a corpse?”

“He’s still breathing, so hurry up and get him treated.”

After that, a doctor really did come.

While the doctor examined and treated Cassis, the men who had brought him were gossiping about what had just happened.

“The Fourth Madam, she mentioned Young Master Asil’s name earlier, right?”

“Yeah, I heard that too.”

“Does this guy look like Young Master Asil? I don’t see any resemblance at all.”

“Right. Lady Roxana and the Madam—I wondered why they were taking an interest in something like this. Do they see a resemblance?”

Listening to their conversation, Cassis thought back to what had happened in the hallway.

The woman, presumably Roxana’s mother, seemed to have been reminded of someone when she saw his face.

Was ‘Asil,’ the name she muttered to herself, the name of that person?

But a young master? Does that mean Asil is the son of the woman he just met?

“Now that I look at him, he does seem a bit pale like him, but other than that, I don’t know.”

“Isn’t his age similar to when Young Master Asil died? Maybe seeing this guy in such a state made her think of Young Master Asil even more.”

“I guess. That could be it.”

Unexpectedly, that Asil was already dead.

The two men trailed off, leaving a lingering, bitter feeling.

After roughly finishing the treatment, they attached a chain to Cassis’s restraints. Then, their footsteps faded away.

Clang, clatter.

“…….”

When he was completely alone, Cassis quietly opened his eyes.

The footsteps outside the door gradually faded away and eventually disappeared completely.

Cassis remained lying on the floor, surveying his surroundings.

It was a clean and spacious room, incomparable to the underground prison he had been in before.

However, the only noticeable furniture was a bed attached to one wall, and the room didn’t even have a window.

The scene in his view was bleak, but other than that, it seemed to be an ordinary room.

After a moment, Cassis carefully raised himself from the floor. As he did, the chains connected to his wrists and ankles rattled.

The chain was connected to a pillar in one corner of the room.

Still, the length of the chain meant he had more freedom of movement than in the underground prison. Of course, it still wasn’t enough to reach the door.

Cassis decided to quietly assess the situation for now. There was no point in trying to escape clumsily and drawing attention to himself.

As he had heard earlier, it seemed Agriche didn’t intend to kill him right away.

Seeing that they had even called a doctor to treat him directly, it seemed they no longer intended to torture him in the same way as before.

Was it because he had become Roxana Agriche’s toy?

Cassis ran his hand over the restraints tightening his wrists and moved his gaze towards the door.

Agriche didn’t seem to know it yet, but the anti-monster restraints currently binding him were largely useless.

It was something he had confirmed when a girl named Charlotte had stormed into the underground prison and attacked him.

The anti-monster restraints activated from level 1 to level 5 depending on the wearer’s level of excitement and aggression, restricting their movements.

Conversely, this meant that if he could maintain his composure in any situation, he could minimize the activation of the restraints.

It could also be said that the opportunity was good.

If that hadn’t happened, he wouldn’t have been able to test the strength of the restraints so naturally.

The girl named Charlotte seemed to have a rather simple personality, thinking that her failure to subdue Cassis was only due to her own inexperience.

She seemed to believe without a shred of doubt that breaking the restraints was not because Cassis had induced her, but because she had made a mistake after losing her reason due to anger.

For Cassis, it could be said that he was quite lucky.

Cassis’s eyes momentarily sank low.

Until the day he escaped from Agriche, he had to hide the fact that his power was not sealed. That way, everyone would be off guard.

As he was thinking that, he suddenly sensed someone outside the door.

Cassis lay back down on the floor as he had when he first entered the room.

Clatter, the sound of the door’s locking mechanism being released was heard.

Then, someone entered the room.

The light footsteps and the fragrance that stimulated his sense of smell were familiar. So he knew that the person who had entered was Roxana.

She approached Cassis and silently looked down at him.

The person who would now decide Cassis’s fate was Roxana, and they were the only two here. Moreover, Cassis was currently pretending to be unconscious.

So perhaps this time she would reveal her true colors.

Cassis heightened all his senses as he felt Roxana getting closer to him.

If she did anything foolish, Cassis couldn’t just stand by.

If he reached out and wrapped the chain around her neck when she got closer, he could probably knock her unconscious in one go.

Of course, if he really wanted to, he could kill her instead of just knocking her unconscious, but he hesitated to go that far.

And…….

Was it really the right choice to respond to threats with threats in this situation?

Cassis closed his eyes and gauged the distance to his opponent.

Unaware of his inner turmoil, Roxana moved even closer to his side.

Now the two were perfectly within each other’s striking range.

“They really only did the bare minimum of treatment.”

But what tickled Cassis’s ear next was a small whisper that leaked out with a low breath.

Then, a soft touch reached his wrist.

Clatter.

As Roxana lifted his hand, the unpleasant metallic sound of the chain connected to the pillar rang out.

A gaze that seemed to be assessing his condition swept over Cassis’s body.

After that, the gag that had been blocking his mouth was removed.

He wondered what she was doing as she rustled around beside him, and after a while, warmth touched his wrist again.

Cassis held his breath, feeling something indescribable.

Roxana applied medicine and wrapped bandages to his wounds, which the doctor had treated haphazardly. Her careful touch brushed against his wrists and ankles, where the skin had been chafed by the restraints.

To top it off, Roxana took off his already tattered upper garment and even touched the bare skin underneath.

The warmth spreading directly over his skin made Cassis almost jump up from his spot.

A tingling sensation spread from each wound she touched. But it wasn’t just the stinging that permeated his skin.

Cassis barely managed to endure the ticklish touch.

Even after meticulously finishing the treatment, Roxana didn’t leave. Eventually, she even sat down next to Cassis.

Cassis was a little surprised because he didn’t expect her to just sit down on the bare floor like this, no matter how clean the room was.

Even Cassis’s younger sister, Sylvia, who had a fairly outgoing personality, wouldn’t act so unreservedly.

But Roxana’s next action was even more surprising.

Cassis was silently horrified when he realized that the same soft touch as before had lifted his head and placed it somewhere.