The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 170

How to Protect the Heroine’s Older Brother – 170

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“Stop right there!”

A pursuer was quickly on Nicks’s tail.

He hadn’t been able to completely mask the sound when he tore open the bars and jumped out the window, so they must have realized his escape immediately.

Nicks spurred himself on to flee faster.

The thought that he should have joined Noel came to him belatedly, but he was already far from the building where Noel was.

However, once he got out of here, he could meet Noel and Dante outside of Yggdrasil later when he had the chance.

He didn’t know the exact situation, but wasn’t there supposed to be a hearing in Vertium related to puppetry?

If so, the cause was probably because of Nicks’s existence, and in many ways, it would be better for Vertium if he wasn’t here.

That clever weasel, Dante, would probably prefer that Nicks just quietly disappear from sight rather than causing trouble looking for Noel here.

So, Nicks decided to leave the aftermath to Dante, who had come with Noel, and entered the dense undergrowth beside him to shake off the pursuers.

“Oh my, what is it!”

“Where did he suddenly come from……!”

But it seemed he had taken the wrong path.

In the open space inside, about twenty people were gathered.

Tables were placed here and there, and teacups and such were on them, so it seemed they were leisurely drinking tea and chatting.

Bang! Clatter! Crash!

“Kyaa!”

“Ah, hot!”

“What do you think you’re doing!”

Nicks didn’t have time to avoid the people, so he kicked off the ground as he was and jumped onto the table in front of him.

With that momentum, several teacups and plates fell to the floor and broke.

Nicks nimbly jumped to the next table. The garden quickly became a scene of chaos because of him.

The people there were shocked by the sudden appearance of the strange man and jumped up from their seats.

“Huh?”

At that moment, some of the Agrihe people who saw Nicks’s face paused.

However, before any other reaction came from the Agrihe group, someone who knew the identity of the strange man appeared.

“Nicks!”

Silvia saw Nicks, who was devastating the tables as he moved, and unknowingly called out his name.

She had come outside to mingle with other people for the first time in a while because her family was worried about her.

But she was very surprised that someone who shouldn’t be here suddenly appeared before her eyes.

Hearing his name, Nicks, who was quickly moving between the tables, turned his head.

The moment he caught Silvia in his sight, Nicks’s eyes twitched.

“Vertium’s doll!”

But a pursuer appeared right behind him, so there was no time to delay.

Nicks instinctively moved to find a way to gain the most advantageous situation for himself.

Pedelian’s henchmen, who had been guarding the entrance of the garden, also realized the situation and rushed over. The pursuer was close behind Nicks.

Nicks was the first to reach his intended target.

He grabbed Silvia, seizing her waist as if snatching her up, and kicked off again as if her weight was nothing.

Those chasing Nicks and Pedelian’s henchmen stiffened their faces and stopped moving at the same time.

As Nicks had thought, once he succeeded in capturing Pedelian’s princess, the others couldn’t easily approach him. The tension was evident on their faces, as if they were nervous that Nicks might hurt Silvia.

Nicks confronted them and tightened his arms around Silvia’s neck from behind.

Silvia, also flustered by the situation of being taken hostage, stiffened her body.

Even in the urgent situation, Nicks was somehow a little bothered by it.

Perhaps because of the situation of being in close contact, the last time they were outside Yggdrasil came to his mind again.

At that time, Silvia had calmed Nicks, who was trembling because of Deon Agrihe, but now he was taking such Silvia hostage.

In a way, it was repaying kindness with enmity.

But since when did Nicks have such a moral conscience?

Nevertheless, his heart was still uneasy, so Nicks roughly pulled Silvia closer.

However, the words he whispered in her ear were different from his actions.

“If you stay still until we get out of here, I won’t hurt you…….”

Whoosh! Thwack!

“Ugh……!”

But the very next moment, Nicks was suddenly struck in three vital spots in his body by some force.

The force wasn’t strong enough to make him lose consciousness, but the impact was not small as it targeted precise points.

Nicks involuntarily loosened his arm holding Silvia due to the sudden attack.

Thwack!

In the meantime, Silvia, who had completely freed herself from Nicks, mercilessly struck Nicks’s nose with her elbow.

As a result, he staggered and stepped back.

When he lowered his head, blood dripped onto the grass.

This time, it was a very accurate strike, and there was no hesitation in Silvia’s actions.

It was an unexpected and embarrassing event for Nicks.

While he was off guard, Pedelian’s henchmen rushed at him, not missing the opportunity.

They quickly protected Silvia safely and attacked Nicks. The pursuers who had been chasing him also joined in.

In the end, Nicks had no choice but to avoid the situation without being able to grab Silvia again.

It seemed impossible to escape from the people rushing in from both sides, but Nicks reflexively lowered his waist and slipped through their gaps with a fluid motion, avoiding all the attacks aimed at him.

The series of movements was quite unusual.

The Agrihe people who saw it were somehow shaken.

Clang!

At that moment, a table suddenly flew towards Nicks from the side.

While Nicks reflexively raised his arm to block it, other people immediately pounced on Nicks.

Nicks moved to shake them off. However, he was attacked on the jaw one after another, and he staggered, feeling his head shake.

“Kuh, wait……!”

Then, a strong grip pressed down on the back of his neck, slamming him to the ground.

A cold voice fell over Nicks’s head as he groaned.

“I’m surprised you still have the strength to struggle like this.”

Hearing that icy voice, Nicks stiffened his body.

“I guess I was too lenient with you back then, wasn’t I?”

Cassius had been on the top of the tower until just now, looking out over the outside of Yggdrasil.

It might have been a simple worry, but for some reason, he had felt that the flow of air flowing into Yggdrasil had been somewhat strange recently.

However, the subordinate who had been sent out to inspect had reported, and no other suspicious signs were revealed to Cassius’s eyes.

‘Is it because of the increased monsters in the neutral zone?’

Cassius silently examined the subtly turbulent air and scanned his surroundings with sharp eyes.

Then, he suddenly sensed a commotion flowing in from somewhere.

At the same time, a signal came through the butterfly that Roxana had newly attached to him.

So Cassius immediately moved and came to the garden where Nicks was.

“Silvia, are you hurt?”

“Uh, no.”

Cassius, who first checked on Silvia’s safety, who had been held by Nicks, frowned at the sound of the people in the garden buzzing.

“Who on earth is that person?”

“Oh my gosh, he was definitely trying to grab Lady Pedelian, right?”

“I’ve never seen anyone like that before, which family is he from?”

For Nicks’s existence to be revealed to people like this. It was different from the original plan.

“What is all this commotion?”

Other people who came late after hearing the loud noise joined the commotion.

Richel Pedelian, Hiakin Hyperion, and Orca Hyperion were among them.

The two leaders quickly grasped the situation and wore troubled expressions.

“Ah, is that the rumored doll?”

Only Orca was showing a light reaction, shining with interested eyes.

Hiakin, the leader of Hyperion, frowned and gave him a look, but Orca, whether he knew it or not, was only staring at Nicks, who was being pulled up by Cassius, with curious eyes.

Then, someone appeared, parting the people in the garden.

It was Roxana.

“What’s going on?”

The moment her clear voice rang out, the eyes of the people in the place naturally gathered on her all at once.

Roxana looked as if she had rushed over in a hurry.

The slightly disheveled hair and the sight of her breathing rapidly, which was unlike her usual self, were different from her perfectly refined appearance that she had shown until now, which rather caught the eye.

However, Cassius looked at Roxana’s face with a slightly different meaning than the people next to him before parting his lips.

“Vertium’s doll attempted to escape.”

At those words, Roxana bit her lip tightly, revealing embarrassment as if she didn’t know that fact.

“Is anyone hurt?”

“It doesn’t seem like it for now.”

Cassius paused and looked around, thinking about something.

Anyway, the fact that Nicks tried to take Silvia hostage would surely spread widely within Yggdrasil before half a day passed. Then it would be better to bring it up now.

“It seems he intended to take another person hostage to shake off the pursuers and escape, but fortunately, it ended only as an attempt.”

“A hostage, who?”

The eyes of the people who witnessed the situation at the time flew to Silvia all at once.

Roxana’s surprised gaze also flew to Silvia.

Silvia, who suddenly received the attention, was flustered, but after receiving Roxana’s gaze, she quickly shook her head to express her safety.

“I’m okay. I’m not hurt and I’m fine.”

Nevertheless, Roxana’s cloudy face did not brighten.