The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 193

Cassis blocked the diagonal strike, reaching out with his other hand to strike Deon’s heart.

The same sensation he had felt outside Yggdrasil [a mythical tree in Norse cosmology, often associated with knowledge and power] once before enveloped Deon’s heart.

“Still resorting to tricks!”

Deon twisted his upper body, immediately slashing at Cassis.

Clang!

The sharp noise of colliding metal and the flashing light reflected off the scattered glass.

However, Deon didn’t focus on killing Cassis but aimed for Nix behind him.

As Cassis suspected, Deon had no intention of fighting him right now.

His attention was entirely focused on Ashil before him.

“Stop it right now, Deon…!”

Roxana’s voice, as if spitting out the words, pierced their eardrums.

But even that didn’t stop Deon.

He didn’t know what lay at the end of this.

However, he felt he could know if he killed Ashil once more.

Several exchanges occurred with Cassis, who was blocking him.

The scene flashed dizzyingly, with everything reflecting the light.

However, compared to Deon, who was blindly attacking anyone in front of him, Cassis was naturally more restricted in his movements as he had to protect Nix as well.

Moreover, Nix had been spacing out since earlier, unable to even run away.

With each step they took, the glass, unable to withstand the weight and impact, cracked wider and wider.

That’s why Roxana couldn’t get close to them.

The poison needles she had wouldn’t work on Deon, making them useless.

Eventually, Roxana closed the distance a bit more and swung her whip again.

This time, it was aimed at Nix, not Deon.

Swish!

The moment she wrapped the whip around Nix’s arm and pulled him, the sharp edge grazed Nix’s shoulder, piercing through Cassis’s opening.

Tightening her grip, Roxana pulled Nix out of the way, swallowing a curse.

She couldn’t understand why she was helping Nix right now.

However….

She couldn’t just let Deon kill him.

That was all.

Nix, with his arm wrapped in the whip, lost his balance and tumbled beside Roxana.

At that moment, Vertium’s doll appeared behind them.

It captured Nix on the floor and Roxana beside him in its gaze.

The doll recognized Roxana as an obstacle.

Feeling the presence approaching rapidly from behind, Roxana turned her head.

Crack!

At that moment, an ominous sound echoed from the glass floor of the passage, unable to withstand the weight of the doll.

Roxana reflexively reached out and roughly pushed Nix away.

In doing so, she missed her own chance to escape.

“Roxana!”

Cassis, who had also spotted the doll, hurriedly threw the weapon he was holding.

In doing so, Deon’s weapon, which he hadn’t managed to block, pierced Cassis’s shoulder.

Thud!

Fortunately, the doll that had been close behind Roxana was pierced by Cassis’s thrown weapon and pushed back.

However, there wasn’t just one doll pouring into the passage.

At any other time, Cassis’s brief opening would have been enough to avoid the attack.

However, the floor began to break apart as soon as Nix’s body, pushed away by Roxana, was thrown beyond the end of the passage, unable to withstand any more load.

Crash!

Even as the ground beneath her collapsed, causing her to lose her balance, Roxana swung her whip, knocking aside one of the closest dolls.

However, she couldn’t block the last doll that lunged at her, trying to cut her throat.

It all happened in an instant.

The moment Cassis’s scream hit his ears, Deon turned around and took in what was happening to Roxana.

Cassis and Deon moved simultaneously.

It could be said that their bodies moved almost unconsciously.

However, Deon, who was closer to Roxana, was a step faster.

“Because I know that you, who killed my son, can die for my daughter.”

He didn’t know why that cursed phrase echoed in his ears once again at that moment.

“Yes, go to my daughter.”

“Go to my daughter….”

Only at that moment did he forget Ashil, who had been filling his head, and even Cassis, whom he had been fighting, and his arms and legs moved on their own without any thought.

In the seemingly slow-flowing time, the golden hair fluttering in the wind drew closer.

“Always die for that child. Because that’s why I spared your life.”

He immediately reached out to Roxana’s body, which was tilting backward with the collapsing floor.

A cold chill was felt from the approaching blade.

In the very next moment, there was a slicing sound, and something was cut off.

Roxana saw red blood spurting like foam before her eyes.

The force pulling her body disappeared.

However, Roxana had already been pushed out of the doll’s range by Deon, and Cassis caught her.

At the same time as Deon raised his right arm and cut off the doll’s head, the entire glass floor completely shattered.

They all fell down with the glittering shards of glass.

They were currently on the top floor of the building, so the height was considerable, and the dolls that had found Nix were already gathered below.

Roxana opened her mouth to shout something, but the words were swallowed by the raging wind.

Cassis bit down hard, urgently pulling the person within reach closer and embracing her.

“Sa….”

Nix, who had been thrown to safety by Roxana, also saw the scene unfolding before his eyes.

“Sanaya…!”

All sorts of noises shattered into pieces in the air.

Crash!

The impact of falling from a high place and crashing into the ground was mostly absorbed by Cassis.

A terrible pain, as if every bone in his body was breaking, surged through him, but there was no time to groan.

Broken glass was threateningly pouring down from above, and the dolls gathered around raised their arms as if they had been waiting.

It seemed impossible to completely avoid it.

Cassis immediately rolled to the side, shielding Roxana to minimize the danger to her.

Thud! Thwack!

The glass that rained down from above like a barrier was embedded in his back, covering Roxana.

However, the first attack launched by the dolls gathered around was blocked by someone else.

“Cassis…!”

Roxana shouted and hurriedly raised her head.

Everything was happening so fast that it was difficult to grasp the situation.

It was even more so because Cassis’s body was firmly covering her.

Suppressing a groan, Cassis hugged Roxana and hurriedly got up.

Roxana inadvertently placed her hand on Cassis’s shoulder, but stopped at the solid foreign object at the end.

Her face turned pale as she realized it was a shard of glass.

It seemed that Cassis was unable to heal his body because there was a foreign object embedded in it.

Clang! Clatter!

Suddenly, a sharp friction sound echoed nearby, piercing her eardrums.

She had nothing to use as a weapon. Neither did Cassis.

That’s why he was hurriedly distancing himself from the dangerous place where the dolls were.

And what Roxana saw over Cassis’s shoulder was Deon destroying the dolls attacking from around him.

Each time he moved, a handful of red blood pooled.

Deon’s movements seemed quite precarious, perhaps because he hadn’t fully overcome the impact of the fall.

But what captivated Roxana’s gaze more than anything else….

Roxana remembered the strong force that had grabbed her body and pushed her towards Cassis on the passage above.

That very hand was now gone from Deon.

The blood constantly flowing from the severed end of his left arm below the elbow scattered red marks around him as he moved.

Roxana, who was already frozen, stared at the sight with bated breath.

“They’re over here too!”

Other people who had heard the commotion began to destroy the dolls together.

Nix, who was looking down at them from above, thought with a dazed mind.

What on earth has been happening since earlier?

I don’t know.

But one thing was certain….

Roxana had saved him from danger a little while ago and fell down there instead.

Fortunately, Roxana didn’t seem to be hurt, but before that, she had stood against Deon to save Nix from his hands.

At that moment, Nix realized.

If he stayed here, his sister would be in danger.

Because Deon Agriche hadn’t given up on him yet.

The moment the man who had just destroyed the last doll staggered and raised his head to meet his gaze, Nix was certain.

That monster would definitely not give up until his last breath.

Nix took one last look at Roxana below before clenching his lips with a tearful face and getting up.

Soon, Nix’s figure completely disappeared from that place.

Immediately after, Deon lowered his head again and shifted his gaze to the person in front of him.

Cassis released Roxana only after the situation was completely over and the surroundings were safe.

People rushed to treat his injuries.

Someone approached Deon for the same reason, but he didn’t move from his spot.

The moment their eyes met as he turned his head. Roxana’s hand, hanging down, twitched.

“Sister!”

Suddenly, Jeremy’s voice, as if tearing apart, echoed from above.

As if that was a signal flare, Deon moved his legs.

“Don’t go.”

At the same time, a cracked, chilling voice was uttered from Roxana’s lips.

Instantly, the person in front stopped.

“Don’t go, Deon Agriche.”