The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 214

How to Protect the Heroine’s Older Brother Extra Story 5

Clang!

Afterward, the traps set in Roxana’s path were destroyed by the remaining arrowheads and cut branches that flew from Deon’s hand.

It happened either when a bird flew by with a loud cry or when a strong wind blew, so only a very small sound echoed in the maze. It was so faint that Roxana, who wasn’t too far away, couldn’t hear it.

Deon, knowing that Roxana’s hearing was sensitive, deliberately timed it that way.

He was subtly guiding Roxana toward the garden entrance.

Deon had no particular reason for doing this.

The maze he entered with his other siblings was simply too boring, and the task he had to perform during today’s training session was also tedious.

It just so happened that Roxana, who had strayed into the maze garden next door, caught his eye.

If she had already been dead when Deon arrived, he would have simply ignored her and returned.

But luckily, Roxana hadn’t ventured far from the location where he first found her, so she was still alive and well.

So it was really just a simple whim.

Deon glanced back at a place that was further away than before.

A faint, eerie energy mixed with the wind pricked his skin.

‘Is there a monster or something?’

It was the energy flowing from the spot where he had first discovered Roxana.

Deon stared at that place for a moment, then turned his head back towards Roxana.

Roxana, unaware of anything, was running around like a squirrel gathering acorns, picking up the candy Deon had thrown.

Both pockets on Roxana’s clothes were already bulging.

A small hand picked up a piece of candy that had fallen on the ground and dusted it off.

Rustle!

Then, Roxana skillfully unwrapped the wrapper…

Nom.

“…….”

The clothes she was wearing today didn’t have much storage space, so it seemed her pockets were already full.

That’s probably why she had been taking out a few candies from her pockets and munching on them while walking.

And picking up the ones that had fallen on the lawn, unwrapping them as they were, and munching on them.

Roxana picked up the candy that had fallen on the ground and ate it without any wariness.

What if someone had bad intentions and tampered with it? How could she put something suspicious in her mouth without any hesitation?

Even though it looked the same, there was no proof that it was really Asil’s candy.

In reality, it had passed through Deon’s hands.

But when he thought about it, Roxana’s actions weren’t that strange.

‘I didn’t think they looked that much alike, but in this aspect, she’s definitely like Asil’s younger sister.’

Deon threw the last candy and disappeared.

“Oh? It’s the entrance!”

Shortly after, Roxana shouted brightly, and the sight of her running away with her golden hair fluttering was faintly visible from afar.

After confirming that, Deon also returned to where he was supposed to be.

* * *

In today’s training task, Deon’s score was the lowest.

He was the last of his half-siblings taking the same class to complete the task and come out.

It was a result that no one had expected.

The reason was even more surprising.

‘The training task was boring, so I went to the next area.’

The surprised instructor sent someone to confirm whether Deon’s words were true.

Meanwhile, other half-siblings approached, expressing curiosity.

“Did you really go to another area?”

“They said they wouldn’t open it until we were older.”

“It’s obviously a lie! He’s just pretending because he’s ashamed of coming out last.”

Fontaine glared at Deon with blatant distrust.

On the other hand, Asil seemed to believe Deon’s words without a shred of doubt, his eyes shining at him.

“Amazing, Deon. I was scared of the maze we entered today, but you’ve already gone into the next area and come out.”

“Hmph. If it weren’t for Deon, he would have come out last, so he’s just trying to flatter him.”

Fontaine sneered at Asil.

Asil looked slightly dejected, but Deon, as always, completely ignored Fontaine, who was barking noisily beside him.

“Oh? But did you eat all the candy I gave you?”

At that moment, Asil’s gaze accidentally landed somewhere.

Immediately after, his face brightened up.

Asil seemed to feel better at once when he noticed Deon’s pockets, which were thinner than when he first entered the maze garden.

“I was hungry inside because it took so long to walk. But it was better to have candy, right?”

As expected, he didn’t seem to have any thought that Deon might have thrown it all away.

Well, that’s probably why he keeps passing this trash on to him whenever he sees Deon.

Deon was about to ignore Asil’s words, but due to a momentary whim, he just replied briefly.

“Yeah.”

It was true that the candy Asil gave him in the maze was surprisingly useful in its own way.

Asil, hearing Deon’s words, smiled so brightly that he looked foolish again.

The instructor came back soon.

Traces identical to what Deon had said were detected in the next area, so his words were confirmed to be true.

Still, it was true that he had recorded the lowest score in the task, so Deon was punished by feeding the monsters in the breeding ground.

* * *

“Sana! I heard you skipped class today?”

In the evening, Roxana saw Asil running over in a state of panic and gently lifted the strands of hair that were hanging down on both sides to cover her face.

“I heard you were found wandering alone near Garden 2. Is that true?”

Asil’s face, pale with fright, looked exactly like their mother, Sierra.

Roxana had already been told off by Sierra, who was worried about whether she was hurt, and had been scolded for a full hour for skipping class secretly and wandering around the mansion alone like this.

After that, Sierra had another fever and collapsed, and was moved to her room.

Naturally, Roxana felt a great sense of guilt when she saw Sierra like that.

So she was still reflecting alone.

But with Asil running over in such a surprised state, there was no way her heart could be at ease.

“Nothing happened. Really. I was just curious about what it was like outside, so I went out for a while and got lost…”

Roxana mumbled an excuse, but Asil knelt down in front of her with a serious face.

Then, Asil’s appearance, grabbing Roxana’s shoulders and making eye contact with her seriously, was also strangely familiar.

Roxana let go of the hair she was holding and reflexively flinched.

‘Ah… This is the same face Mom makes right before she starts scolding.’

Her thoughts were correct.

Asil began to pour out words similar to what she had heard from Sierra earlier.

“You should never do that again, Sana. If you skip class and wander around like that, you might get punished. You might even be called directly by Father and get scolded. You don’t know how scary Father is when he’s angry, do you? And it’s dangerous to go out alone like this. There are so many scary things in the mansion. If you wander around here and there by yourself, something might happen to you. You don’t want to get hurt and be in pain, do you? Near the place where you were found today, there are dangerous things that could lead to terrible things if you’re not careful…”

Asil’s nagging was as long as Sierra’s.

While listening to his worried words, Roxana felt her already tired body and mind become heavier.

Today’s outing was quite difficult for her as well.

In the end, she couldn’t even go to the kitchen she had originally intended to visit.

After leaving the strange garden and walking a little further, she was discovered by another servant and had to return here immediately.

At that time, Sierra had already realized that Roxana was missing and was frantically searching for her.

As much as Sierra and Asil were weak to Roxana, Roxana also had a side that was endlessly weak to the two of them.

So, after making them both worry like this, she felt terrible.

“I know, I’m sorry. I won’t skip class anymore, and I won’t wander around dangerously alone. It was my fault.”

Of course, her thoughts might change later, but for now, she was sincere.

When Roxana reflected with a sullen look, Asil soon hesitated, wondering if he had pushed his younger sister too hard.

She must have been scared and frightened after getting lost alone in the large mansion.

Asil stopped talking and hugged Roxana tightly.

“Oppa [Older brother] is sorry too. I didn’t even know that Sana was so curious about the mansion, and I just kept telling you not to go out because there are so many dangerous things. Next time, let’s go sightseeing together with Oppa, starting from nearby.”

“Oh, really?”

“Yeah, but after Mom gets better and we get permission. Okay, promise.”

When Asil held out his pinky finger, Roxana looked down at it with slightly dissatisfied eyes.

This kind of childish treatment was still a bit embarrassing.

But because she had done something wrong, she soon pretended to be unable to win and made a promise with Asil, hooking their pinky fingers together.

“What did Oppa do today? Did you go to a garden or something?”

“Oh? How did you know?”

“I just saw a leaf on Oppa’s clothes earlier.”

The innocent Asil believed Roxana’s random words.

“Yeah, I went to the maze garden for the first time during class today. It’s close to where Sana was found.”

Hearing that, Roxana nodded, thinking, ‘As I thought.’

‘I wondered why the structure of the garden was like a maze, and the name was Maze Garden.’

Asil had a simple side like a child, and he excitedly talked about what had happened earlier, as if he had never nagged Roxana.

“Deon was really amazing. He went to an area that was much more difficult than the maze we were supposed to enter.”

“Are the mazes divided into separate areas?”

“Yeah. I guess only the easiest area is open to us at our age.”

“I see.”

“Today, we had to find and bring out a designated item in the maze, and it took a long time, so it was harder than I thought.”

Roxana listened carefully to Asil’s chattering with shining eyes.

She was curious if the candy she had picked up in the garden earlier was really Asil’s.

“Oppa, you took a lot of candy with you before you went out today, right? It would have been less tiring if you ate while walking, right?”

Roxana subtly added interjections in the middle to elicit the answer she wanted from Asil.

“That’s right! I took a lot, filling both pockets. At first, I thought I had taken too much, but I’m glad I did.”

But the story that flowed into her ears next was a bit different from Roxana’s thoughts.

“But before I went inside, I gave almost all of it to Deon, so I only had a few left.”

At that moment, Roxana, who had been listening intently to Asil’s words, paused.

“Um. This is a secret, but to be honest, I regretted inside that I should have only given him half. But I only thought that for a moment! I was that tired, so Deon, who is younger than me, must have been even more tired. That’s probably why Deon seemed to enjoy the candy I gave him in the maze.”

Adding, ‘That’s why I felt good!’, Asil smiled as if he was really happy.

“You gave almost all the candy to Deon? And Oppa ate the few that were left?”

“Huh? Yeah.”

Whatever she was thinking, Roxana’s eyes, which had been briefly widened, gradually narrowed.

Wrinkles began to appear one by one on her smooth forehead.

Soon, a small hand reached out to Asil’s pocket.

Roxana turned the dog paw-shaped pocket inside out to check something.

But not finding what she wanted, her cute face frowned even more.

Of course, Asil was bewildered.

In fact, what Roxana was trying to check was whether there was a hole in the pocket.

She wondered if Asil had unknowingly dropped the candy and hadn’t noticed.

But Asil misunderstood that his younger sister was sulking because he and Deon had eaten the candy again, just like last time.

“Th, that’s, Sana. Of course, I packed candy separately to give to you! I have a lot of candy to give to Sana in Oppa’s room! Shall we go see it together now?”

Asil tried to hide the empty pocket from Roxana, sweating profusely.

Roxana, leaving him behind as he suddenly started making excuses, was deeply contemplating the words she had just heard.

Then, on her youthful face, recalling what had happened in the garden earlier, a light of something puzzling seemed to float.

At that time, Sierra, who had heard the news that Asil had returned, sent a servant to call the two of them.

So Roxana couldn’t continue her thoughts any further.

Fortunately, she was not scolded separately by Lant [Roxana’s father] and the instructor for not attending the training during the day.

It seems that she is not punished for not attending class once or so.

Still, Roxana, who had been told several times by Sierra and Asil, never skipped class again without their knowledge.

Of course, she didn’t completely stop quietly moving around and exploring the neighborhood during breaks.

Sometimes, she would go to Jeremy in District 5 and give him candy or stroke his head like Asil did.

When she had time, she would secretly play with him for a while, avoiding the eyes of others.

But that was Roxana’s secret that she didn’t tell Sierra and Asil.