The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 249

Protecting the Heroine’s Older Brother – Episode 249 (Epilogue End) (249/253)

Protecting the Heroine’s Older Brother Epilogue 40

“I, I’m sorry, Father.”

Perhaps frightened by Lant’s blazing anger, which had been absent for so long, Roxana trembled pitifully like an aspen leaf, crystal tears streaming down her face like beads.

“I was wrong. Please don’t be so angry. I was wrong…….”

Seeing her beautiful face, filled with sorrow, his anger inevitably subsided.

Normally, she deserved to be thrown into the punishment chamber immediately, but it seemed he had to get her treated before that outer skin was damaged.

“Hey, you! Summon the physician at once! Roxana, I don’t want to see your face, so don’t come out of your room until I order you to!”

Lant vented his anger on Roxana with a torrent of abuse, then dissipated his ferocious energy and left the scene.

After Lant retreated, the tears welling up in Roxana’s eyes stopped as if they were a lie. The pathetic beauty vanished from her face in an instant.

It was a surprisingly rapid change, like only gritty sand left after the waves receded.

Deon, who had been standing on one side of the hallway, saw Roxana, and his eyes sparkled with interest.

Roxana spat blood-laced saliva in the direction Lant had been standing.

In her ice-cold eyes, the retreating figure of Lant was reflected, growing smaller.

The experiment she had conducted outside today, avoiding his eyes, was a success.

Of the group who had left Agriche together, no one except Roxana had returned alive.

Lant clearly didn’t know about the existence of the forbidden grimoire [a book of spells or magical knowledge] that Grizelda possessed.

If he had known, the greedy and hideous man would never have refrained from trying out the contents at least once.

Moreover, even Roxana, who had no talent for sorcery, could use it by paying the corresponding price.

If so, this was clearly the last gift Grizelda had left for her.

“Lady Roxana, your fingers……!”

Roxana brushed off the people who came to support her, horrified, and stood up alone, staggering as she walked.

A feeling like her organs were being burned arose, and blood flowed back up her esophagus.

Now the preparations were almost complete. All that remained was to patiently wait for the day Silvia Fedelian and the people Roxana had summoned arrived at Agriche.

* * *

Woo-oong!

Deep in the night, a loud intruder alarm rang in Agriche.

“Lady Roxana! Please come out at once!”

The guard, under Lant’s orders, hurriedly let Roxana, who had been confined to her room, out.

“Where is Father?”

“He is dealing with the intruders!”

He urged Roxana to quickly escape through the back door, but her steps headed elsewhere.

The intruders who had broken through the castle walls had already reached near the building, and the clamorous noises of shouting were rushing in from not far away.

But the next moment, the guard following Roxana let out a short scream and collapsed.

“Roxana Agriche.”

Feeling a presence, she turned her head, and a familiar face appeared in her sight.

Silvia Fedelian, who had escaped from the confined room earlier than expected, was there.

The Fedelian guards protecting her were wary of Roxana. However, Silvia took a step closer to Roxana.

“You said, you didn’t know.”

A spark ignited for a moment in the golden eyes that reflected Roxana’s face.

“You said you had never seen my brother.”

In Silvia’s bloodied hand was a glass bottle containing a golden eyeball similar to her own. It was what Jeremy had taken from Roxana and given to Silvia.

“The words you said to me when we first met, did they mean that too?”

Silvia’s face was wretchedly distorted, as if recalling their first meeting in Yggdrasil.

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“Your eyes are so pretty.”

In those beautiful golden eyes that reminded her of her brother, betrayal, disappointment, and deep resentment towards Roxana flickered.

“I thought you might be a good person…….”

Even in this moment, consumed by intense hatred and despair, Silvia did not immediately strike Roxana down. Her hand clenched what was held within as if to crush it.

Then, finally, Silvia bit her lip so hard that blood droplets formed and tightly closed her eyes.

Following that, a voice that was low and even cracked flowed from her slightly parted lips.

“……Go. I owe you from last time, so I won’t kill you with my own hands at least.”

Opening her eyes again, she had an unusually cold face and tried to pass by Roxana.

“Silvia Fedelian.”

Just then, Roxana’s quiet voice caught Silvia’s attention.

“The real Cassis Fedelian is here.”

As if thinking she was being mocked again, Silvia’s wide eyes flew sharply and pierced Roxana.

Roxana tried to hand her the black box she had been holding in her arms before Silvia and the Fedelian people next to her could react differently.

“I’ll give it to you. That’s why I came.”

However, the Fedelian guard who had been wary next to her reflexively struck Roxana’s hand roughly.

At that moment, Roxana let out a moan of pain and trembled.

Silvia was startled without realizing it because Roxana’s bandaged hand, which had brushed past the end of her gaze, was so badly soaked in blood that it was shocking.

Even in the midst of that, Roxana did not let go of the box she was holding.

Even the people next to Silvia paused at that completely weak appearance, seemingly without any power.

Roxana moved her trembling hand again and held out the box to Silvia.

Silvia, who had been silently staring at her for a moment, finally brushed aside the objections of the people around her and received it directly.

The box was heavier than expected.

Silvia’s expression hardened as she recalled Roxana’s words from a little while ago.

Her hand moved slightly, as if about to open the lid of the box she was holding.

“I’ll give it back to you. Instead, I have a favor to ask.”

And the moment she heard the following dry voice.

Silvia’s face, which had been facing Roxana again, completely froze.

* * *

Roxana headed back to her room.

Now that she had met Silvia and achieved her purpose, it was time to finish the last thing.

As she walked a little further and turned the corner of the hallway, she ran into Jeremy.

“Roxana, you…….”

He was clutching his abdomen, from which blood was pouring, and staggering forward step by step.

His determination was great, but judging by his condition, he wouldn’t last long.

“Silvia…… I saw where she is…….”

Roxana simply passed by Jeremy.

“Intruder!”

A noise different from before scratched at her eardrums.

The outside of the window was red, as if a fire had broken out somewhere.

Roxana stopped walking for a moment and looked at the scene with fascinated eyes.

Listening to the people’s mixed screams, it seemed that the intruders who had stormed into Agriche were not Fedelians but soldiers from the other three families.

Roxana had summoned them here.

Using Silvia, to whom the three men were abnormally obsessed.

When she deliberately let slip that she had been kidnapped by Jeremy and was suffering all sorts of hardships while trapped in Agriche, they seemed to have decided to unite and defeat their common enemy, as expected.

In the meantime, there seemed to have been a tacit agreement between those three regarding Silvia, but Jeremy was not part of it.

From their point of view, a loach [a type of fish, used here metaphorically to describe someone who stirs up trouble] who belatedly joined in and stirred up trouble must have been an eyesore.

Even so, weren’t they truly selfish? They said that what they were doing to Silvia was affection, not violence, but seeing how they were treating only Jeremy like a criminal, that was clear.

Well, it was all irrelevant now.

Roxana arrived at her room and locked the door tightly.

When she pulled the bed, a complex magic circle drawn with blood underneath was revealed.

On top of the hardened, black dried bloodstains, clear red blood droplets, freshly cut from her flesh, fell.

Paat!

At that moment, a blood-red light began to surge ominously from the magic circle drawn on the floor.

Silvia and the Fedelian soldiers would now be taking Cassis and Sierra out of Agriche.

That was the favor Roxana had asked for, handing over Cassis’s head.

Until making that decision, her inner desires and reason conflicted and struggled countless times.

No matter how much he was the boy’s family, Roxana still didn’t want to yield him to anyone.

But if she failed in her planned work today, he would be left alone in this Agriche with no one to protect him.

That was worse than Roxana dying.

The reason she had her servant put her mother, Sierra, to sleep with sleeping pills in advance and asked Silvia to take care of her was the same.

Roxana took the knife and fulfilled the conditions one by one to complete the forbidden spell.

Today, Roxana was trying to activate two spells, which were much larger than what she had tried outside Agriche.

It was terribly painful and agonizing, but she couldn’t stop.

Hwaaaat!

Then, at some point, the outside of the window brightened.

Finally, the magic circle that Roxana had drawn with blood over several days inside the walls of Agriche was activated.

Today, Roxana would sacrifice all the people inside it.

For the ultimate wish she ultimately desired.

She felt the vengeful spirits, harboring grudges against this land of Agriche, smelling the blood and gathering.

It was a type of necromancy [the practice of communicating with the dead].

Of course, proper necromancy had to complete even fixing the soul to the body, but that wasn’t necessary.

Even if something went wrong in the middle and Roxana failed today…….

Then the Fedelian soldiers, who had escaped outside Agriche, would return and complete their revenge.

But as a result, Roxana succeeded.

Countless lives were devoured by the vengeful spirits she had summoned and crumbled away in an instant.

Roxana didn’t take a single step out of her room, but everything that happened outside felt as vivid as if it were happening right before her eyes.

Even her blood relatives who were still alive in Agriche, and the intruders from the three families who had come to trample this place, were all torn to death by an unknown force.

The demons did not miss even the people who were trying to escape out of Agriche, sensing the anomaly, and annihilated them all without exception.

A lot of sacrifices were needed for Roxana’s planned work.

Overflowing blood and screams, and all sorts of negative emotions of humans were woven like spider webs and lavishly embroidered on the blood-soaked night sky.

Finally, the second magic circle, which had met the conditions, dyed Roxana’s vision with a dazzling red light.

Her body trembled with unbearable joy.

Her body, which had reached its limit, began to collapse.

But it didn’t matter. Even if her soul turned to dust in this place right now.

She would gladly offer even her own flesh and blood, and even her last breath.

Roxana laughed, spitting out her last blood.

No one would know what the evil witch of Agriche was trying to do now.

There was only one thing she had longed for since long ago.

I want to change it.

The past, the present, and the future.

At that moment, the scenes that she had seen in the world of unconsciousness sometime ago, whether they were illusions or dreams, were finely fragmented and flowed like running water before exploding into a dazzling light.

In the last moment of her life, Roxana finally realized what the dreams she had every night meant.

But even that was soon decomposed into pure white and sank into the light.

-Tick…….

Very slightly, the axis that had been balancing the world moved.

From the world’s point of view, it was only a faint butterfly effect, but it was a sign of such a change that would eventually sweep in as a huge storm.