The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 36

“L-Lord Jeremy, why me… Ugh!”

Jeremy finally crushed the fallen man’s hand, mangling it.

In doing so, he dropped the chain he had been holding.

“Hey, did you see this bastard try to shake her off and run away just now?”

Jeremy said, addressing another man who had already fallen.

It was a brazen attempt to blame Cassis for what he had just done.

“Our subordinate number two lost the leash because he was so resistant.”

A sneer appeared on Jeremy’s lips.

“To try to run away while I have my eyes wide open, he’s got some nerve.”

He was trying to brand Cassis as a fugitive by any means possible.

But since Cassis wasn’t moving as he wanted, he seemed to be changing direction, trying to deceive himself in this way.

Perhaps that meant he needed even this flimsy justification.

Cassis seemed to know for sure what made him react.

The reason this boy in front of him showed hostility towards Cassis, and yet couldn’t lay a hand on him, was all because Cassis was Roxana’s toy.

The moment he started showing noticeable anger was right after confirming the mark on Cassis’s neck.

Cassis looked at the two fallen men and Jeremy, who was wearing a twisted smile, and then muttered quietly.

“There doesn’t seem to be anyone sane in Agriche.”

Cassis felt somewhat disdainful of such obvious tactics.

But it wasn’t a bad situation.

The boy in front of him didn’t seem to believe that Cassis could really escape this room from his grasp.

He was doing this now simply to create a reason to attack Cassis legitimately.

Cassis found that ridiculous confidence amusing.

The two men’s eyes met in the air.

Jeremy looked at Cassis again and sneered.

“A mutt that doesn’t listen and tries to run away needs to be beaten and taught a lesson.”

But who knows?

Whether the hunter could catch the dog, or whether he would be bitten, remained to be seen.

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As soon as he stepped outside, the intense sunlight flooded his vision with white.

The direct sunlight beating down from above was particularly noticeable. Perhaps it was because it had been so long since he had been in the sun like this.

Cassis walked past the pure white corridor and stepped onto the green grass.

All sorts of loud noises rushed into his ears.

Squawk!

Suddenly, one of the main culprits of the noise quickly approached him. The next moment, a sharp sound cut through the air.

Cassis twisted his head to the right to avoid it.

Immediately, a long leg brushed past his hair, scattering it in the air.

“You little rat!”

Jeremy, who had lost his earlier composure, shouted in a voice filled with spite.

He immediately kicked off the ground and rushed at Cassis again.

The long chain connected to Cassis’s wrist was swung like a whip, striking Jeremy.

Having already suffered a great deal from that chain in the hallway, Jeremy immediately lowered his waist.

But as if expecting that, a kick flew in from below this time. Jeremy swallowed a curse and raised his arm to block it.

Clang!

Cassis did not attack Jeremy again, but used his arm as a stepping stone and quickly retreated.

Jeremy was even more enraged by that.

His mouth was torn from being hit earlier in the room, and a bitter taste lingered on the tip of his tongue.

He still glared at Cassis and spat blood-mixed saliva onto the grass.

“Instead of running away like a coward, why don’t you try attacking properly?”

He spoke as if provoking the person in front of him, but in fact, the current situation was something Jeremy had not anticipated.

He simply wanted to teach this arrogant bastard a lesson.

But Cassis, as if mocking Jeremy, poured out attacks on him, driving him crazy, and then escaped the room.

His actions clearly showed that his goal was not to attack Jeremy, but to get out of this mansion.

Perhaps that was why Cassis’s restraints had not yet been activated.

Maybe that rat-like bastard was aiming for that and deliberately using these sly methods.

Not only Jeremy, but he also moved after quickly knocking out almost everyone he met on the way here without fighting them.

Even now, Cassis ignored Jeremy’s words, glanced sideways as if checking something for a moment, and then immediately turned his body to the left.

“Where do you think you’re going!”

But without fail, Jeremy followed behind Cassis.

Feeling annoyed, Cassis struck Jeremy’s side with his knee.

Jeremy easily avoided it and pulled hard on the chain he had snatched with his hand, as if trying to tear it off.

Thud!

However, Cassis leaned in even closer, hitting him in the chest, and eventually had to give way.

Nevertheless, he did not let go of what he held in his grasp, but Cassis cut the chain with his bare hands.

“Get lost. I don’t have time to deal with the likes of you.”

Cassis, who had nimbly retreated, finally opened his tightly closed lips.

“You bastard……”

“Seeing you stubbornly chase after me and bark noisily even though I told you to get lost, I don’t know who the real mutt is.”

Cassis’s voice was calm, but Jeremy felt his eyes turning red at his attitude.

“I don’t have any food to throw you, so don’t bother me and get lost.”

“This bastard wants to die……”

He was acting as if he was saying, ‘You are no match for me,’ and his attitude of chasing away annoying flies made him furious.

For some reason, he was reminded of that unlucky Deon bastard, and murderous intent began to seethe.

Until now, he had not even thought of killing Cassis, who was Roxana’s toy.

But at this moment, Jeremy’s head, which was burning with anger, was filled only with clear murderous intent.

“Okay, let’s see if you can keep acting so high and mighty even after this.”

Perhaps because he was properly heated up for the first time in a while, his vision turned red. A venomous look appeared in Jeremy’s eyes as he glared at Cassis.

The subordinates who had heard the commotion had already gathered around and were surrounding Cassis.

Jeremy, who had lost his reason, reached out and sent the chain that Cassis had cut off a moment ago flying to the side.

Instead of attacking Cassis, it flew towards the iron gate hidden in the lush green bushes.

Creak! Clang!

The sound of metal colliding and scraping painfully pierced his eardrums.

The chain wrapped around the lock that was intertwined like a snake on the handle of the iron gate. Jeremy gritted his teeth and pulled it with great force.

“Lord Jeremy, what are you doing!”

The subordinates who were guarding Cassis and surrounding him cried out in alarm.

They tried to stop Jeremy by any means possible, but the rusty lock, which was subjected to ignorant force, broke faster.

Creeeeak.

Finally, the iron gate opened with a chilling sound.

From the black space that appeared through the narrow gap, an indescribable eerie energy leaked out.

The faces of everyone except Jeremy and Cassis turned white.

Kigigak…… Kigigik…….

A thin, sharp noise, like scratching an iron plate with a nail, crawled out from within.

A wriggling movement was felt beyond the gate.

Kwaang!

Kieeeee!

At that moment, black masses poured out of the iron gate as if they were being pushed out.

“Ugh, Uwaaaah!”

Cassis widened his eyes. Amidst the people screaming and running away, Cassis also quickly moved his body.

Swoosh! Thwack!

As soon as he leaped, a sharp black object flew and pierced the spot where he had been.

What was inside the iron gate was a Karantula, a monster resembling a spider.

The monster that attacked Cassis pulled its sharp legs, which were like weapons, out of the ground and stabbed down again. One of the people who was running away was pierced through the body.

Kiek!

Cassis gritted his teeth and looked for the culprit who had committed this heinous act.

Jeremy was seen hanging from a tree using a chain, just like when he opened the iron gate a moment ago.

“You……!”

“Be a bug and become food for the monsters.”

He looked down at Cassis with a sneering face, then stepped on a branch and climbed higher.