The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 39

Kyak!

Deon approached Cassis, who had just finished killing a monster and emerged from the fray.

Cassis hadn’t been able to dodge the monster’s poisonous stinger because he had rushed to save Roxana’s mother.

As a result, his movements were noticeably slower than before.

Roxana’s mother stood in front of the monster’s corpse, her face pale with shock. Her legs seemed to have given way, and she was sitting powerlessly on the ground.

However, Deon didn’t even glance in her direction and immediately attacked Cassis.

“Kugh!”

Cassis staggered from the powerful blow to the side of his head.

Even so, he tried to use the weapon in his hand as a support to get up, but he was kicked in the chin and fell.

“Deon, Agriche…”

A heated voice was spat out through gritted teeth.

Tududuk. Blood flowing from his forehead dripped onto the green grass.

Deon turned the spear shaft that had struck Cassis’s head and this time stabbed at the restraints with the broken bars.

At that moment, terrible pain pierced Cassis’s entire body.

“Ugh, Keuheok…!”

The anti-monster restraints activated to the maximum level of 5 in an instant. [These restraints are magical items designed to suppress monsters.]

Cassis writhed in intense pain that penetrated to his bones. Deon’s foot mercilessly crushed him.

Roxana’s mother, Sierra Colonis, stared at the two of them with unfocused eyes.

She seemed greatly shocked by what had just happened, and she was staring at them somewhat blankly.

Then, as if finally recognizing the situation unfolding before her eyes, her eyes widened.

Sierra gasped for a moment and moved her trembling lips. The breath she exhaled also began to quicken.

“Sierra, are you hurt anyw…”

“Ah, ah… no…”

Jeremy’s face showed embarrassment as he approached to check on Roxana’s mother’s condition.

“Stop, stop it… don’t kill him.”

“Ah, hold on. I don’t really like this situation.”

“Don’t kill Asil…”

*Damn it, it’s ruined.*

Looking at her eyes, it seemed that Roxana’s mother was no longer in a state to think normally.

Not only her hands covering her face but her whole body was trembling. Nevertheless, her gaze was fixed on Cassis, who was under Deon’s foot.

Seeing that, Jeremy had no choice but to curse under his breath.

Deon looked down at Roxana’s mother with icy eyes.

“What are you doing there?”

Just then, the only person who could resolve the current situation appeared.

“Roxana!”

Jeremy called her name happily.

Roxana stood with Emily behind her, her face expressionless.

Her gaze swept over her mother sitting on the floor, Jeremy, the monster lying dead in front of them, Deon, and then Cassis under his foot.

“Emily, finish dealing with the remaining monsters around here.”

She ordered Emily and then moved forward.

Now, there were only two or three monsters left in the vicinity. Roxana was also covered in the monster’s venom and fluids.

“Why is Mother here?”

Roxana’s gaze was fixed on Sierra, who was sitting on the floor trembling. Jeremy answered cautiously.

“Well, it seemed like she came out because she was worried about you.”

At that moment, Roxana’s eyes twitched.

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

“I don’t think so.”

“It’s still a dangerous place with Mother here. Jeremy, take her inside.”

At Roxana’s words, Jeremy opened his mouth to say something.

However, soon realizing his position, he nodded, looking at Roxana’s expression.

“Okay.”

At that time, a shrill voice rang out from behind Roxana.

“Sierra!”

The owner of that voice, which was uttered like a scream, was Maria.

She came out of the greenhouse following Roxana, found Sierra sitting in front of the monster’s corpse, and ran over in a hurry.

“Oh my, are you okay, Sierra? I thought you were in your room, what’s going on! You weren’t hurt by that monster, were you?”

Maria fussed over Sierra, checking her body.

Then, finally realizing that there were no injuries on her body, Maria sighed in relief. The worry on her face also faded.

“Deon, did you kill the monster? Good job, good job! I don’t think you’ve ever been as commendable as you are now since you were born!”

Maria seemed to have misunderstood, seeing Deon next to the monster’s corpse, and praised him.

It was only natural that Jeremy’s expression changed upon hearing those words.

“What are you talking about? Deon’s the one who brought that monster to Roxana’s mother!”

“What?”

As if she couldn’t believe it, Maria’s eyes widened.

“Ah, no…”

A faint, sobbing voice flowed into everyone’s ears at that moment.

“Please don’t, please…”

Sierra, who was covering her face with her hands, gasped and muttered incoherent words.

Her eyes, revealed between her fingers, had dilated pupils as if she had been greatly shocked by something. Tears welled up in her wide blue eyes and flowed down her cheeks.

Despairing eyes were fixed on Deon, who was trampling on Cassis.

“Don’t kill Asil, don’t kill Asil…”

Maria was flustered.

She tried to soothe the crying Sierra and then glared at Deon.

“Deon, why did you kill Asil back then!”

However, as the crying next to her grew louder at her words, Maria became restless again and patted Sierra’s back.

“Sierra, calm down. That’s not Asil. Look, take a good look. He doesn’t look like him at all.”

Roxana, who had been watching the scene, moved.

Deon watched Roxana approaching him.

Soon, Roxana, who was standing in front of him, raised her arm.

Slap!

A sharp, tearing sound echoed.

Black hair scattered in the air as his head turned slightly to the side from the force of the blow.

Two pairs of red eyes with a chilling light collided.

One would have been intimidated by the gaze that seemed to pierce through him, but Roxana did not flinch at all and stared straight at Deon with a face that was no less cold.

“Not only did you try to steal what’s mine without permission, but you even put my mother in danger.”

Deon stared at Roxana for a moment, then slowly raised his hand and stroked his cheek.

His left cheek, where Roxana’s hand had just landed, was slightly red.

His tightly closed lips slowly parted.

“That’s too much of a reward for catching a stray dog who ran away from its owner.”

“I never asked you for that.”

Maria and Jeremy watched the two of them, holding their breath.

“Besides, this behavior right now is still presumptuous.”

Roxana’s cold gaze slid over to Cassis.

He was not unconscious, but he couldn’t shake off Deon because he had been greatly weakened by the activation of the restraints.

The focus of his barely open eyes was blurred. The blood flowing from Cassis’s head was staining the green grass red.

“This is mine. If I have to punish him, I’ll do it myself.”

Roxana looked up again and stared at Deon head-on.

“Step back now.”

Deon stared at Roxana with deep, silent eyes.

How long had they been locked in each other’s gaze?

Finally, Deon smiled crookedly and lowered the foot that had been trampling on Cassis.

“It was reasonably fun, so let’s just do this much today.”

Immediately after that, his hand reached out to Roxana. Seeing that, Jeremy stirred as if he would get up right away.

However, he did not retaliate against Roxana as others feared.

“It’s been a while since I’ve seen you get angry like this. So I don’t feel bad.”

A seemingly affectionate touch brushed Roxana’s face. The cold fingertips crawling on her skin felt chilling.

“But still…”

However, Roxana only sent a cold gaze to the person facing her and did not move.

A thicker smile appeared on Deon’s face as he stared at her.

“It would be better if you cried like you did back then.”

The voice that muttered that was so small, like a whisper, that it did not reach Jeremy and Maria.

Only Cassis, who was close to them, heard Deon’s voice.

A stinging sensation spread in the corner of her eye where Deon’s fingers had brushed.

Soon, red blood droplets began to flow from Roxana’s thinly cut white skin. It looked like tears of blood.

Deon looked down at the scene with a coldly smiling face and then withdrew his hand.

Jeremy, who had already gotten up, cursed and acted as if he would rush at him right away.

However, Deon ignored Jeremy as usual and took a step back.

Roxana’s cold gaze lingered for a moment in Deon’s empty space before being withdrawn.