The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 5

How to Protect the Heroine’s Older Brother – Episode 5

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I returned to my room in a foul mood.

I couldn’t possibly be in a good mood after confirming with my own ears that the boy imprisoned in the basement was indeed Cassis Pedelian.

Damn it. How am I going to overcome this crisis?

Why was I born into such a hopeless, villainous family of all things?

To explain why I’m so concerned about that boy, I have to talk about the contents of that book first. After all, that’s where Agrice’s and my future were written.

In my past life, before I died in a traffic accident, I had read a romance novel.

It started when a friend from the same department recommended it, saying it was a popular book these days, right before I got busy with my graduation thesis.

Originally, I didn’t have a hobby of reading romance novels. But at that time, I was unusually free and bored, so I decided to read the book my friend lent me.

The title was .

Yes, as you can probably guess from the title, it was a dark romance novel.

With each page I turned, I felt like throwing the book away.

Because it was a 19+ reverse harem novel where the heroine, Sylvia, had intense kidnapping and confinement romances with other male leads.

The setting of this book was quite unique.

Roughly, the five families of Blue, White, Red, Yellow, and Black ruled this world, and the family to which the heroine Sylvia belonged was ‘Blue Pedelian.’

The story begins with the heroine’s childhood.

Sylvia was a beautiful and lovely girl with mysterious blue-tinged silver hair and radiant golden eyes like sunlight.

She was born into a wealthy and harmonious family and grew up loved without any shortcomings.

She had an older brother, and the siblings had a very close friendship.

Usually, siblings don’t get along well, but the heroine’s siblings in this novel were not like that at all.

To put it a bit exaggeratedly, these two cherished and loved each other so much that they would give each other their liver and gallbladder if the other wanted it.

Well, honestly, I scoffed at this, saying, ‘It’s fiction after all.’

Anyway, moving on.

The heroine’s tragedy begins when her precious older brother suddenly goes missing one day.

At that time, the heroine was fifteen years old, and her brother was seventeen years old.

Yes. As you may have already guessed, the kidnapped heroine’s older brother is Cassis Pedelian, who is currently imprisoned in the basement of our house.

As the heir to Pedelian, one of the ruling class families, he had been participating in the family’s official duties from an early age, being called the ‘Blue Noble.’

That day, Cassis went out to check on suspicious movements detected near the border and disappeared without a trace.

Naturally, the heroine and her family became frantic to find Cassis.

There was a suspected culprit: ‘Black Agrice,’ which had been at odds with ‘Blue Pedelian’ for a long time.

Does the name sound familiar?

It would. Very coincidentally, the Agrice who was at odds with the heroine’s family was the family I belonged to.

No wonder, no matter how much I peeled it, the inside was black; it was called Black Agrice. It couldn’t be a more fitting name for my family.

Pedelian, who upholds justice, and Agrice, who engages in vile deeds, could never get along.

Moreover, around that time, the heads of Pedelian and Agrice had a major argument. So Sylvia’s family thought that Agrice had taken Cassis.

That was the correct answer. But there was only suspicion, and no evidence came out.

Black Agrice was also in an equal position with Blue Pedelian, so they couldn’t move easily with just suspicion.

Still, they couldn’t just stand by and do nothing, so they secretly hid spies in Agrice, but they only returned as corpses each time.

That’s how 3 years passed.

Of course, Sylvia did not give up on finding her brother until then. At the age of eighteen, Sylvia decides to track down her brother’s whereabouts herself.

Well, but this novel is not a 19+ dark reverse harem novel for nothing…….

The places Sylvia went to get information were the other White, Red, and Yellow families, and the male leads there were all crazy.

When I saw it, I really thought they were all out of their minds. They fell in love with the heroine and had romances of kidnapping and confinement.

After reading this book, I thought it was a collection of crazy people.

Even in Black Agrice, there is a crazy person who falls in love with Sylvia.

Sylvia is also kidnapped by this crazy person. In a way, thanks to that, she easily infiltrated the enemy’s lair, which she had wanted to enter so badly, without using any force.

And it was in this Agrice that she learned that her brother Cassis had died tragically.

After that, Sylvia turns dark and joins hands with the other White, Red, and Yellow male leads who fell in love with her to destroy Agrice.

And then they lived happily ever after forming a reverse harem… if that were the case, the fame of the dark novel would not ring.

In the end, the plot of is that the heroine Sylvia becomes a toy for the other male protagonists and lives locked in a cage.

Damn it.

Sylvia is Sylvia, but in this novel, Agrice was literally completely ruined.

Pedelian’s anger was so great that they annihilated Agrice, leaving no trace.

The male leads from other families also took the lead in helping their beloved Sylvia to annihilate Agrice.

One more thing, Roxana Agrice, whom I am reincarnated into now, was also a supporting villain in this novel.

Are you curious about what role it is? In a way, it can be said to be a pretty cliché character….

It was a character who tries to seduce the heroine Sylvia’s men under her father’s orders, fails, and then dies tragically on the day of the Agrice massacre.

“Ah, really. Can’t I just be reincarnated again…….”

I muttered, lamenting for what felt like the hundredth time.

Really, isn’t it a fitting end for a villainous character belonging to a villainous family?

Still, to kill her just because she is a member of the family that killed the heroine’s older brother…

Now that I belong to Agrice, I can’t help but feel a bit unfairly jointly responsible.

But in fact, it is right to uproot this family whenever there is an opportunity.

After living in this house, I realized that everyone in this family was at least somewhat abnormal.

This damn family had a knack for driving even sane people crazy. If you can’t adapt here, there is only one ending: disposal.

Like my older brother Asil, being treated as a defective product and dying.

For a moment, the day Asil was executed came to mind.

It’s not that I haven’t thought about just running away from this rotten house.

But no matter how promising I am in Agrice, I wasn’t confident that I could perfectly avoid the eyes of this family full of terrifying people and hide.

Knock knock.

At that time, the sound of knocking on the door rang in my ear.

“Miss Roxana. It’s Emily.”

“Come in.”

Soon the door opened and a woman with an expressionless face entered my room.

She is my confidante and comes to see me at this time every day.

Emily was holding a tray. Inside it was a glass of water and a folded white paper.

“Report.”

“Netharium tolerance has reached stage 5, so the dosage has been increased by 0.2 peron [a unit of measurement for poison tolerance] from today. It has reached a level of 4.7 peron, which is a lethal dose, and there may be side effects such as abdominal pain, temporary paralysis, and hematemesis [vomiting blood] that were not present in the previous stage.”

I indifferently picked up the medicine packet and poured the white powder inside into the glass of water.

It may sound a bit gruesome to the ears of someone who doesn’t know the Agrice’s family customs, but this was nothing special.

Anyone in Agrice takes poison little by little from an early age to build tolerance.

The amount that can be adapted to each person’s body is meticulously measured and ingested, so no one dies in this process.

So even if the amount I took now is a general lethal dose, I would not actually die.

I had already finished the basic tolerance work a long time ago, but now I was taking poison for personal reasons.

“What is Jeremy doing now?”

“He is in his room.”

Before Emily took the tray and left, I asked casually, and the answer came right away.

Jeremy is my half-brother who coveted Cassis Pedelian along with Charlotte.

I’ve been tracking his location occasionally since yesterday, and I think it’s about time for him to come find me.

“Roxana, Noona [term for older sister]!”