The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 50

How to Protect the Heroine’s Older Brother – Episode 50

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Rustle!

“Found them! It’s an intruder!”

Lant Agriche turned toward the sound.

“Have you found them?”

He expected to catch and kill Fedelian’s rat, but what appeared was not an intruder.

“Well, that’s….”

Squeak!

It was a Karanthul’s cub caught in the trap.

It seemed to have escaped from the breeding ground during the last commotion and had been hiding in the mansion ever since.

Even small, a monster is still a monster. The Karanthul’s cub struggled violently in the trap, spitting venom.

Lant Agriche’s face crumpled.

“It seems a monster, not an intruder, triggered the barrier.”

Even though they had searched the mansion inside and out, they couldn’t find a single trace of the intruder, which was strange.

To think that a mere monster caused such a commotion in the mansion late at night.

“Bring it alive for now,” Lant ordered irritably.

Noticing his displeasure, his subordinates quickly put the Karanthul’s cub into a sack.

To confirm whether this was what triggered the mansion’s alarm, they had to take it alive to the magic circle.

They threw the sack containing the Karanthul’s cub in front of the statue in the first-floor lobby.

Then, the deafening noise disappeared.

Lant Agriche cursed under his breath.

“Is the intruder inside it?”

At that moment, Roxana appeared on the stairs.

The stairs were unlit, so she stood in dim light.

White moonlight seeped in from the window behind Roxana.

Cassis Fedelian stood obliquely behind Roxana on the landing, a leash attached to him.

“Yes. Some insignificant thing….”

Rustle!

Just as Lant Agriche spoke, the sack on the floor shook.

It struggled, trying to get out, and finally succeeded.

“Okay, then we should give it a welcoming gift.”

The moment the thing in the sack jumped out, Roxana smiled and pulled the leash.

Whoosh!

Red butterflies rushed at the person wearing the leash.

Hundreds of poisonous butterflies devoured Cassis Fedelian.

Crunch, crunch!

Crack!

A chilling sound echoed through the mansion.

The butterflies devoured the struggling prey in an instant.

The body, covered with butterflies from head to toe, staggered and fell to the floor.

It was a terribly cruel and shocking sight, one that, once seen, would be etched in one’s mind and never forgotten.

Drip, drip.

The people on the first floor stared blankly at the viscous red liquid flowing down the stairs.

But soon, the butterflies, having quickly devoured their prey, moved to eat every last drop of blood.

So, the scene was surprisingly clean, leaving no trace.

“What? It wasn’t someone from Fedelian?”

Roxana’s clear voice, still exuding a terribly peaceful feeling, broke the silence.

Only then did people take a deep breath.

Lant Agriche was just as stunned.

He lowered his head, following Roxana’s gaze.

A monster struggling with its torso caught in the sack came into view.

Roxana looked at it with pity.

“Too bad. I was going to give the intruders the sight of the master they were so desperately searching for dying right before their eyes as a gift.”

The butterflies flew back into the air.

They shimmered mysteriously under the moonlight and began to disappear at Roxana’s command.

The body of the person who had been breathing just a moment ago was gone without a trace.

Roxana’s face, glancing down at the empty space, contained no guilt.

“But the poisonous butterflies have been begging to eat my toys for a while now, so I guess it doesn’t matter.”

Roxana’s eyes curved beautifully.

Roxana, smiling with a red butterfly on her finger, was terrifyingly beautiful.

The moonlight shining behind her added a white outline to her slender body.

“Huh…….”

Rarely at a loss for words, a low laugh escaped from Lant Agriche’s mouth after a while.

“Haha……! Yes. A fitting end for a bug-like Fedelian rat!”

His red eyes gleamed as if intoxicated.

The scene remained in his mind as a vivid afterimage, like a brand.

It repeated over and over in Lant’s head.

“To think of this, Roxana, you never fail to meet my expectations.”

The fact that Richel Fedelian’s son was torn apart before his eyes without leaving a single bone and met such a miserable end seemed to give him great joy.

“It’s a shame that today’s intruder wasn’t Fedelian’s dog! Yes, I should have shown Richel Fedelian the sight of his son dying right in front of his wide-open eyes. Why haven’t I thought of that until now?”

“Still, he was quite a strong human, so he would have been good growth material for my poisonous butterflies. Wouldn’t it be an honor beyond his station for a bug-like Fedelian’s descendant?”

“Yes, you’re right. It’s too good of an end for him.”

Lant Agriche forgot his earlier upset and nodded, grinning at Roxana’s words.

Roxana smiled with him and whispered in a gentle tone.

“Come to think of it, it’s very late. Go in and rest, Father. I’m tired too, since I woke up in the middle of the night.”

“You should. You should rest too.”

Roxana, still smiling beautifully, turned and went up the stairs.

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“Lady.”

Emilly, who had completed her mission as Roxana had ordered, arrived in the room. She had created all the commotion.

“Good job, Emilly.”

Emilly bowed her head slightly.

“As you ordered, I will now prevent anyone from entering the room.”

Emilly quietly retreated.

Before the door closed, Roxana grabbed the sofa and collapsed to the floor.

“Ugh, ugh… cough.”

Dark red blood was vomited from her mouth.

Still, thanks to Cassis’s ability to heal her body, she didn’t lose consciousness.

The white hand gripping the sofa handle trembled. Roxana gasped for breath, bleeding.

She hadn’t used the Carnage Butterflies, but the Illusion Butterflies that she had hatched first.

She had tried it out last time using Charlotte, but this time Roxana was nervous because she had to create a more elaborate illusion.

For today, she openly revealed the existence of the Carnage Butterflies and secretly raised poisonous butterflies with the ability of hallucination behind the scenes.

Because Cassis had to die in front of everyone.

In order for Cassis to escape safely from Agriche’s land without being tracked, and in order for Roxana not to be punished for failing to prevent Cassis’s escape, the news that he had disappeared from the mansion should not be known.

It was fortunate that the butterflies had grown well.

By now, would Cassis be safely escaping from the Black Forest?

Roxana felt a pain as if sharp claws were stirring inside her stomach and vomited blood once more.

She had attached Carnage Butterflies to the people from Fedelian who had been waiting in advance.

She had also placed butterflies at the entrance of the secret passage connected to the Black Forest, so they would be able to help Cassis.

She had been feeding monsters diligently for a while to get them used to the taste, so they would play their part sufficiently.

Then, a crumbling laughter flowed from Roxana’s lips.

Cassis was consistent until the end. After all, it was just a small burn mark, but he went out of his way to heal it.

Remembering his eyes when they last met made her feel a little more at ease.

Maybe she just wanted to believe that…….

Somehow, she didn’t think Cassis would die in that forest.

“Ha… haha…….”