The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 63

Finally, Deon, who had been standing like a shadow by the door, moved.

He walked towards the front of the Judgment Chamber, as both Lant and Roxana had wanted.

However, instead of raising his arm to strike Roxana’s neck, he grasped her outstretched hand.

It was, in effect, a betrayal by the son and daughter he had most trusted.

Lant watched with wide, disbelieving eyes.

Thud!

“Sister!”

At that very moment, the tightly closed door burst open. Jeremy rushed in.

“Did you wait? I’m here…”

But as soon as he entered, he saw the situation and his face hardened.

“What the hell is this messed up situation?”

Lant felt a glimmer of hope at Jeremy’s reaction.

However, Jeremy’s next words shattered his expectations once more.

“Deon, you bastard. Are you still holding my sister’s hand? Both Roxana’s right and left hands are mine, got it?”

Jeremy gritted his teeth at Deon and rushed towards Roxana.

His gaze briefly touched Lant, who had fallen to the floor, but Jeremy seemed to have no interest in him.

“Unfortunately, Father. No one in Agrigent is on your side.”

Roxana sat arrogantly, looking down at Lant coldly, as if she had been a queen since birth.

“But don’t worry too much.”

Subsequently, a gentle smile, contrary to the look in her eyes, bloomed on her face.

However, the words that followed softly were as good as a death sentence.

“You’re still useful, so I won’t kill you right now.”

* * *

Whooooosh.

A fierce wind raged in the deep forest where coniferous trees grew densely. It was a biting, sharp north wind.

The ominous red sun set, and night fell on the forest earlier than in other lands.

In the darkness, there were those who quietly held their breath, waiting for their moment.

They had been surrounding the mansion since before Lant Agrigent returned.

Their eyes, gleaming coldly like broken pieces of the moon, held a well-honed sharpness.

“Have you arrived?”

The master they had been waiting for finally arrived.

The man, who appeared silently from the darkness, nodded slightly.

As he moved his arm, the scout he had dealt with on the way here fell to the ground with a thud.

On the cold ground overgrown with hay were the Agrigent minions he had dealt with earlier.

“What’s the situation?”

“It’s been somewhat noisy inside since earlier.”

Cool golden eyes watched the distant light.

“Shall we move?”

“Wait a moment.”

Isidore, who had been in command until Cassis arrived, obeyed his master’s order without any questions and stepped back.

Cassis stared straight ahead with cold, sunken eyes.

Whooooosh.

The rough sound of the wind rushed past his ears. The sound was like the cry of a beast.

It was a night when even the winter beasts of the forest huddled up.

The bare branches trembled in the fiercely blowing wind.

However, the one standing tall in the darkness did not even flinch.

His cheeks, hands, and feet should have been tingling from the cold that seemed to freeze him to the bone, but he didn’t seem to feel the chill at all.

His body, standing motionless like a solid rock wall, exuded a sharp energy like a beast about to hunt. The eyes staring straight ahead were the same.

Those around him were quietly waiting for his command.

Suddenly, white dust-like particles fell in the darkness, and snowflakes began to fly from the sky.

Like an illusion, a butterfly that did not fit the season fluttered through the night sky where snow was falling, and soon disappeared.

Cold golden eyes flashed a chilling light.

Finally, the command they had been waiting for was given. Those who had been waiting for their moment in the darkness began to move swiftly.

It was time to sever the old, deep-seated ties.

* * *

The news that the rebellion had succeeded and Lant had been deposed quickly spread throughout Agrigent.

It had been less than an hour since the group who attended the Harmony Assembly had returned.

Naturally, the mansion was in great chaos.

Moreover, it was not Fontain, the eldest son who had been making the mansion chaotic until just before, who had taken control of Agrigent.

“Everyone is running around like crazy. Just like a swarm of ants.”

Griselda, the eldest daughter of Agrigent, laughed as she looked down at the busy people from the terrace.

She was one of the few who knew that all of this was Roxana’s arrangement.

It was Griselda who created the trap in the Judgment Chamber to bind him while Lant was away.

She did not stand out in other areas, but she had a talent for designing magic circles. Therefore, most of the magic circles currently used in Agrigent were created by her.

“Roxana, she’s quite something.”

Griselda found the current situation very interesting.

She even thought that if she had known Roxana was such a fun person, she would have stuck by her side a long time ago.

Currently, it was Roxana, Deon, and Jeremy who were effectively in control of Agrigent.

Deon was the representative of the rebellion known to others now, but Griselda knew that Roxana was the one moving him.

The real power of the mansion had already been handed over to her.

The private soldiers that Fontain tried to raise were not really acting on his orders. The missing soldiers were also in Roxana’s hands.

Griselda also played a part in driving Lant out, following her.

Not for any other reason, but just because it seemed fun.

In a way, it was an act of betraying her father, but she didn’t feel any guilt.

After all, she didn’t have any loyalty to him to protect.

Lant was a man who could kill his own children if necessary. In fact, there were several children he had disposed of and killed.

So, wasn’t the opposite case possible enough?

Having been born and raised under such a Lant, Agrigent’s children, including Griselda, did not know family affection.

In particular, brotherly love was hard to find even between siblings of the same mother.

It was natural since they were thrown into a competitive structure of the survival of the fittest from birth and had to survive only with their own abilities.

Frankly, family was as good as non-existent to them.

Perhaps if there were no rules prohibiting murder among family members, this mansion would have become a scene of carnage long ago.

Anyway, for that reason, none of the brothers thought of saving Lant when they heard the news of his downfall.

At first, they were greatly surprised and embarrassed by the news that Lant, whom they thought was the absolute ruler of Agrigent, had been deposed.

But soon, most of the brothers were very interested in this new landscape that they had never even imagined.

Some of the brothers even suggested putting Lant in the punishment room as they had been.

However, the mistresses of the mansion seemed somewhat confused by the current situation.

Griselda was quite clever.

So, she soon realized that all of this would return to nothing, meaninglessness.

“There will be the most magnificent party in Agrigent’s history tonight.”

Griselda laughed happily and left the terrace.

* * *

“What? Is that true?”

Sierra tried to calm her surprised heart.

But her pounding heart did not calm down easily. It was because the words she had heard from the maid a little while ago were so surprising.

Of course. What she heard was the news that Lant, who had been the absolute ruler of Agrigent, had been imprisoned by Deon.

However, Sierra thought that her daughter must be involved in this.

She got up from her seat and wandered around the room anxiously for a while, and then finally made up her mind.

“I have to go see Roxana right now.”

Sierra’s maid, Beth, stopped her with a troubled look.

“Madam, the mansion is quite chaotic right now. You should wait until the atmosphere calms down a bit…”

Knock knock.

The sound of knocking came from outside the door at that moment.

Sierra, who was standing near it, shook off Beth and opened the door herself.

She paused at the sight of the woman in her view.

“You are…”

The woman standing outside the door bowed politely to Sierra.

“It’s been a while, Madam.”

She was Emily, who was like Roxana’s shadow.

Emily, who raised her head, opened her mouth again and said to Sierra.

“I came by the order of Miss Roxana.”