The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 92

I don’t know what Cassis thought of my words, but at least he didn’t refute them.

For me, it was satisfying because it proved that my words were true as intended.

“Ahem, cough.”

Pandora, who had been stiffly listening to Cassis and my conversation, cleared her throat as if she had barely regained her composure.

“You must be the guest who was staying in Fedelian ahead of us.”

She acknowledged me and started the conversation.

I smiled brightly as if I had just noticed her.

“Ah, we met in front of the hallway last time.”

Pandora’s eyes glazed over at my smile.

It seemed that the Hyperion cousins were particularly vulnerable to my beauty.

Still, Pandora quickly came to her senses compared to last time, perhaps because she had some learning ability. And she hurriedly composed herself.

“I’m Pandora Hyperion. What’s your name?”

“Roxana.”

I didn’t reveal my last name.

Perhaps that’s why Pandora seemed confused.

I could feel her working hard to deduce my identity in her head.

It seemed like she had some idea, but she wasn’t sure yet.

Cassis’s gaze also fell on my face. But he didn’t say anything about my behavior.

“I don’t see the other one. I want to get the ribbon back.”

While watching Pandora struggle, I continued to speak calmly.

This time, a reaction was elicited from Cassis next to Pandora.

“Ribbon?”

“Yes, the one Sylvia tied in my hair back then. It flew away in the wind when I was out on the terrace.”

“Then I’ll have Sylvia return it to you right away.”

Since earlier, Pandora had been changing her expression every moment as she watched Cassis and me talk.

But soon she smiled at me as if nothing had happened.

“Roxana, would you like to take a walk in the garden with me?”

In Pandora’s eyes, which were directed at me, a dark poison that she couldn’t hide was lurking secretly.

I tilted my head slightly as I looked at her.

‘What a strange person. Why is she looking at me like that?’

As if someone had snatched her rice bowl away just as she was about to put the contents in her mouth.

But Cassis was mine from the beginning.

I think I know now why I felt uncomfortable when I saw Pandora stealing glances at Cassis at the banquet.

Perhaps I had been thinking that way ever since I first met Cassis in Agrigent three years ago.

The ownership of Cassis belongs to me.

And the connection between him and me has never been broken, even while we were apart.

“Since we met like this, I’d like to have a friendly chat to build some rapport.”

“Just the two of us?”

“Yes.”

Pandora asked me in a very friendly manner, but her eyes contained a challenge.

I smiled brightly and readily agreed.

“Okay, then.”

Then Cassis, who had been watching me, frowned slightly.

“I’ll come with you.”

“No, you’re busy.”

But I rejected him with a more resolute attitude than usual.

Cassis’s eyes narrowed for a moment, but I pretended not to notice.

Then I smiled softly at Pandora.

“Let’s go, Miss Hyperion.”

* * *

Roxana was a woman with a dazzling beauty that made you wonder, ‘Is she really human?’

Clearly, she was made of bones, flesh, and blood like everyone else, but I couldn’t think of her on the same level as other humans.

Her beauty was so unique that it felt like my eyes were opening.

Looking at her walking in the garden where new buds were sprouting, I wondered, ‘Would this be the creature if you shaped the scent of spring?’

Even the sunlight pouring down on her head felt like a sacred halo.

‘No, what am I going to do being so impressed by my rival’s beauty?’

Pandora blankly watched Roxana before snapping back to her senses.

Then she wanted to slap herself in the face.

Pandora made the same mistake when she first saw her in the hallway.

When I recall how pathetically I babbled about monsters, sirens, and nymphs in front of Roxana and Cassis, I still cringe with shame.

Ah, I shouldn’t have listened to Orca for nothing.

Orca, who had disappeared from the banquet a few days ago and was caught by Fedelian’s men, was somehow out of his mind.

Then, as if he had eaten something wrong, he kept babbling nonsense about seeing a monster-like woman in the annex, saying she wasn’t human but a spiritual being.

So, as soon as Pandora saw Roxana, she unknowingly blurted out something similar.

Yes, I never had the same thoughts as Orca!

“What were you talking about with Cassis earlier?”

Ah, damn it. Even her voice is fantastic.

Would the sound of dew rolling on the grass be like this?

“I was thanking him for returning the monster that had been confiscated.”

“Ah, you mean the monster you used to cross the gates of Fedelian.”

How can there be someone like this in the world?

I could believe that the Creator had spent days without food or sleep, putting his heart and soul into creating Roxana.

Perhaps that’s why I didn’t even feel a sense of defeat.

In other words, she was completely out of the ordinary and could not be compared at all.

But when I thought of Cassis and Roxana looking into each other’s eyes and talking intimately like before, a hot heat rose from within again.

This time, Pandora asked Roxana.

“How long have you known the Blue Young Master [referring to Cassis]?”

“It’s been three years if you count the years.”

Cassis Fedelian was very tempting to give up without doing anything.

According to Turobe, who told me before meeting Orca, the woman the Blue Young Master took away was definitely Agrigent.

But I couldn’t understand how Cassis of Fedelian and Roxana of Agrigent could have such a close relationship.

Still, fortunately, Roxana looked very frail and delicate, as if she would collapse if I hit her even once.

It seemed like she would start crying and be sick if someone bothered her even a little bit.

Even Pandora felt a sense of protection that she didn’t even know existed within her when she thought of such a scene.

I remembered how the Blue Young Master carefully held her like a glass doll last time.

He said her condition wasn’t good enough to worry about today, too…….

“It’s because you didn’t let me sleep until too late.”

At that moment, their conversation from earlier came to mind again, making it difficult to manage my expression.

Anyway, when I put it all together, Roxana Agrigent seemed to be a very weak woman as she appeared.

Then, wouldn’t she back down on her own if I scared her a little?

Of course, Cassis seemed to have Roxana quite deeply in his heart…….

After all, affection between men and women tends to fade away when they are physically apart.

“Then, have you been as close to the Blue Young Master as you are now since three years ago?”

Roxana’s gaze shifted at Pandora’s question again.

Then she bent her eyes and smiled softly.

And Pandora made up her mind at the following answer.

“Yes, Cassis was mine from the moment we first met.”

When Pandora stopped walking, Roxana also stopped in her place and faced her.

“Roxana. I don’t have any ill feelings towards you, but I have a personality that I have to get whatever I want.”

Oh, me too.

Roxana thought so inwardly, while outwardly gazing at Pandora with innocent eyes.

“So, it bothers me that you’re sticking next to the man I’ve set my sights on.”

That too, Roxana felt the same way.

“So, you’re going to have to disappear in front of me.”

Pandora summoned her monster.

A clear sound like glass colliding rang out from the jewel bracelet she had received back today.

Whoosh.

A small wind blew in front of me, and immediately after, a huge black figure appeared in my vision.

The monster Durektus, with a menacing appearance like ominous black flames flickering, opened its mouth as if to swallow Roxana right away.

Koo! Ooh!

Roxana seemed surprised as Pandora expected.

She stared at Pandora’s monster with wide eyes.

But soon, the voice that tickled Pandora’s ears was far from terrified.

“Oh, what a pity.”

At the end of the small whisper, Roxana let out a shallow breath.

It was somewhat similar to a sigh, but what appeared on her beautiful face immediately after was a smile as if she had melted honey on it.

“I didn’t intend to go this far. But I don’t have a hobby of avoiding fights that others have started first.”

Unexpectedly, Roxana was smiling as if she was really sorry.

Before I could realize what that meant, the smile in front of me deepened.

Whoa!

The next moment, Roxana’s figure was buried in the red afterimage that covered my vision.

“Then I’ll enjoy eating it.”

A sweet whisper with a creepy feeling stuck thickly in my ear.