I Became the Youngest Sister-in-law of the Ruined Reverse Harem’s Male Leads - Chapter 171

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Edgar quickly caught Chris and laid him down on the floor.

I grabbed Chris and shook him. Seeing his pale face, the thought that I might lose Chris struck me with sudden fear.

“Chris! Chris, snap out of it!”

Just as I was shaking his shoulders and about to slap his cheek, Chris let out a faint groan.

“Uuugh.”

It was the kind of sound a child having nightmares would make.

His brow was deeply furrowed and the corners of his mouth were pulled down, creating nasolabial folds.

Edgar let out a deflated sigh beside me.

“Ha.”

“What, what’s wrong?”

“…He’s asleep.”

“Asleep?”

“He didn’t faint, he’s sleeping. This guy always sleeps like this after forcing himself to play ball. He must be tired from having his body taken over by Lazarus.”

“…”

I clenched my fist and lightly punched Chris’s forehead.

Edgar plopped down beside me with a thud. I just flopped down on the floor.

I was so exhausted from using too much power that I felt like I might die.

It was harder than when I swam in the sea for two hours at summer camp and then played until evening without even eating.

Edgar turned his head and looked down at me.

“You did it.”

“We did it.”

“…I said I’d protect you.”

Edgar replied bashfully, looking very shy.

“You were pretty cool.”

His green eyes widened.

Caught off guard by the unexpected praise, his eyes soon curved into a brilliantly beautiful smile.

I grinned widely at Edgar and held out my fist. My small hand and Edgar’s large hand bumped together.

Just then, Antonio groaned from behind us.

“Hey kids. Could you pay some attention to me too?”

“You were alive?”

“I thought I was going to die… I can’t move. Someone help me up.”

Edgar didn’t even pretend to listen.

Antonio seemed to be in much the same state as me, which made me burst out laughing.

Then urgent footsteps could be heard, and Marius appeared through the disappeared wall.

Marius looked at the scene spread before his eyes and couldn’t speak.

“What on earth is…?”

Water dripped down as the ice pillar that had pierced through the ceiling melted.

The wall where windows should have been had completely blown away, leaving stone fragments scattered in the garden, and the floor was a complete mess of blood, minion fluids, dust, and ice.

Edgar said playfully.

“Hyung. A bit late?”

“Mister. We defeated Lazarus! You’ll give us medals, right?”

“Now I’m the strongest one here!”

“Good heavens…”

It was quite rare to see Marius looking so dumbfounded, so all three of us burst into laughter at the same time.

* * *

Just because we had destroyed Lazarus didn’t mean everything was over.

As Antonio was carried by Edgar and I was carried by Marius out of the destroyed manor, Uncle Francois appeared.

Uncle Francois, with a face as pale as a corpse, was holding unconscious Liliana in his arms.

Uncle Francois, gasping through tears, barely managed to squeeze out his voice.

“Lilliana… please help her.”

“Sister?”

“Emilia noona!”

I immediately got down from Marius and ran to my sister.

Uncle Francois laid Liliana down on the ground.

Even though her wrist was tightly bound with a handkerchief, blood was still seeping out, covering her clothes and skin entirely in blood.

“S-s-sister…”

“Only you can do it. Lilliana, you’re the only one.”

Uncle Francois grabbed me and pleaded. I immediately drew up my power.

“S-sister. Sob. Sister…”

I squeezed out my strength, but having already exhausted my stamina, it was faint and weak, unable to coalesce and quickly dispersed.

Meanwhile, blood kept dripping from my sister.

Seeing unconscious Liliana, I was so scared I couldn’t bear it.

“Khhuk.”

I bit my lip hard and drew up my power again.

Now was the time to push myself to the limit, no matter how tired I was.

Marius beside me gently patted my shoulder. It seemed like he was encouraging me that I could do it.

‘Focus. Focus.’

I recalled the sensation I felt when I had just eliminated Lazarus.

That warm and abundant affection. And the time I spent with Liliana.

Liliana was an adult who would strictly scold me when I did wrong and nag me just as much, but she was the most approachable person in the family.

Before I hit puberty, she would often take me on dates with Uncle Francois to watch performances together. Every vacation, we would go to the sea or lakes to play.

‘Liliana… you can’t die…’

Swish swish swish. Flash.

The light spreading from my palm seeped into Liliana.

It wasn’t just once. Life force surged like waves.

The light reached my sister’s heart and flowed through her blood vessels throughout her entire body.

First, the bleeding stopped. Uncle Francois carefully removed the handkerchief.

Then I could see the terrible wound healing from deep within.

‘Be strong, sister…’

Severed blood vessels reconnected and muscles healed. My head spun and my vision blurred.

But the more I let my power flow, the more I could feel how close Liliana had been to death, so I couldn’t stop.

The cold sensation I felt in my hands made tears keep flowing.

“Khhuk. Sister. Please…”

I struggled desperately to squeeze out every last drop remaining within me.

Until faint warmth returned to her ice-cold skin, until her cheeks that had been blue turned merely pale.

“Ah.”

Liliana’s eyelids twitched.

Uncle Francois, who had been tightly holding Liliana’s hand, called out desperately.

“Emilia? Emilia!”

Her wrist had completely healed too.

New life force filled the body that had been on the brink of death, and she was now in a state where she could generate energy on her own.

Liliana still hadn’t regained consciousness, but it was probably due to shock.

Anything beyond this was a doctor’s job.

“Huh?”

I only blinked my eyes, but my body suddenly flipped backward.

It felt like someone was grabbing me and spinning me around and around.

Fatigue that could make me faint at any moment washed over me. My eyelids were too heavy to bear any longer.

“…Na. Lili…”

I heard someone’s urgent call, whether it was Antonio or Edgar, but I couldn’t go on any further.

* * *

The Imperial Palace was very noisy from dawn.

Chris, who had regained consciousness at dawn, cried so loudly that even Antonio in the adjacent room woke up.

Antonio shook Edgar awake to comfort Chris, while he went to the kitchen to steal some food and gave Chris something to drink.

“Here. Drink this quickly. You’ll get dehydrated otherwise.”

“Sob! I, I thought I was going to die!”

“We were so shocked thinking you had disappeared too. That Antonio guy shouted at Lazarus to give you back.”

“Sniff! Really? You did that?”

“What exactly do you think of me? Of course I was angry when your body was taken!”

“Then you should have acted sensibly from the beginning.”

“What? Hey, Edgar. Should I really show you something nonsensical?”

When Antonio got heated claiming he was wronged, Chris actually calmed down instead.

“Please don’t fight, you two. By the way, where’s Lilliana? She’s the one who saved me, right.”

“She collapsed from overwork and is sleeping now. Actually, your parents are probably in another guest room. We forcibly separated you because she said you needed to rest.”

“Did Mother cry a lot?”

“Mother was proud, saying you saved the world…”

Edgar gave Antonio a look and passed the explanation to him.

“But your father cried terribly.”

“Ah, Father did?”

“He said he would have died too if something had happened to you.”

Chris, who had always been somewhat distant from his father, widened his eyes in disbelief and shook his head.

“It’s true. Your father thanked Andrea saying his son lived thanks to Lilliana, and Andrea and Francois thanked your parents saying Emilia lived thanks to them. It was complete chaos.”

“You’re a hero, Chris.”

Edgar patted Chris’s shoulder. A proud smile spread across his lips.

“Thanks to you, Lazarus couldn’t descend with his own body. That’s why Lilliana was able to annihilate him.”

“Right. You should definitely ask Edgar’s brother for five hero medals. Here, this is a sedative. Hurry up and take it.”

Antonio said to take it but forcibly shoved the medicine into his mouth.

Chris, who swallowed the sedative in bewilderment, gulped down the water Edgar gave him as well.

“Chris. I’m glad you returned safely.”

“Edgar… Sniff.”

“Yeah, you brat. You’re really an amazing guy. It was worth all that trouble I went through with Lili to save you!”

“Right. Amazing.”

Antonio and Edgar simultaneously ruffled Chris’s hair thoroughly.

Chris scrunched his neck like a turtle and received his friends’ praise in bewilderment.

Though he seemed quite shaken by Lazarus, he appeared happy to have become a hero who saved the world. Chris unconsciously smiled subtly.

Dawn was breaking outside the window.

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