I Will Protect My Brother - Chapter 101

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Chapter 101
Kalien reached depths of my heart that I myself had refused to face, burying them away.
He effortlessly dredged up the impure desires I had so carefully hidden, dragging them to the surface.
“You want to do it again, don’t you? I can tell you’re thinking about it.”
“…Can’t you just ignore it appropriately?”
“Then only you’ll suffer. Come on, turn your head this way.”
With my hidden dark intentions now completely exposed, I couldn’t refuse.
Our lips met, and soon our breath tangled together thickly.
Yet this was hardly the act of expelling and drawing in the heat pooled within my body. It was slow and careful.
Since forming the Elixir Contract, we had kissed countless times throughout each day without fail, but this was the first moment that actually felt like we were sharing a kiss.
Despite the lack of urgency, my breath grew ragged. I twisted my head and panted slightly.
“This isn’t…treatment…”
“It is treatment. Treatment with no ulterior motive, only the meaning of an apology. Though it seems you’re the one mixing in ulterior motives, Rosy.”
“That’s not true…!”
“What do you mean it’s not? I can hear your heartbeat.”
It was truly mortifying. From now on, every time we kissed, he would know how thrilled I had been.
Kalien spoke with deliberate sternness.
“Getting excited and flushed is natural, not strange. Besides, you’re still far from reaching the level I desire.”
“What exactly do you want to do with me…?”
“I want to intertwine with you from head to toe.”
“…That could sound incredibly suggestive, you know? You should stop skipping intermediate steps so carelessly and speak without room for misunderstanding…”
Before I could finish speaking, my body tilted backward. Kalien pushed me down with such natural ease, his eyes crinkling with amusement.
“Misunderstanding? What misunderstanding?”
Kalien pressed his lips against my temple. A series of close kisses slid down to my earlobe.
Driven from my lips, Kalien instead began to nibble at my earlobe.
“…!”
It was a new kind of stimulation I had never experienced before. I was startled, but he, pressing down on me with his body, didn’t budge an inch.
“Ah, no, Kalian. Wait. The sound…”
The sucking sounds made my auditory nerves ring. In that instant, a strange sound escaped my lips.
By the time I realized and closed my mouth, it was already too late.
Kalien’s eyes, which had been flickering and cutting in and out of focus, suddenly gleamed with intensity.
“Rosy. That sound you just made—could you make it one more time?”
“No.”
I refused outright, but it held little weight. It wasn’t something I could control.
Kalien’s expression twisted as if in agony.
“Just once more, please.”
“…”
“I want to hear it…”
The moment I saw his expression burning with such desperate thirst, I swallowed hard.
The ignition point was nothing special after all. That thought suddenly struck me.
It was difficult to say I had completely regained my senses, but I was certainly thinking clearly now. In this moment, I was moving and thinking of my own volition.
‘My body burning up isn’t strange….’
In truth, I had known it for a long time.
Every time we shared an act that only lovers engaged in, where did that tension knotting in my lower abdomen come from?
What was the raw truth of this emotion I kept wanting to turn away from because it felt unfamiliar and embarrassing?
Where did this desire that kept rising within me originate?
I had dimly understood it all along, but now I faced head-on the reality of a feeling I had refused to acknowledge.
I had even already tasted the effects that only Elixir could provide.
If I couldn’t turn away from it anyway, what would anyone say if I indulged in this relationship a little more, following where my heart led?
“…Hah.”
The moment my resistance ceased, Kalien’s movements became brazenly explicit.
It was the first time his lips touched me somewhere other than my face and neck. When my breath tickled my skin and I shrank my shoulders, a low laugh swept across my flesh.
“If I keep doing this, I’m really the most conscienceless bastard in the entire Cosmos.”
Yet Kalien did not stop inhaling my scent.
But that alone was not enough.
I thought he would plunge deep any moment, but only teasing touches at the edges continued for an agonizingly long time.
“Kalian….”
Now it was I who grew impatient.
The Seongyeol spreading through me again warmed everything from behind my eyes to my brain.
I pulled him close with my entire body as he tried to withdraw completely.
“I want you.”
The words finally burst out. My chest swelled greatly.
Which comes first—love, or the desire to crave Elixir?
It was like arguing whether the chicken or the egg came first. I wanted to stop this pointless deliberation.
I didn’t know if this was the most ideal form of love the world spoke of, but one thing was certain. I wanted him.
An intensity of desire unlike any before bloomed explosively through the medium of Seongyeol.
“I want you. Everything you can give me….”
Before my words even finished, something completely severed in Kalien’s eyes.
He did not answer with words.
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Certainly, books were repositories of knowledge.
Especially histories and biographies that recorded the past in meticulous detail for posterity.
‘Everything written about human Elixir was not an exaggeration….’
Exaggeration? The words fell short of reality by miles.
Then again, all the examples in books were of humans.
There was no book describing contact with a non-human entity. Perhaps I would become the first and only example.
Of course, I would never find the resolve to write something like this down, even if reborn.
At first, I had no awareness whatsoever. How it happened, I barely remembered.
Only that the sensation I felt for the first time in my life was indescribably intense and sharp.
Even after that, I’m not sure. When did I start crying?
I had once been confident that my stamina would never falter anywhere. Of course, that was only when my comparison was to ordinary humans.
Unable to foresee and prepare for the future bearing down on me, I spent days drowning in regret upon regret until Seongyeol subsided somewhat.
I also learned anew that I should never carelessly provoke Kalien with reckless words.
Yet ironically, thanks to this, the churning Seongyeol was being resolved.
As evidence, the Revival Crystal lodged where my heart should be was gradually recovering its function.
However, it was hardly good news.
‘Recovery, recovery….’
The damned Crystal kept restoring me even as I trembled violently.
I wanted it to stop—this was more than enough—but I could barely keep my eyes open. My vision kept wavering.
Unintelligible sounds poured ceaselessly from my lips. Between sobs, my breathing came in short, jagged gasps.
This was absolutely not of my own will.
‘Am I truly losing my mind….’
Even worse, there was another problem entirely.
Because the Revival Crystal was doing its job, my body—now restored to that delicious state of health—was undoubtedly stimulating Kalien’s appetite. His breath falling against my nape and back was as ragged as my own.
A vicious cycle indeed. This seemed as though it would never end.
“Rosy, if it hurts, don’t endure it—tell me right away.”
Kalien caressed my trembling form tenderly, whispering in a hoarse voice. When he pressed firmly near my navel, a whimper escaped unbidden.
“Ah….”
“Of course, you’ll recover quickly even if you’re injured, but it’s better not to feel pain if we can help it.”
“Ah, it hurts. Right now….”
“Oh. That wasn’t permission to overdo it.”
I turned to look at him with shocked eyes.
“You really are a thug, aren’t you…?”
“By any measure, you’re not actually hurting right now. Acting this cute will only make things harder for you.”
“Stop. Ah, enough now, this is truly insane….”
Insane bastard, really. Then why tell me to speak up in the first place!
I saw a hallucination of the sheets undulating like waves.
A hallucination—was it truly a hallucination? I couldn’t tell if I was shaking or if everything surrounding me was shaking.
“But this is treatment, after all.”
Even his low whisper laced with amusement became stimulation.
My words came in fragments.
“That’s, already finished, ah.”
“Then shall we call it preventative care?”
“Uh, uh-huh. Ah….”
At some point, even shame had vanished.
It was more accurate to say I was too overwhelmed to feel it. I buried my face in the pillow and groaned continuously.
It was truly bizarre behavior. Despite being my own body, I had no control whatsoever.
This wasn’t my fault. The stimulation was restoring me to normalcy?
The Revival Crystal throbbed in rhythm, as if answering the sensation that shook my entire being.
Kalien, too, seemed to have no patience for restraint. He growled in a murky voice.
“Placing this within you was the finest thing I’ve ever done.”
A scorching palm pressed firmly beneath my left collarbone. My heart seized in my chest.
Beneath his grip, the Revival Crystal that served as my heart thrummed as though it might shatter.
“Danger may strike at any moment….”
A savage exhilaration swept through me in chaos. My vision blazed white-hot and my head tilted back of its own accord.
His voice poured forth, roiling against my ear.
“But you will never be completely lost to me. My Rozentia. You will not die, never.”
“Ah…!”
“You will live with me eternally. Even in death you will rise again, and again, repeating infinitely in that cycle.”

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