I Will Protect My Brother - Chapter 108

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Chapter 108
I approached carefully and steadied him with my arm.
“Luize, are you alright?”
Luize’s jaw clenched tightly. He merely nodded curtly and shook out his wet hair. With each small cough, droplets of blood scattered.
“You kept the Elixir safe, didn’t you? Open your mouth. At least let me give you a few drops of blood to tide you over….”
“That’s enough, I’m fine.”
“Fine? What’s fine about it? Your insides must be a mess right now. Internal injuries need immediate treatment.”
“I said it’s enough.”
Luize swatted my hand away sharply. The brusque gesture startled us both.
Luize apologized a beat too late.
“…I’m sorry, sister. I can get up on my own.”
He avoided meeting my eyes, but his face was heavy with self-reproach.
Only then did I recall the circumstances of our last encounter.
“You—you should only be loyal to your own Star. You wretched…. You lend your body so readily whenever Guardian Star asks…?”
I seemed to have hurled more accusations after that, though I couldn’t quite remember them all.
Luize wiped the blood trickling from his lips with the back of his hand and asked.
“What about Seongyeol?”
“He’s settled down now. He’s fine.”
“The Elixir….”
Luize glanced past my shoulder and exhaled heavily.
“So now…. It seems we’ve already crossed a river too far to turn back.”
“Yes, that’s how it is.”
I had nothing particular to say in response, so I merely shrugged. There was no reason to explain everything to Luize in detail, and we had no time for it.
I cupped his cheek in one hand and forced his face toward mine.
“Dear one, don’t be stubborn. Open your mouth. I understand that drinking someone else’s blood can feel uncomfortable, but you’ll really die if you keep this up.”
“…Half of what Guardian Star said through my mouth wasn’t sincere, sister.”
Luize squeezed his eyes shut. I bit into my finger again, which had already healed, reopening the wound.
“Luize, making a covenant with Guardian Star wasn’t your fault. I don’t blame you for it. So don’t apologize like that.”
“But….”
“Just drink quietly.”
I tried to place my bleeding finger into Luize’s mouth.
Well, I tried to, but it failed. Kalien had snatched my hand away.
Kalien wiped the blood droplet forming at my fingertip with his thumb, then shoved that thumb directly between Luize’s lips.
“Mmph…!”
“Take what’s offered and swallow it.”
“Get this out right now!”
“My angelic Rosy is thoughtful enough to help, so why all the complaints. You…. Dear one.”
Kalien rubbed my blood from his thumb against the inside of Luize’s mouth, cleaning it away.
“Filthy, truly.”
Then, as if he’d touched something repulsive, he rinsed his hand vigorously in the rushing waves. Luize looked as though he wanted to retch immediately.
“Who are you to say such things now!”
“Let’s go, Rosy.”
Kalien, who had cleanly silenced Luize, lifted me to my feet from the sandy shore. I had no chance to look back at Luize before finding myself firmly nestled against him.
“…Oh, um. I never expected you to feed me directly. Weren’t you angry with Luize?”
“That’s because you… No, never mind. It’s all over now, isn’t it?”
Kalien, his expression irritated, examined my fingers. The wounds had already healed without a trace.
I gazed up at the sky, which had cleared as if by deception.
‘I have no idea how long that barrier will hold.’
Since I had forcibly expelled the Stars from Rahnar, by now the Stars’ fury must be shaking the entire cosmos.
‘I really need to find a solution before a true cosmic catastrophe erupts.’
The most peaceful and moderate approach would be to gracefully deliver the Broken Chaos to the Stars. To do that, I would need to widen the distance between Kalien and the Broken Chaos, and break their covenant.
What method could there be to break the covenant without killing Kalien, the incarnation?
As I continued to ponder, Kalien grasped Owen by the nape of his neck and lifted him up without much enthusiasm.
“Wake up, ‘Father.'”
“Ugh, you brat. A little gentler….”
Our shadow, cast upon the sandy shore, stretched upward and engulfed my vision. In an instant, I felt the peculiar sensation of transcending space.
Kalien’s voice echoed as if from a great distance.
“Now let’s return home.”
The salty scent of the sea that had filled the air vanished in an instant.
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Outer Universe, Absolute Abyss.
The excited Absolute Gods released their wills ferociously.
【What do we do now?】
【It’s become an Elixir. Truly, what a grandiose waste of effort.】
【Wouldn’t it be better to just kill it? To start from the beginning.】
【…It’s already too late for that.】
The Omniscient Word Sorcerer released its will.
【Look at the state of Rahnar.】
A star that devours stars—the Dark Star’s power sprawled widely across the small planet. Had the incarnation not abandoned its body and fled swiftly, it might have had its power torn away by the Lost Soul’s jaws.
The sound of “The End” laughing loudly shook even the Abyss itself.
【So I warned you, Stars. Your chaos would not die and would return once more!】
The enraged Judge of Darkness and Chaos released its power.
However, the planet, transformed into solid stone, did not budge. It even absorbed a minute amount of the Dark Soul Heart’s power.
【It’s hidden in a cocoon. We can’t break it from the outside. If we strike carelessly, we’ll be pulled in.】
【Isn’t this clearly something Rosien caused? Can a human wield this level of power?】
【Our Rosien is certainly exceptional…. No, it’s not that.】
Manyeon, who had been puffing up with pride, fell silent under the piercing gazes of the other Stars.
In the end, they were back to square one. How on earth could they capture the Lost Soul?
Fortunately, they possessed a solution to this bleak situation.
【We have no choice. Hey, Eye. Lend us your foresight.】
Soon, an immense eye adorned with tens of thousands of hair-thin filaments began to unravel the causality of the universe.
The Stars spoke eagerly, each offering their own words.
【How is it? Rahnar, when do you think it will become a sea of fire?】
【Look at what happens to Rosien Wynyak too. When exactly does she die?】
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Several days had passed since I returned to Wynack Castle in Abuye.
The very first thing I did upon my return was to issue an emergency summons for a Continental Conference in Abuye.
The name of the emergency conference’s convener was Lozietti Kirges.
Yes. After nineteen years and three months, the time had finally come to reclaim my original name and position.
Since the heads of the Five Transcendent Families were already residing in this Wynack Castle, there was no need to send separate notices to each nation.
“What is this matter that requires continental proclamation, Rosien?”
“The substantive unification and subordination of Raylo, Yeljewa, and Whiszel.”
“Subordination? To where?”
“Why, to Wynyak, of course.”
“Wynyak? Not to Kirges?”
Owen raised his eyes in surprise. He was in the midst of drinking medicinal tea to aid his still-healing internal injuries. Tea brewed from my hair.
I gave a light shrug.
“I harbor no particular resentment toward them. But Kalien is different. Yet I cannot simply allow him to annihilate the Transcendent Families either.”
“I see….”
“This is the only way. Of course, he doesn’t seem particularly satisfied, but that’s something I can manage to soothe with effort.”
Before me lay a pouch of medicinal broth mixed with all manner of ingredients known to aid vitality recovery.
I drew it in greedily, as though transfusing life essence itself. The taste was utterly vile, but nothing served better to replenish the vitality that had plummeted so dramatically of late.
‘Thanks to this, I’ve barely been fainting anymore. Whether it’s mere imagination or not, my back pain seems somewhat lessened too.’
Owen posed a casual question.
“By the way, when are you two getting married?”
“Ah…. Once the complicated matters are settled, I suppose. I’m thinking of having the betrothal first.”
“Oh, you accepted it rather quickly, unexpectedly…?”
I drained the last drop of the herbal pouch and looked at Owen. He was regarding me with an expression utterly foreign to my knowledge of him.
“Given your nature, Rosien, I was certain you’d jump up and insist that family members should never do such things.”
“Ah. Well, we’ve already done all the things that family members absolutely should not do….”
“….”
“It’s been months now, so I’ve simply given up.”
Why else would I collapse into sleep like the dead every night?
That wretched man seemed somewhat restrained on the island, but the moment we returned to Wynack Castle, he tormented me daily, insisting that the adjustment period was over. Removing the kiss limit was particularly devastating.
Moreover, when desire ignited, there was no public to restrain him.
Kalien possessed not a shred of propriety to distinguish between what should be done by day and what by night….
Whom could I blame? It was my own fault for granting him such unbridled freedom.
‘Still, that wretched man. He’s conditioned me to become accustomed to pleasure, trained me like a beast.’
But the most hopeless and regrettable truth was that I would have to marry Kalien. Only then could we naturally remain always together without revealing to all that we were each other’s Elixir.
Moreover, among all the Transcendents throughout history who had possessed humans as their Elixir, those who had not married their Elixir could be counted on one hand.
Even those rare Transcendents lacked the emotional bond of marriage, and their endings were uniformly tragic.
So it had to be done eventually. The problem, however, was….
I held my pen between my lips, lost in thought.
“Still, it would seem rather strange to others, wouldn’t it?”

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