I Will Protect My Brother - Chapter 118

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Chapter 118
The Broken Chaos excelled at seduction, exploiting moments when emotions wavered to draw others to its side.
Deceiving an innocent Divine Avatar whose memories of humanity remained fragmented was child’s play.
【We are one and the same, so in the end, you killed her. Otherwise, how could I have ever drawn out that Great Annihilation?】
“….”
【Poor Rozentia Renos. You killed her in your first life, and now you’ve killed her again with your own hands. What good is finding her body and resurrecting her once more? She’ll only die again anyway.】
The Lost Soul’s tendrils wiped away every drop of blood scattered across the floor. It consumed even the faintest traces of Rosien’s sorcery, erasing her very existence.
Crimson eyes swept across the shadows with restless intensity. Then, a flicker of interest ignited in Kalien’s pitch-black pupils.
“So. Keep talking.”
【That emotion you call love—it’s what destroyed her.】
“….”
Kalien’s parted lips closed slowly.
Done. It was all over. The Broken Chaos laughed like a sated lion.
【Did you see how she trembled in fear, how she was consumed by dread? It was all because she didn’t want to die, Karga. Resurrection isn’t what matters. What meaning is there in dying countless times and being reborn countless times? Hmm? Eventually, Rozentia Renos would have come to hate you, to despise you. She would never have desired an eternity at your side.】
“….”
【My magnificent Divine Avatar. So let her go now, and let us attend to our purpose.】
Kalien remained frozen like a statue, listening to the Lost Soul’s whispered words.
Then, suddenly, his lips curved upward in a bright smile.
“Our purpose.”
【Yes. Shall we start by sweeping away these humans here?】
“Leave you alone for a moment, and you lose all sense of your place, spouting nonsense in every direction.”
【…What?】
The shadow tendrils that had been moving with divine excitement froze completely.
The Broken Chaos questioned what it had just heard.
【Are you speaking to me, Divine Avatar?】
“Who do you take me for, a fool….”
Kalien drew out his words and straightened his spine.
Only then did the Lost Soul notice that the Divine Avatar’s pupils remained dangerously narrowed.
“Lost Soul. What was the final condition of our covenant? The promise I made with you at the Riltear Seabed.”
【…If you annihilate the Transcendent Families from this land, then I will use this place as a vessel to stand against those Abyss Stars.】
“No, there was one more thing.”
【What?】
“Everything concerning Rozentia Renos is always an exception.”
Ah. The Lost Soul let out a short, sharp gasp. The Divine Avatar’s piercing gaze devoured the shadows like a predator.
“She falls entirely under my domain. Do not touch her. Do not covet her. That condition was added as well, wasn’t it?”
Kalien had finally found what he could do right now.
He wondered why he hadn’t done this from the very beginning.
Rosien, his Elixir, his woman—a blade had pierced her heart, and she had erupted in a spray of blood.
And he had left her killer untouched for tens of minutes!
“Haha.”
Kalien’s lips twisted upward.
“Then the covenant is broken by mutual breach of contract.”
The Broken Chaos. That Star which had stolen Rosien from me.
I would crush that first.
And as I did, my thoughts turned elsewhere.
Where had Rosien gone?
If she had truly vanished, if she had been annihilated by the power of the Great Annihilation itself, then I would find a way to gather even the scattered dust particles and restore her.
There had to be a way. Kalien’s lips trembled faintly.
‘I just need to find her. As I always have, I just need to find her….’
“I just have to wait.”
But Rosien had told me to endure.
My eyes burned. Something damp and unpleasant smeared across my cheeks.
Kalien wiped his chin and cheeks roughly with the back of his hand and took a step forward. He remembered precisely what Rosien had forbidden him to do.
But nowhere in those restrictions was there any prohibition against crushing that.
Soon, all focus drained from his crimson eyes.
【Get a grip, damn it…!】
The Lost Soul sensed the ominous atmosphere and hastily fled the Podium. Yet the presence of the Dark Castle grew ever more distinct and oppressive.
The covenant was being severed.
【…!】
If the covenant with the Divine Avatar broke, the Star’s presence could no longer be hidden within a human. That is, the location would be completely exposed to the Absolute Gods of the Abyss.
The flames consuming the Podium spread on the wind and descended to the earth. The protective barriers Rosien had layered around Rahnar detonated in a chain reaction.
Kwaaang─!
It was as though the entire world had been engulfed in fire.
Kalien twisted his lips into a grin and threw himself out of the Podium, chasing after the Lost Soul.
“Oh, Star.”
The Transcendents watching the spectacle, their anxious hearts clutched in their hands, held their breath.
Chronos Yeljewa seized Owen and pointed frantically outward again and again.
“The prophecy, the prophecy! That premonitory dream of Rahnar being consumed by flames…!”
A golden-haired youth standing alone upon the blazing earth, gazing up at the heavens. That scene was now materializing before their very eyes.
The prophecy foretelling Rahnar’s destruction was not yet complete.
This scene unfolding right now was the true beginning.
Chapter 14. If Even the Soul Resets
A blindingly bright light pierced through my eyelids.
My eyes felt as heavy as if a giant were hanging from them.
Someone nearby was shouting in an incomprehensible language directly into my ear.
“Mortuum! Resurrectio?!”
Who is this? What kind of bastard screams in someone’s ear while they’re sleeping….
“Oculi movent!”
As my facial muscles twitched, my vision cracked open like a fissure.
A translucent film seemed to coat my eyes, blurring everything before me. An unfamiliar face appeared pale and indistinct beyond a veil of haze.
A man…?
He was a young man with crisp golden hair and eyes like Go stones. Though hazy and difficult to discern clearly, his appearance was distinctly exotic.
The youth grew flustered upon seeing me awake.
“Timentes! Mater!”
As expected, I couldn’t understand a word he said.
The stranger’s features were subtly different from those of Rahnar’s people.
For one, his ears were remarkably large and pointed. His skin was strikingly pale.
Rahnar was truly a small planet with only one race. Wherever you traveled across the Continent, there were only minor variations—the fundamental appearance remained consistent.
Yet I had read it in books before. Life forms dwelling on other planets might possess appearances somewhat different from those of Rahnar’s people.
The Cosmos was vast, mysterious, and wonderfully diverse, after all.
‘Then I’m currently…’
Had I arrived at that very future Yeljewa’s prophecy pointed toward?
Had my final sorcery succeeded?
Without thinking, my hand moved to my left chest. Stiff bandages were wrapped around it. The Lost Soul’s tendrils had certainly burrowed toward my heart.
It matched exactly with the outcome I had anticipated.
Something inside me burst forth, and laughter began to pour out.
‘I succeeded. I’m alive!’
I hadn’t been wrong.
With that confident exhilaration as the final moment, my consciousness was severed.
I fully opened my eyes again a week later.
* * *
Yeljewa’s prophecy was, in simple terms, a reverse logic problem that reveals the answer first and lets you deduce the process.
In his foresight regarding my death, Yeljewa had clearly stated that ‘with such severe injuries to the upper body, it seemed certain that I would perish.’
Whether I had died, hadn’t died, or had died but was scheduled to revive soon—none of it was certain.
The only certainty was that I had suffered fatal injuries to my upper body, particularly near my heart.
Furthermore, he had said that I would fall on a planet other than Rahnar.
If my corpse—merely an unnecessary shell—were to fall into an unknown world, how many possible scenarios could there be?
By combining each scenario, the intermediate steps I needed to take to steer the prophecy in my favor emerged.
Thus, the plan I had devised was this:
First, even if I were attacked at the heart, I would devise a method to sustain injuries without ever truly dying.
Second, while waiting for the attack, I would identify the true nature of the enemy targeting me.
Third, before I could be forcibly abducted and dragged away to an unknown place, I would escape first to somewhere other than Rahnar.
By following this plan alone, I could slip cleanly from the grasp of whoever was targeting me.
I could even evade the eyes of the Guardian Stars, who possessed knowledge of the prophecy’s contents. Because no matter how much they were called “The Prophetic Pupil,” they could not know where I had gone.
Their prophecies show only certain ‘facts.’
So to avoid being caught by prophecy, one need only make an ‘uncertain’ choice.
The final sorcery I wove was a long-distance teleportation circle.
I set the coordinates roughly outside Rahnar. I could have precisely pinpointed the coordinates of a nearby planet through the Planetarium, but I deliberately refrained.
Had I intentionally set my destination precisely, I would have been caught in the tracking of “The Prophetic Pupil,” and the moment I fell here, the Stars would have been waiting, having known in advance, and captured me.
So my destination had to remain unknown even to myself. It was purely a matter of chance.
‘At the very least, I won’t become lost in the Cosmos.’
In Yeljewa’s future, which showed only certainties, I had landed on some planet. So no matter how randomly I marked the coordinates, I would at least make a safe landing somewhere.
As it turned out, I was alive now, and I had safely descended through the portal to a secure location.
The prophecy had aligned with perfect precision in my favor.
I let out a raspy laugh, cackling like a madwoman.
‘I really am a genius!’
I wasn’t the type to passively submit and be pushed around without resistance!

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