I Will Protect My Brother - Chapter 124

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Chapter 124
“What the hell….”
His beautiful lips parted as a stream of caustic profanity poured forth. Most of it was raw, unfiltered criticism too vulgar to repeat.
‘Has he lost his mind?’
Luize’s complexion drained to white. After spewing an endless torrent of obscenities, Kalian Wynack gasped for breath.
“Every single day is already so twisted and infuriating that my organs feel like they’re about to rupture, so why pour more fuel on the fire? If you lot had never existed in the first place, would Rosy and I have ended up like this? Damn it, stop twisting the knife and shut your mouth. I’m not in the mood for your pointless chatter.”
Unable to bear it any longer, the Omniscient Word Sorcerer cut him off.
【Fine, fine. Arrogant and unrestrained former avatar of the Lost Soul. What’s your reason for breaking the covenant and summoning me?】
“What kind of act is this?”
Kalian Wynack let out a hollow laugh, glaring up at the sky.
“There’s no need to play dumb. I know you’ve been watching the future that the Prophetic Pupil foresaw.”
【Hmm.】
“You were waiting for me to capture the Lost Soul with my own hands and deliver it to you. You cunning, lazy Stars.”
He continued in a tone that was every bit as cutting as before.
“You saw this very moment beforehand. That’s why you’ve been waiting quietly all this time, isn’t it? If you simply wait at your leisure, what you desire will fall into your hands.”
Over the past five years, Kalian Wynack had stripped away the shell of the Broken Chaos and worn down the pure essence of the Star.
The Dark Castle had been plunged into a temporary, irreversible state of incapacity, so all the Guardian Stars needed to do was quietly gather the End and seal it away in the Abyss.
“It’s like blowing your nose without lifting a finger.”
Kalian Wynack sneered.
“You got what you wanted, so take it. In exchange, open the path to Rosien.”
Luize, listening to his voice from a distance, went rigid.
‘So from the beginning, he was planning to propose a deal with the Guardian Stars. No wonder he acted like he was about to swallow Rahnar whole, yet seemed lukewarm about actually finding his sister.’
【Unnecessarily clever, aren’t you? That’s right, I saw it. This very moment when I gather up my troublesome brother.】
A cluster of Stars descended over the remnants of the Lost Soul pooling at Kalian Wynack’s feet.
The essence of the Dark Castle, pierced through by the Great Annihilation, began to writhe violently.
Manyeon chuckled with delight.
【Come here, the End. In the end, you’ve thrust your own head into the noose.】
Kalian Wynack watched without blinking as the Dark Castle’s enormous presence was consumed by Manyeon.
【This traitor…!】
The Broken Chaos unleashed a will so furious it seemed to shake heaven and earth.
【After I stitched your life together, after I forged your body, you dared turn it against me like this? You’ll be cast back into that pitiful, wretched form you once were. You, you…!】
“Oh, really?”
Kalian Wynack replied with flat indifference, flicking something from his palm. A transparent crystal the size of a fist—the Revival Crystal.
“I only ever used it on Rosy, so I didn’t know, but the Sacred Relic’s effects are quite potent. Even if our fusion breaks apart, I won’t crumble to pieces.”
【When I break free again, I’ll devour you first!】
“I’ll probably be dead by then, so I won’t have the pleasure of being eaten by you. What a shame.”
Humans, too, could sometimes seize a Star by the throat when least expected. Just as an ant could bite a human’s foot.
Before long, all the Lost Soul’s tendrils were sucked into the Omniscient Word Sorcerer’s essence.
The malformed clouds that had covered the sky gradually began to disperse. Through the parting clouds, patches of clear sky emerged like fragments of glass.
The flames of terror spreading across the earth were extinguished one by one. All targets worthy of burning had been eliminated.
The Omniscient Word Sorcerer examined Kalian with an unfamiliar curiosity, turning him this way and that.
【I sensed it even in the Prophetic Pupil’s foresight—you’re not rampaging wildly. So our Rosien wasn’t quite that precious to you after all?】
“I’m not in the mood to chat anymore. Let’s get to the point. Just create a portal.”
【No? I’ve become curious about something.】
A murderous glint flickered across Kalian’s eyes. The Omniscient Word Sorcerer’s blessing split into two currents, each beginning to spiral violently.
Soon, two bluish portals materialized.
【I show you two paths. One leads to Alfheim, the other to Mercedes. Which one is the correct answer, I wonder? Choose, Divine Avatar.】
Luize furrowed his brow, alternating his gaze between the two portals.
‘Is he asking me to pick one? What happens if I choose the wrong path?’
Kalian glanced once at the portal radiating blinding light. Then, without hesitation, he moved. It was the left one.
From the start, he hadn’t even cast a glance toward the right. Luize called out to his resolute back.
“Are you certain about that one?”
“Not worth a moment’s deliberation.”
“Do you Elixirs share some kind of instinct?”
“Something like that. I can feel what she and I shared coming from this direction.”
Luize closed his mouth, his heart heavy. Jealousy rose unbidden—after all, it would be that man’s task to recover the vanished Rosien.
“Then disappear into it at once. Bring my sister back without a single hair on her head harmed.”
Yet Kalian stopped just before stepping into the portal. With an unreadable expression, he stared into the swirling vortex before suddenly asking.
“If Rosy is in that place, will she welcome me?”
“What are you talking about?”
“What if Rosy hasn’t returned because she doesn’t want to come back to me? What should I do then?”
“You’re harboring such doubts now? You?”
Luize questioned him with suspicion.
“You never needed my sister’s feelings anyway. Even if she said she hated you, you’d keep her by your side regardless.”
“The Lost Soul said the same thing.”
“What?”
“That’s right. That’s what I’ll do.”
Kalian stared hard at the portal whose interior remained invisible. From his clenched jaw and tightly balled fists, a fierce internal struggle was evident.
Only then did Luize realize that he was hesitating. It was an extraordinarily rare occurrence.
Kalian wandered helplessly before the portal for a long moment before finally exhaling a suppressed breath, as if expelling a compressed mass of emotion.
“Luize. Sometimes I can’t forgive my Princess.”
“….”
“How could she not tell me even a single line of the prophecy? Even though she knew full well what would become of me without her.”
“Perhaps you weren’t trustworthy enough. Rosien did nothing wrong.”
When Luize pointed this out coldly, Kalian turned to him with a wounded expression.
“When you speak so harshly, I want to live up to your expectations.”
“Then what answer are you hoping to hear?”
“I don’t know. But perhaps… you might be right.”
Kalian drew a deep breath.
“If she dies, I’ll resurrect her. If she vanishes, I’ll find her. If she’s gone, I’ll create her anew. I am a life that Rozentia breathed back into existence. I cannot bear to exist without finding her, no matter what.”
On the very night Rosien vanished without a trace, Kalian Wynack completed his plan to reclaim her. She had worried he would lose his mind and rage, but the reality was precisely the opposite.
Kalian had calculated meticulously, and he had already planned every measure he would need to take after bringing her back.
Yet a whisper of hesitation kept ensnaring his steps.
“And I can make her love me again. I know her so well. What weakens her, which words and expressions she gravitates toward like a moth to flame, what she desperately desires. I know it all. …Yet I still lost her.”
The more Kalian elaborated, the more Luize’s spine crawled with dread.
“In the end, I don’t know Rosy at all. So perhaps everything the Lost Soul spouted was true.”
【The emotion you call love is what destroyed her.】
He turned to Luize and asked as if seeking an answer.
“Should I give Rosy the freedom to escape from me?”
Even after breaking his covenant with the Lost Soul, he remained a being who corrupted all he touched. His essence, already transformed into something beyond human, would never change again.
So one day, he would inevitably destroy someone precious in his arms once more.
“I’m terrified she’ll be angry that I brought her back on my own. If she comes to hate me, I won’t be able to bear it.”
“…I see.”
Luize recalled Rosien Wynyak, whom he had observed.
She had always gazed upon Kalian Wynack with such affectionate eyes. She had fussed over him like a mother bird, desperate to provide for his every need.
He had thought that once that monster revealed his true nature beneath his beautiful facade, she would surely feel betrayed or flee in terror. Yet even after Kalian Wynack’s reality was laid bare, Rosien Wynyak remained at his side.
Though she feigned indifference, claiming no one else would be there for him, it was undoubtedly her own choice. He was not the only one who clung blindly to the other.
So perhaps even after brushing against death’s threshold, she would not have changed. Luize slowly opened his mouth.
“One piece of advice—at the very least, don’t meet your sister while you’re in that state of rage. Especially if you don’t want to be hated.”
“….”
“Who knows what nonsense that tongue of yours will spew. Or better yet, let’s hope you don’t pounce on her the moment you see her.”
“…You’re right.”
“Right, nothing. You madman. When you meet your sister, what will you do first?”

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