I Will Protect My Brother - Chapter 151

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Side Story Episode 1
It was one afternoon when Kalien detected the change occurring within himself.
“Rosy. You smell.”
Rosien turned to look at him with an expression of disbelief.
They had been having tea and light refreshments before dinner. Kalien had spent the entire afternoon holed up in the training grounds, complaining that his body felt sluggish for days, and had only just returned home.
The moment he entered the living room they shared, his eyes narrowed, and he immediately pressed himself against Rosien’s side.
And what did he say? That she smelled?
“Me? I don’t smell like anything.”
“Really. You smell. A lot.”
Kalien covered his mouth and nose with his palm. Rosien was utterly exasperated.
“What kind of rudeness is that to say in front of someone? Did I not teach you better?”
He was the one who had ravaged the training grounds by indiscriminately drawing upon Wynyak’s sword energy and returned drenched in sweat, yet suddenly he was complaining about smell?
Even so, she drew her sleeve toward her face and cautiously sniffed it.
She bathed every day as a matter of course, and due to her duties as Family Head, she changed clothes several times a day.
Could the laundry not have been done? Should she use magic?
‘But it seems wasteful to expend power on something so trivial.’
Just as she was about to let it pass, Kalien’s expression became decidedly strange.
As he furrowed his brow and leaned his upper body backward, Rosien grew genuinely concerned that she might actually be emitting an unpleasant odor. Kalien lied as easily as breathing, but he had never fabricated words when it came to her.
Moreover, his face was growing increasingly flushed. Feeling somewhat offended, Rosien set down her teacup and stood.
“Fine, wait. I’ll go spray some perfume. What is this about? You can’t even smell properly and yet—wait.”
As Rosien grumbled, realization dawned on her.
Kalien had always been dull in his sense of smell.
Not only his sense of smell, but his sense of touch and taste were nearly imperceptible as well. It was a side effect of his soul being torn apart countless times and stitched back together as he continued his eternal life.
Since embedding the Resurrection Stone in his heart, he had been recovering gradually, but he was still far from the level of an ordinary human.
So for him to suddenly detect a smell meant….
Before Rosien could even reach her conclusion, Kalien, who had been holding his upper body at a distance, rushed toward her like lightning.
Burying his face in Rosien’s neck, Kalien drew in breath after breath. His breathing was ragged.
“O-Older Brother?”
“It wasn’t there until yesterday. No, not even until this morning. Ah, my nose feels paralyzed. What is this?”
“You’re so heavy…!”
The sound of Kalien sniffing reached her ears directly. It felt as though she were being pinned down by a large dog.
“The Resurrection Stone must be taking effect. Your senses are gradually returning, aren’t they?”
If his reaction was this intense, his sense of smell might have recovered nearly to perfection.
Kalien, his nose buried in her hair, murmured as though intoxicated.
“I’m not sure what it is, but it smells good. Much stronger than what usually comes from you. It’s wonderful…. What kind of scent is this, Rosy?”
“What else? It’s the scent of my skin. Here, try this too.”
Rosien reached for the dessert plate and picked up a single macaron.
As she held the macaron to Kalien’s nose, he blinked hazily. The delicate golden eyelashes fluttering were truly beautiful.
“This has no scent. I only smell you, Rosy.”
“Is that so? Perhaps your sense hasn’t fully recovered yet? Try eating it.”
Rosien pressed a macaron against Kalien’s lips.
After a moment’s hesitation, Kalien bit into the corner of the macaron. Unable to taste anything and having no real need to consume food, he found the laborious act of chewing and swallowing distasteful.
As expected, Kalien’s expression twisted in displeasure.
“No scent, no flavor. It’s like chewing slippery sand.”
“Really? That’s strange…”
Kalien stared blankly at Rosien’s lips. From between her slightly parted lips, an intoxicatingly alluring fragrance wafted forth.
“Rosy.”
“Hmm?”
“Open your mouth for me.”
Rosien reflexively opened her mouth.
Kalien kissed her without hesitation. The dizzying fragrance intensified instantly.
“Mmph…!”
Unable to withstand his weight, Rosien stumbled backward.
Kalien braced her lower back and desperately sucked at her lips and inner mouth. A flavor he had never experienced before bloomed within her moist mouth.
Not slippery sand, not tasteless slime.
Kalien let out an involuntary moan.
“Sweet…”
“Wait, Kalien, just a moment.”
“Sweet. So this is what they mean by sweet, Rosy. There’s a sweet fragrance, a sweet taste. It’s delicious. I want more.”
Isn’t that just the macaron flavor I was eating a moment ago?
Rosien wanted to protest, but Kalien covered her mouth again before she could say anything.
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From that very day onward, Kalien’s senses returned at a rapid pace.
Though only for Rosien.
He still could not distinguish scent or taste from other humans or objects, but anything that had touched her body, he detected instantly.
“Is this the scent of the Forest?”
“Yes. Fresh wood fragrance, the smell of wet earth, the scent of moist mist… that’s what the description said. I thought it smelled like an old Study, but the wood scent is probably similar enough.”
Rosien examined the perfume set she had specially ordered for him.
It was her chosen method to sharpen Kalien’s senses. Spraying perfume on her own body and having him smell it—a form of sensory rehabilitation training.
Strangely, while Kalien could not detect fragrance even when pressing his nose directly to the perfume bottle’s opening, he captured the scent applied to Rosien’s skin flawlessly.
“It’s so different from your natural scent. The sharp tang is unpleasant.”
Kalien seemed far from satisfied. Clumsy with describing scent and taste, he struggled to articulate his sensations in precise language.
“You’ll learn to explain it eventually, one step at a time. Let’s try floral scents next. Starting with jasmine.”
Kalien, clinging to Rosien’s embrace, nodded like a docile lamb. Rosien offered an ambiguous smile.
‘His senses returning is a sign of humanization, which is positive… but it’s exhausting. And somewhat bothersome.’
Though he was always attached to her, these past few days he had refused to leave her side for even a moment.
Addicted to her natural scent, he pressed his nose to various parts of her body to inhale it, which had proven embarrassing more than once.
Rather than confining himself to her hair, neck, or wrists, his curiosity had begun spreading to increasingly sensitive areas.
Even now…
“What are you doing!”
Rosien Wynyak gasped and grabbed Kalien’s arm as he reached to lift the hem of her dress.
Kalien opened his eyes wide and asked with innocent nonchalance.
“There’s a lovely scent from inside here too? It’s different from the one in your hair. I want to check.”
“Body scent is all the same, for heaven’s sake! Not here. I don’t want to.”
“Even just smelling it isn’t allowed?”
Kalien blinked his eyes with guileless innocence. I should have built immunity to that detestable face by now, yet he was far too beautiful for that.
His eyes curved with a graceful arc, and my heart melted along with them.
“No, absolutely not. You know it won’t end with just smelling.”
“How strange, our Princess. I thought you’d moved past the age of bashfulness.”
Kalien licked his lips with his tongue. Rosien Wynyak openly clicked her tongue and seized his hair, pulling him upward.
“Get up. I said get up. You pervert. Are those the same thing as this?”
“This is purely rehabilitation training. What devious thoughts are you harboring, Rosy?”
“That won’t work. Never.”
“Then if it’s not for rehabilitation purposes, it would be acceptable?”
“Well, for now, neither is allowed!”
Rosien Wynyak thrashed her limbs and wriggled free from Kalien’s embrace. She nearly let her hand drift to her belly instinctively.
There was news she hadn’t yet told Kalien.
While I was deliberating on when and how to share it, the return of Kalien’s senses caused me to miss the opportune moment.

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