I Will Protect My Brother - Chapter 29

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Chapter 29
Kalien recalled the starlight that had surrounded Rosien in the Holy Temple days ago. There had been more than one.
“The Arbiter of Darkness and Chaos,” “The Linguist of All Things,” “The Creator of Beginning and End.”
The last one was Raylo’s Guardian Star. Perhaps it too had taken interest in this matter because of the whereabouts of the “Crystal of Resurrection.”
The stars were watching us.
The absolute deities named stars rarely took personal interest in humans out of mere curiosity. If there was a reason, it would be to check something.
The only beings worthy of a star’s vigilance were those comparable to themselves—absolute existences.
【So the exalted absolute deities have finally awakened to it. The entity of chaos that did not die, but fled.】
The shadow beneath the curtain stretched unnaturally long. It climbed onto the bed and bent over the sleeping girl.
【Wynack’s Sacred Relic has chosen this girl as its master. It is a sword of judgment. You and I might have truly died back then.】
“Our Rosy was quite skillful with that fork. Your essence is intact, Lost Soul?”
【Hmph, and you’re one to talk.】
Kalien merely shrugged his shoulders.
Whatever lay within, the shell was human. Since the connected Guardian Star had taken damage, the incarnation’s body could not possibly be unscathed.
【You are me, and I am soon you. We cannot be separated.】
“Which is why we’re in this lovely state together.”
Kalien’s complexion was pallid. The days he had spent bedridden, too delirious to gather his wits, were no mere pretense this time.
【Why didn’t you kill her when she was relentlessly stabbing you? She wasn’t yet skilled with the blade—you could have easily severed the connection. Then the Sacred Relic would have fallen into your hands as planned.】
“That’s not possible.”
【Why not? …Ah, I see. That girl already carries the Sacred Relic within her body.】
“Exactly. Isn’t it amusing?”
Kalien gently caressed Rosien’s shoulder.
“My princess might be the only being capable of killing both you and me. But look…”
A faint silver light flowed from Rosien and seeped into Kalien.
The “Crystal of Resurrection” pulsing vividly within the girl’s body—the power of an absolute relic that healed all ailments and resurrected the dead once every ten years.
“She is also the only human who can heal us.”
As if to prove those words true, the two beings that Rosien had so skillfully severed began to interlock organically once more.
The “Broken Chaos” seeped back into Kalien’s shadow, and the sickly pallor vanished from his face.
Before long, Kalien had recovered his original bewitching beauty and let out a languid sigh.
“This girl is the only one who understands me and will protect me. Look—even now, isn’t she lovely?”
The “Broken Chaos” let out a scoffing laugh.
【So that’s why you couldn’t move a muscle even as you were attacked so mercilessly? Will you simply die without managing a counterattack?】
I had nothing to say to that.
Or rather, how could I help it when she was so intent on exorcising malevolent spirits?
As Kalien evasively averted his gaze, the “Broken Chaos” clicked its tongue disapprovingly.
【Falling for your own tricks, are you? This time you got away with blaming it on some minor nuisance, but what will you do next? Now that suspicion has been cast, they’ll keep watching.】
“I know…”
I felt somewhat dejected. With the goal within reach, the Sacred Relic had been snatched away by Rosien.
“For now, we’ll lie low and stay quiet. The ‘Great Annihilation’ seems to sense your existence.”
Since it had chosen Rosy as its master, there was no way to forcibly seize it for the time being.
Rosien’s constant interference was tolerable enough. But each time Rosy cast a suspicious glance in my direction, my heart would plummet.
What if she sensed something? What if my true identity was exposed?
Of course, Rosien had promised to always remain by my side, so even if he witnessed my real form, he would never betray me.
Yet what troubled me was the absence of compulsion in that promise.
He would choose to stay, not be forced to stay—a distinction that mattered.
That subtle difference in nuance unsettled me. I steadied my resolve.
‘As long as I don’t reveal my true self, it doesn’t matter.’
I had long known that Rosien adored my radiant, pitiful exterior. So I would ensure Rosy never discovered the truth.
I would become even more beautiful, virtuous, gentle, and fragile—like a flower that wilts at the gentlest breeze.
I recalled how the young girl had never left my side during these fevered days.
“Lost Soul, before you go, lower my fever a bit more.”
【You’re not even the type to suffer from fever in the first place. What’s this about?】
“Regardless. It’s time to stop faking it. I need to have a proper bout periodically.”
【You can’t control it, so be careful.】
“It doesn’t matter. If she keeps seeing me like this, pitiful and suffering, she might even become an Elixir for me.”
That would be truly perfect. I could monopolize Rosien while securing all of Rosy’s Sacred Relics in my grasp.
The figure concealed in darkness let out a scoff of disbelief.
【Fine. I’ll do as you wish. Just don’t regret it later, ‘Karga’.】
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Meanwhile, at that very moment, in the Whezel Main House.
“You should be ashamed, Whezel.”
“…Your words are excessive, Kirges.”
Luize was enduring a barrage of humiliation from Regina, who had visited the main house late at night. Having forgotten the incident at the Holy Temple days ago, he had no choice but to seek her assistance.
“How can the Family Head of Whezel claim to have been helpless? Don’t you feel ashamed?”
“Then are you saying someone as talented as Kirges cannot dispel a mere memory manipulation spell? One that Rosien Wynyak cast using a Planetarium that isn’t even hers?”
“Watch your tongue, Whezel!”
Sparks flew between Luize and Regina. Dorian Raylo clicked his tongue and separated them.
“Enough, both of you. What’s done is done. Besides, that’s not the urgent matter at hand.”
Luize sighed in frustration, pressing his forehead against the back of his hand.
I couldn’t remember anything. It was as if someone had extracted entire scenes from my mind and carelessly locked them away in a vault.
‘There was definitely someone else there besides that girl.’
I seemed to have witnessed something important that I shouldn’t have forgotten.
It felt as though I had seen something truly, terrifyingly frightening….
Yet not a single detail remained clear!
As Luize irritably disheveled his hair, Regina spoke with chilling certainty.
“This confirms it. Rosien Wynyak and Lozietti Kirges are the same person. And Raylo, you said you sensed the aura of a Sacred Relic from that child, didn’t you?”
“Indeed. From that red-haired girl, I unmistakably detected the blessing of Raylo’s star, the ‘Creator of Beginning and End’.”
“Then Rosien Wynyak possesses the Crystal.”
“Possesses is not the word.”
Raylo shook his head.
“The Crystal resides within that girl’s body.”
A grave solemnity washed across the faces of all the Family Heads present, including Yeljewa, who had been silently observing the exchange.
What if, by some chance, the Crystal of Resurrection had already fused with the girl?
Then the girl herself would have become a Sacred Relic.
“That’s precisely why preventing that child from returning to Abuye is the utmost priority! We must recover Raylo’s Crystal, even if we have to split her open….”
“What nonsense are you spouting, you charlatan?”
Regina struck Dorian Raylo across the head with her fan.
“You dare lay hands upon another’s disciple?! Rosien belongs solely to me as the Family Head of Kirges! And naturally, the Crystal within her body is mine as well!”
“With such discord among us, there’s no help for it—as always, Yeljewa, who maintains strict neutrality, must assume temporary guardianship of the girl….”
“Silence, you blind fool of a prophet who can’t see a step ahead!”
Brilliant stellar blessings flooded the chamber. Whoever possessed Rosien would hold the Crystal of Resurrection—the very essence of the “Creator of Beginning and End.”
An identical thought crystallized in the minds of all the Family Heads.
‘She’s mine!’
“Please, cease this quarreling. I have a proposal.”
It was Alpien Kirges, who had maintained steadfast silence until now, who mediated between the transcendent beings baring their fangs at one another.
“No matter how much we snarl at each other, if Winyak refuses to surrender Rosien—or rather, Rosien Wynyak—it accomplishes nothing. Moreover, I suspect they have no intention of yielding her willingly. Has that girl not already claimed Winyak’s Sacred Relic?”
“…That is true.”
“Unless we’re fools, they would never hand over a girl who possesses a Sacred Relic. Without making Winyak an enemy, there’s no way to reclaim Rosien Wynyak. So, however frustrating it may be, we must take the indirect route.”
Luize observed the composed young man as he spoke. Alpien, with his gentle, sky-blue hair, rolled a small planetarium between his palms.
Luize’s eyes narrowed.
‘That one reeks of suspicion just as much.’
Regina asked with evident displeasure.
“Then what should we do, Alpien?”
“Is there not a meeting scheduled for tomorrow at Whiszel’s Separate Residence, where Winyak is staying, to resolve this matter?”
As the Family Heads’ gazes converged upon me, Alpien wore an unhurried smile.
“There, we need only make this request to the Family Head of Winyak….”

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