I Will Protect My Brother - Chapter 37

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Chapter 37
The location tracking spell I had embedded in his finger years ago, which I had never deactivated, suddenly manifested. It was undeniable proof that the sight before my eyes was no dream.
The long robe he wore billowed dramatically against the Night Sky. As the hood fell back, clean golden hair caught the wind.
Even as I watched with my own eyes, I couldn’t believe it. I called out to him in a daze.
“Brother…?”
Kalian Wynack, whom I hadn’t seen in a full eleven months, stood perched on the windowsill.
I stammered.
“Kalien, you, how are you even here right now…?”
“You wrote me a letter, Rosy. You said you wanted to see me right away.”
Had I written something like that? It was probably just meant as a casual greeting….
Kalian Wynack broke into a radiant smile.
“So I came to see you.”
His tone was light, as if he’d merely stepped out for a casual neighborhood visit. What on earth was happening?
Before I could even process the shock, Kalian Wynack jumped down from the windowsill.
“But….”
As Kalian Wynack approached, my head tilted further and further back. Shadows fell diagonally across his face as I looked up at him.
“It seems Rosy has been having quite an enjoyable time without me?”
Kalian Wynack’s crimson eyes narrowed.
He swept his gaze between me and Alpien Kirges, his brow furrowing with displeasure.
“What are you doing with that old man over there….”
Kalian Wynack didn’t finish expressing his displeasure.
“You, you lunatic.”
I shoved Alpien Kirges aside and leaped to my feet, rushing at him instead.
“You crazy brother, are you insane?!”
This guy wasn’t in his right mind!
I naturally drove my fist down hard against Kalian Wynack’s chest as he opened his arms to embrace me.
“You’re insane—what were you thinking coming here?! Uncle never mentioned anything about the Wynack Family submitting a visit request!”
“Rosy, you just called me insane three times.”
“What else am I supposed to call someone doing something insane?!”
Transcendents cannot cross borders carelessly. It’s explicitly forbidden in international law.
The law exists for a reason. Even transcendents get arrested for breaking it. And they face international tribunal for it.
Kalian Wynack’s eyes widened in surprise, then he broke into a dazzling smile.
“Ah, is that the problem? Don’t worry, Rosy.”
“Right, even if you had no sense at all, surely you at least applied for a residence permit….”
“I came without anyone knowing, so it’s fine!”
“That’s exactly why it’s not fine!”
You’re not supposed to come without anyone knowing! You should arrive with announcements of ‘Kalian Wynack is here!’ plastered everywhere! I pounded my chest in frustration.
“You’re almost an adult now—why are you still acting like a child left unattended?!”
“But Rosy said you wanted to see me….”
“So what? We’ll see each other in a month anyway!”
“But… this is the first time you’ve written that you wanted to see me, Rosien.”
I had been striking Kalian’s back like threshing grain when I froze mid-motion.
“Did I…?”
“Yes. Every single day you wrote things like ‘Even though I miss you, I’ll endure it!’ or ‘I mustn’t cry even though I want to see you.’ Not once—not even once in over three hundred letters—did you write anything that suggested Rosy yearned for her brother. Not a single time.”
“But… those kinds of things are just polite remarks added as an afterthought anyway, aren’t they?”
I responded thoughtlessly, then immediately regretted it. Kalian’s expression crumpled with hurt. Ah, what a mistake.
“I see. So to you, that was just… a formality. And here I was, thinking Rosy truly wanted to see me… that she felt the same way I do…”
“That’s not what I meant.”
As Kalian’s eyes fell, heavy with disappointment, my momentum crumbled entirely.
“Fine, next time I’ll make sure to write it with special care… no, wait, that’s not the important thing here.”
I spun around hastily. Alpien, who had taken my strike to the solar plexus, was rising to his feet with pained gasps.
“Crude girl… just because you have strength… Wynack?”
Alpien lifted his head to look at me and his mouth fell open blankly. Damn it.
“You’re not the little Kirges, are you, Rosy?”
Kalian leaned close to my ear and whispered softly. His voice, which had been melancholy and forlorn just moments before, suddenly dropped to something far more dangerous.
“What did you do with him? What happened that this place is in such a mess?”
“Well, um, you see…”
Why did he have to show up at this exact moment and complicate everything?
Alpien is still the only one who knows for certain that I am Lozietti. Luize found out four years ago, but I erased his memory, so for now, Alpien is the only one.
Which means Kalian, who is currently holding me like a doll from behind, has no idea about my secret.
‘If this gets out, it will cause at least a scandal within the Wynack Family.’
I had no intention whatsoever of violating international law’s taboos. The fact that I am Lozietti must remain an absolute secret—one I cannot even tell Kalian.
‘There’s no choice.’
I pinched Kalian’s forearm hard.
“Ow, ow, Rosy, that hurts.”
“Let go of me and go over there. Stand with your back turned and your hands up.”
“Huh?”
“What do you mean ‘huh’? You say ‘Yes, Sister, I understand!'”
I kicked Kalian toward the corner and sent him away, then hurried over to Alpien. His face had gone deathly pale.
“L-Lozietti. You didn’t feel anything just now… you didn’t see it? What just happened?”
Unfortunately, I saw it clearly with both eyes. When Kalian appeared, I too had momentarily wondered if I was witnessing an angel’s descent. Alpien seemed equally shocked by Kalian’s sudden manifestation.
Well, he is a transcendent of the Wynack Family. I grabbed Alpien’s earlobe and stretched it while whispering urgently.
“Listen carefully, Alpien. I’m going to erase your memory now.”
“What?”
“When you turn nineteen, you’ll become ‘Lozietti’ again anyway. Until then, just forget everything for three years. How about it? Sounds fair?”
“Fair? What are you—do you even know what that was just—”
“Then I’ll take that as your consent.”
The Planetarium spun, and a spell circle materialized. As I whispered the incantation, the magic manifested. Alpien’s eyes immediately grew hazy.
‘I just need to erase all memories from the moment we met here onward.’
I don’t believe Alpien is truly on my side. The Kirges are all dark-hearted. There’s no reason to leave such a risk unattended.
After three years had passed with the memory seal in place, the Planetarium came to a halt.
I wrapped the blessing of stars around both my arms and lifted Alpien in a princess carry, laying him down on the makeshift bed beside the telescope, then hung the fake Planetarium I’d prepared in advance around his neck—and with that, my work for the night was complete.
“There, all done. Brother.”
As I turned around with a satisfied clap of my hands, I caught sight of Kalian’s silhouette gazing up at the night sky.
He ignored my command to keep his hands raised, instead tucking both hands diagonally into his pockets.
Kalian’s back as he tilted his head to gaze up at the star-filled heavens felt both familiar and strange.
‘When did he grow so tall…?’
Kalian slowly turned to face me. For a moment, I caught a glimpse of something murky in his crimson eyes, but it vanished almost instantly.
The moment he saw me, Kalian’s eyes curved into crescents, as clear and innocent as they had been in childhood.
“All finished?”
“Yeah… But brother, you’ve grown so much taller in just one year.”
A few years ago, there had been barely a hand’s breadth of difference between us, but now I had to tilt my head back more than I expected to meet his gaze. Kalian raised his eyebrows slightly and smiled languidly.
“Other things have grown too. My hands are bigger, my shoulders broader, and my legs are longer.”
He was right. Every time I returned to Abuye after being away for a year, Kalian had grown like a flourishing plant.
His voice, now fully past the breaking point of adolescence, had dropped a full octave from its original pitch, and his facial features, while retaining their delicate beauty, had become sharper and more striking. A breathtakingly beautiful appearance that could captivate any heart.
I found myself gazing at him entranced before breaking into a wide smile.
“Yeah, you’re beautiful!”
“…Beautiful?”
Kalian hesitated and repeated the word, his expression suggesting that wasn’t quite what he’d expected. I nodded enthusiastically.
“The most beautiful in the world. I’m going to be so reluctant to give you away later—what should I do?”
Truly a masterpiece I’d cultivated with my own hands. There was no way I couldn’t adore him. What a blessed life the future bride who would take such a man must have.
Kalian, with his hands clasped behind his back, chuckled softly as he lowered his head toward me. He pressed his forehead against mine affectionately and whispered.
“Don’t give me to anyone else—let Rosy have me instead.”
“Ah, I appreciate the sentiment, but that’s not happening.”
“Why? Does Rosy like muscular guys?”
“How did you know?”
The conversation had suddenly taken an unexpected turn.
I laughed shyly, my cheeks flushing red. My secretly harbored preference had been exposed.
“Yeah, strong muscles. I really love them…”
I want to have muscles too…

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