I Will Protect My Brother - Chapter 46

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Chapter 46
“Are you tired, Rosy?”
The moment we returned to the Whezel Mansion, Kalian wrapped both arms around me and clung to me like a child.
“I think I’m getting sleepy now. I waited for you in that cold place for hours, and my whole body feels like it’s aching….”
“It’s early summer now, brother. It’s not cold at all.”
I gently brushed off Kalian, who was clinging to me like a fly.
“If you’re tired, go to bed first! I need to look at this right now.”
“…No. Let’s look at it together.”
Kalian exhaled a barely audible sigh before eventually following me into my chamber. I sat on the edge of the bed and retrieved the disc hidden beneath my clothes, activating it.
“Is that your weapon?”
“Yes, the Kirges Planetarium.”
I had never openly revealed to Kalian that I was a Sorcerer like this, but I had no time to worry about such things now.
Soon a small screen materialized above the Planetarium. I flicked my finger to enlarge the display.
“Should we look at the most recent ones first, Rosy?”
“Hmm….”
Kalian waited for my answer with an anxious expression.
Well, what would be more important? My death as seen through Regina’s eyes? Or the identity of the assailant who attacked Regina yesterday?
But before I could finish deliberating, the memories stored in the Planetarium began to play.
The most recent recording, captured until just before Regina’s Planetarium stopped functioning.
It was last night’s memory.
The image on the screen showed Regina and Alpien kneeling before her.
– You’re telling me you remember nothing from that night?
– I apologize, Master….
The Master was venting her fury at Alpien.
I felt a sense of discord from the very beginning.
– Do you still have Rosien’s Planetarium? Where did you put it?
Her eyes blazing as she immediately searched for the whereabouts of my Planetarium.
– No!
The way she flared up in anger upon realizing that the Planetarium had been switched….
A wave of bewilderment washed over me.
‘It doesn’t feel like the Master.’
Regina, as the Family Head, valued dignity and propriety, and was always someone who maintained composure.
She was not someone whose eyes would reveal such greed, anxiety, impatience, and even avarice.
What on earth could have driven the Master to such extremes?
-「Omniscient Word Sorcerer」, what should I do with that child?
It seemed to be me.
Contextually, I was clearly the source of Regina’s anguish.
Regina on the screen closed her eyes tightly as she prayed to the Star of Kirges. It was becoming increasingly difficult to understand the situation.
‘Why? I didn’t expect this from anyone else, but from the Master, I thought she would welcome me warmly….’
That was when willow branches stretched long above the Observatory, as if a breeze were blowing from somewhere.
“…?”
Regina’s body stiffened imperceptibly. I too sensed the discord and tensed.
From behind her, something was approaching—slowly but inexorably.
Even I, merely glimpsing memories, could feel it: a dark and frigid presence of overwhelming weight.
Gripped by instinctive dread, I seized Kalian’s arm with crushing force. He flinched visibly, but there was no time to care.
– …Who goes there!
The moment my Master turned around, gradually invoking sorcery, the vision followed suit.
And I saw it.
Two crimson eyes gleaming from the darkness, fixed upon us.
“…!”
Its face—which I had never witnessed before—filled the entire screen.
Had I screamed?
No, they say that terror so profound steals even one’s voice. I was living proof.
It was colossal. The boundary between it and the darkness was indistinct, making it appear as an abyssal void itself, untouched by light.
It moved with an eerie sound, slipping through the shadows. The moment the observatory’s light struck it head-on, I gasped sharply and recoiled.
The mass of darkness that had shrouded its form dissipated, revealing a surface covered entirely in cold, smooth black metal shards. Yet it moved with serpentine fluidity, writhing in all directions.
I could not compare it to anything. A terror unlike any I had ever known descended upon me.
The sensation of facing a lightless abyss where no bottom exists. Fear of the unknowable crushed my entire being.
Just as a scream rose to my throat, Kalian wrapped his arms around me from behind.
“Rosy, you’re safe.”
He covered my eyes with his large hand. Only when my vision was obscured did I finally manage to close them.
Kalian patted me gently, whispering softly.
“Don’t worry. It cannot harm you.”
His voice pulled me back to reality. I breathed shakily, clinging to his arm like a lifeline.
“But Kali, that thing, that….”
I knew at once. It was not a creature born and raised wholly in this land.
It was a being from another realm. Perhaps a demon cast down from the cosmos itself.
A life form beyond human comprehension, its very nature unknowable!
Yet Kalian remained composed.
“It’s merely a record of the past, Rosy. No matter what it is, it cannot break through the screen and reach you. You’re safe.”
“R-right, it c-could…?”
“Yes. You’ll overcome this.”
Right, it’s only the past. Surely it won’t transcend time and space to strike me down….
My panicked mind gradually returned to itself.
Kalian spoke in a monotone, as if to himself.
“You’re frightened.”
How could I not be?
Such a grotesque and horrifying form—I had never witnessed anything like it in my entire life.
“Are you…are you alright?”
“More or less.”
Kalian showed no particular agitation upon witnessing that unidentifiable entity.
I fumbled to pull down his hand that shielded his eyes.
Whether it had consumed Master Regina or not, the screen was shrouded in darkness.
Just a few seconds like that.
The darkness receded with a soft whisper, and Master Regina’s body collapsed sideways like a rotted tree stump, her entire form marked with rope-like wounds as though they had been branded into her flesh.
The monster vanished without a trace.
The memories recorded in the Planetarium cut off there as well. In terms of time, it had all transpired within mere minutes.
‘Regina couldn’t mount any resistance whatsoever.’
My Master, a Transcendent spoken of as the strongest in this world, had been overwhelmed without even a chance to counterattack.
“It waited for Regina to be alone before striking… and then it vanished without harming anyone else.”
“…That’s right.”
“This similar incident must have occurred before as well.”
When Railo had his Sacred Relic, the Crystal of Resurrection, stolen.
Back then too, it had infiltrated Railo’s Main House without anyone knowing and slipped away with only the Sacred Relic in hand. That’s what Luize had said.
‘It targeted only its mark precisely before disappearing….’
Which meant. I muttered with conviction.
“It has intelligence, that thing.”
“….”
“It definitely thinks like a human. It even understands the Transcendent Families exceptionally well. It’s precisely calculating what ripples its actions will send through the Transcendent Families. As if, as if….”
“…As if?”
“It’s watching from right beside us….”
Goosebumps erupted across my entire body.
Where is it watching from?
A brief silence fell.
“Surely not.”
Kalian let out a light laugh. His voice was almost cheerful, incongruous with the situation.
“That can’t be, Rosien. Who in this land would dare surveil you? You who belong to Winyak, you who are the master of the ‘Great Annihilation.'”
“A star could. At least a being of a higher dimension….”
“Princess, there’s no need to frighten yourself like that.”
Kalian gently stopped me as I continued speaking in agitation. He soothed me by lightly brushing my cheek.
“What matters is that it has vanished without a trace, and if your suspicion is correct and it is an intelligent being, then it won’t appear again for a while. Perhaps… it may never return at all.”
“…If that were the case, I’d be grateful.”
But that was merely wishful thinking.
“More importantly, Rosien. You’re not going to look at Kirges’s other memories?”
Kalian tapped the Planetarium lightly. The screen had already begun playing the recording from the previous day.
“Come now, hurry. What you were truly curious about was something else, wasn’t it?”
For some reason, it felt as though Kalian was urging me forward.
I hesitated before reaching my hand toward the Planetarium.
Though I had regained my composure, the shock brought on by the monster’s appearance confronting me directly had not yet fully subsided.
‘For now, I need to bury this under something else quickly.’
I flipped through the screen. Leaving behind thousands of memory fragments copied from Regina’s Planetarium, I retreated into the past, further still into the past.
Sixteen years ago, no—even further back.
‘Thirty years ago.’
The day when I was three years old in my previous life, the day I was first taken in by Regina Kirges.
The memory of that day, seen through my Master’s eyes, unfolded across the screen.
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The day immediately following the assassination attempt on the Kirges Family Head.
Luize flinched as he stepped into the Breakfast Hall.
Rosien Wynyak, who always arrived first and waited, was nowhere to be found. Only Kalian Wynack sat alone before the table.
“Hello, Whezel.”
Kalian Wynack, savoring his tea with refined grace, acknowledged him.
Luize regarded him with displeasure and took his seat at the head of the table.
“Where is Rosien?”

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