I Will Protect My Brother - Chapter 65

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Chapter 65
Kalian blinked blankly, his innocent crimson eyes gradually widening like a child’s.
“Rosy, you….”
“Answer me first!”
“You’re doubting me?”
The words caught in my throat.
My lips trembled slightly.
No, why would I. How could I. You’re not that kind of person. How could I harbor such suspicion?
Not a single one of those words escaped my lips.
Perhaps I had known all along.
When Luize Whezel warned me countless times to be careful of Kalian, when The Stars themselves tried to contact me directly.
Just days ago, when I noticed the fearful gazes of those around him.
Perhaps Kalian Wynack might be a different kind of person than I thought….
Maybe I had unconsciously sensed that I couldn’t trust Kalian at face value.
I swallowed hard, my throat dry. Kalian stared at me in bewilderment as I tensed to my limit, then suddenly whispered.
“A lie.”
“….”
“Isn’t it?”
His eyes trembled violently. I barely maintained my composure and shot back.
“If you hate being doubted, then give me an explanation, Kalian.”
“An explanation?”
Kalian seemed to be trying to smile somehow, but it was nothing more than a barely twisted lip.
“You want me to make excuses, Rosy…. You already don’t trust me, and you want me to defend myself?”
“What’s your connection to the Lost Soul?”
“Rosien Wynack.”
“The Great Annihilation said you’re an avatar of the Lost Soul. Is that true?”
“That’s not what you’re really curious about right now.”
“Don’t change the subject….”
“You’ve already reached your conclusion in your mind.”
Kalian clenched his teeth and cut me off.
“That I tried to kill Jake, without a doubt.”
“….”
“You’re looking at me like a murderer. Just like the villagers, just like the people in the castle. Aren’t you?”
Even if I didn’t want to suspect him, the circumstances pointed that way.
The gazes of people, their whispers, movements that perfectly aligned with the Lost Soul, strange déjà vu assailing me again and again.
Even a prophecy that uncannily overlapped with my current situation.
That in the future would bring terrible chaos,
And moreover, the annihilation of the Transcendent Families.
Something surged up inside me. I lost my reason for a moment and screamed.
“Do you think I want to doubt you? I don’t want this either. So answer my questions! What exactly are you…!”
But I couldn’t let that happen.
I had completely forgotten the most fundamental truth: I must never carelessly provoke Seongyeol—a Transcendent who had dangerously swelled to the critical threshold, a time bomb that would explode at the slightest touch.
“…Whatever I say.”
Transparent moisture gathered at the corners of Kalian’s eyes. A tear rolled down his reddened cheek.
“You’ll believe me, won’t you?”
“Of course….”
“No matter what you see? No matter what you hear? Absolutely not. You’re not ready for any of this yet.”
With each tear that fell without even grazing his cheek, my heart sank deeper. I had never seen Kalian wear such an expression before.
That was, in other words.
A wounded expression.
Yet at the same time, it was also an expression of fierce, terrible anger.
There was a chasm so profound in his unfocused eyes that I could never dare to fathom it.
“Don’t do this, Rosy.”
Kalian pulled me forcefully into his embrace. Even as I twisted my body to push him away, he held firm.
“Don’t be angry with me.”
His scorching body heat transmitted through the thin fabric of his shirt.
And the wild, frantic pounding of his heart….
Kalian spoke each word with a voice trembling as he fought back tears.
“Even if I tried to make excuses here, you wouldn’t believe me anyway. So I won’t say another word until you calm down.”
I managed to take a deep breath. He was right.
I was in an excessively agitated state. My mind was gradually cooling.
From the moment I was held in Kalian’s arms, the intensity of my anger dropped remarkably. An oddly sudden sense of calm washed over me.
Kalian noticed my agitation subsiding before I did. A strained voice came from above my head.
“I didn’t do it.”
“….”
“I didn’t kill anyone. I did nothing, Rosy.”
“…Is that really true?”
“You know me. If you don’t believe me, who will? You… you can’t do this.”
My right shoulder, where Kalian had buried his face, grew damp with his tears.
A Transcendent suffering from Seongyeol’s affliction became sensitive and sharp, devoted only to instinct, yet also infinitely innocent like a child.
“You always prioritized me, always believed in me… but today is strange. Why won’t you even listen to what I have to say and just accuse me outright?”
“….”
“You don’t seem like Rosy anymore. I don’t know this version of you.”
Kalian’s breathing was irregular.
Only then did my senses snap back as if cold water had been poured over my head.
‘What am I doing right now?’
“Kalian, wait.”
I twisted my body to break free from his embrace. When I grasped both his cheeks with my hands and tilted his head up, his tear-glistening crimson eyes were revealed.
“What will I do if even you turn against me, Rosy? If even you come to hate me, who will I lean on to survive?”
“Kalian.”
“Even if the whole world turned their back on me, you shouldn’t. If you’re going to be the same as everyone else, you shouldn’t have come to me in the first place…!”
He gnawed mercilessly at the inside of his lip, his voice rising in a growl.
“From the beginning, you shouldn’t have let me live!”
It was as though thunder itself had struck. The mana warping through space writhed ominously.
The Transcendent’s fury ignited.
Tremors began radiating outward from where Kalian stood. Only then did I grasp the gravity of the situation, and I gasped, swallowing hard.
‘A warning sign!’
This was a harbinger of a rampage.
If a Transcendent infested with Seongyeol went berserk, even an implosive one would level the entire area.
‘I made a mistake…!’
I had forgotten that Kalian was in no state to recover his rationality right now. And hadn’t he been suffering under Seongyeol’s influence for quite some time these past few days?
This was ruined!
I urgently rubbed his lips with my thumb.
“I’m sorry, it’s okay. I don’t suspect you, Kalian. Calm down!”
His jaw was clenched so tightly that his bitten lips had turned deathly pale. I barely managed to push my thumb between his lips.
Bright red light crackled and sparked from the wide-open Planetarium. A loud alarm sounded from somewhere.
But there was no time to register it.
“Deep breaths, deep breaths. Brother.”
I counted out the rhythm just as he had done for me two years ago in Delpiam.
“One, two, exhale. Yes, that’s it.”
But it was useless.
Kalian let out a groan that seemed to be dredged up from deep within his body.
He seized my wrist with one hand and wrenched it downward, then cast it aside as though discarding it.
“Don’t touch me.”
“It’s okay, Kalian.”
“What do you mean it’s okay?”
“Just calm down for a moment. I can control it soon….”
“Control it? What?”
Mockery laced his tone.
“I want to devour you right now, so how am I supposed to control this?”
Mana clawed savagely at his skin. Kalian erupted without even drawing breath.
“While giving me nothing.”
“Ah, it hurts. Kalian.”
“You won’t share any of yourself with me, so why do you suspect me? Why? Why? Why? How hard I’ve tried, I, Rosy, I….”
“….”
“I wanted to become a decent person. Because you wanted it, no one else…!”
His eyes, glistening with moisture, could no longer be called human. The rage filling them seemed ready to explode at any moment.
A sense of crisis washed over me—as though he would swallow me whole from head to toe.
‘This can’t happen. If it bursts…!’
There was no more time to hesitate.
I summoned the Planetarium, which had been vibrating wildly since moments ago, to this location. I needed to move Kalian to the place where he felt most at ease.
The moment my judgment crystallized, I wove a short-distance teleportation spell.
The darkness that enveloped us vanished in an instant.
Kalian and I found ourselves back at Wynack Castle within mere seconds. His bedroom. The place where we spent the most time together.
“Kalian, Kalian. Please. You’re alright.”
I shoved him forcefully onto the bed. The moment I pressed down on his shoulders to keep him from raising his upper body, Kalian wrapped his arms around my waist in one fluid motion and rolled us both to the side.
In the blink of an eye, I found myself pinned beneath him on the bed, looking up at his face.
A chill ran down my spine.
I was being consumed.
“Hush, hush, hush…!”
My voice tumbled out a beat too late.

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