I Will Protect My Brother - Chapter 86

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Chapter 86
‘I wonder if he truly means it. If our positions were reversed, and I had been used and abandoned like that.’
I would have destroyed the Transcendent Families—not in centuries, but in millennia if necessary.
Even I, who had only witnessed and heard of it from the sidelines, felt rage burning to the tips of my hair. The person directly involved would feel far more, not less.
Without realizing it, my thoughts had begun to lean in a certain direction.
‘That’s right. The Transcendent Families struck first. They deserve annihilation.’
The moment I unconsciously accepted that reasoning, my mind snapped back into focus.
Wait—am I thinking this way and inadvertently ending up helping Kalien?
Yeljewa’s prophecies always manifest into reality.
But the prophecy had not explained what would happen after the Transcendent Families’ destruction.
The Guardian Stars are watching us. Would they truly tolerate Broken Chaos running rampant?
These are the ones who have already commanded me multiple times to kill Kalien. That seemed unlikely.
‘In the worst case, the Stars might track us down.’
What becomes of the Transcendent Families is no concern of mine. But I could never—absolutely never—turn my blade against Kalien.
Then my only choice was to remain quiet and obedient, waiting for the Stars to forget about us entirely.
After all, the Stars have little interest in humans, do they? They’ll forget about the ants on this small planet soon enough.
‘Or what else can I do? The Stars seem to favor me somewhat, so I might as well wag my tail earnestly.’
Guardian Stars, our boy isn’t really that bad… well, he is bad, but not quite so wickedly cruel. I’ll take good care of him myself….
It felt like cradling a time bomb that could detonate at any moment.
I changed the subject to lighten the mood.
“Did you know from the beginning? That I was Rozentia’s reincarnation. Did you recognize me from the start?”
“You look identical. There’s no way I wouldn’t have recognized you.”
“Then you must have known me even when I was Rosien Wynyak. That red-eyed monster that kept following me around—that was you, wasn’t it?”
“Not constantly. When I found you, you were already dead.”
“Oh, the timing really didn’t work out.”
We exchanged banter as we normally did—playful and light. It was more comfortable that way.
“When we first met, I mean when we first met as Rosy, it was in front of the Orphanage, right? How did you end up there?”
“…I’m not sure?”
Kalien pressed his lips repeatedly against my ear and cheek.
“It was coincidence. You kept rummaging through trash cans, so I decided it would be better if I just took you with me instead.”
“Then why did you keep pretending to be weak in front of me? All that act of being feeble was complete nonsense, wasn’t it?”
“Not all of it….”
“There you go lying again—this is completely habitual! Be honest with me. Is there anything else you’re still hiding from me?”
Kalien shook his head.
“Not anymore. I mean it.”
Would that truly be the case? I regarded him suspiciously for a moment, but eventually stopped pressing the matter.
‘He looks incredibly happy….’
The words I had spoken to him right after we emerged from the detention camp had clearly eased Kalien’s anxiety.
Since then, I could tangibly feel that Kalien’s state had become far more at ease than before. It was something I could sense without even needing to observe his complexion or breathing.
At the same time, it meant that the bond of trust between us had grown stronger than it had been.
‘Then perhaps… converting to an induction-type Elixir that doesn’t require contact would be impossible?’
In that instant, the Planetarium’s luminescent effect faded.
As the firelight that had painted the surroundings vanished in a heartbeat, an eerie darkness consumed my vision.
“Ah, sorry. I’ll cast the spell again.”
“Leave it.”
Kalian gripped my chin with one hand and pressed gently on both sides. My lips parted of their own accord.
Like a beast slaking its thirst at an oasis, he traced the space between my parted lips.
“Rosy.”
Every sensation in my body seemed to converge upon my lips. As sight surrendered to darkness, my other senses sharpened to an exquisite degree.
The texture pressing through the gap of my lips, the languid breath spreading between us, even the thundering of my heart threatening to burst.
The deeper the bond between a Transcendent and an Elixir grew, the lighter physical contact could be. So I had anticipated that if we came to understand each other better and cherish one another in our hearts, such contact would become unnecessary.
But I had been wrong.
I had failed to realize that physical intimacy only moves forward, never backward.
Moreover, it wasn’t as though we progressed through predetermined stages—completing stage one before moving to stage two, then methodically to stage three.
We could leap from stage one straight past stage three, or tackle stages one, two, and three all at once without hesitation.
Was this truly all right? Could I keep surrendering myself like this?
But I had already ventured far too deep to entertain such doubts.
My vision blurred, unable to focus. His breathing, grown as ragged as my own, was laid bare for me to hear.
‘This is treatment. It’s treatment.’
My little rabbit—or rather, something precious—treatment tinged with affection…
As I endured, growing accustomed to these peculiar sensations, a question suddenly arose.
Kalian had said he didn’t distinguish between me and Rozentia. But the self I perceived was distinctly different from Rozentia Renos, so I could not regard her as another version of myself.
We were different people.
Then who was Kalian kissing now? Whose body was he touching?
I twisted my body to create some distance between us.
“I have a question.”
“What is it?”
“Focus on what I’m saying, Kalian.”
“I’m already focused enough.”
His words said one thing, but his attention was clearly elsewhere. Kalian quickly contradicted himself.
“No… no, wait. Let’s do this later, Rosy.”
He was clearly desperate. From the moment he gained certainty that I wouldn’t abandon him, he wanted me endlessly, unable to contain all that he had held back until now.
Kalian whimpered in a hoarse voice.
“Just give me a little more now. It’s still not enough…”
I struggled to escape his embrace entirely, but eventually surrendered, letting my body go limp.
‘Right, a little touching won’t wear me away…’
Honestly, it was almost a relief to have a moment’s respite from having my lips ravaged.
But offering my body as sacrifice made the exchange far from equitable, and during those deep kisses, my mind grew increasingly hazy and my stomach tingled unbearably.
I counted sheep up to three hundred in my mind, when suddenly I recalled the rabbit doll I had given Kalian years ago.
‘Fine. I’ll just pretend I’ve become a doll.’
I clamped my mouth shut to stifle any whimper. Strange sensations rippled across my entire body with startling speed, and moments of delicious shivers washed over me several times.
Then an irresistible drowsiness settled over me.
After gazing up at the deep blue world above my head for a while, I asked Kalian.
“Why did you like that woman so much?”
“Who?”
“Rozentia Renos.”
Kalian, who had been contentedly burying his face in my hair, met my eyes. His cheeks were smooth, unmarred by a single trace of blood.
“She never even wiped away the wound on your face once. Not even on that last day—she just left the door open and that was it.”
To be honest, I had never been particularly fond of Rozentia Renos. When I was watching the vision of the past earlier, I had let out a breath of exasperation at that scene.
‘Just opening the iron bars and leaving? Abandoning someone without limbs inside? She didn’t even leave anything useful to help him, so what was the point? If you’re going to do something, do it properly.’
The vision had ended at that moment, so I never saw how he managed to escape from this deep sea.
Of course, Rozentia Renos was human, and I was now a Transcendent—a capable one at that—so the realm of what was possible would naturally differ between us.
But even accounting for that, my dissatisfaction remained unchanged.
“She didn’t do nearly as much for you as I have. So why did you like that woman?”
Two years ago, his expression as he gazed up at Rozentia Renos’s portrait in the Kirges Observatory in Delpiam now kept bothering me.
She was the only one he had ever looked at with such tender longing instead of me.
Kalian, who had been staring at me without answering, narrowed his eyes slightly.
“Rosy, are you jealous?”
“What?”
I was dumbfounded. I glared at Kalian.
“Do I look like I’d do something like that? Absolutely not.”
“Really?”
“I’m just uncomfortable with the fact that you confuse me with another woman. I’m not Rozentia Renos.”
“Hmm.”
“And sometimes when you get excited, you call me Rozentia Renos. No, actually, you persistently call me princess all the time. Isn’t that proof that you see her in me?”
“Ah, so you hated that.”
“I hate it. Don’t call me princess anymore. Honestly, that made me incredibly uncomfortable.”
I wouldn’t accept being made a princess even if someone offered it to me.
Kalian teased me with unmistakable amusement in his voice.
“But my Lozietti is also the princess of Kirges, isn’t she? Right?”
“I’ve never actually been treated that way in Kirges, so don’t call me that either. Just call me Rosy.”
“You’re really upset now, aren’t you?”
“And you still haven’t answered my question, oppa. Did you really like that woman that much?”
“Yes.”
My heart sank at the single syllable Kalian uttered languidly.

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