I Will Protect My Brother - Chapter 93

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Chapter 93
“Forget what I just said.”
Kalian corrected himself, grinding his teeth.
“Anyway, Rosy. Absolutely not. As long as I’m watching with wide-open eyes, there’s no way you’re making an Elixir Contract with Luize!”
His reaction was far more intense than I’d anticipated. I set aside my unease and muttered petulantly.
“That’s exactly what an overprotective parent would say…”
“I’m saying this as your older brother, not as a parent!”
“What kind of older brother kisses his younger sister?”
That muttered remark struck a direct hit.
Kalian closed his eyes tightly as if he were going mad, then opened them again.
“Ha… Fine, I was planning to stop that anyway. So if I’m not your brother anymore, then this should be fine, right?”
I was seized by the nape of my neck like an unlucky sacrificial offering.
Kalian pinned me to my seat and tilted his head as if he were about to kiss me immediately.
My back was blocked by the chair—there was no way to escape. I braced myself for the rough collision of lips and squeezed my eyes shut.
But the kiss never came.
Instead, a sigh as if the world were crumbling reached my ears.
“Damn it. The count…”
The rule of one kiss per day applied the brakes to Kalian.
Today’s quota had already been exhausted earlier.
Whether he was swallowing his frustration or simply at a loss, his exhaled breath tickled my lips and the edge of my jaw.
“Ha… I won’t, Rosy. I won’t, so relax.”
Kalian, who had been hovering perilously close to my lips, soon began showering my cheeks with kisses instead.
“Rosy. That man who confessed to you is a fake. He’s just a shell worn by the Star. The Formless Messenger is mimicking Luize. Didn’t you sense something strange about him?”
I managed to exhale a sigh of relief. If I hadn’t imposed that restriction, I would have been devoured without hesitation.
“Don’t be swayed by them. Understood?”
“I did sense something odd…… Wait. What did you just say?”
I’d heard something I couldn’t just let pass. Luize was possessed by what? The Star?
At that very moment, the door to the Reception Room opened.
“Huh.”
Luize, stepping inside, immediately made a face of utter disgust. The timing was infuriating.
“Really, what a mess—”
He didn’t finish his sentence. I had already woven a spell.
A massive Planetarium bloomed above my head, expanding enormously. Runic characters twisted intricately across the rotating orbits.
[ᚺᚢᚾᛏ Hunt!]
The incantation, completed in an instant, surged toward Luize.
[What are you doing, sister?]
Luize, transformed into a black panther, leaped backward with a narrow margin of escape.
I bared my teeth and glanced at the growling panther, then turned my gaze back to Kalian.
“The Formless Messenger?”
I whispered the question softly, and Kalian’s eyes flickered with unease.
Luize raised his voice in irritation.
[You’ve been clinging to the Author far too long, Lozietti Kirges. Why are you picking up such a temperament?]
“…Sorry. There’s something I needed to verify.”
A Star, truly?
Luize, who had shifted back into human form, effortlessly shattered my incantation.
He strode toward me and seized my right shoulder, pulling me toward himself.
Naturally, Kalian had no intention of allowing that. He gripped my left hand with crushing force.
In an instant, I found myself wedged between the two youths like ham in a sandwich. Kalian glared at Luize with hostile eyes.
“Let go, Whezel. No—let go, you fool Whezel’s Guardian Star.”
“Stop spouting nonsense and release him yourself, why don’t you? Avatar of Lost Soul.”
The moment Luize countered with that blunt retort, certainty struck me like lightning.
I looked up at Luize in complete disbelief.
‘In heaven’s name—not a stray spirit, but a Star?’
The source of that persistent, unsettling discord I’d always sensed from Luize was the Guardian Star itself!
‘A Star descended directly upon Rahnar? That’s impossible…!’
The old me would have fainted long ago, or immediately knelt to pay reverence to the Star.
But if I had to express my current sentiment in a single phrase, it was this:
‘I’m done for’.
‘They’ve come to persuade me.’
Since sending down divine messages didn’t work, and indirect communication through Jake failed, they’ve apparently decided to descend personally.
‘Then all those malfunctions in my Planetarium until now were the Stars’ doing…?’
I’d always sensed something amiss. Who would have the audacity to impersonate a Guardian Star’s alias?
It seems that experiencing events so far removed from common sense repeatedly dulls one’s grasp on reality.
Thanks to that, I managed to speak with surprising composure.
“It hurts. Let go of me, both of you, since it hurts.”
Neither released me. Suddenly, I felt overwhelmed.
“I don’t have any Guardian Star I’ve made a contract with! I’m just a fragile human! Let go!”
“That’s right. Release Rosy, Whezel. Before I actually kill you.”
Kalian glared at Luize as if he’d tear him apart. Luize was equally unyielding.
“You keep your filthy hands off Lozietti Kirges, Wynack.”
“Filthy? Are you truly so eager to be annihilated on this insignificant planet?”
Neither showed the slightest inclination to yield first.
[…ᛒᛟᚢᚾᚳᛖ(Repel)!]
An incantation settled upon the Planetarium, and a powerful barrier materialized around me. The barrier elastically repelled everything within a one-meter radius of my position.
Clang─!
Of course, the incarnate bodies backed by those arrogant Stars didn’t budge an inch. Damn it.
But at least I managed to force them to release their grip on me. Kalian bit his lip and turned to face me sharply.
“Rosy. You don’t trust me this time either?”
“What could I possibly trust in you for, sister? You’re nothing but a false shell.”
“Both of you, stop it!”
I cut off both of them sharply.
“Did you both just let my words go in one ear and out the other? Enough. Both of you, be quiet!”
This was a disaster. I’d just told the Guardian Castle to be quiet…. I rolled my head in despair.
‘Whose side should I take?’
The Dark Castle’s Broken Chaos versus the Formless Messenger. No matter how I calculated it, I couldn’t determine whose odds of victory were higher.
And when you don’t know, the best strategy has always been to take neither side.
‘I’m neutral.’
Please, keep me out of your fight.
I naturally turned my back and slipped away from between them. It was both to hide my ashen complexion and to secure a safe distance.
‘If they start trading blows here, that’s at minimum a planetary explosion. You two won’t die, but I will….’
I’d already prepared dozens of layers of defensive barriers in the Planetarium. Just in case the mansion collapsed, I’d also firmly reinforced the walls with strengthening magic to prevent being crushed.
Only then did my heart settle a little.
I decided to leave right then.
“I’ll entertain you both equally, so don’t fight. If you two clash even one more time, I’m really going to hide somewhere no one can ever find me. Do I look like I’m joking?”
“….”
“Huh? Neither of you answering? Did your lips get stuck together?”
“I’m sorry, Rosy.”
Kalian apologized eagerly first. I gestured to him.
“Come here, brother. Bring that book on the table over there.”
I definitely needed one more shield.
The gaze of the absolute god I’d thought was Luize swept across me with unsettling intensity.
Kalian rushed over in an instant and took the seat beside me. He handed me the book.
“Here.”
“Thanks.”
Of course the letters wouldn’t register in my eyes. The shadows pooled beneath the sofa were creeping outward with sinister intent.
Heavens, I never thought the power of the Lost Soul would be so welcome….
I gathered my courage and looked at Luize, who stood motionless.
“Will you leave? Luize. It’s my turn now.”
Those gleaming golden eyes slowly dissected me.
My mouth went dry of its own accord. The ‘presence’ radiating from the transcendent being tightened around my neck like a noose.
‘Oh no, I’m terrified…!’
But by tremendous fortune, the Star showed mercy.
Luize’s lips curved into a gentle smile.
“Sister. You must never forget what I said.”
“I haven’t forgotten. Don’t worry.”
So he intended to keep up the Luize act to the very end. I clenched my trembling jaw and pointed toward the door.
“So leave. Right now.”
Go on! I said go!
The Star—the Formless Messenger—who had been looking down at me with meaningful eyes finally nodded.
“Alright then. See you tomorrow. Rosien Wynyak.”
With those words, he turned to leave.
The moment Luize’s silhouette vanished from the study, I seized my hair and pulled.
‘Damn it, I really messed up. Really…!’
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The study door closed behind me.
“….”
The Formless Messenger, who inhabited Luize Whezel’s body, scratched his head.
“Truly a peculiar human.”
The Formless Messenger, befitting his role as ‘the Shaper,’ possessed considerable insight into humanity. Fifteen hundred years ago, he was the very god who had possessed the first Transcendent Family Heads and most enthusiastically explored Rahnar.
For that reason, he had been selected as the first operative in this excursion—the so-called Rosien Recruitment Operation.
“He doesn’t feel fear…?”
I had revealed the Star’s dignity, however faintly, yet Rosien Wynyak / Lozietti Kirges showed no terror whatsoever—not even a flicker of his eyes.
Instead, he issued a banishment order with utter confidence?
‘What audacity is this?’
A mere human whose inner nature I cannot fathom?
‘This is… rather amusing, isn’t it?’
A human I had never encountered in all my previous visits to Rahnar!

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