Chapter 36

Alex may have thought he could take Adrian off-guard; ambushing him like this, but sadly such clumsy attacks would never work on Adrian Hill.

As expected, Adrian easily avoided Alex’s attack and even counterattacked him at a lightning speed.

It seemed it would be a long while before Alex could win the fight. However, the arrival of two new people could be the needed variable.

‘It’s one to three…’

She didn’t know the identity of the two new people, but it was clear that they were Alex’s reinforcements and now that they’ve intervened, Adrian was starting to have a hard time beating them all.

“But still…”

Even if those three work together, it would still be difficult to beat Adrian.

After all, unlike Alex who had a peculiar constitution on which magic didn’t work, the other two weren’t immune to magic.

No one would be able to stop Adrian if he started using both his sword and magic at the same time. Even if his opponent had a unique constitution that was immune to magic.

‘As expected, I was right. It’s better to evacuate Llewellyn first rather than wait for this fight to be over.’

‘Including myself, I’ll have to decide my actions too. But should I really run away?’

‘If I don’t run away… Adrian will try to lock me up in the Tower under the pretext of protection again.’

She hated it so much. Being confined in the Mage Tower, she could only vacantly look at the remote and distant landscape.

Rosenia was really grateful for Adrian’s concern towards her. She was well aware that there would be no one in the world who would care about her as much as he did. But that was exactly why…

‘We’re not making any progress.’

‘If I’m born with a strange fate that perpetually keeps my life at risk, then shouldn’t I build up my strength to face it?’

And for that to happen, Adrian had to let her go. She didn’t want to become a fool who couldn’t do anything on her own and be always enveloped by his protection.

‘And if we part from each other this time, I will never be able to see Llewellyn again.’

‘Then, what if one day, Sierra Oscar bursts onto the scene and heals his aching heart, and relieves his pain…’

Just imagining this made Rosenia’s blood boil. It made her feel stuffy and uncomfortable as if she had swallowed a thorn; she felt like breaking something.

Technically, Llewellyn originally belonged to Sierra. Since he was someone else’s man, she had never thought of touching him. But she also didn’t have much of a choice. She just couldn’t let him die…

Besides, Llewellyn liked her. He’s had a crush on her for over eight years!

Of course, Llewellyn did say some nonsense like, how it would be misleading to name his feelings love and blah blah.

Either way, he liked her and she too wanted him, as such, she couldn’t lose Llewellyn to another woman. If that happens, she might really end up doing something befitting a villain.

Like locking Llewellyn up…

‘Um, let’s just calm down.’

After suppressing the wild thoughts in her head, Rosenia looked at Llewellyn, who was still holding her in his arms.

Even though his retainers were struggling, he didn’t seem to have any intention of helping them. To be precise, it seemed like he was never going to let her go until he had completely persuaded her.

The emerald eyes looking down at her held a clear hope. Hope that she would run away with him.

Rosenia looked into his clear eyes and opened her mouth.

“…Yes.”

‘All right, Duke.’

“Let’s run away.”

‘If Adrian tries to wage a war with the Duke of Rasiane, I’ll somehow stop it.’ Llewellyn laughed out aloud in glee at her words. He looked very happy as he finally got the answer that he wanted.

“As expected, Rose likes me so much that she doesn’t want to be away from me even for a moment.”

Llewellyn whispered while hugging her tightly. He held her so close as if he was about to kiss her.

“You like me too, don’t you?”

“…”

Instead of agreeing, Rosenia quietly avoided his gaze. ‘Why would you ask me something so obvious? It’s embarrassing.’

‘Come to think of it, did I ever tell him that I like him? … Should I tell him now?’

Just as she was thinking about it, she heard a loud noise of someone crashing into the wall.

~Bang! 

Llewellyn immediately hugged her tightly as if to protect her. From the front, she felt some eerie energy drawing close. It was none other than Adrian, who had at some point defeated all three retainers of Llewellyn.

“Argh…”

Behind him, the fallen people groaned in pain. Adrian walked slowly like a beast cornering his prey, glaring at Llewellyn with an intense murderous intent.

His eyes looked unusual as he stared at Llewellyn’s arms hugging her. He looked as if he wanted to cut off his arm right away.

A voice like boiling lava flowed out of Adrian’s mouth.

“Hand her over.”

“…”

“My sister, hand her over to me.”

‘… I’m in trouble. What should I do with this lunatic?’

Adrian seemed to have lost his reasoning when he saw Llewellyn hugging her.

At this rate, it seemed like a big accident would occur, so Rosenia quickly got out of Llewellyn’s arms and stood in front of Adrian.

As she spread her arms wide and shook her head, Adrian stared at her fiercely with a gaze that could cut a person. Rosenia was a little scared, but having dealt with Adrian for so long, she had gotten used to his scary side. So she was relatively calm and said:

“Brother, don’t do anything that you might regret.”

“Get out of my way.”

“No, I don’t want to.”

“Get out of my way, Rosenia.”

A sharp blue current flowed out of Adrian’s hand. Looking like a whip, it was so dangerous that it could have pierced Llewellyn’s heart if he hadn’t dodged it in time.

Rosenia was horrified when she realized Adrian was seriously trying to kill Lewellin.‘Are you sure you want to wage war with  the Duke of Rasiane?’

She said in a trembling voice:

“Brother, get a hold of yourself. Please don’t do anything that you’ll regret. Are you really going to kill the Duke of Rasiane?”

“What’s there to regret?”

Adrian scoffed hearing her words and murmured with gleaming red eyes.

“What I’ll truly regret is if I don’t kill this little punk with my own hands today.”

“…!”

‘This crazy guy…’

If this was modern Earth, she would have surely posted this on the Internet:

[I think my brother is a psychopath. My dad hasn’t come back from his trip, and my mom’s not here. What should I do…?]

‘What  kind of answers would I get then?’ Rosenia sighed loudly, shaking off her useless delusions. She was the only one who could bring Adrian back to his senses in this situation. After trying to calm her heart down, she slowly said:

“I’m sorry, brother.”

“…”

“I don’t like your overprotectiveness.”

So, she went ahead with shock therapy.

She knew Adrian couldn’t stand her openly blaming him. She was sorry for hurting her brother like this but she couldn’t think of any other method that would work other than this. She continued:

“Because of you, I hate being locked inside the Mage Tower.”

“…”

“I don’t want to live a life where I can’t even date.”

“…”

“I don’t like it whenever you do this to me. I hate it Adrian when you try to control me or never listen to what I want to say.”

Adrian’s body stiffened, he seemed shocked by her final remark. Both his eyes were wide open as if in shock, and his lips were tightly pursed.

Rosenia inwardly thought she had succeeded and so planned her next trick. Now that Adrian showed a pause, it would be nice if Llewellyn or the trio could overpower him…

“Ha…”

But she overlooked one thing.

It was the fact that her villainous brother was crazier than she imagined.

“Do you hate me?”

While Adrian was letting out a twisted smile, a black energy menacingly flowed out of him. At that moment, Rosenia only had one thought in her head:

‘I ****ed up.’

“Someone who practically raised you on their back.”

“…”

“Let’s talk when we get back home.”

Damn it, as expected Adrian wasn’t some crumbling supporting character who she could fight against!

‘Besides, isn’t this too much? I can’t believe he disregarded my verbal attacks as some adolescent’s improper remarks.’ 

‘Oh, I screwed up…’

She stared blankly at Adrian’s restraining magic flying towards her, but luckily someone blocked her and broke the magic in time.

“…!”

A pale white light filled her view. When she looked forward with a frown, soft platinum blonde hair fluttered in the flashing light.

Llewellyn glanced back at her and smiled. As she stared dazedly at his figure surrounded by light, she heard Adrian’s seething voice.

“Llewellyn Rasiane! Did you come here because you wanna die?”

“No, I’m not going to die.”

Adrian laughed coldly at Llewellyn’s ridiculous answer. Soon, as the two men collided, a loud thunder-like sound rang out.  It was a tremendous roar as if the sky was falling.

‘This, this is crazy.’

Rosenia quickly ran towards the fallen trio and cast a defensive spell. While she was casting the defensive spell on them, the three looked at her as if it was very unexpected. In particular, Alex looked quite embarrassed.

But it didn’t matter whether Alex was embarrassed or not.  The villa was collapsing.  She leaned close to the trio and whispered in a small voice.

“Is there any way out of here?”

“There is, but…”

The person who answered the question was the gray-haired man. He looked at her with a blank face for some reason and then turned his gaze toward Llewellyn.

“There is a teleporting magic tool. But His Grace is too far away from it.”

“Aahh…”

Llewellyn and Adrian were fighting with a force enough to pulverize the whole villa. It was her mother’s favorite villa. Adrian, that crazy guy… Anyway, there was only one way to protect Llewellyn in this situation.

‘It may be a little dangerous because of Adrian, but…’

Rosenia made a quick decision without thinking for too long.

“I’ll cast a restraining spell on you all. That will connect you all to me.”

“What? What are you up to?”

“Alex, shut up.”

When Alex barked like a cranky Maltese, the black-haired man next to him bellowed. When she saw Alex immediately lowering his tail, she couldn’t hide the absurd look on her face. This, she had heard that there was no bad dog in this world, was this something like this?

She glanced at Alex and continued in a seemingly absurd voice.

“If I connect you all with a restraining spell, you can all teleport together while using the teleporting magic tool. Of course for it to work, Alex shouldn’t negate my magic. Is it possible?”

“…”

She asked Alex, but he didn’t answer. Rosenia took his silence as an affirmative and continued talking.

“I’ll somehow cut in that mess and connect with Llewellyn, then I’ll use the teleportation tool at that very moment.”

There wasn’t much time, so she had to hurry. The gray-haired man nodded sensing the urgency in her voice. She got up and ran towards Llewellyn.

As if sensing her run towards Llewellyn, Adrian stopped trying to launch an attack on Llewellyn. Adrian must have stopped because he was worried that she too would get hit.

It was heartbreaking to see her brother like that, but no matter how much she thought about it, she didn’t want to stay at the Mage Tower all her life. She also didn’t want to break up with Llewellyn. It was her life, so she wanted to live it the way she wanted.

“I’m sorry, brother.”

She whispered while looking at Adrian. Then she hugged Llewellyn tightly by the waist, and then connected them both using the restraining spell.

“I’m sick and tired of living under your overprotectiveness.”

“You…”

“Brother, I lied about hating you. I don’t hate you.”

Adrian’s eyes quivered wildly at her words. His thin, trembling lips seemed to say something, but she couldn’t hear what he was trying to say.

Rosenia felt the mana of the teleporting magic tool surrounding her body. She felt a floating sensation overtake her body. She felt dizzy and then her vision turned black.