The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 317



318 – Bella had no choice but to say this

Crown Princess Krain La Bella had a story that followed her like a tag. It was a story about her beautiful appearance and her four queen concubines, who were publicly executed for having an affair with her knight escort.

The Four Empresses lost the imperial political battle and were executed along with their knights. Bella, who lived happily in her mother’s arms, proved her chastity in front of the crowd, even going so far as to place her mother’s head on a pedestal herself.

It’s a tragic story, but it’s barely a prologue announcing the beginning of Bella’s miserable life. With her guardian gone, Bella had not even been half a day after proving her virginity, when she was raped by the First Prince in her mother’s room, where she would have felt safest.

When the news that Bella had been raped by the First Prince spread through the mouth of a servant, the Second and Third Princes, who were competing with the First Prince, rushed to Bella’s lodgings within a few hours.

Funnily enough, it was on that day that Bella realized her ability to understand the true feelings of others. That ability was not a blessing. Rather, it was a curse that made her know everything about her partner’s desires that she did not want to know.

Several hellish years passed. Bella suffered endlessly, every day without fail. Even now, the skin beneath her clothes, hidden from view, was riddled with permanent scars that even potions could not cure.

Due to the third prince’s excessive s*xual torture, her uterus lost its function, and on rainy days, the scars on her back would burst and blood would soak her back. There was one time when her drunken prince strangled Bella so hard that she literally stopped breathing for several minutes.

There was a time when the prosthetic arm of his left arm was taken away in front of the nobles who followed the Emperor, and he was ridiculed by crawling on the floor naked with both legs tied to ropes with one hand. The hellish days filled with shame and humiliation continued, but Bella did not give up. No, he couldn’t give up.

Bella, who realized through her awakened abilities that the goal of those trying to destroy her was her own death, endured any insult and humiliation.

But paradoxically, Bella thought about dying every single day. People who force themselves to continue their lives live each day dreaming of death.

That’s why Bella hated the moon rising at night so much. The rising of the moon meant that a hellish night was coming for Bella, and it was proof that she did not give up and persevered through the miserable day.

Trapped beneath the Emperor, Bella prayed countless times. I hope someone saves me, or rather kills me like this. But no one, neither gods nor heroes, reached out to Bella. Those who reached out to Bella only wanted to lust for her body.

Bella, who realized that neither gods nor heroes exist, was destroyed in a different way than they wanted. Bella, holding on to memories of her past happiness, killed herself. She then began her revenge.

Unlike before, Bella actively utilized her beauty and abilities. Although her body was full of ugly scars, her Bella’s appearance was still beautiful and the arrogant first prince mistakenly thought that her aggressive behavior had finally given in to him.

Bella and the Emperor mingled like lovers everywhere. In the dining room, the knights’ bathroom, the imperial corridors, and even in a stable full of horse manure.

The Emperor didn’t even notice until he fell from his horse and broke his neck. That Bella, with whom she had made love, had secretly pierced her Rottweiler with her poisoned needle, and that the effect of her poison had been so thoroughly calculated that she should manifest itself while she was riding her horse. That is.

Bella also killed the second and third princes. He realized that there was no one worthy of succeeding the emperor except himself, and attempted to commit suicide to seek revenge on the emperor one last time.

However, Bella failed to commit suicide when she met Roel on the rooftop of the academy where she had decided to commit suicide. Roel clung tenaciously to Bella and prevented her suicide attempt. There was even a time when he caught Bella in the air as she was falling.

Bella pushed Roel away. He set clever traps to make them suffer and even looked down on them for being commoners. But Roel just smiled silently and stayed by Bella’s side in silence.

Eventually, Bella gave up on suicide after Roel’s persistent efforts. She then decided to spend her life, which she had planned to throw away, for Roel. Because Roel was the only one in her meager and miserable life who truly needed someone named Bella.

He didn’t approach Bella because he was a powerful princess or a beautiful girl like others. It was a ridiculous and simple reason that she just felt comfortable around each other, but Bella chose to live for the boy who truly needed her.

―――That was Bella until now.

“eww… Ugh… .”

Bella moaned as the memories of Ross flooded into her mind without any resistance. Her voice was muffled and caught in the back of her throat, causing her to suffocate.

Ross’ memories were all too real. He was able to clearly feel the emotions that Ross felt in his memories, to the point where he thought he had experienced it himself.

The first emotion Bella felt after receiving Ross’s memories was anger. She felt angry that Ross was actually the author who created this world.

It was not easy for her to accept the reason that her hellish life was only for the sake of establishing herself as a tragic heroine. He was even more angry that the person who destroyed his life had affection for the character Bella.

Bella truly wanted to kill Ross. Even though she was Roel’s younger sister, she could not possibly forgive him. But the memory of Ross that followed her made Bella close her eyes and read the memory.

I could see the square in front of the imperial palace. It is a memory that has become a scar that I will never forget and that appears in my nightmares every day. However, the content was completely different from Bella’s terrible memories. At the memory of Ross saving her younger self in another world, Bella’s anger, which had been boiling like lava, subsided as if it were a lie.

On the day she proved her purity in front of everyone, Bella prayed to God. He cursed everyone so that he could kill everyone here so he could take his life. But that didn’t happen. Because gods and heroes only existed in books.

But Bella from the other world was saved by Ross. Become the hero that young Bella longed for. To escape the miserable and humiliating life that awaits her, she enlists the help of Ross and her forces to help her head north.

Bella knew it had nothing to do with her. But just looking at her younger self in another world, an inexplicable emotion tormented her heart.

Just knowing that the hero he was eagerly waiting for really existed in another world… Bella was able to erase the scars that had remained deep in her heart for a very long time.

Bella, who has endured great pain with little happiness, just knows that Bella in another world does not experience the same hell as herself… She was still able to get rid of her scars that had been bleeding her endlessly.

Bella continued to read Ross’ memories that entered her mind. We learn how Roel, who was supposed to win through her own sacrifice, ends up failing and what choices she ultimately makes amidst endless destruction.

Bella opened her closed eyes. It was only then that she realized that she was crying silently as her tears streamed down her cheeks.

Slowly, very slowly, Bella looked up and made eye contact with Ross, who was sitting across from her. The anger that had subsided boiled over again from the bottom of my emotions.

Her mother’s death, the death of her friend’s escort knight, and those hellish days replayed endlessly in Bella’s mind.

[ you… I hate you so much that I will kill you. ]

Bella’s spontaneous thoughts were relayed to Ross. After receiving that thought, Ross looked straight at Bella with her hard face and thought.

[ … I understand. ]

[I can never forgive you for ruining my life. ]

Ross just looked at Bella with sad eyes, but did not avoid his gaze.

[I have never asked for forgiveness either. ]

Bella could feel that it was sincere. Ross felt guilty about Bella. So she stored in her memory even memories and emotions that did not need to be included.

Everything, including the ugly past of trying to ignore Bella’s miserable life, which was created out of probability by a single line of writing he wrote without thinking.

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He would have done anything to deceive Bella. But Ross no longer ignored Bella. She rather wanted people to look at her with hateful eyes.

Bella stood up without a word. Ross’ eyes followed her. Bella approached Ross and knelt down in front of him.

Ross, embarrassed by Bella’s sudden behavior, shrugged his shoulders and looked at her. As if a long silence had passed, Bella looked up at Ross without saying a word. And finally Bella’s dry lips moved.

“Help me.”

“… .”

The memories Ross shared weren’t just about atonement for Bella. It also included one last chance to prevent a loved one from slowly withering away and dying in eons of agony for the sake of everyone’s salvation.

She was a girl who had already been destroyed and broken down a long time ago to the extent that she could not even feel shame and humiliation. So, for the sake of the boy who was the only one who needed her, the girl had no choice but to say this to the person who ruined her life and who she could not forgive.

“For Roel… I’ll do anything.”

That was Roel’s lover, Crain La Bella.