The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 376



377 – When death calls you

A plan to kill the immortal Roman began. Since the plan had to be carried out as secretly as possible, we deliberately targeted the early morning hours to avoid people’s eyes.

The attack team consisting of me, Estelle, and Ellie headed to the castle, and the rest left to place the magic scrolls that Luna had copied using God’s fountain pen throughout the city. Thanks to Modest sending several people to help, Luna, who has the World Tree seed, decided to head to Ludwig’s center with Eunice.

As Raelan briefly explained just before departure, Rokyu, who had decided to join us, was waiting at the entrance of the old castle. Rokyu must have heard footsteps, checked our faces, and sighed as the ground fell.

“… “You really came.”

“I heard you were persuaded by Raelan to join us?”

Rocyu bit his lip in response to my question.

“There was a lot of coercion. If I refuse to reveal all the ugly secrets about my father that I didn’t want, it’s obvious that they’ll kill me. “He seemed like a worthy person.”

Rocyu wiped his face once to sort out his emotions and spoke as if he were confiding.

“Still, I think I’m glad I found out my father’s secret, even if it was too late. It may seem like an excuse, but my family had no idea. I thought it was a little strange, but… “Family is about knowing sensitive things but pretending not to know them.”

“I understand.”

“I accepted the Euron people into the city, and I made a Euron woman my wife… It was all my father’s dark plan. Of course, no matter what, I still love my wife. That’s why I get more angry. “Because I thought we were family.”

Estelle, who was looking closely at Roku rubbing his forehead, suddenly looked at me and said.

“I know that person.”

“You mean LoQ?”

Rocyu also tilted his head with a puzzled expression at Estelle’s words.

“This is the first kid I’ve ever seen… No, she’s a girl wearing a pretty cat mask.”

When Estelle, who is sensitive to height, exuded a fierce attitude, Rocyu quickly changed his tone and caught a glimpse of me. It was my first time hearing this too, so I shrugged my shoulders and asked.

“How do you know LoQ? “I don’t think the person involved knows.”

Estelle fiddled with her mask in response to my question.

“It’s my first time seeing it in person too. “It wasn’t me who met RoQ, it was Amber.”

Rocyu clapped his hands as if he finally understood what Estelle said.

“Ember? “Are you talking about that beautiful woman you met at the casino a few months ago?”

“That’s right, you were the one who helped Amber’s younger sister, Amy, get away from Ludwig, right?”

I think I know roughly what the story is about. Amy was a slave to the immortals as the Order tore Estelle’s clan apart across the continent. Amber, who heard the information about her Amy from me, brought her Amy from Ludwig, probably receiving help from Roque at that time.

Rocyu, who was scratching the back of his head with a shy expression, said.

“It would be more accurate to say I lost a bet rather than saying I helped.”

“Amber said she lost on purpose in the end?”

“You said you came from far away to find your family, but you can’t treat them with sincerity, right? “I have a weakness for pretty people.”

As Roku looked into the distance while saying that, I could see that Luna was right when she said he didn’t seem like a bad person. Is she Luna after all? She recognizes what kind of person Rokyu is at a glance.

“After saying hello, let’s go inside.”

At Ellie’s words, everyone nodded with serious faces, remembering the purpose of visiting Goseong.

I followed Roku into the castle. The interior was incredibly spacious, similar to Transcendence Academy. Rocyu, who was looking around, saw my expression and smiled and explained.

“Even our distant relatives live here. There are also several diners. Just in case, the servant and his family were secretly evacuated to the basement before something happened. “Everyone understood because I lied and said the cult might attack tonight.”

Ellie, who was looking inside the castle, asked Roque.

“Is there a place where I can overlook the entire castle?”

“You can go to where the clock tower is. There is a balcony on the rooftop where you can go outside. From here, if you go all the way to the right along the outer wall, you will see an entrance where you can go up to the clock tower. “Here, I’ll give you the key.”

After receiving the key, Ellie turned around and spoke to Estelle.

“I will be watching from the top of the clock tower with magic to make sure that no magic power is released outside the castle. In case Roel oppa comes to visit… Anyway, if something changes, I will notify you immediately with magic.”

As we nodded heavily, Ellie cautioned us again.

“When Luna gives the signal, I will use synthesis magic. Then, the magic scrolls placed in the city will be activated in succession. We must never allow an immortal to die before then, or to commit suicide if he notices that the city’s magic is disappearing. If that happens, we’ll have to kill everyone in the castle with magical powers to find the resurrected immortal. “If the citizens outside the castle revive you, the plan will be a complete failure.”

“My family all has magical powers… .”

I spoke in a low voice as I saw Roku breaking into a cold sweat at Ellie’s words.

“Of course. “That’s what the immortal was aiming for.”

“… “Still, I thought he was a good father.”

Estelle narrowed her eyes and asked Roque, who was smiling bitterly.

“The person who secretly imprisoned hundreds of slaves banned by the Empire in the underground sewers? “They even conducted illegal torture and experiments on living people.”

Roku looked embarrassed and scratched his eyebrows.

“I had no idea something like that was happening until I heard Amber explain it to me. I didn’t believe it until I saw it with my own eyes. As you can see, it is a very large place. “I never thought someone could be locked up in a place like that.”

Perhaps RoQ would have suspected Roman from then on. So he found out the truth and he joined us. Although he was born from a bad father, he is not a bad person.

I suddenly became curious and asked.

“Then what happened to the slaves?”

Rocyu answered my question as if it were obvious.

“Of course, we released everything that day. Although it was cowardly, he paid huge compensation to silence former slaves in order to protect other families. Of course, because of that, he got into a big fight with his father and almost got kicked out of the family… “Thanks to her mother, I was able to maintain my position as her successor.”

“Well done.”

“If you hadn’t acted like that, Modest would have stepped forward first. good job! pig.”

Rocyu smiled awkwardly at our praise and motioned for us to follow him.

“Keep in mind. “You must not kill or allow an immortal to die until I send a signal through magic.”

Ellie left a warning until the end and left for the clock tower. She followed Roque and headed to the mansion where the immortals stayed. Roku said as he climbed the stairs.

“My father will definitely be in the study at this time.”

Estelle looked out the window filled with early morning darkness and asked as if it was real.

“At this time?”

“You usually don’t sleep well. So it’s been a long time since I shared a room with her mother.”

Seeing Estelle’s puzzled look, I said without thinking.

“Because the entire city is full of people who can take on the burden of your own fatigue. “You probably don’t need sleep.”

Roque and Estelle nodded as if they finally understood my explanation. Before arriving at the study, I checked again for safety.

“Is there anything we need to watch out for? “Is there something that could be a variable in the plan?”

Estelle supplemented what I said and explained to Rokyu the information we knew about the immortals. Roku, who had stopped walking and listened to the explanation with his back against the wall, nodded his head, thought for a moment and said.

“Most of your descriptions of your father are probably correct. Of course, I have never seen the resurrection ability used in person… I have seen many people show equal skills in sparring against transcendental players. He is also skilled in alchemy and magic, so he even has a workshop in the building next door.”

“How about the study? “Isn’t there a trap magic or a soldier protecting the family head hidden there?”

Rocyu shook his head in response to Estelle’s question.

“My father really hated having soldiers inside the castle. He absolutely hated having his space invaded. So, as his successor, I could hardly enter the study.”

“I guess he believed in his own abilities. Even if you get attacked, you will be fine. If anything happens, just resurrect yourself and that’s it.”

Estelle snorted while saying that and took something out of her pocket.

“It’s the blueprint for the old castle. “It was difficult to obtain.”

“Well, how do you do that? Something we don’t even have in our family… .”

As Roku looked at him in bewilderment, Estelle said with a grin.

“Because Modest is the world’s best information guild.”

Estelle laid out the blueprints on the wall for us to see, but because Estelle is short, Roku and I had to bend our knees.

“here. “So this large place is the study?”

Rocyu nodded in response to Estelle’s question.

“that’s right. The inside of the library is as spacious as a blueprint. “There is a temperature control artifact installed to store the books, and of course there is security magic.”

“Is there an escape route out of the study or a place that leads to somewhere else?”

LoQ answered Estel’s question while pointing at the blueprint.

“You can head to the main room through the door here. The door on the other side leads to a staircase that goes downstairs. “There is a hallway downstairs that leads to the room where the family stays.”

“There are three doors to go through?”

“This is the door connected to the study, and this is connected to the hallway. And the one above is the door to the balcony.”

Estelle nodded and motioned for me to come closer, pointing to the blueprint.

“Okay, you go straight into the study entrance. In the meantime, I will block the door connected to the head office with a space cut, and then enter the study through the downstairs stairs. Unless we break through, the immortals will not be able to escape from the study.”

“All right.”

“Is there anything else you want to say?”

When Estelle turned her head and asked, Roque thought for a moment and said.

“It’s nothing special, but inside the study, the ceiling and walls are decorated with the bones of various monsters.”

At those words, Estelle’s eyes met mine.

“Do you think an immortal could use bones?”

“I don’t know. It’s not an ability that appears in the novel, but it’s probably not just for decoration. “I think it’s better to be on guard just in case.”

Estelle nodded and threw the blueprint to Roku’s chest, saying it was a gift, and headed to the head office.

“Then I’ll see you inside.”

As Estelle walked away, Rocyu said, picking up the blueprint that had fallen on the ground.

“If you follow the hallway from here, you will find the entrance to the study. “Then I’ll just go to the basement.”

RoQ’s role ends here. Of course, it may have been for his own benefit, but I was still grateful that he worked hard to help me.

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“I’ll see you in the morning.”

At my greeting, Roku looked toward the study with a bitter smile and then went down the stairs with a sigh. It’s not that he doesn’t know that feeling. Even if the immortal is a villain who even uses his family, the fact that he is Roku’s father does not change.

I cut off my distracting thoughts with a sigh. Now is the time to focus. He walked down the hallway, ready to manifest the Shadow Window at any time, and opened the door to the study.

The interior of the study was spacious and bright, just like the blueprint. As if he heard the door opening, a man sitting at a desk in the distance, reading a book, turned his head towards me.

As I approached, a man with a book on his desk spoke with an interested expression.

“It’s been a long time since you were an uninvited guest.”

As my eyes met with those of the ash-white eyes, I could finally feel that I had met the immortal.

“Who are you?”

In response to Roman’s question, I embodied the spear of shadow and spoke in a low voice.

“death.”

Today, the immortals die here forever.

With Roel’s stupid salvation plan.

“I am your death.”