I Accidentally Saved The Male Lead’s Brother - Chapter 40

He stood, and the maid’s face was down. Her hand, which was gently holding his pants, as if it were a lifeline,was waved away as he turned around.

 

He heard the maid’s cry from behind his back, but he didn’t bother looking back.

 

 

Said Carcel, looking at the man in prison with his limbs bound.

 

“I will interrogate him myself.”

 

“This is dangerous .”

 

“Do I look like someone who can’t take care of these people?”

 

“No, I’ll open it right away.”

 

The knight who was guarding the prison opened the door and removed the mask that prevents the man from committing suicide.

 

Carcel extended his right hand towards him. The knight quickly realized the meaning of the order and handed the sword to him.

 

 

Carcel slowly approached the man with the sword. The man whose eyes were gently covered felt movement and turned around. There was a loud movement and the sound of chains shaking.

 

Carcel touched his leg with his foot.

 

“Who ordered you to do this?”

 

“I can’t tell you, kill me instead.”

 

“You are begging for help.”

 

Carcel raised a well-sharpened sword and thrust it into his thigh. The man could barely contain his moaning clenching his teeth.

 

But when Carcel moved the engraved sword back and forth, he couldn’t take it any longer and let out a painful shriek.

 

“Uh!”

 

“Who is it?”

 

“I can’t say, ahhh!”

 

Carcel pulled out the sword, this time thrusting it into his other thigh. At first glance, he could see a black pattern through the torn pants.

 

Carcel lifted a piece of his pants slightly with the tip of his sword.

 

Pattern symbolizing poisonous lavender like flowers.

 

It was a pattern that Carcel was familiar with.

 

“Theros.”

 

“Heck.”

 

It was one of the largest mercenary guilds in the capital.

 

“Were they training assassins, not mercenaries?”

 

“Sir, here it is.”

 

Celine who followed up, offered him something. There was a bracelet studded with magic stones.

 

“I found this in the maid’s room, it looks like a magic communication bracelet.”

 

“Now tell Sir Anderson to go to Theros.”

 

“Yes sir.”

 

Celine answered but did not leave immediately.

 

“Do you have anything else to say?”

 

“Yes, how do I amend my mistake?”

 

She asked nervously, like a deer that was raising its neck before a wolf. However, the answer that came out was so trivial that she got nervous.

 

“You should pay more attention to escorting Miss Lannia.”

 

 

Carcel, who had said that word, handed the bloodstained sword to the knight behind and left.

 

‘Won’t he talk about what I did wrong?’

 

Celine, who was staring at the back of Carcel who had clearly left, came to her senses and immediately ran to Sir Anderson.

 

If Carcel had decided to put that aside for now, all she had to do was drag those who targeted Charlotte and Theo to the bottom.

 

***

 

Red flames burning in the Theros building, located outside the capital.

 

Carcel did not care to mind the knights and entered the building himself, carrying a sword.

 

There was already chaos inside the building. Even those who didn’t know what was going on were just asking for help, and there were people who would carry swords and face the knights. There were people who had fallen and were already bleeding.

 

 

Carcel crept into the building without even looking at them. His goal from the start had been the same.

 

Theros’s head.

 

Guild heads’ offices are usually located in the deepest and most secure places of guild buildings. The door itself was hidden, making it difficult to find the entrance.

 

Reaching the deepest wall and dead end of the building, he fumbled against the wall with his left hand. He focused his mana on his fingertips and tapped on the suspiciously protruding bricks.

 

 

He touched it, focused the mana in his hand, and pushed the wall back.

 

Carcel went inside without hesitation. Several knights quickly followed him.

 

Inside the wall was a room the size of his office. Carcel turned his head, and cut the flying dagger with the sword.

 

In the direction from which the dagger flew, there was a man with a sullen face standing holding a scepter. His beard was thick like a thief and had a black patch on his left eye.

 

His face was familiar, he had never seen Theros Guild Leader, but why was he familiar?

 

Carcel, who stared at him without defending himself, immediately remembered where he had seen him.

 

“Arica tribe.”

 

Arica. In the empire, people were often called barbarians. The dark skin and the red eyes were typical features of the Arica tribe.

 

From generation to generation, Arica tribe settled in the northern part of the empire, and because of their devastated lands and cold weather, they mainly plundered instead of farming or herding.

 

The victims were always from the north of the empire.

 

Meanwhile, the nobles who ruled the northern part of the empire were subject to the Arica people.

 

However, in recent years, as the Arica tribe grew more powerful, it was difficult to subdue them with the power of the northern nobles alone. As a result, the emperor sent troops to subdue the northern part.

 

It was three years ago, twenty-year-old Carcel who was a member of the Imperial Knights at that time participated in the subjugation process.

 

It was at that time that he showed his outstanding skills. His name made him known to the people.

 

“Yes I remembered .”

 

The leader in front of him was one of the Arica warriors he had met at the time. His left eye was also disfigured due to the trace he left behind.

 

“It’s such an honor that you remember me, I haven’t been able to forget your face for three years.”

 

“I didn’t know if you were alive or dead, but you were hiding here.”

 

With every step he took, Carcel’s eyes became colder.

 

“Do you want revenge?”

 

“Do you call this revenge?”

 

The man fixed the scepter and laughed bitterly.

 

“Even after three years, I still can’t forget my comrades and family. They are still whispering in my ear for revenge.”

 

He ran towards Carcel and swung the heavy scepter.

 

The knights blocked him, but Carcel stooped and crossed in the middle.

 

The scepter barely passed over his head.

 

As Carcel was swinging his sword the man struggled to fend off his sword with the scepter. Carcel pushed the sword as hard as he could and shouted in a low voice.

 

“If you want revenge, you have to shoot me in the neck, why did you touch my innocent brother?”

 

The man was pushed back bit by bit with the force of clenching his teeth.

 

“Are you asking because you don’t know it?”

 

“What ?”

 

“Cutting your neck once is boring. It’s not like the pain of losing a loved one .is it?”

 

In an instant, Carcel lost his temper and kicked him in the stomach. The man flew away at once and crashed into the wall. Every time he coughed painfully, drops of blood would fall to the ground.

 

Carcel, kicking the man’s scepter who had fallen to the ground and sending it away, leaned his back against the wall and trampled on the man’s hand with all his might.

 

Crack. There was the sound of bones breaking.

 

The man clenched his bloodied teeth and suppressed the cry. But when Carcel shoved the sword into the back of his hand, he couldn’t take the pain any longer and let out a moan.

 

“Ahg!”

 

“He’s only three years old….”

 

He thought of Theo who was now sleeping, and Carcel managed to suppress his anger.

 

Yes, Theo is not dead now, and he is alive and well. That fact calmed him.

 

  

Carcel is the question.

 

“Who’s behind you?”

 

“Ugh.”

 

“This isn’t something a guild does alone, who is it?”

 

“There is no such thing, heck.”

 

The man burst out laughing as he vomited blood. His death was imminent, but his face was rather calm.

 

“Everything is of my own plan. For the past three years, I’ve only dreamed about this day and set it up.”

 

“…………”

 

“So kill me.”

 

Carcel did not believe him. He asked again in a low voice.

 

“I will ask again, who is behind you?”

 

“There is no such thing.”

 

The man who was struggling to keep talking left a meaningful comment.

 

“You seem to have gotten more grudges than I could have imagined.”

 

“What is this ….”

 

But he could no longer hear the answer. The man vomited an incomparable amount of blood and then his head fell off.

 

It was suicide.

 

“What do you mean by that ?”

 

Carcel got on his knees and grabbed the man by the collar, but the man had already stopped breathing.

 

“My Lord .”

 

The knight who was watching from behind grabbed Carcel’s shoulder.

 

“It’s over he’s dead.”

 

Carcel stood pondering the man’s last words. He ordered after he wiped the blood off his sword.

 

“Let’s bring all the remaining materials.”

 

The knight bowed his head, placing his right fist over his left chest.

 

“Yes my lord.”

 

***

 

Carcel returned to the mansion and went to Theo’s room as if nothing had happened.

 

It was already past midnight and when he went inside he was asleep.

 

After seeing his flawless face, he relaxed and sat down beside the bed.

 

He couldn’t relax as he led his horse all the way here for fear that Theo might get into some trouble while he was away.

 

Remember the days of frantically searching for Theo after his disappearance.

 

If something happened to this child, how could I be sane now?

 

Carcel tried to feel the child’s face with his trembling hand, but he was startled when he saw the red blood on his hand which he had not washed yet.

 

He had never touched the child with such a dirty, evil hand.

 

The moment Carcel was about to leave Theo’s room to take a shower.

 

“… Duke?”

 

A gentle voice was heard right next to him. Carcel recognized the voice immediately and turned his head slightly.

 

His heart was beating very fast,like a child had been caught doing something wrong.