The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

97 – Scream

Looks tangled in the air. Looking at the obsidian eyes filled with deep emotion, I opened my mouth in a dry voice lacking in tone or emotion. There was no need to worry about this issue.

“I can’t.”

Ellie’s eyes shake at the rejection that came out of my mouth. A bitter smile appeared on his face as if he had been betrayed.

“Why… ?”

There are many reasons. The fact that Bella is the crown princess and plays an important role in the happy ending. One of the many reasons is that he must rise to the throne and finish ‘Bella’s Story’.

But there was no way to explain this, so what came out of my mouth was, as always, a shield called Roel.

“Because I am your brother’s lover.”

Ellie let out her big sigh. She frowns and casts her gaze at her incomprehension.

“What did Bella do to you… I do not remember?”

“I know.”

“Knowing that… !”

She grabbed my shoulder and shook me roughly, as if trying to get her to come to her senses.

“I’m not asking you to kill for me. It’s for Roel. Roel will surely be unhappy if Bella is by her side!”

“No, Roel needs Bella.”

A heroine who will do anything for the main character. A being who has no hesitation in getting her hands dirty, and who forges a bloodstained path for Roel to advance.

A person who will do the evil things that Roel, who needs to be loved by everyone, can’t do. A heroine who was created as a shield to accept criticism from readers and a being who lives only for Roel.

To Roel, Bella is a lover who is difficult to deal with and a mother who is not good at expressing herself.

“Because you don’t know what Bella did.”

Oops, I heard the sound of grinding my teeth. From the obvious hostility in her eyes, she guessed that there was another reason for her request to kill Bella.

I grabbed Ellie’s hand that was holding her on my shoulder. She asked Ellie, who looked at me with eyes startled by the sudden contact.

“Why do you want to kill Bella?”

“I told you. Bella did something unforgivable to you, and she hurt you badly. If such a woman is by Roel’s side….”

“There are other reasons besides that.”

Ellie’s eyes shook. She bit her lip and glared at me fiercely, as if wary of a stranger. But she did not release the hand that held her.

Receiving that gaze without averting it, I waited silently without urging Ellie to tell her the real reason. Ellie, who hesitated for a while, slightly lowered her face. With her eyes down, Ellie barely spoke.

“I am being bullied….”

The moment she heard those words, she felt as if something was pressing her chest. As if the tongue in her mouth had swollen, her mouth wouldn’t come off. I couldn’t bring myself to say words of comfort. He didn’t even deserve it in the first place.

“At first it was fine. Because there are a lot of people who don’t want to be close to me, so I moved on. As always, I thought I could do my best. But one day, her roommate called me separately and asked for a favor. ‘Please. Please don’t talk to me anymore.'”

It was a sad voice. In her watery voice, Ellie struggled to keep up with her.

“So I asked why. Why? Did I do anything wrong?”

Ellie raised her head. Her watery obsidian eyes were shining on me. Unknowingly, the hand I was holding was getting stronger.

“There are rumors going around that the crown princess looks down on me. When I wasn’t there, a 2nd year senior came to the classroom and told me to keep my distance…. So I went and asked Bella myself. Why the hell are you doing this to me…. You know what she said as Bella laughed?”

Ellie gave me a sad smile. She whispered softly as Ellie leaned over to me.

“I was curious if you, who likes me, would be hurt if you knew this.”

The emotion was calm. As usual, I didn’t lose my mind because I was swept away by something soaring. However, one side of her chest had been hurting from earlier. As if there was a big hole in it.

“I put up with you. If you, who have lost your memory, find out about this, I’m afraid it will be more difficult…. There are many days when I can’t talk to anyone. It was fine though. I was confident of being the head of the year, and I could wait for you to come back…. But you became someone else’s lover?”

Ellie, who continued her words while gasping for breath, finally couldn’t stand it and buried her face in my arms and wept at her neck. On her swaying shoulder, I silently accepted my resentment.

“I endured for you, I endured for you, I could have done it for you! You, you can’t do this to me… You have to like me as always!!!”

Is it because you buried your face in my arms and spit out resentment? My heart was pounding and I felt like I was going to stop breathing.

I had never thought about how difficult it was for Ellie. It was ridiculous for me, an inferior student, to worry about a genius with the talent to become an archmage in the future.

“Now you understand why I told you to kill Bella?”

I struggled to open my mouth at the sight of Ellie raising her head and looking up at me.

“But… no.”

I don’t think it was a cold voice. But after hearing my answer, Ellie’s expression froze. He felt that the hand holding her was very stiff.

“My, I had such a hard time… Still can’t… ?”

I answered in a heavy voice to Ellie, who stuttered her words and gave her a bewildered look.

“Yes.”

As if she was speechless, Ellie, who had been biting her lips, pulled her hand away from her holding her with a look of betrayal in her eyes.

“Doesn’t the position of the Crown Princess look good? Enough to forgive her crush when she was bullied? Why, are you doing this because if Roel and Bella do well, something will fall on you?”

I felt the pain in her chest grow louder at Ellie’s shrill voice accusing me. It felt like her heart had been cut by the blade of her words.

If I hadn’t had indomitable courage, what would I have done? Perhaps he couldn’t refuse Ellie’s request and killed Bella without thinking about what happened next.

“No, it’s the same reason as before. I can’t kill someone Roel loves. I know you’ve had a hard time. You can’t kill Bella, but you can stop him from doing that in the future. If you want, I can drag you in front of you and get on your knees to apologize.”

Bella is the heroine of the original story. She still has a role to play and a story to tell. Even if I hate her, even if I think of her wanting to kill her. In the end I can’t

The longer Bella is alive, the more the story flows according to the original story. It will be a happy ending for everyone. That was what i wanted

“You… You don’t have feelings for Bella, do you?”

Ellie looked at her with an unbelievable look. I shook her head with a sigh.

“It can’t be.”

Ellie lowered her head at her firm reply.

Again, the cheers of the crowd were heard along with the host’s shout from the outside. Unlike the thick silence between us, it is a shout full of heat.

After a while, Ellie’s weak voice was heard.

“Really… Is that why?”

“Yes.”

“If killing Bella is difficult, help me kill it. I can kill Bella without leaving a trace, just like the warlock did last time, just move her magic behind her back.”

I had no choice but to remain silent at Ellie’s words persuading me.

It was all my fault that Ellie had been having a hard time. The fact that Roel rejected Ellie, and the fact that Bella made her bully. It all happened because of me.

Maybe it’s because of his indomitable courage, but I can’t feel it. I knew instinctively that guilt and strong urges were seething at the bottom of my emotions.

“… Sorry.”

At my answer, Ellie, who was held in her arms, removed her body. When the warmth she felt on her clothes disappeared, a faint sense of loss remained in her place, as if she had been burned.

“Bella unfairly dragged you into the interrogation room, made her have amnesia, and made me her bully, but she said no… ?”

She nodded her head to Ellie who asked in a low voice as if confirming.

“Yes.”

Ellie twisted one corner of her mouth as if she was mocking my answer.

“Bella suddenly called me before the grade exam started.”

I frowned at the sudden remark. What did Bella do to Ellie again?

“Bella wasn’t the only one there. Your sweetheart, Luna, was there too.”

I was not taken aback by Ellie’s words and quickly looked back at my memories. I checked to see if Luna had ever told me that she had been seeing Bella, but she couldn’t recall anything. Is Ellie lying?

“Bella showed us the papers for the exam. Show allegiance to yourself, and if you do, Roel and her chief will be guaranteed. They threatened that if I refused, it would be very difficult not only for the chief, but also for the academy life.”

When she thought of Bella threatening Ellie and Luna, her fists tightened. She gnashed her teeth at her urge to hit the wall as hard as she could. Could it be that Bella had reached out to Luna as well, and her insecurity occupied a corner of her heart.

“As I said earlier, I was confident of being the top of the class. So, of course, I declined. I don’t know what choice Luna made. Because I got out of there right away. I knew it when I saw everyone trying to get me eliminated during the survival test. She, like Bella warned her, used her hand to get in the way of being chief.”

Ellie’s words reminded me of what Arya said. She attacked Ellie together, but she said she actually saw her get eliminated….

Realizing that Ellie’s words were true, her thoughts about Luna came to mind. If so, what choice did Luna make after receiving such an offer from Bella?

It wasn’t long before I could understand the meaning of the meaningless words Lucia, the head of the Faculty of Sorcery, had spoken to me in the quarterfinals.

The reason Lucia was able to become the chief.

Luna rejected Bella’s offer.

“So I was curious. What choice did Luna make? I found out later Just like me, Luna’s trial began and she was pinned down.”

I couldn’t express exactly what I was feeling right now. My heart was beating like crazy while my head was calm and rational. Anger and coldness. Caught in between, I didn’t know if I was making a bad face.

Looking at me like that, Ellie said in a voice full of ridicule.

“What did Bella do when she found out that you liked Luna? That’s right, Luna is being bullied just like me. Then you will get sick.”

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Now, I thought I knew why my heart was beating like crazy.

Hiding behind indomitable courage. He was screaming instead of me, who was so pitiful that he couldn’t even scream on his own.