He is obsessed with me after I saved him - Chapter 19

The Banquet hall was located in the royal palace.

Perhaps because all the noisy people escaped, only a few seats were empty.

Carlos closed his eyes slowly and opened them afterwards.

It was no exaggeration to say that this place was built without considering the number of people to be convened, so it was designed with magnificent architecture.

And the design was done by none other than Sollio.

Carlos’ other brothers were warm-hearted to those people who deserved kindness for the sake of many conveniences and causes.

It’s not that he doesn’t know.

Memories with his younger brother were buried deep in the past and lived only for himself, so he tried not to take them out.

Carlos had forgotten on purpose.

‘Because if I didn’t forget it, I would be shaken.’

An obvious fact. Sollio’s real mother harmed herself.

Carlos was unable to treat him the same as before after the terrible incident.

Sollio may not know the fact in detail, but Carlos is the only one who remembers it vividly.

That’s why he hated Sollio.

He was determined to hate it.

But why? Did he admit his feelings honestly now?

‘I don’t hate you.’

In fact, he wanted to get along well with his younger brother.

Carlos felt liberated as if he had found a way out of the road that had been tightly blocked for a long time.

The reason was unknown even though he knew it. One thing he was clear, however, was that Rose Lutiens’ existence once again affected his thinking.

… I’m getting greedy.

Carlos swallowed a dry saliva unconsciously.

The dry mouth was stuffy. He felt like he was helplessly nauseous.

The woman’s face suddenly came to his mind.

The thirst he had experienced once was getting deeper and deeper over time.

“It’s a relief that you look happy.”

At that time, a sweet voice came out from somewhere.

Carlos opened his closed eyes. Sollio stood on the podium and looked down at Carlos with a soft face.

He smiled softly and said.

“It’s been a while since I saw you. Older Brother.”

“….”

“How are you? Are you not sick anywhere?”

Sollio, who blushed with excitement, poured out the questions he had accumulated inside. He seemed to have wanted to say it for a long time.

A pathetic child’s eyes as if he was longing for his brother’s affection.

Sollio’s atmosphere remained, even though he was already old enough to hold an adult ceremony this year.

He was always a brother who died in every word Carlos said.

Carlos, his older brother, was nothing else.

He just distanced himself from him because he had a strong feeling of hatred towards someone related to his younger brother.

He still cared about his family in his own way.

If only the seeds of hatred had not swallowed themselves.

“It’s no use hating. Even if it wasn’t me, someone would have kept you in check, the first prince.”

A sharp voice that was heard as if piercing his ears.

The corners of his mouth and his hands shaking while pretending to be relaxed.

“Wh, why are you looking at me like that?” Do you think I’m pathetic too?!”

The woman who gave birth to Sollio, Cherileyn Lazaro.

Carlos still clearly remembered her eyes, which were filled with envy even 14 years later.

She always wanted the center of attention and was busy biting his handkerchief, with terrifyingly dark red eyes.

She was a timid woman.

A selfish woman whose fear that seeps in her heart is not enough and leaks outside, eventually harmed herself.

“Eeuuk…”

“Keep in mind, I’m always on Sollio’s side, baby.”

Childhood when he was inexperienced in using his skills. Cherileyn, who poisoned Carlos herself, laughed gruesomely.

Her bloody past, where she muttered like crazy, “There can’t be two successors of Deloid under the same sun.”

She thought it was from then. Strange rumors about Carlos began to spread inside the palace.

How terrible rumors had spread that he could have quickly become a prince who was dismissed and neglected?

There was nothing that an eight-year-old child could do at that time.

The only truth is between Carlos and Cherileyn, only those two knew.

“Don’t even talk about today’s work. Your seat is just here, Carlos. A deserted annex to this corner and shadowy royal palace. How beautiful and nice is it? Eung?”

“You, like this, can you be safe…”

“Haha. What did you say? Do you think I can be safe? Hahaha!”

Smack!

“How dare you?!”

“….”

Carlos closed his eyes as if the pain of the day was repeating.

The past that went back to the other side of his life. His body heated up with poison.

Even a small footstep of a child who was holding his chest while collapsing in a corner was out of breath.

No matter how much he shouted for help and winced in tears, no one came to help him.

While the king went on an outside patrol, Cherilyen blocked the royal palace.

It feels like blood is rising upside down.

The calm heart rate until the beginning of the recollection began to accelerate.

The past he doesn’t want to go through again.

‘Still, I am.’

Without her vicious intervention to him as a mere child, wouldn’t Sollio’s and his relationship have remained as one of the two brothers?

Carlos used to think of those things all the time.

When the day comes when the flow of the body, which contains a wide range of abilities, becomes unstable, and it is forbidden to go out, as if confined in a room.

He was drenched in cold sweat and went out one by one looking for the object to resent.

At first, his stepmother, Cherileyn. Next, her son Sollio, who was only four years old.

And the people inside the palace who didn’t come to help them…

The reason Carlos tried not to get close to Sollio was simple.

Because his anger has continued for decades without knowing the end.

He didn’t want to let his innocent little brother get into this mess.

After all, he didn’t hate him.

It’s just that the situation was like that.

Carlos confesses honestly only today, when he belatedly finds out about it.

“Lio.”

Sollio, who was leaning against a far-away wall, stood up correctly.

Sollio shook his shoulder at the mention of the name he had missed so much.

“Older Brother?”

“I didn’t misheard it, did I? I’m sure you called me ‘Lio’….”

Carlos was still expressionless. Even when he was an infant who played with toys with him, he grew up to be an adult and still met his eyes after a long time.

However, just one nickname that was not hard meant a lot to Sollio.

In their brotherly relationship, which they only thought would be lost forever, there is a possibility.

“Yes, Lio.”

Carlos pushed the chair, which had been seated, and stepped forward slowly.

There was no dark and pale complexion anywhere.

His internal conflict ended today.

The words of Rose Lutiens were all right.

“Someone said, everything is a matter of timing.”

The words that made him speechless.

“It’s said that what happened once is irreversible, but in fact, there’s a hidden opportunity to make up for it. Of course, if you miss the timing of the opportunity, you will never be able to turn it back.“

Right. Actually, Sollio did nothing wrong.

One step. Two steps.

Carlos broke the barriers that had been built on the innocent Sollio one by one.

I had to. That was right.

“I would have been very late. Thank you for waiting.”

This would be right.

“Were you well all this time too? We haven’t seen each other for a long time, so I think we’ll have a lot to tell each other.”

Carlos, who said so, smiled lightly.

The range of kindness, which had always been considered limited to Rose Lutiens, has once increased its scope.

It was great courage.

Sollio found that smile at the same time.

He became ice in place as if I couldn’t believe it.

“Oh, my. What… What has happened to you so far, Older Brother?”

He didn’t give him a detailed answer.

Carlos instead approached him without hesitation and hugged him tightly.

When he was young, he was a younger brother who barely touched Sollio’s chest. He grew up on par with himself.

Sollio’s perspective was also what made him feel that he grew up well.

Carlos laughed out loud and opened his mouth.

“You said I looked happy.”

Sollio stood calmly and nodded. Even if he was separated from his arms, he was never a face that discussed lies.

Carlos continued as if looking far away.

“I don’t know if I’m happy yet, but I’m confident that I’ll be happy in the future.”

It sounds like a meaningful word. For him, those were words that was a sufficient indicator of his life.

“Maybe I’ve found the light.”

Even if he tried to turn it off, it becomes brighter, so it’s difficult and it’s radiant.

Carlos looked back on all the memories he had that day and swallowed a smile.

“There’s no reversal of this light.”

As he said then, there was no reversal of his choice.

(TL: Th-the thing is… this just melted my heart ಥ╭╮ಥ, I am so touched… (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤( ･ั﹏･ั)