He’s My Real Brother, Duke

The smell of blood, lingering on my nose, red paint like blood that stained the white linen bed.

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A man with a body that was too large to fit on my small bed.

 

With his lips torn, arms with deep scar with an unknown cause.

 

I swung the knife in my hand towards the man on the bed.

 

“It’s over.”

 

It took a long time to finish.

 

I put my knife down on the bedside table, and I quickly wiped the cold sweat flowing from my forehead.

 

And I carefully observed him.
I trembled, feeling the anxiety, and my heart was pounding terribly, and I couldn’t calm myself.

 

If anyone seen this suspicious figure and the surroundings, it would be mistaken for abduction and murder.

 

It was clear.

 

…Of course, I could never kidnap someone.

 

It’s just that, I’m a good healer who wanted to save the ‘Duke Anais‘ who was injured in front of my house.

 

I moved the Duke to bed and even finished his treatment, so I have now become his ‘Lifesaver.’

 

This knife that I was holding was also used for his treatment, to tear the gauze and nothing more!

 

I whispered gently as I wiped the unconscious Duke’s forehead with the back of my hand.

 

“You may not hear this, but… The treatment’s over.”

 

Fortunately, the fever went down, and the wound was treated.

 

Well, the reason why this man, who boasted overwhelming power in the novel, got injured so far was unknown.

 

But the reason why he fainted seems to be due to the outburst of his mana, so I prescribed a special medicine and fed it to him.

 

Now I am completely relieved that the treatment went well.

 

With a sigh of relief, I looked into his face carefully.

 

Certainly, he was the ‘God of the night,‘ and he looked reliable.

 

Like the dark night sky, his black hair looks the softest of all his features.

 

Long shades of eyelashes, straight nose, and slight shade under the cheekbones created a sharper atmosphere.

 

Even if those eyes are close, I think I could capture everything at once.

 

His eyes, however, were only obscured by his thick eyelashes.

 

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“You must get better.
Okay?”

 

I need to finish the treatment.

 

As I safely put the sleeping medicine into the man’s lips, I thought to myself ‘Oh my God!!’

 

“Because I’ve been waiting for more than three years to this day just to save you!”

 

Of course, even if I tried to think positively, I couldn’t overcome physical fatigue.

 

Maybe it’s because I worked hard all day, or perhaps it was because of the struggle of dragging this big and heavy man into the house.

 

“…I only have five minutes left to sleep.”

 

I thought so and started to doze off.

 

In front of the bed, while he was recovering.

 

 

• • •

 

 

I decided to sleep only five minutes, but I couldn’t cope with the fatigue that had accumulated in my body for a short period of time.

 

I was deeply asleep and dreaming.

 

In my dream, my past unfolded like a panorama.

 

It was no coincidence that I saved the Duke of Anais today.

 

In advance, I knew that he would fall in the grass, about 10m away from the First Treatment Center outside the northern Duke Castle.

 

The Duke, travelling alone to hunt for monsters, was forced to fall in front of a small log house in the forest because of mana instability due to the last war’s aftereffects against monsters.

 

That’s why the manager of a nearby branch office ended up saving him.

 

The Duke of Anais takes the manager of the treatment center to the castle and gives him what he wants.

 

The reason I knew this was simple and clear.

 

This was a fantasy novel, 『Bloody Revenge』. 

 

I was reincarnated as ‘Astel’, the younger sister of ‘Cassian’, the novel’s male protagonist.

 

Unfortunately, in this novel, The Fate of Astel and Cassian had a tragic dark ending.

 

We were born to the Count Vietry family, the most prestigious wizard family in the Empire, but our family was framed and destroyed.

 

Sadly, our parents sacrificed their lives for us, using the forbidden stealth magic that no one could trace.

 

Thanks to that, we barely survived the bloodbath.

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But what could a little child who knows nothing do?

 

Our childhood was challenging, sad, and helpless.

 

It was customary to be starving, and there were times when I was begging and begged for luck and was beaten.

 

Luckily, since my brother got a job as a stable keeper, we were able to eat even soiled carrots as one meal for a day.

 

Still, we enjoy living here.
Initially, there exist adversities in one’s life.

 

However, when I was ten years old, the problem began when I realized that I had reincarnated from this novel.

 

“The genre was revenge, and even the ending was sad?”

 

According to the original content, Cassian, who grew up with his younger sister, tried to take revenge for our parents.

 

As a result, he uncovers the identities of some of the spies who destroyed the Count Vietry, and was cleared of the accusation.

 

However, after he thought it was a happy ending.

 

Cassian eventually died at the hands of the final Villain, which he didn’t even know exist