Chapter 11

Chapter 11 : He’s My Real Brother, Duke

Cassian laughed, hiding his true intentions, looking through the knights.

The young knight who was picking a quarrel about everything gave him a hard time.

“It would be better for a poor knight like you to volunteer for the war against monsters. Oh that’s great, amazing.”

Cassian smiled gently, then twisted his mouth and grabbed the opponent’s chin.

“Alas… Then, how about we have a spar?”

Cassian Gray, a knight called the flower of the capital, had a very dirty temper and a foul mouth, unlike what he actually looked like.

Besides, he was extremely passionate about those who wanted to undermine him.

“I’m gonna break your limbs, let’s see if you could still talk with that mouth.”

Cassian snorted, making a sincere threat like a knight who had already experienced the hardships of the battlefield since childhood.

The lingering knight shouted, with a distorted face.

“Ah, I’m sorry!”

He was struggling, but he couldn’t find his armor and ran away, naked.

In a brutal atmosphere, other knights left one by one.

Suddenly, only Cassian and the Knight Commander were left in the changing room of the camp.

The Commander muttered, kicking his tongue.

“Kill your temper. If the ladies see you like that, they’ll run away.”

The words made Cassian laugh with a cheerful and cheeky attitude.

“Well, I think they’d prefer being wild.”

Hiding his sly expression and a friendly face like a handsome man, he soon shrugged his shoulders.

“Anyway, it’s not like the flower of the capital. It is a problem because it is a flower of evil.”

Cassian laughed at the words.

He had no intention of stopping the spread of rumors in the capital that “Cassian Gray is a playboy.”

The ladies he meets frequently are only real partners for revenge, but what would be beneficial to explain one by one?

On the contrary, it was better to not be kept in check by political forces if he was rumored to be a playboy who only flirts with women, short-sighted, and a lunatic who was rapidly rising in the capital.

“So when are you going to the North?”

“Well. Once I get my pass issued, I will go right away. I have already sent a request for permission to pass to the Duke of Anais in the north.”

“It’s not much time left.”

“Yes, just be honest with me first. Why did you suddenly volunteer for the war two days ago? “

“Because it seems fun?”

The general manager stuck his tongue out.

“You’re such a madman…”

Of course, there was another reason why Cassian suddenly volunteered for the war.

One was the news that some of the servants of the Vietry family escaped secretly to the northern part where the monsters invaded.

‘The other was because I heard the news that my younger sister Astel had entrusted herself to the Duke.’

‘I have to find out why the hell is that softhearted kid ended up in the Duke Castle.’

He messed up his hair and recalled Astel’s letter that he had just received.

‘The Duke of Anais seemed to be a good man’, and the thought of the letter, which she would have written with a bright smile, caused a headache.

‘The Duke of Anais seems to be a good man?’

Astel was an innocent and lovely child who regarded everything in the world as beautiful as flowers.

But he wasn’t so stupid that he didn’t notice the evil mind of humans, like the Duke of Anais.

She was sensitive to other people’s hostility.

As a result, he was seriously suspicious of whether or not Astel had been brainwashed.

Did it make sense in the first place?

‘The Duke of Anais is a good man?’

Cassian frowned and changed into a sparring suit and moved to the sparring stadium.

While making fun of the pace, his mind was complicated by worries about Astel.

It was around the time of the conclusion that he should go to the North as an excuse for war and face Astel in person and talk to her.

The Knights Commander, who was following him, hinted at the letter.

“Aren’t you curious about what kind of person Duke Anais is?”

Cassian answered quickly. That was also the topic he was most curious about right now.

“They say that Duke Anais is terrible on the battlefield.”

“Yes, that’s right. There’s also a story that he could tear people apart with bare hands…You should be careful, he’s very strong!”

“How dare the Duke tear his allies apart?”

“It’s because we didn’t actually see it.”

The Knight Commander seems to hate the brutality of Duke Anais.

Looking at that expression, it seems that the Duke Anais has actually attacked a friend of his. Cassian Gray gritted his teeth.

“Oh, you also think he’s totally crazy?”

Thinking that guy and Astel are together. He was even more annoyed and wanted to smash a vase nearby.

Cassian, who tried to swallow his anger, stared at the Knight Commander, scratching his brown curly hair.

The weak Knight Commander said while scratching his hair.

“You’re insane to say out loud that he’s crazy… There’s no one here that would volunteer like you, and you’ll be beheaded if you go to the North with that attitude.”

Either way.

Cassian thought of a delicate younger sister who might be crying in the Duke Castle.

Astel was always worried about him.

‘Why are you so kind and innocent brother? Really!…’

‘I know. I’m also worried that I’m so kind and will lose money.’

Of course, Cassian never lost a penny in his life.

‘Astel was the only one that got lost because I wasn’t really innocent.’

(T/N: Astel was lost when she was young as mentioned in previous chapters.)

It was always him who put a knife behind the backs of the fools who bullied Astel.

But for his younger sister who would consider the whole world a flower garden, Cassian had been acting poorly and naive, and Astel was very easily deceived.

‘Yes, so I’ll protect you.’

I only said that but it wasn’t everything I haven’t had revenge yet.

‘Astel, listen to your brother.’

‘…’

‘Act like you have nothing to do with me. Even if I die, you have to survive, okay?’

Before leaving Astel, he was afraid that something might happen to her, so in any case she would be struggling to live or continue our family’s revenge.

‘I didn’t know what to do knowing that she ended up in the Duke Anais Castle.’

‘What the hell are you thinking, Astel? Did the Duke of Anais take you? Why did you go to the North and what’s with the letter saying that Duke Anais was a good person.’

With a sigh inside, Cassian went into the training center, twisting his facial expressions as they were.

Knights of the Rose Knights, who occupied their seats earlier, hurriedly avoided his gaze.

“That crazy dog must have gone mad.”

Cassian relaxed his muscles by pulling his shoulders with a ferocious look.

‘Let’s relieve our stress before coming to the Duke Anais Castle.’

‘Before that, we need to find out a little information about the Duke of Anais based on sources.’

(T/N sources – the Dark Guild which he was acquainted with according to Astel.)

‘I can’t wait until I get to the Northern Castle.’

His rather friendly-looking face smeared with a sinister smile.

‘I should ask Rachel about Astel’s situation and what happened to her that she ended up at Duke of Anais Castle.’

Rachel was Cassian’s informant from the Dark Guild, she was also a noble lady and the youngest daughter of a Count.

With that determination, he tapped his fingers to challenge the knight he had encountered.

With such a great misunderstanding, the three days ended.

***

The next morning, inside the Delphinium room at the Duke Castle.

I was worried about my innocent brother’s future and checked my plans step by step all night long.

‘First of all, let’s start with the people of Duke Castle on my side.’

Over the past few days, I had not been able to fall asleep on time, planning a strategy to charm the people of Duke Castle one by one.

Of course, I didn’t stay up all night.

I couldn’t stay up all night easily in the first place, because it was so comfortable that I couldn’t help but to fall asleep.

Fortunately, the bedding was very fluffy, so I fell asleep a little bit at night, and I slept a lot at dawn.

Until the twinkling sunlight poured in through the window.

I woke up in the morning sun while I was drowning in a long sleep with my small body buried in a soft sheet.

And… I jumped up from the bed.

‘I have to go to the treatment center! I’m going to be late? The warden might kill me if I’m late!’

That’s what I thought.

‘Oh, no. When I came to Duke Anais Castle, my life was reversed… ’

I lay back in bed with relief, closed my eyes and tried to enjoy my morning sleep, but I heard a loud voice from the side.

“Well, human. Are you up?”

Human… ?

I was about to lie down, and jumped up from bed again.