Episode 1
“Don’t you know that my brother is strange!”
bang!
Allen slammed the table hard even though his father was in front of him.
The father did not respond, despite what he could accept as a disregard for the state’s authority.
I just look at him with a cold face.
As he was about to open his mouth once more, his father asked softly.
“Allen, are you Allen Reinhardt or my son Allen?”
I couldn’t understand the intent of my father’s question.
Allen and Allen Reinhardt.
The individual Allen and Allen Reinhardt of the Reinhardt family were both him. You can’t separate the two, and you can’t be a different person.
“… His father’s son, Allen, is me, and so is Allen Reinhardt.”
“right.”
My father sneered at those words.
“If so. If you can’t tell the two apart… Doesn’t it matter either way?”
“What… .”
My thoughts stopped for a moment at my father’s words.
“I mean.”
His voice was deep and there was a faint smile.
“I can do anything to revitalize my family. Even if that… .”
As the father continued his words, the lamp in the office turned off, drawing a dark shadow.
“… Even if the devil took the body of his son.”
At that moment, the figure of his father was obscured by the shadows, but perhaps.
might have been smiling
I couldn’t say anything about it.
* * *
I was a bad brother.
Yes, the naughty older brother who is jealous of his younger brother.
For me, Julius was nothing more than a competitor threatening the successor’s position.
My bright personality was compared to the hard me.
His outstanding magical talent evoked a sense of inferiority.
That’s why I didn’t like Julius.
Isn’t it natural?
I can also hear the servants gossiping nearby.
The gaze compared to me since I was young was just boring.
“Brother, if you have time, please… ?”
“No, I can’t because I’m busy.”
Even though the younger brother had done nothing, he could not look at him with good eyes.
“Hehe, there’s nothing I can do about it.”
I hated my brother, and he liked me.
So, I still remember.
The day I changed my brother’s perception.
What I decided to live for my brother.
The day that I brought a magic book to me, saying that my brother was a gift to me, who was stuck in my study after losing the battle with my brother.
“Hyung, this is the magic book I got this time… .”
I was happy on the inside, but outwardly I shouted that I didn’t need it.
However, the younger brother smiled and handed the magic book, and ran away without it.
At first I didn’t even want to read it, but after reading a few pages out of curiosity, I fell in love with it.
When I came out of the library a few days later, I wasn’t even mad because I was researching a new magic book.
When I found my brother with gratitude, the news I heard was shocking.
“Well, I heard that the second Confucius had lost the magic book he was writing about Grandel, the lord of the tower… .”
Upon hearing the shocking news, he hurriedly went to his father with the magic book his brother had given him, but the situation had already grown out of control.
Angered at the disciple’s loss of the magic book, the master broke his circle.
In the end, the situation was rectified by the magic book I visited, but it had already happened.
The younger brother worked with the expectation that he would be scolded, but he did not seem to think that he would destroy the circle, the life of a wizard.
stupid bastard Doing something like that just to relieve your brother’s anger.
It was then that I saw my brother cry for the first time.
Since then, my brother has changed.
He was close to alcohol and women, and was not shy about verbal abuse and violence.
Still, to him, he was a kid who pretended to be normal and laughed hard.
The second Confucius, who smiled at everyone, was respectful and respectful, was no longer there.
All that was left was a ragged, rotten raven hiding its insides.
It was my brother why.
why.
“Why are you here?”
This place is only available to those belonging to Reinhardt.
Who are you, why, how
“Isn’t this the place for you to be?”
The training ground, which was noisy at the sound of his voice, turned into silence.
As I got closer, I saw the man’s face.
The same face as his brother, but the contents inside were different.
“Isn’t that your brother?”
Sweat was all over his body, probably because he was training with the soldiers.
A fairly regular footstep and breathing, and the reverberation of mana that even Allen’s level of skill would not know.
The thought that maybe it was his mistake or that it was actually his younger brother, his expression turned coldly for an instant at the magic that spewed out from his lower abdomen.
Although the younger brother, who was gifted with magic, had an active personality, he did not like to train his body.
But what? fence? under.
“You usually didn’t like moving, didn’t you? We’ll just have a drink and drink like we used to in the room, so why did you come out?”
“haha… . My brother and I are trying to change too.”
The guy laughed and scratched his head.
Anger rose at the sight.
My younger brother had never seen him smile like that.
Being a nobleman, he was more careful about his dignity and behavior as he was a nobleman, and he was smart enough to distinguish between public and private despite his young age.
He did not interfere with his subordinates if it was not for public affairs, whether the soldiers would be burdened, and always used the training ground exclusively for direct lineage.
You don’t get caught doing something like this?
His gaze turned to the knights in various places in the gymnasium.
Those who escorted the younger brother before he changed.
Therefore, those who know even the smallest habit, those who will notice a sense of incongruity in the way they breathe, every step, and spit out.
There is an article that Myungsaek serves his younger brother!
“under.”
The fact that such people were silent made my teeth ache.
In the midst of that, the guy came closer with a smile on his lips.
“But what happened to my brother… .”
“Okay, seeing your vulgarity makes me wonder if I need to tell you. I will go first.”
No answer was heard.
I didn’t want to talk anymore with the guy in his brother’s shell.
So time passed.
He put a lot of work into it as if he was going to prove that he was trying to change.
As if he knew the future, he excavated hidden dungeons throughout the territory, and he made an external contribution by finding out in advance the potential for great damage.
He even rescued Young Ae from danger like a coincidence, selected talented people who were hiding somewhere, and raised the status of the land by making connections on the royal road that could not have been dreamed of.
Rumor has it that he now travels around the world to prevent catastrophe.
My father gave him a lot of public death as if he was a real father, and he acknowledged and praised him.
Allen had no choice but to applaud the funny, disgusting play.
Do the others know?
Behind his brightly smiling back, what he did.
‘How do you see people?’
Allen, who watched him closely, knew that he was buried in his walk and could not be seen.
The ugliness hidden behind his laughter.
There was only one thing he did while his younger brother became famous.
No, that was the only thing I knew how to do.
‘Magic Studies.’
There were already many rumors in the mansion that the first Confucius was crazy about magic, or that he had touched forbidden magic, but he didn’t really care.
Such an insult had already done nothing to impress him.
“There are too many people who have forgotten you.”
Most of the people in the mansion follow his steps as if he had already forgotten his real brother.
father?
Already, the father didn’t care whether he was the real son or not.
He becomes the embodiment of a mad lust for power and only thinks about revitalizing the territory. So I would have condoned his actions.
mother?
It had been a long time since my mother passed over to luxury items including cosmetics that he gave me.
The sudden luxuries were enough to change her frugal mother’s personality.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been busy with the social world and left my hands on the internal affairs of the territory.
knights?
There were those who knew that the younger brother had changed, and there were those who sincerely followed the results he had achieved.
I passed by one. Wouldn’t it be two people?
Me too, if I, my older brother, don’t save my younger brother, who will save you?
So… .
“wait a moment.”
Allen opened the book again.
Summoning, Dimensionality, Soul Separation, Soul Renewal, Contracts, Summoning Contracts, Contract Understanding, Translocation, Space Separation, Space Utilization, and much more.
did a lot of research.
In the meantime, I searched numerous sources for similar cases like this, but I did not get much income.
Most of them are just possessed by demons or ghosts.
I was even more nervous because I secretly called the priest and confirmed that it had nothing to do with it.
A little more data was needed.
More data.
“Damn you fucking feet!”
data were scarce.
No, not the material, but his own, his ugliness talent was holding him back.
Now, with a little, a little inspiration, I could complete the magic.
The direction of research has long been established.
If we can’t find out his identity, wouldn’t it be better to cut off ties with the body?
The research that started with that idea has made a lot of progress, and now it is about to be completed.
But,
“You lack talent? Ha ha ha ha ha.”
For a long time, years, and the fruits of his life, he could not approach it even though it was only one step ahead.
Most of the family power has already been transferred to his younger brother, and while he was confined to the laboratory, he was deprived of his successor position for a long time.
It was a study that invested all the money that had been raked up and the remaining slush funds somehow.
It was a study invested with borrowed money while selling his brother’s name with a brazen face.
“If this fails, if it fails… .”
There is no one who will remember your brother.
The actions committed by Julius’s body could no longer be stopped.
I couldn’t stop it, and I couldn’t let it go.
A book with a red cover caught my eye when I looked around in an anxious mood.
It was a demon contract spell book that I accidentally got while researching contract magic.
Even if you dip your feet in black magic… . It was also his last hesitation that he never fully unfolded.
“If that’s the case, if it’s the devil… .”
After all, the devil is an existence of equivalent exchange.
Unless you’re too greedy… . If you’re looking for just a small piece of inspiration… .
“Would it be okay?”
I stopped breathing at the words that came out without me knowing, but I couldn’t deny that my heart was already shaken.
I saw a mirror.
A middle-aged man with wrinkled, white hair.
Even though he was still in his 20s, was it the price he devoted his life to researching? Today, the old body looked even worse.
messed it up
okay.
“I ruined your life, now I have to save you, right?”
Evil repays evil.
Even if the end of the price is death.
He giggled in the empty cell and picked up the red book.
Okay, now there’s nothing to fuss about.
Really, nothing.
Allen bit his lips again and again, which had already been bitten several times, and shouted desperately.
“Devil! Isn’t this enough! Already I have made many sacrifices!”
I thought it would be a little sacrifice.
But whether the value of the required knowledge was expensive, or was it the devil’s tricks?
More than twice the amount of sacrifice already expected had to be dedicated to the altar.
I heard that he was in charge of investigating the case at Yeongju Castle.
At that time, when my heart was pounding with anxiety, the devil, who was quietly savoring the dark red flesh, opened his mouth.
“okay… . That’s enough. Contractor, pay for the contract you asked for… .”
When the magic circle drawn in blood glows red, the contract is about to be completed.
bang-
“Also… . You were my brother.”
The guy who smashed the door and came in looked around the room with eyes he knew it would be.
Standing in the magic circle of the Five Mangseong Fortress full of blood-stained floors, skulls piled on the altar, and unidentified flesh, I was like a perpetual demon contractor.
He opened his mouth as if he knew everything.
“… I knew you owed the top floor by selling my name.”
Behind him, dozens of paladins, priests, and knights of the family could be seen with astonishing expressions on their faces.
“still… I just passed it on because it’s family.”
I couldn’t contain the anger that built up at those words.
“If I had known how to use it this way, I would… .”
“family? are you family? what was the ugly thing you did? How can my good little brother say that? Did you know that I didn’t know?”
“… That, what!”
He smiled in embarrassment as he didn’t even think he would hear such a word.
“Really, really, did you think your acting was perfect? You deceived your father and deceived your mother too? me too? Are the knights cheating too? haha.”
When he hesitated, he shouted loudly.
“Devil! Fulfill your contract!”
He knew that the devil had already smashed the door, and that everything had been prepared.
He must have waited until he died so he wouldn’t have to pay the contract.
This guy, that guy, everyone.
“Ugh, yes. I will fulfill the contract.”
The devil pressed his bloody hand to the top of his head.
After that, there was a piece of inspiration from those who were really longed for, longed for, and talented.
Magical power was realized at the same time as my head went cold.
The intertwined magic formed a metaphysical structure, forming a translucent ray of light.
“Hey, catch that demon contractor!”
Confused by his remarks, they acted late, but it was already too late.
no,
“It’s not too late.”
Push-
I can feel the shattering sound piercing my heart and the chill of the cold blade.
The guy was right in front of him.
Yes, you have as much talent as your brother.
If you have the body of a younger brother, you should do that.
But this too… .
“… expected.”
Blood rushed out from his heart. Allen’s complexion turned white in an instant, but there was a bright smile on his lips.
“Is it because you don’t know your brother’s talents?”
All the rest of his life was replaced by the drinking ceremony.
“what?”
He moved his body belatedly, but the blood that had already escaped became a part of the magic that made up the barrier that would hold him for a while centered on the magic circle of Five Mangseong.
How many seconds can you hold? But even that much.
“So… .”
It was enough.
“bye.”
“This dog… .”
I closed my eyes.
“gentile.”
Efforts up to now came to mind, beautified memories came to mind, and the past came to mind.
and
“dead,”
smiling brightly,
playful,
was very talented,
“—For my brother.”
—For Julius Reinhardt.
The sword of light fell down with his gestures.
“… You bastard!”
A translucent sword of light split him in half.
Then, with the sound of something breaking, a bluish mass came out of his brother’s body.
At the same time, something lodged in his body.
Allen watched his body twitch, and closed his eyes with a refreshing smile.
“… kill them.”
It was as if something was vaguely heard in my ear.
And when I open my eyes again.
“older brother? Why are you so blank?”
“… you.”
The man who stole his brother’s body was smiling.