I Sacrificed My Life, But He Was A Tyrant

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Chapter 40

He shouted, furiously pointing his finger to the air.

“What kind of idiot neglected a child who wasn’t even ten years old?! Hiding your little brother from you, huh? And now they told you to live as you pleased?!”

He gritted his teeth.

“Who are your parents? I’m in the mood to kill those dogs right now!”

After swearing at the top of his lungs, he looked back at me.

“No wonder you seemed off to me. You fell into a swamp, but you didn’t even struggle. So I went there to check and saw you crying silently. Now I totally understand why you did that!”

His earnest gray eyes touched me.

“No one asks to be born. You have a right to live and they robbed that right from you. They have never been on your side from the start,”

His gray eyes were burning with intense anger.

“Tell me. Were you born because you wanted to be born? Did you ask them to not have a second child? What kind of parents ask their child why they were born?!”

“……”

“Even if you lived like a rascal and murder people, they should have been on your side!”

A tree with a hole in its trunk eventually collapsed with a loud noise.

“Who dares kick up a fuss about your life?! Your life is precious!”

His roar echoed across the ice cliff.

“Don’t give up your life for those useless pricks. Do they think giving birth to you is everything? No! They are strangers. A complete stranger.”

“……”

“Don’t be swayed by other people’s words. Laugh at them as if you were listening to a dog barking. Focus on people close to you and listen to them. You can just ignore the rest.”

He said sternly.

“If it’s hard, say that it’s hard. Let it out to your heart’s content. No matter what you do, there’ll always be someone for you.”

At his words, I murmured quietly.

“There’ll always be someone for me….?”

“Yes! The one that stays next to you!”

“….Is there anyone like that?’”

“Of course!”

Is there really anyone who will stay with me no matter what I do? Even if I’m a jerk or a murderer?

He answered every question I asked him.

“Of course, of course!”

“Are you really going to give this to your little brother?”

“Yes. I really want to cure his illness. We’ll never see each other again, after all.”

His expression turned sour.

“I don’t really feel like doing this because of your stupid parents. If I could, I’d throw it in front of them and crush it.”

“You may do that.”

He looked at me in a daze, but I really meant it. This flower wasn’t mine anyway.

“…Never mind. I’m just joking, so stop making that face.”

Bloody hell!

At last, he swore loudly as if trying to let out all his frustration.

“Let’s go down slowly.”

“Hold on.”

When I raised my body, he clicked his tongue upon looking at a distant cliff.

“Looks like someone else has entered Mt. Nagi. If that person keeps screaming like that, he’ll be killed by the owner of this forest.”

Even when I listened carefully, I could only hear the sound of the wind.

“Is your name Li?”

I looked up at him in daze.

How did he know that?

“Somebody is coming to find you.”

But I was confined to my dormitory and spent all my time training. I’m not even close to my peers, I only had my eyes set on the sword.

I did meet Elon before coming here, but he wouldn’t have the slightest idea that I went here.

No one knows that I’m here….

‘But it’s Li, not Lerine?’

For a moment, I was reminded of Signus’ golden eyes. I met the precious third prince of this country by chance and we talked to each other a lot.

But it is unlikely that he would come. Why would he come to this dangerous place?

“What do we do? If he keeps going like that, he’ll die soon.”

My heart sank at his terrifying words. Just as he said, there was an ominous darkness swirling over the trees.

“I’ll go.”

“There’s a shortcut that gets you there. But it’s very dangerous.”

“I don’t care! I have to go!”

He nodded lightly and walked up to a tree. After tying a black rope on the base of the tree, he reached out to me.

“Hold on tight so you won’t fall.”

He pulled the rope as hard as he could to check the strength and jumped off the cliff with me.

Signus looked at the quiet forest.

Sweat dripped from his forehead and stained the ground with darker color.

Lerine went home, didn’t she? I told her that her family was here.

He scoffed as he listened to the knight’s words.

“Anyway, his mouth is the problem here. I’ll have to give him a good beating when I get back.”

Of course, Lerine mustn’t know about this.

His golden eyes gleamed coldly. It was only after meeting Lerine that Signus started pretending to be nice.

He pretended to be nice with all his might. It didn’t matter if his brothers and Ayaran laughed at him for being two-faced.

Thud. Signus put his sword to the ground.

“This way. I won’t be too vigilant.”

Damian continued to give advice to Signus.

Don’t hold it in. One day you’ll explode.

“I know. I know.”

His golden eyes flamed up.

“I’ve endured it, too. That’s why I came up with a few tricks to deal with it.”’

However, there was a limit to patience.

Signus, who had loosen up his strength, took a deep breath.

“Liiii!”

A loud noise shook the forest, and the trees around it swayed. A living branch flew toward Signus.

“Lilii!”

Signus knew that a second child was born in the Million family a long time ago. But Lerine, a family member, didn’t even know about that.

Does that make sense?

It was very strange, so he decided to run some background checks.

“Liii!”

Signus already knew how trashy her parents were, how they hurt and tore her heart apart, and how they drove her out of the house.

So he vowed to kill the beloved Million’s son in front of his parents.

But he didn’t expect her to disappear.

He really didn’t know she would decide to die without coming to see him once.

Thud!

He staggered due to the branch that penetrated his thigh and shoulders. His whole body was stained with blood, but it was the least of his concern.

There was only one thing that Signus wanted to know.

What kind of person he was to Lerine?

“I’m going to risk my life.”

Signus laughed at the branch flying toward his head.

I stepped on a tree and leaped through the air.

My legs tremble after jumping so far, but nothing could stop me now.

The yellow fabric tied to my arm fluttered wildly.

“Keep running.”

He drew the sword diagonally as he shouted. A large tree fell over the swamp. I stepped on the trunk of a tree and jumped.

“Liii!”

A black hair is clearly visible from a distance. I sped up my movement upon hearing Signus’ voice that was getting clearer.

Soon, I could see that a branch of a tree was going to hit Signus. So I reached out my hand and screamed.

“Noo!”

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