Bridgette-san seemed to have lost all track of what I had asked and began to talk only about Kaisar. However, I listened carefully to what she said once at the beginning of her story.
The first thing I heard was that, if what Bridgette-san said is correct, the medicine I saw my brother taking is extremely addictive and damaging to the body.
“That’s not good…”
Just as Bridgette-san was too preoccupied with Kaisar that she didn’t look at me, I was preoccupied with worries about my brother to listen to the rest of her story.
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“D-dear brother! Please stop taking that medicine!”
The moment I returned home from school, I begged my brother to stop using the medicine.
As a younger sister, I thought my brother, with his kind heart and a strong sense of justice, might understand my worries.
Even if he doesn’t, he might listen to me.
With that thought in mind, I was desperate.
“Don’t you understand what I was saying the other day? It is the only medicine I have left.”
“But the money for this medicine is going to the dark guild! You don’t know what that means! If our father knew about this, he would disown you! Rather, it would be better if it were to end in just disownment!”
For me, my brother was an ideal man.
Unlike Kaisar, who had the environment but did not try to improve himself and used his power for his own desires, my brother never missed training in order to improve his ability and used his power for the good of the people as a nobleman. He aimed for peace, was my pride and an ideal man.
However, it was now the opposite. Kaisar is acting like an ideal aristocrat, while my brother is threatening the peace by funneling money into the Dark Guild.
And the fact that he buys medicines from the Dark Guild shows that he has no intention of judging the wrongdoing of that guild.
He’s hiding the Dark Guild in this territory, where my ancestors have maintained peace for generations.
The elder brother I know would not be that kind of person.
Perhaps he is being threatened by the Dark Guild and is using cowardly means to disobey them.
I am sure that is the case.
“Karendoll… What nonsense are you saying? It’s the opposite, the opposite. Our territory is peaceful because of the Dark Guild. Why can’t you understand such a simple thing? Isn’t it natural to give financial support to the Dark Guild because of it?”