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I Bought the Male Lead with Money – Chapter 113

113.

“Master, has your opinion not changed?” Keith asked.

The bird that conveyed Rector’s words opened its beak and cackled.

[I haven’t changed. You can brainwash that child Yu Jin if you want. But it’s also fine if you don’t. Didn’t I tell you before?]

“You did. But the repercussions will be significant.”

[It doesn’t matter. I just need to be alive with my limbs intact.]

From the beginning, Rector, although belonging to Leviathan, unlike others, didn’t have deep loyalty to the organization. He just happened to drift there.

[It suited me well enough. And the repercussions will be greater for you than for me. I’ll give you a chance, but I won’t protect you.]

With Rector’s shield gone, Keith would become a target for others. He might lose everything he had received from Leviathan so far and die empty-handed. Judging by how they treat traitors, even dying peacefully would be difficult.

[But you seem to have already made up your mind. Tsk tsk. Foolish boy.]

Despite appearing cold, Keith had an infinitely soft personality when it came to people he cared about. That’s probably why he had been able to stay by Yu Jin’s side without any problems until now.

Rector felt somewhat sorry for Keith. It started as interest, but after spending a long time together, he had grown quite fond of him. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been prepared to take a loss.

[I’ll remove the restraint.]

“Thank you.”

[No need for thanks. Foolish boy.]

“Am I foolish?”

Keith smiled faintly. Perhaps Rector was right. He was giving up when he could have everything if he just changed his mind a little.

A brainwashed Yu Jin would no longer look at Jinhyeon and would love him instead. And it would bring enormous benefits to Leviathan and elevate Keith to a higher position. Perhaps with Yu Jin’s help, Keith could even become one of the 12 Zodiac members of Leviathan later.

‘But I don’t want that.’

At first, it was painful. It hurt that Yu Jin had given his heart to someone else, and that he wasn’t the one who helped him stand up. So he forgot the resolution he made when he first joined Leviathan.

‘Why did I join Leviathan?’

To protect the young Yu Jin. He wanted to make the child who was always immersed in unhappiness and wore a gloomy expression smile. For that, he became Rector’s disciple and persevered. Leviathan used Keith ruthlessly, but he could endure because Yu Jin was precious to him. At that time, Keith was also young and didn’t love him the way he did now. It was just an action to save his cute little brother.

“We’re family,” Yu Jin had said. And Keith and Haruna thought the same as Yu Jin. Even though Keith’s feelings developed and changed later, Yu Jin’s initial words never faded. Before being a loved one, Yu Jin was always family who had been with Keith. That’s why Keith decided to throw away the lingering attachment deep in his heart.

It was hopeless anyway. Keith knew that Jinhyeon was similar to him. Someone who couldn’t look elsewhere once he gave his heart.

In fact, Lucid’s family head was also that kind of person. He loved Asha so much that he didn’t give even a bit of his heart to anyone else. He was cold even to his own children. So perhaps Ruhan died contentedly this time. He might have been able to meet his end in the arms of his loved one.

[It’s about time to go back.]

The bird nodded and gently closed its eyes. And Keith soon saw off the departing bird.

In the early dawn, Yu Jin received his first visitor of the day.

“…Brother?”

Keith came through the window, leaving the door untouched. Jinhyeon glared at Keith but didn’t stop him. Somehow, he had a different aura than usual. The gaze that always fiercely glared at Jinhyeon had subsided. And that appearance was exactly the same as Keith before Jinhyeon appeared.

“I have something to say.”

“What is it, coming at this early dawn?”

Yu Jin sat up in bed. Fortunately, this time they had just slept without doing anything with Jinhyeon at night. Thinking this while rubbing his cheeks with his hands, Keith uttered shocking words.

“The Family Head has passed away.”

At first, Yu Jin didn’t understand the meaning of those words and just blinked.

“Family Head?”

“The head of Lucid, Lord Ruhan. In other words, your father.”

When Keith explained kindly, Yu Jin finally understood. So Ruhan is dead? Yu Jin’s eyes rolled. Ruhan had gone after the villains to recover Asha’s corpse. But even though he took the knight order with him, he died instead of killing the villains.

‘This is serious.’

A chill ran down Yu Jin’s spine. Jinhyeon had become Yu Jin’s ally, and all those who might have poisoned the family head had been dealt with. Because of that, Yu Jin thought Ruhan might walk a different fate like Jinhyeon, but it seems that wasn’t the case.

‘The villains are most likely Leviathan.’

They had been persistently targeting Lucid, and this time they got everything. Usually, they would give up after suffering this much, but Leviathan was different. They were more evil and persistent than anyone.

“Lord Ruhan died because of Lady Asha.”

“I guess so. They must have taken her body to use it.”

Yu Jin knew his father’s feelings for his mother, but he thought he would endure because of his obsession with the family. It seems his heart had weakened more than expected. So he must have abandoned the family and died. Yu Jin’s certainty was partly due to Ruhan’s actions up to now.

‘Stay calm.’

Ruhan was dead, and Yu Jin was now the acting family head. Imagining the coming storm made his body tremble, but there was something more important.

“Brother.”

Yu Jin looked at Keith.

“But how do you know that?”

Yu Jin knew Keith had been doing something secretly. It wasn’t difficult to guess since Keith had started keeping secrets from Yu Jin at some point.

But he didn’t try to find out exactly what it was. During his troublemaker days, it was because it was too hard, and later, he wanted to believe in Keith somehow, so he buried it. But given the situation now, it was necessary to confirm the source of the information.

“You must have guessed by now.”

Yu Jin firmly grasped the hand Jinhyeon offered.

“So you were also Leviathan, after all.”

“Yes.”

Keith agreed neatly.

“Does Haruna know too?”

“She’s not stupid, so she probably knew roughly.”

“Since when?”

To Yu Jin’s question, Keith slowly folded his fingers. Seeing this, Yu Jin could tell when Keith had joined Leviathan.

“…Since I was kidnapped.”

The moment he realized the meaning, Yu Jin felt something hot welling up in his chest. Keith didn’t betray Asha and Yu Jin by passing information to Leviathan from a young age. If so, there was only one answer.

‘You sold yourself to protect me.’

The son of the nanny of the woman the family head loved. Keith showed outstanding talent in swordsmanship and was intelligent. He was a talent that Leviathan would have judged worth using. Yu Jin clawed at his tight chest with his free hand. Tears were already falling from his eyes that had become hot.

“Why, why didn’t you tell me!”

He knew it was a foolish complaint. It probably wasn’t a situation where he could talk. Not long after the kidnapping incident, Asha began to weaken. Then she died, and Yu Jin was abandoned by Ruhan. He became a being no longer worth kidnapping, but other wives still checked and hated Yu Jin. So Yu Jin was going through a difficult time. That’s why Keith kept quiet about his own pain.

He didn’t want to add more pain to Yu Jin.

Keith knelt in front of the sobbing Yu Jin and wiped his tear-soaked cheeks. Jinhyeon looked displeased but left Keith alone.

“I’m sorry.”

“Don’t, don’t apologize!”

Yu Jin thought he should be the one apologizing. Thinking this, he was about to open his mouth when Keith shook his head.

“Then you don’t apologize either.”

Yu Jin closed his mouth abruptly, and Keith continued.

“You said it yourself. We’re family. I don’t think family should apologize for things like this.”

In the end, Yu Jin let go of Jinhyeon’s hand and hugged Keith with both arms. Then he kept shedding tears endlessly. Even when Keith wiped them away, the tears didn’t stop.

“Your face will melt at this rate. Stop crying.”

Keith gently patted Yu Jin’s back.

“Come on, stop.”

Suddenly, Yu Jin remembered Keith from his childhood. The reason he wasn’t lonely even when he spent a lot of time alone was because Keith and Haruna were always by his side. With reliable older siblings, Yu Jin was able to endure until now. That’s why the current situation was even more heartbreaking.

Hyacinthus B
Author: Hyacinthus B

Hyacinthus

I Bought the Male Lead with Money

I Bought the Male Lead with Money

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Status: Completed Author: Released: 2024 Native Language: Korean
Lucid, a reckless youth named Yu Jin, remembers his past life due to a minor accident. Before long, he realizes that this world is the setting of a novel and buys the protagonist, a s*ave in the Colosseum, to survive. However, the protagonist is not as easy to handle as expected. *** Everyone has one wish they desperately long for. For Suho, an ordinary office worker, there was only one wish. “I want to gain passive income. Please let me win the lottery!” And he really did win the lottery. He was reborn as Yu Jin, a reckless youth with a lot of money from another world. Now, all that’s left is to enjoy life. *** Huh? This unfamiliar world feels strangely familiar. That’s right. This is the world Suho saw in the novel during his past life. [From slave to Emperor.] It was the story of a young man, Jinhyeon, who had a talent for slaughter, rising from a s*ave to an emperor. In the novel, the reckless youth of the Lucid family dies because of Jinhyeon. “That can’t happen!” Having finally fulfilled his wish, he cannot die here!

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