My Sister Picked up the Male Lead

“…”

Well, this was something I wasn’t used to doing.

My sister cried on the day she caught her first monster. That day I held my crying sister’s bloodstained hand, and now I was holding onto Knox’s. He flinched.

When I felt him tremble from my touch, I looked into his purple eyes.

“You didn’t avoid me. Just like ‘that person’.”

“Yes, I don’t avoid you. Though, I have no idea who ‘that person’ is. Are your memories coming back?”

“No. It was only a little. It went by in a flash.”

As we continued to hold hands, he took a step towards me and slowly lowered his head.

“… Can I touch you?”7

I slightly gulped and looked away. The tension in the air grew as he closed our distance, it felt as if a beast trapped me. Glancing at our intertwined hands, I opened my mouth.

“That’s why I said you should ask for permission before holding my hands…”

“I’m not talking about your hands.”

“What?”

“I said I wasn’t talking about your hands.”

His hands gently caressed my cheeks.

“Here.”

I took a step back when I felt his coarse fingertips touch my skin, but he took a step forward. Slowly, his hands traced down the lines of my cheeks before stopping.

“…Can I touch this?”6

He was talking about my lips.2

The moment I felt his trembling hands on my lips, I exclaimed in surprise.

“M-my lips, why would you want to touch my lips? N-no…”

Knox was holding me firmly in place, so I couldn’t move any further back. Instead, I covered my lips with the back of my hand and turned my head. If I didn’t block my lips, it felt like something bad would happen.2

But I could still feel his gaze, following my movements.

“Why my lips?”

“… If I can’t, what about your hair?”

“No. Why would you want to touch my hair?”

“Didn’t you say I could after asking for permission?”

I glanced at Knox from the corner of my eye and flinched. Wasn’t he too persistent? This was my body he was talking about. If I said no, it means no.

I was too flustered by this situation, that I had forgotten that Knox lacked common sense. This was why he was being so persistent. But it would be strange if I told him that I understood where he was coming from.

“That’s what I’m trying to say. Just because you asked for permission, doesn’t mean you’ll get it.”

Knox squinted his eyes. He looked a little dissatisfied, but he still let me go after squeezing me slightly.1

“… This is difficult.”

“People are originally difficult.”

“Why can’t it be easy?”

If people were so easy to understand, problems wouldn’t have existed.1

I shook my head at the thought.

“Just accept that it’s difficult. If you think about people more and become more careful around them, you’ll start to treasure them.”

“Were you trying to describe our relationship?”

“Huh? Uh,… who knows?”

Can we just have this ‘difficult’ relationship for a long, long, time?

It felt hard to look at him, so I turned my gaze away avoiding his eyes. Knox was trying to get closer to me, but for some reason, I kept trying to find excuses to face away from him.

Well, we couldn’t stay at the backyard for long. So, I handed him a handkerchief.

“Wipe yourself.”

Knox looked at the handkerchief unhappily. His stiff expression bothered me, so I kept glancing back at him.

“Sit here for a while.”

“Where are you going?”

“I’m going to cover the garden with some dirt. I can’t just leave it like this.”

“…”

There was still some splattered blood in the garden. My sister might be surprised when she comes home and sees blood, so it’s better to take care of it before she arrived.

It’s surprising, but my sister was more emotionally sensitive.

So, for now, I think it’d be best if we kept this from her. A lot of things had happened at once, it’s for the best if we could take some time to sort things out.

As I thought that, I tried to get up but Knox wouldn’t let me go.1

“Amy.”

Since when had he been looking at me so emotionally?

He was originally a man who looked cold. When I first saw him in his adult form, he looked exactly like how I imagined him.

He may have lost his memories, but he still would not hesitate to cut someone down.

“Stay here.”

But I could only be speechless when such a beautiful man looked at me like this.

“Don’t go.”3

“I’m not going anywhere. As you can see, I’m just going to the garden. So, would you please let go of me.”

“Whenever I look at you, I feel like going all the way.”24

His deep voice resonated throughout the dimly-lit yard.

“Actually.”

I noticed something subtly laced in his voice. It stood out to me because I had no idea what it was. I looked into his eyes. The face I could only see by the blueish lights of dawn was getting closer, before his eyes were right in front of mine.

“I want to see you during the day.”

My hair fluttered as it reflected the moonlight. Slowly, Knox reached out his hand and touched my hair that was flying in the wind.

“…”

At that moment, I thought of the little boy during the day who had been muttering the word ‘Estella’ at me.

“Your hair still shines at night. Just like a star.”11

The gaze of his purple eyes at night was just as sharp as it was during the day. The only difference was that his gaze now was somewhat deeper and more tenacious.

“M-My hair! It’s not that pretty even when you see it under the light. It looks the same now… It just looks like it’s shining because you’re imagining it to be. I-It’s all because of your imagination.”

“Amy.”

“I-I personally think my sister’s hair colour is prettier. Ha. Ha Ha.”

“Is that so? I didn’t know.”

“Knox, you haven’t had a proper look at my sister before, right?”1

“Even if I had, I don’t think my mind will change.”

Knox’s arms wrapped around my waist. His low voice pierced through my ears.

“The one I’m looking at is you.”1

Against his broad chest, I flinched when his hand grabbed mine tighter.

“… So, stop avoiding me.”2

As his goose bump-inducing voice entered my ears, I unconsciously touched his chest. Startled, I quickly took it off. He may have had his head lowered, but I could tell that his pupils were shaking.

His other hand that had been playing with the ends of my hair, slowly and gently brushed up to the back of my neck and played with my hair there. His careful yet rough touch reminded me of a big animal gently prodding its toy.

If claws sprouted out of his fingertips, I wouldn’t be surprised.

Just then, I felt a strange sense of déjà vu.

When I saw him hugging me tightly and his eyes slowly losing focus, it reminded me of a scene I had seen before.

I realised he was collapsing.

“Knox!”

He slumped on the ground unable to lift his heavy body. But he hasn’t collapsed just yet. Albeit Knox’s struggle to support himself, his arms stretched off of the ground.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s nothing…”

Looking at his dripping sweat, I realised why this felt so familiar. His state was exactly like that time when we escaped from the Gllyluses.

I immediately touched his forehead.

“Don’t tell me you dealt with all those mercenaries while enduring this pain?”

“…”

Knox’s body felt as hot as a burning fireball. I couldn’t tell before because his fingertips didn’t feel that hot on my cheeks.

Once he leaned on me and started panting, I knew he was reaching his limit. He had been moving and enduring this pain until he reached his limit.

“What did I say!”

I shouted desperately.

“I-I already said that your fever was going to get worse.”

“You… did.”

“How reckless. I already told you not to. But why did you still move!”

“Just because… I couldn’t do anything else.”

Could the situation be resolved without Knox stepping in?

No, it wouldn’t have. He did not say anything wrong.

Despite that, I couldn’t help but anxiously bite my lips. I hurriedly shook off his hands and laid him flat on the ground. I’ll have to first bring down his fever.

“Wait here!”

I ran into the kitchen and brought back cool water and towels. I soaked the towels before placing one on his furrowed forehead and another on his body.

“Urgh…”

I flinched when I saw his bare chest filled with scars, but only for a moment as I continued with wiping down his body. This was not the time to care for such minuscule things.

In the meantime, Knox stared at me, with his unfocused eyes. His eyes opened for a while before closing them again.

“Reynok!”3

All this while, he never let go of my hand, as if something bad would happen if he did. I accidentally called him the wrong name because I was looking straight at him.

The slow movements of his eyelids helped me confirm that he was still conscious.

“Knox. Knox! You have to keep conscious. Huh? Can you hear me? This poison can cause you to hallucinate when you have a high fever.”

It was obvious that the Tethes in his system was acting up again. When his fever gets worse, he will begin to see hallucinations. Most times it would only lead people to talk nonsense, but this poison was known for its strong hallucinations.

“… I’m fine.”

“What do you mean you’re fine! It has become a habit for you, hasn’t it? There’s no such thing as a person who can’t feel pain…”

I ended my sentence with a sob.

No. There’s no way. This is not the time to be weak. I realised it when I was wetting the towel that his eyes were closed again.

Looking at the sky, I opened my mouth.

“Morning?”

When did it get so bright?

Just before, it was so dark I couldn’t see an inch ahead of myself. Now, I can see the light from the sun blooming into the sky, just after daybreak.

Looking at the garden, I froze. I was so focused on Knox, that I forgot about the sky. What do I do now?

The sun had already risen above the mountains. Sunrise was already over, so why? I bit lips, unable to comprehend my current situation.

Knox’s eyes slowly opened.

“Looks like the sun rose.”

I could only feel frustrated as I looked into at his deep eyes staring at me in the morning.

“Amy, was this what you were talking about?”

I looked at him awkwardly as I grabbed the towels tightly. I had countless questions bubbling inside me ,but right now this male lead who had a fever took priority.

“Sleep.”

“…You.”

As I diligently wiped the sweat that had dropped from him, my hand was still in his.

“Yes. I’ll still be here when you wake up. Where else will I go?”

“…”

He stretched out his other hand, his fingertips slightly touching my cheeks. His purple eyes that had lost focus, stared at me.

Slowly, his hand slipped away before patting my head.

“… You’re still like a star during the day.”3

After muttering this he closed his eyes.

I poked the man who had his eyes closed. Whether it was because he fell asleep or he fainted, he did not open his eyes again.

“What the hell was all that just now?”

Only then did I bite my lips as embarrassment rushed back. It seemed like there was a bigger problem than the fact that he had collapsed. Because it didn’t look like his fever would go down.

Tethes was a poison that came in progressive stages. The detoxification process works the same way but in reverse. When my sister got sick by it a long time ago, she had also recovered from it step by step.

But the important thing is that a fever shouldn’t have risen again in the middle of the detoxification process. If that happens, it was indication of the poison becoming more aggressive and degenerative in the body.

‘That can’t happen.’

I should have dried him more carefully. Even when he was having a hard time breathing, I thought he would be okay since he was the male lead. Looking at him getting slowly hotter in my arms, I suddenly became scared.

“… Wake up. Reynok. Reynok. Please wake up.”4

Unknowingly, I called out his real name.

What do I do? What can I do? He shouldn’t have collapsed here like this. There were medicinal herbs all over the house, but feeding him those wouldn’t change the state he was in.

No. This fevered body was holding onto me for help. Whether it works or not, I have to try moving him. But once I looked at him, I couldn’t shake off the thought that things could really go wrong so my legs wouldn’t budge.

How could a fever be this high? His body temperature that kept rising and rising could only make me think of bad thoughts.

When I thought of the worst-case scenario, I held his hand hurriedly.

“Reynok. Reynok, please wake up. You can’t lie down here like this. Reynok. Reynok!”5

I didn’t notice since I had been distracted by his fever. But once I saw his legs that had been heavily bleeding, I realised that he was not only poisoned but also injured.

‘You’ve been enduring all this pain?’

Sad, I unconsciously clasped his hands tighter.

‘Wake up. Wake up please. You have to wake up.”

I waited for a long time.

Before his body moved. I raised my head in a hurry and widened my eyes, thinking that he had moved.

“What’s this… his wounds…”

Were his wounds healing?

I could see it clearly since it was bright now. As if time was rewinding, the openings on his flesh was closing tightly. Before long, the wound had been cleanly healed, leaving no scars. I didn’t see it wrong.

Not only that, through his hands that I had been grabbing onto tightly, I could feel his fever slowly going down. Furthermore, his breathing was going at a steady pace now.

Puzzled, I lifted my hand, to look at it.

Huaaa-

The pattern that lit up on the back of my hand looked familiar yet unfamiliar at the same time.3

‘Why was I seeing the same pattern as I saw in the book and on the necklace?’

It took less than 3 seconds for the tattoo to disappear. It glowed white before dissipating as vapor that blew away.

Then, saw a little boy who was breathing normally in front of me. A clean, unharmed body of a child…1

At that moment, my vision blurred.

‘I feel out of breath.’

I was panting as if I had just finished running a hundred meters. I was breathing just like Knox was just a while ago.

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I may have been breathless but my mind was clear. And I realised it… clearly this time.

“… Was this because of me?”3

The body that turned into a child’s only in the morning and his unharmed figure.

I looked at the child, muttering wildly.