My new life, won't you please become peaceful! Chapter 11

“I have the support type of the power of darkness.”, Salsaal touched his bracelet, “For example, imprisoning spells, confining spell and curses”.

…Basically supporting them to their deaths, the power of darkness suits someone as inhuman as you, Salsaal! If there were to be a vote for the most despicable being in the kingdom or the person who deserves to be executed the most, I’ll vote for you 10 times! But sadly there aren’t any, let’s note that down as a future project…

“However…Ca.s.s Bedivere’s different”, he stopped caressing his bracelet, I feel like its colour darkened, “this is because his is the annihilate type“.

“…”

“This kind of power isn’t as delicate or intricate as mine…”, the Prince curved his lips into a smile, I could see madness brewing in his eyes, “it’s rather kind to its preys…poof…and everything’s gone”

His sound was light…like a breeze yet heavy at the same time making me feel uneasy. “With just one hand”, it can destroy every single thing.

This…

“Isn’t that…great!”

“HUH?!!”

With this power, my lil’ bro will not have anyone force themselves onto him, cough! I mean he would be so powerful none of those pests from the knights of the round table will be able to come near him! For those ones you actually take a liking to, leave it to your big bro to drive them away!! Even if I may appear like someone who doesn’t watch soap operas, I actually do! Those kinda roles of a cruel stepmother or sister, who attempts to drive the heroine away, I’m well versed…wait, but don’t they all end up in a grave at the end?! That’s fine, let’s make a lists of all the characters who turned over a new leaf tonight.

But…what happened if my lil’ bro takes a liking to either Nigel or Haref?

Those are the two main characters! For Nigel, I could probably use our friends.h.i.+p to persuade him but for Haref, I…I…I will need to hug my lil’ bro tight and declare I’ll commit suicide if you choose him!

It seemed like my actions triggered something in Prince Salsaal, his face twisted, “Do you understand how dangerous this power is? It’s the power of annihilation, an-ni-hi-lation!”.

“Yeah I heard you! Clearly!”, I rea.s.sured him and flinched a bit when I looked at the other’s countenance, “And…so what? My younger brother has the power of annihilation, so what? Isn’t it the cool and exceptional?!”.

Salsaal scrunched his eyebrows together, “Cool and exceptional? Are you an idiot, a lunatic or just plain stupid? Annihilation isn’t cool! These kind of powers are dangerous, don’t you think your younger brother may ‘accidentally’ wipe out an entire town or kill some bigwig and put your household at risk! There’s also a possibility that he could become incontrollable and ‘accidentally’ kill you!!”.

I felt like something was out of place, Salsaal lecturing me on morality? Looking at his previous deeds, I’m probably just hallucinating.

“And..so what?”

“HUH?!”, his countenance morphed into an ugly expression.

“If he destroys this town I’ll runaway with him! If he kills anyone because of his powers, I’ll runaway with him!”, I beat my chest, “I’m a selfish person, I don’t care about strangers! If he kills someone so what? I don’t even know them, they’re total strangers, I don’t feel the need to grieve over someone I don’t even know!”.

I’m not a heroine nor a protagonist. Why would I have to be one of those people with high morals.

“You…You’re!!”

“I know it’s not right, it’s unfair and a dreadful thing to do but so what?”, I tilted my neck, “he’s my younger brother, why should I take the side of a stranger and defend them instead of my own younger brother. If it was ‘intentional’, I’ll do everything to make him repent for what he has done, but if it was ‘accidental’, I’ll do everything to keep him alive and make him rectify his mistakes.”

Salsaal knitted his eyebrows, his countenance visibly became more irritated, he bit his lips, “Are you an idiot? Hey! Where did all your morals fly off to?”.

“It’s still there, but it’s just not what you think of”, I replied and hugged my lil’ bro tight, “there’s no way a dead person can be revived, even if my younger brother were to die as a form of payment, there’s no way that person can be revived, the most the death of my younger brother could do is make the victim’s family feel a glimpse of justice and add another family who’s lost someone dear to them to the list that’s all”.

I asked myself.

What is true justice?

Is death the only way of repayment. Every time I surf the internet, I’d often see a craze desire to kill off all the criminals , this made me question myself, is this…

Is this what you’d call justice?

What if everyone spared them, let them live and make them repay for what they did instead, but when I say something like that, my younger sister would tell me that I’m too much of an optimist and because she saw it like that, I didn’t say anything further, I didn’t say what I truly thought, didn’t finish my sentence…

“I don’t understand why making them repay for what they did by making them live is considered being kind to the wrongdoers or why thinking this made me too much of an optimist…”, I looked at Salsaal, “since the criminal is still alive, they can still breathe, they can still feel, it makes them know, makes them see…the moment they’re branded by society as sc.u.m, the moment they are driven away from society, the moment society does not accept them…the moment where they can’t even die even if they wanted to, why do people not think this is a way of ‘repayment’?”.

“…”

“Why does no one ever think?”, I asked and scrunched my eyebrows together, “Why do they never think that death…is too kind”.

I’ve always wanted to tell her.

I’m not an optimist but I just see the world in the way I think it should be, a world which I can’t quite comprehend…but, she saw me as an idiot so I was an idiot, she saw me as an optimist, so I became an optimist if that was her wish. But yeah, I’ve lost the chance to tell her this…because you don’t exist anymore in this world.

Suddenly, Salsaal bursted out laughing.

I didn’t understand why he suddenly bursted out laughing so I decided to move away from him, in my mind, Salsaal is not a sane person…I hope my lil’ bro won’t turn out to become like him.

“Superb…this is superb!”, he laughed until tears streamed down his face, he was smacking his arms like he’d just been watching the funniest sitcom ever, I thought he’d finally lost it, “Death is too kind? G.o.d! You’re heartless, a fiend!”

…I didn’t ask for compliments from someone who plans to kill their father. He laughed until he was satisfied, after Salsaal stopped laughing, he lifted the corner of his mouth into a cynical smile, “Hey! I like you, it’s a shame, why can’t you be the one who has the power of darkness instead, it wouldn’t be so bad if we became partners you know? Aren’t you interested in becoming the future king’s advisor?”.

Wouldn’t be so bad your a.s.s!

Mr ( future ) terrorist, please don’t invite others to go down to h.e.l.l with you!

“Ah, well, it won’t be so long, we’ll get together eventually“, my eyes twitched at the words of ‘the person who can see the future’, is he secretly placing a curse on my life, “Place Ca.s.s Bedivere in front of me, I’ll seal his powers, if this kid were to suddenly run rampant and use his powers, everyone would know the ritual was a hoax”.

And you’ll be one step closer to death? Not bad…no, my lil’ bro would also have to die with him, that’s bad… Although, I don’t trust the Prince who wields the power of darkness, I love my lil’ bro dearly so, I could only walk towards him but it seemed I was a bit too far away, “come closer, it’s not like I’ll bite you”.

But kill me, right?…

Honestly, after staying in the same room as him for a while, the trust I have of him is negative. I walked towards him until my knees. .h.i.t his couch, Salsaal placed his hand on Ca.s.s’ head, I’m scared…this little brat’s not gonna squeeze my lil’ bro’s head to pulp right? But thinking about it, he’s one of Ca.s.s’ routes so…he probably won’t do anything to my lil’ bro, probably?

I calmed myself down and glanced at his hand which was emitting a black light, if Ca.s.s’ black light the other day feels aggressive, it could be said that Salsaal’s gives off a depressing feeling, depressing enough to make you want to jump off a cliff. In the future, if he started a satanic cult he could probably generate enough funding for his terrorism against his daddy…dammit, what I am thinking?! I’m the protagonist’s elder brother, my train of thought, please don’t drift towards the dark side! At this rate, I might even sign up with Salsaal’s cult unintentionally…

I was thinking about stuff before flinching when I saw Salsaal was bending down towards close, his lips are nearly touching my lil bro’s forehead. Before I knew it…

Bam!

…my hand moved by itself…

Those ruby coloured eyes glared at me resentfully and said in a low voice, “You dare hit my head? Do you have a death wish Gilbert Bedivere…”

“You were gonna kiss my lil’ bro!”, s.e.xual hara.s.sment! shameless! monster! I’m scared of you but if it’s for my lil’ bro I’ll fight to death!

Salsaal made a noise as if to look down on me, “Do you think I want to kiss a brat’s forehead? Someone like me can find gorgeous girls with pretty foreheads easily!”.

I nodded, “I know, I know, you’re a Prince you’ve obviously got enough money to buy those girls”.

Salsaal’s face became fiercer, “Heh, don’t you think your younger brother’s been sleeping for too long now, huh?”, the corners of his lips curved into a despicable smile, “I cursed the brat when he stepped into this room cause I didn’t wanna hear the cries of a baby…it’s so annoying, I’m afraid I’ll end up murdering him before I get to see his face”.

Wow…

You son of a b.i.t.c.h.

“…The brat you speak of is your future sweet heart you know, even though he might only be 7 months old right now…”, I smiled, you won’t kill him right?

“That was why I was surprised, how could someone like me take a liking to this brat? I am short tempered after all”, Salsaal scrunched his eyebrows together, something like an answer saying he’s definitely gonna murder my lil’ bro. I swear! If I get out of here, I’ll tell him, teach him, pester him to make him stay as far away from Prince Salsaal as possible! I’ll drill it into his head so that he’ll run away if he sees Salsaal within a 2 metre radius!

“If you won’t let me undo the curse, that’s fine since I’ve already placed a seal on Ca.s.s, even if he were to sleep for the rest of his life, it won’t affect me anyways.”, Salsaal said coldly, “As for you…even if you’ve still got your powers, your guardian angel…whatever”. Salsaal waved his hands as if he was trying not to say something…my lil’ bro’s gonna be asleep for the rest of his life and it won’t have any effects?

It’ll affect someone! A lot!

It’ll affect me!

“Ummm…Salsaal”, I smiled frankly, Salsaal raised his eyebrows, maybe he feels like I’m untrustworthy, which was why I decided to attempt familiarity with him, “Ahem…Salsal”.

…The corners of the Prince’s mouth twitched, “I swear if you call me by that G.o.d forbidden ‘nickname’ again I’ll murder you and the whole entire Bedivere household”. Sometimes I just want him to try meditating, maybe his anger towards everyone will decrease, King Arthur, you should take your son to the church sometimes!

Wait, is his nickname actually Salsal? That’s way too cute for him lol…

“Salsaal…I’m sorry, that’s why…that’s why, please undo my younger brother’s curse!”, the curse which you placed upon my brother and you’re not bothered enough to undo it.

“Nah”, he refused without giving it any thought, as expected of a secret character who plays hard to get, “I don’t want to see your face anymore, get out”.

“Salsaal…”

“You’re so G.o.ddam annoying! You hit my head when I was going to undo the curse, I’ll take it as you refusing my goodwill, what do you want now, huh? You should be grateful I’ve not cut your hand which slapped my head off!”, his ruby coloured eyes bulged at me in irritation, “Which is why, get out before I….oophm!”

Salsaal’s lips was sealed, his ruby coloured eyes widened in disbelief, I pressed his lips even harder and tighter, I don’t know if I can undo the curse this way but at least I’ll try…

Since he doesn’t intend to undo the curse, I had to ‘steal’ it from him.

I cried.

I’m sad.

My lil’ bro’s forehead’s virginity has been taken!

Salsaal lips are plastered onto my lil’ bro’s forehead, just the sight of it makes me want to cry but I didn’t have to think cause he was playing hard to get. After I stole the Prince’s lips and took my lil bro’s forehead’s virginity away from him ( I’ve always dreamed I was gonna be the first one to kiss my lil’ bro’s forehead! ), I ran out of the room as fast as I could while he was still in shock. I didn’t care about the old butler who also in shock, I fled from the mansion and jumped onto my carriage, I ordered the driver to go as fast as he could.

After the carriage has travelled a considerable distance, I sighed in relief…5 minutes had pa.s.sed…

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!”

I could hear a ghastly scream straight out of Salsaal’s h.e.l.l resonating throughout the castle.

Author’s note:

Salsaal –> Salsal. When you remove ‘a’ from his name don’t you think his name becomes cuter.

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The novel’s tag is #เกิดใหม่เป็นกิลต้องอดทน ( lit translation: if you’re reborn as Gil you’ve gotta endure it )

Character’s image for those of you who aren’t bothered: ( Art by linealucifer – the author )

Another chapter done~ honestly this one was deep and yes I messed up on Salsaal’a name, I’m sorryyyyy. I’ll post more pictures when it’s suitable. The author’s drawings are so good I’m crying. Wish I could draw~