The Strongest Brother Lost His Memory Chapter 105

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“Haaah!”

Julian jolted awake.

“Lord Julian! Are you conscious?”

The face of a maid was the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes.

“You suddenly collapsed...”

Julian shot upright and looked around.

“Yuta! Where’s Yuta? That squinting bastard with the smug grin—where is he?!”

“Pardon?”

The maid blinked in confusion.

“He’s in the tower... But how do you even know that Lord Yuta ca to the estate?”

Julian didn’t even bother answering—he bolted out the door.

He’d only overheard Caliban and Zahid talking about Yuta briefly—was he really in the tower?

Was Caliban actually going to tear him apart? It was completely within his capabilities.

During that brief unconsciousness, a sliver of Julian’s mory had returned.

“I’m the one who’s supposed to die alone in silence, so why do you get to act all noble?”

Before losing his mory, Julian had gone to Yuta.

‘So that damned theological library looked familiar because I went there!’

And he’d asked him to die.

To quietly die alone—for Rosie’s sake, according to the plan.

‘...That’s kind of ssed up.’

Maybe because he hadn’t regained all his mories yet, that version of himself felt like a stranger.

‘I an yeah, our little girl is important, but asking soone to shut up and die? What the hell was wrong with ?’

Julian ran hard, gasping for breath. He had the terrifying feeling that if he didn’t, Yuta might actually die.

And just as he reached the tower—

“Brother!”

He wasn’t the only one running to the tower.

“You—how did you...”

He t Rosie at the tower entrance, riding Fire.

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How long had I been unconscious?

When I opened my eyes, worried faces ca into view. Zahid and Ethan.

“Rosie okay? You awake?”

Ethan asked in a panic.

When I slowly nodded, Zahid let out a deep sigh and said,

“It’s all done. Everything went according to your plan.”

“...Huh?”

“Chloe, Yuta—everyone acted exactly as you predicted. Chloe’s in the underground prison now, and Assistant Yuta... he’s in the tower...”

“What?”

I shot up.

Clara’s illusions weren’t just nightmares—they were based on real events. I realized that now.

And all those blurry, floating mories began to snap into place.

“I just... want to save her sohow. I’m the only brother she has left now...”

Yuta had definitely said “brother.”

Yuta and Julian were the sa age.

They couldn’t have the sa mother, so that ant they must share a father.

And right after I was locked up in the Temple, Yuta had absorbed all of my divine power. After that, he was chosen by a Divine Beast and died.

Back then, I hadn’t known much, so Zahid had just told , “He died because he forced a Divine Beast’s recognition.”

“Your divine power... actually hasn’t worked at all since your real birthday. It’s been a while since you took the sedative.”

My real birthday was the day Yuta had scheduled a private eting with .

“Whatever it is, you don’t need to worry about it. Children’s problems are things adults should solve.”

So that was when he took my divine power.

I rembered the strawberry cake I’d eaten that day.

Did that an he knew my real birthday?

‘He arranged that eting just to celebrate my birthday, didn’t he?’

Things had played out differently since the regression, but one thing remained the sa: Yuta had taken my divine power to keep the Temple from detecting it.

‘Right. Finally, it’s all starting to make sense.’

I always wondered how soone like —a re apprentice—could suppress Zahid’s mana rampage and beco Athena’s master.

I even used a Sacred Relic to reverse ti.

‘It turns out I had imnse divine power all along! I don’t know why, but Yuta’s been hiding that fact for until now!’

So from the very mont Yuta found —

“Divine Beast. What about the rabbit?”

I asked urgently. Zahid furrowed his brow.

“He wanted to stay with Yuta, so we let him—”

“No!”

I bolted out the door.

Yuta might die.

Just like before the regression.

For .

So that I could live a peaceful, normal life, never knowing a thing.

Even though the future was changing, this one thing might not.

‘I didn’t even know that and used Assistant Yuta to set up a trap...’

Fire approached like he sensed my panic.

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I mounted Fire swiftly and whispered,

“The tower...”

Tears were already streaking down my cheeks. Zahid had said earlier that Yuta was in the tower.

“To the tower... ugh, to Assistant Yuta...”

The mont I said his na, my throat choked up.

“Go up through the central garden, ugh, and then to the right, and there, hic, the tallest—”

I couldn’t finish the sentence.

But Fire seed to understand my heart and took off at full speed.

Behind , Ethan and Zahid followed. And at the tower entrance—we ran into Julian.

“Brother!”

“You—how did you...”

It had been a long ti since I’d seen Julian, but there was no ti to talk.

The mont our eyes t, we both realized we were after the sa person.

And then—

Thudthudthudthudthud!

The ground began to shake.

“No... No!”

Unless it was a Divine Beast, no force could cause this kind of tremor.

Then the selection had begun.

Was Yuta planning to detonate and die with my divine power?

“Don’t!”

I clutched Fire tightly.

“I’m coming too!”

Julian grabbed onto Fire’s waist, wrapping his legs around the tail in a ssy grip.

Without hesitation, Fire shot straight up through the quaking tower.

Far off in the distance—we saw Yuta. And the rabbit Divine Beast in his arms.

There was no guard, but a heavy lock blocked the staircase entrance.

“You bastard, don’t you fing die! You fing piece of sh*t, who said you could just die on your own?!”

Julian cursed as he yanked a piece of wire from his pocket and jamd it into the lock.

Amazingly, the prison door clicked open.

“STOP!”

There was no ti to be amazed by his lock-picking skills. I scread as I ran through the open door.

“Stop it!”

I knew instinctively. The Divine Beast selection was in progress.

Yuta was staring at Julian and with dazed eyes.

“Stop! Please, stop!”

I practically tore the rabbit from his arms and held it close.

The rabbit shook its head.

“Ah...”

My mind went blank for a second.

The selection had already begun.

Once it ended, Yuta would die—with my divine power.

I t the rabbit’s eyes.

Tears welled in its pitch-black pupils.

“You.”

In the trembling prison cell, I looked the rabbit in the eye and asked firmly,

“Do you want this?”

“No, you don’t.”

I could feel it.

Even though I was seeing this rabbit Divine Beast for the first ti, I knew.

No sentence like “The Divine Beast didn’t choose Yuta” could explain this.

The rabbit Divine Beast liked Yuta.

But if it chose him, he would die.

No human could withstand three clashing divine energies.

His own. The Divine Beast’s. Mine.

It was a matter of order. If Yuta had been planning to absorb my divine power from the beginning, then the Divine Beast’s recognition would an his death.

“Then stop.”

I pleaded with the rabbit.

“Please... stop. Please, stop.”

There was so kind of noise from outside. But it was just a low hum. I couldn’t make it out.

It felt like the whole world had faded, and only the rabbit and I were left.