TSFA l CH 90

Chapter 90

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“Aaaaargh!”

Mario screamed in pain.

“Aaaah!”

Behind him, Kali and Alec froze in shock, staring at me with wide eyes.

With each finger I twisted back, I got to hear those beautiful screams…

“Aaaaargh!”

And in that moment, I remembered something from before I went back in time.

Once, because of Richard, I got so angry that I burned Mario’s hair.

I really was like a rabid dog back then.

I didn’t even bother healing Mario, who was suffering. In the end, it was our third sister who treated him.

That day, Christa came to me and shouted:

“Bania! What could Mario have done? Father ordered him, and he had no choice but to obey! I told you to forgive him! How could you keep burning him when he was already in pain? What’s wrong with you?!”

She was always the peacemaker.

Whenever I lost my temper and recklessly used Bless magic, Christa was the one who stopped me.

“Why… Why do siblings have to fight like this? Why do you hate each other? Can’t you all just get along?”

…Ha.

So that’s why, even though I already knew what kind of people my brothers really were, I still had the foolish thought of meeting them one more time.

Probably because Christa’s words from back then—Don’t hate your siblings—stuck deep in my heart.

‘But you’re nothing like him, Christa.’

It’s no wonder Christa—an angel in human form—sometimes acted like my leash when I was being a mad dog.

If our eldest brother tried to make her do something unfair, she would always resist and get beaten for it.

Her pretty cheeks were constantly swollen and bruised.

Even so, she tried to understand our brothers who couldn’t—or rather, wouldn’t—fight back.

She was like that.

“Ugh, I was such an idiot!”

I admitted it without hesitation.

Acting soft-hearted when I’m not like Christa at all.

“I was a complete fool to think I’d watch over you just because you’re my blood brother. Absolutely, completely stupid.”

“You, you…”

Yeah, pretending to be nice doesn’t suit me.

“Kali, make him kneel. He’s too tall.”

Even in this shocking situation, Kali immediately followed my words.

Thud!

“Aagh!”

Kali kicked the back of Mario’s knees hard, and with a scream, he fell to his knees in front of me.

I immediately slapped him across the left cheek.

Smack!

“You’re the one who killed Richard.”

It was Mario who kidnapped Richard’s lover.

Of course, it must have been on Father’s orders, but I still remember Mario’s mocking words.

While Richard was wasting away, I asked where he had hidden Richard’s lover.

“Why pity that weakling, little sister?”

“Mario! Please! If you keep this up, Richard will die!!!”

“If he dies, that’s his fate. Weaklings deserve to be weeded out.”

Even though I remembered that clearly, why…

Why did I ever think he was worth watching over again?

I grabbed his head and turned it toward me.

Smack!

Then I slapped him again.

“Yaaagh!”

As Mario screamed in frustration, I turned his head back toward me again.

“Ow… what was that for…?”

My palm stung. When I looked, the skin had split.

<Mirror’s Eye – Light’s Restoration>

I ran my left hand over it, and the wound on my right palm healed instantly. Mario’s eyes went wide as he watched.

“Y-you, just now… that was…”

“Surprised? This is nothing like your useless power.”

I smiled and turned around.

Through the collapsed building, I could see the open sea of the port city.

“If you’re so annoyed, why not whip up a wave and drown me? Oh, wait—you haven’t trained that much yet?”

“You…”

“Hahaha! Or is it because you’d die too, and that scares you?”

Mario’s face turned pale.

Now he finally realized it—he could die right here.

At that moment…

Mario’s expression changed ever so slightly.

Suddenly, boiling hot water poured over my head like a crashing wave.

“Agh!”

“Sis!”

“Hah—no! Don’t come!”

Shocked, Alec tried to run toward me, but I quickly raised my hand to stop him. Thankfully, Kali held him back.

‘That hurts…’

It smelled like tea.

Steam rose, and my face burned from the scald.

“…Ha.”

Was this pathetic trick the best he could do?

I wiped the dripping tea from my cheek and laughed.

The moment Mario used his power, I took it for myself. Instantly, I could sense all the “water” around me.

Since we were near a restaurant, even in this chaos, there was hot tea scattered everywhere.

<Mirror’s Eye – Depths of the Water God>

I took the nearest one and sent it right back. Boiling tea poured over Mario’s head.

“Gyaaaah!!!”

“Hot, isn’t it? I thought so too!”

“Hhh… ah… ah…”

Mario looked at me in terror and begged.

“P-please… Bania… spare me…”

“No.”

“Please… I was wrong…”

“No.”

I wasn’t going to spare him.

The only frustrating thing was that I couldn’t kill him now, and I’d be the only one to remember all of this.

Still, it felt satisfying to see Mario’s true nature so clearly.

The kind of man who could scald his little sister after not seeing her for years—without a shred of mercy.

‘Now, today’s results…’

I straightened up and let the sea breeze wash over me.

‘First…’

I learned that in Vassenberg, they’re tracking “Ratan.”

Since Mario is even suspecting Ratan’s true identity, I’ll need to rethink how to protect Märchen.

‘And…’

I decided Mario’s fate.

In my last life, Ryan had slaughtered ability users without hesitation. Now I understand why.

He must have thought, If they can fight back, why don’t they?

He was right. If my siblings had thought straight and joined forces, we could have easily overthrown our powerless father.

But they didn’t. None of them did.

Even after hundreds of failed attempts in my past life to persuade them to unite…

And yet, I still thought I didn’t have the right to judge them?

I was truly a hypocrite.

“Mario.”

I smiled brightly at my sixth brother.

“The next time we meet, you will die.”

“Va… Bania…”

“I was such a hypocrite, giving trash like you one last chance.”

And the result? A Ratan who emerged from a poisoned prince. A collapsed building. People buried alive.

If I hadn’t been here, this would have been a disaster that couldn’t be erased or undone.

And Mario did all this without a second thought.

“If I was stupid enough to give you a chance, you should’ve used it. Why throw it away?”

I leaned in close to Mario’s tear-streaked face and whispered:

“Now your name is permanently on my kill list.”

Then I straightened up.

“I’ll be back. So make sure you wait for me.”

I stepped toward the trembling Mario—

Smack!

—and slapped him one last time.

“The next time, you really will die. Goodbye.”

I left him with that final parting.

<Mirror’s Eye – Time Reversal>