Night seeped into the bedroom, the moonlight casting only a single cold streak across the floor.
At this moment, Renn was staring intently at the young girl before him.
He held her wrists in a tight grip.
Her slightly heavy breathing and stunned expression only deepened the paranoia in Renn’s eyes.
However, that paranoia was quickly replaced by confusion.
‘Hiss — ‘
‘What the hell? Where did I end up? I was just about to finish my thesis!’
He had closed his eyes for a second, and when he opened them, the graduation thesis in front of him had turned into a beautiful girl with tears in the corners of her eyes.
Renn wouldn’t have dared to dream of such a thing!
‘Brother, don’t mess with me. If I transmigrate now, wasn’t all that work on my thesis for nothing?’
“Brother Renn? What… what are you trying to do?”
The girl’s voice trembled slightly, snapping Renn back to his senses.
‘Brother Renn?’
‘I’m Renn?’
‘That unlucky bastard Renn who gets slapped to death by his enraged sister when her magic source awakens?’
‘And the girl in front of me is my sister’s childhood friend, Milia?’
‘Isn’t this the opening plot of that yuri game I played?’
Renn’s heart sank.
The Peerless Heroine Project was a yuri game that had been incredibly popular in his previous life.
The female lead, Lita, was the eldest daughter of a great magical family.
However, she was born with a dormant magic source and had been unable to awaken it, rendering her incapable of using magic for sixteen years.
Until today.
She would witness her brother attempting to assault her beloved childhood friend, Milia.
In a fit of rage, she would awaken her power and strike this source of all evil dead on the spot.
With her magic source awakened, she would gain extraordinary strength, beginning her journey as a peerless heroine who grew stronger while building her harem.
As his thoughts cleared, Renn broke into a cold sweat.
His pupils dilated in shock.
‘This is bad! I’ve become the sacrificial lamb?’
‘If I remember correctly, in about ten seconds — no! In five or six seconds, my sister, Lita, is going to burst through that door!’
‘Damn it! There’s no time!’
Renn intended to pull his hands away immediately, but because he hadn’t yet adjusted to the height difference caused by the transmigration, his feet stumbled.
Just like in the original story, he ended up pushing Milia directly onto the bed.
“Ah — “
Purely out of instinct as they fell, Renn used his hand to protect Milia’s head.
This instinctive act caused the shock in Milia’s eyes to be replaced by confusion.
She was a clever girl and quickly realized that Renn harbored no malice toward her at all.
His previous act of pretending to attack her had been very convincing; at first, Milia truly thought she was being assaulted.
But this subsequent accident made her realize one thing: Brother Renn was still the same Brother Renn.
Though he was taciturn and difficult to approach, he was an older brother who knew how to care for others.
But what would drive the usually calm Brother Renn to do something like this?
*Thud — *
The two landed on the bed, their eyes meeting.
Renn’s gaze, clear and devoid of any lust, made Milia’s heart flutter for no reason.
Her heartbeat began to quicken against her will.
Thinking of the developments that were now impossible to happen, her small face flushed a deep crimson.
Right then, the bedroom door was slammed open.
A blonde girl in a nightgown stood at the entrance, her pupils shrinking in extreme shock.
Her gaze first landed on the disheveled Milia pressed against the bed, then followed the arm pinned against her to lock directly onto Renn’s face.
Her originally calm eyes instantly ignited with a raging fire, like dry grass set ablaze — fierce and sudden.
“Renn!”
Her voice was sharp and trembling, filled with a sense of shattered disbelief.
“What are you doing?!”
Lita clenched her fists so hard that her nails dug into her palms, her knuckles turning a translucent white.
She approached step by step, the hem of her nightgown swaying with her hurried pace.
The air around her seemed to solidify with her fury.
“Milia is my best friend… How could you do something like this to her?”
“No, Lita, Brother Renn was just…”
Milia reacted quickly and tried to explain, but Lita was currently incapable of listening to anyone.
Disappointment flooded her like a tide, more piercing than even her anger.
The look Lita gave Renn was full of fragmented pain and contempt.
The last remaining shred of familial affection from their past completely collapsed.
“I thought you were just antisocial. I thought all your coldness was just a lack of expression. I never imagined you were such a beast in human clothing!”
Her voice suddenly rose, sharp despite the sob catching in her throat.
“Let her go! Now! Right this instant!”
Along with Lita’s roar, the airflow in the room shifted abruptly.
A violent gale erupted from within Lita’s body!
The entire bedroom was suddenly filled with rampaging magic!
Under the influence of extreme rage, Lita had indeed broken through the magic source that had been dormant for ten years, just like in the original story.
She had completely activated it!
Lita herself was entirely unaware.
Her eyes held only the “brother” who had hurt her so deeply.
In a flash, Renn realized that Lita was currently blinded by intense emotion.
The next sentence he spoke would determine his life or death.
Renn’s brain worked at high speed.
He exhaled with some difficulty and said, “Do you like it? This is the gift I prepared for your sixteenth birthday.”
‘I have to keep making things up. What else can I do?’
Lita’s face was filled with bewilderment.
“Are you saying… that you attacking Milia is a birthday gift for me?”
Suddenly, Lita laughed, her smile bordering on disbelief.
She felt she could no longer understand this brother she had lived with for ten years.
She felt the person before her was nothing more than a beast wearing a human skin.
As if sensing its master’s thoughts, the wind blades surrounding Lita suddenly exploded, shooting straight toward Renn.
‘Sigh, is it still no use?’
Renn felt a sense of despair.
He thought his reaction time had been fast enough, but the timing of his transmigration was simply too poor.
There wasn’t much room to maneuver.
He only hoped that after dying, he could transmigrate back to finish his thesis.
It couldn’t all have been for nothing, right?
“Lita!? Stop!”
Just as Renn was waiting for death in despair, a powerful shout came from outside the door.
A tall, sturdy figure flashed into the room, shielding Renn behind him.
Then, with a wave of his hand, the figure dispersed the wind blades generated by Lita’s magical riot.
“Father… why…”
Lita murmured softly before being knocked unconscious.
Having survived the ordeal, Renn collapsed to the floor in relief.
Life’s ups and downs were coming too fast; his sickly body couldn’t handle this kind of stimulation.
Once he settled down, Renn’s throat began to itch.
He couldn’t help but cover his mouth and cough several times.
Following that, he tasted something sweet in his throat, and traces of blood seeped from his mouth.
This caused Renn’s heart, which had just escaped death, to sink.
Escaping today was only a temporary fluke; there were even greater crises waiting for him.
Time waited for no one.
The original owner’s “weak and sickly” condition was by no means normal.
The person who had arrived just in time to save him was Lita’s father, and Renn’s nominal foster father — Claude.
He picked up the fallen Lita and first turned toward Milia, who was still in a state of confusion on the bed, bowing slightly.
“Miss Milia, I am deeply sorry that my son and daughter disturbed your rest tonight. Servants will be by shortly to clean the room for you. If you are still troubled by what happened, I will have the butler prepare a different bedroom for you.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the butler and maids who had been waiting outside hurried into the bedroom.
“Wait for me in the study.”
Claude did not look back at Renn as he slowly carried Lita out of the bedroom.
Renn took a deep breath, knowing that the true test was about to begin.