I Regressed to My Ruined Family – 4

 #I returned, and my family was ruined (4)

“Um… Is the Grand Duchess at the villa?”

The boy caught his breath and said urgently.

Hearing that, Ethan turned his head toward the annex. He looked at one of the windows and shouted loudly.

“Hans!”

At that moment, a man rushed out.

“Did you call, Grand Duke?”

He looked at the young soldier who had rushed over.

He understood the situation immediately.

Hans looked at the young soldier and spoke quickly.

“Keron, you brat! How dare you stand there with your head held high in front of him! This is the Grand Duke!”

“The Grand Duke?”

Before Keron could say anything, Hans continued.

“This guy is one of the village guards. He always comes here when the youngest prince gets drunk and causes trouble in the village. He’s probably looking for the Grand Princess…”

“My sister?”

“Yes. No matter how drunk the youngest prince gets, he always listens to the Grand Princess, so he comes here every time there’s a commotion.”

The village vigilantes couldn’t stop the prince’s son.

The youngest member of the vigilantes, who had the least experience, came up the hill every time to find someone who could stop the youngest prince.

Hans looked at Keron with pity.

Ethan frowned.

In this damn past, even his brothers’ personalities seemed to have completely changed.

Ethan thought of the youngest.

The knight who had devoted himself to training every minute of every day was Myers.

He was such a nerd that it was annoying.

“Haha. Father’s alcohol? Are you joking? If you drink that, you’ll lose muscle. I’ll just drink milk.”

“…”

Even when he was congratulated by his father for his achievements, he would say things like that.

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Meals, sleep, training, muscles, milk.

Those were the five elements that made up his life. Perhaps because he always had muscles and milk on his lips, he ended up with a larger build than any of his brothers.

But what?

Meyers and a bar?

Not only that, but a brawl?

Those words didn’t fit the youngest brother he knew.

“Where is that place?”

“There must be trouble at the Golden Tavern. There are some thugs who always hang out with the youngest prince…”

“Go.”

“Yes, sir! I’ll show you the way!”

Hans, who had been staring at Ethan, trembled.

He had been secretly watching Ethan’s training on the second floor after being slapped in the face that morning.

Then Keron appeared, and he was watching with great interest to see how the grand duke would respond.

As if sensing his gaze, the grand duke looked directly at the window where he was standing and called out his name.

At that moment, his heart nearly stopped.

“That ghost! How did he know?”

He seriously wondered if he had eyes in the back of his head. The moment he called his name, he rushed over because of that eerie feeling.

Hans, who was dripping with cold sweat, began to guide the way, moving his feet quickly.

“Uh…”

Keron stared blankly at the scene. In an instant, the distance between the two of them grew.

Suddenly, he remembered the thin body of the youngest prince.

“How can he stop the youngest prince’s rampage with a body like that?”

The youngest prince was a mess in every way, but he was strong.

He couldn’t help but worry.

Sighing, he followed the two down the hill. * * *

After walking down the hill for about thirty minutes, a small village came into view. It wasn’t difficult to find a building that looked like a tavern in the village.

Clang!

“Bring more alcohol!”

“Oh, Prince!”

All sorts of loud voices were coming from inside.

Squeak.

As Hans opened the door, Ethan stepped inside.

The inside was already a mess.

The smell of cheap rum wafted from broken bottles scattered here and there, and a group of guys who looked like a gang were pretending to restrain someone.

The reason he could tell at a glance that they were pretending was because…

There was no passion in the eyes of the thugs who were pretending to restrain the youngest member.

It was obvious that they were just doing it for fun.

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Ethan chuckled.

Now even street thugs were laying their hands on a member of the royal family.

How weak must the Duke’s family look for even these vermin to be attracted to them?

Ethan walked toward the table. He clenched his fist and slammed it onto the table.

Kwaang!

The table shattered into pieces with a loud noise.

“What’s going on?”

“What happened?”

The bar fell silent for a moment.

Everyone’s eyes turned to the broken table, and then they naturally began to crowd around Ethan, who was standing next to it.

Meyers was no exception.

He stared at Ethan with wide eyes, then collapsed into a chair.

He clutched the cheap rum in his hands as if he would never let it go.

“I almost lost my drink. Ugh. But am I really drunk? Why do I see my brother? No, that can’t be. I’m the best drinker on the continent. Then is this all a dream?”

Ethan blinked his eyes.

Could this really be a dream?

The last moment.

One of the two brothers who had blocked the countless dragons rushing toward them when they cut off the dragon lord’s arm was the youngest brother he was looking at right now.

“Brother, I’ll take care of this. Go!”

Myers had jumped without hesitation into the crowd of dragons to send himself to the Dragon Lord.

If it weren’t for him, he would have had to fight to the death with the foot soldiers instead of even getting close to the Dragon Lord.

That was definitely the case.

“Hah.”

His younger brother, who had been more taciturn and fierce than anyone else, had turned into a drunken good-for-nothing in less than a day.

His head was throbbing.

He approached Myers and pressed his finger to his vein. The drunkard, who had been mumbling incoherently, fell into a deep sleep in an instant.

“…”

In the silence of the bar, someone’s voice rang out.

“Grand Duke! It’s them! Those bad guys who hang out with the youngest prince!”

The voice belonged to Hans.

He was pointing at the bar’s gang and shouting at the top of his lungs.

Ethan’s gaze naturally turned toward the gang.

* * *

Alfonso, the leader of the gang.

He tilted his head.

It was because Hans had said something shocking.

“Grand Duke?”

A figure began to flash through his mind. The person who had fallen into a coma ten years ago due to a mana explosion was none other than the Grand Duke.

“But…”

The person who just smashed the table was the Grand Duke?

Alfonso’s face froze.

How could a man who was said to have destroyed the mana hole break a table in half with his bare hands?

“Blood cannot be denied.”

Come to think of it, he was like that even before he collapsed.

The duke had four children.

If you asked who was the most talented among them, eight out of ten people would say the same thing.

It was the Grand Duke.

Of course, he didn’t last long and collapsed, disappearing from people’s memories along with the rest.

“I’d better stop here for today.”

Alfonso looked at Myers with a sigh. For the past three years, he had been following Myers around, feeding him alcohol.

But it wasn’t just alcohol.

He was trying to turn the youngest prince into a complete wreck by not only feeding him alcohol but also trying to hook him up with women.

And now, in the middle of such an important task, the Grand Prince had suddenly appeared.

It was not a pleasant situation.

“Little brother, what are we going to do now?”

“That’s enough for today.”

The Grand Prince.

Although he had lost his real power, he was the heir apparent of the duke’s family and was famous for having been granted immunity by the previous emperor.

Even if he killed all of them right here and now, he would not be punished in any way.

If he pretended to be crazy and pulled out a knife, they would be the ones who would suffer.

Alfonso smiled slyly and looked at the Grand Duke.

“Haha. It was you, Grand Duke. I was a little worried because the youngest prince was very drunk, but I’m glad everything is fine. Now I can go back with peace of mind…”

“You’re leaving?”

“Yes. Please tell the youngest prince that I had a good time…”

“Who says so?”

“…”

Alphonse, who was about to answer, flinched.

“What kind of eyes are those…”

He had experienced countless battles in the back alleys until he turned thirty, and he never neglected to train his body.

He had the strength to easily take down five or six back alley thugs.

Nevertheless, it was difficult to meet the gaze of the thin man who was looking at him as if he were a joke.

He lowered his gaze slightly. It seemed that the prince had no intention of letting them go easily.

“What should I do?”

There was something in his eyes. Moreover, considering what he had shown them earlier, they couldn’t help but worry.

That was the moment.

Ethan began to walk toward them. One of his men frowned at the sight.

His body was skinny.

How dare this guy, who looked like he would be knocked out with a single punch, interrupt the words of his older brother?

He stepped forward with a fierce look on his face.

“Stop before you get hurt…”

Bang!

The wall of the inn shook.

“What?”

Several subordinates rubbed their eyes.

They couldn’t understand what had just happened.

One of their colleagues blocked the way, and with a loud thud, he was thrown against the wall. It all happened in less than a second.

Alfonso was just as shocked.

Even he, the leader, couldn’t tell exactly what he had just done.

His instincts were screaming at him.

The man in front of him was extremely dangerous. He stared straight ahead, sweat dripping from his forehead.

“Don’t come any closer…”

At that moment, the Grand Duke rushed forward. A blue light could be seen swirling around his wrist.

“Mana!”

Alfonso desperately blocked his way with both arms.

Mana was a power possessed only by a select few, but even so, it was not omnipotent.

“His mana is very low.”

To his eyes, the Grand Duke’s mana seemed inadequate. With that amount, pure physical strength alone should be enough to defend against it.

It should be so…

It was the moment when the Grand Duke grabbed his arm. His thick arm bent as if it were tofu, melting away.

“Ugh!”

Alfonso screamed in pain as both his arms were bent.

Both arms instantly went limp.

It felt as if his joints had been twisted. However, the pain did not end there. As soon as the Grand Duke’s hand touched his leg, the terrible pain he had felt a moment ago began again.

“Ugh!”

“Little brother!”

Several thugs clenched their fists and started rushing toward Ethan.

Ethan smiled and stood up. Soon, screams echoed throughout the tavern.

Hans, who was watching the scene, trembled.

Whatever was in the Grand Duke’s fists, every time they hit the thugs, they screamed so loudly that they seemed to be in agony.

Thirty seconds.

That was how long it took for the arms and legs of the thugs who had ruled the village to be twisted out of shape.

“…He’s a monster.”

He really was a monster.

It was just then.

“Hans.”

“Yes, sir!”

“Clean this up.”

“Yes!”

Ethan grabbed Myers by the neck and stepped outside the tavern. The unconscious drunkard was dragged toward the hill, his body limp in Ethan’s grasp.