The Strongest Brother Lost His Memory-Chapter 78Vol 2.

"If we’re not planning to hole up in the tower forever, we’d better come up with a plan."

Yuta spoke while furrowing his brow.

"Right now, thanks to Ethan’s mana, the priests can’t use divine power inside the tower... but looking at Arhad as a whole, we’ll be up against those zombie-like holy knights that keep healing."

"Ah."

I blinked at Ethan, who still had his hand pressed to the tower floor.

"You were actually working."

It was just like when I had placed my hand on the deck of the Entoho to disable the artifact.

"Then what did you think I was doing?"

"I figured you were just crouching down ‘cause you were scared of the crowd."

At my reply, Linna—still dressed in that bizarre skeletal gown—burst out laughing beside Ethan.

"So you really do dislike people? I thought you were avoiding me!"

Well... to be honest, Ethan did seem to avoid Linna in particular more than most...

Down below, Fire began breathing flames toward the holy knights attempting to climb up the tower.

For now, we could buy some time like this. But we couldn’t just keep doing this forever.

"But Oppa, why’d you bring everyone with you?"

I turned to Julian and asked.

Linna might have joined by chance along the way, but dragging along Ethan and Theo made his intention pretty obvious.

"You weren’t just planning to rescue Yuta-oppa and leave, were you?"

At my question, Julian flinched slightly. I didn’t stop there and pressed further.

"Did you plan to confront Aietar before I got back? Without even discussing it with me?"

"That goes without saying, RosieRosie."

Julian let out a deep sigh and spoke with a restless tone.

"I’m the one who’ll handle the danger. You shouldn’t be anywhere near a place like this."

"And how were you going to deal with Aietar? Do you even know how?" 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

"He’s buried underground, right? I’ll figure it out once I get there. I’m sure I’ll see a way."

Julian gripped my shoulders and said with conviction.

"While Ethan blocks the priests, I’ll take Yuta and head straight to Aietar. We have to stop him before he absorbs all of Arhad’s divine power."

"And how exactly do you plan to do that?"

"That’s what Yuta’s for. I’ll just swing the sword like he tells me to."

My jaw dropped in astonishment.

"Wow. That’s seriously reckless."

Behind me, Yuta let out a deep sigh and agreed with my statement.

"A truly noble and admirable plan—dragging everyone into a head-on clash with no contingency plan, all for Rosie."

Even now, he didn’t forget to add a cold, sarcastic critique.

"That attitude of not caring who gets hurt as long as it’s not Rosie—that’s just like the old Julian who got his memories back. But the way he’s actually telling Rosie the truth about this mess of a plan? That part feels like memory-loss Julian."

Just like Yuta said, it really was a plan without any safety net.

Julian sighed again, his voice sheepish.

"I didn’t expect RosieRosie to show up at such a perfect moment... Our RosieRosie was faster than I thought."

"Woof! Woof!"

<I was the fast one!>

It was so reckless.

But thinking about it from another angle, it meant Julian truly didn’t want me anywhere near the front lines.

He wanted to resolve things himself—any way he could.

I crossed my arms and said,

"Well, you’re not exactly wrong, Oppa."

We did come here to help rescue Yuta, after all.

And now that we were here, Julian wasn’t wrong to say we should deal with Aietar while we had the chance.

If Aietar absorbed all of Arhad’s divine power, it really would be a disaster.

Even if Zahid had said that process couldn’t be stopped, while Aietar was still buried underground, we had to try something—anything.

"And somehow... we’ve all ended up here together."

In the end, thanks to Julian’s underhanded effort to exclude me, everyone had gathered.

"Let’s head to Aietar. Since we’re already here, let’s finish this now like you said, Oppa."

I looked around at the others and declared resolutely.

"Before Aietar absorbs all of Arhad’s divine power—we have to stop him."

At my words, Linna blinked innocently and asked,

"How?"

"Well..."

I gave a hesitant smile and replied,

"I’m your Divine Beast’s master now, right? According to the oracle, that means I should be able to defeat Aietar. Maybe I’ll figure something out when I get there."

Julian narrowed his eyes at my words.

I deliberately ignored his expression and added,

"At the very least... maybe I’ll be able to control the Sacred Relic of Power."

"RosieRosie."

Julian folded his arms and pointed out bluntly,

"That answer’s not much different from what I just said earlier."

Then he couldn’t resist teasing me.

"Wow. That’s seriously reckless."

It was exactly the tone I’d used on him earlier.

Which proved that the memory-loss version of Julian still lingered somewhere inside.

To be honest, I had no good rebuttal. Like Julian said, my plan was basically a baseless gamble.

But I had a secret the others didn’t know.

I had already used the Sacred Relic of Time and experienced regression.

For some reason, back then, my divine power had been drained by Yuta. Which meant I hadn’t had much left—yet I had still regressed.

So maybe—just maybe—I could also control the Relic of Power.

‘Maybe something unexplainable and special is still inside me.’

I smiled as I looked around at the people I held dear. Without hesitation, I declared,

"In any case, I’m the one who has to go to Aietar—not Oppa."

Julian closed his eyes tightly, as if he couldn’t accept it. I ignored the pitiful sight and pressed on.

"No matter how strong you are, you’re still just a normal person. Do you really think you can beat someone like Aietar, who uses supernatural power?"

"If I’m a normal person, then what does that make you, RosieRosie?"

"I told you already—I’m your Divine Beast’s master. And I have the second-highest divine power in the world."

Even if I couldn’t control the Relic of Power, I was already considering another method.

‘I can’t say it out loud yet, but...’

To the others who were still looking skeptical, I spoke with confidence.

"Just trust me. I’ve been doing great all along. I even used Ethan to leak Julian-oppa’s fake weakness to lure them in like this."

The first one to nod was Linna.

"Yeah, I believe in my master."

Then Ray stepped forward.

"So... that means we’ll need to get past all those holy knights to reach Aietar..."

His eyes gleamed coldly as he began forming the optimal strategy.

"We should start by taking out the priests. Even if their numbers are overwhelming, we have Divine Beasts—and Julian Noart."

"Hmm, then there’s a solution."

I smiled and removed [N O V E L I G H T] my ring. I handed it to Theo and said,

"Please destroy this."

The ring Theo and Ethan had poured so much effort into crafting.

It was filled with Ethan’s mana, carefully engineered to conceal my overwhelming divine power.

"That way, Ethan will be able to handle more mana—and infuse Arhad as a whole."

In other words, instead of limiting the divine power nullification to the tower, we could expand its effect outward.

Now that things had reached this point, it was time to make a real decision.

"I’m done hiding..."

The moment I took off the ring, I could feel divine power surging through me.

The divine power that had been constantly suppressed now wrapped around me, glowing with a faint bluish light.

Looking down at the vast expanse of Arhad beneath my feet, I spoke.

"It’s time to face Aietar head-on."