Mated to A Rival Alpha-Chapter 215: The Tale of The Seto Brothers
* Since it’s all just Kaia talking, I put this here and there’s not going to be speech marks in between. Have fun!
[KAIA]
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Well here goes nothing. Listen well because I won’t repeat this ever to anyone. We were born Kaisei Chihiro Seto and Haruhito Yanagida Seto, the twins of the Seto family line.
My mother had a complicated birth when she had us, thousands of years ago, and when that happened, my father went into depression and died shortly after.
Many said he was weak for not being able to hold on to his wife who had just given birth but they didn’t understand how strenuous that was for him. In our daily line, the birth was dependent on the father for everything.
The father was to give strength, emotional support, and comfort in the end. There was a lot of pressure on Father that he couldn’t handle, especially since we were twins, another thing that was frowned upon in those times.
No one had ever seen twins in any family, and much less ours, given that there were never such phenomena. With Father dead and a tired mother who was suffering from postpartum depression, it was hectic for her.
Father had been a high warlock of the old times, while mother was a vampire and a werewolf. And when we were born, we had all those abilities, which made it quite difficult for mother to also take care of us, and she died too.
The people around us at that time, assumed that we were cursed since we were too powerful and had managed to murder both our parents barely days after we were born, so they cursed us even more.
Funny how that came to turn on them years later.
Anyway, long story short, my brother and I were taken in by an old creepy woman who always wore white and red. You’d think she was a warlock or something. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺
She took care of us, nursed us for three hundred years, and I was thankful for that. I never cared for family, but I never wanted my brother to feel alone.
However, when our guardian decided to gamble my younger brother’s life to the powerful warlocks, I lost it. She was sacrificing the only family I had, so that her unborn baby would bear the same power and be like Haruhito.
And well, I may have killed her in such terrible ways that shook the whole realm, starting the rumors that got worse over the years. I thought that my brother had been in the fields when I was dealing with the red and white woman, but my brother had seen it all.
I tried to explain, but Haru was always the good one of the both of us. He was shocked and told me that he was leaving. I didn’t want him to leave, but I had taken the one person he thought was our mother.
Haru never forgave me for that. It’s been almost three thousand years and my brother still feels betrayed, and he has every right to. I don’t blame him, really.
But if I was to make that same choice again, I would in a heartbeat.
I wouldn’t care for anyone who tried to harm the only family I had. Over the years, I watched my brother grow up from a distance. I loved him in the only way I could, by protecting him from enemies.
He was a kind soul and it was easy to pick on him, and since my wolf had tasted blood and wanted more, I figured the only way to keep Haru safe was to kill everyone who ever laid a hand on him.
However, that seemed to irk my brother even more. But I couldn’t stop. He was and is my family and I wouldn’t hesitate to protect him from anything, even his friends. And so it was that I killed so much that it became a norm.
Then one day as I was watching my brother, I realized that he too had the curse that had been placed on us. Unlike me, he had handled himself well, hidden it in plain sight.
Haru was trying to be humane, but then the more he hid his beast the more it wanted out, and the more it was out for more blood.
I couldn’t live with the fact that my brother had been a murderer too, so I went to the Valley of the Whites, the name that our home had been renamed to, since no one wanted to remember the horrors of the Seto family.
They treated us like shit anyway. When I went to the Valley of the Whites, I found a kind blind warlock, Bangchan. He was kindness materialized and I knew that that was what I wanted my brother to be like.
I didn’t want my brother suffering because of the pain that came with hiding his beast. So I made a deal with Bangchan behind my brother’s back.
I knew Bangchan needed help with his herbs and whatever the fuck warlocks did in their spare time, and I had a brother I wanted to free the beast from. So I told Bangchan to take the beast from my brother, and put it in me.
Sure, my brother would still have the same abilities as me, but the desire to kill people would not be something Haru would deal with again. I wanted him free. I thought I was doing my brother some good, since he hated me for killing the red and white woman.
I thought that freeing the beast was the only way, but when the beast was freed, and it was in me, Haru hated me even more. Turns out my brother had been killing too, so people would blame him.
It was never about his beast in the first place.
He had mastered the art of controlling it, but he intentionally let it out, so everyone couldn’t push me aside and look at me like the monster I was supposed to be. I was protecting my brother and Haru was protecting me too in his own way.
That was the first time that I was at a loss and didn’t know what to do.
I couldn’t stay with him, and since I had made a deal with Bangchan, at least I knew that my brother would be safe and lead a happy life. That was around two thousand years ago. I’m not really sure, but it was a really long time ago.
I know you’re about to ask about my brother again. So I’ll tell you. Haru grew up to be a really good man. The society loved him, loves him, and with his kindness, I’m sure that society will always love my little brother.
It doesn’t matter that I have to feed on raw animals to quench the thirst for the two beasts inside of me. As long as my brother is happy, I am happy. After all, Haru made me want to be better.
He made me see the world differently.
I just didn’t notice that my brother had grown up until I realized that even then he had been protecting me. So I hide in the shadows to let his light shine, because what older sibling wouldn’t want to see their sibling prosper, right?
If there was a definition for love, then Haruhito Yanagida would be it for me. My brother is so pure that even on my terrible days, I think of him because only he can make my life a little better.
Just Haru," Kaia said, speaking of his brother like the man was really the purest thing to exist or even happen to him.
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[A/N]
* The way I screamed when I realized I finally published the 50th Chapter in Privilege, oh my sweet life. I have suffered lmao. Anyway, thank you for being patient with me, and I hope you find the wait worth it!
* Also if you see anything that needs to be fixed, please let me know. I have edited over 80k words in 3 days and there might be errors. Don’t hold back and let me know, thanks!!
* And yes, from tomorrow, the Chapter releases will be 3 -5 per day until the very end. the privilege was the only hard part now that it’s done, I can finally breathe lmao
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