Supreme Magus novel Chapter 606

"How do you think I can possibly be?" Trion stood up abruptly, flipping his chair.

"This isn’t my house anymore! You got rid of my room as if it was trash yet you kept Lith’s intact. Everything here stinks of him. Your rings, your clothes, even him!" He said while pointing at Aran, making him cry.

"We didn’t get rid of anything. Our room and Tista’s are on the second floor, just like yours. What’s wrong with this house? With your brother Aran? This is a good place where we have a good life." Elina said, her heart hurt by Trion’s words.

"Of course the trash goes on the second floor, where it can’t offend his majesty’s eyes! I’ll tell you what’s wrong. You cut me out of your lives to the point that I had to learn from a stranger that I had a brother!"

"I never stopped writing to you, but my letters were always returned. According to the army, there was no Trion nor Trion Verhen..."

"And there never will be!" Trion yelled, cutting Elina short.

"I’m Trion Proudstar now. It’s clear that as long as you have your precious Lith, you have no need for a failure of a son like me. I better be off before I waste more of your time." He walked towards the door, but Raaz grabbed him by the shoulder.

"Son, what’s this madness? Why do you always talk about Lith? What did he ever do to you? We don’t love Rena any less just because she’s not a mage. If you are trash, then what about her? What about us?"

"Easy. You’re worse than trash and I don’t need you anymore. Don’t bother teaching the runt my name. If I’m not a member of this family, I might as well be disowned too. Even better, I’ll disown you, so at least I’ll spare you the inconvenience to kick me out." He said before storming out of the house

***

Lith’s house. Present day.

After Raaz finished telling him the whole story, Lith took a deep breath before saying:

"I’m sorry it ended up that way." Yet he was sorry for his parents, not for Trion. He had always considered his older brother a lost cause.

"Me too, dear." Elina sighed.

"Do you want me to go talk to him?" Lith asked.

"No, it would only make things worse. Thanks, though." Raaz said.

"I think it’s partly our fault. After what happened with Orpal, we have been so overprotective towards Tista that we failed to notice the hole that losing his big brother opened in Trion’s heart.

"Maybe if instead of just trying to forget about our lost son we spent more time with him, trying to explain Trion why Orpal had to go, things would have gone differently."

"No offense, Dad, but I call bullshit. After Orpal was disowned, you did the best you could and so did everyone else, even me." Lith said.

"Why do you say that, dear? You’ve always been a perfect brother." Elina said.

"No, I wasn’t. I never liked my brothers and you know it. They couldn’t miss how everyone in the family improved their looks after receiving my treatments and they knew I wouldn’t do the same for them.

"By forcing you to keep such an open secret, I created a divide between you and them that further fueled their jealousy. Yet their actions are still inexcusable. Neither Orpal nor Trion ever apologized. Trion has been loved, well fed, and dressed his whole life.

"I didn’t love them, but you and Rena did. They had everything they needed yet it was never enough. I never bullied nor humiliated them by showing off my powers. I always minded my own business asking the same from them.

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