Apophis, despite not being the oldest, was the big brother for all of his siblings.
His carefree, attentive personality was the very hallmark of his identity.
But underneath these features lay a short fuse when it came to his siblings.
Courtney was the biggest benefactor of her brother's overprotective personality.
Unlike the rest of their siblings, who usually tended to laugh him off or shoo him away, ever since she was young, Courtney had always wanted to be around her brother.
She idolized him. And in turn, Apophis thought his baby sister could do no wrong.
There was no bone in his body that would let Nihil's near-blasphemous words skid by unpunished.
His cousin knew by the intensity of his flames that Apophis wasn't in a joking mood. If he so much as twitched at Courtney, he would melt every hole in his face shut.
"Apologize." Apophis' tone was neutral, but his heat was anything but. There was no room for refusal here.
"..So-"
