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Chapter 3: True Feelings Still Unknown
Xerxes Break wasn't in the mood and Reim already knew the reason. "Are you sure you're going with me to this mission?" the young Lunette asked. "Of course" the Mad Hatter replied. He tried to look detached from the matter but his air of seriousness brought him away.
"I'm sure this Cedric would be just like Master Oz, a charming and sheltered young man" the man with glasses said to no one in particular but he was very sure he heard something snap.
Break knew what Reim was trying to do and he hated the fact that it was working. The knight wasn't very open to the idea that Peldick or whatever grew up in the same place like Oz did. I mean look at how Oz came to be. He didn't exactly have a perfect childhood, did he?
"That may be true" the one eyed man admitted. But so what? Sharon meeting this Oz –like kid and marrying him was something that came naturally to people like nobles. Why would he concern himself with something so feeble? He was a man who has come to live with pain, despair and sadness for so long that something like this was nothing, a man who used everything for his advantage. He even convinced himself that he will be helping in making the marriage work until today when he woke up with a very bad headache.
"Xerxes, do you remember when we first met? Sharon was the one who found you." Reim had started to say.
The knight didn't answer. But he could never forget it. The very first light he saw after the abyss was the sight of a young girl crying for him. She didn't know him yet she tried to share his pain. That young girl was now his mistress, a young and naive little noble girl or at least she used to be. The hatter felt a bit forewarned as goosebumbs started to appear. Was he acting like Gilbert now who would do anything for his master to depend on him? He shook the feeling away and remembered something both pleasant and unpleasant.
"I think you're more of a big brother who can't bear to be separated from his sister." A father or a brother, who was he fooling? He's just a servant of the Rainsworth house and nothing more, just a clown who exploits everything for his own welfare but now was the time the Conrlick was arriving and he just felt curious at who this boy could be or who does he think he is?
"I know Sharon has actually entered womanhood before she became a contractor so they may have kids." Reim said blushing at the thought. "Also, once she surrenders her chain, she'll start aging again. She might become a full-grown woman in no time."
This was the last straw. "Master Lunette, may I take my absence from this mission? I have to go back and take care of my Lady who'll be meeting her fiance today. After all, you did go as far as risk you life for it."
The four-eyed man felt himself shiver down his spine. Break could have killed him if he had used the wrong pick of words. In fact, the clown's killing aura was still lingering minutes after he was gone. But before the knight embarked on his journey he muttered, "I'm glad you're alive."
On the way to the mansion…
"I don't know who Fensick is" Break said to himself. "But, he has a long way going if he thinks that the Mad hatter isn't about to rain in his parade."The reason was still unclear but the knight knew he had to protect his lady whether it may be as a father or as a brother. He still wasn't thinking of another side to the story and maybe he n ever will…