-Chapter 5-

'I have to stop them...!' Allen thought to himself as sweat rolled down his cheek. If they found out that there's a man in the closet, then...

Emilia will scold him! And that is bad (maybe)!

He swallowed nervously as his stomach tied knots. If only they won't go to that room... He bit his lips nervously. If only...!

But unfortunately, that was the first room the two exorcists decided to go 'investigate'. And then, once again, to the brown haired boy's displease, the redhead called Lavi decided to check out the closet first. Emilia though did felt disturbed about it... If this 'certain guy' is really that dangerous, what would he (or she) be doing inside an orphanage, especially inside a closet?! Honestly! What would a dangerous man who's plotting something evil do inside of a closet?! As Lavi approached the closet, he said out loud with a carefree tone, as if he wasn't even taking this job seriously, "Let's check the closet first!"

That was when the boy decided to take action. Quickly, he zoomed pass the redhead and stood in front of the closet defensively (he's trembling in fear actually). Emilia gasped his name silently, shocked about his actions. The boy was rather scared, while the redhead was... Unfazed (his eyes only widened).

"D-d-d-don't c-c-ome uh-ne-n-near!" He yelled, his voice cracking in fear. Lavi could tell that the boy was desperate, but was it really that bad? So Lavi laughed lightheartedly.

"What? What's so scary to look inside of a closet? Could it be there's a monster?" He joked as the kids behind Emilia flinched in fear. After all, they're all scared about the monsters outside the door (wait a minute...). (Lenalee punched him in the gut for joking at this poor kid.)

Allen shook his head quickly, his arms spread, protecting the closet.

"I-I-I w-w-w-on't le-let you c-come ne-near!" He shouted, his legs trembling.

He was serious, but he was just a kid. No adult would take him seriously, after all...

But, Monsters do not exist.

Lavi grinned, "Then there's nothing to worry about! If there's monsters, that's alright! After all... It's our profession to exorcise the 'monster's! (Unless it's not the monsters we're talking about haha...)"

Allen looked scared, he looked so frightened as the redhead slowly passed the boy and headed for the closet. He closed his eyes shut, tears squeezing out of his eyelids.

Please no!

Of course, Lavi didn't take him seriously. He didn't even thought there's anything inside of the closet. But, he decided. It was just in case.

After all... Who knows what 'that man' would do, anyway... (But why was that boy so persistent on not letting him look? Could it be a cat?)

Slowly, Lavi's hand reached the knob of the closet, and then, tugging it forward, the closet opened and...

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But yeah.

Hell yeah.

"WHY THE HECK IS THERE A MAN INSIDE OF THE CLOSET?!" Emilia screeched, making all the children panic. Everything went into chaos, Lavi was stunned, Lenalee was shocked. Allen felt the slightest bit guilty, and all the children are running about.

"It's a monster!" One of them cried, "monster!"

"But wait!" One of the kids said, pointing his index finger upwards, "but monsters come from the outside!"

"..."

All of the children gasped in fear as they glanced at Lavi and Lenalee with their fearful eyes.

"Hey now..." Lavi said, a bit surprised about what he just had saw.

"What is this guy doing in here?"

Eventually the panicking stopped, and everyone got to see 'what was in there' carefully. It was a man, obviously, who's under the hanging jackets. He was curled up though, since there's was a lack of space. There were strains of white hair poking out of the opening of the hood, where it covered most of his head. The man though hid his face, covering his face with both of his eyes, as if scared of the light. He was clad in black, top to bottom, but Lavi could tell that this man... Is hella pale, despite the shadows and lack of skin exposure revealed.

He looked scared (Lavi saw the trembling), and it was just as bad as the boy earlier, when he attempted stopping Lavi from opening the closet.

Now Lavi regretted not taking the boy seriously, but this was indeed quite the discovery.

"Who... Are you?" Lenalee asked, peeking from Lavi's back.

The man did not move (more like he continued to tremble in fear).

Later, the adults were all sitting around a table, where the man was being... Inspected, supposedly. He wouldn't take down his hood, or even look up. His face was hidden well... More like his eyes. But even a single small detail cannot be escape by Lavi's eyes... He saw it, a small mark of red down the man's left cheek... But he couldn't place his finger about what was it.

"..." Emilia was very bothered.

First of all, these exorcist guys (and girl) came in wanting to inspect the house, and then a mysterious man came out of no where. What was this? And what was going on? Her eyes narrowed suspiciously towards the nervous man.

He looked...

Awfully familiar, for some reason. That figure...

'Hey there... Emilia...'

She blinked.

Emilia looked down at her hands, which gripped her dress tightly. Sweat rolled down, dripping from her chin.

Huh?

Her head throbbed, but she shook her head. No, don't care about it right now... Think about... What's in front of you.

"Ahem, so," Lavi smiled towards the trembling man, "who're you?"

"..." Silence, it was.

"Eh, well, I suppose it's rude not to introduce myself before asking for your name then," there was something off about that man, though, "but I am curious about why you were in a closet... In this orphanage, too... So... I'm La-"

Suddenly, they heard someone crying. All of them blinked, turning their head to face the certain person who's...

Oh, it was the boy. That boy who tried to stop Lavi from opening the closet.

He was crying.

But the thing was, Allen didn't understand why he was crying, too.

The tears just fell so painfully, during that very moment when that redhead asked:

'Who're you?'

As if it was his own mind, Allen heard a voice in his head. A voice that was void of hope.

I can't... Believe it...

They...

Really don't remember me... In the end.

Hey guys did you see mini Yuu today~? How about mini Alma~? How about Lady Alma~? Oh Twi and Edgar~? Young Bak-chan~? The poor handsome scientist who unfortunately got hit by a tray by Alma~?

I love mini Yuu's facial expressions ;w; Sadly though they weren't chatting about winter~

Wait a minute next ep we have Yuu's pure, innocent smile seeing Alma again.

Oh no.