I'm But Only One Servant


It was a chilly night, the moon reflecting light brightly, and from where Len and Miku was, it was right behind Rinto. Len stood from his previous fall, trying to shake off his throbbing head. The impact on the cold, hard ground caused his vision to be filled with red spots. To him, the moon seemed to have a reddish tint behind Rinto's silhouette.

"Is that Rinto!?" Miku asked, a little agitated. She had heard that the Duke was murdered years ago, and was a little discombobulated.

"I don't understand, either," Len responded to her question, "but the way you say it does get me thinking..."

"What?"

"If that rea-" Len was cut off as Rinto had approached and tried to literally cut his arm off. Len skipped backwards, hopping as if he was a skipping stone on river. Rinto followed slowly, step by step, looking down menacingly. Miku stood back in fright, not sure what to do.

"Who are you? Are you Rinto? Were you really killed by Mikuo before?" Len interrogated him, keeping his voice steady, "Tell me... what do you want with me?"

"Revenge, that's what," Rinto replied, his monotonous voice turning meaner, "I've come to kill you."

"Why me? I didn't kill you..." Len remarked. Though he felt as it was only an excuse as he knew deep down, what Rinto meant.

"Without you... everything would've been fine..." Rinto continued, "If Rin was born an only child..."

"Wait, what are you..." Len evaded another attack, running to his left. There was no time to be asking questions, he needed to defend himself, and stop the Rinto look-alike. He formed a plan in his mind, looking around. He then realized that Miku had disappeared.


Miku ran and ran. She hadn't stopped since she commenced a few minutes ago. She had gone a good distance from the house. She wasn't sure where to go from there, though. Len was in trouble, and she had ran away terrified impulsively. What could she do to help now? What help was running? She stopped short, catching a breather. No panicking, first look for help. Her own castle had been empty that night besides her, so now Len was alone with Rinto, "Hold on, Len..."

"M-Miku-san...!" Miku 's attention was caught as a wearied blonde ran up to her, calling out. It was Len's master. Likewise, she was out of breath. Miku assumed she was out looking for Len.

"Rin-san? Len, he was... with Rinto..."

"I know! What is the situation!? What are you doing out here?" Rin asked her, hungry for answers.

"W-Well, I don't know, I left, and..."

"You left them!?" Rin hurriedly resumed her mad dash, "I'll go to him, go get help, Miku-san!"

After she left, Miku was left alone and her mind in a wreck, "I-I need to... go get..."

She didn't finish her statement, and just dashed off.


Len was quickly being leeched from his energy. Running around had done a huge number on him, he couldn't find an opening on Rinto at all. All of his formed plans were failures, and escaping would be of no use. All he could do was hope for some reinforcements, and make sure he wasn't cornered. Len ran, his back to the wall. He stopped at the end of the balcony. If he escaped, it would cause troubles for Miku, who might come back for him. However, he couldn't jump around here forever. Best course of action was to fight it out fair and square. Rinto neared him with each passing second, closing the distance. Len was ready, but suddenly, a vase fell from above, crashing into Rinto's head and stopping their battle from starting.

"Huh?" Len looked upwards, and spotted his twin sister waving happily at him, "Ojou-sama!"

"Len, are you okay!?" Rin asked him. She was absolutely exhausted from running all over the place, looking for him.

"I'm fine, Ojou-sama, wai-" Len stopped talking as Rin had sprung herself off the balcony above. Len held out his arms and caught her in a swift motion, "What are you doing? That's quite dangerous, you know."

"But you caught me, so it's okay," Rin remarked. Len sighed and put her on her feet. Unfortunately, it seemed they both forgot about Rinto, and after Len was distracted, Rinto had made a surprise move, and swung a kitchen knife at Len's throat. However, even though it took Len by surprise, having excellent reflexes, he was able to barely dodge it and stumble backwards. He tripped and fell, hitting the back of his head on one of the balcony's fancy pillars, and for a second, fell into unconsciousness.

"Len!" Rin shouted out in surprise, "R-Rinto, stop this!"

Rinto ignored her demand, and took a step closer to Len, breathing heavily. Len held his head with his hand, regaining his senses. He waited for Rinto to strike, so he can execute a rebuttal, however, it never came. Rather, Rinto began talking, this time with more life in his voice.

"Do you know how tortuous you being here has been? Why did you have to come back here? You ruined everything."

Len had no idea what was bothering him so, but he was pretty tired of what was going on, so he purposely replied disrespectfully, "Really? My bad, then..."

Len could see a vein pop on Rinto's head, "What was that? 'My bad,' you say?"

Len looked down, preparing himself as he saw Rinto raise the arm that was holding the knife. Once again, it didn't happen. Instead, Len heard a strike, but it wasn't for him. He looked up and found that Mikuo had arrived at the scene and tackled Rinto down. They both struggled against each other for a moment before Rinto succeeded on shoving Mikuo off. Luckily, Mikuo was able to secure all weapons from him.

Rinto spoke first, acting like he always used to, "What are you doing!? Why are you interfering!?"

"How about you?" Mikuo asked in response.

Rinto was pissed now. He approached Mikuo, his aura darkening, he grabbed him by the collar. However, Rinto suddenly disappeared and appeared again in front of Len. Everyone was dumbfounded, and Rinto took the opportunity to pull out a hidden poisoned knife that he kept just in case. Ensuring his victory, he was finally free to stab Len. However, Mikuo, also having lightning fast reflexes, moved hurriedly in front of Len, guarding him from the attack, and instead the knife collided with his stomach. He quickly fell forward, making sure Rinto wasn't able to take the knife back. In just a few seconds, he stopped breathing.

They were all shocked, even Rinto. He turned to look back at Rin and Miku, who had arrived along with Mikuo. On the other hand, Len was so stunned, he totally blanked out. And here comes the heroic blue screen of death. Rinto moved briskly, grabbing Len by the back of the collar and flew away, his cloak acting as wings. Not looking back, Rinto flew back to his self-built castle deep in the depths of a black cave. After arriving, Rinto hastily tied Len up to a chair. He wasted no time. He searched around the room for his weapons, not having luck finding anything, he walked to the next room.

Len sat isolated in his chair. The room he was in was almost empty, the only other thing in there was a bunch of boxes, a surprisingly clean table, and a fancy but dirty couch. The door Rinto just left through sat behind him, and the way leading out was to his side. Len sighed, wondering how things were able to escalate to this after just arriving back. One thing that kept haunting him was the fact that Mikuo was dead. Now he was going to be bludgeoned brutally by the murderer. His whereabouts and condition was going to be forever unknown to everyone else. Len sensed the door behind him silently open. His ears perked up, trying to detect any other noise or movement.

"W-Was it my imagination?"

"Nope!"

"L-Lil-!" Len jumped fell with his chair.

"Ah ah! Shush!" Lily put her index finger to her mouth, signaling him, "Quiet down!"

Len wanted to argue, but knew better and kept his mouth shut. He waited as Lily, along with Lenka, who was there, untied him. Then, together, they sneaked out. Once they were a safe distance away, Len started with his questioning.

"How are you guys here!?"

"Rin notified me," Lily stated, smiling cheekily, "We figured he took you here, took quite a while to get here. You kept us waiting. But we had enough time to hide some of his weapons, so he'll take a while looking for them."

Len stared at her in disbelief. He cleared his throat to gain his composure, "Whatever, let's just head back. Hurry, now."


Rinto entered back into the first room, grinning evilly and sadistically as he did. He made no effort on being silent, he wanted to broadcast his arrival. He slammed the door open and looked at... an empty chair tipped back on the ground and the rope he used to tie Len laying by it. He walked up to it and bent down, the smile fading from his face.


Whew! I can't wait until summer! It's too HOT though!

Hope you enjoyed this installment, though. See you guys!