Chapter 11: Accident

~Kuroyuri's P.O.V.~

It's been so many years since I graduated from military school, but I haven't gotten over my habit of sleeping all day. It's all Raphael's fault. During school, she took over me for the whole day and I couldn't do anything but sleep...

"Kuro-tan, wakey wakey! It's your turn to do patrol duty outside Mr Teito Klein's torture room!" Hyuga broke into my room. I sighed. I don't know what's going on, but Raphael keeps telling me to save Teito. Not like I would. I won't do anything against Ayanami-sama. I don't know why I'm here in the first place, but Ayanami treats me really nicely, and his Verloren, the most awesome God in the world. I won't betray him for an archangel...

Never...

I strolled along the corridors, bored. Nobody would ever come. At least, that's what I thought.

I heard something from the room and immediately started towards it, but footsteps from behind me caused me to freeze. Suddenly, without my consent, my body moved to hide near one of the doors.

What the... Raphael..

I saw the Celestine boy ran past me, but I couldn't move...

"Teito!" Upon hearing him shout, I blacked out.

Luckily, Profe's charm still worked. I can break the eye patch at will. I hid my presence as I watched Tiashe escape with Mikage Celestine... no, he escaped. Alone. Mikage was caught. Not that I care, anyway. So long as Tiashe escapes, I'm fine. I hope Mikhail will be able to do something after escaping.

"Hey, Kuro-tan, why did you let Teito-kun escape?" Hyuuga broke my train of thoughts. He was one of the two other members of the BlackHawks who knows about me, the other being Katsuragi. Even Haruse doesn't know.

"My instincts told me to," I told him.

"Well then, your punishment is to do my patrol duty for the corridor outside Mikage Celestine's imprisonment room. Since you don't know him, I shall trust you not to let him escape, okay?"

I sighed. Who was he to give me punishments? I guess I'll just do it. I need excuses to stay out anyway.

I strolled along the corridor. Now the his best friend has escaped, there probably won't be anybody coming, anyway. But I promised that idiot, so I let him have fun inside torturingMikage while I do this patrol for him.

I suddenly felt a presence behind me. Around the corner.

Instinctively, I drew my sword and swung it out to whoever was behind me. I stopped in shock when I saw his face.

Blonde hair, blue eyes. Although he's changed a lot since I last saw him during graduation, I could recognise him instantaneously.

Hikaro Oak.

That idiot.

I had completely forgotten about the fact that Hikaro most probably did know Mikage. Well, I have to stop him. So that he won't get killed or tortured by Hyuuga. Or Verloren.

"Kuro..." he muttered, under his breath. He didn't step back or show any traces of fear. Why should he? Even if I'm a member of the Black Hawks, he was probably the only human I ever befriended willingly.

"You should go back. You won't gain anything from attempting to save him." I warned him, keeping any traces of hostility hidden from my tone. It's a friendly warning. Not part of my job.

He clicked his tongue, annoyed that it didn't go smoothly, but still backed off.

Then, he made the worst mistake he could have made in that situation...

He turned around and dashed past me...

Or he tried to...

My instincts were too fast for him. For me, too.

I aimed for his neck without thinking. Not like he gave me any time to think.

Of course, I should have known. He wasn't the kind to give up on saving his friend just because someone told him not to. He was much braver. In fact, I should be disappointed if he backed down. But I didn't think about that.

When I finally realised what I had done, there was a line of blood on the wall behind me. I was unstained. Because the blood went over my head.

The last thing I would want is to get stained by the blood of a friend. A friend I killed. I wasn't even forced to do it.

Because I forgot.

I forgot that he was one who valued friends.

So I killed him. I killed him when I should have known how to avoid his death.

How stupid of me...

... Whatever. What's done's done.

The most I can do is to make sure he gets a proper funeral.

I dragged his body into the room where Hyuuga and Ayanami were.

"Hikaro Oak. Dead. He tried to rescue Mikage Celestine," I told them shortly when I entered the room, making sure I cleared my face of expressions. "You recognise him, don't you? You should be honoured to know that someone you grew up serving remembered you. He even died for you," I turned to ask Mikage.

Mikage's eyes widen in fear and shock when Raphael brought the body in. She said it so calmly, as though she never knew him. I was ready to bet everything that she didn't kill him intentionally.

But still, there has suddenly been two cases in a row where people go against us to save our prisoners. This had never happened before.

"Hi... Hikaro..." Mikage kept muttering. So weak.

"Hey," I put my face close to his, "isn't the servant supposed to be the one who dies instead?"

"Kuroyuri," Aya-tan suddenly said, sternly, "how are we supposed to explain this? He is a member of the prestigious Oak Family."

Raphael smiled evilly. "That's fine. He happens to be someone that aims to get close to the Barsburg family to change the Empire. No interest in the honour of his family at all. They might prefer him dead."

"Deal with it if the problem arises." He said coldly. Aya-tan turned back to Mikage.

"You choose Teito Klein? You have seen what happens to people who oppose me. If you still choose him, then..."

That idiotic Celestine failed? Pathetic. But Mikhail finally came out. I guess that's good, except that now Verloren intends to kill him to take the eye...

Hm... finally. I managed to infiltrate the Church. Since I'm here, I might as well go and give Fest a little... 'greeting'. Although Verloren did tell me not to get seen...

I got to the top of a building and scanned for Fest. When I found him, I quickly went to a spot where I could see him without getting seen.

Just a little bit... so nobody else would notice... I used wars so cast a shadow behind him. Of course, he reacted immediately.

That expression on his face was priceless. The shock and fear...

But he seemed to know it was me, because he immediately covered up with a smirk and said, "My, my. What a naughty child, going through all this trouble just to provoke me."

I smirked too. Yup, I'm a naughty child who just loves to provoke him. Good guess, Fest. Although you probably can't sense my presence...