A/N: Hello guys! Yeah, yeah, I know you're all mad and all, I was delaying writing and thinking about progress of story, and about all me being too formal when it came to talking with you and EXTREMELY poorly written story so far, grammar mistakes and all. I promise I'll fix that later on (I won't rewrite the chapters, I'm seriously too lazy for that… ごめんなさい…)

By the way, I was imagining Those monsters the unknown man in black created from vengeful spirits of victims that died in experiment of isolation in which Tachiko was trapped in, like Shadow Beasts from Twilight Princess, but with more red markings on the mask. Ya know, for you to imagine the bloodthirsty bastards easier. Now, where were we?

Ah yes, last time we left off Rin getting attacked after finding a mirror that led him to monsters and helped him get rid of them before they could tear him to miserable shreds… Yeah, poor guy, he's still mad at me for doing that… No matter how calm and harmless he may look, he's TERRIFYING when mad! Now then, enough chit-chat, let's move on with the story.

Chapter 14:

A Troubled

Soul

Monday, November 24th - 10:50 AM - DWMA

It was a cold morning in Death City. The streets were empty and silent, the snow that fell now froze like everything else that could be too; puddles, wet wires, windows, almost everything.

But, opposing to that cold emptiness, in the Death Weapon Meister Academy was rather warm and crowded as always, but more noisy than ever before, much to a certain weapon's dismay.

For Rin, it was a hard and annoying morning. He was just let out of hospital, but warned not to push himself and to try to get angry or upset much, which wasn't an easy task.

His identity, secrets, everything he was trying to hide, was exposed. Every step was followed by whispering of people near him, every blink was carefully examined with threatening looks of his colleagues. Two things that he couldn't stand, Noise and attention, were the only two things he was getting. He tried his best to ignore it, along with piercing pain he pretended not to feel after they took him off painkillers so that he could finally move from that damned hospital back to his room and continue working on the case, and continue examining the mirror shard. Of course, he had to go to school too. His parents simply ordered that, without even blinking an eye at the fact that their son was nearly killed.

All that hit him after he slumped onto his seat in the most distant corner of the Crescent Moon Classroom.

"Geez…" he sighed silently, "I shouldn't be thinking only about myself… Others had it hard lately too…" he continued mumbling to himself and glanced down at the front rows, at Tachiko and her weapon. His eyes narrowed more, leaving them as mere thin slit, drastically different from his usual droopy eyed, careless look.

"Tch… There's something off… No, there was something off ever since they rescued her… It's almost like m-"

His thoughts were cut off by sharp pain in chest. He groped his shirt and bent over slightly in a quick movement.

"Damn it… What is it now..? I don't remember those things attacking me there…"

"Are you alright?"

Cold voice of young Shinigami standing behind him brought him back to reality.

"I'm alright…" the black haired weapon replied, returning the glare of golden eyes.

"I was not meaning your physical self, nor your mental state." the boy replied slowly, "You noticed it too, didn't you? Your soul response is different than before the attack, I can sense the other… 'Foreign'… Part of your soul reacting.."

"Yeah.. It's like it's fighting my original soul… Like some kind of a virus.. I can do nothing about it, unfortunately."

"I see.. Chest pains should be more than expected then. Cases like this are unusual but it should pass shortly."

"I sure hope so. I can't stand another thing budging me at my current state."

The Shinigami nodded in agreement just before the bell rang, marking the start of their next period. Kidd went back to his place in front rows, between the Thompson sisters. Rin just leaned on the desk with elbow, resting his head in his right hand as he dully stared at the Teacher's desk and board in the front of the classroom as professor Sidney entered and started the class with announcement about upcoming holiday, counting they had less than a month until winter holidays. Rin didn't listen at all, but was stuck inside the walls of his own mind, thinking about the current events, and got really frustrated after not being able to make any clear view of goal of the enemy after good 10 minutes.

The chest pains stopped as quickly as they came, as Rin tried not to think about them. He knew that if the "transplanted" piece of foreign soul got stronger, could either take over his current soul, making him a marionette, or simply eat it away completely, leaving his body as an empty, tormented shell. Either way, he'd die after a short time, or a long time, filled with suffering.

The more he thought about it, the clearer it was to him that it's inevitable, at least one of those two, because he already knew that the foreign shred of soul stitched into his own is from the enemy, that has enough ambition and power to make it happen.

When he realized that his thoughts slid to that he gritted his teeth and bowed his head a bit. He wasn't going to think about it, or he'd get paranoid. No way. No way in hell he's going to let that happen too soon.

04:20 PM - DWMA Halls

"Rin's been acting awfully strange lately.. What's up with him?"

"Beats me" Soul replied in his usual sedate voice. "Guy did get beat up just a few days ago, so it shouldn't be weird.."

"I guess you're right.." Tachiko replied, looking down a bit

"Not just his behavior, his soul response too." Maka added on, "I can't define it, but it's something like a battle between Ying and Yang…"

"Whatever it is, I don't like it." Yoshiki joined the conversation, "I've got a bad feeling about him and all this what's been happening recently."

The four were making their way down the now empty main hall, talking about the recent events.

"But hey, one of the brighter news is, thanks to a Kishin we beat on our last mission, Yoshiki gained a new transformation!" Tachiko smiled cheerfully, trying to lighten up the mood.

"Really? Tsubaki did that once too, when she battled her brother…" Maka replied

"Well, the guy was some far relative of mine that went berserk…" Yoshiki nervously said, rubbing back of his head, "I guess only weapons with relations to opponents that are family members that also have weapon abilities can adapt the weapon abilities after devouring their soul…"

"Look who listened to Professor Nygus' lectures." Tachiko added playfully. "Anyways, his new form is a two bladed Scythe! Should we show them, Yoshiki?"

"Sure." he slightly smirked and transformed and took on a form of a double bladed, two meters long scythe, with each blade being one meter long and classically slightly bent. The blades were both silver and with different patterns engraved in them, one had curly black intervened lines, and other was ribbed by diagonal, black, straight lines. One blade was pointed right, other left, each other at the opposite end of the dark blue metal stick (that had black a few centimeters wide black area in the middle, and silver on its ends) they were on.

"It nice offense and defense, if I spin it, it can be both at the same time." Tachiko said as she held her weapon partner.

"Wow…" Maka glared with interest before Yoshiki transformed back

"It may not be the most practical weapon ever, but it can be a nice change from fighting with only a Katana. And, we can do a different form of Soul Resonance too." brown haired weapon said calmly, with a smile on his face.

"It's still a pretty cool transformation." Soul grinned and fisted with Yoshiki ((in this case, "fisting" should be something like a brofist, I dunno))

"Indeed it is"

"E-eh?" Tachiko turned to see Kidd, leaned to a wall on the corner, "Geez, bro.. Don't sneak around like that…"

"I apologize." he said with his typical cold face expression, "I just came to tell you that you should leave academy building soon, Father ordered that students go home early due to an important staff meeting." With that said, he looked at Tachiko dead in the eyes and continued, "I still have some business to do at the library and a talk with Father that can't wait, so I'll be coming home later."

The young Shinigami turned and walked away.

The four watched him leave, everyone thinking what the hell was that all about. After a few seconds though, Yoshiki excused himself and said he'd better go to his dorm, so they said their goodbyes as Yoshiki headed to the dorms and the trio headed out to streets.

"Kidd's been acting really distant lately… Is everything alright with him?" Maka suddenly asked, turning to Tachiko.

"Don't ask me, he's been giving me the cold shoulder for a while now." Tachiko replied and sighed, then continued rather casually "It's like we're two strangers living in the same home. I have no clue why, though."

"That's strange for the mister perfect Shinigami." Soul said nonchalantly

"I told you not to call him that." Tachiko replied in an annoyed tone, "But I have to agree, he acts awfully weird. He pays slightly less attention to symmetry than usual, and says barely a few words every day."

"He isn't very talkative usually anyways."

"He was too silent. Even for his standards. And he seems kinda… Melancholic." Tachiko commented.

"Well, maybe he just needs something to cheer him up." Maka suggested

"I guess you're right. I'll do a few things, I've got plenty of time before he comes home." Tachiko waved, then ran off. "See you two tomorrow!"

"Oi, Oi, watch your step, it's slippery!" Soul said loudly to her, but they shortly after lost sight of her. "Geez, she's always running somewhere.. It's annoying.."

"Leave her alone, you have other worries. It's your turn to cook dinner."

"No way, I'm tired.."

09:12 PM Gallows Mansion

Kidd entered the warm mansion with only a deep, tired sigh.

"That took longer than I expected.. Liz, Patty and Tachiko are probably already asleep"

He took off his shoes at the doorstep and switched into slippers, then took off his usual coat and headed to the bathroom. On his way to there, he stopped by the living room; Nobody.

"Yes, they're definitely asleep.." he mumbled to himself when he finally noticed something.

Not one thing in mansion so far seemed to be even a millimeter off, and the whole building was cleaned. He was caught in quite a surprise, knowing that he didn't do a thorough inspection in the Morning and that nobody leaned around the house for a whole week. He ignored it and proceeded to the first floor bathroom, washed his face and hands, and just when he was about to go to his room, he smelled something and stopped.

Roasted meat.

Was he just so tired he was imagining one of his favorite foods' smell when almost all but one of the mansion's residents were sound asleep?

He walked downstairs and peeked into kitchen, only to see Tachiko, cooking.

"Tachiko?" he asked, clearly surprised, only to get a slight startled jump from her side.

"A-ah, you're finally home!" She smiled, turning around to look at her brother, "I was guessing, since you looked kinda down lately, I could clean up the mansion a bit, cook your favorite dinner, and set things symmetrical how you like them, so you could go to sleep early. You sure look tired, so I'm glad I did."

She then put a smaller bowl of Consome soup on the table, the main dish of mildly spicy chicken teriyaki with sesame and rice on side and instead of regular bread, Nikuman ((Nikuman is meat in bread cooked on steam, shaped like dumplings))

She sat on the other side of table with a plate of a few Nikuman buns.

Kidd was still a bit surprised, but smiled.

"Thank you, sister." He thanked and sat down.

"Bon appétit!" She grinned cheerfully and started to eat.

Kidd wasn't expecting this, but was glad nevertheless. Only when he smelled the teriyaki he felt how hungry he actually was.

"Aren't you going to eat some teriyaki too?" Kidd asked just when Tachiko was about to bite into one of her Nikuman buns.

"No, no, I'm not that hungry. I ate after I cleaned up a few hours ago, so I'm not very hungry." she said and took a bite of Nikuman.

They ate and talked, but for real this time.

11:02 PM

"Let me help you clean up.." Kidd suggested after they both finished their meals.

"Nope." Tachiko denied, "You need to get some sleep, I'll clean it up."

"Hey, you've put a lot of effort into cleaning the house and fixing the asymmetry I left last morning, and after all that cooked. You must be tired. I've got to repay you."

"It was nothing." she said picking up the dishes and carrying them to kitchen, "I insist you go take a long shower. I've worked for a few hours, I can work for a few more minutes."

Kidd wanted to put another argument, but he was too tired to argue, and Tachiko was a real hard head when it came to talking. When she decides something, there's almost no point in trying to talk her out of it.

"Very well… But please don't stay up for long."

"Don't worry, I won't." she smiled, washing their plates.

Upon hearing that, Kidd climbed up to first floor bathroom and showered, changed into his black pajamas, then went into his room, that was also cleaned up.

He laid down in his bed that also had fresh covers. It was enough a few seconds for him to fall asleep.

Around midnight, Tachiko too ended all of her chores, showered and headed to her bedroom. She changed into her loose light blue pajamas, slumped onto bed and without pulling blanket over herself fell into land of dreams, or better said nightmares.

Tuesday, November 25th, 11:40 AM - DWMA

"What? Impossible!"

"Another one?"

"I sure hope I'm not the next…"

"When they did to him, I saw it, that's horrible!"

"Rumors say same happened to the Yakari guy…"

"They say those are monsters trained by some traitor…"

"Monsters? Don't be silly."

"Uwaah, I'm afraid!"

"Maybe that traitor is the same guy that's been kidnapping the people a month ago."

"Or women."

"Or neither."

Endless chatter filled the halls and classrooms of the Academy, making it hell for Rin once again.

"Hey, at least they dropped the talk about you." Tachiko tried to cheer him up.

"Yeah, but for what cost, another student got beat up nearly to death by mysterious creatures." Yoshiki added, leaning to seat by Rin's.

"You're not helping at all." Tachiko looked at him slightly annoyed.

"He's right.. It's the fourth one since you got attacked." Kidd spoke to the silent black haired boy, "Looks like the ambush at forest was their final test before the massive attack.."

"They're taking down the strongest Meisters and weapons, one by one."

"Then it's just a matter of time before they attack me!" Black*Star suddenly spoke from the entrance of classroom.

"Have you been eavesdropping on us?" Yoshiki asked the blue haired assassin.

"So what if I was?"

"I'm sorry…" Tsubaki said quietly from her place behind her meister, "He's been like this ever since Rin got attacked…"

"I'm all fired up and ready to fight that guy!"

"Tone down a bit Black*Star, this is no reason to be happy…" Maka scolded the male meister, "Someone could get killed pretty soon…"

"Did you give the mirror shard and rest of the known information to Shinigami-sama?" Kidd asked ever so silent Rin, who nodded in response.

Th bell rang and they all headed to their seats, as Professor Sidney walked in and started talking on his way to the front of the classroom.

"Alright class, before we start the period, Shinigami-sama has an important announcement." He started as he uncovered a big mirror by the board. In a few seconds, Lord Death appeared in the mirror.

"Hello Students!" he greeted them, and after he got a polite response from students continued, "As you all know, recently there were many attacks on students, that started a week ago, on November 18th. To avoid any more students getting injured, it'd be the best if students wouldn't go out without a pair, weapon meister pairs are the most recommended. The more there are, the harder it is for them to attack. It would also be for the best to avoid the forest, especially at night. That's all, take care!" Lord Death finished and the mirror went back to normal.

"That was broadcasted across every mirror in the academy, so you don't have to worry about other classes. Now, to resume where we left off yesterday.."

"Well, that was more bad news for me." Rin stated when they left the classroom, "My home is a mansion in forest, and counting I can't seem to find a meister I don't have any company." ((I know, I know, forest is pretty far away from the city, nothing grows in a few kilometer radius around the city, but in this Fanfiction, the forest got really close to the city as it grew, so the city's now almost surrounded with the forest and going to the furthest lines of Lord Death's soul.))

"I know it's hard for you to match wavelengths with a person because you practically now, more than ever radiate two different ones, but you didn't seem like you were trying at all." Yoshiki replied.

"I got tons of mail in my locker ever since I got attacked, mostly letters from girls that already have a partner… I can't believe how shallow that is, liking someone you don't even know for their family fame or personal fame…"

"I'm sure you'll find someone soon, the school's big and there are new people joining almost every day.." Tsubaki said.

"I hope so…" Rin said, then waved and walked off, but when he got lost in the crowd he saw a couple of girls coming towards him, asking the same things.

"Why didn't you answer the letter?"

"Are you hurting? Is everything okay?"

"My family's pretty rich, I think we'll might get married someday."

"I'd be a great meister, I'm sure we'd be even better partners!"

After only a few moments he lost it, pushed a few of them in front of him aside and ran as fast as his legs could carry him. He ran and ran, until he got to the third floor's east hall, the first completely empty one he could find. He stopped, leaned against the nearest wall and tried to catch his breath. Shortly after he stopped he felt the same sharp pain in his chest. He again groped the shirt at his chest and slid to floor, still breathing hard.

"This is bad…" he pushed through teeth, "He's going for the long, torture filled death… I should've expected that from that sadistic bastard…"

"Now now, that isn't the way to talk to now your essential part of lifeforce.. After all, I'm the one that gave you real life.." A sly voice from the hall spoke.

There he was. The tall man with purple bluish eyes and tan skin, completely dressed in black, with a cunning and devious smirk on his young looking face..

"How did you get here…!?" Rin asked, pain in his chest was getting worse by the moments passing, but yet he succeeded to push himself back to feet.

"I have some unfinished business here.. With you and your friends. I think you know well what business Master and I've got here, and I'm going to finish it soon" his mouth bent into a cunning grin, revealing unusually big canines, like ones of a vampire.

"Like hell you will, you damn brat!" Rin yelled as he swung his fist at the tall figure, but soon hit the floor.

"What the..?"

He turned his head to see the man, still standing, but flickering a bit like a hologram.

"A thought projection..?" he asked, and got a mocking laugh that makes blood run cold in response

"Did you really think I'd really come here myself to taunt you?" The man said, looking at him with a smirk that soon turned into a cold look of hate and disgust. "Enjoy your last months, brat." he said before disappearing.

"Wait, you shady bastard! I'm not done with you!" Rin yelled before his chest started hurting even more, pain spreading through more near parts of his body, making him cringe and convulse.

"Gh… For once… I'd like there were some people around…" he silently groaned through

After about ten minutes, just when he was about to give in and pass out, the pain started to go away and he could get up again.

He hurried as much as he could with his tormented body.

"As much as I hate to do it, I'll have to stop by the infirmary… And report this growing mess to the principal.."

06:20 PM - Forest

"Thank you for coming with me.." Rin quietly said in his usual, slightly coarse voice.

"It's no problem. After all, if you get attacked again, it could be critical.." Tachiko replied kindly but causally.

"Then what about you? I don't think the monsters would come after me again after tasting my blood. It's probably bitter like the things I like to eat."

"Don't worry, I've been taking martial arts since I was really little. Even if it came to getting attacked I probably wouldn't get hurt much before succeeding to escape. Of course, unfortunately, there's always a chance that we'll get attacked like this."

"Well, if it comes to that, you're free to stay in my house. Those things are awfully aggressive and fast for beings alike zombies."

"Say… About.. 'Those Things'… What are they like..?"

"Let's see… They move on all four, have thin but strong limbs, horrifyingly sharp claws, and their skin gray, like stone wrapped in smooth leather, with black markings looking like both bent and straight lines making weird shapes.. They have black strands going from their head that appear to look like hair, and their face is covered by a stone mask- No, their whole head is like a big stone mask, with red markings in weird shapes, which some parts of their body too have.. The places where those markings and how many of them they have are probably only thing that differs them, or else they'd all be identical.. They're fast, strong, aggressive, and can let out a bloodcurdling screech that leaves ringing in one's ears…"

"That sounds horrifying…" Tachiko replied in awe, counting that Rin survived attack of one of those awful creatures

They were almost in front of the white marble mansion.

"I lost my head when I first saw them and tried to run away, but turning my back on them and running head on was a huge mistake.. So be careful, okay?"

"Right… Thank you for the info.. I'll see you tomorrow." She smiled again

"Yeah… See ya tomorrow…"

Tachiko turned around and walked off back into forest, heading back to streets then home.

"Geez.. It's already getting dark.. What a pain.." she sighed after a while, and raised look to the dark azure sky, then continued thinking out loud "What am I even doing..? I continuously try to lighten up everyone's mood even though I hide my grim one behind a fake smile…" she continued in a tired voice then glued her look back to ground. "Well, my options are limited as it is, this is practically the only thing I can do for now.. And 'that'… Isn't doing any good eith-"

Her thoughts were stopped by crunching of branches and sniffing sound, like one of an animal. She stopped, thinking it's maybe a wolf, but the truth was much, much worse.

What she saw wasn't a wolf, but one of the black beasts that felt her soul nearby. Her heart skipped a beat and she let out a frightened gasp.

"Run!" was her first thought, but then she remembered what Rin told her. Reacting tensely or turning your back on them is equal to death. Then what was she supposed to do? Running was out of question by then, her legs felt like they were made out of hard, solid steel, and wouldn't move.

So that's what silent utter panic felt like.

Not a very pleasant feeling.

"I….I'm screwed…" she pushed through.

Right then the creature ran at her, almost too fast for her to dodge. She threw herself to her side onto ground with the creature nearly tackling her, it ran into the tree that was behind her, its claws flew missing the target and getting stuck in the wood.

Her mind was completely empty, panic blocked all the thoughts except a few commands.

"Get up!"

"Now's my chance!"

"GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE!"

She stumbled clumsily back onto her feet and ran as fast as she could.

The beast let out a sound similar to parrot's screech while it was trying to free its hand. After it ripped it out of the tree, it let out the same sound, more aggressive sounding this time, and ran at Tachiko once again.

She thought about dodging again, but instead she jumped and spinkicked the creature right in its head, slamming it into a nearby tree. The creature remained still with a crack on his forehead, it let out a shrill cry.

"No damned creature… Is drinking my blood tonight…" she panted, narrowing her eyes as she continued to run.

She ran and ran, feeling sharp pain in her right forearm and left lower leg, but was still too scared to check what's wrong with them. She barely noticed anyways. Even when she reached the streets she continued to run, she slipped on four frozen puddles, almost fell on the first three and finally hit the ground flat after slipping on the fourth.

"Damn it… My nose.." She said getting up, panting, with her nose starting to bleed from the impact it hit the ground with. "At last… I lost it… And I'm near home.." she raised look to see Gallows Mansion's eerie black silhouette in distance, at the west side of city, where the sky is still the brightest, despite the Sun is down. She took her handkerchief out of pocket and put it under her nose, tightening its bridge with two fingers to stop the nosebleed.

"I'm home.." she said upon entering the mansion and leaving the shoes by the entrance. She walked through the main hall into the living room.

"Liz, could you please cook the dinner tonight? I'm not feeling too well.."

"Oh? Uh, sure." Liz said looking up from magazine she was reading

"Thank you.." Tachiko smiled slightly, pretending to wipe her nose to hide the traces of dried up blood under it. "By the way, where's Kidd?"

"He's reading in the Dining Room."

"Eheheh, he never uses the study! Kidd's so silly!" Patty joined in happily

"Thanks again, see ya." Tachiko said as she left the living room and headed to the dining room just a bit further in the main hall.

"Bro?" she said as she peeked into the dining room. Kidd was sitting on the end of the table that's near the entrance.

"Hm? Oh, welcome home, sister." he said, raising look from his book, "You sure took your time."

"Sorry I'm late, Rin was still in a pretty bad shape so I escorted him home."

"Very well then." he said rather calmly but then his look lowered to her arm, his face got more serious and took on a bit worried expression, "What's up with your forearm? Are you wounded?"

"Huh?" she lowered look to her forearm to see that the sleeve there is stained with blood. "So that's what that stinging pain was…"

"Ah, that's nothing, I fell and probably scratched myself somewhere.. Don't worry about it, I'll patch it up myself."

"That looks like too much blood for a mere scratch.." He got up "Let me take a look.."

"I said there was no need to… The extra blood must've came from my nose."

Kidd looked at her suspiciously, but upon seeing the marks of dried blood under her nose, he let her go.

Tachiko hurried upstairs. He didn't want to lie to her brother, she just didn't want him to be worried. After all, she's alive and almost completely well. She took a long shower, patched up the scratches (thankfully they weren't deep enough to need stitching), then changed into her home clothes.

"That damned thing must've scratched me when I dodged and when I counterattacked… Shit, it hurts…"

Upon disinfecting and bandaging them up she looked at bloodstained sleeve of shirt, darkened sleeve of trousers and now completely red, originally white, sock, of her uniform.

"Well, this isn't going out in the dry cleaning…" she sighed and carried them to the bathroom, then spent hour and a half trying to wash it off, then she switched to tricks of removing blood she's heard in school, and after two hours in total succeeded to wash off the blood.

"Finally…" she put it away to dry, then got up "If I'll have to do this every damn week I'd go crazy… Well, time for dinner then homework."

She said, getting up and going downstairs. Little did she know, that a tall figure, dressed in black was standing on the edge of forest, looking at the Gallows Mansion,

"Even though it's not noticeable to her friends, she knows something's changing… Our plan is successfully unfolding, Master… ….. …. … .. Oh, no, no, Master, we can't hurry it or else it severely damage our plan, and we got so far.. ….. …. … .. I thought you wanted her back, your precious emerald.. ….. …. … .." After another longer silence, his face expression darkened and shifted into one of sadistic pleasure, his eyes narrowing and mouth bending into a cruel smirk.

"Yes, Master, Understood."

The tall man waited, and waited, watched the lights in the mansion slowly turn off, one by one, until the mansion was completely dark. He then got up, walked towards the building and in a swift movement jumped, grabbing hold of the balcony of Tachiko's room. He pulled himself up quickly, then pulled out a key from pocket of his angle length black trench coat, put it into the balcony keyhole, turned it and opened the doors without making a sound. He sneaked over to her bed and looked at her sleeping.

"Oh, how fun it would be to torture you… But Master has plans, Master needs you alive.." he voiced quietly then put his hand above her head, palm down, "And, unfortunately for you, Master is in hurry.." tips of his fingers flickered into weak emerald green light, his amused face expression changed into a scary, dark one, "So, I'll have to speed things up.."

The green light entered her head through every hole it could go through. When a certain amount entered, Tachiko gritted her teeth and shut her eyes even tighter, gripping the sheets with her hands.

The man watched this from the balcony.

"Enjoy your last months,"

He jumped off the building,

"Mistress.."

A/N: Here! A longer one, descriptive, with proper grammar that you could actually understand for once as an apology for such a long wait and past crappy written chapters! Next up, again, is a timeskip of a few months. I'm soon going to my summer break by the coast, so sorry if this story suffers a bigger delay again! Like I said in the in the description of the chapter, ごめんね, ごめんね, ごめんねa thousand times!

As always, I reveal nothing before the timeskip, and yes, again, ごめんねfor pissing you off with another freaking cliff-hanger with that shady bastard… … I should really stop apologizing, eh?

Anyways, that's all from me for now. See ya all in the next chapter!

~ Helena Nights