Emptiness
By: Black Dranzer
".." speaking and thinking
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--flashback sequences—
Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade. I only own any of the characters that you haven't seen in the original Beyblade series.
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In the last chapter of Emptiness:
(("What now?" she asked herself and looked down at her flute.
Should she strike?
Biting her lip, Kazuki thought back to her father's words, "..monitor the Bladebreakers.."
Surely her father also wanted vengeance against Kai for betraying BIOVOLT? Or would he punish her for exposing herself?))
(("Let's see if you can dance properly," Jackie challenged.
"Try me," Kai smirked as the two moved to the middle of the dance floor.))
(("What is it?" Kai demanded as a part of him wanted to return to the dance floor.
"Someone is looking for you," the butler replied and pointed towards the doorway.
Standing in the doorframe was a man wearing a black coat.))
((Taking out her flute, Kazuki held it to her chest, "I will strike soon," she thought with determination, "there is no point in putting it off further,"))
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Chapter TwentyFour: Hatred
"You are..?" Kai asked as he walked up to the man standing in the doorway.
The man was pretty tall, about thirty-five to forty years old. His eyes carried a glow of strong sadness.
"So much like your father.." he whispered as he looked at Kai.
"What are you talking about?" Kai asked stunned. He had never met his father before, and may never want to, seeing as how his grandfather had turned out.
"It is not time to talk about that," the man replied quickly, looking behind him as if expecting enemies to jump out at any moment, "I need to know where Anna is,"
Kai just stared at the man with wide eyes, "A-anna?" he half-stuttered looking at the man. Then, seeing that the man wasn't joking, he replied quietly, "She's gone,"
"So Boris wasn't lying," the man replied with a husky voice, "She really is gone,"
Then, without warning, the man punched the wall with a fist, surprising the butler who was still standing behind the two.
"I-I'm sorry," he said as he tried to calm down, "I just can't believe that she-"he cut himself off and the two hung their heads in gloom.
Kai, being the first to snap out of the misery, asked what had been building up in his chest ever since the man had started talking, "Who are you? How did you know my father? And Anna? And..Boris?" He had to pause when saying his formal trainer's name; it didn't bring back good memories.
"I-My name is Kyle," the man said and looked bitterly at Kai, "I could tell you more, but now is not the time, nor place,"
"When?" Kai asked, "Where?"
"Here," Kyle said and handed him a piece of paper, "it's my address, you can come when you're ready."
And then, he left. Kai had a stunned look on his face as he stood there at the front door. Everything left his mind except what the man named Kyle had mentioned. His father..Anna..and Boris.
Absently, he ignored the butler's prompts of telling him to go back inside and walked over to the garden. He looked up to see a fountain standing on the grass.
"Like my father.." Kai touched his face and looked at his reflection in the water. His own face stared back at him..was it really like his father's? Sitting down on the edge of the fountain, Kai sighed. He had thought nothing else needed to be remembered after returning to the abbey in the last world championships, but sadly, he was wrong. What could be missing from the memories he had already uncovered?
He thought back to how he had found out that he had been born and raised inside Balkov Abbey. How he had been blinded by greed for power and betrayed the Bladebreakers for Black Dranzer. How he had stolen the bit beasts of the teams his former team had battled against. How his friends came through for him anyways and saved him from drowning in a frozen lake.
Even if there were more to his past, would he want to remember? After all, if he had tried this hard to forget it, was it wise to stir them again?
Kai opened his eyes and stood up, he was just about to take a step towards the building and return to the prom when a flute started to play.
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"I won't let this chance go," Kazuki thought as she watched Kai stand up from the fountain. She stood up from the bushes and lifted her flute to her lips, "Time to refresh your memory,"
The melody she played, her mother's melody, floated over the grass in the garden.
"Try to forget, just try," she thought viciously, "You'll fail miserably."
With satisfaction, she saw Kai's eyes fill with confusion as he listened to the melody.
"Time to face your last memory," she thought and stepped out of the bushes while her fingers flew over the smooth wood of the flute.
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"Where is he?" Jackie thought as she danced with Robert. Kai had been gone for more than five minutes and her father had beckoned her to dance with the Majestics leader.
"Jackie?" Robert whispered.
"Huh?" Jackie said, snapping back to reality.
"I would like to be excused." He said and motioned his head towards the other members of his team, who were waving at him.
"Sure," Jackie said and walked back with Robert to the side.
She carefully made sure no one was paying her any attention as she slipped through the room towards the front door.
"You better have a good excuse for being gone for so long," she thought, "Stupid Kai,"
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Kai stood frozen on the spot. That melody, Anna's melody.
"Anna..?" he questioned, more to himself than the player of the song.
The melody stopped. Rustling of bushes came from the right. Kai narrowed his eyes as a girl stepped out of the undergrowth. Her black hair flew as the wind picked up and her face glowed white in the light. It was the girl he had seen calling Anna mother on the night of the Abbey collapse.
At first, the girl and Kai just looked at each other. Kai sensed something from the girl's dark eyes.
It can't be..Can it?
Hate.
"Who are you?" Kai managed to ask. The girl's face was almost identical to Anna's, that was unsettling.
The girl suddenly jumped on top of him and pinned him to the ground. Pulling up her left sleeve, she put it close to his face.
"I hope you can read," she sneered.
In the moonlight, Russian and Japanese characters appeared in front of Kai's eyes:
y6NBATb Muhon-nin.
Kai read the Russian first, "Kill," and then the Japanese, "Traitor?"
"That would be you," the girl said, pushing his neck back so that he almost choked, "you betrayed BIOVOLT and my father. And did I mention my mother?"
"You didn't," he replied as he heaved the girl off of him, surprising her with his strength.
Kai knew now for sure that this girl was Anna's daughter.
The girl landed softly on the grass and growled as she took out a flute and stood up.
"Then let me make it clear to you that I have no intention of letting you live another day," she said as she started to advance on him.
A deadly glint of silver shone in her eyes as she came closer. Before Kai could say anything else, the girl was almost upon him.
He slowly started to back off towards the house. Slowly, the two came closer and closer to the wall. Just then, Kai's back hit the wall.
Nowhere to go.
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Kazuki advanced on Kai. Her hatred for the boy had risen when the boy said her mother's name. The nerve of him. That was when Kai's back hit the wall.
"Engage Battle Form," she thought to her inner computer before its prompt could start, "Initiate Strategy Four: Heavy Attack,"
With a smirk, she heard the reply, "Battle Form Engaged, Strategy Four Set, Awaiting Launch Sequence," and took out her crossbow shooter, which she had slung around her shoulders.
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Tala had been watching the two as they exchanged their few words and was now debating whether to stop Kazuki before she could do anything drastic or to just see how everything turns out.
Either way, Kazuki wasn't going to be thanked by Boris for revealing herself.
"I should have stopped her," he thought angrily. He had tried to catch up with her, but had to be concerned with keeping himself concealed as well.
"Stop, Kazuki," he thought to her, trying to transmit the message, but felt that she had already turned off her receiver.
With a frown, he jumped off of the tree he was hiding in and swiftly made for the two silhouettes, hoping that he would arrive on time.
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Jackie had slipped into the night and was now cautiously walking towards the gardens. As she rounded the corner and came upon the fountain, she gasped.
Kai's back was against a wall. A girl the same age as her had taken out something like a crossbow and was pointing it at Kai.
At his heart.
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Kazuki paused a few milliseconds as she pointed her Beyblade crossbow shooter straight at the blue-haired boy's heart.
No. She was too close. She can't back off now. But his heart won't be the first target.
Instead, Kazuki pointed her crossbow at Kai's leg and shot out her black and white Beyblade.
A smirk came over her face hearing her opponent cry out as her sharp Beyblade pierced through his clothing and skin.
"Rip him to shreds Zenborg," she commanded in a low voice, though she knew that her computer had already imputed orders. Her Beyblade jumped up from its spinning position on the ground and again slashed at Kai's skin.
Kazuki's eyes followed her beyblade, savoring every cut it made in the boy's skin.
"Stop this," Kai started, but was drowned out by another cry from a cut on his back.
"Cease Battle Form," Kazuki said as she saw Kai fall to the ground, clutching his stomach, where a deep gash had just been formed.
"Battle Form Ceased,"
Zenborg's Beyblade stopped attacking and spun on the spot.
Kai watched as the girl stand above him, but couldn't move as the pain was overwhelming.
"You will feel the pain my mother suffered, ten-fold," Kazuki whispered into Kai's ear as she leaned down and prepared to strike him with her flute- dagger and deliver the fatal blow.
A sudden picture flashed across her mind as she looked into the boy's mahogany eyes, but she swiped it aside, ignoring the four figures depicted and only concentrating on getting her revenge.
"Stop!" two voices rose over her thoughts and she looked up, seeing familiar red hair.
At the same time, Kai saw a flash of dark red.
The next thing he saw was a red beyblade knocking the other girl's knife off target.
"Get off of me Tala!" Kazuki growled as the red-haired boy grabbed her wrists.
That was when Kai noticed that the red-haired Demolition Boy was there too. He watched as the two struggled for control.
"Continue Zenborg!" Kazuki commanded, "Engage Battle Form!"
"Don't risk it!" Tala growled back, "Boris will be furious! Not that he won't be for what you've already did."
"I don't care!" Kazuki shouted, "Let me finish what I've started! I may never get another chance again!"
A clatter of a Beyblade sounded as two red beyblades attacked each other.
Kai then saw Jackie emerging from the shadows looking at the beybattle.
"Don't let it get close," she seemed to whisper.
Kai looked at Jackie in surprise, he never knew that Jackie could Beyblade.
Wait..the Beyblade she was commanding..it was dark red..like..no, it can't be..
Kazuki meanwhile, was still trying to get Tala away from her.
There was only one thing for Tala to do.
With reproachful eyes, he slammed Kazuki against the wall and, with a free hand, pushed a notch on the almost-hidden mecha-spiders on the side of Kazuki's temple. He knew that they were what controlled her receivers and transmitters. With the most mental strength he could muster, he sent a wave of energy at her now fully opened receivers. Kazuki cried out for a moment and her eyes widened in surprise and betrayal as she slumped into Tala's arms. Her flute-dagger fell to the ground as Zenborg stopped spinning as its mistress stopped giving it commands.
"Sorry," he whispered, picking up Kazuki's Beyblade and flute-dagger.
"What are you doing here?" Kai asked from where he was forced to crouch.
Tala paused with his back to the boy and replied slowly, "I am not here to help you, don't mistake me as a friend. The next time we meet, we won't be on the same side." At that, he walked into the forest behind the garden and disappeared with the girl in his arms.
"You've got weird friends," Jackie commented, as she picked up her beyblade up and put into the deep folds in her dress.
"Like he said, he's not a friend," Kai muttered bitterly as more blood spilled out of the cuts on his arms and legs. The red reminded him of something he had seen earlier.
Had he imagined Jackie's Beyblade? But that particular deep red..only one person he knew had that colored Beyblade.
Changer.
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Tala walked towards where the small private jet plane was parked.
"We're leaving," Tala mumbled to the other three Demolition Boys who were standing beside the small jet plane. He had already checked out for Kazuki at the inn.
Bryan didn't reply as he climbed up the stairs onto the jet. The only reason the other three hadn't left yet was because they didn't know how to pilot a jet.
The engines roared to life with Tala at the pilot seat.
"I suppose it didn't go well," Ian muttered with Kazuki sitting unconscious beside him.
"I don't suppose you would like to explain to Boris about this?" Tala growled, "Then keep quiet and leave it to me,"
To himself, the boy thought with worry, "But Boris won't be happy with the news,"
--To be continued
By: Black Dranzer
".." speaking and thinking
---------- Scene Change
--flashback sequences—
Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade. I only own any of the characters that you haven't seen in the original Beyblade series.
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In the last chapter of Emptiness:
(("What now?" she asked herself and looked down at her flute.
Should she strike?
Biting her lip, Kazuki thought back to her father's words, "..monitor the Bladebreakers.."
Surely her father also wanted vengeance against Kai for betraying BIOVOLT? Or would he punish her for exposing herself?))
(("Let's see if you can dance properly," Jackie challenged.
"Try me," Kai smirked as the two moved to the middle of the dance floor.))
(("What is it?" Kai demanded as a part of him wanted to return to the dance floor.
"Someone is looking for you," the butler replied and pointed towards the doorway.
Standing in the doorframe was a man wearing a black coat.))
((Taking out her flute, Kazuki held it to her chest, "I will strike soon," she thought with determination, "there is no point in putting it off further,"))
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Chapter TwentyFour: Hatred
"You are..?" Kai asked as he walked up to the man standing in the doorway.
The man was pretty tall, about thirty-five to forty years old. His eyes carried a glow of strong sadness.
"So much like your father.." he whispered as he looked at Kai.
"What are you talking about?" Kai asked stunned. He had never met his father before, and may never want to, seeing as how his grandfather had turned out.
"It is not time to talk about that," the man replied quickly, looking behind him as if expecting enemies to jump out at any moment, "I need to know where Anna is,"
Kai just stared at the man with wide eyes, "A-anna?" he half-stuttered looking at the man. Then, seeing that the man wasn't joking, he replied quietly, "She's gone,"
"So Boris wasn't lying," the man replied with a husky voice, "She really is gone,"
Then, without warning, the man punched the wall with a fist, surprising the butler who was still standing behind the two.
"I-I'm sorry," he said as he tried to calm down, "I just can't believe that she-"he cut himself off and the two hung their heads in gloom.
Kai, being the first to snap out of the misery, asked what had been building up in his chest ever since the man had started talking, "Who are you? How did you know my father? And Anna? And..Boris?" He had to pause when saying his formal trainer's name; it didn't bring back good memories.
"I-My name is Kyle," the man said and looked bitterly at Kai, "I could tell you more, but now is not the time, nor place,"
"When?" Kai asked, "Where?"
"Here," Kyle said and handed him a piece of paper, "it's my address, you can come when you're ready."
And then, he left. Kai had a stunned look on his face as he stood there at the front door. Everything left his mind except what the man named Kyle had mentioned. His father..Anna..and Boris.
Absently, he ignored the butler's prompts of telling him to go back inside and walked over to the garden. He looked up to see a fountain standing on the grass.
"Like my father.." Kai touched his face and looked at his reflection in the water. His own face stared back at him..was it really like his father's? Sitting down on the edge of the fountain, Kai sighed. He had thought nothing else needed to be remembered after returning to the abbey in the last world championships, but sadly, he was wrong. What could be missing from the memories he had already uncovered?
He thought back to how he had found out that he had been born and raised inside Balkov Abbey. How he had been blinded by greed for power and betrayed the Bladebreakers for Black Dranzer. How he had stolen the bit beasts of the teams his former team had battled against. How his friends came through for him anyways and saved him from drowning in a frozen lake.
Even if there were more to his past, would he want to remember? After all, if he had tried this hard to forget it, was it wise to stir them again?
Kai opened his eyes and stood up, he was just about to take a step towards the building and return to the prom when a flute started to play.
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"I won't let this chance go," Kazuki thought as she watched Kai stand up from the fountain. She stood up from the bushes and lifted her flute to her lips, "Time to refresh your memory,"
The melody she played, her mother's melody, floated over the grass in the garden.
"Try to forget, just try," she thought viciously, "You'll fail miserably."
With satisfaction, she saw Kai's eyes fill with confusion as he listened to the melody.
"Time to face your last memory," she thought and stepped out of the bushes while her fingers flew over the smooth wood of the flute.
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"Where is he?" Jackie thought as she danced with Robert. Kai had been gone for more than five minutes and her father had beckoned her to dance with the Majestics leader.
"Jackie?" Robert whispered.
"Huh?" Jackie said, snapping back to reality.
"I would like to be excused." He said and motioned his head towards the other members of his team, who were waving at him.
"Sure," Jackie said and walked back with Robert to the side.
She carefully made sure no one was paying her any attention as she slipped through the room towards the front door.
"You better have a good excuse for being gone for so long," she thought, "Stupid Kai,"
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Kai stood frozen on the spot. That melody, Anna's melody.
"Anna..?" he questioned, more to himself than the player of the song.
The melody stopped. Rustling of bushes came from the right. Kai narrowed his eyes as a girl stepped out of the undergrowth. Her black hair flew as the wind picked up and her face glowed white in the light. It was the girl he had seen calling Anna mother on the night of the Abbey collapse.
At first, the girl and Kai just looked at each other. Kai sensed something from the girl's dark eyes.
It can't be..Can it?
Hate.
"Who are you?" Kai managed to ask. The girl's face was almost identical to Anna's, that was unsettling.
The girl suddenly jumped on top of him and pinned him to the ground. Pulling up her left sleeve, she put it close to his face.
"I hope you can read," she sneered.
In the moonlight, Russian and Japanese characters appeared in front of Kai's eyes:
y6NBATb Muhon-nin.
Kai read the Russian first, "Kill," and then the Japanese, "Traitor?"
"That would be you," the girl said, pushing his neck back so that he almost choked, "you betrayed BIOVOLT and my father. And did I mention my mother?"
"You didn't," he replied as he heaved the girl off of him, surprising her with his strength.
Kai knew now for sure that this girl was Anna's daughter.
The girl landed softly on the grass and growled as she took out a flute and stood up.
"Then let me make it clear to you that I have no intention of letting you live another day," she said as she started to advance on him.
A deadly glint of silver shone in her eyes as she came closer. Before Kai could say anything else, the girl was almost upon him.
He slowly started to back off towards the house. Slowly, the two came closer and closer to the wall. Just then, Kai's back hit the wall.
Nowhere to go.
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Kazuki advanced on Kai. Her hatred for the boy had risen when the boy said her mother's name. The nerve of him. That was when Kai's back hit the wall.
"Engage Battle Form," she thought to her inner computer before its prompt could start, "Initiate Strategy Four: Heavy Attack,"
With a smirk, she heard the reply, "Battle Form Engaged, Strategy Four Set, Awaiting Launch Sequence," and took out her crossbow shooter, which she had slung around her shoulders.
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Tala had been watching the two as they exchanged their few words and was now debating whether to stop Kazuki before she could do anything drastic or to just see how everything turns out.
Either way, Kazuki wasn't going to be thanked by Boris for revealing herself.
"I should have stopped her," he thought angrily. He had tried to catch up with her, but had to be concerned with keeping himself concealed as well.
"Stop, Kazuki," he thought to her, trying to transmit the message, but felt that she had already turned off her receiver.
With a frown, he jumped off of the tree he was hiding in and swiftly made for the two silhouettes, hoping that he would arrive on time.
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Jackie had slipped into the night and was now cautiously walking towards the gardens. As she rounded the corner and came upon the fountain, she gasped.
Kai's back was against a wall. A girl the same age as her had taken out something like a crossbow and was pointing it at Kai.
At his heart.
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Kazuki paused a few milliseconds as she pointed her Beyblade crossbow shooter straight at the blue-haired boy's heart.
No. She was too close. She can't back off now. But his heart won't be the first target.
Instead, Kazuki pointed her crossbow at Kai's leg and shot out her black and white Beyblade.
A smirk came over her face hearing her opponent cry out as her sharp Beyblade pierced through his clothing and skin.
"Rip him to shreds Zenborg," she commanded in a low voice, though she knew that her computer had already imputed orders. Her Beyblade jumped up from its spinning position on the ground and again slashed at Kai's skin.
Kazuki's eyes followed her beyblade, savoring every cut it made in the boy's skin.
"Stop this," Kai started, but was drowned out by another cry from a cut on his back.
"Cease Battle Form," Kazuki said as she saw Kai fall to the ground, clutching his stomach, where a deep gash had just been formed.
"Battle Form Ceased,"
Zenborg's Beyblade stopped attacking and spun on the spot.
Kai watched as the girl stand above him, but couldn't move as the pain was overwhelming.
"You will feel the pain my mother suffered, ten-fold," Kazuki whispered into Kai's ear as she leaned down and prepared to strike him with her flute- dagger and deliver the fatal blow.
A sudden picture flashed across her mind as she looked into the boy's mahogany eyes, but she swiped it aside, ignoring the four figures depicted and only concentrating on getting her revenge.
"Stop!" two voices rose over her thoughts and she looked up, seeing familiar red hair.
At the same time, Kai saw a flash of dark red.
The next thing he saw was a red beyblade knocking the other girl's knife off target.
"Get off of me Tala!" Kazuki growled as the red-haired boy grabbed her wrists.
That was when Kai noticed that the red-haired Demolition Boy was there too. He watched as the two struggled for control.
"Continue Zenborg!" Kazuki commanded, "Engage Battle Form!"
"Don't risk it!" Tala growled back, "Boris will be furious! Not that he won't be for what you've already did."
"I don't care!" Kazuki shouted, "Let me finish what I've started! I may never get another chance again!"
A clatter of a Beyblade sounded as two red beyblades attacked each other.
Kai then saw Jackie emerging from the shadows looking at the beybattle.
"Don't let it get close," she seemed to whisper.
Kai looked at Jackie in surprise, he never knew that Jackie could Beyblade.
Wait..the Beyblade she was commanding..it was dark red..like..no, it can't be..
Kazuki meanwhile, was still trying to get Tala away from her.
There was only one thing for Tala to do.
With reproachful eyes, he slammed Kazuki against the wall and, with a free hand, pushed a notch on the almost-hidden mecha-spiders on the side of Kazuki's temple. He knew that they were what controlled her receivers and transmitters. With the most mental strength he could muster, he sent a wave of energy at her now fully opened receivers. Kazuki cried out for a moment and her eyes widened in surprise and betrayal as she slumped into Tala's arms. Her flute-dagger fell to the ground as Zenborg stopped spinning as its mistress stopped giving it commands.
"Sorry," he whispered, picking up Kazuki's Beyblade and flute-dagger.
"What are you doing here?" Kai asked from where he was forced to crouch.
Tala paused with his back to the boy and replied slowly, "I am not here to help you, don't mistake me as a friend. The next time we meet, we won't be on the same side." At that, he walked into the forest behind the garden and disappeared with the girl in his arms.
"You've got weird friends," Jackie commented, as she picked up her beyblade up and put into the deep folds in her dress.
"Like he said, he's not a friend," Kai muttered bitterly as more blood spilled out of the cuts on his arms and legs. The red reminded him of something he had seen earlier.
Had he imagined Jackie's Beyblade? But that particular deep red..only one person he knew had that colored Beyblade.
Changer.
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Tala walked towards where the small private jet plane was parked.
"We're leaving," Tala mumbled to the other three Demolition Boys who were standing beside the small jet plane. He had already checked out for Kazuki at the inn.
Bryan didn't reply as he climbed up the stairs onto the jet. The only reason the other three hadn't left yet was because they didn't know how to pilot a jet.
The engines roared to life with Tala at the pilot seat.
"I suppose it didn't go well," Ian muttered with Kazuki sitting unconscious beside him.
"I don't suppose you would like to explain to Boris about this?" Tala growled, "Then keep quiet and leave it to me,"
To himself, the boy thought with worry, "But Boris won't be happy with the news,"
--To be continued