Chapter 25 : Watasato
Minamoto Residence. 9 AM.
Illumi was walking all over the house, collecting all of his stuff, putting them inside his black colored aluminium polycarbonate luggages. He was going to leave the mansion. He wanted to go back to his old Zoldyck mansion.
His mother was right after all. Hidako was a slut.
Tomoe was following him everywhere, pleading him not to go. "Please, Illumi-sama, Lady Hidako is carrying your child right now," Tomoe pleaded to him, almost like crying. "Tomoe, are you sure that it's my child? I saw her fornicating with Chrollo fucking Lucilfer!" Illumi glared at Tomoe with his big black eyes. Suddenly, Tomoe fell on the wooden floor, sitting there, with her head almost touching the floor. "Illumi-sama, Lady Hidako slept with that man to save our condition, please, i beg of you to forgive her," Tomoe cried. "I believe that she enjoyed every second of it," Illumi replied Tomoe with sinister in his gaze. "Please, Illumi-sama, she must have slept with him because of someone's order so this house and the staffs could be preserved," Tomoe begged Illumi, she even touched his leg. He still stood tall while looking down the old woman. "It happened only once, the first month when she was struggling with the debt, the house would be taken away and she would be left with nothing if she didn't do it!" Tomoe begged, almost hysterically.
Illumi didn't say anything, he was looking at Tomoe with disgust in his big black eyes. He pulled his leg that was being hugged by Tomoe and grabbed his luggages.
"ILLUMI-SAMA!SHE HAD TO DO IT BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T HELP HER TO PAY THE DEBT!" Tomoe yelled at Illumi. Illumi didn't even look back when Tomoe yelled at him. He was too angry at Hidako.
He immediately walked out of the place with the Zoldyck black sedan that was already waiting in front of the mansion's gate.
Zoldyck Mansion. 2 PM.
Kikyou who was drinking tea in her garden suddenly rose up in excitement when she heard from the butlers that Illumi's coming back home.
She immediately prepared herself and prepared Illumi his favorite foods. Walking like women in victorian era in her corset and petticoat under her yellow dress, she sprinted to the house's lobby.
Eagerly waiting for greet her eldest son. When the doors were opened, she saw her eldest son, dressing in his usual sleeveless green outfit appeared in front of her. He looked really angry. Kikyou smiled when she looked at the expression on his face. She immediately clung to Illumi's arm and said to him "Oh! My eldest son! How i miss you very very much!"
But, Illumi didn't look at her with the same reaction as she was. Instead, he looked at her with disgust as he pushed her away from him until she fell on the floor. "Don't you ever forget the fact that you killed my child," he turned into this blood thirsty son, glaring at his mother with his bloodlust. "I will never forgive you, mother," He said while walking fast to his own bedroom.
Watasato Country.
It was a small country where Hidako was born. Watasato changed so much that i had become a democratic country since one of the ministers performed coup d' etat and changed the country's basis. It became a developing country. A lot had changed to the country.
The design of the buildings were modernized and a lot of places that were part of the monarchy culture were demolished. Her old palace didn't look like palace anymore. Only a smart part of it that was kept in piece.
People no longer wore the traditional kimono that were used to be worn by everyone. Though some were still wearing the traditional kimono.
"Oi, princess, it's time to wake up already," Machi tapped Hidako's shoulder. Hidako hadn't come back there since the day when Taka took her away.
She was already inside a car. She got out of the car and looked around. They were in the middle of the city.
She realized how everything had changed. She had mixed feeling about it. She missed the old Watasato, where it was so deep in its culture, the place where she was born, her childhood.
"We're not here for sightseeing, princess," Machi said while pulling her kimono's collar and put her inside the back of the car. Hidako couldn't move much. With her gyo, she could see that Machi's thread was all over her and one wrong move could result with the thread slashing her skin.
"We're going to the palace," Chrollo had changed into less flashy outfit. He was wearing a dark green sweater and a black pants with boots on. He pushed his hair back with a very strong pomade.
Near the place where they stopped, there were a ruin of her old palace. It was already ruin, and they didn't even try to renovate the place. The new government only put a memorial stone in front of the ruined palace for the people to see the history of Watasato.
When Hidako was walking closer, she saw a statue of the new era's hero in his modern outfit stabbing a sword on the previous king's heart, Hidako's father. On the memorial stone it was written that the king was a dictator.
What a cruel person. Hidako thought. She always remembered her father as someone she adored, someone who was always kind to her even though she's only a daughter, not his son.
Hidako hadn't even finished reading the memorial stone but Machi already pulled her string. Inflicting some pain to Hidako. The woman immediately walked to the middle of the ruin.
There were the men she saw at the House of Yulla. Some of Credence's men. They were young men with fair skin, as fair as Credence's skin. They had those clear color on their eyes. They were wearing black suit and Credence pin.
It was a temple where the members of the royalties prayed. Hidako only came there once to see her mother praying there. The statues were destroyed. There were only pillars left. In the middle of the squared shaped place, there was a crushed statue that covered most of the floor.
"Mr. Chrollo, Lady Hidako, this way please," the blondie crushed the rocks with a small hammer infused with his nen, surprisingly effective in destroying the rocks and the thick floor. Then the other blonds helped him by removing the dirt so they could see the underground door.
"Michel and Machi, you should wait outside," the blondie said with his thick Trussian accent, he had Vladimir nametag on his suit. Machi let go of her threads off of Hidako and Hidako's arm was then grabbed by Vladmir's strong big hand. Vladimir then tied Hidako's wrists with a nen-infused thick strong rope. She couldn't even move anymore.
"Mirabelle, Javier , Jonathan, Henry and Vincent, follow me" Vlamidir said to the others.
Javier then immediately opened the underground door. There was a stair there. Javier walked down first, then followed by the others.
All of the Credence's staffs turned on their flashlight, including Chrollo. It was a dusty place with lots of rats and spider web. Hidako certainly couldn't hide her disgust towards what she's seeing.
It was a dark narrow hall that they had to go through. "I wasn't the only royalty from Watasato, why didn't you take another person to be the one who opened the box?" Hidako asked out of sudden. "Shut up!" Vladimir shouted to Hidako. His voice was heavy and loud. It shocked not only the humans but also the rats.
"Chill, Vladimir, you shouldn't be that harsh to our princess here," Chrollo winked at the big man with blonde hair and grey eyes. Chrollo knew that Vladimir was a gay man who liked Azian pretty boy, like him. It shut Vladimir up.
"It was unfortunate that Mrs. Credence didn't know that there was a treasure worth more than money under the palace when the revolution took over," Chrollo explained. "It was until few years later they found a writing about it in the king's diary that was only found deep underground after ten years after the new era took over the country," Chrollo said. "My father's diary?" Not even Hidako knew about it. "Yes, there was a laminated paper using old language inside the King's diary and that paper was only seen as a normal bookmark with the kingdom's symbol but with nen, you can see the hidden message there," Chrollo answered. "Chrollo, we have arrived," it didn't take long for them to arrive at the designated place. It was surprising for Hidako to arrive that fast.
In front of them was a big round stone door with the kingdom's symbolism crafted in the middle of it. "Open it," Vladimir pushed Hidako until she fell in front of the stone, to the ground. Her knees hit the hard material on the ground and it lacerated her skin and caused it to bleed.
Hidako slowly stood up and tried to touch the door and pushed it though her legs were shaking due to her extreme fear. She tried to push it but nothing happened. "Bitch! Open it!" Vladimir yelled at Hidako. Hidako then tried to use her nen to open the door but it didn't budge too as if there was a repellent nen on the stone. Hidako then tried to push harder with her nen but instead of it being opened, her body was bouncing away from the stone, with her chest hitting Vladimir's stomach and the force was strong enough that it caused him to fall and have Hidako landed on top of him.
"The color of the raven is the color of my soul," Chrollo interrupted. It was written that in the diary. I guess it might take more than nen to open the door. "Vladimir, What is the color of the raven?" Chrollo's mesmerizing doe eyes met Vladimir's grey eyes. "Black," Vladimir answered. Both of their eyes were observing Hidako, looking at her from top to toe. It was her hair. The color of her hair. Vladimir then took out a small knife out of her pocket and cut strands of Hidako's hair, leaving her hair highly asymmetrical.
Chrollo then looked at the wall again. He traced it and found a very small opening, Chrollo then opened it, it was a small hole. He could feel certain kind of stronger nen there.
He pulled Hidako's wrist by force and put her hand inside the hole. "Release your nen," He ordered. His gaze induced fear inside of her stomach. She never saw Chrollo in that fearsome light, as if he were ready to break her wrist if she didn't comply to his wish. Hidako released her nen through the hole.
Crack.
The stone door was opened. The man then pushed the door and saw a small room. It was a small room with stone wall and an old writing in old Wayashi. The old language they used in Watasato. Hidako knew that language but she didn't completely understand all of the words there. On the stone floor, there were few human bones.
In the middle of the room, there was a stone coffin with a smaller box made of black stone on top of it. It was obvious to all of them that it was enveloped in nen. A very foreign feeling of nen.
"Open it, princess," Vladimir pulled Hidako's arm before pushing her the stone coffin, causing her arm to hit the edge of the stone coffin, turning her skin blue.
When her skin touched the coffin, she felt goosebumps all over her body. It was cold. Very cold. It wasn't cold at all in the room.
She could feel the nen emanating from the coffin encapsulated her body. Hidako was frozen. She couldn't move. It's like the box itself told her not to open it. To shove her away from the box.
"Cold," Hidako muttered, almost inaudibly. Her body was shaking but her limbs couldn't move. "This took too much time," Vladimir in his impatience walked closer to the box and opened the small box on top of the coffin. It was filled with a ball made out of jade, when Vladimir touched it, the man's eyeball rolled back, they turned all white and the man fell on the ground. "What happened to Vladimir?" The other man was shocked when they saw fainted Vladimir. Chrollo's mouth was wide agape. He knew for sure that it must be Hidako who opened the box.
Chrollo grabbed Hidako's wrist by force and put her hand on the jade ball. Suddenly, they could feel small earthquake happening and the door which they used to enter was closed.
The other blond man who was the strongest in term of physique among them all tried to open the door but it didn't budge. The other one checked on Vladimir and he could find no pulse and no breathing.
In a minute, the big coffin was slightly opened. It exuded smell of the rare flower in her childhood, the palace's flower, Varacress. "What smell is this?" One of the men was confused.
One of them men screamed very hard with their eyes opened, as if he was seeing a monster. He took out his gun and shot the wall in front of him. In few seconds, with his mouth and his eyes wide opened he fell on the ground, skin grew paler and his pulse completely disappeared. When Hidako looked around, she could see the other men also fell on the ground with the same expression, as if they were seeing monster in front of them.
Hidako looked around once again and she saw a small black creature with black robe and no face flying on the wall. "At your service, my child" it muttered before it completely disappeared from Hidako's eyes. When she looked back, she saw Chrollo's eyes wide opened, also staring at the same spot as hers, his mouth was wide agape, as if he saw a terror in front of him. His hands were on the stone door, trying to opened it but it didn't budge.
"Mr. Lucilfer, did you see what i saw?" Hidako asked the man. He gulped his saliva and nodded. "Holy shit," he muttered.
Hidako then remembered how to read the old writing.
The tomb of the first King of Watasato.
Underground Dungeon. The first king's tomb.
Hidako then looked around the coffin, she tried to put her hand inside the coffin and there was only bones of the first king that smelled like the flower, covered with ashes.
Hidako realized that it was the power of the old king. That could be activated by the nen of the royal blood. It was the ash that they inhaled, that caused them to hallucinate and suffocate. The ash could never affect those with royal blood. The black creature was caused by the dead king's leftover nen.
When Hidako let out of her hands, the coffin then was closed by itself, followed with the small box on top of it, that's slowly filled with some ashes of the first King.
"Now it's only the two of us left in this underground dungeon of this cursed palace," Hidako sat down and leaned on the coffin, Chrollo did the same. He sat right beside her.
"You're not dead," She commented, in confusion. Only those with the royal blood who will survive. She remembered every bit of the script from the basement.
"Who were your parents?" Hidako moved closer and asked the grey eyed hunk. "My parents? I was an orphan, i know nothing about them," Chrollo answered.
"That's impossible," Hidako's pupils were dilated, she was looking at Chrollo with bewilderment in her eyes.
Only those with royal blood who will survive.
"The kingdom made sure to kill every single bastard," She muttered to herself, in a very soft voice. In voice Chrollo himself couldn't hear. She then giggled.
Those stupid soldiers certainly missed a bastard.
"You're one of those bastards!" Hidako pointed her finger to him. She sighed.
"What do you mean?" Chrollo asked. He was gulping more saliva. He spent all of his life questioning his identity and somehow there's a woman opening that to him.
"When i was a child, i had an uncle named Seiji, he wasn't a handsome man, he's fat and he had a nose like a pig ... he was also very pale who made him a joke amongst my other uncles, we all know what his hobby was, it was going to brothel, the Kingdom had killed more than twenty babies thanks to his hobby," Hidako explained. Her brown eyes met his grey eyes. "I guess you are one of his bastards, your Yordian mother perhaps sent you to Meteor City to save you," She added. She stopped talking when she saw Chrollo's expression, the man was looking at her with awe. Those doe eyes were gleaming in curiosity.
"Well ... you certainly got his pale skin though," Hidako snorted. "Now that i know that we are related, it is kind of uncomfortable to think that we once fucked before," Chrollo giggled. "Actually it is not uncommon for our people to marry their family member," Hidako explained. "My father, the late King married my mother who's his cousin, and my grandparents were also cousins," She added while adjusting the way she's seating. "That perhaps explained why it was known for the public that some of the kings were lunatics ... including the late king," Chrollo said. Hidako said nothing.
She wasn't close with her father and all she remembered was him being a kind father to her. But, she knew all the rumor about him taking pleasure in beating people up, how he often came to underground prison to personally perform torture to the prisoners while laughing ecstatically. Also how he could upgrade someone's crime(by any means) just so he could put them in the underground prison. Chrollo wasn't wrong when he said that.
It was few hours already. Both of them had tried to open the stone door but it wasn't opened. They used nen too but it didn't budge at all.
They both sat again leaning to the coffin. "Will we die here?" Hidako asked, in depressing manner. "No, we won't, Machi will surely question why we're still inside for a very long time and she'll find some help," Chrollo said.
"What will you do with your newfound power?" Chrollo asked Hidako, he was gazing at the lady.
"I don't want to deal with this whole thing honestly, i just want to raise my child in peace," Hidako replied with her hand touching her belly. "What do you want to do if we manage to get out of here?" She asked him back.
"I want to kill Christian Archway," Hidako could feel changes in his aura. "I thought that you were his beloved boyfriend," Hidako sighed.
"You have no idea the things that i had to put up through," he sighed. He never forgot those nights when Christian used his body like a sex toy. He raped him, he'd just ram himself inside of Chrollo's inside. He reduced him to be a cum dumpster. He would force Chrollo to do whatever he wanted Chrollo to be. If Chrollo said no, he would hit Chrollo, slap Chrollo even choke Chrollo and even someone as powerful as Chrollo could no nothing when he ought to face someone who's stronger and faster(and definitely a lot smarter too) than Uvogin. A pure enhancer in the most ultimate form, Christian motherfucking Archway.
He knew he could never be free of Christian as long as the big blonde man was still alive. The last lover he had before Chrollo was dead when she wanted to run away from him. She was kept in the dungeon, tortured in the most brutal manner, started with series of rape and torture that lasted for months until it broke her and she even tried to killed herself but Christian made sure she became nothing but an empty shell. She still existed in Christian's underground dungeon until then. Chrollo knew exactly that's how he would end if he didn't kill him.
"Do you know that he's also the one behind this mission of getting the power of Watasato?" Chrollo gazed at the young woman. Hidako had guessed it. She knew that it wasn't only that Ekaterina Credence behind this, it also involved that big blond man.
Chrollo suddenly rose up and walked to the small box on top of the coffin.
"Do you want to kill him using these ashes?" Hidako giggled. "Yes and i need you to do that," Chrollo said. "Don't you want to try activating it yourself?You're a Watasatan after all" Hidako sighed. "No, princess, i need you to use your body to distract that bastard and i believe that this ashes mean nothing if you're not a royalty," Chrollo said. "I feel nothing, no energy whatsoever when i touched it," Chrollo added while he put his hand inside the small coffin.
Hidako who became curious, rose up. She walked to the small box on the top of the coffin and put her hand inside it. She could feel a surge of energy. It almost felt the same whenever she was being hugged by her father, the King. There was small amount of ashes left there. The ones perhaps they could use if they could get out of that dungeon. "I believe the ashes could inflict hallucination and something with the heart or the lungs, that caused these people to be dead quick," Chrollo explained. "You're awfully quite, my theory is correct, no?" Chrollo asked the young woman. Hidako only gazed at his doe eyes with hers, she didn't reply him.
Chrollo picked up some of the ashes and put it inside a small bottle he had kept in his pocket. "You should help me in killing Christian Archaway," Chrollo was staring at her. "Why should i help you?" Hidako asked him back. "Do you really think we can get out of here without the help of Christian?" Chrollo asked her. "Illumi might come here to save me," Hidako replied. "It's impossible," he snorted. "I haven't told you that Mrs. Credence said that she was planning to show him the video of us fucking," Chrollo said to the young woman. "Are you serious?" Hidako could feel a thunder grumbling in her head. "I am sure that your husband will never show up," Chrollo said. Hidako fell on the ground. She was hyperventilating, she was in state of panic. He should never know about that moment when she slept with Chrollo. What will happen to her and their baby?
"In few hours or in a day, perhaps Christian's men will come here and save us, you will be one of his properties, and now with you being the princess and pregnant at the same time, he will have this crazy desire to fuck you, perhaps with me too, because he's an adventurous guy in sex ... when we're in the middle of fucking, i need you to activate the ashes so they could kill him," Chrollo explained while squatting in front of the young woman who was still in panic state. He rubbed her shoulder and gazed at her with his doe eyes.
"Killing him is the only way out, Hidako," He said to her. "Or else, he'll send you here again in few months to open the coffin again, you'll be his property and perhaps your child too," Chrollo gazed at her.
Hidako was frozen, she was too shocked with the fact that Illumi might leave her. He must leave her. It was hard enough when she was being raped by that butler but at that moment, Hidako remembered that she was fucking with Chrollo with her consent. She wasn't raped, she knew she enjoyed it and Illumi had to witness it.
They were waiting for another few hours, they didn't even know what time it was. Chrollo was walking around the room. from observing the room, thinking that it might have any way out aside from the known door. Hidako just sat there, leaned on the coffin, doing nothing, she was too shocked to even move. Her mind felt like it was being like spun around.
In another few hours, there was still no sign that someone would come there. What surprised Chrollo was that how he could smell blood, fresh blood there. When he looked back, he saw Hidako bleeding, her outfit was covered with blood. The woman didn't say a thing. She had bleeding episode from her vagina. The woman was pregnant but she had to go through the whole thing Credence put her through.
He squatted down and slapped Hidako's face. The only thing he remembered was that she couldn't lose her consciousnes. "Lady Hidako!Hidako! Wake up!" Chrollo yelled at her right beside her ear. She was looking at him, she only blinked at him with her mouth opened.
But, it was right on time. The door was opened. It was him, Christian Archway himself, standing in front of both of them, with his hand bleeding, for the first time in so many years. It was the first time Chrollo saw Christian's hand bled.
Author's Note :
I have to apologise for the extra extra late update. Since, nowadays i ought to work and study at the same time. I feel so touched that there are still people reading this fanfic ;_; thank you very much, Nina, Miran and Dirhhennia Butterfly!
I am very happy every time there are comments here. So, please comment/review some more so i have more motivation to continue writing...