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AN: Enjoy the chapter!

…sorry if it may seem a bit short, though…

The Altered Rotation

oO~The Key to the End~Oo

It had been nearly a year since Zai had confessed to what had occurred during the time of his wife's death and agreed to be Oz's and his friends' spy within the Baskerville House. Since then, Zai had passed on numerous amounts of information, no matter how insignificant the smallest details were.

But it was the current of piece information that he'd sent that would be his unfortunate last.

-Rainsworth Manor-

Oz and Gilbert sat in separated armchairs as Break and Sharon sat at their usual tea table laden with tea and sweets. Alice and Cheshire, in his usual form (the human-like one), sat on a couch with the brown-haired girl leaning on the other Chain's shoulder.

The group was just relaxing, as they'd destroyed a powerful Chain the night before.

Unfortunately the peace was not to last. A letter appeared in a twister of black feathers and violet light.

Grabbing the letter he knew to be from his father, Oz tore open the envelope, hoping to find his father well and information that would be helpful in their mission.

Ever since the last piece of Alice's memory had been found and restored to her, the group had sought to find Glen Baskerville himself and seal him away for good. Unfortunately, they hadn't really gotten many good leads, though Zai's help was definitely something they were all thankful for.

Oz read through the letter, his eyes widening as he read on, but turned grim at the last moment.

"What does it say?" Gilbert asked after a moment of silence.

The gold-haired man said nothing as he handed the letter to his best friend.

Gilbert read the letter out loud for everyone to hear.

Pandora~Hearts

Oz,

I hope you and friends are well as well as Ada. I understand that my previous letters have little to no help at all. But we've found him; Griffyn and I've finally found him.

He was right under our very noses the entire time.

Go to the ruins where the demolished town of Sabrièl still stands. There you will see the chapel where Glen Baskerville took his last stand against Jack Vessalius before being defeated, or sealed whichever you prefer, by the Hero of the Tragedy himself. Go to where the organ resides and play the tune Glen had created. If my suspicions are correct, somehow a portal or something like that will open. Go through it and you should be able to find the man you've been searching for. But to get back, you need to sing the song you played.

Be careful when you meet him, Oz. He certainly isn't someone to be taken lightly. Once you go through the portal, from what I know, you will be in what I have christened as 'His dimension'. He can do almost anything he so wishes while in that world.

Now that I have delivered this piece of information, I have other news to share. This may very well be my last letter to you.

I have been discovered.

No one in the Baskerville House knows for certain that it is I who is delivering information to you, but they have suspicions and are sending around others to spy on me. If I am discovered, there is no doubt I will be eliminated as a result.

If that is the case, then I name you as the new Duke Vessalius with Oscar as a proxy in case you aren't ready to take up the title and responsibilities. Go into my room at the main Vessalius Manor, I know it hasn't been touched since the last time I was there. But go in there and search through it thoroughly; I've had Griffyn leave a letter for you giving instructions on what do to with my things. Tell Ada I love her and that I always will. But most importantly tell her that I'm sorry for never being around. And know that I am proud of you…my son.

Zai Vessalius

Duke of the House of Vessalius

Pandora~Hearts

"So he's been in the one place no one had thought to look," Break said solemnly.

"Glen has always been a master of disguise," Jack said, "even if he'd hidden in plain sight, you wouldn't have found him. The only way to have been to do so was if you'd known all his tricks as I do."

"Do we go after him, then?" Alice asked quietly.

"We do," Jack answered, "Once Glen is gone, the Baskerville House will be no more. The only reason they have managed to survive this long is because Glen never truly died when I had 'killed' him. As he had no heir, he managed to live quite a long time with the help of the Chain of his House he'd Contracted with."

"What will happen to those that are part of the House once he's gone?" Sharon asked curiously.

"When Glen is gone, technically, the Baskerville House itself will be no more," Oz explained, "Those that had joined will be released. And those that had originally been a part of the House will still be a Baskerville and continue to live for possibly eternity, if they keep the Contract with their Chain intact.

"Without a master to give them orders, they will know not of what they can do. They will need to figure all that out themselves as they finally begin to live."

"What about Zai?" Gilbert asked quietly.

"We pray," Jack sighed, "we pray that we can get rid of Glen before anything happens to him."

Break looked around and everyone and said in a still solemn voice, though laced with cheerfulness, "Shall we get going, then?"

-Elsewhere-

Zai looked out of the window of the abandoned manor he'd been residing in for the past few days since he sent his last letter to his son.

He knew that someone within the Baskervilles knew that either he or someone else was sending information to Pandora. He knew he had to get away before anyone was onto him. So he gave the excuse of needing to take care of a few matters before leaving in the dead of night.

'It won't be long before they discover the truth,' Zai thought, 'At the very least, I managed to patch up my broken relations with my family before anything happened.'

-Oz & Co.-

The carriage bumped and rattled as the group traveled to Sabrièl in silence.

"What do we do when we finally come face-to-face with him?" Alice asked.

"We will fight if that's what is needed," Oz answered, "But none of you will interfere if it is something Glen feels that we must settle on our own."

And before long, the carriage stopped.

They had arrived at Sabrièl.

A bientôt,

TsukiyoTenshi