Prologue
"How will I tell him that Tomoe ran away?"
Kaoru asked herself, looking over by the ocean that was bringing her to London, a place where she was accompanying Tomoe Yukishiro, her charge. Kaoru bit her lip as she tried to think of suitable words to say to the man that Tomoe was supposed to marry.
"I'm sorry but you fiancée ran away with an artist she met for 2 days." No, that wouldn't work!
"I'm sorry, Mr, Seta, but Tomoe ran away. She was madly in love with an artist she just met while we were on our journey here." Definitely would not work!
The ship that Kaoru was on is already preparing to dock. She was dreading every passing second for fear that she would bear the brunt of the nobleman's anger.
Meanwhile…"Hurry up, we're going to be late!" Kenshin cried to his driver. He was supposed to meet his paramour, Yumi over at the theatre in 10 minutes. Yumi hated to be late for the theatre. "Hey, Tsunan, let me take the team over to the theatre. Just take one horse and go home. Don't worry about me." Kenshin demanded and took over driving the team of dappled greys.
Kenshin was in such a hurry that when a man darted over the road, the horses reared back and trampled the man crossing the street. Try as he might to control the horses, he was too late for the horses have already crushed the young man's chest. You can see the hoof prints crushing the man's chest. "Damn it! Sir, are you alright?" Kenshin leaned down tried to feel the man's pulse in his neck. It was there but it was faint. "Sir? I say, are you alright?" Kenshin demanded.
"Tomoe…" the young man whispered out. "I…love…" and then the young man's voice died out. Then Kenshin knew that he was responsible for killing this young man and taking away his future with this girl named Tomoe. He knew that he had to find the girl and take it upon himself to take care of breaking the news to this man's fiancée or wife.
"Shit!" Kenshin muttered. "I have to find whoever this Tomoe is and break the news that her fiancée or her husband is dead."
Within a period of hours, Kenshin found out that the young man's name is Soujirou Seta. And the name he whispered out was actually the name of his fiancée from Japan that he was going to meet at the harbor in 2 hours.
"I better go there and meet this Tomoe so I can give her the news that I killed her beloved fiancée…" Kenshin thought. "No need in waiting for the inevitable."
