When they reach the house, they were shocked by the amount of digging in the garden of the house. They immediately rushed to look the garden clearly. A boy with a ridiculous looking hat was leaning into a hoe while inspecting a dirty coin in his other hand. "Wow, another 500 yen. I wonder if I'll found some sort of treasure." He muttered in wonder, completely unaware of his guests. He pocketed the coin and try to dig some more.
"Who are you?" Giotto asked, putting some malice in his voice. The boy looked up, "Ah, you came. Sorry, I was trying to bury something but I found a coin so I couldn't help trying to dig more." He answered in indifferent tone as he looked at them as if they didn't matter.
"You're not answering my question. Who are you? What are you doing here?" his patient was running thin. The boy just raised his eyebrow, unconcerned. "Who am I is not important. Don't you have your reason coming here?" Giotto eyed him suspiciously.
"G, watch him." Giotto ordered before he rushed into the house. By the time he reached the family room, he saw something make him frozen in his track and looked at it in horror. "I was supposed to bury him, you see." Giotto turned back to the boy standing there with his friend approaching but just like him, they stopped and looked at it in horror.
"What did you do to him?" he growled. The boy just raised his brow again, unconcerned. "What make you think I did something to him?"
"Then who?" he snarled.
"You, all of you." He said, pointing the matter of fact.
"What are you talking about?" he barked, hand itched to attack the boy.
The boy hummed. "I made promise to him to not tell you anything, but oh well. He's dead anyway. They say the dead can't talk." He shrugged.
"Let me tell you a story. It's about a boy, a happy and cheery boy who has a nice big brother who he admired a lot. His big brother is so reliable, always taking care of him and treasure him a lot. His older brother has six other friends that also help him every time. Even though he doesn't have parents or friend at his age, he's okay with it. Having his brother and his brother friends alone is fine. He trust and treasure them. His life was happy and perfect at that time."
"I don't have time to hear a child story." Giotto cut him, he don't really like where this is advancing but the boy didn't care and continued.
"But his brother and his friends hid something from him and he didn't like it. He knew it must be something bad so that his brother hid it from him. But his brother must have good reason to keep him in the dark so he kept quiet as long as they don't hate him.
One time, he accidently overheard his brother was talking about an important document. He saw where his brother kept it but he didn't want his brother to be angry if he disturbed his work so he just dismissed it. He didn't know that what he just saw may turn his life upside down.
Day passed normally but his brother and his brother's friends seem agitated. More day pass and his brother were in chaos. His brother was shouting at his friends which he something never did. He was scared.
One day, their house was attacked some people wearing black suit. Fortunately his brother and his brother's friends were able to fend them off. After the attack, his brother seemed to be stressed even more. So he decided to go into the town to find something make his brother ease a little.
But he was kidnapped by some people. They looked like the people who attacked their house before. They shouted at each other in panic. It seems like the people were trying to kidnap his brother but due to their similar trait, they mistook him as his brother.
Then they injected some poison into him. His body felt like being burned by fire and crushed by enormous power. He screamed in pain and begged for it to stop. After suffer it for a few minutes even though he felt like hours, a man, the leader spoke up.
He told the boy that the poison will leave him suffers the pain again and again until his body can't hold up the attack anymore, he'll die. He even threatens the boy that he'll give his brother the same poison. Then he said that he'll give him the antidote of the poison and won't give the poison to his brother if he brought the man something.
The man described a document; he said that he really needed the document and asked if the boy know where is it. The boy then remembered the document he oversaw the other day and it match the man description thus he nodded and said that he'll bring the document to him.
He went into his home despite the pain, and ran into his brother office. Thankfully there isn't anyone in there so he immediately searched the place his brother had put the document before. After he found it, he ran back into where the man released him.
When he handed the man the document and asked for the antidote. The man just laughed, taking out the bottle and smash it right in front of him. Suddenly his brother rushed toward them and shouted at him and the man. But the man had already left leaving the boy alone. By the time his brother approached the boy, he thought that his brother will comfort him like he had always done; but instead, he was slapped by his brother.
His brother shouted at him why he gave the man the document. The boy tried to explain but it was heard by a deaf ear. His brother shoots him a betrayed, hatred, and disappointed look before leave him. The boy turned to his brother's friend trying to explain to them but they did the same as his brother and left him.
The poor boy was left alone in despair and remorse with a poisoned body. Every day he tried to approach one of them, begging for forgiveness. They ignored him, giving him a cold shoulder and had already marked him as betrayal. It broke the boy a lot.
Every night, he spend his time by shoving cloth into his mouth and enduring the pain attacking his body so that he won't make any sound to worry his brother or his brother's friends. One day, when the boy was escaping into the town so that he won't meet his brother or his brother's friends. He met an indifferent boy. The boy told the indifferent boy everything he's been keeping and the indifferent boy just hear him talking.
They met almost every day and the indifferent can't help but felt attracted to the boy. He didn't understand how the boy keep loving and hoping his brother to hear him out. The indifferent boy did a little research about the boy's brother and discovered his secret.
He offered the boy the truth but the boy rejected it, claimed that he doesn't deserve it. As the day passed, the boy got weaker, physically because of the poison and mentally because of the constant rejection and harsh treatment from his brother and his brother's friend. It wouldn't be that long until the boy's death approach.
The boy, before he die pleaded the indifferent boy to make an illusion to replace him for a week then apologized to them before he made him disappear. To his surprise the indifferent boy agreed. The indifferent was content that the boy tried to leant in him, but he know that actually he wanted to leant at his brother and his brother's friend, to die in their arm.
The indifferent boy wondered why he even bothered to agree to the boy plead, probably because of the sky attraction. So the indifferent boy replaces the boy with illusion and lived in his house for a week.
The boy then went into his old house where his mother lived once and died in there. So the indifferent boy, being the kindred soul trying to bury him in his home garden but was distracted when he found a 500 yen coin.
And that is the end of my story."
Giotto was kneeling, crying and begged for forgiveness. His friends are looking down in shame and guilt; unable to comfort their boss.
"And now you're here. I think I'll just leave his body to you. He said he wanted to be buried next to his mother." The boy said before turning to leave them.
"W-wait," Giotto chocked in sob. "Who are you?" he asked coarsely.
"I'm Flan. The greatest illusionist and a kind-hearted soul." he said with his indifferent face then vanish leaving a trace of mist flame.