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CHAPTER 3
- SUSPICIONS, SUSPICIONS... -

7:30 in the evening.

"Please be seated..."

Gotoh commanded me. I did as he said while looking around the Butlers' Headquarters. Nothing changed. Our estate was so vast, the last time I remembered I visited this place was when I was told to wait for Gon, Leorio and Kurapika who came to see me. Rather to save me from this hell of a dungeon. That was at least 3 years ago. If there was anything that changed, those were the faces of the Butlers who served me at the present time period. It's so funny seeing them young, with those clueless dumb faces right now!

"We shall wait for the Head Butler for your first interview before I head back to my post."

"Okay..." I tried to play polite and submissive so not to appear suspicious.

"To kill some time, let's play a game.." Gotoh initiated.

Oh gosh, I knew this game. He never gets tired of it, would he? He thinks he can outsmart me?

"I'll flip a coin." So he did, and tried to catch it by both hands. "Now tell me, in which hand was the coin?"

"Simple. Right." I smugly affirmed.

"Good..."

We continued up to 4 rounds with me always getting the right answers.

"You've got amazingly sharp eyes. Now let's see this..." He repeated the same procedure and then once again asked me in which hand was the coin hiding.

"Haha..." I chuckled. "That trick doesn't work on me. It's on the left." Gotoh's favorite sleeve trick.

"VERY impressive..." he clapped.

"Isn't he?" A voice from behind me interrupted. "Too keen and strong for a mere babysitter applicant, aye?..."

Gotoh immediately stood up from his seat, giving that person a bow. "Master..."

"Good job Gotoh. You can now go back to your post."

"Gladly..." I watched him walked out of the door to notice that voice behind me, is now sitting right in front of me.

"Good evening." She spoke.

HOLY SHIT! Its' Tsubone! Younger Tsubone! You know, I always felt like shit is about to happen whenever I'm with this fella. She gives off this ominous vibe that I don't even know how and why and it always works on me. I just CAN'T stand her. She's even scarier than gramps or dad or anyone else. Something comparable to that Gorilla Granny Bisky... And one thing's for sure, she's still unattractive regardless her age...

"Ahem!"

"Ooopss... Im sorry...! Good evening!" I stuttered in fear of getting reprimanded.

"So you're applying as the firstborn's personal butler, right? Are you aware?"

"Y-yes, yes I am!"

"Introduce yourself..." She instructed me in a strict monotone.

"M-my name is Kill! No last name. 15 years old- probably! I am from Meteor City, Blood Type Unknown, standing 168 cm , weighing 55-"

"Enough!"

I was pretty nervous!

"Don't be nervous. I'm not gonna do anything to you YET. So you mean you're saying, you have a lot of personal infos you have no idea about because you're a mere throw up from the Meteor City. Is that right?"

"Yes Ma'am."

"With that strength of yours, you are suspicious. I suggest you should rather apply as a bodyguard rather than a babysitter. What are your motives?"

She let out a certain amount of Ren that manifests strong suspicions about my identity and I get what did she mean about that.

"I've heard, the pay is pretty rewarding here... since I am strong enough to work in this kind of environment. I don't have a home I can go back to so it's best to be employed somewhere I can stay in and where I can make good use of my own abilities."

"Hmm..." She stopped emitting Ren and nodded, rubbing her chin. "Look, by the way the situation goes, you're more fit for a bodyguard THAN a babysitter. However, we have no more slots for the Bodyguard position and we are in crucial need of a babysitter for Illumi-bocchan."

I knew it! Somehow despite I still had gripes about that time period screw-up, I started to feel excited about what's up ahead for me being Illumi's babysitter. Not bad at all...

Rrrrring!

"Oh, just a moment..." Tsubone stood up to pick the phone.

"Yes? Zoldyck Butler's Office..." "..." "Oh yes, Master!" "..." "The applicant is still here and.." "..." "But, Master, how about his personal records and..?" "..." "Alright... Understood... Im sorry, Right away! Master..."

She sighed before making it back to me. "Master wants to see you right away. Follow me..."

"B-but... the preliminary interview wasn't yet..."

"It's an order... Madame Kikyo wants to personally interview you right now to make it quick."

"Oh..."

I followed her till we made it outside of the Butler's Headquarters. I tried my best not to create random movements and kept my mouth shut for the moment.

There it is again. I can sense that the same aura who trailed me awhile ago. It's back... I looked back at Tsubone and her expressions noticeably changed upon the reappearance of that aura... Her ignoring THAT aura shows, she is familiar with it and its a normal scenario and it's safe to have that aura wandering around like that.

"If youre lucky and get hired right away, your personal records can wait and you would be undergoing some classes together with your future fellow butlers... and if not... Death awaits you..."

She looked straight into my eyes. Forming a stance, somewhat gesturing me to start moving... "Let's go!"

She disappeared into thin air, going for a dash. I smirked and followed her anyway. She knows I can keep up. I can even make it ahead of her in a split second.

Hah! Yeah right! I'm in a low profile mode right now so I think I'll just keep up with her pace...

"Excuse me?" I asked while on the dash.

"Yeah?"

"May I know if there already was a babysitter before me and why he or she was fired?"

"Haha..." She let out a chuckle. "No dear, you got it wrong. She wasn't fired. She died..."

Damn, I knew it. That's what always happens when some butlers appear to be suspicious...

"Illumi-bocchan killed her. The same thing might happen to you if you do something stupid... however, by that strength you possess, Illumi-bocchan cannot kill you, so It's either Master Silluva, Madame Kikyo, or Me would do the job. If you're lucky enough to stumble upon Master Zeno, he might spare you and just kick you out of the estate."

Haha, Zeno gramps sure is so lenient huh...

"May I know why did the Young Master kill his personal assistant?" I asked further. It's not a surprise for that spawn of hell to kill anyone nearby him. But for his age, killing someone NOT his target is quite despicable. I know there's something EVIL about him eversince. That asshole is too dangerous to deal with...

"Hmm, that I don't know..." Tsubone denied knowledge of the matter. "All I know was that after she arrived from her day-off, she went back to her job babysitting Illumi-bocchan and then the following day she was just a cold, bloody corpse lying on the floor inside the Young Master's room... upon investigation however, the former babysitter did not have or do anything allegedly suspicious... so apparently, we can just call her death a whimsical bloodlust by the Young Master..."

Hmph... try me bitch. That little spawn of hell can't do shit on me.

"Don't worry... Like I said, you're too strong to be done by the Young Master. However, if your ulterior motive was to kill the Young Master, you know what's next for you."

"Oh... definitely not! Why would I even do that?" I hurriedly denied.

"Why would you even do THAT? Is that even a question? Obviously we all know the family has a lot of enemies being the legendary assassins they are..."

Tsubone glanced at me with utter suspicion and wariness for a moment before looking back to the pathway we are currently taking.

"Keep up! We're speeding up..." She dashed further... I followed anyways.

I can tell that she distrusts me and the moment she hands me over to mom, I MEAN, 'Madame Kikyo', it all means that they have already planned this out and if I appear to be anything suspicious they are going to execute me right away... The reason mom cut my interview off was because there was actually a camera monitoring us, and she finds me a threat so there's no point in interviewing me anymore. The moment we arrive there, she would surely just try to get rid of me. End of the story...

"ALRIGHT!" She finally stopped. I stopped as well.

"Here we are. Welcome to Madame's Pavilion..."

END OF CHAPTER 3

*Italicized portions are flashbacks just in case it gets too confusing