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CHAPTER 14
- ANIKI -

"Alright!" I took a deep breath. "I actually have an elder brother... He was very strong, wicked and smart... and I somewhat owe him part of my raw skills. He was the one who trained me initially..."

I noticed the eager gleam in his eyes changed into slight disappointment and confusion.

"You really do lie a lot..." He spoke. "You told everyone that you had no family and the only one left with you back in your hometown was your childhood friend. Why lie about it? It's not like you'll not get hired the moment they figure out you actually have your own family... If there's any reason you'll get rejected, that'd be because you lie a lot..." He pursed his lips to the side, giving me a confused look.

"I used to have a family." I clasped my hands together. "That childhood friend I mentioned that I was taking care of was actually my younger brother... but I ran away and started my own journey. I was supposed to bring him with me, but after some time outside, he realized he preferred to stay at the comfort of our home, and gave me his full support and best wishes for my journey. I finally went out on a new life with my friends, free from restrictions, free from rules, finally free to choose how do I live my own life and what to do with it... I don't think its necessary for me to mention and talk about my family when I'm already a completely new person now, right?" I smiled at him.

"You have friends?" He raised a brow with a slightly disgusted look.

"Yeah..." I rested my head on my palms, looking up at the sky. "And they are people I'm always happy to be with."

"Hmm, I see..." He continued eating his snacks. "You left your family to run away with your friends... I'm not allowed to have friends. Let alone run away with them... That's strictly prohibited..."

"Haha! Because you're no ordinary person!" I slapped his back lightly. "You're an assassin and friends will just get in your way, rather get involved and get endangered. That's just normal for you to be prohibited from having one..."

"I don't know..." He shrugged. "I never talked to other kids... Getting them into trouble for me being an assassin isn't actually my concern... I just see no reason for me to hang out with them..."

Yeah, cause he's a complete weirdo...! So he really enjoys the idea of not having friends and that's why he was forcing me into that logic! Even dad permitted me to stay with my friends and even told me never to betray them! It's best I should not let him see other children... God knows what he would do to them!

"Well, people differ. What's fun for the other might not be fun for some..." I shrugged.

"People are meant to betray each other. I was told by dad not to trust anyone outside this mansion. I can somehow tell he's right. Like, for almost every babysitter sent here to take care of me, only YOU were trusted by dad and the rest THIS much..." His huge eyes stared right through mine. "You really must be something..."

Hold on, did he just say, EVERY babysitter? Does this mean that the previous babysitter he murdered was someone with an ulterior motive? But this family when it comes to security is everything! I was told that the previous babysitter was proven clean and wasn't found of any ulterior motives or acted any suspicious since then... does this mean that only the little devil knew about the babysitter's ulterior motive? Or does this has anything to do about 'betrayal'? Something rather personal?

"Haha! Of course I really am something!" I flicked my collar smugly. "Did the babysitter I replaced before was a traitor? Or someone who had an ulterior motive?"

"Hmmm...?" He stared up at the sky with his index finger poking his chin. "I don't remember..." He shrugged.

"Oh okay..." I nodded. It's pointless to force him to talk about it. I can see now somehow why he killed her. I can sense it was something personal...

"Wait..." He interrupted and started rubbing his chin. "So you quit being an assassin so you can hang out with your friends and run away with them?"

"Hmmm... You can call it that way... I needed money at the moment so while my friends are out on their own adventure, I'll just work here and earn in a neat way... I'm pretty desperate..." I lied a bit.

"I see..." He nodded. "So you're from a family of assassi..."

"SHHH!" I quickly covered his mouth to stop him from talking. He's too loud! What if someone's actually eavesdropping? Although I can't sense anyone, but it's always best to be alert!

"No! I'm not! You're too loud! What if someone hears us and spread ridiculous rumors? I'd get in SERIOUS trouble ya'know?" I finally let go of him in which he narrowed his eyes at me before going back to his snacks.

"Fine..." He muttered as he started swinging his legs back and forth. "So... if your family aren't assassins, why does your elder brother had to be that strong and had to train you and become an assassin?"

"Well, because Aniki is an assassin..." I stated plainly. I didn't want to elaborate further. I actually wish he would stop asking about the whole family now otherwise I'd run out of excuses and 'stories' to make up about them!

"Oh..." He nodded. "Okay..." He ate the last bite, crumpled the wrapper and threw it in the trash bin. "Aniki... huh..." He muttered. "In a few, I'm gonna be called Aniki too..."

"Haha! Yup!" I placed my hand on his little head.

"And someday when I get bigger and stronger, they will ask me to train Mil too..."

"PFFFT!" I tried to hold my laughter in! I wanted to explode! Milluki? SERIOUSLY? That fat-ass hahaha! If you only knew!

"Are you laughing?"

"N...no!" I shook my head. "I was trying not to sneeze! Allergies maybe..."

"How does it feel like having a big brother?"

And now he's asking me about how miserable my life was being under HIS clutches... "Well... it's nothing special... I don't get along well with him so..." I shrugged. "It's just like having someone following you everytime, watching every mistake you do and stop you from having every sort of fun. He's a killjoy..."

"Oh?" He gave me a strange look. "Strange... I really thought big brothers exist for the younger ones to follow and look up to... Dad, Mom, Gramps always told me to train hard, become strong so I will be an excellent role model for Mil and my future younger siblings..."

"Well, I don't know if that's what he really intended to do. All he did was train me to be strong, he gives me rewards sometimes, and when I asked for any material wants, he gives me right away... come to think of it, he only forbid me two things... and that was to run away with my friends, and bust my little brother out of our family which was the thing I wanted to do the most... Other than that, he was nothing but an emotionless tool, and he wanted me to live the same life he does."

"I would be worried too if Mil runs away with people I don't know..." He told me bluntly with the same indifferent eyes he always looked at me with.

It makes sense... If Alluka will be running away with people I didn't know, I'd freak like an idiot too. But he knew nothing. It's a whole different situation. It's just more than that.

"To be honest, Aniki just wanted to grip me by the neck and turn me into his puppet... that's the whole sad truth..."

"Why would he do that?"

"Who knows?" I shrugged. "As long as I'm not under his clutches anymore, there's no need to know why."

"I would do everything that would be the best for my family... even if it can stop them from being happy..."

"And... why would you do that?" I asked him in a sarcastic tone. He indeed sticks to that logic even when he was THIS little! No wonder! Could it be that he was too brainwashed about the family's code?

"You see, what if Mil is allergic to chocolates, and it happened that chocolates make him happy cause it was his favorite, would you still give him chocolates?"

"There's this thing called 'antihistamines' smartypants!"

"There's this thing called 'discipline'..." He narrowed his eyes at me mocking the way I answered him previously, slightly irritated. "You can't just always give him the same drug over and over! He'll get immune to it as much as we get immune to poison! Your Aniki might've been restraining you cause you're a spoiled, naughty brat and because you lie a lot!" He scoffed.

"S-say what?!" I nearly growled running out of patience. I locked my eyes at his with a stern glare, at the same time giving me the same furious stare...

"FINE!" I sighed. "You win. You're my master after all REGARDLESS... pffft."

"I am RIGHT..." He insisted. I ignored him.

"There must be a reason why he's doing that to you, and I think it's best to negotiate with him or talk instead of running away..."

"Maybe?" I stood up from the log. "Soo, done on your snacks? We still have an hour left for training. We need to get back to it."

I wished to dismiss the topic. Talking to him about it is nothing different from arguing with him in the present only that this is a couple of times better since I'm the stronger one now. However, the authority is still his as he is my Master and I'm just a mere slave. He might be right, I could've just talked to him and started a deal. But it's pointless. I don't trust him. I just can never trust him.

However, it could just be that I was just being selfish all along... and kept to him a lot of things to the point we both stopped trusting each other...

END OF CHAPTER 14