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Milye6 : The stalker will be revealed in this chapter ( ôuô) But the whole explanation as to why Illumi killed the babysitter will be on the sequel, Chapter 26-27 xDDD so yep, this one and the sequel is pretty much connected xD I'm sorry for the slow update! I'm glad to know you'll be reading till the end. XD

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CHAPTER 22

- BETRAYAL -

I took a deep breath while I watched the moving scenery on the window of the car.

Gotoh was driving it while I sat besides Illumi in the back seat.

The night was quiet and the view down to the city from the winding road up the cliff was breath taking. However, I just can't find the mood to enjoy the ride and give myself a rest from an exhausting day-out...

I looked back at him who was finally sleeping sound, lying his head on one of the plushies he won from the dart game.

I didn't know what to feel after what I have found out...

"Leave now before I change my mind..." I thrusted my hand at the snitch a few inches before I can electrocute and burn him to death. The snitch quivered in fear while pushing his back against the wall, clinging to his pathetic life.

He remained quiet as he slowly bowed his head down, staring at the ground. "I'd rather die than have that son of a bitch-"

SLAAAPPP!

He tumbled to the ground, spewing blood and ended up twitching in pain.

"Say that again..." I spoke in a cold, merciless monotone... "And you won't see daylight. Im being kind to you. So do yourself and your beloved ones a favor..."

"Hahaha..." He let out a small sardonic chuckle as his eyes remained stuck to the ground while staggering and twitching. "Beloved ones? Do I still have them? Hahahaha!"

He seemed to have lost his mind. I somehow get that Illumi killed a family member of this man... If only did I not have been this kid's servant, I wouldn't be defending his side for his despicable tresspass.

"THAT SPAWN OF HELL KILLED THEM ALL!" He started screaming at the top of his lungs, pointing out a dagger at Illumi who gave him back a blank, clueless look. "You know what?" He then turned to me, with a mix of agony, hatred and sarcasm. "You ARE an idiot. YOU ARE!"

I did not even bother to respond.

"He will kill you too! He will kill your family, and the rest of the ones important to you! CURSE'S ON YOU! ALL OF YOU!"

SWIIIIISSSSH!

A coin came flying in the air, piercing right through the man's head like a gunshot. The guy fell to the ground, spilling a few contents of his cranium, with blood gushing from it.

"Are you okay, young master?" Gotoh sat down to Illumi's level. He gave Gotoh a nod as a response, before turning to me. "Good job on defending the Young Master... Sorry it took me long to arrive..."

"But... we didn't call to be fetched..."

"I was asked by Madame to put you to surveillance, hence the Young Master's new sweatshirt... We noticed the stalker so we had to send help..."

Oh, so that sweatshirt has actually a camera on it... I strongly believe that wasn't just for 'surveillance' but rather to protect Illumi from me. As I expected, mom was still suspicious of me...

"If you guys don't mind, we have to head back to the mansion right now." He fixed his glasses as he spoke. "The car is located a few meters from here."

I looked back to the man lying lifeless on the ground... A part of me feels sorry for him. But then again, he deserves to be finally put to rest... after all, would you still even want to live after losing everyone that holds your purpose to live?

I would also prefer to end up that way if that's the case...

"Kill..." Gotoh called me out. "We need to go..."

"Gotoh..." I broke the unnerving silence.

He looked back at me by the rearview mirror as a sign that he's ready to listen.

"Is it normal that people give death threats to the young master like this?"

"Of course. He is an assassin after all regardless his young, innocent age..."

He coldly spoke. I know it is normal. I myself even got countless of death threats too... but that's not what I am trying to know...

"That man..." He continued. "Is related to the young master's butler before you."

I thought so... I knew it. I already had a hunch about this...

"The young master murdered her. And that man was her elder brother. The woman won't actually get hired if we didn't need babysitters at the moment. I remember she was begging Tsubone to get her to any position, maid, cook etc. because she was in dire necessity of money for her younger brother who currently needed intensive medication. He was about the young master's age. She said she badly needed the vacancy so she could send her brother to the hospital to get him treated..."

"Where are her parents?"

"Based from her personal data, her parents are already dead. She only had her older and youngest brother..."

"But why would the young master do it? Was she a threat? Did she try to kill the young master?"

"I have no idea... they seem to get along well compared to his previous butlers before her..." He paused as he passed by a curve. "All I knew was, she died after she came back from her monthly day-off. She went to visit her younger brother in the hospital. That's it."

It's still vague. Although I finally got further information about the ex-babysitter's family background and that I have finally proved that Illumi murdered her intentionally, I am still clueless as to why would Illumi do that... As far as I could remember, I never witnessed him to have random bloodlusts back then...

"Too bad she passed away even before she could officially file for resignation."

"Resignation?"

"Yeah. A week before she died, she asked us some useful information about resignation. She said, her brother needed her care the most at the moment, switching the task of looking for money to her eldest brother..."

"May I know why did the Young Master kill his personal assistant?"

"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... Don't worry... Like I said, youre 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."

I wonder why Tsubone did not tell me this before when I asked her. Maybe because I was new and it was unnecessary to tell me those information. Although true enough, as what Tsubone said, she did NOTHING allegedly suspicious. I see none of those to be a reason for Illumi to kill her.

Did she do something suspcious that ONLY Illumi knows? Did she try to get along well with him just to gain his trust like how he trusts me? If she just have threated to kill Illumi, why would Illumi feel too hesitant to talk about it like murder wasn't his business...?

Or was it because, she betrayed him in some way?

The other servants gave me a bow before they finally closed the door and left.

"Sigh... What a troublesome day..." I muttered to myself whilst I carried him on my back. He was still fast alseep.

I carefully laid him down the bed on his side and then shoved a blanket over him. I picked the new plushies up and lined them around him while he slept sound. I finally took the last one and put it under his arms then leaning his head on it.

As I looked around, he never had plushies as his room was occupied with unsightly toys, figurines and some books... for some reason it feels a bit better to see something 'normal' around.

I somehow feel bad for failing again to give him a ride with my Godspeed. He used to tell me that there are two things he wanted to take a ride on. One is gramps' dragons and the second one was mine...

But asides of all of those things, I felt more concerned about what I just found out...

I am confused as to who I should give my sympathy to. Of course I completely felt sorry for the babysitter and her family...

That it was sad to know that eventually all of them had to die in a horrible way. Apparently the child also died after his sister did... and the guy was left alone just to die like this.

On the other hand, it's good to know that they have been brought to rest and they're altogether up there.

And I just started to ask myself, did I make the right decision to spare him? Am I just romanticizing his innocence that I just suddenly felt that something rather personal and emotional was the motive of the murder despite I grew up on his side knowing him as a cruel, ruthless murderer who would gladly take someone's life for money or if they get in his way?

But my intuition just tells me that it was also hard to ignore...

That sometimes I just had to see right through the unseen before I can understand the reality of the situation...

END OF CHAPTER 22