A/N: Hello minna! For safety reason, I started writing this chpt early! Hope that I can finish it in time this time...

Actually, this one took me a lot of time thinking... You see, I'm not the type of author who plotted finish the whole story before typing it out... So... ya...

Anyway, I thank those who have reviewed, I think I haven't said that in a while. *bows bows* Thank you those people who waited for this, read this, reviewed to this, alerted this, favourited this, and most importantly... those who appreciated my effort and don't mind my word counts and lack of vocabulary words... *bows again*

And now, let's just hurry up with the story...

Disclaimer: I don't own KHR. It belongs to Amano. *sad*

"How's Bel-chan doing?" the Varia's 'Mama' asked the Mist Arcobaleno who just came out from the infirmary of the Varia Mansion.

"I told you already, he's alive." Mammon replied. "He did the surgery, but even so, he probably won't be able to wake up from his coma within a week. And even if he did wakes up, he won't be able to take any mission for another week."

"Soka..." Fran mumbled under his breath, lowering his head so that his eyes were covered by his teal coloured hair.

"Who's the one who dared to do this to one of the Varia Guardians?!" Lussuria shouted as he peeped inside the window of Bel's room. The young, blond-haired prince was lying on the bed, with his long bangs covering his eyes. His tiara was placed on the table beside him. His body was covered by bandages, hiding all the cuts that was on it.

"Unforgivable." Mammon muttered. "Whoever he is, I'll find him and make him pay! This is a serious insult to the Varia and its member! And nobody dares to insult me!" Lussuria stepped aside as he noticed a dark aura surrounding the floating infant that could just swallow anyone close to it.

"Mammon-san," the Sun Guardian turned to face the young illusionist, sitting on the floor, who voiced out. "Me will come with you."

"Wha-" the gaylord was at a loss of words. Their former Mist Guardian wants the person, who nearly killed Bel, dead. It's strange that the money-minded baby will actually be willing to do something without getting paid. Lussuria was sure that he had known the Mist Arcobaleno well enough to know that this don't happen regularly. Or maybe at all. So why is it happening now? And more importantly, the youngest Varia member is actually wanting to do it too?! The Varia 'Mama' admit that he don't know much about Fran since he just joined them, but with the experience he had by spending nearly half year with the kid, he could say the same thing as what he did to Mammon.

"Then I'm coming too." Lussuria voiced out. For someone who could do this to 'Prince the Ripper', the Varia's genius of battle, will surely not be easy to take care of. He definitely couldn't afford to let the two 'children' go on their own.

"Sure." Mammon nodded as he approved for the two to join him. "First thing's first, let's go back to the place where we found Bel. The best place to search for clues is always the scene of the crime."

"Understood." the Mist and Sun nodded in agreement.

"I'll use my teleportation to send us back there. And then we'll-"

"Wait." Lussuria interrupted the former Mist Guardian's speech. "Don't we have to inform the boss about this first? Before we leave?"

"No need for that." Fran replied. "Squ-Taichou had probably informed him by now. Since he needs to go there to report about his mission earlier anyway, he may as well as just tell him about this in the meantime."

"Got a point."

"Now," Mammon continued his unfinished speech. "if there's no other problem, can we leave now?"

"Sure, Mammon-chan."

And so the Mist Arcobaleno sent clouds of mist surrounding himself, along with the other two Varia Guardians, teleporting the three of them back to the place where they found the bloody prince.

...

"Now look at what you have done!"

"Hey, no need to scream that loud. It's not my fault... I had no idea that that guy with creepy laughs had actually followed me..."

"See? I told you that there are chances that he might be discovered!"

"You two, please calm down."

"Oh. Now you're telling us to calm down? He's already been discovered, for goodness sake! Now our covers will be blown!"

"But he did took care of that 'Prince the Ripper', didn't he?"

"And that guy won't be able to wake up in just one or two days. So there's no need to worry about that."

"So? One of them had already found out. That means they really aren't easy to fool, just like what I had said!"

"What can I do about it? Boss ordered me to do this. There's no way I could disobey."

"Why you-"

"Quiet down."

"Ah, Boss."

"I have a feeling that this will be discovered sooner or later. Let it be."

"Boss, but our plan-"

"It's going to continue. But I think we must start the last part earlier than we planned..."

"What a mess." Fran spoke as the cloud of mist around him dispersed. "Creepy shaped knives everywhere, and blood all over the place... What a gory scene. Master will like this."

"Fran, this is not the time to talk about that one hell of an illusion master of yours." Mammon said. "We're here to look for clues. And do treat this seriously, or I'll hunt you down in your dreams."

"Hai hai, Roger Mammom-san." the young Mist replied as he pointed two finger at his head dramatically. "But seriously, this is so gory. Wonder if that self-proclaimed prince actually made a cut or two on that whoever who attacked him. It'll make things a lot easier. We can just use that thing that normal people use, what is that called again? Umm... oh that's right! 'Blood test'."

"Sure, we'll do that." the former Mist answered. "That is, if Bel really did make a scratch on that guy."

"And after the test, why don't we get Taichou here to help out too?" Fran suggested. "After all, he's the Rain. It's his duty to wash away all these blood. Is it even 'royal'? As what that stupid senpai called it?"

"Fran-chan. Squ-chan is 'the requiem rain that cleanses the battlefield and washes everything away', but that doesn't make him a cleaner!" Lussuria explained.

"Yup." Mammon agreed. "That's your job, Lussuria."

"Mou, Mammon-chan dara, you're so mean~"

"Hey, aren't we suppose to search the place? What's with all the chit-chatting?" Fran questioned as he made a small frown that is almost unnoticeable.

"Is it your place to say it?" Mammon questioned back, narrowing his eyes that are covered by his hood, so that no one could see them. "You're the one who started all this, so don't come complaining now, Fran."

"Maa maa, Mammon-chan dara, please calm down. Fran-chan too." Lussuria said as he raised both his hands slightly. "It should be fine to search and talk at the same, right? Won't that make a better atmosphere?"

"No." Mammon shot Lussuria a death glare. "And I'm not interested in anything of such. If you have the time to talk then hurry up and start searching!"

"Hai hai, Mammon-chan." Lussuria nodded. "What do you say if we remove all these knives first? Bel-chan will still be needing them once he recover. So why don't we do him a favour and help him get all these back to him?"

"Sure, why not?" Mammon agreed as he began using his illusioned tentacles to start plugging the knives out of the walls and floor. "Who knows? Maybe I can get him to pay me for doing this later."

"Mammon-san." Fran called out to the Mist Arcobaleno as he plugged out some knives himself too. "Please, stop being such a money-minded. Me thinks that Me is catching that habit quite a bit too."

"Good, then maybe you can take care of the Varia's finance problem too if I really died some day."

"Mammon-chan, don't curse yourself." Lussuria said. "It has already been a problem to Varia that Bel-chan is now in a coma, what will we do if another one of our members died?"

"Does it matter?" Mammon questioned. "You got Fran. He's a good illusionist. And during these days, with the teaching of both Rokudo Mukuro and me, he sure will have great improvement."

"But that doesn't mean that we could lose you. You're part of the famiglia, Mammon-chan."

"Thanks, Luss."

"Hey, Mammon-san."

"What is it, Fran?"

"Take a look at this." Fran said, pointing at the wall, the other hand pointing out a finger signaling Mammon to come closer. Mammon nodded as he floated towards the frog hat wearing kid. "What is it?"

"See?" Fran asked as he pulled out one of Bel's knives from the wall. "This is the hole made by this creepy shaped knife of senpai's." Fran explained as he raised the hand that was holding the knife and pointed a finger from the other hand at the hole made. It was a thin, straight line. "But here," Fran continued, pointing at another hole. This one is a small and round one instead. "there's a different hole. Which means, it doesn't belongs to senpai's knives, but-"

"The other guy!" Mammon interrupted before the younger Mist could complete his sentence.

"Bingo." Fran said in his monotone as he put a thumbs up.

"See? We really can find some clues here! Now let's keep looking out for more."

A/N: Ya, and that's how this chpt comes to an end.

If anyone noticed, I tried to put in some Bel x Mammon and B26. But the problem is, I don't know which to choose, so it ended up like this...

If you're interested in having some Bel x Mammon/Fran moments in the story, please state down which pairing you want through the review.

Thanks again to people who read this, reviewed to this, etc. And once again, thank you so much to people who don't mind my lack of vocabulary words and failed english. I only just managed to pass ( by 4 marks ) this year too. *guilty*

I originally planned to have someone with better english, like my sister, to help me write this. But... she's not much of a XS fan... she only reads XS fanfics because I forced her to read them. Ya, I'm trying to help get more XS fans, cause I am one. And she's kind of busy these days... and she will be even more busy next year, studying for her High School exam. And so will I.

So please understand...

Reviews are always welcomed. Good or Bad ones, I'll accept them all.