011. Red.
Red – it was the color his life had become.
Red – it was the only color he saw anymore. His world was now devoid of color, he had lost anything that expressed emotion. Blue – the color of sadness and serenity. Yellow – the color of happiness and joy. Green – the color of contentment and envy. He had lost all of it. Even red, which was supposed to represent anger, love, and passion was only seen in one way now. Everything else in his life was monochrome.
The only red he saw anymore was the red of blood. As he existed day in and day out, no longer caring about the future he didn't want because of the future he couldn't have, the crimson color of a lost life was the only thing that got even a semblance of a response out of him anymore. Yes, he had given up on truly living his own life, but he hadn't given up his truth. The truth that no matter what one human never had the right to steal the life of another, and that if some human decided to play God in that way, they needed to be punished for it.
He solved murders by rote now, leading the police around on autopilot. He was now almost as good at manipulating his police division as Kaitou Kid was at manipulating his taskforce. It was depressing, gratifying, and slightly terrifying at the same time and all for the same reason: that a child could so easily control an entire police division from behind the scenes. Although it may be true that he wasn't really a child, the fact remained that adults didn't notice that they were being led around by what they thought was a child. Either way, there was only one reason he even bothered to hide his intelligence anymore. He may not care what anyone thought anymore, but he wanted to be left alone. And an intelligent child got a lot less attention than one that was a super genius.
A/N: Welcome to the end of prompt 11. I hope you enjoyed it.
And, I know I said I wanted to continue daily updates, and I really wanted to. But I've been fighting with the timeline, and for the sake of my sanity, I won't be posting the next three chapters until the day they are meant to happen. So, expect one each on this Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday. After that, I don't know. Again, I'm really sorry about the lack of update for two days. I did try to update yesterday, but I tried to log in to upload the chapter, wouldn't let me.
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