A/N: The following mentions things Asana said in part 4 chapter 179. You don't have to but it might not hurt to reread a little to understand. No worries if you don't want to. Bits will be explained here.

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Asana was on her way to where Jasmine and Diana were. She had had the day before off. Now that word had spread about the storm more castle personnel that had previously taken time off for Christmas week quickly returned. Not wanting to be away from the castle in case of a lock down and not knowing when they could get back. So now that more maids were around Asana didn't have to work so hard. Suddenly a man appeared behind her and grabbed her. She tried to scream but the man held her throat. She was frightened. This man had the same nauseating scent she remembered, Mr. Hermàn having. Flashbacks to when she was little and Mr. Hermàn touching her ran threw her head and she snapped and despite the hand on her throat did her best to scream and start pulling on the man as he started groping her more.

Seto had a major headache by now. After everything that had happened with Dartz and worrying over if he was telling the truth and the kids would be okay was all getting to him. He tried to turn in early, after making sure Mokuba was tucked in and sleeping soundly, but his head was hurting too much and so he thought he'd see if the new doctor had any aspirin for him. Just then he heard what sounded like a scream. He hoped he was hearing things but decided to check it out anyway. He rounded the corner and froze seeing some strange man holding a maid's throat and groping her. At first he wanted to just dismiss it as just foreplay but something told him that wasn't right.

"Mmm…you smell real good baby. You look even better."

Asana was crying, "Let me go."

"What and spoil all our fun? Sorry baby, don't think so!"

Just then he felt the arm groping Asana being pulled away and twisted, He cried out in pain. He looked up and was surprised to see Seto. "Let me go, mister. Look, we can share the girl!"

"Who are you and how did you get in here?"

"Why do you care? Look if this bitch is yours. I'm sorry, I'll find another."

"I care because first it's obvious she doesn't want anything to do with you and second this is my castle! I'm the king and I don't condone things like this. Now I'll ask again who are you?!"

"My name is Tiyou Luthando. I am King Mahaado's chief spell caster."

Well that explained how he got in. Obviously if he was Mahaado's chief spell caster then like Mahaado weather meant nothing to them.

"Then I suggest you go to your king and stay there! I'm going to have to have a talk with him about this."

The man suddenly looked fearful. "Oh no, please don't! I was only looking for a little companionship! I didn't mean any harm! Everyone does it!"

"I see, then I suppose this means I should advise my people to spread the work and avoid the Star Kingdom. After all if they condone rape…"

"The Starr Kingdom doesn't condone rapes, King Kaiba. Where would you get an idea like that?"

Seto turned and found Dylan, Mahaado's assistant. Dylan had come in at the tail end of the conversation and wasn't aware of what happened.

"Perhaps because your chief spell caster Tiyou here was trying to rape one of my maids. Then he proceeds to tell me that it is normal that everyone does it when they want or need companionship."

Dylan glared at Tiyou, "Tiyou, the master has told you a thousand times that if you want a woman go out and find one or pay for one. He's warned you before about raping women. And how dare you tell this king that everyone in our kingdom enjoys going out and raping women! I'm going to have to inform the master about this."

"No, please Master Dylan, don't do that. Look, this girl here, she's just your type! Brownish blonde hair, blue eyes and I know you love it when they fight back!"

"While it is true she is beautiful and yes, she does look like the type I'd normally go for. I would never force myself on her."

'Most especially when we're in someone else's' kingdom, and most definitely not when the king of said country is standing in front of me. I do take a maid now and again sometimes against their will but they obviously don't mind since no one's ever quit or protested.'

"And I must report this to the master he has warned you before."

Just then Mahaado came down with what looked like a couple of baby bottles in his hand. "Warned who on what Dylan?"

"Oh um master. Tiyou's arrived, like you requested."

Seto glared at Dylan for not telling Mahaado what just occurred. However, Mahaado wasn't stupid. He looked around and saw Seto's angry face and then saw a young girl sitting on the ground crying and curled up into a ball.

"Tiyou." Mahaado said calmly.

"Y-yes master?"

"What did I tell you when we were in the town of Kalamazuno in the country of Himukai and I caught you trying to rape a bar maid?"

"Um, that if I tried anything like that again, especially in a foreign country, I'd come to regret it."

"Yes, exactly." Mahaado snapped his fingers and what looked like sunglasses appeared over his eyes and three finger huge gloves on his hands. "Now, you can't do anything. When I finish what I was going to do, I shall release you and when we've concluded our business not only will these be replaced but you will be punished in a different way."

Everyone wondered what he meant by different way.

"But master I can hardly see and everyone except you and Master Dylan just looks like black blob figures."

"Yes and they will remain that way till I remove the spell. Dylan, take him upstairs to the spare room across from yours just below mine."

"Yes, sir, but what are you going to do?"

Mahaado sighed and said, "Diana said I should make myself useful and refill these. I tried to tell her that that was what the maids were for and I'm not an errand boy. She kicked me out of the room and locked the door telling me I'm not allowed back in till I've refilled them."

Dylan frowned and said, "Well why didn't you just hand it off to a maid or have me do it?"

Mahaado shook his head, "I don't want to incur her wrath anymore than I already have. If I did hand it off to a maid she'd just interrogate the maids later till someone tells her. Do you really want to lie to her and incur her wrath?"

Dylan shuddered, he'd lied to Diana in the past and she seemed to be the only person in the world to know when he's lying.

"No, I'll do it. I'm sorry for the trouble King Kaiba. I assure you it won't happen again."

"See to it that it doesn't!" Seto said, highly upset that it was one of Mahaado's own men that caused this. Although he did still have to wonder if that man wasn't telling the truth on the fact that rape meant nothing in their kingdom or at the very least nothing in that castle! He shook his head of that unhappy thought. He turned to the maid on the floor and as he walked over to her he realized it was Asana. He gently shook her, "Asana, it's all right now. He's gone."

"No, no he'll be back. He's always around!"

Seto frowned, "Who's always around?"

She looked up but Seto was shocked to see an expression not unlike what he's seen from Mokuba when his mind is in another place than reality.

Tears streaming down her face she said, "It was him, Noah! Didn't you see him?!"

Seto decided to play along. Perhaps whatever this girl was referring to might help him with Mokuba in the future. "No, I didn't see his face. Who was it?"

"It was Mr. Hermàn. He-he came back."

"But why would he be after you?" Seto asked. He remembered Mokuba had said about some man raping Noah and he's now wondering if this Hermàn guy was that person. But what did it have to do with her? Mokuba had never said anything about her.

"I-I thought I told you."

"You didn't." Seto told her still playing along as if he was Noah.

"He-he raped me too. I-I think I was 7 but it's all fuzzy I'm not sure. I'm so sorry Noah! It's my fault he started in on you!"

Seto was startled by this, but his theory about this Hermàn guy was right. "What are we talking about?"

"I couldn't, I couldn't do it anymore! I couldn't stand his touching me! Even, even though mother always told me to stay home and help, Mr. Hermàn looked after you and JJ, I knew what he'd do. So I lied to her and told her I didn't remember she had a meeting and promised to go to a friend's house to study. I tried to stand up for you with mother, when you told her what Mr. Hermàn was doing to you. But she didn't want to believe either of us. I'm sorry it's my fault. If, if I had been stronger and stayed, you wouldn't, you wouldn't have had to endure all that from him and maybe, maybe it's my fault on your turning to JJ. It always made me sick when I'd hear you spout the same words he used to say to you on JJ. I've tried, I've tried to tell you this but you won't listen to me! Why Noah, Why won't you listen to yourself!"

Seto sighed, he'd heard more than enough. His martial arts instructor Kyousuke Kaga taught him lots of things. Self defense as well as other things he didn't normally try as he was always afraid of doing something wrong. So he reached over to her shoulder and remembered what his master taught him and pinched just right on her nerve knocking her out. He sighed as he looked down at her and brushed the hair out of her face as she lay unconscious in his lap and said, "You shouldn't blame yourself for what that bastard did to you or for what he did to Noah. You were a child and wanted to escape the pain. You can't blame yourself for that. The only ones to blame are that bastard that did this and your mother for allowing it to continue to happen." With that he carried her back to her room that he was surprised he remembered and laid her on top of it.