I clenched my hands, tears streaming down my face as I willed my body to move. My body trembled as blood continued to drench my skirt, but I managed to crawl away from the table, ignoring the puke-inducing pain from my midriff.
"Elder Sister?" I gasped, trying to reach towards her bound body when a man's boot crushed my hand. "Gyaaaaaaa!" I screamed before biting my lip, glaring at the stranger who was once my beloved Elder Brother.
His red eyes leered unfamiliarly as he gave a similarly unfamiliar and hideous grin. "Eeeeh~, how surprising that you're still alive. Oh, well you can watch your beloved sister die before you," he stated, kicking my hand away as he went towards my sister and pulled her up by her hair.
I choked. I wanted to scream, to ask him why he was acting in this way, why when he clearly loved and cared for us. But I couldn't talk, my chest felt crushed and every time I attempted to speak would make me gag, my body felt like retching my insides.
"Hahaha~. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA." Sister was laughing.
I struggled and raised my head to look at her, and was shocked. My sister. The one who could make the King grovel at her feet, the one who managed the house not even a day after the death of our parents as children without mourning. That strong and powerful sister of mine was crying, tears mixed with blood on her face.
"Hmm, have you actually gone insane? How disappointing for the Madame of the Camellia House, I'll send you on your way before you disgrace the family name any more than this."
Sister then smiled and opened her mouth, "I hate you. I hate you a hundred, no a thousand times more than the love we had for each other and the hate of our enemies combined." She looked him straight in the eye, eyes shining with tears looking like cut sapphires. "Curse you, I hope you die a more wretched death than what I had today."
'No, Sister please! Fight back, don't die please!' All I could do was open and close my mouth with the word I wanted to say on my heavy tongue. The blade reached my sister's neck as she looked at me at that moment.
'Close your eyes.'
My head fell to the ground as I voicelessly screamed my throat raw and bleeding. I moved my eyes to search for my brother's face, could he not feel anything as he killed Sister? I refuse to believe it! Brother and Sister shared a womb, they shared the responsibilities of the family, and they raised me together like parents, how could he not feel anything.
I locked my eyes on the figure holding my sister's corpse-less head. Eh?
The figure of my brother turned into a woman with dark-blue hair and a vivacious body. Blood spilt from my mouth as the realization hit me. This horrible person masqueraded as Brother to kill Sister. Who is she?
"ROSLYN GIOVANNI YOU BITCH! How dare you, how did you break into my manor!"
'Brother?' I mustered the last of my strength to raise my hand, my eyes dimmed and I could faintly see a blurred figure rushing towards me while many others rushed towards the lady.
"Sylvie! Call the physician to come here!" I could feel Brother's warm embrace and felt my hand touch his cheek. It was wet. "Sylvie dear hang on, please hang on I can't lose you as well please!" Brother sobbed. What a day, both Brother and Sister cried today. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry for being late."
'Brother' I cried with renewed vigour and tried to give him a smile, 'I'm sorry for doubting you, sorry for leaving. Goodbye'
***
Sylvie's hand fell from Niall's cheek. On that day there was only one member of the Camellia Dukal Household left. Two months after on the same day the last remaining Niall Camellia died. It was determined that he died from an excessive amount of stress, and drug abuse, but died by suicide. The Camellia family's property was donated to the state.