"Young master Eric… Aiden… Both of you, alright!... What in the world happened here?" Butler Itt's voice quivered with shock as he entered the room. The gruesome scene before him was beyond what he had anticipated when Aiden had called him.
"We are alright! But Itt… aunt…"
"You don't need to talk about that, I can understand what happened here and who is behind all these… I can't believe that woman will do something like this outrageous in broad daylight. I must report it to Master Jonas before she turns the plate upside down… Anyway, you did a good job, Aiden…" Butler Itt's conclusion came swiftly, driven by a misunderstanding as he assessed the situation.
"Huh!!!" Aiden's sudden response caught Butler Itt's attention.
"I-It's not like that… I-It's me who did this mess." In a shattered voice, Eric admitted the truth.
"What???" Butler Itt was taken aback, struggling to grasp the situation as he glanced between the bodies and Eric.
Approving Eric's words, Aiden also nodded his head. With subtle eye gestures, he indicated the direction where Emile and Alan's bodies lay. In disbelief, Butler Itt urged them to explain further, "What exactly happened here?"
"Itt, I killed her… with my own hands… I didn't have any other choice than doing it…" Eric's voice cracked, portraying an emotional facade. "What did I do wrong? Don't I have the right to live?"
"Young master, what are you talking about?"
"After knowing she is the one who killed my mother and brother, didn't I live quietly as they wanted? Never once did I complain about how helpless and poor I was being treated… Then why?
Today, Stepmom and Alan… they came here to get rid of me. The maids are all their people… if Aiden wasn't here..."
With disbelieving eyes, Aiden looked at Eric while hearing his unfinished words. When Eric had asked him to prove his loyalty, Aiden had no choice but to play along, exchanging each other's clothes without even knowing what Eric was truly planning, wearing the shirt made Aiden feel nauseous every second.
But now, everything became clear to Aiden. Eric's misleading words were framing him as the culprit while presenting Eric as a helpless innocent boy trying to protect his friend and servant.
'To protect yourself, are you making me a cold-blooded murderer? Didn't you say we will stay together in ups and downs, then why???'
Even after feeling betrayed by Eric, Aiden continued to stand beside him without disclosing the truth.
However, his disappointed look inadvertently supported Eric's story in front of Butler Itt.
"What did you say... Lady Emile is the one who killed your family... Who told you that?" Grabbing Eric's shoulders tightly, Butler Itt raised his question in an unsteady way.
"Why should I lie about such a thing?" Shoves off the hands from his shoulders, Eric continued. "She is the one who said it… everyone knows the truth, even dad… Today, in front of everyone, she repeats the same words. If you don't believe it, ask Aiden. He is also there when it happens..." Shouting to show an overflowing emotional act, Eric concludes his words.
"What young master said is true… even she said that if she killed him here, no one would raise a question towards it." Supporting Eric, Aiden gave a statement that he had witnessed.
"But… you shouldn't have killed her in one blow..." Smashing Emile's face with his foot, Butler Itt continued, "Aiden, take young master to his room… Don't worry, I will take care of the rest."
"I never expected Butler Itt would do something like this. He really cared about you..." Holding back his emotions as an adult, Aiden whispered his thoughts as he led Eric to his room.
Peeking at Butler Itt who is intently looking at Emile's dead body with bloodthirsty eyes, Eric smiles at Aiden's words.
Butler Itt, one of the insane and complex characters in the novel "Darkness". To get a satisfying revenge over Emile who killed his daughter Iliana, he waited for almost ten years while keep acting as a loyal butler in her house. He supported her greed, misleads her path, and raised her dreams which pierce the sky, and finally destroys it with his hands by creating a powerful psychopath villain, Aamon (the illegitimate child of Jonas).
Simply say, to reach his goal he destroyed a peaceful life of an innocent boy named Aamon. Itt brutally killed Aamon's mother in front of him when he was just fifteen years old; after that physically and mentally tortured him for five years while imprisoning him in an isolated dark room; and by using illegal drugs he makes Aamon a beast that follow his orders unquestionably like a puppet.
However, at last, he has a change of heart, but it turns out to be too late. Everything went out of control, and Aamon turned out to be a monster that no one can control anymore. At the hands of his puppet, he dies brutally in the end.
[That unpleasant end might change this time, the one who killed his daughter is no more. Everything ended in a way, there is no point in destroying Aamon's life. From the five villains, maybe now one is reduced. The world begins to change...
If that's what you are all thinking the future of the novel, then be ready to disappoint… It's not a story that is written to fulfil anyone's false hopes… Never expect too much... Because your protagonist is also a human, not a god to change everyone's fate...]