Dota 68
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-Town of Misaki
3rd POV*
Lawrence, Arcueid and Ciel are on their way to the Tohno Mansion. Lawrence deemed that it is enough time for Akiha Tohno to make her decision. "What have you been doing these days Ciel?" Arcueid started conversing with Ciel forcing Lawrence to be weirded out by it. In the original, Arcueid claimed that she is fine with Shiki Tohno being with other girls as long as it is not Ciel which shows how bad the two are.
Yet right now, they are happily conversing as if there is no quandary between them. "Nothing big, I just informed the higher ups with my progress and they didn't like it. Sigh, it is tiring being an Executioner" Ciel sighed loudly. "Hahaha! Luckily for us, there was no short of entertainment as we were visited by my sister yesterday!" Arcueid giggled at Ciel's misfortune.
"Sister?! Do you mean the Black Princess?!" Ciel was alerted by this information because all Executioners know that Altrouge is different from Arcueid despite them being called sisters. Arcueid was tamer and she helped them a lot by subduing Dead Apostles, Altrouge on the other hand always bring them trouble for her faction would do something outrageous.
"Yep, yep! She also brought that stupid mutt of hers. It was honestly funny watching Anastashia having a hard time handling it" Arcueid smiled happily mentioning the happenings of yesterday. The more she spoke, the more frightened Ciel was. "S-Stupid mutt you say… the only dog that is Altrouge is bringing should be Primate Murder right…?" Ciel asked smiling wryly.
She really can't get close to Arcueid's humor, it was far too broken! "Hmn, that should be what it is called. Luckily Nero managed to take its consciousness before the worse happen" Ciel was becoming more dumbfounded by each words that escape Arcueid's mouth, if anyone were to hear it then there is no doubt that they would lose their minds.
"You mean, you managed to knock out a BEAST?" Ciel asked in disbelief only to regret asking it. "Yup! It might be hard for us to destroy it using physical ability alone however Lawrence gave everyone some wicked items which are stronger than Noble Phantasms" Arcueid revealed some information that should be kept hidden.
Ciel stopped herself from delving any further, she is scared that Lawrence might dispatched her once she learned too many things. She took a peek towards the man only to be frightened when she saw him smiling amusingly at her. Ciel glared at Arcueid, the person who nonchalantly released the informations without caring for consequences.
Arcueid was confused by the gaze but still shrugged it off when she saw that they already arrived at the mansion. This time, Akiha Tohno was more prepared as she and her maid greeted them at the gate themselves. "Welcome to our abode" Akiha said maintaining a professional smile, she already made her decision and she is determined about it.
"Hello, Ms. Tohno thank you for receiving us here. Are you ready to discuss it once again?" Lawrence took the lead in the conversation. "Certainly, please follow us" Akiha said as they walked inside the mansion, Lawrence and his group followed without asking anything. They doesn't deem this mansion as a threat so there is no problem walking around casually.
They reached the parlor where Kohaku handed them some tea to drink, "Kohaku, please call out Onii-sama, his presence is required here" Akiha ordered the maid. After Kohaku left the room, Akiha then proceeded to stare at Lawrence. "Mr. Lawrence, can I ask for an assurance that you won't harm anyone immediately after learning the truth?" Akiha requested.
She still wanted to exchange words with her brother if the worst case really happen, that should be enough for her. She already firmed her will about this matter, she also know that they wouldn't be able to escape the influence of the Sun Magus. Akiha just hoped that Lawrence is different from normal magus who are selfish.
Luckily, her gamble paid off. "Naturally, I won't interfere if you still have something to leave the world" he said smiling. "I am grateful for that" Akiha said trying to control the nervousness she is feeling. It didn't took long for Kohaku to return along with Shiki Tohno who was surprised by the presence of Ciel. "Ciel-senpai?" he muttered stunned.
Hearing that Lawrence turned towards Ciel, the girl just smiled wryly not knowing how to explain it. She wanted to investigate herself so she took the identity of Ciel and went to the school of Shiki Tohno. "Hello, Tohno-kun!" Ciel responded by waving her hand at the still confused boy. "What is happening here…?" Shiki asked scratching the back of his head.
"Onii-sama, they need to check our bodies for something. I promise to tell you later so please can you cooperate right now?" Akiha asked with guilt, she doesn't really want to leave behind her beloved brother about this situation however she also doesn't want to make him worry needlessly. "If Akiha say so…"
Shiki was about to take a seat when his gaze descended into one person in the room, and without any warning, his body shot in a speed invisible to normal naked eyes. His glasses fell to the ground as his hand grabbed a knife, without hesitation, he plunged the knife towards Arcueid who watched everything in process.
Shiki's knife was centimeters away from Arcueid when a hand suddenly appeared catching his outreached hand. Shiki's instinct moved by itself as his body implemented the Nanaya techniques from his past. With a swift twist of his hand, he tried to break free from the grasps, sadly his effort was turned null when his wrist just broke itself.
He did not care about the broken wrist and proceeded to the next part, he threw the knife into his other hand using the momentum he has to try and slice Arcueid again. This time, he got lucky because Lawrence's position was far from the part that Shiki is trying to slash. Arcueid's left arm separated by itself when Shiki's knife sliced the Lines of Death within it.
Shiki tried to continue dicing Arcueid when the person herself had enough of it. Arcueid's fingers turned claw as she gashed it towards Shiki. The boy flew from the strong hit forcing his body to embed on the walls. It was at this moment that his clarity returned. He stared at his hands in confusion before the pain finally clicked.
"Agggh!!" Shiki grunted looking at the three cuts placed in the middle of his chest, he could not comprehend how that happened. Something inside him was controlled forcing him to move that way. "You bastard!" Arcueid's voice rang as she was about to dash, however Lawrence held her on the spot.
"What are you doing Lawrence?! That man tried to kill me!" Arcueid rampaged on her place trying to enact revenge. "W-Wait, listen to his explanation first! He was not in a control!" Lawrence twitched his lips trying to convince Arcueid who just ignored his words as her aura started to go berserk.
Lawrence can see that she doesn't want to accept any reason so he had no choice but to knock her out. He chopped her neck taking away her consciousness. Arcueid slumped to the ground as Ciel sighed in relief. "Sorry about that Ms. Akiha" Lawrence apologized smiling wryly at Akiha who just turned pale from how scary Arcueid was.
She then snapped from her state and went to Shiki who is having a hard time, "Onii-sama! Please wait, we will heal you!" Akiha said holding Shiki on her hands. Lawrence took something on his pocket and handed it towards Kohaku, "Healing potion. You should know about my wicked items right? Use it to him" he said gesturing to Shiki.
Kohaku hesitated for a second before finally moving, she opened the Healing Salve and made Shiki drink it. Shiki's body began to heal under their watchful eyes, it was phenomenon close to miracle for Kohaku and Akiha. "Nii-sama!" Akiha screamed happily watching it, Shiki slowly regained his bearing as he stood up.
He stared at Arcueid's hands before paling, he had to urge to vomit but held it in. 'I-I did that..?' he thought in horror. He doesn't know what forced him to do that disturbing thing, it was almost creepy. "Relax young man" Lawrence took it upon himself to calm the situation, everyone was still disturb by what happened and in no position to think calmly.
Shiki turned to Lawrence and somehow calmed down seeing his smile, "I didn't expect that it will really happen. Fate really wants to continue gearing up huh?" Lawrence muttered in amusement.
"Anyway, none that happened here is your fault so don't blame yourself for it. I will slowly explain it right now so why don't you take a seat so we can have a useful discussion?" Lawrence smiled gesturing them at the sofa.
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