Dota 69
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-Town of Misaki, Tohno Mansion.
3rd POV*
With everyone calm already, Lawrence started speaking. "First of all, although you indeed try to kill Arcueid, it was not because of your will but rather from your past blood" he said. Akiha had a grave face hearing that, she know what Lawrence is talking about as it is something she has been trying to hide from Shiki.
"Blood? What do you mean?" Shiki asked putting his glasses again, one thing that surprised him though was that the man infront of him has no Lines of Death! It is a miraculous thing because even his master had one. Lawrence did not answer and instead stared at Akiha looking for permission, it is not something easily revealed after all.
Akiha contemplated for a moment before realizing that nothing will changed. The world is already turning difficult for them, it would only create more trouble if her brother is still ignorant about the truth. She gave her permission to Lawrence by nodding her head, that was appreciated so Lawrence started talking about Tohno Shiki's past.
Tohno Shiki was originally known as Nanaya Shiki. Hailing from the menace Nanaya family who are famous Demon Hunters, unfortunately his clan was eradicated by the Tohno Family who recognized its threat. Shiki was the last survivor among his clan and Makahisa Tohno decided to adopt him because of the irony. Makahisa's eldest son has the unisex name with Shiki.
The Tohno Family have the lineage of Demons flowing inside their blood. There is a state in their family called Invertion where their inner demon manifest to reality consuming the owner of the body and doing destruction to its surroundings.
In one particular day, Tohno SHIKI, the eldest of the family suddenly inverted while playing with Akiha and Shiki. SHIKI attacked his own sister Akiha forcing Shiki to sacrifice himself so that he could save the life of Akiha thus resulting to the large scar located on his chest.
Upon hearing about the news, Makahisa Tohno went to the scene and without hesitation ended the life of his own son SHIKI. Akiha who spotted Shiki on the verge of death separated half of her life force to save the boy. It temporarily saved his life, until the dying SHIKI instinctively snatched that life force in desperation to save his life.
Makahisa understood that the situation will turn worse if the news of Tohno's heir becoming inverted were to spread out, he decided to lock away SHIKI while brainwashing Shiki to become the original heir of the Tohno Family replacing SHIKI. It was also because of this event that Tohno Shiki awakened his special eyes, Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
Once Shiki heard of his original story, his brain suddenly rang forcing him to clench it. The pain was disrupted by the surge of memories entering his head, the scene where he was pierced in the chest became clear on his mind.
"Nii-sama…" Akiha could only smiled bitterly at the scene, she doesn't know what will Shiki do after this. She just hoped that he will not hate her for what her Father did. It will really break her heart if that happens. After a few minutes, Shiki finally stopped clenching as the pain eventually went away. His face was grave upon knowing everything.
Shiki stood up and went infront of Lawrence, then he lowered his head to 90 degrees. "Although you say it is not my fault, I will still apologize. I am not selfish enough to push away the responsibility of almost killing an innocent woman. For that, I am sorry" he said with sincerity in his voice, he could not forgive himself for doing that even if it is uncontrollable.
Everyone already know that Shiki attacked Arcueid because in the Nanaya Clan, all supernatural monsters are enemy. Arcueid who is a vampire is not an exception to the rule. His blood went overdose upon sensing the scary power hidden inside the delicate body of Arcueid. Though Shiki had to say, he was smitten the first time he laid eyes on Arcueid, of course he won't admit that.
"Hahaha, don't apologize to me, come on Arcueid, stop pretending" Lawrence nudged at the girl who instantly stood up from her sleeping position. "Hah! If that is the case then I forgive you!" Arcueid said crossing her arms. This gesture made Shiki slightly blush because it was too cute in his view. That reaction of his surely didn't escape the eyes of many girls.
Akiha, Hisui, and Ciel narrowed their eyes at this sensing something is wrong. "Once again, I'm sorry for attacking you" Shiki said bowing his head. Arcueid smiled and nodded her head in acceptance, "No worries!" she said trying to wave her hand only to realize that it was amputated. "Uhh… what should we do with this?" Shiki was worried about this.
Because from his knowledge, anything that he has sliced using his eyes has never been restored. He has no idea to what will happen. "It's fine. Your eyes is not that dangerous compared to his girlfriend. Look" Arcueid said pushing energy to her hand initiating the abnormal regeneration. All the people of Tohno Mansion widened their eyes at the scene.
"I think you should ignore that. Back to our initial purpose here, shall we find out whether you are the current host of Roa?" Lawrence said ignoring the incredulity in their eyes. Akiha became nervous upon returning to this topic, she became quite frightened to what will result of this. "Let's start" after taking a huge breath, Akiha said.
Ciel was the one who inspected both of them as she has the most experience with Roa. Lawrence prevented Arcueid because he doesn't know what might happen if she sensed just a little bit of Roa's scent inside the two of them.
During the inspection, the atmosphere was quite heavy, they were rather impatient to know the result. Ciel mused from their nervousness and purposely made the inspection long, after a hellish 5 minutes Ciel finally returned to her seat. "Hmm, this is difficult" Ciel muttered as Akiha profusely sweated.
Shiki is still nonchalant about this because he has no idea what they are inspecting about, he just waited patiently. "Well, Roa is not among the two of you" Ciel finally released it. Akiha and the maids sighed in relief hearing that. "Which could only mean… Tohno SHIKI is the current host of Roa. Have any idea to where he is?" Ciel asked tilting her head.
Akiha took a moment to regain her calm. "I don't know, after killing Father, he has never shown his face in this household" she responded to the question. She doesn't care about him anymore as she is more focused about Shiki.
"That is troubling, how will we find Roa then?" Arcueid muttered assuming a thinking posture. Shiki looked away from that afraid that he might really fall for her. She was typically his type and her charm is also bringing him in.
Lawrence thought about it, the current Roa should be pathetically weak that Arcueid could destroy him easily. The only advantage that bastard has is the fact that he obtained the same Mystic Eyes as Shiki albeit a little different. Roa's eyes could only kill those who have life in them while Shiki has no restriction like those.
He could freely kill anything except for abstract things like space or time. That is why Lawrence doesn't really see Roa as a threat. Ryougi Shiki could also prevent his further reincarnation by killing him using her eyes which is undoubtedly stronger than any Mystic Eyes of Death to ever exist.
"I guess I should end this arc already" Lawrence muttered smiling. "I have the location of Roa in mind, should we go after him?" he said gaining the dumbfounded expression from everyone. "Hah?! You know all along! What is the purpose of this inspection?" Arcueid grabbed his collar and shake him fiercely, she was infuriated that Lawrence probably just messed with them!
Lawrence laughed happily at her anger, "What is the purpose of a show if I can't enjoy it? Hahahah, that was a good one" he said holding his stomach is pain. Ciel who heard that grabbed her head in dismay, she started thinking that it was a good choice to not antagonize them any further. They were treated as a clown!
Everyone stared at Lawrence thinking he was a messed up person, he literally treated everyone as fools making them play in his game. "Should we bring the others in this fight? I doubt it would last long" Lawrence asked Arcueid who is still pinching his ears. "Hm? The others? Ignore them, it will be overkill if we bring them over" Arcueid spoke of logic surprising Lawrence.
"You… you're becoming smart" Lawrence said with a stunned expression on his face. "What? Are you saying I am dumb?!" Arcueid shouted turning her fingers into deadly claws. The two then started a cat and mouse game inside the Tohno Residence breaking many things along the way.
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(A/N: Suggest some worlds will ya. Planning to jump already)