His voice was low but you both stood in an empty pool in an empty gymnasium the voice no matter how quiet could be heard.
" I wasn't trying to hide it anyway "You spoke the truth
You wouldn't have hidden your identity anyway if anyone came to know you were hiding it and came to school there would have been more attention to you than now. All you did was not be vocal about your identity this was supposed to be sooner. Considering the hype your family gets in high society.
" I am just stating the facts," Akira said
" what are you going to do to the girls.?"
" Why would he do something to them? Justice has its weird way of enacting upon the wrongdoers" The white-haired male got out of the shadow he had been standing in for the past two minutes
" Subaru! "
" Don't worry asuna it will be all good " the sliver-eyed male smiled reassuring the female "Why the sour face Akira did I interrupt something .? " he asked knowing he took Akira's chance to say something heroic in front of you.
" Nothing " Akira's face soured as he locked his blazing red eyes with that of Subaru's calm silver ones. An unknown tension erupts between the two.
Even though Subaru had a diplomatic smile on his face and Akira kept his face unbothered you could sense the need to step in between the two to stop something from happening.
"I thought you two were friends then what is all this tension between you two.? Well, whatever it is I ship it. Enemies to lovers" you giggled stepping in between the two males.
Akira looked disgusted at your suggestion mumbling he rather be with Hikaru than Subaru. While Subaru looked shocked by what you suggested but calmed himself down.
" I assure you I am straight " Subaru claimed trying to dissipate your delusion. But you had no delusion he knew you aimed to debuff the tension between him and Akira which technically worked. Akira now looked constipated.
" I am going to the dorm " he huffed and announced leaving you with an apologetic-looking Subaru
" I will see you later right," he asked again assuring that you would come by their dorm.
"Yes sure you would"
After reaching home you lay your back on your bed looking up at your carefully picked decorations appreciating how beautiful they looked self complimenting yourself for decorating your ceiling with small stars that glow at night. You could only rest so much before you looked back at your room clock.
Tick tock tick tock. It was time to work. Getting out enough cash and some necessary things you headed out towards your destination. It wasn't far away from your current school if anything maximum the amount of time it would take a person to reach with a proper vehicle was 30 minutes.
Reaching the front gate you decided to act lost with you being from a different country they would surely think you could not speak Japanese.
Too bad they don't know you are pretty fluent in it. But what lay in front of you made you halt right on your spot. The infrastructure that you wanted to investigate was no longer standing. It would be more proper to say it was burned to a crisp.
The debris lay fallen there was barely any solid structure remaining as far as you could see from your current spot. It was completely inhabited. You couldn't even see pigeons or crows anywhere near the fallen building.
You saw a picture of this building once this building stood in all its glory now it is nothing but a wasteland after searching the first half you decided to go in through the gaps in the fallen debris. Knowing full well how dangerous it would be for you to venture in you still did.
You couldn't see for some time but soon the sun angling in weird ways made it easier for you to see. As you went deeper into the fallen building the rays of the sun started to disappear.
When you were certain you had reached its heart the area you were currently in turned pitch black.
You felt a gap in the wall it was small but you could fit in there. Crawling down you reached for the flashlight in your back pocket.
Your eyes widened at what was in front of you. You couldn't believe it. There lay the bodies of all those victims that you have been searching for.
Getting in the room through the gap you saw. The room you currently stood in was strategically placed in the centre of this building and has multiple entrances and exits.
The bodies lay there. Their eyes open and mouth agape. They were dead all of them but none of them had decayed why was that you knew? The bodies had been through the elaborate process of taxidermy.
Someone wanted to preserve the bodies for a purpose unknown. What was stranger was you couldn't find your brother as much as it would break your heart to find your brother like one of these. His body not being among the other victims made you feel unsettled. You were sure he was the first one but where was he.?
Tears started to well up in your eyes as your mind ran through 1000 possibilities. Your mind started to clog before you knew you were having a panic attack your hands were trembling you had no idea what to do.
But you knew what to do. You screamed you screamed as hard and as loud as you could. And soon you started to calm down all that tips on the internet were true after all. Regaining some composure you stood up.
Your eyes still darting around nervously as you hated to believe that your brother was not here. If not here does it mean he is alive.?. Or his body is somewhere else.
A slight smell hit your nose. Due to the telltale acrid odor which tends to stick around for a few weeks or months after a terrible burning, you couldn't smell anything else.
But now you could. You could smell the sweet fragrance of many different flowers that were all planted beside each of the victim's bodies. They all were different. You got out your phone to contact your family after all this inspecting dead bodies were out of your jurisdiction.
But from what you could see there were no external wounds on their body maybe an internal examination would tell you better about it.
All your life you were surrounded by dead bodies. Since childhood, your family took extreme pride in keeping the 3rd generation of your family within the criminal circle teaching you and your cousins about everything we would need as adults hence you all knew how to not throw up while looking at all these corpses but you weren't the one with good emotional control rash and messy.
Of course, you're eyes prickled with tears they were someone's family too. Someone's kid, someone's brother. This serial killer needed to be stopped even if it is the last thing you would do.
"what Mom you can't be serious " you responded shockingly
A stern voice on the opposite end disconnected the call after saying "That be all"
Even if your parents were jerks and so was your family but they were already crossing the line. All these people will not be taken to the police instead your family will see to it personally cause the families of victims don't care about the victims as their deaths and body will create a bad impression on their companies and the reason for their coming to this institute will be revealed.
The high society sucked but this was just absurd they didn't want to even check on their kids what kind of family was this. But it only made you wonder if something happened to you someday would your family protect you or same thing would happen to you as these kids? But somewhere deep in yourself, you knew they wouldn't come.
They didn't come for Ichigo your brother what made you any different from him? Your thoughts only wandered more before one of your cousins entered the scene along with some other specialists.
"Kenji" you called out to your cousin he was the older brother of Sayuri.
" Asuna, are you okay.? Did you find any clue about Ichigo.? You think he might be buried here.? " he bombarded you with questions you don't know the answer to.
Looking down in distaste you only declined to have any answers.
"What did you want , asuna." he softly asked. You looked straight into his obsidian eyes and had a hint of determination the same as yours. You loved your cousins. If the elders abandoned even the oldest two cousins but everyone from Kenji down to the end would save you.
" I need the files of the guys," you asked him determination flaring in your body. " I need to know why exactly are they dangerous. And you are the only one with access who will help me "
You would beg if you had to. You planned to steal it but something told you it was a bad idea asking Kenji would work too.
A sigh escaped his lips as he furrowed his brows."do you know why they made this rule.? To stop you and Ichigo from investigating but both of you couldn't stop. Look where that got him. "
" what do you mean.? " you asked with slight suspicion.
" I will give you the boys' files. But stop your side project. Stop investigating our family. I can't lose another cousin to this. Those guys are dangerous." he pleaded his eyes wavering with emotions unseen.
" We will see first get me those files " you smiled back, upsetting your cousin further he knew you wouldn't give up. But he still let it go not knowing it would be his mistake.
"m 2-1, m 4-2 " one of the employees called you both out in the secret code names. It was stupid but necessary.
"yes what is it "You both headed towards the forensic Dr he was an amazing doctor and also the mentor of Kanji.
This was etched on the back of one of the bodies. It was a rusted metal plate with words written on the back of it in English. Each line gave you the creeps. It was something a nutjob would write of course the serial killer was a nutjob
" aren't flowers a beauty?
Best when freshly cut
Since they don't have hands they can do no wrong
Having no mouth makes them pure
One can forever love them even if they are dead and withered.
All of these are my beautiful flowers
Don't pluck flowers from my garden
Cause I have just begun "
What was this note this person was a flower fanatic literacy serial psychotic killer on the loose and yet your parents told you not to interfere. Why are they stopping you from going after this....monster? .
Why is your family so corrupt. What made them like this. It is a relief you and some of your cousins are still sane but what about others they already drowned in toxicity and foulness of their souls you could only hope they don't take you with them
What exactly makes a human a monster
When there is blood dripping down their clothes
when they enjoy the screams of rape
Or when you fill your mouth with all that filthy cash that you can't even digest and keep shut about everything wrong.
A monster's accomplice is a monster
Your family is a bunch of people tied by their sins and lust for money and glory
They all are monsters.