Brother? Is something wrong?"
"Huh…?" I look up and look at Akiha sitting across the table from me. Worried swell within her eyes amongst her stoic look.
"It's nothing." My eyes go back to my plate filled with food. I take a stab at one of the cooked sliced potatoes from my filled plate and grab a bite.
"You looked stressed, Brother." I hear. "Thirty minutes have passed and you've eaten little from your plate. Did something happen at school?"
"No… nothing happened. Don't worry about it." I don't want Akiha to get herself involved in the mess I'm involved in right now. I can't stop thinking about the fight I had with Senpai and my stance on the relationship I have with Arcueid. I'm mentally in a huge wreck, currently. I feel guilty about getting angry and upset with Ciel-Senpai. I shouldn't have screamed back at her in that situation. I just wanted Arcueid and Senpai to work together. Instead of meditating calmly, I instead lashed out at her because of my feelings. She's only trying to look out for me, and I completely spat on her kindness.
I consider Senpai a highly respected friend. Someone I have cherished all these years with her. I know where my relationship stands. But… I think that bridge may have been burnt down over that argument. I want to apologize to her, but I don't know how to go about it. And then there's Arcueid. I don't know where I stand with her either. The whole reason for this fight was because I couldn't watch Senpai saying all those things about Arcueid. The thought of someone being branded as a 'monster', gets on my nerves. How could you say that when she smiles cheerfully like that? She has emotions, she's very human to my concern. She isn't 'mindless' as Ciel-Senpai thinks she is. But I can't deny that she did indeed force me to fight as an ally in her crusade. But I'm not entirely sure I feel 'forced' into this matter anymore.
God… my feelings are all over the place.
I expressed that the lust I feel for Arcueid is akin to something like a lover's love once before, but truthfully, I didn't give those words much thought when I thought of them. I brushed those feelings aside due to her natural beauty. Who couldn't be attracted to her looks? But the more I think about it and reflect, the more I think there is something more than her physical appearance.
Is what Senpai said to be true? I have deluded myself into thinking she's not harmful because I—?
… Damnit…
…I don't know anymore…
"I think I'm going to have to call it a day." I stand up from my seat.
"Brother? But you haven't finished your food." Akiha expresses her concern.
"It's alright, I'm not that hungry. I ate a bunch of food from the school store before I came back home and finished them here."
"I see…" I know I shouldn't keep this a secret from Akiha, but I can't tell her the truth. She wouldn't even believe me anyway. It would be outlandish as If I was making the whole story up. I can't blame her for thinking like that.
The least I could do is put up with the normal ordinary brother, who has no problems at the moment. "Everything's alright, Akiha." I do my best to give her an assured smile. "It's probably my anemia acting up that's getting me stressed out. You know how it is."
"Well… I suppose that makes sense." Akiha nods in acknowledgement. "However, please tell me if it starts to get any worse. I'll be sure to get you checked up by the doctors."
"Of course," I replied. "Well then, night Akiha."
"Night, Brother." She says before laying her eyes upon her plate of food and taking a piece from it.
Tick.
Tock.
Tick.
Tock.
...…
The sound of the clock chimes in, Indicating that It's now officially 9 PM…
I suppose I should go meet up with Arcueid now, though I'm currently not motivated to get up and meet her. Not because I don't want to, but merely feeling gloomy from today's afternoon. But, as my mind reminds me, I made a promise to her. I get up from my bed and begin to change into my clothes. Since I don't have my black and white jacket with me, I'll just have to go with that old denim blue jacket instead. How long has it been since I wore it?
Regardless, I slid open my table drawer, grabbed my knife and placed it into my breast pocket of the jacket. I slowly opened the door slightly, making sure the coast was clear before sneaking out towards the back entrance on the main floor.
Making my way outside the mansion, I walked toward the front gate carefully opening and closing it behind me. I look around to the deserted streets, the peaceful quiet soothes my mind. Without delaying any further, I began walking towards the park within the city. Bustling streets of the people at night remained as I made my way.
Reaching my destination, I look around for Arcueid.
Since there was only us normally in the city park, it was very easy to spot each other. It didn't take very long as I spotted her immediately waiting for me. The vampire rests by leaning against a vending machine close to the fountain. She appeared unaware of my presence as she looked around aimlessly in boredom.
After spotting her, I make my way to greet her. Or— that's how it should have played out. But I noticed quickly something had changed about her. Her skirt is no longer the short-blue skirt Arcueid would usually wear. It is now longer, reaching downwards to her ankles. There is an open gap in the now purple skirt's right side. The skirts sort of had a vintage feel to them, accompanied with black high heels too. She still wore the jacket I gave her last night. Everything else stayed the same, her classic white turtleneck sweater and black tights.
"Arcueid?" I call out to her. Her red eyes turned and matched contact with mine.
"There you are, Shiki." Arcueid leans off from the vending machine, her heels clicking against the pavement underneath with her steps towards me. "I've been waiting for you."
"I—uh…" I am lost for words. An unknown hidden heat swells up within me gazing at Arcueid. It's difficult to look at her. I try shifting my attention elsewhere, but that seems to make it worse as my eyes wander to her legs.
Those legs… they were slender, a bit on the plum side but had a magnificent beauty in them. They had an unknown captivating charm to them, legs rivalling Senpai's.
"Hey, what are you staring at?" My view gets blocked by Arcueid's face in front of me leaning.
"Uh...!"
I backed away after being startled, followed by a snickering Arcueid.
"Cheeky, Shiki." She held her hand in front of her lips, containing bits of her laughter. "Have my legs captivated your eyes? Pervert~ "
"I—! That's not true!" I'm such a bad liar. My reaction says it all.
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever you say." Her grin was still plastered. She put her teasing aside, she started talking about the jacket that I gave her yesterday. She held it in her hands and offered it to me. "I forgot to give your jacket back from last night. Sorry about that."
Right… my jacket. Though I'm currently wearing another one, I think she should hold on and wear it. Since we'll be going hunting, best that my hands aren't full for an emergency.
"You can wear it for now. You can give it back once we're done patrolling for today."
"Really?" Said a surprised Arcueid. "Why are you letting me hold on to it?"
"Simple. I don't want my hands to be full while we hunt. It'll just feel uncomfortable if I wear two jackets on me anyway."
"Huh. I guess you're right." Arcueid kept her bewildered look. She looks back at the jacket before casually putting it back on.
"If you say so." The vampire grins happily.
Besides, she looks good in my jacket. Part of the reason why is that I wanted her to indulge in some of my selfish desires at least. It's a harmless one anyway.
"Speaking of, what's on today's menus for tonight?"
"For starters…" She puts her hands on her hips. "Nothing's out of the ordinary, same as usual. So you'll be expecting another boring night. I couldn't find any leads earlier in the day."
"I see." That sucks. Was hoping to let off some steam against some undead. Arcueid, However, doesn't seem to bother with the idea of No undead.
"It's not too bad." The vampire's lips curl upwards. "Maybe it'll be different today. It's our job to protect humans after all. It's what we do."
I suppose she has a point. A potential chance of bumping into one could happen despite the odds. She's also right that it's our duty to protect the people from the dangers at night. It's mostly the reason why I agreed to keep helping.
"You're right." I feel a new confidence bubble in me. "Let's search together."
"Ooohhh, someone's fired up!" Arcueid smiles more. "You know the drill, get those glasses off and let's go."
Taking a deep breath, I take off my glasses. The lines appear once again with my eyes attempting to slowly adjust to it.
Throb—
Oh … even that stupid headache is present without my glasses? I shouldn't be shocked since already talking them off acts up my nausea anyway. Still, just another irritating factor to add to it. It's nowhere near as bad as last time, however. I think I'll be able to stomach it.
"Right. Where to?"
"Let's start by the alleyway." Arcueid nods. "They might show up there since it's less visible to the main walkway which would attract less attention."
I nod, as we begin our search starting from the alleyway. From there, we talked about other locations to visit after the alleyway.
After an hour or two of searching, we keep empty handy once again. As expected, I enjoyed my time at Arcueid. It pretty quiet during the walk, more of a comfortable silence between us. I didn't mind her presence as her being there was more than enough for me. I'm sure she might feel the same too as that smile of hers remains on our search. We are through the main city and towards the park.
"Hey, Shiki. Do you ever feel confused about your emotions?" Arcueid suddenly speaks up.
"Huh? What's this about?" My eyebrow raises.
"It's nothing," Arcueid says as she slows her walking to the speed of mine, now walking right beside me instead of walking ahead. "I ask because of these past few days lately. I'm starting to feel things I have never experienced until then."
Her eyes look wanderers into the city environment. "It's weird. It's not like I hate them, but I'm figuring out what they truly mean."
She looks back at me with her eyes. "Do you know by any chance?"
I'm not like a dictionary of emotions. Not saying that to be rude, but I'm not sure how to approach a topic like that. Isn't she just experiencing regular human emotions? What's so confusing about that? Still, I should try to answer her question anyway.
"Hmm. Can't say… Do you maybe feel happy about it?"
" Happy? " Arcueid gave it some thought. "I suppose so… that's not a bad thing is it?
"Not really. It depends." My eyes fixate on Arcueid. "It's very human though. I have my moments too of being confused about my feelings. It's alright not knowing everything. As long as it makes you happy and you're not hurting any innocent people in the process somehow."
Silence falls on the young woman for a moment, before I hear her voice in a tone of a calm realization. "Does that make me human?"
Human? I never thought of it until now. I mean, I always treated and thought of her as human mostly. I guess Arcueid saying it herself made it really hit home that she's truly a vampire. But even with all of that, I feel comfortable around her without needing to be worried about my life. She doesn't suck blood, that's for sure.
"Yeah. In my eyes you are." It was a simple answer. I didn't need to think hard about it. It was a sincere feeling I had about her, she's like me. All of us. After my reply, she walked faster to be in front of me before turning around with the biggest joy on her.
"I think you're right! I understand my emotions a bit better now!" Arcueid turns her back to me and skips happily in the rhythm of her steps.
Thump.
Huh? That… wasn't my head. It felt like my heart had skipped a beat for a moment. That was… odd. Now my cheeks feel a little warm. I 'shamelessly' hid the growing grin across my face. I didn't want to see myself like this for some reason. I found it too embarrassing to even show. Baffling one might say from an outside perspective.
There's no reason to be feeling this… warmth… inside me. But… I can't deny it's a bad feeling.
"Whelp that's for today." Arcueid stretches and releases a moan of relief in the process due to relaxing her muscles. "Still, today was pretty fun." She slumps on one of the public benches nearby.
She had fun, she says. I wonder why… Well, there weren't any undead around today, so It was nice to see the streets safe to roam for the time being. I still say it is a success. Less of them around, fewer casualties amongst the people.
"Fun? All we did was walk around the city."
"We did." Arcueid sits up and crosses her legs. "But I got to talk to you. By default, I had fun because of it."
"Really? I'm glad you did." I thought she may have gotten sick of me by then. Looking back at how I treated her, I've been pretty harsh on her for certain things she did. Granted, I know she's not entirely socially accustomed to the current rules of society. But after knowing her for some time, I understand her situation a bit. Maybe right now is not the best moment to apologize, but I want to let her know now I'm sorry rather than stubbornly waiting for the opportunity to come. "I… suppose I had fun talking to you, too."
"R-Really?" I can see Arcueid's cat ears perk up from my wild imagination.
"Yeah. I had fun." I'm slowly starting to fidget everywhere. Why am I getting nervous? It's just apologizing. Maybe I'm getting embarrassed again… If it is, that is pretty stupid of me to be so.
"Listen… uh… sorry for all the times I've unnecessarily insulted you. It was uncalled for."
"Shiki…" You'd think she would be shocked by such words coming out, but she is rather giving me a suspicious look at me. Arcueid rubbed her eyes thinking that this was some kind of a dream. "What happened to you, Shiki? This isn't… you. Out of nowhere, you decide to say sorry about belittling me? After all this time? "
"Hey, I wasn't that mean to you."
Arcueid rolled her eyes in response. It did sound like a pretty stupid thing to say recounting the plentiful evidence pointing otherwise.
"Look… I just think I've been too mean to you. I just wanted to let you know that I'm sorry."
"But why?" Arcueid tilts her head curiously at me. 'Why' indeed? I guess I'm a spur-of-the-moment guy. Whatever that means. I probably should've picked a better time to do this. But this is what I get for being an idiot with emotional 'mood' swings.
"Well because we're friends, right? Friends don't usually verbally abuse each other when they hang out. Besides, you're too nice to be yelled at."
"Friends?"
"Yeah…" I adjust my glasses in a feeble attempt to calm myself from the arising blush. "There's lots of things to like about you, so I don't think harsh words could justify yelling at you, all the time."
"Hmmm? Is that what you think?" A suspicious impish smirk appears on her. "If that's how you feel, then say more nice things about me."
"Watch it. You're pushing your luck." I narrowed my eyes at Arcueid. I knew that smirk meant danger. The beautiful lady could only laugh at me in response. "Sorry, sorry!" She replied.
With all things considered, Arcueid looked like she was pretty happy when she listened to my apology. I suppose I'd earn myself a pat on the back that sheaccepted it. The apology went rather swimmingly and quickly. But I suppose that's In Arcueid's nature. She's always been pretty carefree like that.
Oh… I can't forget my jacket. Hmm… I honestly could go without getting back. Not really a good excuse to give one out for free, but I got enough jackets than I can count. Shouldn't matter if I lose it.
"Hey Arcueid? I know I've said to keep the jacket for now. But I think you should have it instead."
Arcueid looked surprised that I'd changed my mind like that. "You sure? Can I have it?"
"Sure. Why not? I have plenty besides that one."
Arcueid looks back at the jacket's sleeves. She suddenly had the biggest grin on her face, hugging herself. Raising her arms in took a whiff before giggling in strange joy. I didn't think it would make her this happy owning a simple jacket. Especially sniffing it too??
"I'm sure my jacket isn't that big of a deal." A puzzled expression lay upon me.
"Of course, it's a big deal! This is the first gift I've ever received from anyone!"
Huh? First gift? I thought that in all her years she'd at least received something. "You never got gifts before, Arcueid?"
She stopped in her place, her head tilted. She visibly pondered on thinking if she did or not from the question. "Hmm… Sort of? I've gotten gifts before, not that many though. Only a few I think." Arcueid crosses her arms. "I suppose I hadn't given them much thought on their sentimental value when I received them. I didn't think of them as gifts and merely only valued them for their worth."
"Is that so?" I questioned. "Then what's so different about my jacket than the others?"
Arcueid could only let a simple chuckle as if the answer was obvious. "It's from you, silly! That's the difference."
"Huh? What does that mean?"
"It's as I said." Arcueid takes a few paces closer to me. "I like you, Shiki. So anything from you is a thing to be treasured."
I shouldn't overthink it and believe she meant something more by that. Still, it remained quite the mental 'punch' to me.
"…Glad you liked it." That was all I could muster at the end of our exchange. Arcueid simply grinned happily at me, humming again in a familiar tune. The same tune I heard last night.
The more I look at her, the more I'm kind of glad our partnership hasn't ended. I know it's pretty selfish of me to think. Our alliance is only temporary until we defeat Roa. But a part of me wishes my time with her never ends till the day I die. I don't know what would happen if I didn't meet her. Would life be 'dull' without her? I wouldn't know for certain. With Arcueid in my life, those moments and now have been the most memorable throughout my entire life. I feel like I'm acting out one of those unrealistic child innocence dream goals of becoming a superhero from anime and manga from our 'shenanigans'. In the things we do, I feel like I'm part of that fantasy out within searching and encountering supernatural things around me—
…grumble…
"Uh…" The sound of an audible grumbling of a stomach echoes in the dead night of the park. It only merely took a second for me to realize it was my stomach making those noises. Arcueid turns around with a slight state of shock at such an unexpected sound.
"Shiki? What was that?" She looks down directly at my tummy right after.
"Err… I think I'm hungry right now. I didn't eat anything before coming here…"
"What!?" Arcueid looked baffled, looking up at my face. "That's bad, Shiki! Operating on an empty stomach has consequences, especially with the physical activities and strain we do!"
"Look, I didn't think about it before coming here." In my defence, I thought eating a bunch of those curry buns would be enough to get me through the entire afternoon and night. I raise my hands and arms in an (unconvincing) defensive manner. "Besides, I eat tons of curry buns late in the afternoon."
Arcueid looked at me with a mixture of disbelief and disappointment. "First of all, why would you eat curry buns out of all things? Secondly, those things don't provide enough energy for your body either. Your body is already weak as it is. Add slow starvation to it and you're brewing yourself a disaster to happen. What if you went up against a monster tonight in a famished state? Honestly, you need to take care of yourself more."
I didn't see the big deal here. I've always been fine doing stuff like that before since childhood. Granted, not as often when I got older afterwards. I'm not sure why I started doing that. I guess It's those weird things you pick up when you grow up. But, I can't deny what Arcueid says doesn't have any merit in any of the points she's saying.
"Well… I suppose I should start to take care of myself more." I give a sheepish smile, undoubtedly having a sense of some guilt behind it. Arcueid only went up to me and hit me with a very weak karate chop to the head, followed by her saying 'Dummy', In response.
"Just stay here, yeah? I know a convenience store close by. I can probably get some warmed-up food before you head out."
"Wouldn't that cause a potential digestive problem later on before going straight to bed right after?" I asked.
"And who's fault is that?" Arcueid proceeds to give me a justified stank eye. "Just sit down on a nearby bench or something. I'll be back in a few minutes." Not long after, she turns around and jumps up high in the air with an incredible speed. Almost in an instant flash. No longer were her presence or footsteps there for comfort, now only the sounds of the water fountain splashing near me.
"I should take better care of myself." I quietly mumble to myself. I always say that, but never follow through with it. I need to find a way to beat that in my head indefinitely. I sat down by one of the benches and observed my surroundings since I didn't have anything to do right now. Looking up in the sky, I realize It's beginning to have a full moon soon. At best, roughly within a few days, it'll show itself in its full glory. Shining ever so brightly down to the earth. It's almost cathartic in some weird way. I feel like something important is about to happen within those few days of the moon fully showing itself. Not sure if that's a bad omen or not.
I highly doubt it. I think it's just my over-imaginative mind making up things to pass the time, which is most likely what's happening. What can I say? It's just me alone at the park so I don't have anyone or anything to pass the time with. "Kind of wish Arcueid would come back any second now…"
"Why would you want that, Tohno-kun?"
"Huh?" The only phrase blurbs out from my mind. In a knee-jerk reaction, I twisted my body around and stretched out my limbs like a lunatic by the sudden presence of someone in my vicinity. My body's movement made me fall out from the bench, landing on my bottom. In a sweat, I shot my head up high to see who this person was.
"C-Ciel-Senpai!?"
"I didn't expect you to meet up with her again after our chat." She replied with the same friendly smile she always does, dressed up in her nun uniform. Though, I'm not sure 'friendly' is the correct word to describe the smile she had. There was an immense irritation to it. A smile signifying your sudden death soon to occur
"W-Well… What are you doing here? Did you follow me?" I asked. I've never sweat profusely before like this, but the unwelcoming atmosphere is very prevalent.
"Vampire hunting." Ciel-Senpai completely ignores my words about following, but at least answers her motive.
It's obvious… she is still absolutely angry at me. Even now when I'm about to book it and run, I still want to apologize to her for the things I said to her back In school. Yet, my mouth was unable to reasonably do it. If I say it right now, I feel like I'd be saying that to save face from her emitted wrath approaching, which may make her madder. And what's worse if Arcueid spots her? She outright HATES her too with even a single mention of Ciel-Senpai is enough to get Acrueid's claws at my throat!
"Umm…" I quickly stood up on my feet. "Well… you know, I'm a man of my word…" What in the hell kind of response is that!? You idiot! Calm yourself before you give her the wrong impression!
"So it seems." I think I just saw a vein pop from her just now… "Even after all the warnings I gave you, the reasons why, you still chose to be near her?" Ciel says as she maintains her smile .
"Well, I—!... Er… You see…! I...." I tried to grasp any words that may come to mind, but none of them appeared to help me. Failing and mixing up my words didn't seem to help Senpai calm down, not even a single bit. It is pretty quick to see that my presence alone is making her angry. None of my words seem to affect her.
But I have to get her out of here! For the sake of her safety and Arcueid's safety!
I don't know what the power scaling is between those two. But having these two far away from each other as much as possible will benefit everybody from turning the city into a war zone.
"Look… can't we talk about this later? You can't be here!"
"Why's that?" Ciel-Senpai said. She's ignoring the urgency in my voice. I was baffled that I got her this frustrated that I couldn't talk her out of this. Even more frustrated yet worried all the same too.
"Wha-Wha—!? Why!? You have to listen to me, we can talk about this later, but if she sees you then—!"
"No." Ciel-Senpai dropped her fake smile and bored her eyes directly toward me with fury. "I told you multiple times how dangerous she is. And yet, you refused to listen to me. Have you lost your mind?"
"Yeah, yeah! Sure! We'll go with that! You need to get out of here."
Ciel-Senpai scoff. Her eyebrows furrowed and her frown became more apparent. "You're ignoring me again! There you go, off to being selfish!"
"A-And I agree!" I say panicky. "But you have to leave Senpai! If she sees you ever then Arcueid will—!"
"Yes. You should leave. Now." A commanding voice calls out. Both Senpai and I turned with sudden caution. Senpai seemed to immediately notice Arcueid's presence was near before she spoke. Her eyes widened hearing Arcueid before stoically looking at the vampire with the intent of a predator.
"Hmm… this should do nicely." Arcueid thought to herself out loud. She purchased a nice cup of ramen, added freshly mixed with the sauce and hot water, provided and was assisted by the store clerk. Holding it in her hand. The chopsticks were in the bag she held with her arm.
She bought a few snacks to quench Shiki's hunger. Simply ramen alone won't fill his appetite. Walking out of the convenience store already, she was making her way to the park. Today was really fun. She got to spend time with Shiki all night. This time with no 'Ciel' popping in their conversation. She was a little worried if he was going to keep bringing her up yesterday. Luckily, it didn't seem like that was the case.
That's for the best. She didn't want that thing brainwashing him. Shiki doesn't know any better than to know that she's full of trouble. The worst part is that they knew each other beforehand. Of course, she doubted Shiki and Ciel had attended school for a few years. Most likely using some 'basic' magic to infatuate the school because of Roa. Pretending like they've always been there.
But if they found out that Shiki was a vessel. Then Shiki's life will be in danger, ruining her plans too. She can't let that happen. Absolutely in no way will that ever happen.
Arcueid loathes that face. She can't simply be at ease without thinking of her and the goons from the organization she's in, coming after Shiki. To be perfectly honest, it was starting to slightly annoy her. Maybe she should wipe all of them out of existence so they won't have to interfere. Especially that brat who pokes their head where they don't belong. This is Arcueid's business. Not theirs.
Eventually, she reached the park. A couple of steps here and there, and she'll be at the fountain in no time.
But… something's off. She sensed a very familiar person in the park that wasn't Shiki.
It was so distinct, she had a very foul feeling that she started quickening her pace. She quickly got to the park, making her way downstairs to the fountain before immediately stopping within a couple of steps.
She spotted her. What's she doing here? And what does she want from Shiki?
Thoughts began to rapidly go through her head of the possibilities. Why is she here?
This was HER and Shiki's place!
Why Is Shiki talking to that woman!?
The feeling of protectiveness overwhelmed her. Emotions going rampant. She didn't even realize she had crushed the cup of ramen in her hand and had let go her bag, spilling its contents on the ground. So much that she couldn't focus on the words being spouted out loudly from Shiki. All she can think about is why that FREAK is here!? Had Shiki betrayed her!? He said he'd picked HER over that disgusting pig!
SHE was Shiki's one and only partner!
WHY HAS HE BETRAY—!?
…
…
…
No… that can't be right. It's just not possible.
Shiki would never betray her like that. Especially over this skank.
She must've followed him. Used him. Just to get me? Arcueid could only scoff and laugh at such a thing. Poor little Shiki didn't realize what this witch was doing. He's too kind for his good to see true ugliness. The ugliness that could kill, betray, and not care about you. Arcueid would know. As much as she doesn't care about the people these four-eyes killed, she knows that she has used people to get what she wants…
If she were to find out Shiki Is another Roa Vessel then she'll—!
Don't.
Don't even try to finish that sentence.
You know that won't happen, because you'll never have it happen?
Right?
…Right.
It's okay, Shiki… I will protect you .
It's over. I'm so dead…
Arcueid was looking both at me and Senpai. And let me tell you, they are nothing but the opposite of friendly. Especially when she looks at me briefly. Those glares from her were enough to get me sweating in my shoes. I knew Ciel-Senpai didn't like Arcueid a whole lot. This meant that Arcueid most likely reciprocated that same feeling too towards Senpai.
This time… I'm feeling the full extent of hate between the two.
"What's an ugly hippo doing with my impressionable Idiot?" Arcueid poured her gaze onto Ciel-Senpai. Her eyes were full of malice. Arcueid with the bag in her full of snacks, threw them across towards me. The bag slid across the ground to me as some of its contents scattered out.
Senpai merely scoffs at her words. Having face with an almost mild ironic amusement. Only for it soon to disappear quickly. "For such a high royal princess, you sure quite have a foul mouth."
Ciel-Senpai takes a couple of steps forward. The sounds of blades clanking with each other, noticing some type of somewhat pointy-bladed daggers held between gaps in her hand.
"I know what you're doing here. I didn't know you were making a human do your dirty work for you. Didn't think you'd stoop so low."
Those words must've struck a nerve, as I spotted one of Arcueid's eyes twitch in response with fangs showing off ever so slightly. She then struck a Dubois grin at her. A little amused at her irony whether it was good or not.
"Ehhhhhhhh—? Is that what you think, Freak? Must I tell you that HE agreed upon a contract to help me?"
Arcueid clutches her hands. "…And I didn't think you'd be so nosy to get into other people's business. What happened between me and Shiki is for the US only. Not some disgusting freak like you."
"You didn't give him a reason to agree to help by his own will, did you?" Senpai retorted with aggressiveness. "People like you should keep their hands to themselves."
Arcueid laughed at her reply. It was something so utterly ridiculous to her. "Must I point out the irony here? You're not any different!"
"Oh, keep telling yourself that!" Ciel shouted. "You don't care about anyone in this world! Only you and your selfish desires! That's what sets us apart, you're highness."
Both of them were now in silence. Eyes of death reflected within each other. Anticipating a brawl happen, looking for any excuse to simply hit each other. Isolating their surroundings to focus on one another.
…
…
I'm at a loss for words…
I'm caught in a field of landmines. I'm unsure how to calm the situation at hand. Anything that might be said may cause things to get worse, but what choice do I have? It beats the other alternative where a fight may break out. Who knows how bad it will get if that happens ?
But even so…
I still need to try…
" Uh hey… " I try to break the tension. "Maybe this discourse doesn't need to happen. Isn't this unnecessary? Maybe we both can get along without ripping each other's heads. I mean think about it, your mutual enemy is Roa. Isn't it? Perhaps if you two team up then maybe—"
"Shut up, Shiki!"
"Shut up, Tohno-Kun!"
…
…
Well , there goes that plan…
Arcueid and Senpai looked at each other with surprise