Episode 9 Continued - Ruthless
“Master,” I said gently as Yumi stared down at the letter King Charles sent numbly, “believe me when I say I understand how this troubles you. This task specifically that the king as asked… I know how you feel about—"
“Sebastian,” she said this time, tone short, “I don’t need you to coddle me. I didn’t sign this contract with you just so you can pamper me, so end this nonsense.”
My lashes lowered as her fingers clenched the letter tightly. “At once, my lord.”
She just set the letter onto her desk, closing her eyes as she set her elbows on the table. “God, again with this. This is complete an utter chaos.” She parted her lashes. “It’s very odd that King Charles noticed this happening when he didn’t see it the first time.”
“Indeed, it is, my lord.”
“‘An entire town has gone missing’,” she repeated from the letter, staring down at it, “‘in a rural area near the south end of London. The people of the town had been gone for quite some time, and the town has been deserted. The families of them are worried beyond belief, so I beg you to find the culprit and bring the families to peace’.”
I watched her curiously as she sighed, folding the letter neatly back in place.
“A deserted town,” she said then, “missing people, probably dead, if you ask me. A single neighborhood within a mile radius, blood found in every household, messes made in every home. There’s no doubt who’s behind this.”
My eyes darkened. “So you made the connection, too.”
“Yes,” she answered, gazing up, “‘the father’ has struck again.”
I just kept my position. “Master, what do you think he wants?”
She stood and brushed off her skirt. “Isn’t it obvious? He did this to Eileen Christopher. He kidnaps his victims, kills them, and then tries to modify them to be these creepy doll-like creatures. Their brain is extracted and replaced with a machine… that’s why Eileen had those tubes coming out from her head. They were charging devices. So, why keep them alive? They don’t fight when they’re dead anyway.”
“He needs so many, though,” I said then, thinking harder, “he’s killed at least a thousand people within the last week. Why would he want so many?”
“I don’t know the answer to that,” Yumi said, stepping over to her window and looking outside. “Could be he wants an army, he could be ex-military. That’s the most obvious assumption. Although he could be a twisted science nerd and be trying to create the ‘ultimate creature’, but if that were the case… he has an extreme number of victims for a curiosity.”
I was silent for a moment. “An army,” I said then, “an army for what?”
“God knows,” she answered then, sighing, “he could think there’s going to be an apocalypse and is preparing, or he wants to cause one.”
I lowered my lashes then. “Master… I would be very eager to suggest that you set this aside for now. King Charles has asked a lot out of you, and we need time to investigate, I think that it’s not a good time to go to the town to confront—”
“No,” she said then, turning to face me as her eye narrowed. “I thought I told you to stop coddling me, Sebastian.”
I thinned my lips. “That wasn’t my intention. I am merely concerned because you are putting yourself in danger. You understand the terms of our contract, master?”
“Yes, I do recall them,” she said shortly.
“This ‘father’ almost killed you last time,” I told her, eyes darkening, “by poisoning you. I cannot allow that to happen again.”
She just smirked, more out of anger. “Then maybe you should be on high alert.”
My eyes narrowed. “Master.”
“You felt the air thicken,” she explained to me, eye glowing dangerously, “you said that to me. Pay more attention to everything and I will not be hurt. You are my butler; you do as I say. I am going to the ghost town and that’s final.”
I lightly clenched my teeth. “Master, it is too dangerous.”
“Oh, I apologize,” she said then, setting her hands on the table and leveling her eyes with me, “have you forgotten who you are, Sebastian? Are you suggesting that a merely little man as the father can be willing to defeat you? If that’s the case, then I think this contract was a petty little nuisance.”
My eyes glowed a dark red. “Never, my lord.”
“Prove it,” she said then, her uncovered eye glowing angrily, “you are Sebastian Michaelis, my demon butler. Your goal it to protect me and serve me until my wish is fulfilled, and afterward, I give you my soul.”
“Master,” I said then, lips thinned, “I think maybe it would be better if I went alone. To be quite frank, you would only hold me back.”
She laughed then, making my eyes darken. “You can’t be serious.” She then locked eyes with me, glaring sharply. “You are a high ranked demon, Sebastian, and you think I will hold you back? You think this human can defeat someone the likes of you?”
My lashes lowered even more. “No, master. I think not.”
“We leave in twenty minutes,” she said then, standing fully as my eyes glowed a dark red. “Pack my bags, bring the servants. I don’t want them ruining the house when I get back.”
I bowed slightly. “At once, my young lord.”
She just walked up to me, locking eyes with me seconds later. “I expect nothing less of you, Sebastian.” She smiled. “This is your job, after all.”
She then moved past me, making her way out the door.
When she left, I just closed my eyes and lowered my head, body shaking with an unfamiliar emotion.
A smile split my lips then, hands clutching at my sides, and I started snickering, then chuckling.
I finally laughed, raising my head as my eyes remained closed, the room echoing with my complete twisted and chaotic amusement, booming with elation and excitement.
I then calmed, eyes opening as they glowed a blood red, pupils slitting like a cat’s as a wide grin spread across my face.
“Never fail to disappoint, do you, master?” I chuckled coldly. “Such confidence from someone so young. So cold and calculated, but sweet and peculiar. You don’t underestimate me, and you don’t overestimate me. Your view of me is complete perfection, and you expect nothing less of a demon, do you?”
My smile lessened to a wide smirk, and I stared into my demonic reflection from the window in front of me. “Master, you entertain me so. No one can do that but you. That’s why your soul is such a beautiful essence of god. So ripe and perfect… I cannot allow anyone to take that from me.”
My lashes lowered as the shadows on the walls grew with my anger.
“Kill them, indeed, I will.”
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