Undertaken

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====RONALD====

"So... what's up with lover-boy? He's just kinda... distant," Baldroy asks as he walks up beside me. I turn to look at him from when I was checking out my death scythe. I then glance over at Undertaker who hasn't really moved at all since arriving. Ah, no, actually he did move. He did so in order to choke Old Man Sutcliff, and was now looking at a strip of black cloth that may have been from Mak's dress she wears to school. I then look back at Baldroy.

"Since you call him 'Lover-Boy', you must know, shouldn't you?" I ask. He shrugged.

"Only bits and pieces of it. I really only know that Miss McKenzie ran here from Undertaker's and got injured along the way. Then she flipped out completely and destroyed this room. Much worse than it is now, actually. I also know that she was in a relationship with Undertaker. Sebastian wouldn't really tell us anything. Mei-Rin was really the only other one who got to see her occasionally, but even that wasn't very much. I think she may have told Mei-Rin some stuff, but I never asked because, y'know, Sebastian would always end up showing up and would put us to work," he explains. I nod in understanding.

"Ah, well, I'm pretty much the reason she ran and came here in the first place... mainly the reason she and Undertaker fought..." I look down a little, feeling rather upset with myself when I finally hear the words leave my mouth.

"Come now, don't beat yourself up about it. I'm sure it's not all your fault," Baldroy says, placing a hand on my shoulder in an attempt to comfort me. However, it doesn't work.

"You don't know the story, though. I'm the reason she ran; the reason she and Undertaker fought; the reason... Oh God, probably the reason this happened so easily!" I feel myself begin to panic. "I'm the reason she's gone right now! The resaon she's possibly hurt! THE REASO-"

"RONALD!" many of the people in the room yell as I began speaking louder and louder. This effectively made me shut up. So maybe I was going a little overboard?

"It isn't your fault she got captured," the demon butler says before sighing. "As much as I wouldn't like to say it, I believe it is my fault Lady McKenzie got taken so easily. I could have prevented it, I suppose, however-"

====UNDERTAKER====

"ENOUGH ALREADY! Enough of this stupid, pointless blaming! For god's sakes, enough!" a voice booms throughout the room; a voice that seems to be so foreign in the current atmostphere; one that hadn't spoken at all since answering his phone to Sebastian's call. Indeed, this was the voice, the yell, the growled words of Undertaker.

"While you all sit there trying to blame yourselves for all of this, Mikki is out there with god knows what happening to her! You all know who that man is and what he's done in the past! What makes Mikki any different from other victims? This whole thing is my fault and nobody else's, so just shut up about it! I don't want to hear anything else about who is to blame! Now, if none of you bother to do a single thing about any of this, then I'll be on my way, alone, to retrieve Mikki under any cost! Thank you kindly for what you have discovered, but I believe nothing else will happen in our favor by just sitting here doing nothing! Good day to you all!" Undertaker growls out before unsheathing his scythe and leaving through the open window.

Even Sebastian was a bit taken aback by Undertaker's sudden outburst, the look of shock clear on his face. Not only his, but even Ciel's as well. The servants were shaking slightly, Grell amlost looked like he was a standing dead man, and Ronald looked nearly the same. Nobody moved until about three long minutes later, after most, maybe only some, of the shock had run its course through and out of them.

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He smirked. Hey, it wasn't his fault the guy couldn't do one simple thing right. So, at the snap of his fingers, the man before him dropped dead. He turned to a few of the other men in the room, seeing some of them shaken and wide eyed, fearing that they might get the same fate.