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《XI》

"Young Master?"

A silverish light-lavender whitish haired boy whirled his head around to look at his back and found himself eye-to-eye with light blue honey gradient coloured orbs. Scrutinizing the owner of the orbs for a moment, Subaru then looked away from her and continued to watch a certain tower where his mother, Christa, was put inside a cage.

"Is there something wrong, young Master?"

In his hand, there was a silver knife that Eztia recognized well, and Subaru gripped the handle of it tighter as he bowed his head.

"Mother had given me this knife and she told me that I should use it to kill her…" Eztia heard him mutter. "Mother said that I should kill her… and she also shouted at me that it's all of my fault and called me filthy… and I'm… I'm a monster. If mother said that I'm a monster, then I am a monster!"

Tears dripping out of his eyes, Subaru kept his head down due to not wanting for the girl behind him to see him in this state and he bit his inner cheek as he tried to not let out any sob or hiccup. Rush steps then were caught in the boy's hearing and before he knew it, arms encircled around his body and brought him to an embrace that made his eyes widen at the sudden action of this maid.

"Please don't say that, young Master. You are not and never a monster." Eztia said sternly.

Eztia couldn't handle seeing this poor child have to go through all of that and she didn't want to let that happen to him, yet what could she do? She was just a maid -- or someone that was only watching over him -- and could only take care of him and comfort him. Certain words that just passed in her thoughts caused her to perk up; maybe… maybe she could say what she had been wanting to say to him now, but she couldn't due to an obvious reason. She hoped she could make him at least feel a bit better.

Gulping and beginning to soften her voice, Eztia cupped the wide-eyed boy's face and started to wipe the tears that kept falling from his beautiful red eyes.

"Look, young Master Subaru, all of the things that Lady Christa had said to you, they are wrong, all of them are very wrong. The reason why Lady Christa said those things to you is… she's just… she's just not in her right mind now, so we can only wait for her to heal up. Therefore, please, young Master, please don't call yourself a filthy nor a monster because you are neither of those. It's not your fault, young Master, not at all."

His widened eyes slowly went back to their normal sizes and closed, and Subaru immediately engaged his arms around her neck, surprising Eztia, and buried his face to her shoulder as he started to wail. Then the girl closed her eyes, brought him closer, and patted his silverish light-lavender whitish hair.

"It's all right, young Master, it's all right. You can let it out now."

Once his wailing gradually turned into sobbing, Eztia tried to pull him away from her, but the arms of the boy would not budge and just tightened more. Letting out a helpless sigh, Eztia's lips took a soft smile form as she then stood up and carried him to his room.

He's adorable…

Once arriving, the jet black haired girl was about to place Subaru onto his bed -- a coffin, which led her to remember a certain memory for a moment, but like before, he did not budge and just tightened, making Eztia sigh and think that he kind of looked like a koala. At first, Eztia wanted to question him if he was going to keep hugging her like that, yet she was against it.