(✓) the scariest future. [UNEDITED]

chapter 11

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(TW: Benkei's death, slight mention of blood, and shin becoming scary)

1.

"How dare you," He said, voice resonant with no emotion. Wakasa and Takeomi's bodies quavered, they have never seen Shinichiro this infuriated. They don't even know if he's showing anger or another emotion. But right now, he was like a grotesque. 

They know that Shinichiro's wrath shouldn't be played with, nor be awakened. The ravenette is known for being patient and calm, despite having three rowdy siblings. Shinichiro gets sore, but not to this extent. He loathes fibbers and apostates, that's why Bonten runs in that moral. As being the man's closest confidantes, they know how he acts in these types of situations. But hearing that his friends even hide something like that from him is more than betraying him. Wakasa knew how to handle his betrothed's anger, but this affair is something that, he comprehends, he can't govern.

I mean, who would want your friends, the ones you trust for years, to lie behind your back that one of them is dead and the rest were in trouble?

Shinichiro stepped closer, and the two backed out a little as he walked towards them. The man then smiled, which they know is something horrible. 

"Why didn't you tell me?" He said, his steps faster.

"We- it- it's for protecting you, Shin," Takeomi stuttered, the words clogging his throat. Wakasa stayed silent.

"Wakasa?" 

The lilac-eyed shivered, "Yes-you-this was the reason why you became evil a-and -"

He can't seem to find his words, and Takeomi as well. 

"And?" 

They ceased when he was a few inches away from them, then stepped nigher to Wakasa, their faces close to one another. The shorter one tried to evade eye contact, glancing at Takeomi once in a while to ask for help. Takeomi wanted to move and pull Shinichiro away before he hurts Wakasa, but he couldn't even move a single muscle from fear. 

"Can we talk? J-just-"

He gasped as Shinichiro pulled him by the collar of his shirt. He whispered, "Why can't you look at me?"

"Shin, calm down, you're hurting Wakasa," Takeomi held him by the shoulders, pulling him farther a little from Wakasa. "Let's talk about this, alright?"

Shinichiro let go of Wakasa, "Tell me everything."

2.

"Shinichiro raged?" Takemichi tilted his head to the side. 

Wakasa went to visit Takemichi by his home after having to clarify everything with Shinichiro. He had a bite by his neck given by Shinichiro, and it still aches. The younger one was stunned when Wakasa came to visit, and maybe he thought that he got some information about Hina. But he came there because of something far worse. 

"He heard what I and Takeomi said," Wakasa leaned over the table. "I didn't know he was there."

"So now he knows Benkei-san is dead," Takemichi replied. "And that was the reason why Shinichiro-san built Bonten? Out of anger?"

"Yeah," His voice trailed off, looking by the ceiling. "Benkei was shot in the heart, I had a broken leg and it lasted me two months to heal, and Takeomi was unconscious for three weeks. That was a day before you all came back from the Philippines."

"What exactly happened?"

"Naoto didn't give you all the details?"

"I didn't even ask."