Should everything fall apart (Nimona x Male OC)

Doubt and suspicion (slight nsfw warning ⚠️)

Ethan: "ughhhh....I'm tired....I wanna go hoooome"

Nimona: "Stop whining so much, it was your idea to go get some sweets"

Ethan: "Hmm nevermind...you're enough..."

Nimona: "Can't charm me twice with the same trick you clown, we're going now"

Ballister: "can you two stop flirting already?"

I smirked at him

"You're just jealous we're relatioship goals"

He rolled his eyes

"Let's just get a cake or something and go home"

He opened the door of the shop, the doorbell sounding cheerfully at the sight of Connor bleeding out on the floor

Connor: cough...

Ballister: "Boss!? What the-!?"

He rushed inside, Ambrosius followed with me and Nimona behind them

Ethan: "The hell!? Who did this!?"

Nimona: "holy- Old man! You're....crap...there's blood all over the place"

Ballister: "h-hold still boss, I'll try to remove the arrow"

The dying old man stopped him, holding his arm

Connor: "No don't...I'm...already a goner...cough...listen carefully"
"The shop...It was all I had left of her...please...take care of it"

Ballister: "No!...nonono Boss please...you'll take care of it yourself, you-"

Connor: "nah...these old bones are tired as hell...also...I need to tell you, the one who did this to me..the one behind all this...it's- argh!?"

The device on his throat activated, strangling him, after a few seconds it loosened

"Ack! Dammit!...she really thought of everything....I can't say it...I can't say who it was"

Ethan: "Can't you spell it!? Or write??"

He tried to say a letter, but the device tightened around his throat again

Connor: "God dammit....
"I can't feel my hands anymore..."

Ethan: "there's...so much blood...sh*t"

Connor: "I guess in the end...I wasn't all that helpful"

On my knees...I didn't know what else to say...i could only comfort him

Ethan: "No...you saved us...I assure you"

Connor: "Heh...y'know...you look so young, yet you always talk like you've lived a few lives already, same for your lady"

Nimona: "you have no idea..."

Connor: "Ah would you look at that...never imagined....I'd die with family"
"It's so damn bright...my beautiful Lucia...oh how I've missed you...all these years"

Wheezing in pain, the old timer took his last breath, before slumping in the arms of his employee

Ethan: "....sh*t....not another funeral"

I sat back on the floor, slumping against the wall, the tears won't come out...not in these situations, even if I want them to

Everyone is devastated, this feels more like a loss than a win

Ambrosius: "No....Boss...this...all of this...was so pointless....no more than a pyrrhic victory"

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A certain someone walked in the middle of the forest