Comforting Darkness

Chapter 56: The Tutor, Passionately Recovering

"The horror the notorious Sphere Music Hall spread to people's hearts is still very recent and not over... Alas, four new cases of unsuspecting people being drugged and having their blood drained, pushing them to death's arms sooner or later, were exposed to revive the nightmare.

A noble's manor in constant need of maids and its lord in search of a "bride" made dozens of young women disappear – instead of return to their homes, as the rest of the maids were told – and kept sedated, connected to massive machines through tubes, and then discarded when no blood was left in their bodies.

An asylum where our soldiers could be healed, physically and mentally, through the "touch" of the head nurse, a so-called "miracle healer", was actually fooling the patients to willingly "donate" their blood for the sake of "scientific research", but it seemed the research was never over, and forced them to keep "donating" even when healed and released.

A new orphanage with great patronage, claiming of taking in underage orphaned children with the purpose of educating them appropriately and preparing them for living in the big world, but in reality were also used as a source of blood for the obscene afore mentioned blood experiments.

A hotel resort close to the sea, perfect for recuperation and vacations, making its guests fall ill on purpose, extend their stay and then move permanently to the establishment's "resort" part, where they were kept sedated twenty four hours a day, while their blood was, once again, drained from their veins till death took them.

North Yorkshire, Wiltshire, Norfolk and Brighton, respectively, the four places where the atrocities took place and Scotland Yard investigates thoroughly. Up until now, it has become known that all four facilities have been totally destroyed, rendering the machines useless but perfect for the police to examine along the countless witnesses, the victims themselves, more than willing to testify and expose the monstrous net of illegal blood collection.

However, Scotland Yard is quite confused after tracking down – with the help of Brighton's police – the course of the hotel's load of blood back to the Phantomhive manor, even though the impostor Earl and his people are long gone from the place – still fugitives at large. Scotland Yard states the case demands further and in depth investigation, while the rightful Earl has not made a public state himself yet, as he is reported to be in recovery from a sudden illness.

Let us hope this is a simple unlucky coincidence; that the Earl simply had not the time to eliminate the impostor's – the Earl's younger twin brother and mastermind of the Sphere Music Halls murders – connections to these monsters killing humans, instead of witnessing the real identity of "Lord Sirius"..."

Lau smirked as he finished reading and with some effort turned the newspaper's page. His and Bard's escape from Athena asylum was quite a fit even for them; but of course, they got the job successfully done as well as managing to get out of there in one piece, despite some scrapes and bruises.

"All right. Everything went according to plan. Now, the Yard's eye will be on my brother too, and he will soon be quite cornered due to cutting down all of his blood supply... Something tells me his "sudden illness" will prove more serious than said." The boy, living for three years under the name of Ciel Phantomhive, smirked quite malevolently and his eye sparkled with a wild satisfaction. "As soon as everyone recovers we will get to the next part of reclaiming what is mine." He added and got up from the sofa.

"Aw, wait my lord. Do you not want to read more of the news? A lady from Brighton, who gave the police some interesting items as evidence, speaks about a handsome black haired man rescuing them all and a cute one eyed boy that actually gave her the items... Unfortunately, they were both gone before the police gets to the place. There are already hesitant voices in the Yard saying the description matches-"