Comforting Darkness

Chapter 58: The Tutor, Checkmate

Everyone left, spreading out to their respective missions of taking out the Star bizarre dolls before coming all together; young master and even Sebastian were not really fond of the idea of repeating Campania, by having to battle Undertaker and fending off flesh eating, mindless, undead creatures at the same time... especially since the specific ones did not seem as mindless as the first ones.

With one last glance to where the blond witch - followed by chef and footman - disappeared in the fog, the demon threw his terrified load over his shoulder, like it was a feather and followed his master. Carefully and silently they approached the living room's window and peeked inside assessing the situation. Young master was getting all the more confused, as he could hear only bits and pieces of what it was being said, but the demon at his shoulder was smirking quite pleased... as strange as that sounds.

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"I can perfectly understand how hurt both of you feel. You believe Ciel... or whatever is his name, betrayed you in the worst possible way and he did indeed, but-" Sieglinde said as calmly as she could, but Lizzie's trembling, high pitched voice interrupted her.

"No, you cannot understand!! He is horrible, how could he do it? Making fun of me, laughing at me... all these lies!"

"Pardon me, Lizzie, but the short time I have been living in England and close to all of you, I did not see him making fun or laughing at you. On the contrary-"

"He hated me and found the perfect way of hurting me, breaking my heart, deceiving everyone! His own brother! He betrayed us!" Lizzie interrupted again.

"Now, Lady Lizzie, hold on..." Prince Soma began, sitting silently next to Sieglinde, since the black haired girl had asked him to control his wrath and let her handle Lizzie, but did not go on; a clatter from the tea set was heard as Sieglinde, obviously losing her patience, smacked her small hands on the table in front of her.

"That is a lie and you know it!! When did he try to hurt you? You have told me that other than the time he almost slapped you, because you broke the family ring, he has never laid a hand on you with any intention other than protect and caress you! You described me how hard he tried during Campania to protect you from these monsters, and how scared he got when they surrounded you!!" The young scientist's emerald eyes were huge and burning, while her cute face had turned red and her small hands were two tiny fists.

"And now, during Sphere Music Hall... he came up with the idea of Phantom Five as a means to save you, since he believed you had been brainwashed and eventually would get hurt." Soma added, giving Sieglinde time to take a much needed breath to calm herself... not that it worked, she kept on fuming.

"Yes, my little brother was always very chivalrous, despite his frailty." The real Ciel finally spoke. He was sitting on the couch next to Lizzie embracing her, but his eyes were quite cold, without feeling, even as he weakly stroked the girl's golden locks, as she had hidden her teary and maybe ashamed eyes in her fiancé's shoulder, after hearing the truth she wanted to forget, coming from the impostor's friends. "I like that he has so loyal servants, who do not hesitate to abandon their posts to join him, and friends, who are so brave to come to me and defend him with so much passion... But these do not change how much he hurt me and so many people." He smirked and even though his face was identical to the one Sieglinde and Soma knew very well, the smirk seemed very alien on it. "Alas, I do not hate him and would never hurt him; I just want to teach him a lesson, as a proper older brother would do."

"Pardon me, but I fail to understand what lesson you can possibly teach him by framing him for things he did not do." Sieglinde was seriously running out of patience and the extremely cool demeanour of the boy, something the twin brothers had obviously in common, was breaking her nerves even more, as always. "You are his own brother, yet you-"