Night sky

Conversations, revelations, and decisions

Xanxus felt like he was being stared at and it wasn't the trembling walrus under fire, following his instincts he moved his gaze towards the stairs and froze.

Standing halfway up the stairs was the person he had come to look for and even though he had listened to the report made by Squalo, he couldn't understand the resemblance, when he had been adopted by the Ninth Vonogola, he had spent hours looking for a common physical trait in him or his brothers, he had never found any and had always wondered if he was too much like his mother to notice them, but now he had a female version of himself in front of him and he couldn't stop comparing her face to his own.

Yet it was the most marked difference between them that had attracted him, the girls eyes, if his eyes were blood red hers were brighter than a pair of emeralds, but there was a resemblance there too, her look was the same one that had greeted him in the mirror for the first months after being adopted by the ninth hope and fear that it was all a dream.

His guardians noticed that someone else had arrived and they too decided to check that there were no lurking dangers, they too froze (with the exception of Squalo and Mammon, they had managed to get over the resemblance after all, ah no even Luss couldn't think anything other than "cute" and how much he wanted to get her out of those rags and started thinking about a new wardrobe) the resemblance was shocking.

All tangents of thought were interrupted by the walrus "i knew you would only bring abnormality to this house, you ungrateful little girl" at the sudden scream Althea couldn't help but retreat from that kind of scream,they were always followed by beatings that prevented her from walking for days, as much as she tried over the years to hide her fear of Vernon, if she was taken by surprise she could never contain herself, "i should have drowned you like i decided years ago, you miserable abomination, little whore..."

BANG

A bullet passed just millimeters from Vernons face.

"You, trash don't open that filthy sewer again in my presence" and the protections were anchored to the piccola and such actions would damage it if they were not demolished first, they stopped him. Another strange thing, when did he start calling her little one, he didn't even know her, he realized it at the moment for all the time he had been staring at her, his flames ferocious and angry had been seeking and reassuring the smaller and more frightened flames of the little one, this surprised him, his flames had never behaved that way and not to mention that years had passed since the last time they had reacted without a command from him.

Althea's flames were quiet too quiet and he didn't like it, but despite this they were welcoming in a totally different way from the old man's ones but there was something that worried him, it was as if the flames were continually fighting against others who wanted to harm the little one.

He would have Luss visit the little one to check her physical condition, he was the only member of the medical division who he intrusted his medical records and he would be the only one for the little one too, it would also be a good idea to have Mammon visit her he was an expert in magic and the like.

After knocking out the three bastards and throwing them into a room Xanxus, his guardians and Althea found them themselves sitting in the living room, Althea on one side of the sofa and Xanxus on a throne like armchair (where the hell did it come from) surrounded by his guardians.

Xanxus didn't know whether to be worried or relieved by Althea's reaction to the shot, normally a civilian would have panicked and instead she reacted as if no one had ever defended her from the walrus, all the more reason to make him pay dearly before killing him.

Althea didn't know how to break the silence that had fallen, getting up and making tea didn't seem like a good idea to her, the gesture would probably have been misunderstood with a possible escape plan and then she couldn't take her eyes off the man in front of her, how the hell could she tell him that she had already seen him in a mirror that reflected people's deepest desires, they didn't look like wizards and yet there was a damn child floating. Stupid international statute of secrecy.