The secret to your heart || Mafia AU [childe]

4.5

Childe abruptly left the manor around 5 a.m.

You watched his back leave the gate this morning in a rush.

There was a car in the distance, outside of the gate, waiting for him. He wasn't the driver, but you couldn't tell who was a driver as well. But wherever he goes, this is the perfect opportunity for you to search his room. You always had something lingering in your mind. This bodyguard job is supposedly given to you by Fatui, yet no one has made any direct or indirect contact with you.

After making sure that he left and Tinsey was still in her deep slumber, you creak open his room door and quietly step inside.

Without light, the room is dark. Obviously, it will be dark. What did you expect?

When you shut the door behind you, the only light source was the dim sunlight, which still hasn't completely risen.

His room looked messier than it did the last time you came in. There's books—many books—scattered all around the room. "Since when did you become a bookworm?" You narrow your eyes at the books, but you don't dare touch them.

His table is also in a complete mess. There's even a spilled ink bottle. "It looks wet; it seems like someone was in a super rush this morning and accidentally knocked over." You eyed other scattered stuff like his clothes or even shoes.
Like last time, nothing too suspicious. All you want is some information about the basement.

You begin picking up his work file, flipping through it quickly, and putting it back where you found it when there is no interesting information.
"Trade, debts, other debts, and more debts... Jeez, is his job only to collect debts?" You narrow your eyes and never end up piled up with his. "I guess debt collection is one of the jobs he can fight," you murmured while imagining all the guys who refused to pay up.

"Ugh, there's nothing about the basement!" You finally yanked one of the flies toward his desk, knocking a shelf handle off. "Fuck," you cursed to yourself and put the file back where you picked them up. Then quickly take the handle up, trying to stick them back to the shelf. Luckily, it was a detachable type, so you could easily take them on and off.

On that shelf, there was a small piece of an envelope poking out. "Maybe this is it," you said softly to yourself and slid the envelope out.
"Mission: assassination of Morax," said the title.

You blink twice and look at the back of the letter. Then you flip it again to read the title.
"Assasination of morax," you quietly murmured. Indeed, the title didn't change even after you flipped the page back and forth.

"What?" you whispered. Your eyes are glued to the letter. There was no other useful information other than a location and a date. "3 weeks from now..." you murmured while looking at the letter. The location stated in the letter seemed like it's a bar or something.

"What does this mean?" you whispered to yourself once more. The information hasn't taken a hit on you. Since Childe knows Morax is still alive, you have assumed the whole harbingers know, but you never expected this move from them. There was no recent news about them around Liyue either. So this is too out of the blue.
"I need to write letters." You put the envelope back and get up. In a few days, it will be Tinsey's marriage. Then after that is this supposed Fatui meeting at the bar. You doubt the assassination will take place that day. You need to go spy on this meeting.

"In the end, I couldn't find anything about the basement," you murmured and opened the door. You need to inform Yelan and other people in Liyue. Now that you are on a mission, you can't search for this case yourself. You decided to make other people look into it more.
However, when you were about to shut his door and walk over to your room, Tinsey spoke out.
"Miss Dahlia?" Said the innocent voice. She peeked her head outside her door in a nightgown. "What are you doing inside Childe's room?" she asked.