Masquerade of the guilt

Chapter 24

I've been having trouble recently with self confidence, but thanks to my lovely girlfriend she's convinced me to keep writing and helped me with fixing my mistakes this chapter

2 weeks , it has been a whole 2 weeks now. Wriothesley was still passed out in a coma, no response to any, just laying there, a live still.

Neuvillette was in pain seeing Wriothesley like this, he even started to blame himself for not going with Wriothesley. As much as the girls tried to reassure him that it wasn't his fault, he still blamed himself for it.

Once again, like the past week had been, he came home from trials, which Sigewinne had to convince him to do, did some paperwork, and some of Wriothesley's since Sigewinne was busy, then sat in the chair beside the bed, laying his head down and holding Wriothesley's cold hand.

It has been two weeks and Neuvillette has already seen a change in Wriothesley's body, and it wasn't a good change without the wounded involved. It pained him so much, he just wanted to put the people who did this on trial, but his instincts craved for more, for the last thing that they see is the Hydro Sovereign chopping off their limbs one by one, making them suffer the pain that they deserved.

"What am I thinking, I can't do that." Neuvillette muttered to himself as he raised his head up as he heard the door open to the room.

"Mm? Neuvillette, have you eaten today?" Sigewinne spoke up as she walked in the room, holding fruit in her hands.

Neuvillette stood from his spot, hand running up and down Wriothesley's arm. "I haven't. Also, are you going to be here for a while? I need to get a few things from the court of Fontaine, I will eat while I am there."

Sigewinne walked over to the desk on the room and sat down, writing something down in a note pad about Wriothesley's vitals, "Yeah, im done with everything for the day, I can watch him for a while." She spoke up, "Remember to eat." It sounded like a threat, and probably was, but Neuvillette didn't miss the glance at his stomach. She knows, but hasn't spoken up about it yet.

There was no response before Neuvillette teleported to his own office. He went over to one of the many shelves in his room and pulled a folder out on a case from months prior, then went to his desk, picking up a document that Navia brought. Both documents on the two that caused this mess to begin with.

The documents were pretty basic, Nikoika never had a criminal record, parents both from Snezhnaya but born and raised in Fontaine. He graduated from Sumeru's Akademiya where he met Elliza, his now wife and has one child, female, with her. He worked with the Spina and lived in Poisson.

Elliza, a biological Fontainian, graduated from the Akademiya, two children from past marriages and one from her current. She has a past criminal record by tampering with machinery.

This didn't really help much on anything. Navia already reported to him that the two had abandoned their home in poisson, and Clorinde went back to the camp. She reported that things were taking from it. He wouldn't be surprised if they already ran off and far away from Fontaine.

Neuvillette leaned back in his chair and sighed, he needed to eat something before he continued to try and track down the cause of Wriothesley's state. While he goes to the Fountain of Lucine, he will get something to eat.

After sitting in thought for a while longer Neuvillette finally stood up and headed out the door. It didn't take long for word to get out about Wriothesley's state, and because of that Neuvillette had been trying his best to avoid the outside and the reporters that kept on asking questions about it.

Once he was outside and walking down the streets to get something to eat, there were so many whispers. At some point he had to come out with the news to the public. For now, they can have the rumors.