【𝐀 𝐕𝐞𝐢𝐥 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥】➛𝓑𝓵𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓑𝓾𝓽𝓵𝓮𝓻

22

"Ci...Ciel?" Holding in eyepatch in a horrible reminiscence of his past. The prince stared sympathetically, albeit confused,

"I...I was being humiliated as a pet...My house was burnt, my family was killed. I was such a..." his hand balled into a fist as he turned away, "powerless kid...Therefore, I returned to this place in order to make those people who put me through such a fate taste the same humiliation. The successors of the generations killed three years prior would come to me as long as I am the head of the phantomhive family that stands in their way. I'm waiting...for them to come and try to kill me here."

"Why...why do you have to go so far?"

"Moping around filled with sadness and sorrow...what will come of it? Even dead people can do that. However...I'll live and stand on my own two legs."

Stood not too far in the room as the Earl walked in, the lady stood with her head low, not hung low, but tilted down as she bit her lip. Shameful in a way, that even once in a situation alike, but not the same, to his...she had never been calm and collected or had taken her revenge plan as far as he. As if she could now, of course, having left her true history behind since she had fallen down that endless rabbit hole.

Her low, quivering lip did not go unnoticed by the Earl. Turning her head away she kept listening, chewing the inside of her cheek, nails digging into her palm.

"If we are to die one day, wouldn't it be better to have no regrets? I'm not saying that getting revenge for predecessors is an admirable thing. This is all just a pastime of mine. It is a game that could be won by either...those guys or me as the Earl of Phantomhive. Even though I was put in an abyss of despair, a place likened to Hell...A chance as thin as a spider's thread was sent to me offering the choice to crawl out. I decided not to give up and reached for it. We humans have that strength."

"Though...Grasping it or not is up to the person." Both butler and prince stared, each for their own reasonings at the Earl's speech. The Lady, had a pitiful stare, however.

"This boring speech is over. Sebastian, [Name], I want to have a talk with you both about West. Come..." Snapping her head up she watched as the butler began to follow the Earl. Noticing her not following Soma turned to [Name], and with a fleeting glance from her, a sympathetic one, she followed. Leaving Soma in the torn-apart room.

Having made it down the stairs it wasn't long until the suspected yell from the prince came, "Ciel!" all three had turned around, looking at the exasperated Soma who had jogged down the stairs, holding onto his knees as he looked down at the ground. "I'm...so embarrassed!"

"I'm already 17 but I'm still a fool who knows nothing about this world compared to you. I have been spoiled with luxuries from my parents...So I have never tried to understand other people. Although I noticed that Agni had something on his mind, I never even bothered to ask him. So, this time I want to know. I want to meet them directly and confirm their reason for leaving my side." He raised his head back up, looking at Ciel with hope "That's why I ask this of you! I also—"

"I refuse."

...

"I'm sorry. I just can't even look at someone who knows as little about the world as you do. See ya!"
"I suppose, my door is always open anyways."

With not a moment to spare Soma had latched onto Ciel, hugging him close with glee, "Ciel!!" only letting go after seeing the Earl's struggle to breathe.

"By the way..." facing the earl again he adopted a more serious, sorry look, "Ciel, I'm sorry for breaking those cups earlier...Please forgive me." 

"And Miss [Name], I'm sorry for spilling the tea and staining your—" he paused, looking over at the woman with his head tilted while she smiled, "Eh? Where's the stain?"