Pleading Slave || An IchiKara Fanfic

Chapter 5

Ichimatsu slowly open his eyes and found himself on his own couch.

    Yawning, the man stood up and walked towards the kitchen.

    A yellow cat appeared from under the table. It's big eyes staring at Ichimatsu as he open the fridge.

    Ichimatsu laid a saucer of milk in front of the cat. "Good morning to you, too," he smiled, gently scratching the cat's head.

    He then let out a sigh.

    Besides being an assassin, Ichimatsu was a jobless wreck. He do have a large amount of money from the people he work for. But he wanted to do something different.

    Ichimatsu glance at the clock hanging on his wall.

    "Ah, whatever," he said, "Guess I'll just go outside."

    Like every other day, Ichimatsu casually walk towards his favorite cafe, a cat cafe not so far from his place.

    "Welcome, sir!" an employee greeted him at the door.

    Ichimatsu ignore him, just like other customers would do.

    The man sat on his usual table and ordered a cup of coffee. "Here you go," said the waitress and she quickly left to serve other customers.

    As he sip his coffee, Ichimatsu stared at his watch.

    It had been two weeks since the his attempt to murder Karamatsu. Ichimatsu also tried to avoid more contact with his victim as much as possible ever since his encounter with detective Todomatsu.

    Wonder what Karamatsu was up to today.

    It was a lovely weather at Karamatsu's place. As usual, his lined up servants were waiting for his orders.

    "Did you know?"

    "Is it true..?"

    "...no...Mr Karamatsu is not like that..."

    Rumors circled around the mansion as Karamatsu paced back and forth in his fancy room. He knew that most of his servants were suspicious of him.

    Everybody knew how painful the billionaire's personality is.

    And they also knew how far he would go to get attention. Rumors had started that Karamatsu himself hired someone to attack him, and so he'll become someone who needed some sort of 'protection'. And if he got it, he got attention.

    "There is NO way I would do that!" he cried at Todomatsu, the same detective who came to interrogate Karamatsu the other day, "Who in their right mind would plan such thing to themselves?!"

    Todomatsu nodded and scribbled down on his note.

    "Calm down, sir. We will do something about it as quick as we can," said the detective.

    Karamatsu groaned.

    "You are also suspecting me too, aren't you?"

    "No, sir. I am not."

    "I can tell from your tone."

    Todomatsu glared at Karamatsu. "Yes, I am," he said, leaning dangerously close to the man, "I know you're hiding something. So while you still can, try to make my job easier, will you?"

    The detective quickly left the room.

    Karamatsu, on the other hand, was left flabbergasted.