Gekko lay there on the ground, all quiet except for the blood that kept pouring from his intestines from both the upper and lower half of his severed body.
Arthur stood, shocked. He glanced at the sword in his hand, unsteady. He didn't know how this could have happened, how he could have killed Gekko.
Honzo screamed as he ran towards the already dead bully. He tried to touch, check him to see if he could do anything but the damage had already been done.
He looked at Arthur with a bewildered face, "Murderer!" Pointing his fingers, "You killed Gekko!"
"Liar! Every one of us here saw you sever… Gekko." He shaked, his voice sad but filled with fear for Arthur, "Wh- Why did you do that?"
'But I didn't.' Arthur thought but couldn't speak out those words.
He was sure that his sword didn't hit Gekko that much. He had slashed at him but he made sure not to inflict any lasting damage. But what if…
'What if I did kill him?... no… NO! I didn't, I'm absolutely sure I didn't.'
Arthur threw off his doubt and became sure of it. His strike didn't land on Gekko… whatever happened, it happened at the midst of fight when both of them were too occupied to notice.
I smiled seeing the gecko meeting his new fate. Looking at his severed parts, I could see him wriggling a bit, it felt strangely good seeing him do that.
'You wanna touch my Anna… how'd you gonna do that whilst dead?'
'Still, man… that was a clean cut, so perfect.'
Arthur was right about not killing him, how could he when my attack was the one that hit him.
When they were about to strike each other, it was at that moment when I threw my black hole at Gekko. Like before, it went astonishingly fast and without even anyone knowing about it or feeling amiss... it cleanly cut off Gekko.
Black holes may not have any cutting feature but their pull are very very strong. More than enough to eat out Gekko's weak body.
I could have just used the black hole on Arthur and made him literally kill Gekko, but I didn't.
As I continued playing around with my ability, I noticed that it has a strange ability to simply boost someone's power. It could exponentially increase power of anyone's but only for a brief moment. Which was the reason of Gecko's sudden outburst.
I look back at Arthur, he looked perplexed and angry. It seemed he figured out that an outside play was involved. If it was anyone else, they wouldn't have come to that conclusion so quickly. They would have thought for hours before finally coming to that conclusion.
One of the reasons why I didn't use the power on him to kill Gekko.
What if I did and at the final moment when stopping it should be impossible, he does the miracle? He's a protagonist, I'm 99% sure he would have stopped it.
Also… doing it by my own hands is another feeling altogether.
Arthur looked here and there for the culprit that could have done this, but the culprit had already left. I couldn't stay at that place any longer, it was going to bring in attention. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ n̷o̷v̷e̷l̷f̷i̷r̷e̷.net
Yeah, I know what I did to Arthur is considered bad. But he was going to face Gekko's dad in the future anyway so why not now? Think of it as a friend helping out another friend speed out the process.
Killing both the son and father so that they could be reunited.
Even after searching relentless, he couldn't find anyone who would have done this. The culprit had to have already left by now, Arthur thought.
This attack, it was too clean and too perfect for it to not be a set-up. The problem is whether the assassinator had a problem with him or Gekko.
It may be Gekko who's lying dead but it also could be a trap for him… maybe it was a trap for both of them.
Still it was too early to come to any conjecture.
He felt the warm hands of Elisabeth on his shoulder, who fearfully asked, "Arthur… what do we do now?"
"I think… we should talk with your father." Looking at her fearful gaze, he soothed her, "Elisabeth, I didn't kill Gekko."
"But we saw you kill him, everyone did." Samantha said as she came forward. Her eyes which were always friendlier towards him before now had suspicion and slight disgust, "Why are you saying the opposite?"
"Because I didn't!" Arthur spoke the truth, "Believe me Samantha I didn't."
"I… don't know… But I promise you both," He looked at both of them with conviction, "I'm going to find out the one who did and make him face justice!"
Anna opened the door for me and I joyfully get in. I felt so happy that without even losing my shoes, I jump on the bed.
Thankfully it didn't break.
"Did something good happen, master?" Anna asked seeing me so giddy.
"Oh! Is it that obvious?" She nodded, "Yes, actually something good… No, something great happened. So great that a slight problem got cut off without even blooming."
"Thank you," I then have an idea as I tell her, "Get yourself and Alice ready, We're going out."
"The city is quite beautiful." Anna said as she looked at the streets filled with light and the night glisten with serenity.
"Yes, we should have gone out earlier… you and me." I whisper the last part and she lightly taps me in the shoulder.
"Master!... Alice is here."
Speaking of her, she was following us quietly like a mouse. At first I thought that she might have problem facing so many people but she didn't.
As we were walking, I saw her keep glancing at a certain place. Looking at it, I see a cotton candy machine.
Cotton Candy Machine... What the fuck?
"Alice, do you want to eat that?"
She felt flustered by my sudden question and denied, "No no no, ma- master… I was just looking."
"Is that so?" I say, seeing her look down at the streets.
"But I want to eat that and what about you Anna?" I give her a wink as she understood.
"I want to eat that as well."
"Well, we're both eating so… do you want to eat too Alice?"
She slightly tilted her head up as I saw her beautiful purple eyes and give a slow nod. It was innocent and pure… something straight out a novel.
Now how can a man not feel something when a girl does that.