Chapter 1 : Door

The sound of crows flapping and the deafening roar of an iron pole. That night was not a good night for an 18-year-old girl who was supposed to help her mother do homework or learn to knit from her grandmother.

"I want to go home..."

"Please save me!"

"Damn it!"

"Just die"

Those are a few sentences and words that smell of death and despair are painted on a dull wall whose paint has been peeled off. His fingers traced the dull wall and several times peeling dry paint.

-- London, 27 April 1875 --

"There is a body found in that empty field again!"

"How?"

"This is already the 15th time"

"Where are the police? How do they work?"

"Do they hire cheap detectives?"

"This place is cursed!"

Noise ... Voice of residents in this area is very disturbing and can damage the function of the ear. Just now a corpse has been found and the killer has not been captured and the corpse found is the 15th corpse. The corpse is female, has straight blonde hair, wears a pink dress with a sweet white lace, the age of the corpse is around 20 years, her body is fine but there is a circle of stitches around her neck. This information is only obtained from asking residents. Indeed the number of murders has increased recently. In addition, a number of residents also disappeared. Some residents suspect the involvement of "cursed angels" in this case and some only speculate that this is an ordinary robbery because of frequent crop failures which makes the price of staples rise quite dramatically. But what is normal if killing 15 lives is not necessarily guilty.

In the midst of the commotion and the enthusiasm of the citizens finally the police came with a tall man, if you look closely at his age around 20 years, wearing a long grayish brown coat and wearing glasses. The black man's hair moved in harmony with the hot wind that blew. While holding a notebook and a dark blue pen, the man wrote while examining the corpse of a woman who was almost the same age as him.

His fingers deftly wrote about the state of her dead body until he finally stopped writing and then covered part of his handsome face with his palm covered with leather gloves in a matching color with the coat he was wearing.

"Do any of you know this woman's family?" Asked the man to all the residents who had gathered and then an old man approached him.

"We all know his family, his father and mother are dead, his name is Angelina Arthur. He often acts unjustly towards his siblings and thirsts for the inheritance of his parents, many people do not like because they often collect tax money on merchants illegally, throw parties midnight and this is very disturbing. "

"In fact, he once expelled his sister who was pregnant and sold her sister's house at a very high price, basically he was greedy for wealth"

The last sentence coming from the old man surprised him.

"So this means ..." he thought.

After chatting briefly with residents finally the man decided to leave the place and bring the body of Angelina with the police to be examined again. Not long ago a woman with red hair and dressed as a maid came. The woman smiled sweetly and then disappeared with the wind that blows.

***

"Bella! Mr. Shiro is calling for you!" A loud voice of a man could be heard along the hall calling the name of a woman in a maid dress with red hair fluttering in the wind in the Korosaki family garden.

Hearing her name called, Bella immediately approached the man who mentioned her name and then the man gave several files filled with black colored paper.

"Andrew, what is this for?" Bella asks, who is overwhelmed by the file given by the man named Andrew.

"Just take this to Mr. Shiro's place," Andrew answered quickly. Bella readily brought the files given to her.

After Bella is no longer visible, Andrew arranges a cabinet full of books and thick files. The man with black gray hair and wearing a servant's clothes deftly arranged files and books that were irregular in shape and unsightly.

BBella walked quickly but remained cautious in delivering three files three times the thickness of world history books and a complete encyclopedia. Long and winding alley sometimes makes his legs ache but still that is his job. After ten minutes of walking, Bella arrived at the door of the room where her master worked. Bella slowly opened the door to her master's office and then placed the file she was carrying on the floor right next to her master's desk and then left the room as soon as possible. She deliberately accelerated her steps so that she would not be late doing the work that awaited her. She accidentally bumped into Andrew who had finished his job tidying the closet. Spontaneously, Bella hugged Andrew and made Andrew confused. Actually Bella is a bit spoiled when dealing with Andrew is different when dealing with other servants and maid.

"What's wrong?" Ask Andrew.

"Andrew! ... "Bella only responded to Andrew's question by hugging him tighter.

"Tell me dear dear" Andrew touched Bella's chin and then tilted Bella's head so she could meet directly with him.

"Mr. Shiro looks scary ..." Bella answered softly and responded with laughter by Andrew.

"Mr. Shiro is always scary when he is serious but take it easy he won't hurt anyone in this house" Andrew smiled then stroked Bella's head. After feeling calm, Bella then let go of her arm.

"Then Bella takes care of the green park first, if necessary, just call Bella, hahaha," Bella smiled very sweetly while Andrew just sighed while closing his eyes for a moment.

Bella walked casually away from Andrew and Andrew himself chose to go to the kitchen to prepare dinner because dinner in the family where he worked was very sacred and could not even be left and the food must also be of good quality otherwise all the servants in this house would be subject to severe punishment. Seeing other waiters busy in the kitchen, Andrew deftly helped them until a loud bang came from the dining area.

Andrew and several other servants checked where the sound came from. It turned out that the sound came from a kitchen decoration that accidentally fell on its own because the dining room was always empty and no one dared to open it before mealtime began. After making sure everything was okay, Andrew and the other servants immediately returned to the kitchen and did their work.

***

A large room and contains books and files in a very neatly arranged folder. In the middle of the room there is a medium-sized wooden table in shiny black and in tune with the dominant room color with a dark brown color. A 29-year-old man wearing a white shirt combined with black cloth pants and glasses that adorn his face was sitting accompanied by a cup of warm milk and a few pieces of biscuits. His blue eyes focus on reading one at a time a strange note with writing that is difficult to read. Suddenly the door to the room opened and a man dressed in servants approached him with a worried look on his face.

"Mr. Shiro ... don't push yourself". The servant tried to persuade him to stop reading the sheet that looked like an endless series of puzzles.

"No, Andrew still has to do more, my father will be angry if he knows that his first son adheres to one of the seven main sins". Said the man called as master.

Korosaki Shiro or commonly known as BellMur is a "cursed angel" whose job is nothing but taking the lives of ordinary people who have committed or even embraced one of the great sins. Because of his expertise in using drugs and poisons that were outside the limits of science at that time, it was very difficult that the drugs and poisons made by Shiro could be identified quickly. Shiro takes his target's life by putting poison into food or drink even just releasing it in the air and waterways. He got his talent from the intelligence of his father who is a senior "cursed angel" and his mother is known publicly as Mary Blood.

Andrew took a deep breath then took the sheet in the hands of his master quickly then read it.

"Are you sure this job is suitable for a young lady?" Andrew narrowed his eyes at the writings on the note.

"Yes, no matter what, Killia must immediately get a new assignment". Shiro casually retrieved the note in Andrew's hands.

"You better get the criminal record in the cupboard near Rachell's drinking room." Shiro's order was then responded to by Andrew.

After seeing the door to his room tightly closed, Shiro returned to dwell on the notes he held and then took another note to read as well. Thirty minutes later, the door to the room opened again. This time the one who came was the maid she named Bella. Bella brought three large piles of the files she wanted. Shiro gestured for the stack of files to be placed right next to the table where he sat. Bella immediately put the file in the place indicated by her master and left the room quickly. Shiro looked at each of the gestures of his servant with a look that looked stiff and cold he did not want a single mistake made by his personal maid.

"Aaa! When will this work be done ?! It's been 3 days I didn't feel the soft mattress in my room". Shiro stretched while complaining indistinctly. Suddenly a man dressed as a woman who was four years younger than Shiro opened the door of the room by slamming it.

"Shiro, are the documents that Rachell will bring all ready?" The man approached Shiro who was holding his head with his left hand due to shock at the arrival of his first younger brother.

Shiro gave a maroon red folder to his sister and then told his sister to quickly leave him. However, his sister pulled him out of the room where he had been trapped for three days without sleep. Shiro looked at his younger brother who was holding her helplessly.

"Actually, what is Rachell? Your brother is at work ..." Shiro said softly.

"You forgot, right? Today there is a mandatory dinner at the altar," Rachell replied quickly while poking his brother's forehead.

Shiro was shocked and covered his mouth with his palm. How could he forget about compulsory family activities every 13th. The most sacred dinner he and his entire family have to do while talking about their next victims.

"So you remember now?" Rachell asked, interrupting his brother's reverie.

"Ah ... yes, your brother, remember now, thank you for reminding your forgetful brother, Rachell," Shiro stroked the long hair of his younger brother who was like that woman.

They walked together while holding hands and talking with excitement. Suddenly two people who have the same appearance or who are often known as twins approached Shiro and Rachell. Shiro looked at the two people who approached him and Rachell with an unfriendly look.

"Shiro and Rachell want to go to the altar huh?" Ask the two people almost simultaneously.

"Yes Rachell and Shiro want to go to the altar" Rachell answered the two people's questions while smiling while Shiro only nodded.

"Then Koki and Roki will join Rachell and Shiro," said the two men while holding one of their two older siblings.

"Koki Roki stopped acting like a child, you're almost 25 years old," Shiro reprimanded his younger brothers named Koki and Roki because they were annoyed with their arbitrary attitude which disturbed the important conversation of his two brothers.

Koki and Roki just keep quiet then Koki pulls Rachell's hand away from Shiro who was being held by Roki. Koki stuck out her tongue at Shiro, a sign of mocking his oldest brother. Shiro sighed, there was nothing he could do if his twin sister was basically like that. Roki who saw his eldest brother upset with his twin behavior was pulling Shiro's hand so that Shiro walked faster than his previous steps and made Rachell and Koki left far behind. Shiro looked at Roki in surprise and Roki responded with a smile. The confused Rachell then caught up with Shiro and Roki while pulling Koki's hand.

"Rachell, slowly, your dress will be stepped on your high heels," Koki rebuked Rachell, who walked in such a hurry.

"Don't worry, Koki, even though I'm a boy, I'm used to clothes like this," Rachell said while showing her sweet smile to Koki.

Shiro and Roki finally arrived in front of a large dark brown door with strange carvings on the door. Shiro slowly opened the door of the room and saw a room with neatly arranged statues and paintings and several mannequins in noble clothes hanging from the ceiling and shining in place of the lamp shade with a large, long dining table with blood-red tablecloths and a hand-sewn edge of gold thread was located in the middle of the room.

Shiro and Roki entered the room and were shocked by an 18-year-old girl who was sitting on a dining table chair. the woman sat while accompanied by an empty wine glass and a plate that was still upside down. her eyes stared straight at the picture of a woman who was burning with orange fire.

"What are you doing, Killia?" Shiro then held the shoulder of Killia.

"You came very quickly" said Roki, pulling a chair and then sitting in front of Killia.

Moments later, Rachell and Koki arrived at the place they called the altar. Rachell who saw Killia sitting in a chair and accompanied by Shiro and Roki then walked quickly toward Killer. Shiro and Roki turned towards the door and saw Rachell approaching them and Koki who closed the big door difficulty.

"Finally, my brother Rachell and Koki arrived," Said Roki, who was watching Rachell and Koki, while playing an empty wine glass beside him.

Rachell pulled out a chair and then sat right next to Killer's right. Meanwhile Koki sits beside Roki and faces Rachell. Shiro closed his eyes for a moment then lit three red candles that were on the table then sat next to Roki whose chair in front of him had not been filled yet. the order of seating at dinner is always changing. However, the chair currently facing Shiro must not be filled by anyone except the mother and the chair in the middle facing the entrance belongs to the father.

Some time later, the two people they were waiting for finally arrived. Wearing a red dress combined with black, their mother sat in the chair that she always sat in and this time sitting beside her was her only daughter. A smile was drawn on the face of the 57-year-old woman. Although she is almost 60-years-old, her face and body are still in their 20s. Not because of an illness or miracle, but because of a perverted offering she had made when she was young. Meanwhile the father, wearing a matching red suit with his wife, sat in a special chair for the head of the family. His age almost 80-years-old but did not make him look like an old man. Just like his wife, he also made the same heresy offerings.

Finally, a family is complete in one dining room, just not a single word that comes out of their lips unlike families in general. Amid the silence of the large dining room, a brownish blond waitress entered the dining room accompanied by a smile that decorated her handsome face that was not consumed by age. the family looked at each other and gave each other a smile.

"Sorry to make the ladies and gentlemen wait for their dishes to be ready" The servant's words brought in the other servants who then served a number of sumptuous meals.

"Now, we only need to wait for night to come" Said the father who began to break the silence of their family.

"Yes, father is right, it feels so impatient to wait for the moon to appear". Said Koki who was then followed by Roki.

"My beloved Koki, we are not werewolves like those in fictional books belonging to the next door family"

"Yes, but the mother and father are vampires, the proof is that they are not aging," Rachell answered Roki's words, which was followed by laughter by the father, mother, siblings and servants.

"But father and mother are not vampires like your boyfriend from that time" Shiro's words made Rachell's face flushed red and then again made the people in the room laugh.

"Shiro is right, your father and mother are not vampires but two people who are always destined together without being separated by the grim reaper" The mother who had been laughing only replied and glanced at her husband. Her husband just nodded with a smile.

"It's not that the grim reaper is our own, how can the grim reaper take his own life?" Asked Rachell while turning his plate, a sign that dinner would start.

"Suicide," Killer said curtly, making the people in the room look at each other and then laugh out loud.

They finally chatted and laughed together unnoticed that night came and the moon illuminated the darkness with its sunny light. Food began to be shared then they ate together. While the servants were busy making food and personal servants from each family member poured wine from their master's glass.

***

Files from various cases from all over the city piled up on the table of a detective who had to work overtime this time. The case this afternoon that made the detective and his coworkers work overtime. There are some clues that he got but he could not accuse the culprit carelessly. Accompanied by a cigarette, the detective opened a note of an old case he had solved with his team.

"Tch ... This job is endless" he complained while smoking a cigarette he was holding.

"Just go home Emerald, I can replace you wrestling with notes" A woman wearing a dark blue dress and combined with a long white coat approached a detective who she called Emerald.

"No, Pearl, I must settle this case before there are more victims," Emerald said while smoking.

"You will be the next victim if your rest is not enough" The detective who was called as Pearl closed every window in her team's workroom.

"Tonight the wind feels dry" Muttered a man who was sitting with a large pile of notebooks.

"Stop joking, Muu, every summer, the wind feels like this," Pearl replied in a serious tone, then responded with a nod from the man named Muu.

The night wind was indeed not as usual, the wind that night seemed to tell that the night was not a good night for people. Pearl took the note in his hand and on the Emerald table and compiled it on a special wooden box that indicated the case was not over. Emerald was surprised by Pearl's attitude and shouted at her.

"Pearl! I must settle the case tonight!" Pearl did not care about the screaming from Emerald, making Emerald stand up from his chair then pull Pearl's hand and make some notes fall on the floor.

"Be quiet coward! I also want to solve this case but the corpse does not want to be invited to work together" replied Pearl who was annoyed when his hand was pulled roughly.

Muu, who was used to seeing the arguments between his two coworkers, could only sigh and then stood up from his chair and picked up the notes scattered on the floor. After finishing picking up the notes and putting them in a special wooden box, Muu finally chose to leave his two colleagues who were still fighting to defend their respective egos. Muu went out of the workroom to his room.

Muu was surprised to see a large crow with bright red eyes perched on the open window of her room. Frantically Muu drove away the crows and then prayed that nothing would happen.

"Hopefully they will not bring disaster for us Amen" Close the prayer Muu who was still hit by fear and surprise.

In that city, crows are considered a bad omen and messenger of death. according to belief, if there are crows that enter a person's room, then that person will get calamity and even death in the near future.

Muu closed the window of her room tightly and the crow was still trying to enter her room. Muu locked her bedroom window firmly then covered the window with the curtains. Uneasy feelings struck Muu's mind. Muu could only force himself to calm down and try to sleep. When Muu started to close his eyes, a human shadow appeared from under his bed. Muu who panicked then ran to the office and saw the two coworkers who were still fighting.

Seeing the appearance of Muu who looked chaotic, Emerald and Pearl stopped their fight. Immediately Pearl took a glass of water and Emerald approached Muu and bombarded him with questions. It's not usual for Muu to look chaotic like this, thinking Emerald and Pearl together. After giving Muu a glass of water, Pearl told Muu to rest and tell her what happened tomorrow. However, Emerald who was already very curious still bombarded Muu with the same question. Muu drank the water given by Pearl and then calmed himself which at that time did look very chaotic.

After feeling his calm began to return and fear, shock, panic and others had disappeared, Muu returned to his desk then took some notes and some field samples that he had collected. Seeing Muu who suddenly changed like that, Pearl hit Muu's back nod until the man was unconscious. Emerald who saw Muu collapsed because of a blow from Pearl immediately put Muu on a long chair and then covered Muu with a makeshift cloth.

Pearl and Emerald looked at each other, they were both curious about what was happening but it was best to wait until the sun greeted them. Emerald took a piece of cloth and then rested on his desk while Pearl was resting while sitting on Muu's head on her thigh.

"I got the wrong target" Said the shadow as he jumped out of the window and mingled with the darkness of the night.