Chapter IX

- Hey, Papyrus! - The oldest of the skeleton brothers was approaching the throne where his younger brother sat. - Heh, sorry, the human lost me again. - Scratched the back of his neck. - For next time I will not take a break on the way. - He had noticed that the tallest did not pay attention to him, he expected a scolding as he always did. - Papyrus?

- Did you know that Undyne is dead? - I was asking directly.

- Than? - The white spots in their basins disappear when asked. Who was the monster that I told you about the death of the head of the royal guard? - What are you talking about, Pap? Where did you hear that?

- That doesn't matter Sans, I asked you if you knew. - He insisted on his answer without observing the lowest.

- No, why is that a lie. - I was lying again as usual.

- Are you sure? - He did not believe the answer given by his brother.

- yeah - The major answered.

- You know Sans, since I can remember I believed your word a lot. - The king was saying. - Every word you said, every story, every compliment, even if it was crazy I believed it completely. - For the first time, at that moment, he was looking at his right hand. - But that is over. - He gets up from his seat. - I could never hate you, you are my brother and you have always protected me from everything that could harm me, although that in the future could harm you a lot. - The aforementioned began to feel quite uncomfortable at the minor's words. - But I can't forgive you for lying to me when I asked you for explanations from my friends, sorry. - He looked with disappointment at his brother.- Now our relationship will change.

- What do you mean, Papyrus? - The elder asked something fearful.

- We will only treat ourselves as those in charge of the kingdom, we will only talk about the decisions we will take to obtain the freedom of our people ... - He was interrupted by the major.

- Wait, do you mean that we will no longer treat each other like brothers? - Maybe the question may be a bad thing, but it was the only thing that occurred to him in that desperate moment.

- Something like that. - He didn't even know what he was saying. The anger of that moment was so great that his words came out alone, most of them did not want to say them, but it was inevitable not to. He was not one of the monsters that had a "grudge" against someone, in fact he did not even know how that felt, but because of what happened, he now knows everything that his older brother repeatedly avoided him knowing.

- Do you really want this to be our relationship from now on? - He really wanted that answer to be negative, thinking for a moment that his brotherhood was broken completely destroyed him. Not telling him how great it is, not telling him those jokes that bothered him the most, not telling him his brother's favorite story was something he never wanted to stop doing. Yes, that might be considered monotony, but he was happy that way, if his life was always like that, he wouldn't mind at all.

- yeah - He answered without delay. - Now, I want you to continue with your work. - He started walking to leave the throne room and leave the eldest alone. - Keep looking for the human, I don't want you to fail again. - And when he finishes his sentence, he leaves the room.

- Papyrus ... - He observed the path that the king had traveled. - I know my brother and I feel that treating us in this way will not last long enough. - He said this to himself, although you could see the nervousness in his voice. - I think I should talk seriously to Alphys. - And by saying that, he teleports to the lab.

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- Alphys. - It said the name of the real scientist. - We need to talk. - He looked around if he saw the figure of the reptile. - Alphys? - She always answered his call right away.

The place felt quite tense.

Searching every room in the lab, I still didn't know Alphys' whereabouts.

Entering the same room for the third time, he notices something strange in the corner of it.

- Alphys? - He was approaching slowly in that place.

What he found was an amount of dust on the floor and a letter on the side.