Master to Ryou

"hmm, I am sure it will work." Edrick giggled, he was dressed in a prisoner uniform, and sat in his cell, playing with rocks.

He picked one rock, and threw a rock that destroyed the pile of rocks he placed on top of each other.

"HAHAA....! TOLD YOU, MY PLAN WORKED!" Edrick laughed hysterically.

"Yeah.. he's completely insane now." Harold sighed.

Idiots...IDIOTS...THEY THINK, I AM INSANE, HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN, I AM BEYOND.

Edrick thought to himself, and then fainted.

"Edrick...!" Harold Panicked.

Chapter 15: Master to Ryou

[Ryou's Perspective]

I saw a dream.

A young lady, age 18, wavy hair, stabbing me with a knife, and constantly calling me out?

She said..

"Master.... Master! Master!"

"AIMIIIIII!!!!!!" I woke up from my crazy dream.

Ah, Right. The gentle voice isn't going to wake me up.

"UWAAA~" Nina, another of my maid, panicked.

"I didn't know, you sleep without clothes!~" She ran from my room.

I forgot, what happened last night. I called all maids for a return.

"Where will Aimi be? Well, I hope she knew she has to leave this mansion at once." I sighed, with a disappointed look.

*Flashback of Miko and that person walking...to a love hotel

"AHHHHHHHHHHHGGHH!!!" I screamed, as I threw the vase from my desk.

Outside the room

Sfx: Ryou screaming from inside the room.

"Oh my god, I hope master is well~" Nina was worried, as she kept eavesdropping by sticking her ears through the door.

At the kitchen

"Hey little girl! Watch the knife! You're cutting yourself! Pass me the tomatoes." Susan ordered around the kitchen, it was her domain.

Meanwhile, this "little girl's" face was blank. Her black long hair with attractive waves covered her side-profile, as she countinued chopping her fingers even after finishing off the carrots.

"Aimi! Could you please wash the dishes over here?" Isabella asked Aimi. Isabella was a young maid, a new worker who wanted a place to live, as well as a part time. At 17 years old, she was the youngest.

"...only..he.." Aimi whispered or..just moved her lips, her voice didn't come out.

"Little girl! Are you even useful these days-" Susan scolded Aimi.

"Hey! Aunty Susan, please, she have been through alot." Isabella defended Aimi.

"...and Master Ryou too." Nina entered the scene.

"I mean, the driver uncle got.. nevermind. Then a crazy detective hunted down on Aimi and Ryou, and then, and then, to add on top of it, A LADY DIED ON THE TERRACE!" Nina added.

"It was...Mayuri, someone like that who died, isn't it? Poor she.." Susan commented.

At the conversation, Aimi was still harming her fingers.

Accidentally, she stabbed her palm.

"Watch out girl!" Susan held Aimi's hands.

Aimi looked on her palm, her face was still blank.

What use of her beauty? Black pupils, cute eyes, pink lips and a pretty eyebrow. None of this was at use, as Aimi's face was blank. Her voice showed no signs of soul, spirit or any life at all.

With all her strength, she mustered up a few words~

"Geez... Now I can't serve.." Aimi said, with a shivering voice.

"Little girl, along with Master you must have been through alot. Go to your room." Susan advised Aimi.

"But I-" Aimi wanted to serve master, with her old way of seducing-walks, and teasing-talks. She thought it would work.

Until, she was forced into her room, by the other maids.

At Aimi's room

[Aimi's Perspective]

I sat there at my bed, all the maids left one by one. I sat there, completely hopeless.

It was like, master Ryou had robbed me of all my shame, but I would still accept that, but this, this is.. this isn't what I could live with!

I looked hopeless, so dumb and my beauty? It's a waste.

Just like that day, I felt worthless again.

Like that day, when my parents died.

Like when Ryou ignored me and hugged Old Master, when he was leaving for foreign studies.

Like when other maids shamed me.

And now, like when Master left me, ignoring me with his girlfriend, who was going with Ray, to a love hotel. I tried my best to speak of his name, but it seems my effort was worthless, wasn't it?

"His...tie.." I see his tie in my hanger, kept just like that day.

I sniff it a bit-

"He must need it-" I quickly stood up, like a loyal maid, who loved her master.

I walked with all of my energy, and tried opening the door.

"It...it won't open!" I panicked, my voice shriveling as I struggled to open the door.

Suddenly, I fell down on my knees.

"Ah...right... I haven't had.. food..."

I did eat anything, since tomorrow. I was so excited with the dates and all but-

"Wait.. master needs breakfast.."

"I miss.. I miss how I used to walk and tease him.. I miss how every night.. I... I... Explored his limits... I miss how I always blackmailed him and he acted so cute about it..." I sigh..

Suddenly, my eyes start closing on their own.

"Not on the floor.. he wanted me to sit.." I recall. I couldn't faint on the floor, I was supposed to never touch the floor, like in that cafè.

[Ryou's Perspective]

"The pepper. IS PEPPER EXTINCT?!" I shouted.

"Master I'm so-" Nina stuttered.

"SHUT UP!" Ah, Aimi always knew of my cooking.

But who cares? She was a killer who aimed to kill my loved ones. I saved them, isn't it?

She was after me, so she must obviously liked me afterall, now that it's clear I have rejected her, there's no reason for her to be in this mansion.

"Say, is Aimi still in this mansion?" I ask, with a bold voice.

"Umm..yes...she...I mean.." Nina stuttered, with fear.

Ah, did I forget how fear was? I was kept on my knees for so long by Aimi, that I forgot how domination feels.

"Yes." A motherly voice came.

Ah, it's Aunty Susan, our eldest maid. She's 40, younger than my mother. But she has been my mother-figure ever since..

"Aunty, with each day that passes sir that dust in our house. I feel disgusted." I stand up, not completed my breakfast.

I look at my watch.

"I will be late for the meeting, it seems."

"Ah, Mr Driver-"

"Oh yeah.. he doesn't exist anymore... Damn you, Aimi." I quickly re-called what Aimi has done to me loved ones.

She doesn't deserve, bits of sympathy.

At the Presentation room.

"Ryou's late again.. ugh" Michael thought to himself.

"Ah, a call?" He picks it up.

"..hello?" A gentle voice.

"Yeah, Michael here, I'm in Japan regarding some business-"

"I have a deal, with you~"

Michael was intrigued.

Sfx: call

After sometime...

"Oh gosh... Got it. It'll be done." Michael wasn't ready, the amount was more than the money Ryou was talking. 100 thousand dollar contract?! Michael forgot Ryou existed!

Sfx: door opening

"Good morning, Michael, am I correct?" Ryou spoke, in a formal voice.

"You seem exhausted, come sit here. Let's do the talk." Michael, was in a rush to refuse.

After hours of tough negotiations.

"What?! You're asking for 100 thousand dollars?" Ryou was shouting at this point.

"I want to believe in you, Ryou."

"Shut the hell."

"Same goes for you, now leave."

Ryou went out, with a broken heart. While Michael smiled down on his phone, looking at the new 100 thousand dollars he just recieved, from this one source.

[Ryou's Perspective]

Oh no..... It can't be...

WHY?

I have lost another today. I was in tears, as I walked through my team.

"I'm sorry father.... Everything was so well but somehow-" I broke down into tears suddenly, everyone rushed to know what happened.

"Hey man! Calm down, I'm here! It's okay, I'll hear you." Yuuki comforted me.

"Isn't his girlfriend cheating on him?" Some of my team workers whispered on my back.

"Hey! Cut it out!" Yuuki scolded the whisperers.

"Hmph! You expect a 20 year old naive boy to run a company? What a joke!" One worker laughed.

It's true. I was naive. I was trapped. I have lost everything. It's all going down, I can't be my father, I'll never be.

I was always average, I wondered why Miko was with me, why was I born in a rich household, why did I inherit anything at all?!

All of what was happening, My girlfriend cheating on me, company going down, co-workers hating on me. It's done. I'm lost.

At the mansion

Sfx: Phone call

"....so, have you forced her into sex?"

"Naah, that bitch literally got sober and fucking left!"

"Your effort was okay-ish, I'll reward you with her Bra pictures then. Leaking then could fetch you alot of money, for now."

"Ah, her body seems the real deal."

At the Street

Clock hit 8 at night

[Ryou's Perspective]

Sfx: panting, and running

"Haah..haah..."

I was running.

"Return my wallet! You bastard!"

I got robbed.

"I'll catch... Haah... You..."

I ran into this lady.

Sfx: slap

"How dare you? I'll report you for sexual harassment if you touch me like that!"

"Sorry miss, I was just chasing..."

I got slapped, second time.

"Huh?! Wait.. is it...you...Ry-"

I just ran in a different direction, I can't handle it no more!

That lady, was Miko. She literally couldn't figure out the situation, I think, she is trying to ignore me now. That must be her sign of break-up.

Sfx: running

"Hey...Ryou! Wait!" Miko kept running.

Suddenly, she was stopped.

"Hold your horses, lady."

"Wait...aren't you the...crazy detective...?! OH MY GOD-"

"Well, if it isn't me~" Edrick laughed maniacally.

He broke from his prison cell, and was running.

[Edrick's Perspective]

JUST WAIT, YA BASTARDS! I WILL CHASE YOU DOWN, RYOU... I will absolutely murder you. Then...then...then, your mistress maid will come to kill me... Over my fucking dead body... She will murder me too!!!!! Then, then the police will see my dead body and bingo!

She will be caught!

Sfx: Police car siren

"Holy shit.. it's the police! Well, I know where to hide...!"

At the rented room

"So...Aimi, starting from today, this is your new room, got it?"

"Very well."

Infront of the mansion

"What do you mean us maids have to be in a home arrest?" Susan argued with the police.

"Well, miss, there seems to be a criminal hiding in your mansion, we must seal it for now."

Sfx: rain

[Ryou's Perspective]

"What the hell? I own this mansion!"

"Sir, we can't let you enter- wait, are you Ryou Aikawa?"

"Uh yes..?"

"You're under arrest."

"Wait what?"

What's going on?

I see him, and I run.

"Hey! Catch him! He's running, I repeat, suspect is running!"

At the park

Rain poured all over me, while I sat on a bench, breathing heavily, completely exhausted and dirty.

"My wallet, it's robbed, my mansion is sealed. I'm in a police chase. I have no shelter, this rain, it's drowning me.. I'm scared.. I'm scared.. to be without a shelter in this night.." Ryou cried as he spoke.

He looked up into the dark thunderstormy sky, with rain hitting him like needles.

"Oh god, please send a spark of light to get me away with this!" Ryou started intensely cry as he said this.

"I.. I am not a master! I am Ryou! Please! I lose! I accept defeat! I acknowledge I can't carry my father's legacy.. PLEASE!" Ryou begged for mercy from God, as he was on his knees, and rain countinued to wash his clothes in an unpleasant way.

Even in the dark rain, a gentle black figure showed up, with an umbrella.

"My~..."