You Will Only Be Mine-Chapter 378: Lies

"Thank you for today, Koto," I said to the white-haired boy as we stepped away from the now dust corpse of the vampire. I looked back at where her body was. I clicked my tongue and walked away. Her blood was splattered on the ground and I sighed. I have to clean this up.

"Don’t thank me Senpai. It was my pleasure to be here and be of some help to you," Koto said with a big smile on his face. "But if you really want to thank me, how about you tutor me after classes? I haven’t really been to school since it started so I don’t really know what is going on. Sensei has been busy with stuff and I couldn’t really catch up to classes."

"Why don’t you ask your classmates to help you?" I asked him confused. "Aren’t they ready to help you?"

"Oh them? They would be more than happy to help me. All of my classmates were eager but they are not Senpai. Senpai is Senpai and if he doesn’t teach me, I would fail this year," he said with a cheeky grin on his face.

"Okay, I will help you," I said and Koto cheered.

"Yaay, then, I’ll see you tomorrow Senpai," Koto said walking out the door. "Be safe Senpai and if you need anything, don’t hesitate to call me."

With that, he left the apartment and Akira locked the door after him. I went to the couch and sat down. Yoshi jumped out of my hands onto the floor and walked to another room. I leaned my head back and let out a big sigh. Can’t believe I almost fell for that trick by Dominic. He was trying to push me to feel bad for the vampire disguised as Yuna by saying she is being abandoned. To light the sympathy in my heart.

He was just toying with me this entire time.

Do I believe Yuna is dead though?

No, all this just made me believe she is not. Yuna was someone Dominic shouldn’t be knowing about in the first place. Even if he found out that information from someone, he would not be able to make a perfect disguise making me believe that the vampire was Yuna.

"The more time passes, the more my urge to kill this man is increasing. He has been toying with me this entire time," I said and looked beside me seeing Ai sitting right beside me. She held my hand really tightly and said nothing. "Oh yea, you are done for today, Akira. You don’t need to stay all night to keep us safe. We won’t be attacked."

"How can you be so sure about that Kazu-kun?" Ai asked me.

"Trust me, the man is taking his time playing with us. He has enough confidence in making these moves knowing we won’t be able to do much. The worst part is we don’t even know the whereabouts of him," I explained and they nodded. "He is done for this night. Who knows what he is going to pull off tomorrow? So, for tonight, rest your body and get ready for tomorrow."

"I’m sorry to deny your request Kazuki-sama but I believe I am capable enough of guarding the place all night and still be functional tomorrow," Akira said and I shook my head.

"No, I still want you to go and rest. If I need you, I will call you in an instant. So right now, go rest,"

A bit disappointed, Akira nodded her head and closed her eyes before disappearing from the room. I looked at the place where the vampire was killed and I stood up. Ai still grabbed onto my hand and was not letting go so I just let her be and started walking to get the mop to clean the blood stains along with a broom. Killing her in the apartment wasn’t something I was hoping to do but I can’t really do anything about it now that it is done.

"I knew we should have done it elsewhere," I muttered under my breath and started mopping. I was having some difficulties like this though since I couldn’t really use my other hand which would help me for support and I looked at Ai. "Ai, do you mind letting go?"

"No," Ai denied. I stood up straight and looked right into her eyes. She raised her other hand and I got a bit confused. "Give that to me."

"Hmmm?" I tilted my head in confusion not sure what she was trying to say there. I looked down at the mop in my hand and then the realization hit me. "Why do you want to do it? I already am up for the job."

"Because I want to do it Kazu-kun," Ai spoke. The light shone on her face and I could see a depressed look on her face. "Please…let me…and go to the room and rest."

"But I can do i- "

"Please…" Ai begged in a sad tone and I couldn’t bear hearing that.

Any man hearing that would easily be ready to even put his life on the line to stop Ai from making that face. I gave her the mop and she walked past me and started cleaning up the floor. I stood there for some seconds and went to the bedroom. My clothes luckily didn’t really get any blood on them.

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I looked in and saw Yoshi was on the bed curled up in a ball. The little guy looked like he was sleeping but as soon as I got near, he moved his little feet and got up. I chuckled a little seeing the cute creature on the bed. I sat down near the edge of the bed and he crawled over to me. I started to pet the little guy and he started purring happily.

"You really like this, don’t you," I started speaking to Yoshi.

"Meow, meow."

"Oh, yea? What else do you like to do? I am going to get things for you tomorrow so might as well take care of that too," I said.

"Meow, meow, meow, meow."

"I see, we will get you that too," I said and chuckled a little. "What am I doing? Talking to a cat like this."

Yoshi snuggled his head against my waist and rolled over his back and I started rubbing his belly. He happily twisted and turned around happily. I kept playing with Yoshi while my own mind was battling against itself. I would have thought that Yuna was dead all this time and Dominic did give me a hint that she was not but I was not ready to believe it until I see it with my own eyes.

Now that I know it myself. I personally have no idea what I should be doing from this point ahead. Everything feels just blank. I want to think of what to do from here on out but I don’t know anymore. The feeling of wanting to go after Dominic in search of Yuna would be just etching in the corner of my brain but I know that would be too dangerous of a task.

Why am I so desperate though?

For me, Yuna has died so many years ago.

Yet, I want to see her face.

For one last apology.

Even if I have been told by Natsumi-san that I did nothing like that, I wanted to apologize from my side to Yuna. Even if I was not the one who killed her. I wanted to be the one to say sorry, for not being able to save her. Yes, I was a kid back then but still, this thing weighed on me. I have always beat myself down every time for any mistake I think I made. I am not someone who can easily just look past old mistakes and just move on. They still come back at me in one form or another.

I have never been the best at anything myself, I was pretty average all my life. Studies were okay, and athletics were fine but not my forte. I just liked to stay all by myself and immerse myself in a world full of a few people and lots of words written on pages.

Along with that, somewhere down that line came the habit of overbearing everything I did in a negative light.

My worst trait ever.

I have lost count of how many times I have thought about these past mistakes and loathe myself every single time when I thought about it. Things I’ve said, I’ve done, and have happened. You can just call me overdramatic about them at this point and I won’t even wait to agree with you.

That was exactly the thing Dominic was playing with. This personality of mine. These subtle yet fatal traits of mine that I could never really get rid of no matter how many times I tried. If I did a mistake, I should be punished in the worst possible for it or I would have thought it was not fair.

This…is how I am.

Right?

A person has too many sides, and this…is one of mine.

How annoying.

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