The Villainess only wants to go home

Chapter 52 - Guilt and the Truth

"I brought your favourite" Daisuke glanced at Kaido who was standing by the door with a plastic bag lifted up and his other hand in his pockets.

Daisuke looked away and his brown eyes laid upon his hands. The knuckles were red from the punches he laid on Itami. "I don't feel like eating" he answered.

Kaido brough his arm down and sighed. "The least thing you need is Artemis-chan waking up to a dead looking brother slumped in the corner of the room"

"Leave it on the table" Daisuke instructed. Kaido did what he was told and placed the donburi on the near by table.

"I heard what happened to Itami" Kaido said not giving any eye contact to Daisuke who was sitting on the chair with a very gloomy aura surrounding him like a huge depressing shadow that hovered behind him.

Daisuke clench his hands together even tighter, holding back tears that welled up in the corner of his eyes. Kaido eyed his friend, leaning against the table behind him and crossing his hands "You got what you wanted. Itami's dead now, A life for a life"

Daisuke clicked his tongue in frustration. "A life for a life, is that some sort of joke?" he growled. "Artemis isn't dead, and he wasn't supposed to die. There was no life for a life"

Kaido stared at him blankly. "I sense guilt"

Daisuke clenched his hands even tighter, and his eyes widened. "Is it because he was our best friend or is it because you wanted to stain your hands with his blood"

Daisuke didn't know what to answer his other best friend. All three of them were close friends back in training years and the only ones that didn't see his sister as a cursed one. He didn't know what to feel right now. He just felt numb.

"Did he at least tell you why he stabbed Artemis-chan and went behind the organisations back?"

Daisuke sniffed, wiping his tears before they came rushing down. "I never got the chance to" his voice cracked. Kaido squeezed his arm in frustration. "That bastard never gave him a chance to explain" Daisuke hissed. Kaido scrunched his face in anger and clenched his teeth, he too was someone who was not also fond of the master of the Ryu organisation.

"Daisuke, the rules we were taught since we were trainees were simple. No mercy to the traitors."

"I know"

"Fumihiro does not show any announce of mercy to the people that try to go behind his back. You remember what happened to Agent 9, 12 years ago." He still remembers the scene of an agent that was thrown in a den of tigers because he sold information to the government, was still fresh in his mind from that day. The day that everyone in his training years was forced to watch a traitor pay for his mistake for going against him was gruesome. The screams and pleading of the agent has haunted his sleep for as long as he can remember.

He had to watch every single moment of it and couldn't turn away or he would have been punished by the agents that stood behind and made sure no one covered their eyes. He heard the girls whimper softly and some were puking at the grisly sight. He was terrified for his little sister that was only 11 at that time, a little girl who always hid behind him.

When he took a quick glance for reassurance, his eyes widened in horror to see her staring blankly without an announce of terror in her eyes. She stared at the tigers that feasted on the agent as if this was some sort of revenge to humankind for treating her the way they did to her.

"Oi, Oi Daisuke, earth to Daisuke" Daisuke snapped out of his daze and turned his attention back to Kaido.
"Sorry" he leaned back, resting himself on the chair with his hand tangled within his silver locks.