Volume 3 Chapter 4: The old man and dying flower

Shin didn't follow the maid.

He didn't follow the boy.

Their voices—the frantic shrieks of Yui Akari and the heavy gasps of the starving child

Shin whispered: (I just need to do what i think is right~~~)

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Became nothing more than background noise,

He turned his back on them and walked deeper into the mansion, his footsteps silent on the expensive rugs.

Every step he took was for better, according him at least .

The lights in the hallway flickered, and the air grew cold enough to frost the windows.

He was looking for something.

He didn't know what it was, but he knew something in in his chest would pull him toward it.

At the end of the long gallery, a set of double doors swung open.

Out stepped a man in a tailored suit. He looked sharp, powerful, and weary.

This was the Kid’s Father.

He was holding a phone, his face set in a mask of attitude, until he looked up and saw Shin.

He saw shin and his maid wearing shin jacket.

He saw the abyssal bruises under Shin's eyes.

The Father: (Who the hell are you?

How did you get past security?

And... why are you with that stupid son of mine)

Shin stopped.

He tilted his head 180 degrees—a movement no human could make—until his chin rested near his shoulder.

His regenerated face was perfect, but his expression was that of a dead doll.

Shin: (The creature... the soft shape... it is in the room with the Yui. It is Human.

It has Parents.

Are you the 'Parent'?)

The Father froze.

He got angered seeing someone get in his house then asking him something like this.....

The Father: (I don't know what you're babbling about, but you're trespassing. Guards! Someone get this freak out of here!)

Inside Shin's head, the wall of lead groaned.

The Father's voice—authoritative and loud—clashed with a muffled memory of a different father.

A father who was shot in an alley.

A father who was saved by death.

Shin Whispered: (Hey, you~~~human hear me before saying anything

I am a human just like you and i saw some windows who this maid called painting in that there was blue flower painting and seeing that now i am curious to know..

I mean~~~

You look like the painting.

But you are loud.

Why are you so loud when the blue flower is dying?)

Shin began to walk toward the Father.

With every step, he ask a question.

Shin: (I am looking for a 'Home.

You have one.

Tell me...

does it stay quiet?

Or do you also stop when the medicine runs out?)

The father said; (Ok, i am done with you but remember if you did anything weird in my house i would hesitate to kill you and also see what we got here~~~

he returned at last huh?

He sure is shameless...

After so much anger he showed me he comeback again tch~~~

I have some meetings i can't waste my time on this kid)

Suddenly, maid began to walk behind him...

And then while walking maid said,

Maid said; (Wait~~~ you can't go like this...

Don't leave your son like that)

But he ignorned her...

Shin watched the Father ignore the Maid’s pleas.

In his head many question begin rising

The metallic tang of doom grew so thick that the Father’s expensive suit began to smell like ozone and old blood.

Shin’s neck, still tilted at a horrific angle, slowly began to crack back into place with a series of wet, snapping sounds.

Shin Whispered: (Meeting...

Shameless...

These words are not like what i saw

instead they are like the dirt.

They cover the Home but they are not the 'Home.')

As the Father turned to walk away, dismissing the boy’s life for a phone call, something in Shin’s corrupted archive sparked.

Shin’s gaze locked onto the Father’s retreating back.

Again some vision appeared...

It was again the girl in front of shin....

She said ; (Hey, hear me~~~ shin sometimes those who act tough outside~~~ are softer inside

like you are, am i wrong?

No, right)

Vision disappeared and then....

He no longer saw a Powerful Man but a man who was same as said by her...

He remembered the Second Painting—the old man by the fire—and realized the fire was gone.

This man was cold like that too...

The fire is gone not the man...

Shin didn't walk; he flickered. In a blink, he was standing directly in front of the Father, blocking the path to the exit.

The air around Shin began to distort, making the Father’s focused on him.

Shin: (Wait... You said you wouldn't hesitate to kill me.

That is a lie.

You don't know how to kill.

You only know how to run because you have no longer the thing you had before

The blue flower or rather your loved one am i wrong?)

The father said; ( What the hell are you saying...

Are you crazy?

I am of course not~~~~ not

i am of course not~~~~~)

Shin said: (What is wrong?

You wanted to say you are not like that right?

But let's be honest we both know it is a lie you are same as that right?

The blue flower stops because it is sick.

But you... you are not sick. You are just... empty.

Tell me, Parent... if I break you, will you also have a medicine bottle? Or will you just be quiet like the paintings?)

Yui Akari stopped mid-step.

She saw Shin..

He was becoming a void.

She looked at the Father, then at Shin, her voice trembling.

Maid: (Please! Don't... don't do anything weird! He’s just... he’s always like this! He doesn't understand!)

The Father, finally feeling a prick of genuine, primal fear, tried to push past Shin.

The Father: (Get out of my way! I told you, I have no time for—)

Shin said: (Memories~~~)

The father asked : ( What?)

Shin said: (Memories, i have no memories of my past even i don't even know about the thing i am hearing

father, mother, maid i don't know anything about it and what they meant

But, still i have some feeling in my heart that is begging me to bring you back to the place where was blue flower..

If a flower is disappeared, it doesn't mean the garden also... some flowers can be disappeared sometimes but if we only caught up to one then we would never know how beautifuul was others also....

There was red,black,white and many colour flowers there but after blue flower disappeared it is okay to be sad for sometime but not visiting again because that was the place you lost it it doesn't make sense right?)

The whole room was in slience after listening to shin......

Shin said: ( You know i heard this from someone i don't even remember but i know she was someone special to me...

she said that sometimes the one who are tough outside~~~ are softer inside

And now i know what she meant..

You are like just that old man i saw in photo, parent....)

And then tears begin falling from the father eyes....

The father said: (You don't have any memories still you have some feelings from the girl who was special for you without even memories...

You are really someone i underestimated youn~~~g b~~~oy

I need to go Rest-room?

pardon me)

The father walked as fast he could to rest room....

Shin whispered: (Rest-room? Why do humans go to a small box to 'rest' when they have a mansion? Is it a place for the 'Sickness' to sleep?

I think he is running from me i will make him feel the way i wanted him to, today)

He begin walking toward the restroom and then while walking he heard some painful screams and crying voices from the rest room...

His breath didn't just hitch; it shattered.

Every intake of air was a jagged, desperate clawing at the throat, as if the oxygen itself had turned to glass

It was a rhythmic, convulsive shaking that started in his chest and vibrated through his teeth.

He wasn't just crying; he was being emptied out from the inside

Father's chest didn't just heave; it buckled.

A sound tore out of his throat that wasn't a roar, but a wet, collapsing "Hhh-ugh... ggggh... h-huuuu..."

It was the sound of a man who lost his blue flower.

His fingers dug into the wallpaper, tearing it away.

"Whh-ih... wh-iiiii..." > The high-pitched whine was the only thing left of his humanity.

He was screaming for her to be back...

Shin heard it, and then he knocked the door and said "If you are in pain let your loved one erased it

Let your son, maid erase it..

Let your loved one erased it.... ..that's all"

This words was from someone who don't remembered that once he was in worst way than kid's father now...

(.... said) : (So his memories are gone and now he is trying to live a happy life forgetting what he did, human sure have no respect inside them)

Volume 3 chapter 4 ended

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Also happy birthday to hina chono from blue box who was born on march 2 i forgot to wish yesterday so i am wishing now on march 3 to her.....

By the way, she is best in my heart after hoshina suabru