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[puellaregem]

Doctor,

I've had a possible insight on the matter I had you look into last week. The undertaker can get you access on my word, but I need you to bring her to handle toxicology. There may still be traces, but I don't trust anyone else to know what to look for.

S. will bring the car round within the hour. As always, you understand that this requires the utmost discretion.

Regards,
🐾

[ A message that was, quite obviously, intended for a different recipient. ]

Comments

[lordphantomhive]

And how do you tell it?

[puellaregem]

That he saved me when there was no other option left to me, and that my soul is a small price to pay in the end given the opportunity to avenge my parents with what time that bought me.

[ At least that's how the it's all supposed to go. ]

...Not that that's a story I often have opportunity to tell.

[lordphantomhive]

Interesting that he chose to continue to prey on this lineage. What became of your parents?

[puellaregem]

I suppose we're an easy food supply. Or— maybe by now we're like pets to him. He's never been especially forthcoming about his reasons.

[ Now less than ever. ]

They were killed when I was eight. Some... entity or organization targeted my family with intent to wipe out our entire lineage, and if not for Sebastian, they would have succeeded.

[lordphantomhive]

I find it... strange and unnervingly coincidental that our situations are so similar. It seems almost staged.

[puellaregem]

...Staged by whom, in that case? And for that matter, to what end?

[leopatraofficial]

idk how well it holds up when ur real but its prolly bc ur from a spinoff movie of the manga u_u

[puellaregem]

Maybe in your universe that explains it away as plot convenience, but unless you know who's responsible in mine, that doesn't help at all.

[leopatraofficial]

ur movie never got a sequel so idk :x

[puellaregem]

[ Yikes. ]

[leopatraofficial]

[Sorry...]

[lordphantomhive]

[ ...what? ]

S. Obviously. There is no one else who has been involved with our family line for this long, or who would have the knowledge to do so. Has Rin answered regarding her family's history?

Each family head has dealt with him, according to you. You then stated that 'if not for Sebastian', they would have succeeded in wiping out your family and that he 'saved' you, but for your own story, your father must have had a deal with him at the time your family was wiped out by an 'entity' (or 'organisation' otherwise, though this seems unlikely at this point) and you were left with S. as your only option to move forward. Elaborate on these things.

[ Kiyoharu can't seriously be this naïve. ]

[puellaregem]

Her family came to Japan with mine. According to her, one of her ancestors owed the Earl Phantomhive an incredible debt, and swore to always protect the Earl's family to repay him for his kindness. She doesn't know the precise details, but that may have been your Mey-Rin.

[ ...Which is aside from the point. ]

My father wasn't in a contract with S when he died. S had a deal with my grandfather when my father was young, but I was the next to summon him after that. My parents were killed by assassins, and I have proof that they were at least connected to an organization involved in a recent case of human trafficking and chemical warfare. My aunt had been involved with the hit on my family, and she was conspiring with very real people. Whether or not she knew who the order had come from, she died before I could learn anything more than that.

Besides, he could hardly fulfill a contract to kill the person responsible for my parents' murders as the person responsible for my parents' murders. And if he was planning to eventually break the contract, he already had the opportunity and didn't take it.

[lordphantomhive]

[ Good grief. He'll respond to the rest of this later, but... ]

Are you married with children, Kiyoharu?

[puellaregem]

No.

[ And she can take a hint, thank you. ]

And I'm not going to be. Maybe married, if something is arranged, but... If you mean to say the point of this is simply to preserve the Phantomhive bloodline, there's nothing he can do to stop that ending with me. At least in terms of genetics.

[lordphantomhive]

Why? Is there something wrong with you?

[puellaregem]

[ Not the subtlest, is he? ]

...I can't have children, no.

[ At least not sire one, and the alternative is... completely out of the question. For multiple reasons. ]

It wouldn't be impossible to fool everyone else when it comes to having an heir to inherit the Earldom, but he wouldn't be my descendant by blood.

[lordphantomhive]

Why can't you? Why aren't you betrothed?

[puellaregem]

Why does that matter? It isn't as if you could do anything about it either.

[ Who would want to give details about that sort of thing in front of a cross-dimensional host of strangers, anyway? ]

And we're not in the practice of betrothals from birth anymore. I suppose I'm old enough now that her Majesty will probably select a suitable wife for me relatively soon, though my father was in his twenties already before his marriage was settled.

[lordphantomhive]

How do you know you cannot have children if you aren't betrothed or married?

[puellaregem]

...Because it's a medical matter.

[ Of a sort. It's a small miracle that Fiona hasn't swooped in with "spoilers." ]

[lordphantomhive]

Of what sort?

[puellaregem]

[ This is unbelievable. ]

A sort I don't want to disclose in detail to an audience. Why does it matter so much to you?

[leopatraofficial]

[Not a snitch. u_u]

[lordphantomhive]

[ Wow. Now you're not a snitch? ]