Evanescent [GI Kaeya x Reader x Diluc]

8. Victims

"Anwyll, my dear brother."

"Y-Y/n..."

The time had ticked to day. She's in the Headquarters, paying a small visit to her dear brother (whose luck wasn't the best right now).

"I thought I've told you to quit that stingy job five years ago."

"W-wow, you actually remember that? As expe一ow! Ow!"

She pulled his ear harder to the other side of the iron bar as she let her e/c glared as however they liked. "Please let me go! Please!" the man begged, but that didn't stop her from pulling harder. "And how come you're involved with these weird cases? Sexually assaulted a maid, stealing a diamond, destroying the chamber... just what the hell一" The merciless Y/n yelled to the other side of the prison bars.

Just this morning, she got an information about the criminal activity her brother had done, causing her in dismay. What a way to start a day, huh?

"I-I swear it wasn't me. I'm y-your brother. Y-you know that一ow! Ow! Let me go! You're going to rip it off!"

"Who cares! I've told you to be aware! Just keep adding more burden to me, okay!?"

He winced in pain as she pulled his ear harder than before, his face made a contact with the cold iron bar in result of her pulling. "Hey! Keep it dow一"

She turned her head to look at the knight who shrunk just by her stares, even though she wasn't glaring or anything. She let go of the ear, earning a relief sigh from the older man, which ended in a second.

"Anwyll."

The poor man moved his gaze slowly, smiling nervously一which turned to a crook smile. "Y-yes?" In his heart, he was praying twice harder for his freedom, twice harder for his injuries, hoping for Y/n's mercy. "One more crime scene, I'll be having a small talk. Got that?"

If you asked Anwyll who's more fierce, the answer would be clear: Y/n. Anwyll gulped in fear, nodding his head with a slight anxious that followed. "O-of course." Y/n nodded her head, even though she was still displeased.

"Head Commander, the time is over."

She didn't move nor pay any attention to the person that announced. The h/c strands fell, covering some part of her face whilst she was lost in deep thought. "Y/n, I-I think I know who actually did it." Anwyll's nervous voice rang to her ears, immediately catching her attention.

"Who?"

****

The glossy e/c glistened to every details she could find一starting by how the grass was neatly cut and how the green the place was. Her heart skipped a beat in nervous as she held the paper in her hands nervously.

It took her awhile to regain what she had lost一sanity and patience. She shuffled her feet, trying to calm her down while fiddling with some strands of h/c. The document on her hand crinkled up as she had hold it too tight. Anxious risen with every steps she took to get closer to the man that was smiling in delight with his fiancee一soon to be wife.

She didn't know why her chest tightened by the sight. Maybe the memory that passed by her head like some carriege一"When we have enough money, let's go travel around Tevyat together." Maybe that promise still had her hopes high up. Her father came into view, she bit her lips, trying to control the heart that beat uncontrollably.