Lover Behavior (Floyd Leech/Yuu)

15 ~ A Kiss

⚠️ HEAVY GORE WARNING FOR THIS CHAPTER ⚠️ READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION ⚠️

A smile tugged at Floyd's lips as he saw Yuu and Grim heading back to Ramshackle, just as Ace said they would. He looked down at his tingling fingers to see that he was reappearing. 'Perfect timing.'

He snuck up behind them and grabbed Grim from Yuu's shoulder, making both of them shriek in surprise and terror. "Guess what I'm gonna do today, Shrimpy~?"

Grim struggled in Floyd's grasp and both he and Yuu seemed to register what was going on at the same time. Yuu grabbed Grim, though Floyd held tight to him. "You can't! Floyd, you can't! In such an open area? You'll get caught!" She was trying to say the most sensible things to deter him, and Grim was shooting fire magic left and right, but Floyd only laughed it off and deflected it.

"That's what's the best about this place!" he laughed, squeezing Grim tighter. "It's open, so there's no security cameras, and there's no one around for miles~!"

Yuu scratched at his wrists, tried kicking him, punching him, and whacking him with the books she'd had on her, but to no avail. Floyd only laughed at any attempt to save Grim, who he was only squeezing tighter with every second. Crackling noises could be heard from Grim's ribs.

"Say, you think if I squeeze Sealie-o hard enough, he'll pop~?" Floyd had a maniacal glint in his eyes, a look more intense than any she'd ever seen before. It dawned on her then: he really was planning on killing her only other dorm-mate, her best friend, her other half (in a literal sense, according to the school's files), right here and now in front of her.

She willed herself to try and think rationally and remembered the pocket knife that Ace had slipped into her bag the other day. "If you really plan on staying with that crazy sicko, you'd better keep this on you at all times," he said, and she had never been more grateful for Ace.

"Floyd, please don't," she pleaded once again, though she obscured one hand to reach for the knife. "I'll never forgive you if you do!" She didn't have to fake the desperation in her voice; she knew a tiny knife probably wouldn't do much good against Floyd, but she couldn't just stand here helplessly.

"Don't worry, Lil' Shrimpy, we can be together after this! Just the two of us~"

'Now!'

She moved as quickly as she could and plunged the knife into Floyd's hand with as much force as she could, making him falter just enough so she could grab Grim and start running as fast as she could back towards campus.

"If I can just make it back..!" she wheezed, trying her best to stay encouraged, to push forward despite how futile it seemed. Grim started hacking up blood once he'd been allowed oxygen again, but at least he was alive for the time being. She just needed to get him to help, and...

"Gotcha."

Floyd giggled in her ear as he lifted her up off of the ground from behind, his arms around her waist as he squeezed her tightly. "I'll be taking that back now~"

He grabbed Grim back and waved his pen at Yuu, somehow causing her to collapse and be unable to move her legs. "Yuu!" Grim cried with panic, and she couldn't do anything but cry his name back in response. She could only watch in horror as the murder unfolded before her.

With so much force that it broke through the old stone bricks on the ground, Floyd slammed Grim to the ground. Over and over and over again. With every slam, more and more red stained Floyd's clothes, and Grim grew more and more unrecognizable, his body mutilated by the repetitive force.

And Floyd laughed. He laughed as he slammed the small, limp, dead figure to the ground and once he got bored of that, he began violently dismembering him with his bare hands, even more blood messily splashing onto his clothing as he tugged Grim's limbs off of his body as easily as one would remove a tag from a new piece of clothing.

Once he was done, all that was left was a pile of sticky, crimson fur, cracked stone, lumps of what could only be brain matter, and bones that were more crushed than seemed possible. He was disfigured beyond recognition.

Floyd picked up something from the pile, having to snap off a piece of pink skin that stubbornly stretched to keep the body part attached to the rest of him, and shoved it in Yuu's face. A horrified noise escape her and she vomited all over the ground in front of her, unable to cope with the realization.

It was Grim's head; the sunken eye sockets that seemed to have more debris in them than his actual eyes, his disfigured snout that was pressed much deeper into his face than it should've been, his mangled mouth that only had one or two teeth in their rightful locations while the rest were crammed into various nearby spots-one had actually wedged itself right next to his eye, just barely avoiding piercing it.

He ran a hand through her hair gently. "There, there~" He whispered consolingly. "It'll be okay~" He moved Grim's grisly head to hers, smearing her cheek with his bloody remains. "Look, he's giving you a kiss~!"

Her breathing quickened and she began hyperventilating, unable to focus on anything anymore. She brought her hands to her ears and allowed her vision to unfocus as she dissolved into a mess of salty tears and loud sobs of anguish.

It was only when Floyd had wrapped her arms around her that she found herself able to ground herself. She smacked him off of her and realized, with surprise, that he was completely clean. She turned to where Grim's body used to be, but it, too, was gone. Even the stone that had been broken was repaired.

"Wh-Where did you put him?" she managed to get out, her tears still flowing and her breathing still rapid. He rubbed his hand on her back in circles, kissing her forehead. "I buried him behind Ramshackle. Thought you might like that~"

He made gentle shushing noises in her as he rocked her tenderly in his arms. "Shhh... it's okay~ You're okay~"

Floyd tried to suppress his joy because he could tell how upset Yuu was, but he couldn't help but feel ecstatic. 'Lil' Sealie's finally out of the way~' As he planted another kiss on the top of her head, he wondered if she would react the same way if he was brutally murdered in front of her.

'Probably not, at this point,' he thought to himself. 'But don't worry, Lil' Shrimpy, I'll make sure you love me again.'

A/N: I had to fight the urge to include the line "his body shared a close resemblance to Lilia's cooking" 💀