Hunting the Creator

Chapter 6 Choosing A Suiter

The week had gone by boorish for Furo’s liking, his tutor was boring, and always tried to get him to talk, much so to his displeasure, and even when he spoke of his dislikes about his own tutor, the man would simply smile at him as if seeing him mad was amusing. Furo wasn’t a person to be taken lightly, not with his experience, he will put this idiot in his place soon.

‘I’ll get rid of him as well.’ He thought with distaste, until he thought of something brilliant, Sekimoto is exceptionally good looking, in fact, his good looks would even be said to surpass the male lead in Furo’s eyes. Sekimoto is a well suitor for his sister, all he needed to do was find out about his background, through hook or through crook.

But then again, he hated doing work now that he had a will of his own, so he simply called up his system.

‘Find out everything you have on this Sekimoto Mikuni for me.’ He commanded and right as he finished his sentence, not a single second later a reply was heard loud and clear.

[Yes, my Lord.]

The system had left and Furo laid back, watching the birds fly away. It was a beautiful evening, the clouds floated their merry way, the birds were finishing the hunting. The cool breeze felt nice on his skin, letting a nice chill run down his back.

“Mr. Kenshi, we aren’t finished yet.” Sekimoto spoke up with a sigh at his stubborn student. “How about we take a break?”

“Yes, that would be greatly appreciated.” Furo spoke with a tired tone, his golden eyes were now staring in interest at his tutor.

“Is there something on your mind?” Sekimoto spoke as he drank at the glass of lemonade grangran had made for them.

“What do you do for a living?” He blurted out, he did not really care if Sekimoto told the truth, either way he was going to find out from the system. He wondered though, he was lazy to speak yet still spoke, why?

“I’m the CEO of the most prestigious company named Garama co.” He replied with astonishing results, he did not know why but he wanted to impress this little student of his that did not show much emotion.

“That’s it?” Furo raised a brow with a small frown. “You’ll have to do then.” He said with an unimpressed look. “This lecture is over; I need to do my stretches soon.”

“If you’d like to, I can assist you with your stretches?” Sekimoto replied as he set down his teaching materials.

“You?” Furo looked like he was pondering for a moment, if Sekimoto was to be his brother-in-law soon then that meant he needed to do everything for his sister, the first thing being a good helper. With his mind made up he nodded slightly. “Alright, if it's not too much trouble.”

Sekimoto didn’t expect that his student would agree, but soon enough he snapped out of his daze and got to work. His large hands set firmly against Furo’s slender legs, his other against his back and he pushed forward, he heard Furo groan slightly, making him freeze. “Does that hurt?”

“N-No, keep going.” Changing position, Furo was now standing, and began to lean backward, but only slightly as he didn't have stable balance.

Sekimoto noticed and quickly settled his hand on his lower back and pressed down. “Take a deep breath, we wouldn’t want you to pass out.”

“I... Know.” Furo sighed out as he let out a small moan, at the stretched muscle.

After a good thirty minutes, Sekimoto seemed to have left quite quickly, leaving Furo with a confused look. “Guess he needed to take a dump or something.”

He soon left his back porch as Sekimoto Mikuni with a yawn and entered his room, pondering about his tutor deeply. Roma Hoku is currently CEO of the world's second most powerful company named Hoku co, the first is Garama co which is still standing stronger than ever, if he was correct then that meant his sister will be both wealthy and protected if she marries Sekimoto.

“Yeah, you’ll have to do.” Furo mumbled under his breath.

=⁠_⁠=

Sekimoto was sitting on the outside steps, his figure frozen ever since he left Furo there after his stretches and strange confession. Or so he thought it was a confession, even if they had only met a week ago. He wasn’t so sure what he felt for this cute student of his, all he knew was that he wasn’t allowed to touch, not until next year that is, when cute little Furo turned eighteen. His dark blue eyes seemed to think too deeply about something, something that would have Furo blushing like mad, even with his experience.

“Strange.” He simply said as his figure finally relaxed, looking back to the door on the house which Furo lived in. “Accepted.” Then he left.

=⁠_⁠=

For the next couple of weeks, the two came to an understanding with each other. Although one was sure that the other had confessed, the other has been testing the CEO if he was husband material. It was odd random questions and hums that he would make during their time both studying and teaching, it would always bring amusement to Sekimoto, he would always answer truthfully to the bizarre questions;

Are you single?

Yes.

How much money do you make?

A lot.

Are you protective of your lovers?

I believe I am.

How tall are you?

7’2

What is your current education, never mind that doesn’t matter. If you were to be put in a situation where you must choose money or your lover what would you choose?

Lover.

What is your ideal date?

Whatever my lover wants.

Would you get rid of the people that wrong your lover?

Yes.

Hn.

But one question that he had never asked this hidden boss was the fact that why he was tutoring a seventeen-year-old child with the mindset of a seven-year-old? Whatever it was, it was in Furo’s favor, to have this CEO as his brother-in-law would set his future solid.

The questions, or more like interrogation, went on through the six hours and three days they would have together.

Why three days?

Because of Furo’s amazing learning ability, and with that ability Sekimoto had loaded him with pounds of homework.

In return Furo would occasionally curse at Sekimoto in front of him or not, either way he didn’t care which cause incredible joy in the tutor.

[My Lord.] The system spoke up with its usual monotone voice.

‘What did you find out.’ Furo thought about the system, he folded and opened his index finger, revealing the system as he flipped through his homework.

[Sekimoto Mikuni, 24 years old, father and mother both diseased, leaving him to inherit the company at an early age of fifteen. He, as far as I could dig up, has never touched any other person physically. He spends his time reading outside of his private condominium in his free time and would spend the rest of his time working. He likes well done eggs and his favorite ice cream is chocolate… The reason he has taken up this odd job was because back in his college days he had used his free time to tutor other students when he was fourteen and had put flyers everywhere. The number was his personal phone and he had thought there were no more flyers up after years had passed. He took it up because he was getting bored… that is all my Lord.]

‘Then that means he’s wasting time on teaching an orphan school material instead of running a company?’ Furo thought is disbelief.

[More or less my Lord, he had nothing else to do, all of his work has been done for the next three months, and has no more work, instead of spending it alone in his vacation home at the Bahamas he decided to accept the tutoring position from a call he had suddenly received during the end of his workout routine.]

‘That still doesn’t make sense, does he have any ulterior motives?’

[From what I was able to find out, he does not have any ill intentions, and he has never been in any kind of scandals or trouble.]

‘I guess he’s just a weirdo then’ Furo finally declared and pushed it to the back of his mind.

During his break time without Sekimoto, he was able to spend time with his older sister when she had free time as well. It was the little subtle movements he made around the male lead that was noted by his sister, and little by little her distance towards the male lead grew as the dates went on.

Whatever the male lead would do, Mina wouldn't even hold his hand anymore, he tried to give her gifts and try to go on dates, but whatever he tried Mina saw it as him trying to buy her.

“Big sister.” Furo asked one day as they were currently taking a day off from schoolwork and spending some sibling quality time together.

“Yes?” Mina looked over to her handsome little brother who was filling in the malnutrition splendidly.

They were currently out at the strip mall; an outside mall where multiple chains of different stores were spread apart selling all kinds of things from selling vacuums to selling puppies or even food.

“What do you see in Mr. Hoku?” He asked, making sure that when he spoke the name to have a bit of fright in his eyes.

“He’s just a friend, he on his own made me his girlfriend, I didn’t reject because he wasn’t doing anything inappropriate or getting in my way of my study, but recently…” She looked unsure, gaining a small grin from Furo internally. “I want to ask you something.”

“What is it?” Furo tilted his head to the side in wonder.

“The day he had called me when you had fainted.” Mina noted the visible flinch from her brother, making him recall something horrible as his face became even more pale, sickly pale.

“I don’t know- I was- it was the air.” He stuttered as he tried to explain, a nervous laugh escaping his lips.

“Please tell me the truth, what happened?” She urged on, minutes seemed to pass like hours, until Furo was ready to say what had happened on that fateful day.

“He choked me.” His voice was soft, and the corner of his eyes threatening to let loose tears he was so hard in trying to keep in, his hand lifted, trembling as he caressed his already healed neck.

“What.” Mina said in a whisper, hearing clear as day even if he was whispering, the busy streets around her had become nonexistent as she heard his voice.

Her heart clenched, she had let her brother close to a man that she herself didn’t know too personally since he didn’t talk about himself and didn’t look like a bad guy. One of the many reasons as to why you should not judge a book by its cover.

To think her little brother had tried to not show his terrified look every time they had all gone out to hang out together. She was naïve, she had thought she knew Roma, he was a nice man when he was around her… Only when he was around her. But what did he do when she wasn’t around? Gosh she was such an idiot, just when everything began to click together and become whole again, there was always another factor that comes in and mess everything up. This time it was a shady man who presented himself as if perfect in every way.

But no one is perfect.

“Why would he do that?” Mina said as the two sat down on a bench, somewhere where there wouldn’t be anyone to hear.

“I don’t- I don’t know, one moment I was- I was talking about how much fun we had together and-and-and the next his hand was wrapped around my throat, cutting off my air supply. He- he threatened me to stay away- away from you. That once I turn eighteen, he will make- make me disappear.” He whimpered, his body trembling, his eyes shut close, he looked like he wanted to hide away.

He took out his phone and played a recording, it was the recording that had a sentence recorded when he was having dinner with Roma. With a trembling finger he pressed play. “I can get rid of you and make it look like an accident.” Roma’s voice rang out through the recording, it was laced with venom and rage, a little voice modification always did the trick here, if he had a phrase of the voice from the original person, it was child’s play.

“Oh my God!” Mina herself was sobbing and clenched her brother’s body to her own, she could not believe that she knew such a horrible monster. “Don’t worry, he won’t come near us ever again, I promise you that!” Mina cried with her innocent brother. How could someone be so despicable? How could someone talk to another human being in such an evil and cynical way? Especially when that human was a little boy trapped in a teenager's body.

After a couple of minutes, the two pulled apart and decided to make this day an indoors day, they headed back to their grandparents' home. As they walked Furo called out to the system. ‘Where’s the male lead now?’

[Currently unable to understand why Mina is ignoring him, and placing all the blame on you, my Lord.] The system replied readily.

‘Perfect, and the Villain? Where?’

[The villain is currently following both my Lord and female lead, trying to find the perfect opportunity to strike.]

‘Good, just make sure he doesn’t get too close.’ During the week he had the system monitor the villain ever since he left the hospital.