A very difficult question.

Celty was already in front of him and unknowingly, no, subconscious reflexes bro, yeah, it was just a reflex; he had spread his arms and received Celty’s passionate embrace.

Celty crashed at him and the arms that were hugging him was, for some reason very tight. If it was a normal person with a more normal body, Allen felt he would be crushed in an instant.

It seems like she had really missed him...

However, unfortunately, Allen's way was always; an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth!

At this very moment,

Pierced!

Celty’s body trembled. She shot Allen a shock and dumbfounded expression. Her eyes colored with disbelief.

The hands that were hugging Allen let go as she stepped back in a daze. When she looked down, she saw Allen’s hand turned into a dark-blue colored draconic claw, piercing her abdomen. Blood splattered in his arm and it dripped on the floor with a 'Pop! Pop!' similar to the sound made by a clock...

Celty felt it was the sound of the clock of her life tickling and it coming to an end...

“W, Why…?” She muttered as she raised her head and stared at Allen. Tears continued to fall from her eyes. But there was no hate, only sorrow, and intense sadness.

Even if Allen killed her at this moment, she wouldn't hate him. She just felt hurt and sad...

Allen, on the other hand, has still his usual calm and indifferent expression. He looked at her. His lips gradually turned into a gentle smile.

“Payback,” Allen mused as he pulled his claw from her body.

“Ah!” Hearing Allen’s words, Celty’s pained expression suddenly turned into that of understanding. Her eyes softened and a smile bloomed on her face. “I see,”

That was the only thing she muttered before she closed her eyes and fell. She looked like a marionette with her strings cut. Did she faint from shock and pain...?

“What a silly woman…” Allen muttered bitterly. Allen caught Celty’s falling body and carried it.

At this moment,

“Ah!!” A Cling! Clang! rang out.

In the door, the young servant stared at Allen with wide open eyes. Blood drained from her face.

What she saw greatly terrified her. Allen standing up, his hands turned into a draconic claw, blood dripping and in his hands, a woman with blue lizard skin, unconscious, with a bloody wound on her abdomen, probably dead…

Did she just witness a crime in broad daylight!!?

Oh my God!!

She really did return at a good moment. Allen smiled bitterly.

“Clean that up and entered the room, oh and don’t forget to close the door,” Allen ordered as he carried Celty’s body and laid it down on the couch.

“Y, young, m, master! I, I, I didn’t see a, anything, I, I promise…” She began to stammer and tears started falling.

Her expression was as if she had just heard that the world is going to end tomorrow. She was really scared... damn who would not? She only has two ends now - according to the Movies she saw.

Accomplice or Silence by death... The young servant felt her knees gone weak and limp.

“Hush, just do what I said,” Allen spoke again, greatly terrified the young girl.

“Ye-yes!” With face looking like she was digging her own grave, the young servant slowly cleaned the fallen tray while apologizing to her mother for her short life.

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Grandfather, Grandmother I’m coming to you now… please take care of me from now on…

She really had a huge misunderstanding about Allen!

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For a long time, there was silence inside the room. The large white-faced clock seemed to tick over-loudly as Allen was sitting on the couch looking bored.

In front of him, sitting on the opposite side was a young girl with an expression as if she was going to her execution ground. Drops of tears silently fall from her eyes and her face was almost drained and seems to be suffering from blood loss.

She had seen something she shouldn’t. Thinking about the movies she had seen before, the young girl was extremely terrified she almost wants to pee her pants. Fortunately, she hasn’t drunk any liquid yet or else she would have done so, a long time ago.

She was bailing and crying a while ago but after being scolded by Allen, she instantly shut up. Her face depressed, sniffing while trying hard to stop her tears from falling and crying again.

She looked like a small kid that has done something very bad in front of her parents.

She had waited in silence.

Allen, on the other hand, was stroking the blue-skinned woman’s head tenderly and his crimson eyes stared musingly into space. The blue-skinned woman right now was lying on the couch with her head on Allen’s lap, unconscious.

The scared young servant raised her face and looked at the handsome youth of about the age of twenty in front of her – though Allen was actually only around 16 – 17 years old.

He had a strange dark grey skin which looked unnatural and beautiful silver hair that had reached to his shoulders. Unfortunately fortunate, he seemed to have a pair of bewitching, seductive beautiful crimson eyes like peach blossoms that seemed to draw you in.

Despite his strange dark colored skin, he’s scarily handsome… almost seemed perfect.

She had heard before that high-level Superhumans tend to be very handsome and beautiful unlike normal humans, showing how they had already broken through human limitations. But, Allen’s appearance seemed to be exaggerated, isn’t it?

Thinking about this, somehow her fear alleviated a bit.

Seeing the young servant staring at him in a daze, Allen turned his head and grinned, saying: “I know that I am very outstanding, but if you keep staring at me like that, I will still be embarrassed.”

The young servant awoke from her daze, flushing red in embarrassment and hastily looked down her gaze.

Eventually, a radiant smile – the one the young girl found extremely unfair since, like her other co-workers in the Mansion, she would be enchanted to it like a moth to a flame – suffused his face like a beaming halo.

At this moment, the fourth and last person aside from the three people sighed and said, “Don’t tease the girl too much, Allen. You’re making my head hurts,”

Allen turned his head with an amused expression towards the woman sitting beside the cowering young servant, “She’s just too cute to tease,”

The woman let out a fed up sighed. She was none other than Ye Yuesheng.

Allen called her since she had a healing type ability. He asked her to fix up Celty who he had just made a hole in the stomach just now.

He was never intending to kill her… he doesn’t know what ‘Allen’ will do in this kind of situation but he wasn’t him. At least, he wasn’t the type of person to kill someone who loved him so easily.

This wasn’t a revenge novel nor would he fall too deep and acts like a dark hero in a revenge plot story.

Whatever she did to him, can always be paid back with some other things… other than killing.

... And making a hole in her stomach was one of them…

An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.

That was just a payback…

As long as she can be redeemable, he would accept her with open arms…

He is a very cruel and merciless towards his enemy but for those who had nothing but love to him, second chances are never something to be stingy for.

Allen’s words shook the young servant in embarrassment. She didn’t dare to raise her head and look at Allen, afraid to see her beet red face that was completely different from the one a while ago.

Ye Yuesheng couldn’t help but stare at him, secretly critiquing to herself: This fellow why does he have such a gigolo face and character? They say handsome gigolos like that do not have good intentions, one look at him and I can tell he is a bad egg – Though she also fell for it…

Ye Yuesheng sighed helplessly. She truly wondered about the world’s twisted nature.

Well, they did say women are suckers for bad boy type kind of guys. She wasn’t an exception.

Ye Yuesheng was chosen out of all the people Allen knows who had a healing type ability because he can’t let others see Celty nor would he show them what he just did. It would create a bad image of him.

His perfect and kindly image would be destroyed if something like this goes out~

Even though he was indifferent to others but, he was actually mindful about his image in front of the people he loved.

Especially to his sister; Layla and Mother, Aemie.

He can’t show them how easily he had stabbed a defenseless girl or his good and upright reputation will be tainted – well if ever he has one. As for Mia, he just doesn’t know how to present Celty without that girl going commando…

He knows, no, he had realized a long time ago how that girl hated Celty for what she did to him. It’s not really that difficult to guess it.

Just one look at her and understand her character, anyone with a mind would be able to guess what she would do to a traitor like Celty… in any case, she did kill Keneth so easily…

She had already a precedent in how she dealt with traitors...

So, Ye Yuesheng was the best choice he currently had. In any case, she was one of the people he can show his real self without caring about it.

Allen trust Ye Yueshing completely and he believes that even if he was a bit, just a bit evil and wicked - Just like Mia and the others, she would still accept him wholeheartedly.