"It's smells!"

The young boy said with dissatisfied look, but the girl who's holding the young boy's hand didn't stop from pulling him.

"It is the meat market, of course it's smells!"

The girl is glancing at the boy behind her.

"You said that you would take me somewhere nice..."

"This is it! Around this time at the year are when the meats price turn cheaper! You can study about something here!"

The young girl stare at the boy as if she is showing something nice to him.

While pouting, the young boy murmuring only he can hear.

"I thought...It was a date..."

"Did you said something?"

"N-nothing!"

Watch the boy still pouting, the girl give a light sight and stop their track.

"Although, I'm taking you here for your own sake...Do you hate it that much?"

Seemingly disheartened, the girl cast down her eyes. Realizing that he might sadden her, the young boy starting to get panic.

"N-no! I didn't! Even it isn't exactly the same as my expectation, anywhere you take me, I will definitely...um...h-happy!"

Looking how flustered the boy was, the girl unconsciously smile.

"My mother always tell me that a good lord will learn his citizen's daily life. Since you already ten and soon, you will be take your father position as the city lord, I thought it would be good for you to learn how people work at the market for study purpose....Then maybe, my parents can see how different you are from your parents"

The young boy could see the worries in the girl's eyes as she talk.

"...Did your parents said something about me again?"

The girl stay silent but directing sorrowful glance to the boy, that act alone, answer his question. It wasn't the first time the girl's parents talk badly about him. It's because young boy's parent wasn't really a good people. Many of the citizen hate his family, that is something that he aware of ever since he was lost at the market years ago. At the same time, he met the girl in front of him. The only person who willing to stop and help him find his home.

"Hmp! It is the usual. 'Don't play with the lord's son', 'If you offend him, our heads will fly'~”

The girl is imitating her parent’s way of talk in silly manner, making the previously sad young boy hardly hold his laughter.

“etc, etc. It is so...so... SO DAMN ANNOYING!"

The girl sudden outburst startle the little boy.

"I keep telling them that you are different, but they didn't believe me! It is so frustrating"

At the frustrate girl, he couldn't help himself and end up laugh

"Fuhuhuhu"

"It isn't a laughing matter you know! I'm serious!"

"I know, but I just can't help myself knowing how deeply you care about me"

Even though it isn't her problem, somehow she end up as the one who get stressed over it.

"WHA-!"

The girl end up dyed her face red hearing the boys words. As if hiding her embarrassment, she pinch the boy's cheek.

"Y-you cheeky little boy!"

"A-Wawa! Husrt!"

"For so you know! I-..."

The girl suddenly turn silent for a moment before she gather up her courage and let out her feeling.

"...I like you, so of course I care about you...stupid..."

Feeling shy but expecting a reply, she take a peek at him.

"...I-I'm feeling sick..."

While covering his mouth, the young boy look pale, green and blue at the same time.

"W-wa! If you didn't like me just say so! No need to take that far!"

The girl yell angrily and yet seemingly in verge of tears at the boy's reaction.

"N-not that...The blood...too much blood...Urgh!"

At the place he is pointing, she notice that the butcher is draining the blood out from the livestock. After that, he take out a bird and cuts it's head, sending the blood sprouting all over the stall.

"!Hahaa..."

At the horrible bloody sight, he feel on his knee unconscious.

"W-wait, don't-! Ah, geez!"

At the end, she carried him with piggy back style to their usual spot at the hill. While giving him a lap pillow, the girl put her soaked handkerchief at his head.

"You really can't stand blood don't you"

"T-they are too much for me"

“If you can’t stand the blood, how can you go to the war and protect us, stupid”

Although the girl talk harshly, her worries is genuinely plaster all over her face.

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In the future, the young boy will be the lord of the town, participating in royal academy as the knight-in-training for possible war is what nobles do.

“I will find a way to protect you without shedding any blood!”

"*sigh*..Really, you are just too nice...just don’t die okay, or I will pinch your cheek real hard until they peel off!"

At the girl’s threat, he instantly hold both cheeks under his hand as if he is hiding it from dangerous predator.

The girl end up laugh softly at the boy’s action.

After that, they both grows quite as the wind blows away the girl's long blue hair. The young boy, silently looking at her while pretend closing his eyes. Mesmerized by her, even after feeling sick and unconscious, he didn't regret coming with her.

A few hours has pass, not a single words exchange between the two until the girl decide to break the silent.

"...Feeling better now?"

"...Yes"

"Let's go home then"

"Okay"

While walking back and holding hands, the boys grip tighten and with a single breath, he call the girls name.

"Lia"

"Yea?"

"I like you too"

"...stu~pid!"

The shy smile she showed at him that time, with her cheek red and the sunset shines at her is the most beautiful smile he ever see.

At the age of 10, William Lacota Lispergue secretly vow to himself.

'I will protect that smile for the rest of my life'

Sadly, that vow didn't come true. He lost his beloved, driven by hatred and fall into madness.

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A tears falling down from his cheek and wakes him up. His sweet dream end with nightmare.

"Are you alright master? Did you have a nightmare?"

The woman he love asked him in gentle manner as she standing near him look concern.

"Ah, I'm alright"

He reply, reassuring her

"Are you sure?"

Looking at those worried eyes, he smiled weakly, his twisted mind just can't suppress the urge to tease her.

"I was dreaming on how you suddenly force yourself on me, Cordelia"

"Eh?"

"I was saying 'no, no, don't do this, at least in the bedroom, not in the public!' and yet you ignore me and push me down, tearing my clothes in middle of town"

"W-Wa-what?!"

"And then while straddling me, with a very delicate moves, you shed your clothes piece by piece until-"

Before the young man finished, the young maid cover his mouth with face redder than blood. She glare to her master as if she is being wronged. Tears welling up but not being shed, she look angry but only give an impression cute and pitiful.

Her master smiles more widely over the appearance of his adorable maid and under her hands, he planted a kiss follow by a lick from his tongue.

"!?"

When you think that the maid's face can not be any redder, the maid face flushes even more and give out a steam as if her face almost blown up from embarrassment.

"Now you just enticed me my dear"

Said the youth as he take hold of her both hands while his other hands starting to trails down her clothes

"M-master!"

He always want to bully her...even back then, he always dream to make her cry under him. Only, in his dream, instead of the current way she calls him, the girl in his past dream will lovingly and intimately cries his childhood name...

"Call me Will, please...my sweet Lia..."

Being stared by eyes full of sorrow, as if he want to cry...the maid can only comply to his request as she look at him dearly.

"Will..."

And he quickly plant kiss to her small lips the moment his name came out...another, another and another kisses to follow while it slowly deepen more and more.

"Don't ever leave me again"

Whisper him as if he is pleading full of desperation.

"You are my master...I will never leave you"

Reply the girl with feverish voice, his hand tickle her ear then trail to her cheek.

"Lia, my dear Lia, my sweet Lia, you are my only reason in this world...never ever leave me again...even until death came upon our soul"

The man's voices slowly drowned by sounds of kisses...and they continue until sun comes out the next morning.

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As the young master and his maid busy themselves, a single young teen demon standing at the front door, eavesdropping

"I see, 'Look at her eyes with face full of sorrow while plead and confess your love', note taken"

The other butlers and maids having hard time to pull the young demon away, afraid disturbing their master's love making session. But when the young demon give them the similar smile as their master, no one dare to disturb the demon from standing in front of their master's room again. The smile is just to horrifying.

"'Hold her both hands up and trail you finger'...I wonder if I can use the same strategy with Rune later"

The young demon murmur while walk away with the little note in hand.