GOD CHILD vol. 13
Zigeunerweisen (part I)

this story is translated by (slightly amended by me, Corky) please applaud for Ryoko!!
Ryouko, you are my saviour , arigato gozaimesu thx, Ryoko chan!

pictures will be added soon - once I have the time doing the scanning job.. sorry >_<...

 

There were many great oil paintings hanging up the wall . . .

Little Cain thinks:
It's scary
I am scared !

A chambermaid who leads little Cain to somewhere suddenly turns back and put her finger to her lips, with her pulling face, indicated little Cain to be quiet.

Little Cain's cat eyes look nervously around:
What's this song? Where are we going ?

Little Cain thinks: I don't want to go !

A closed door stood in front of them.

Little Cain thinks: Don't open that door !

Zigeunerweisen (part I)

 

The room revealed a crowd of people- the young, the grwon up and the old - all wearing solemn black outfits. They stood around a huge bed. A bed surrounded by servants next. It lays a man on the bed with hands folded peacefully in front of his stomach.

Another man stood nearer to the bed than any one else in the crowd. The man in black suit is wearing glasses and his left hand is in his pocket.

He is Alexial.

The faces of the crowd were all expressionless.


Little Cain thinks: Uncles, aunts..... and also many other relatives-

= A grave violin Tune =

A shadow stood among the tulips, with a violin in hand, playing his violin . . .

Little Cain thinks: The choking smell of the tulips

Alexial ordered coldly, " Come this way."

A girl with long curly hair was clutching at the dress of the woman next to her.
Little Cain knows the girl, tells himself in heart: My cousin Shuzett

A woman held a handkerchief to her mouth.
Little Cain: My mother Lenora <actually it's her step mother>

A man stood frowning.
Little Cain: They say Uncle Neel is my grandfather's younger sister's son...

Young Cain looked over his shoulder to examine his uncle: Why does he always look at me with those eyes ?

Alexial (continued to tell Cain): "Come...Greet him for the last time Cain."

The man lying on the bed is very old. His face etched with lines of age.

Alexial: "Greet your grandfather."

Cain reached out his hand to touch his grandfather: He looked exactly like a wrinkled doll .

Suddenly the hand of the old man snatched at Cain's wrist.
Cain was startled with a shock: !

The old man opens his eyes wilde and speaks to little Cain (with great difficulty): "The person who... calls in the last day.... to this world...can't we ever get his name ...out from the temptation of the Pesirite (a woman's name, not sure if this is the word ^.^;;) woman... The person whose blood contains that woman's blood... That's what he wants most . . . ... GOD CHILD CAIN . . . ! ! "

= Roses petals in the airs . . . =

 

Cain woke up at last, hands covering his face.

Cain thinks:
Dream... It was a dream from long time ago.... ! I have forgotten about it completely....Things when my mother was still alive....Godchild . . . .
That was what my Godfather, my grandfather said before he died...
That's right... and that ring on his finger, it was the proof passed on from generations among the heads of the Hargreeves family...

He then goes to have a morning bath.

Cain (wet look - he just has had a bath):
Why did I dream of this now...
he is about to
turn off the shower when someone called his name.

" Cain ! !"

Cain (grabbed his bathrobe and towel to dry his hair): /, "Uncle Neel? What are you doing at this time of day..."

The middle-aged man with Lief following, trying to take his coat off him ((says in loud voice): "The sun's already up high! Anyway, is it true Cain !? When you were involved in the case in the butterfly house of the Kuromwell.."

Cain (turns around and dry his wet hair with towel): "It's not such a rare thing that I get involved with murder cases."

Uncle Neel: "Did you see him !? Your father... Alexial ! !"

Onve the name 'Alexial' is mentioned and heard, Cain remains silent and stands still.

Uncle Neel (anxiosuly): "According to the Police's investigation, Rukia testified that there was a man having something to do with the case happened in that house. The appearance of the gentleman inside the tower whom she described...! It was Alexial wasn't it !?"

Cain recalled his father's words to him that night:
You cannot save anyone! Cain

Cain (trembling terribly): "I... I don't know....I don't know such a man was there....!"

Lief lookes at Cain with concern and surprise: Master Cain ! ?

Uncle Neel presses on further: "Cain!! If Alexial is still living now..."

Cain (yelling back): "Stop it please ! ! Father is dead! He threw himself into the sea with hatred for me in front of my eyes ! !"

Cain then shoved the towel, which he was using, into Lief's chest.

Uncle Neel (sighed): "...Oh well..precautions have been taken. I've always known that there are people who are targeting this family from before."

= Many great oil paintings hung on the wall =

Uncle Neel: "Cain, I don't know what happened at the butterfly house but...If you understand, you should be careful with your actions. If your enemy is really that Alexial then there's no chance that he will be defeated by your hands"

At the same time, Lief is helping Cain to get dressed behind a screen;
Cain's expression turned to one of fear as he listened to his uncle.

Uncle Neel: "You probably know this from your experience."

Cain:
The scars.... the scars on my back are starting to hurt as if they are burning...!!

Uncle Neel: "I have known what type of man he is from way before. Though he can do things no matter how cruel they are in order to control people, he never gets his own hands dirtied.", clutches his hand into a fist and pressed it against his forehead, " ...it was as if he is a genius in doing bad deeds. Though...a very few people realise this. It's only among those whose happiness was taken away by him who knows of his true side..."

Cain : "Did uncle too got your happiness taken away by my father?"

Cain thinks :I am feeling dizzy

Uncle Neel looked up in surprise at Cain as Cain came out from behind the dressing screen.

Cain: "I don't care that you criticise my father due to your own personal matters but please don't say things as if you understand me as well.", Lief is now fixing up Cain's tie as his master contines, "Or is it that now it would be a nuisance to you if my father appears ! ?", gives a cold eye, "That's right, because you've probably done a lot of hard work in order to gain the seat of being the guardian for Earl Hargreeves."

Uncle Neel stands motionlessly as Cain spoke these.

Lief (tries to stop Cain): "Master Cain ! !"

BUT, all Cain feels is the heat from the scars on his back.

Cain's face changed to one of hate and pain: "I guess the name of this earl family and huge amount of fortune would have such an extent of temptation!?"

Pa!

Uncle Neel slapped Cain's face hardly.
Lief closed his eyes as if he too feels the pain from the slap: !

A voice behind: " er...excuse me...!"

Uncle Neel questions angrily: " ...What!?"

Chambermaid (stands in the doorway, holding a giftbox in hand): "..er..This is an urgent parcel for Mr Neel... and it was brought here now especially..."

Uncle Neel: "...? It was brought placed outside the house especially? Don't you know who was the sender!"

Chambermiad: "That.... the parcel was namelesss...."

Uncle Neel: "What is it!? Doesn't matter, open it and see."

Cain feels his face where he has just been hit obviously looking grumpy. ,^_^,

Chambermaid: "Yes. . . yes."

The chambermaid peeled off the wrappings . . .

Ar... Ar....
The chambermaid screamed loudly
and screamed as she saw what was in the box. . .

"I-it's a human hand...!? "

The box revealed a chopped off hand lying on a flower bed made of roses. The hand was holding a card and had a ring on it's middle finger. There was also a birthmark on the hand.

Uncle Neel gasping: "This... this birthmark...!! It's the same as the detective I hired...!!"

Cain (tries to take out the hand from the box but is stopped by his uncle): "Detective?"

Uncle Neel: "I got a detective...to search about something...!! Oh god...don't tell me he..."

Cain (inspects the objects in the gift box): "The hand is gripping something... The hand is holding a tarot card - , THE MOON."

- The picture of that THE MOOON tarot card shows a sun with a half moon face inside.y Under the sun + moon is virgin Mary holding her baby Jesus.

Cain eyes the tarot moon card:
THE MOON tarot card...!!? But... something's weird about this card...! Why is the picture of baby Jesus and Mary printed on this card? Mary wearing red clothes. Something...there's also something else about this...!?

Uncle Neel( still staring at the hand nervously): " 'Henry the 7th'..."

Cain (looks at his puzzling Uncle): " ? "

Uncle Neel: "We'll... just have to call the police and see...!"

Chambermaid nervously: "Yes, Sir."

Neel grabbed his hat and began hs exist of the house.

Cain looks at his uncle back suprisingly and figureing out what's going on:
The detective that uncle hired has been killed!? What did uncle get the detective to inspect!? Don't tell me he . . .

 

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