Belle was seeing the people leave, let out a sigh of relief where she felt she could finally relax with the council not hovering around them, "Did you hear that?" asked Belle to them, "Joshua sees ghosts."

"There are some people who can see the dead," answered Lucas, "Some acknowledge them while some don't. And you!" Lucas turned his eyes at Barron, "I give you one job, one job and you don't do it properly."

"I didn't know the headstone was placed upside down when I was pushing it in its place-" Barron was interrupted by an annoyed Lucas.

"If Belle didn't save it by using the priestesses name who is already gone missing, there would have been another investigation with all the bodies pulled out and checked," said Lucas rolling his eyes.

Greed who was quietly standing behind them without a word finally said, "I didn't know your parents were murdered in such fashion."

Belle's eyes moved to look at Greed who had a small smile on his lips as he said this, enjoying the pain she felt, "They did," she answered. She would have to live with the fact of what transpired on that tragic night of Adams mansion, and there was nothing she could do.

Greed said,

"Why don't you go to the timekeeper and rerun the time? Bring them back. Hasn't Lucas mentioned to you about it?"

"He has. Also how it affects the timeline that is already running that affects the actions of the others creating a rippling effect," answered Belle, "I will be taking a walk," she said leaving them there and walking further into the cemetery.

Barron, who saw Belle's back, who had started to walk away from them, turned to Lucas and asked, "Were you the one who killed her father?"

"He was going through corruption. It would take no time in him trying to kill her if I let him live longer. Her mother was already dead by his hands," he replied, seeing Belle's silhouette.

And though Barron didn't question further on it, who went to look at the headstone to make sure it wouldn't fall off from where it was positioned, Greed continued to stare at Lucas as if he knew something that Barron had failed to notice. After all, Greed admired Lucas so much when he was Guilt that he knew how and what Lucas did.

"She is going to be very hurt when she finds out the truth," stated Greed, a crooked smile back on his lips as he was waiting for the time when Belle would know what Lucas was hiding.

Lucas didn't answer it right away, continuing to look at Belle's frame where she disappeared to look at the other graves, "She won't know if she never finds out about it," Lucas responded to the Sixth Grim.

"The first corruption always takes time, sometimes they can be salvaged," Greed poked Lucas, and the butler didn't respond to his words.

Greed was right. Mr. Adams though had killed his wife, he was still in his conscious state, fluctuating between sanity and insanity where might have been possible to still keep the man alive and bring him back, but Lucas had killed the man right when his corruption had gone back to being his vampire self. If Belle knew that Mr. Adams, her father, could be saved, he knew she would have taken the opportunity to keep him safe and alive.

But the truth was, Lucas would have killed the man if he were to continue to live. To make sure the man died, Lucas had personally taken his life while keeping Belle away from the scene. It was because when he had spoken to Isabell, the white witch had said if Belle's parents were going to live, it would only get the black witches to have a second massacre which would be uglier than the first one- and that could lead to Belle's death.

Previously, Lucas didn't know who he was, but he knew he had to keep Belle alive if they wanted to save this world and also the world he came from. Somewhere Lucas had come to believe that someone from the dead was trying to fuse the land of the living and the land of the dead together.

Belle was looking at the cemetery, walking around as she tried to get rid of her thoughts about her parents and her mother's last words before she disappeared entirely from this world.

"What are you doing, walking in circles?" asked Lucas and Belle turned her head to see Lucas, who was not behind her, but when she turned forward, she crashed right into his arms.

"That was a good trick," Belle smiled softly looking up at him.

"Thought it would catch you off guard."

"It did," Belle nodded her head and then asked, "At least we now know that the councilmen won't be hovering around the mansion or you."

Lucas shook his head.

"No?"

"No," he affirmed, "The councilman said what you wanted to hear, but that doesn't mean he won't be returning or sending new people to the mansion to take a look. We will have to tread carefully and not get caught. So far everything has been working well, including the maids," Barron was someone Lucas didn't want to think about. The Fourth grim was a bringer of disasters. It was a surprise that the Hawverts hadn't tried to demote the Grim for his lack of tact, but then at the same time, it made sense that he was the plague bringer, "They think that the black witches massacred Olivia's house. It will help in keeping the black witches low while you continue doing your work."

"Do you know who to pick as the test subject?" asked Belle because they hadn't picked a soul on who would be placed in the fabricated world of the ghouls.

"I found someone who has been roaming in the land of the living. A relative of the Duke. Thought it is much easier to understand the compatibility of the souls in the fabricated world than bringing a random soul."

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