《Crimson Moon》Vol. 8 - Special Chapter 2: Anastasia’s Feelings
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What is a feeling? What is an emotion? A feeling…an emotion…something that human beings react as their brain processes a certain function that can be determined as irrational…However, I am not a human being…I am something else…something different…something abnormal to this world…
I am just a tool…a tool for the Lucifugus Family…my name is Anastasia Lucifugus. I don’t have memories of when I was born…or where I was born…I only exist to serve my masters…
For all my years…I’ve been a great servant…and to be honest…I have Master Darius, who always played a father figure to me…he is so kind and always rewarded me with different candy and sweets he brought from his trips around the world…
I know that he is strong…but one night…5 years ago, he disappeared and appeared a few months later with something strange around him…ever since then, I kept my distance…but I always obeyed his orders.
Master Olivia said that she always wanted a daughter…and thus, she has treated like a daughter…buying weird clothing like doll dresses and weird clothing like seeing on television…I was trained to be a proper lady, similar to the girls of high class…my family is old fashioned and that’s why I am as well…
I always tried to keep my emotions hidden…as I am a tool that doesn’t need those type of thoughts…I only exist to obey him…however, I always had a strange sensation when I saw my master Aleister…
Master Aleister has always been so kind and loving to me…but I was always afraid of not meeting his expectations…
He always told me to call him Big Brother…but I never felt that way…I always felt something different for him…but now...I feel fear upon seeing him one more time…it’s as if he is a different person who came back from Romania…
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More bold…more seductive…more dangerous…
I always kept my emotions hidden…and I thought I could never feel that feeling that people call love to anybody but my Master Aleister…nobody but him…a boy who has no special talent…he is not handsome…he is not as athletic…however….I fell in love with him…his name is Alejandro Sanchez…ever since I became his servants against my will under my Master’s orders…Alejandro has always treated like a normal girl…he said that he wasn’t my master…he was my friend…
He was my friend…I decided to try and feel the same way as I feel as Master Aleister…I even called him “Big Brother” because he protected me like one…he treated like family…and yet…I rejected him and decided to stop calling him that because I love him as a man…however, he loves someone else…he loves a girl named Marjorie…and that made me feel what people call jealousy…
He was my friend and I betrayed him by accepting Master Aleister’s orders and went on with the mission…now…he is dead…the person I love is dead because of me…I feel something strange within me…that feeling of guilt…and sorrow…I never thought that I would feel this way…but I do…and I want to save him…I want to save Alejandro…and for that…I will disobey his orders…
As I stand in front of Yggdrasil’s headquarters…I am determined to save him….I will save him…because he told me that I had a choice in life…and I choose…him…
The End…
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