Chapter 99 (1/2)
Chapter 99: Chapter 10. Epilogue-3
A guest had suddenly arrived at Heart's house. The guest was escorted to the fancy drawing-room as Heart glanced up at the clock hanging on his wall. There was only an hour left before he had to leave for an important appointment, so he had to finish business with this guess as soon as possible.
The guest was a man in his early 20s. He had come to deliver a message from the government. He looked nervous as he continually rolled his eyes all over the place. After observing him, Heart concluded that he was a newcomer. After Heart had killed all the elites that had visited him last time, they must have sent someone they didn't mind losing. Heart looked at the letter with the government seal stamped on it and then looked up at the messenger. The letter was extremely long but the content could be shortened to one sentence.
”Are they telling me that an experiment is the government's property and you want me to hand it over?”
”That, that's correct.”
”And if I don't, then they will assume I am an accomplice to the escaped experiment and will require payment for damages?” Heart asked with blushing eyes and a soft smile. The messenger was not able to sense the anger and violence within those eyes and thought that his task was going well. He smiled back at Heart. Heart fanned himself with the letter.
The last time he had gotten rid of the corpses, he had made it look like they had gotten into an accident when they'd first stepped into Wonderland. The government must not have been as stupid as he thought because they seemed to have not taken his full word for it.
”But, there is something much more interesting I have up my sleeve.”
”Excuse me?”
”Would you like to see it?”
Heart handed the messenger a stack of documents. The messenger received it and read through it. Not even five minutes passed before the expression on his face started to stiffen.
”This, This is...”
”Isn't it interesting?”
The document was one that SoYoon had brought out with her when she escaped from the research facility. Inside it, it described the kidnap and experimentation of nonmagical people and the results of their reengineering experiments.
”It is surprising. Using citizens as experimentation subjects. If it was me, I would never trust the government and might go crazy. It's such a scary thought.”
Heart laughed heartily as he shrugged his shoulders. Not every nonmagical person was treated as if they had an illness. Among them, some grew up with a parent's love as Alice had. With the combination of the sorrow of those parents who had lost their children and the fear that the government could invade their personal space anytime, any small occurrence would cause an upheaval. Also, with Mad Hatter as a sponsor, they would have a large cash-flow available to them.
The messenger looked at the documents in despair. Then, as if he'd just realized something, his mouth dropped open. ”How do you have this? Do you really...”
”Do I really what?”
”Uh, oh, never mind...”
The messenger trailed off. Heart was pacing back and forth when his smartphone alerted him to an incoming message. After checking the contents on the screen, he smiled softly. The messenger's eyes grew wide.
”Another guest has arrived so it will be difficult for me to continue entertaining you. Oh, you can take that with you. It's a copy anyways.”
Heart got up from his seat.
The messenger hesitated, not knowing what to do, then looked up at him.”Um, your...answer...”
”Answer? Oh, that's right.”
If he was to send this messenger away like this, another messenger would come to take his place. To avoid that, it was better to give him a definite answer. With this resolution, Heart chose his words wisely. He answered in a way that would be straightforward and to the point so that they won't dare come back to this place.
”Truthfully, I am extremely offended. The girl you called an experiment is my fiance.”
”...What?”
”Do you know how difficult it was to resist beheading you right now? Your neck and the neck of those who sent you...” Heart smiled widely. It was a smile that signaled the smell of blood. ”If you ever come here again talking about my girl as your property, I will immediately behead you in a heartbeat.”
His anger exploded like a bomb and filled the drawing-room with his wrath. The messenger trembled, unable to even look into Heart's eyes. As a consequence, the documents fell away from his hands and onto the floor. Heart bent down and picked up the documents himself, then tapped the messenger on the cheek with them.