[Ch.18] Just A Chaos Thing

Panzram whispered into Ryu's reddened ear, "What did I say would happen if you turned your back on me?"

Panzram could almost see the wheels turning in Ryu's head as he tried to remember.

Then, his eyes lit up. "Ah, you said that you would kill me."

Panzram's face turned to stone.

Ryu silently scolded himself, "I'm terribly sorry, Panzram. I completely forgot. I've been very disrespectful towards you."

Panzram's grip on Ryu's wrists grew stronger, "Not because of that, you fool. Don't you realize what position you're in now? I'm not someone you can lower your guard around. I don't care if you live or die. Don't you realize what type of person I am? Do you even know what I've done?"

Ryu wanted to say that he knew exactly what he had done. After all, he had seen the full story of Panzram's life. He knew every awful deed he had done, and every awful deed he would do. However, he didn't care about that.

His feelings towards Panzram didn't change knowing this.

However, he couldn't say that now as it had seemed that Panzram may really get mad at that kind of response. Thus, he stayed quiet.

One of Panzram's hands gripped Ryu's wrists firmly as the other one trailed down before stopping at Ryu's upper thigh.

He clutched Ryu's thigh strong enough to leave bruises.

Ryu's body felt like electricity was sent across his skin at the sudden painful grip. He didn't understand the odd feeling causing his abdomen to get warm.

Panzram spoke in a threatening tone, "Do you realize what position I have you in now? I could easily do whatever I wanted to you."

Ryu was instantly confused by these words and his confusion replaced whatever feeling he had felt before. Ryu's thoughts ran quickly: What did he mean by doing whatever he wanted? Did he mean he could kill me in several different ways? Or maybe torture???

Ryu spoke up, "What do you mean? What could you possibly do while holding me like this? I think you may need both hands to drink tea if that's what you mean."

Once again, Panzram was rendered speechless at this idiotic man. Was this really the Fourth Young Master the rumors were about?

Shouldn't he be more perverted?? Why was he acting so innocent?!

Ryu only heard silence so he thought harder, "Ah! You must mean different ways to kill me."

"..."

"Torture me?"

Panzram clicked his tongue in irritation, "Are you trying to make me mad by pretending to be dumb?"

Ryu blinked, "But I'm not pretending?"

Panzram really had no words for this shameless man. "Are you even a man?"

"I know I do look rather feminine, but I can assure you that I am a man."

Just then, the door slid open and an elderly woman appeared in the doorway. "Little Ryu! I heard loud noises! Are you all-''

She stopped midsentence upon noticing the two in such an intimate position.

The Madame cleared her thought, "I apologize. I should have knocked."

She slid the door shut quickly.

Ryu cried in anguish, "Wait! It's not what you think it is!"

However, she had already disappeared before he could solve the "misunderstanding".

Ryu's head fell on the table and he mumbled, "Great. Now they are going to be even more annoying."

Ryu sighed. However, what could the Madame possibly be thinking? Well, Ryu didn't even consider the possibility that it was exactly what she was thinking.

Meanwhile, Panzram was looking at him, bewildered by his naivety. Did Ryu really not realize what he was insinuating earlier? How could a playboy not even know? It has to be a trick.

Ryu glanced at him through his hair, "So what was it that you meant?"

Panzram stood up, releasing Ryu from his grip. "Nevermind. I fear you are too stupid to get it."

Ryu rubbed his wrists and bowed his head in dejection. He mumbled, "I'm not that stupid…"

Panzram shook his head and sat down at the table with a scowl. Ryu was excited when he noticed Panzram not turning to leave.

He leaned forward towards Panzram in excitement, "Are you staying?"

Panzram looked at him coldly, "Haah?"

Ryu's grin spread across his face, "Oh! You need to stay! You have nowhere else to go, right?"

Panzram thought about this for a second. Although this man irritated him, the setup wasn't too bad. It was better than sleeping outside at least. Then again, he was also a bit annoying.

Panzram frowned reluctantly, "I will stay."

Ryu jumped up causing Panzram to tense up. Ryu spoke with childish excitement, "Then I will have the Madame prepare you a bath!"

He spoke through clenched teeth, "I don't need a bath."

Ryu paused and made a twisted face, "I think you do…"

Then, without another word, he rushed out of the room to speak to the Madam.

After Ryu left, Panzram looked down at his empty hand. He furrowed his brow as he thought. Ryu's skin had been freezing cold, much too similar to a corpse. He had noticed it before, but at the time he was too angry to really ponder it.

Did he just have unnaturally cold skin? Perhaps it was a chaos thing.