Boy in Love (10)

"One of their specialities is air, meaning that wall slam is nothing to them," I explained.

After I pointed out every fault I could find with their layout, they appeared shocked. Did they really need someone to tell them this? Why did everyone focus on how beautiful and wealthy their mansions would appear in front of others? The Impalia mansion didn't have any, which led to no highly dangerous attacks.

"You should be fine after getting rid of all those hazardous decorations," I tried to comfort them.

"We'll just cancel the event. I think it's better to cancel it, I'll tell the rest of the people in my fraction," he looked like he was disappointed in himself.

"Anyone else?" I turned to the fraction leaders.

Maybe most of the minor fractions had a similar layout as the fraction that I pointed out their faults for. They began to cancel all their events one by one, hoping not to become the next victims of the fairies. The presence of fairies and them experiencing their powers firsthand changed everything.

"We'll have to change everything," Haruka whispered to his partner.

Ben and Alice, who had the flower theme, didn't really have to change much. The fans we put in his garden were relatively harmless. Plus, there were many safeguards already in place from their experience last year. And the ballroom was almost empty during the daytime as well before we left.

The discussion on how to handle this issue continued after I helped more fraction leaders with the layout of their mansions. It was late in the evening when Luke and I decided to leave while the rest decided to remain. Since both of us were too exhausted to talk to each other, we immediately went to our bedrooms to get more sleep.

This was how I was in front of Haruka's mansion with less bandages covering my legs. Both Luke and I were drained after trying to heal me as much as possible. I had to transfer some of my mana to Luke while he used his precise control to conduct heal on me.

"Rika!" Ella's partner came running towards me from inside the mansion grounds.

I glared at Haruka and his partner as they froze, watching us all gathered in front of the entrance to the ballroom. My jaw dropped when I noticed Ella following her older brother trying to flirt with other girls near the middle of the ballroom. Didn't they put him on the blacklist? Did everyone focus on handling Ella's partner instead?

"Did you make your decision yet?" He waited for my answer.

"Rika?" The scum came walking towards me from hearing my name.

Ella's older brother froze when he noticed his face, "Liam, you murderer!"

"Are you targeting her now like you did to my sister? Did you think you could have my sister's heart after trying to kill me? No wonder you turned into a fairy, it suits you," he spat at his face.

"You know your younger sister is a fairy as well," Liam appeared a bit offended.

"Don't listen to him. Zane, I love you. I don't mind that I died for you. I just want to kill him, but you already killed him for me," Ella screamed from behind.

It was strange how Zane couldn't hear anything said by Ella. At the same time, it appeared that Liam had a limit on how close he could come towards her while he didn't have the ability to talk to her nor hear her. How twisted it was that Zane didn't know that Ella was behind him this entire time. And it seemed like Ella couldn't see Liam as well, but only able to hear his voice.

"Zane. Look at me! You said you loved me. I know you can't see me, but can't you feel my presence?" she cried.

"Help me get to him Rika!" She turned towards me.

"What do you want from me Liam? You already ruined my entire life. What's wrong with being siblings? Does it mean because you're related, you can't love each other?" He clenched his fists.

"I can't love anyone like Ella. I dated other girls that looked like Ella. I tried. I even abandoned my partner because Ella didn't like her. But you killed Ella!" Zane looked like he wanted to murder Liam again.

"You played with Ella. You had a partner and you two timed her. You deserve to die from your actions," Liam didn't feel guilty from trying to kill him.

"I don't mind Zane. Listen to me. I knew you would abandon her someday. You always told me that we would run away to the second district, saying we would live with our new identities someday," Ella's aura got stronger.

"Help me Rika!" Both of them turned to me.

"Ella can hear your voice, but she can't see you," I told Liam.

"Zane can't hear or see you Ella," I then turned to her.

"I love you Ella. I just want to hear your lovely voice one more time. Please look at me. I don't care if you're disgusted with me for killing you. I'll work to earn your forgiveness for the rest of my lifetime. So don't ignore me. I know you can hear me," he pleaded.

I watched the love triangle in the middle of the complex web where everyone was out to murder to fulfill their love. The boy cried as he screamed his confession to her. The boy who was obsessively in love with her partner to the point he killed her. This was the boy in love.