Waking up from a nightmare several hours before dawn, Belle fetched a drink of water. She paused in front of her kitchen's window when she noticed a lit lantern in front of her mansion's garden. Her butler stood there, shovel in hand. This was no hour to be gardening. Curious, she made her way outside, but when she had gotten close enough to see a large and hollow pit next to her eternally-stoic and polite butler, she saw him pick up a rotten body. A DEAD BODY! Her eyes widened fearfully when she saw her handsome butler drop the rotting body into the fresh hole. She asked in horror, "What are you doing?!" Surprised to see his young miss awake at this hour, he stared at her with the same expression he had been keeping up for all these years. He had made sure she was asleep before coming here. "Gardening." "And the body?!" she looked at him in disbelief. "Fertilizer," he answered her before picking up the shovel that was on the ground. Belle was now certain something had possessed her butler. Who gardened dead bodies?! She then heard him ask her, "Want to help me in planting it, Miss Adams?" he gave her a sweet smile. Note: If you enjoy a book of comedy with light-hearted romance and a gothic background. This book is for you~
Greed then said, "I wanted to let you know something," Lucas turned to face him, waiting for Greed to speak, "When the boy was killed and she was in the room, her eyes started to change. From red to flickering black."
Lucas' eyebrows drew in together, "How long was it?" he questioned.
"Probably a minute? Yes, not too long. She is getting corrupted," Greed raised his eyebrows, his voice light and unaffected because he didn't care about Belle. The only person he cared to think about stood next to him.
Lucas hadn't been worried before but to think that her heart would be getting corrupted, he tried to figure how and why it had happened.
"As I said, she's a weak mortal. Seeing her friend in such a state, it must have broken her heart. Was she perhaps in love with him before falling in love with you?" asked Greed, a crooked smile on his lips, "An immense amount of trauma because of the loss can cause it."