"Alex. Please. Take care of Kaitlyn."

Alex was shell shocked.

Why the hell was a random ass maid telling him this?

"Woah woah woah WOAH! First off, who EXACTLY, are you Rita and WHY do you want me to take care of a father's daughter!?"

Rita sighed as she knew better than to lie at this point.

"This maid get up is more so to blend into the crowd. Alex. I have the same job as you."

"Your an assassin too!?"

Rita nodded and pulled out her Scythe

"W-What the!?"

"This is my weapon. A Scythe called Aphrodite. Continuing on, I'm an assassin who works for a group called the Immortal Blades. An assassin group in London. I'm 2nd in command there as well. The reason I'm here in Gamindustri is because of Otto."

Alex was confused as to why Otto had more involvement than just being Kaitlyn's father.

"Otto? Why's he matter?"

"I work in conjunction with Schicksal. I'm not an official worker there but I'm Otto's right hand man and main enforcer for any tough tasks he has to deal with."

"Then why is Otto's right hand man telling me to take care of his child."

"It's quite the story."

Alex sighed and motioned them to sit on the couch as he closed the door.

Rita sat on the couch while Kaitlyn grabbed some crayons and the Admin book to draw on it much to Admin's cries and protests.

"For being an orphaned 12 year old, this room is pretty organized."

"I'm not really into many personal belongings. All of them are mainly in boxes or in my room."

Alex sat next to Rita.

"So explain. What's happening?"

"Kaitlyn's, gone through a tough time."

"How so?"

"She, lost her mother at age 5."

Alex immediately went quiet at simply knowing another child is going through his pain.

"Kaitlyn's mom and Otto's fiance was Kallen Kaslana. An exceptional valkyrie who met a tragic end at the hands of a Honkai Beast. Kallen meant everything Otto that her death was devastating."

"Otto actually had attachments?"

"From talks I had, Otto always said Kallen was the only one who understood him. Otto, being the exceptional scientist he was, simply couldn't live on with Kallen, so, he persued cloning. In a desperate attempt to get Kallen back, Otto performed MANY experiments on multiple women younger or near Kallen's age to perfectly make a Kallen clone."

Alex was quiet for a reason now.

To think someone was so lovestruck that they'd attempt perfect cloning?

To Alex, that was worse than Human Transmutation.

"Kaitlyn ended up being one of his test subjects. Kaitlyn, being Otto's daughter, was the most against it and always struggled. That resulted in an incident."

"Incident?"

"One day, Kaitlyn cried for hours straight as she couldn't handle being experimented on anymore. Otto simply removed her vocal cords to shut her up."

"HE WHAT!?"

Alex was now beyond pissed.

He can't believe it.

"This man was SO obsessed about getting his love back that he'd heartlessly remove his OWN DAUGHTER'S VOCAL CORDS just cause she wouldn't stop crying!?"

All Rita could do was nod as she gave Alex a photo showing the aftermath of it.

In it Alex saw a fresh red scar from Kaitlyn's neck down to the start if her chest.

It put Alex was over the edge as he had trouble calming down.

Eventually though he managed to do so.

"C-Continue."

"After that incident, I couldn't just sit back anymore. After Otto was done experimenting with Kaitlyn, I would always take her our secretly for a fun day. I became a big sister figure for her. Unfortunately, Otto's being more aware of his surroundings and is suspicious of me. I knew I couldn't continue caring for Kaitlyn, but, I also didn't wanna leave her. So, when I saw you talking to Otto at the city, I saw Kaitlyn's trust in you mainly since you were barely younger than her."

"This is still a tough task. Entrusting an abused and vocal cordless girl to an orphaned 12 year old boy."

"I know. But please Alex. Your the only one who can give Kaitlyn a home. A loving, caring home. I want her to live the rest of her life happy."

Alex sighed.

This was a handful indeed, but, his sympathy for Kaitlyn and hearing her story made it hard for Alex to decline.

Rita was right. He knew she was.

"Alright fine. I'll house and take care of Kaitlyn."

"Spendid. I'll go move in our belongings now."

"Our? You mean Kaitlyn's right?"

"Yes. And also mine."

"Yours!? Hold on you NEVER once said you were gonna move in!"

"Alex. Don't you think having Kaitlyn alone with you would make Otto suspicious? It make more sense to have me here with her so if Otto ever tracked her, he'd know she was with me."

"Fine fine. You both can stay."

"Thank you Alex. I'll go get Kaitlyn so we can move in."

Rita walked off and grabbed Kaitlyn who broke the news to her as Kaitlyn immediately dashed at and gave Alex a big hug.

Alex was taken a back by this and had a small blush as he gave a gentle hug back.

"Aww~. So adorable~." Said Rita enjoying this moment.

"S-Shut up! Just go and get your crap!"

Rita chuckled as she held Kaitlyn's hand and left as Kaitlyn smiled and waved at Alex before leaving.

Alex walked to where Admin was and noticed Admin fixing wrinkles in its pages and erasing all coloring and marks Kaitlyn left.

"You alright?"

"Absolutely not! That girl just defiled an important book in the world!"

"Calm down. She's just 12. My age just a few months younger."

"Don't you know what she did that could've caused a catastrophe!? Her wrinkling my pages could've broken time! Her coloring lines overwriting my old lines could've erased history! I had to constantly erase and rewrite anything she wrote over! Not to mention ALSO having to fix my wrinkles!"

"Sorry sorry."

Alex chuckled and picked up Admin, placing the inanimate book back on its desk.

"Still, as much as a pain she was, I'm glad you opted to care for her Alex. She really needed this. You can tell how genuinely happy she was when she said yes."

"It just, felt right. After hearing all that, losing a mother and getting experimented on having your vocal cords removed by abusive, lovestruck, and obsessive father was just a no go."

"This decision would make your mother proud of how much a young teen you've matured into."

Alex was originally gonna shout at Admin for mentioning his mother like he did last time before Rita had knocked.

This time however, Alex chuckled and smiled as he looked over to the last photo he ever had with his mother.

"You know what Admin? Yeah. Your right. Mother really would be proud."

Chapter 5: End