A/n: Alright! I'll be introducing Phoebe Yang already! I hope you all like this chapter!

Arima Kousei POV:

It was such a surprise for me when Phoebe Yang suddenly appeared in front of me before I get in my suite after my second year in college was about to begin. She was more intimate and intimidating but as I had been trained well by Jupiter, I didn't feel her aura too much. I can put her dark aura off and overwhelm it with mine. I laughed at the time she was the one who felt fear towards me rather than me, getting afraid of her. A grin draped on my lips when she backed away and stepped out of my way. As far as I know, she was already getting investigated by the police after Seto Hiroko gave the USB to the CIA Agents instead of who knew the real nature of Ashworth Group of Companies. I just had my eighteenth birthday back in March, too.

"Why are you here?" I asked. "Who are-"

"Oh! Don't lie," she sputtered. "You absolutely know me, Eagle Eye Junior! You got your revenge against me! You and your uncle destroyed my peaceful life with Takahiko! We're divorced!"

"He's my dad," I told her. "Stay away from him."

"Are you allowed to be with him?" she asked me. "Well, Takahiko and Kuroshi are brothers while you are his nephew. I will destroy the Eagle Organization, Kousei."

"You can't destroy them," I said to her. "Be careful what you wish for."

"You're one of them and Takahiko plans to be one of you!" she screamed. "I will destroy all of you!"

"He just informed me that he's coming to visit me. Most of all, getting you separated away from my dad had always been my goal," I answered her. "I'm sure you're here because of that. You want to beg, am I correct?"

She was just about to draw her gun when one of my bodyguards and my confidant, Sarate Kyushu, pointed his own handgun at her. His black eyes stared at her silly pointed eyes. Phoebe looked really shocked that someone had been looking out behind me. I'm assured by my uncle that the people who work for him won't betray us. "Young Master, get inside your room. I can take care of her."

"Don't kill her," I told him. "Just get her out of here."

"Yes, sir," he said to me after I had my card key and my door opened up already.

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I'm still stuck inside Las Vegas, Nevada but with the years after I had lived here, it had been my new home.

Now, it was an important place for me

Since my father saw how many wine glasses I had taken already, I saw his pitiful eyes after he saw that I was able to finish up three bottles of whiskey. "You stayed here since you know about Phoebe. You don't know how painful it is to lose her."

"You have lost me and living around my uncle is draining me! It's all your fault, dad!" I said to him while I was near my table, lying my head face down on it. There's an attached balcony inside my suite. "I hated you but the blood that runs through me was just too strong. I can't eradicate the truth that you are my biological father."

"Phoebe and I are already divorced," he informed me after I sat straight on my seat. "I was really surprised to know that she is a criminal. Well, as if your uncle isn't a criminal himself."

"Uncle Kuroshi isn't a criminal," I cried out. "Why marry Phoebe Yang? Why did you just use my mother to get pregnant and bring me out to the world?"

"I- I didn't use your mother just to get her pregnant with you," he said to me. "I liked her. I was drunk. She's inside the bar when we met and then—"

The truth was really difficult for me to swallow. They never loved each other, ain't it? Mom may be hurting me since she kept seeing my dad when she looks at me. I was an unwanted child just like my uncle.

"I want you to rest in Japan," he murmured. "Let me take you home."

"I'm home and you're just my dad. You're not my father. You were just someone who created me but not the man who truly raised me! You could have prevented what I have become now if only you're a better father but you're a shadow for years!" I screamed at him. "Mom took care of me for a decade, then, my piano mentor raised me using the allowances you were giving me. You're just financing me but you were never there when I needed you!"

As the door of my suite opened, I saw Jupiter enter it. He immediately just sat inside. I also left the balcony to welcome him. I was swaying a bit because of too much wine I drank. Dad tried to help me but Jupiter had caught me before him. My eyes closed immediately when my head hit his chest. I was panting and grunting in pain that time on my uncle's arms until I sobbed harder again. I can't even control my emotions that day.

"He's drunk," dad spoke up. "He can't live here! I want him home!"

"I can teach him whatever I want, Takahiko," Dad told him. "You're not his legal guardian in this country."

"He's my blood! I am his father!" Takahiko screamed. "He's my son! I don't want him to keep staying in your world! I want to take him home where he's safe and sound!"

I opened my eyes and even if I feel tipsy, I yelled back at him. "I am an Ashworth and I am not an Arima, anymore! It was all done legally. My surname isn't your surname, now."

Dad gripped his fists hard. I'm sure he's so angry that our relationship had been too strained ever since Jupiter stole me from the world I knew. If he didn't, I could have never known who Phoebe Yang is or she could have chosen to do something to me. "Is Phoebe really a criminal? You're the criminal. As far as I can tell-"

"She's a syndicate leader and you're having difficulty accepting that," he laughed back at him. "I'm sure our father was having a big turmoil back home."

"Kuroshi, I miss my son!" Dad cried out to him. "Ever since Kousei stayed here, our father's health started deteriorating! He knew the truth about Phoebe before me even before the news broke out and before you interfered!"

"Are you asking me to pity that man? My mom's just a child of a poor gangster who luckily found the first Eagle Eye," he told him. "I won't allow Kousei to return to Japan!"

Dad looked confused after Jupiter mentioned about it. "Eagle Eye?"

"Father," I spoke up after I drank some anti-pain medication. "You told me before that I don't need to be loyal to you. I just need to fear you."

"I never really meant any of that," he said to me. "You're my nephew and I cared for your well-being."

What he said was a warm blanket for me. It was really a good decision to stay with him rather than be with my biological father. They both care about me but I feel better when I am around my uncle who really showed affection towards me. I don't know if it's real affection or just his way of gluing me inside the Ashworth Group.

"Takahiko, what do you plan to do now?" Jupiter asked him. "Phoebe Yang obviously is a criminal."

"Stay and work at father's corporation. I'm now the CEO of the Arima Music Foundation ever since Kousei's here," he told him. "I also had to keep my eye straight in keeping the Arima Network, Inc."

"Father, I want to rest," I told Jupiter. "If both of you would just keep talking here, do it outside my room."

"You can't rest yet. I'm sure you're drinking too much wine ever since Seto Hiroko burned all of the cocaine, marijuana, and heroin in your room. She doesn't even allow you to smoke," Jupiter said to me after he passed a pack of cigarettes at me. "Calm down, Kousei."

"Now that he knows who Phoebe Yang really is, I think it's time for him to know the truth of the nature of what you are training me in," I told him. "He's your brother. I know you want to at least have a good relationship with him, am I correct?"

Jupiter smiled at me. "Yes."

"What is he talking about?" Dad asked him. "Care to tell me?"

"This information is confidential," he told me as he passes me the keys for the Mercedes Benz. "I'll guide you in my estate."

"Why do I have to come with you?" I asked him. "I want to sleep."

"You just want to buy marijuana," he told me. "Hiroko begged that she won't ever allow you to have it."

"The withdrawal symptoms are just too much!" I said to him after I opened my door. "Dad will be in danger when we finally tell him about it."

"You want him to know," Jupiter said to me. "You'll be a much better Eagle Eye than I am."

"If what you're talking about may allow our relationship to be repaired, then, I'll accept it," Dad said to us. "I want us to be a family."

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