(Part 5)

Kyrano and Keyron sat side by side each other, watching as their master, mistress and sister all leaning onto each other, their heads bowed as they nodded into a comfortable sleep. Louise was absently hugging the large plush toy, burying her face into its soft faux fur as she fell into peaceful sleep, and Kyrano could not help but maintain his soft, faraway smile at the sight of his mistress acting the same age as his little sister, who was hugging another doggie soft toy to sleep.

Kyrano had managed to find a toy whose faux fur was not of the type that Kyra would be allergic to, and thus had bought it over quickly, keeping the keychain he had initially bought away. Of course, both ladies of their little party had been overjoyed beyond belief at receiving gifts; even though Louise had quite literally worked for most of her own plush toy.

"How was your first trip to the amusement park?" Keyron started the conversation quietly, and Kyrano drew his eyes from admiring the sleeping form of his sister and mistress to look at his brother. Keyron himself seemed to be amused, but Kyrano had a distant sense that the amusement weren't on the sleeping individuals, but rather at him.

"It was fun." Kyrano admitted. "I admit that it was a good chance to bring our master and mistress out along with Kyra. I have not seen Miss Louise so happy in a long time."

"I don't know about her, but I don't believe that I have seen you so happy, ever. Today is the first time that I finally see you as my twin, Kyrano." Keyron observed, leaning diagonally towards Kyrano's direction, resting his chin within the heel of his palm, and his elbow propped on his thigh, eyes dancing.

"I have been your twin since our birth, Keyron." Kyrano answered blandly, but Keyron marvelled at the fact that the man could even still say something so normally when he was still smiling softly.

"But today, I finally see you smile without worries."

"That is because my mistress's happiness is mine. She enjoyed herself very much today, and thus I did."

"Actually, I thought it was rather funny." Keyron answered, eyes swivelling quickly to the woman in topic, snuggled up all nicely with her plush toy. "Because it seemed like she became much happier when she saw you being happy. And I guess it's the same with you. So the two of you were quite literally reinforcing each other's happiness until you two were heady with it."

"I have no knowledge of what you are hinting at." Kyrano answered his brother, but Keyron definitely knew better.

"I thought we promised that there would be no secrets between us, Brother? Our Master and Mistress are engaged, and thus any secret you keep from me might put them in danger." Keyron reminded, watching as his brother turned to him with protest on his lips.

"This is a personal secret, and has nothing to do with their safety!"

"Regardless, when you promised me no secrets in the hospital, you didn't make it clear. We pinky-swore on it. Spill it, Ky."

Kyrano bristled a little at the nickname that he found himself tagged with by his brother, but decided to just ignore it for now. It was true that they had promised no secrets, and he didn't want to go back on that, especially if he did not want to slip back to what he was like in the past. One trip to the hospital thanks to anaemia, one death scare due to infections on his wounds had been enough for Kyrano to wake up back to the reality of his life and position.

"Fine," he conceded, sighing softly at the sight of the voracious grin on his brother's face. He could only afford to say these aloud now that they were still outside of the school –on their way back –and their master and mistress were both asleep. "I admit that I liked that as Miss Louise enjoyed herself more, she also forgot that I was her butler, but instead treated me like a companion instead."

"Enough to hold your hand and bring you around instead of the other way?" Keyron clarified, no remorse on his face when Kyrano turned to him with surprise written clear on his face.

"You saw us?" The horror was easy to detect.

"I spied glimpses of the two of you while we were queueing up for some rides." Keyron answered, and decided that he was a rather convincing liar when the naturally-suspicious Kyrano nodded in acceptance of his excuse. The standing lie made to the butler-and-mistress duo after their wild experience playing was that Kyra, Keyron and Brandon had gone around trying to look a present for Louise, before Kyra got bored and decided that they should go for rides once more, only remembering about Kyrano and Louise after numerous rides.

But the truth was rather far from that. In actual fact, Kyra had already the idea of matchmaking her big brother with his mistress together, and when she had said she wanted to go get a present for the lady, she already had had prior arrangement with Keyron, who had passed the message to Brandon as well. Brandon had not hesitated a single moment at all when he agreed to allow his fiancée and her butler some alone time to foster the growth of their feelings.

Thus, after they left, the three of them had actually been stalking Kyrano and his mistress the whole time, joining in the crowd and pushing and shoving to make sure that the transfer of forces reached Kyrano in hopes of initiating more physical contact between he and his mistress. But of course, Keyron could not let his twin brother know that his suffering was all thanks to his creation.

"But it is impossible for us." Kyrano continued on his own, as if in confession. "Still, it is good that we had the chance to create such memories to remember by when I leave her side."

"Leave her side?" Keyron repeated with surprise. He had not heard of his brother ever planning to leave his mistress's side –it was practically unheard of for someone of Kyrano's calibre and loyalty to want to leave serving the family of Crawford. "Is the Master of Crawford putting you on his case?"

"No," Kyrano answered honestly. "Butler Maiko still remains as the Head Butler serving Master Oscar. However, Miss Louise and I have agreed that once she graduates and marries Mr Brandon, she will release me from servitude to her."

"But why?" Keyron sat up straight this time. He had always assumed that he would be stuck with his twin brother for a long time to come –considering that both the individuals they were serving were set to be married to each other, and spend the rest of their lives together. Keyron was, after all, just beginning to warm up to the idea of sharing his duties with another more studious, more efficient twin brother that he could rely on.

"Because even if Miss Louise is able to watch herself fall in love with Mr Brandon while half her heart is gone, I cannot." Kyrano's answer was completely simple, and Keyron saw immediately that his brother had considered leaving his mistress very carefully, and that there was no changing Kyrano's decision once it was already made. Keyron could offer no words, and in truth, after seeing all that Kyrano had suffered and become to be Louise's butler, Keyron found that he did really want to say his selfish words as well.

The man had made his choice, and it was up to Keyron to live with it.

"I see." Keyron nodded with a soft sigh, because that was the only thing he could think to say. His assumption of him serving the combined household of Crawford and Greaves alongside his twin was broken, but he could not think of a better way to save his own brother.

"I bid of you, Keyron, to take good care of Miss Louise in my stead while I am gone." Kyrano said seriously, and his brother found it rather uncomfortable that Kyrano was speaking as if he planned to leave tomorrow. Still, knowing the uptight person that Kyrano had become, Keyron refrained from making a light comment and nodded.

"She is going to my mistress soon as well, Kyrano." Keyron reminded, and it seemed as if his acceptance of the responsibility placed on his shoulder relieved the lady's current butler very much.

"I have asked for Louise to have you as the combined household's Head Butler after she graduates, comes of age, and marries Mr. Brandon. You will be in the best position to serve them and protect them, and you must do it well, because I cannot." Kyrano's wishes were simple and obvious, and Keyron, no matter how lightly he often viewed his job while serving under Brandon, could not help but nod seriously again. It would be weird serving a lady like Miss Louise, but Keyron would just have to do his best –considering his brother's expectations were all on his shoulder.

"If you are worried about your mistress after you leave, Kyrano, rest assured that I will keep her as safe as I keep Brandon safe. I might not be as stellar a butler as you –I may not have earned my golden coat of arms in the Imperial Academy –but if Brandon sees me as enough for him, then I shall be enough. If Miss Louise asks more of me, then I shall have to rise to meet her expectations. It is as easy as that." Keyron offered, and was rather surprised when he received a genuine smile of warmth from Kyrano, who had returned to his emotionless expression during the serious talk.

Kyrano's smile was refreshing, and this Keyron would admit even though he could easily see the same smile in the mirror if he wanted to. But a smile on Kyrano was completely different from seeing himself smile on the mirror. It meant so much more, and for the first time, Keyron felt utterly close to his twin brother.

"You know..." Keyron's gaze fell from his brother's face down to his hands as he felt a strange heat rise up his face. He was blushing, and he didn't exactly want to be known to be such a mushy guy. Still, there was supposed to be no secrets between them, and Keyron supposed that he had to let Kyrano know exactly what he felt. "This is the first time I feel like we've talked seriously about our future as brothers."

"Unfortunately, it is not much of a future for us together, Keyron." Kyrano agreed reluctantly.

"I wish I knew earlier that I have a family with the Reyes." Keyron admitted finally. "I wish I knew you earlier, brother, during a time where we would be not much different."

"As I. But it is pointless, for we have passed 18 years without knowledge of each other's presence. There will be no more years spent like that, and you have gained not only a brother, but also a sister."

"And a mother." Keyron added, understanding completely when Kyrano replied with a simple blank stare.

"I know that I might have reacted a little too much when we first met, but spending time with you and Kyra made me understand an important point –that no pair of bad parents can come to create either of you. I might still be sceptical of what Karima says about my past, but I'm still going to accept the fact that it was her who gave birth to me, and that Kyrone was my father who gave me away to the Greaves. Thinking back, I realized that I had actually seen Kyrone in my past before –and that he had actually approached me once or twice whenever he came over to visit with his master. I just never knew that he was my father." Keyron confessed on a sigh. "If only he just spoke up, then maybe things would be different."

"But our father would definitely not." Kyrano answered, the honesty only in his heart in the remembrance of the man who had first been his father, then the Head Butler of the Crawford family while he still lived. "I have learnt my loyalty from our father. And his from his own father."

"That as well." Keyron agreed with a rueful smile. "It wouldn't exactly be the real Kyrone if he ever submitted to his role as a father to acknowledge me during his visits. And if I am not wrong, I heard that he managed to find excuses to stop coming to see me, especially when I began to grow up."

"Because we began to look exactly like him." Kyrano answered with newfound surprise at his father's effort. He had not understood why his Head Butler Kyrone no longer followed their master to the Greaves household, thinking that there might actually be something that put his invincible Head Butler/father off his stride. Thinking back now, Kyrano realised that the person in the Greaves household that threw Kyrone off his horse was Kyrone's own sun. "It must have been hard for him to find excuses to stop visiting."

"That it must." Keyron agreed now that he had gotten over his childish rage at his parents for having abandoned him. It had been hard to accept that they abandoned him for his sake, and even after Louise had helped him make clear of the truth, while he had understood the reasons behind his parent's actions, he hadn't been quite able to accept it.

At least; until he spent more time with his brother –and now his little sister –and realized that there could be no inch of bad intention in those two people that came together to create Kyra and Kyrano.

"I plan to visit our mother and father soon, Kyrano." Keyron announced finally. "I owe them an apology."

"Really, Keyron?" His twin brother's surprise was so innocently written on his face that Keyron could not believe that he was staring into the face of someone who was the Butler in Black, the rumoured Demon Butler.

"Yes," Keyron looked out the window with a sigh. "And it would be great if you were to visit them with me."

"Of course." Kyrano said in an instant. "Mother would be so happy, and I am sure Father would be if he were still alive."

"It is decided then." Keyron answered, finding himself strangely slipping into a melancholic state. From his mood of teasing his brother for the admittance of feelings for Louise, Keyron found it rather surprising that the conversation had taken such a drastic turn, and that his emotions had followed quickly along as well. "We will visit Father's grave soon."

"It is a promise." Kyrano agreed, knowing that the conversation was beginning to mellow. But it was fine, because his brother had finally thought things through.

Kyrano's brother was finally back to his side, in body and in heart.

It did not last long.