PandoraHearts ~Caucus Race~, Vol. 2 Read Online Free PDF

ground, fidgeting and looking as if she were searching for the right words, he said it:
    “I’m waiting for somebody here. You’re in the way. Get lost.”
    At Elliot’s ruthless words, Ada had said, “Oh, um, well, I’ll see you later, then, Elliot-kun.” On that carefree note, wearing a smile that had probably taken everything she had to summon, she went back into the school building.
    Did she take that attitude even though she knew about thediscord between the House of Nightray and the House of Vessalius, and that they were on nothing resembling good terms? …Or did she act like that because she didn’t know?
    Either way
, Elliot thought.
    “That girl’s about as sharp as a marble.”
    His mutter drew a “Hey” from Leo.
    “You’re talking about an upperclassman.”
    “Like I care?”
    “Didn’t you scold younger students for not respecting an upperclassman just last week?”
    Leo spoke reprovingly. For a moment, Elliot saw red; he shot a glance at him.
    “That was different.”
    “Oh, so it doesn’t matter when it’s
you.
I didn’t know you were the sort who could compartmentalize your head like that. I hear it’s really convenient.”
    At that, Leo stepped away from Elliot. His tone had been indifferent, but he’d as good as said,
I know you really know better.
Elliot was exasperated by Leo’s attitude, but he couldn’t find a comeback.
    “—And? Could you have dropped it then?”
    Leo smoothly set the conversation back on track.
    Elliot, feeling rather off-balance, searched his memory.
    He hadn’t been able to leave immediately, not after he’d run Ada off by telling her he was waiting for someone, so he’d dutifully stood there for a few minutes. When, as expected, Leo hadn’t come back, he’d left the back garden and returned to the boys’ dorm. If he’d dropped it then, there was no way he wouldn’t have noticed.
    “……No,” he concluded briefly.
    Leo folded his arms. “Hmmm…”
    Elliot also looked as if he was thinking hard. However, at Leo’s next, casual words, his expression froze.
    “Anything else? Did something happen before or after that?”
    Mew, mew.
    “……‘Moon’…”
    He’d accidentally said the word aloud, and he shut his mouth hastily. Leo looked perplexed: “???”
    “Moon? …Like the one in the sky, you mean??”
    “Nuh, no, it’s nothing. I didn’t mean that…”
    He didn’t know what he should say.
    When the white cat had appeared, and he’d messed around with it for a while…
    It was true that, right then, he’d forgotten about the book. He’d been holding it under his elbow, and he wasn’t entirely sure that he hadn’t come pretty close to dropping it a few times. No, he thought he probably had. …But if he said that to Leo…
    The things Leo would say…
    Elliot’s gaze swam. It would have been obvious to anyone that he was being evasive.
    All he said was, “…I…might have dropped it.”
    “While you were playing with the cat?”
    Leo’s careless bombshell startled Elliot so much he thought his brain might boil over. His field of vision seemed to somersault.
    He was confused, and upset, and his face was bright, bright red—
    “Y-y-y-y-you jerk!! You were watching that, Leo?!”
    He grabbed Leo’s shirtfront as violently as if he meant to hit him.
    If he’d been seen, it would have been the blunder of a lifetime… No, much worse than that. If… If he’d been spotted enjoying himself that much, with his guard completely down…
    He’d lose every last shred of his prestige as a master!
    “Elliot, calm down.”
    Moving nonchalantly, even though he was being shaken back and forth by the flustered Elliot, Leo dropped the corner of the book he was holding onto his master’s head. The motion was casual, but it had serious power behind it. Elliot yelped in pain, but it soon turned to anger; determined to give as good as he got, he glared fiercely at Leo and raised his fist.
    Just as he did so—
    “You’ve got animal