injured. You must be taken to headquarters immediately and taken care of."
"No." Break vigorously shakes his head. "Take me to Shelly-sama."
"But the headquarters are closer," contradicts Reim. "You really should ..."
"I won't be treated at headquarters," interrupts Break. "Take me home."
When the carriage stopped at the Rainsworth Estate, Break passed out. He comes to when his robe is taken off. Then he feels the buttons on his shirt being undone. “No!” Startled, he sits up, slaps his hand away and gathers up his already half-open shirt.
"Stop that nonsense, Xerxes. You have to take this off, otherwise I won't be able to bandage your wound." Reim leans forward, grabs his wrist.Although Break struggles, Reim manages to push his hand aside. The shirt that he is still clutching rips open and reveals his chest.
Break hears Rhyme gasp and turns his head to one side. His hair, which he grew over his left eye, hides his face from rhyme.
"Xerxes, you ... you are ..."
"Yes, I am an illegal contractor", Break ends the sentence.
"But ... your seal is filled." Reim takes off his glasses and starts cleaning them. "So you must have been drawn into the Abyss. But somehow you got out again ... Did you lose your eye in there?"
"What does that matter? Go call the people from Pandora and tell them what I am. That's your duty, isn't it?"
“You're an idiot, Xerxes.” Reim has put his glasses back on. "Do you really think I'll do that?"
Break looks at him in surprise. "Rhyme-san ..."
"Shut up and listen. Whatever happened in the past and what you've done is now behind you. And now, finally, take off your shirt and let me help you."
Later, when Rhyme left, Break is lying in his bed thinking about what he had said to him when he said goodbye.[i]"Take better care of yourself in the future so that you don't get so badly injured again. If you do, I may not be able to prevent them from treating you at headquarters and finding out what you want to hide."
“Thank you, Reim-san.” Break looks out the window at the moon shining brightly in the sky. "I will train and learn to fight better than I could have done with two eyes. And I have to sign a contract with a strong Chain as soon as possible. That I am prepared when I meet the Baskervilles again."
Two weeks later, Break signs the contract with the Chain Mad Hatter.