Title: Fallen Comrade
Word Count: 100
Rating: T
Setting: Outo
They came back to find the café was wrecked but there were no traces of blood or signs of a murder gone afoul.
"Syaoran! Kurogane! Fai was attacked by demons!"
Blurry memories of a severed arm being devoured punctured Kurogane the same time his blood went cold.
"Was he…eaten…by demons?"
"Mokona doesn't know."
Which still meant the mage was dead.
He was horribly reminded when the blonde disregarded his own life earlier. Yes, he was an idiot but he was still as much a comrade of Kurogane's in this tangled mess.
And a comrade like him didn't deserve to die.