penitenziagite, amor
blaze like a repenting martyr and follow your master and love. – one-sided chromile/aria, phantom/aria.
The other man is punching him.
Chromile lets him.
"You –" the extravagantly dressed young man whose handsome face is twisted in hate and grief under his fancy hat snarls, wheezes and tears run angrily down his cheeks as his gloved hands smash into his face and torso again. "You – fucking – bastard!"
Chromile the former Knight of Light lets him.
"You should have been there!"
He should have.
The thief crumbles to the ground and weeps. "Why weren't you there?"
His face is a mirror of Chromile's own expression when he learnt that the empress had been murdered.
Why hadn't he been next to her, protecting her with his own life?
He'd been at a tavern, drunk and trying to forget, drowning his sorrows in strong liquor and blond women who resembled her in the smallest ways because he knew –
Knew –
That a knight who fell in love with his master did not get a happy ending. Especially if his master didn't love him back the way he did.
But he knew that she loved him. The phantom thief, the scoundrel rogue who stole the heart of his dear empress.
She was happy with him. Happy in a way she never could have been with any prince or king or him, the Knight of Light.
He left, slipped away in her time of vulnerability to be weak and pathetic and now she was dead because of a childish fit he had.
"She loved you," is all Chromile can say as he straightens his armour.
"Where the hell do you think you're going?" the white-garbed phantom snarls.
Chromile straightens his sword and doesn't look back. The spirit of light has deserted him along with his will to live.
What of his son?
His son deserves a better world. He doesn't deserve a father who was too weak to protect his love.
"To protect this world that she loved."
And he'll fall with the battle cry 'For Empress Aria' on his dying breath because he's still a knight.
Chromile hc, in which the former KoL was in love with the empress as well. He fought himself to death after the empress was killed. And then history repeats itself with Cygnus and Mihile. *shot*
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