[KAWAI]
"It was the only way I knew to show you my love. If they took you from me… if they hurt you because of Gabe's obsession. I would have burned the realm to the ground;
"…then joined you in the afterlife," Tamiko stated casually, but there was conviction in his voice, the kind that scares Kosta to an extent. Because that was some crazy devotion right there.
It was unhinged, though there was nothing Kosta would have wanted to change about that. Maybe the fact that life had changed a bit for them was what was motivating him as much, no?
"Putting down the sword was the only way at that time," Tamiko added quietly, like he really wanted Kosta to understand why he had done it; he needed his Erasthai to understand that he hadn't done that out of spite or guilt for anything.
It was all love.
Tamiko knew that it had shaken Kosta, but maybe, just maybe, they now understood what they both truly meant to each other. What the risks were and how much it hurt to almost lose the other.
