A Story To Tell - Boyxboy Oneshots/Drabbles

A Pearl for Love - Etrian Odyssey 4

Title: A Pearl for Love

Summary: In his possession Kirjonen has a pearl necklace that is said to bring him his soulmate…Yeah, right. But when it goes missing, Kirjonen is frantic to find it. Imagine his surprise when Logre finds it and brings it back to him.

Pairings: Logre/Kirjonen

Warnings: None

Disclaimer: Don’t own

AN: …Don’t look at me like that. I told you I ship Logre with a shit-load of people. I couldn’t help myself. This has absolutely no connection to “A Learning Experience” other than the mentioning of the Phaedron Guild. It’s just a rather pointless oneshot that had been bugging me for days. Hope you’ll enjoy reading!

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Kirjonen had always had a fascination with myths and legends. He would never admit it out loud, but he favoured the stories that were to predict doom or destruction on some catastrophic event if a curse or seal was ever disrupted. One could imagine his surprise when the Heavenbringer came into existence and nearly wiped two different races, along with just about everything else. Reading about such events was one thing. Actually experiencing it was another.

Thank the Spirits that the Phaedron guild had the power and the resourcefulness to defeat the Yggdrasil Titan.

The stories he found hard to swallow, however, were legends predicting love and romance on a soulmate level. As a Holy Rune Knight, he had little time for the whole nonsense of love and romance. So one could imagine his internal disappointment when he learnt that his mother’s side of the family had a supposedly powerful and mystical heirloom that was said to bring them their one true love.

A few years ago, months before she lost her battle with a mysterious illness that had plagued her for years, his kindly old grandmother took him aside one day when he briefly returned home to visit her and gave him an old fashion necklace that had a simple pearl as a pendant, held in place by a gold locket. It was quite beautiful and certainly well taken care of.

She took his two hands in her two soft yet wrinkly ones and held them tightly and warmly, placing the pearl in his palms and curling his fingers around it. She looked into his eyes, a warm smile on her lips as she said; “This will bring to you the one who is your soul mate.”

She sounded so certain in her words.

At the time, Kirjonen simply nodded his head in understanding and gave her a gentle smile as he promised to look after the necklace for her.

The news of her passing made him more determined to keep his promise.

Despite not believing in soul-mates and the like, he kept the necklace with him always, ensuring to take care of it to the best of his abilities. He wore it around his neck, concealing it beneath his armoury to ensure no monster or the like ever touched it. The beautiful pearl meant so much to his grandmother and he missed her terribly. She truly was a kind, gentle soul.

Idly flipping through a book that had been borrowed from the Echoing Library, Kirjonen absentmindedly reached up with his hand to toy with his grandmother’s necklace. But as he trailed his fingertips over his collarbone, he was startled to realise that his necklace wasn’t there.

He immediately dropped his book and began to feel around at his neck and chest. He had grown so used to the chain tied around his neck that he never noticed it. At first, his hands were searching, baffled as to why he couldn’t feel the necklace. He soon became frantic when it finally registered that it wasn’t there.