||Roommates|| Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

Protect You

"I gotchu, Faf-kun!"
Takiya announces as he toggles a control stick.

His character on the TV screen moves forward slashes the enemy away from Fafnir's character, who's undergoing a healing process.

Fafnir grits his teeth in frustration, having little to no patience to heal his character.

"I'll protect you!"
Takiya says enthusiastically, grinning as he destroys the stamina of their lone enemy.

He chuckles sinisterly and pushes his glasses up his nose as his enemy falls to ground and disintegrates. However, before the XP drops, his character runs back for Fafnir.

Takiya presses a button in order to speed Fafnir's recovery process.

"You can get the XP. You need it more than I do dontcha?"

Fafnir grunts a yes, his character running ahead and collecting the XP.

"...Thanks."

Takiya smiles warmly, his buckteeth showing.

"Heh, not a problem.
I can protect you."

=úwù=

"I'm home."

Fafnie didn't mean it, but he cracks a dish in the kitchen sink. His red eyes stare in shock towards the front door from the sink as Takiya walked in.

Though his emotionless face does best to hide it, the dragon's widened eyes, furrowed brows, and clenched jaw harden with his growing confused fury. His eyes were bubbling with rage of the unknown.

Takiya stares back from the front door entrance, haven't taken off his shoes yet.

His hair and clothes have been tussled and a side of his face has shown to be swelling with a bruise.

"I was mugged."

Fafnir puts down the dishes and takes off his kitchen gloves without batting an eye, his glare glued to Takiya, who's own eyes hide behind the fog of his swirly cracked glasses.

"Mugged?"
Fafnir asks as he takes off his apron,
still retaining a dreadful gaze.

"I-It's when a person threatens another persons life unless they give up all the valuables that's on you at that moment." Takiya explains. Then he gives a sarcastic scoff to his own pity as Fafnir walks towards him.

"It was my fault.

I—I should've went straight home after drinking with Kobayashi, yet I walked around some sketchy outskirts around our bar—heh!

I was lucky to get a kind person who's known me to be on that train—!"

Takiya stops talking once Fafnir approaches him, making a halt just before the step down to the front door, making him tower over the office worker. The red eyes glowing in the darkness didn't frighten Takiya, but they sure were scary.

Takiya flinches at a cool hand gently grabbing a hold of his jaw line and cheek.

"Hmm?"