Silver Infinity ((Kamukura X Komaeda))

Chapter Thirty One: Promised Dreams

  Air...
He couldn't... He couldn't breathe.
Each inhale filled his lungs with more water, suffocating him, making his chest scream and beg.
Komaeda held his breath and began to push his legs up, whichever way up was.

The heavy ocean water forced him to wade, every moment becoming heavier on himself.
No matter how much he tried to swim to the surface, it seemed there was no end in sight.

He reached out his false hand, trying to reach for anything, anything at all to pull him from his watery grave.
He wanted to cry out, but he couldn't make a single noise. He wanted to call for Kamukura, or Fuyuhiko, hell, even Celeste.
Someone, anyone!
Just as he thought he was going to suffocate, a glimmer brought Nagito's attention to something below him, and he lowered his gaze to something half-buried beneath the sand.

What could it have been? What was buried out here, out of all places?
It was oddly... Easier to breathe, like being within the water was natural.
Komaeda dove down and fell upon the ocean floor with the help of the water forcing him below.
Brushing the dirt away, a strange bottle lay before him, unfamiliar in every sense of the word.
He attempted to squint and read the writing but it was too foggy, impossible to see clearly beneath the ocean.

So without thinking, he pulled the bottle from the ground, and all at once, the ocean whirred around him, no longer confined to simple waves.
As though a plug was pulled, the fluffy pirate found himself trapped in a whirlpool, unable to break free. All he could do was cling to the bottle and shut his eyes.
But it stopped just as quick as it began, and by the time Komaeda allowed himself to look once more, he was sitting upon a cave floor, shadows engulfed in every direction.

"Hello?" He allowed himself to call, but all that answered was his own echo. "Kamu... Kura?"
"You call the name of a beast," Someone ushered, their voice bouncing around every direction, but nobody could be seen. "Why do you care for him? Why do you help him? Why do you lower your blade?"

A strange shape formed a little ways away, and something pushed Komaeda to move forward. He didn't want to move forward, he didn't want to hear the stranger speak ill, so then why did his feet move?
Despite the darkness of the cave, he could clearly see the shape of the Pirate King sleeping upon the floor, looking meek and small at that moment.
Without thinking, he reached out, but only to find the bottle in his hands had changed to a knife.

"A vampire cannot be killed how a human is. Do you know how to kill a vampire?"
"Who are you? Where are you?" He looked around once more, but nobody came to see him, and it did not answer his question, instead, continuing as though he had never said a word.
"Ten long, painful years, and the Pirate King had never offered out his heart. That is how you kill the King, how you kill Izuru Kamukura. It's because of you, the shield around his heart, and his life dropped. He trusts you, he loves you, and you forced him to lower his protection against death because it was the only way he would be able to love you. Do you know what that means?"

"Go away," Komaeda didn't look for the voice, he only wanted to reach out and hold Kamukura in his arms, but his body wouldn't move.
"That means, you can run him through. You could use that sword, and end it all right now. Everyone would be safe, pirates would stop being hunted down, your life will be spared from the Queen. All your trouble will melt away too."
"Shut up!" Nagito finally rose his gaze, holding the knife close to him. Who was it that was trying to twist his thoughts? He would never do something like that!