Silver Infinity ((Kamukura X Komaeda))

Chapter Thirty-Five: Kings of the Past

Glittering eyes looked him down with intensity, porcelain shin rolled wet with the rain.
The sword pointed at his throat brought him no fear, in fact, it was exhilarating.
Did he want to run him through, leave him for dead?
Komaeda's crew couldn't save him now, yet he still felt the need to smile.
Truly, as pretty as a girl.
No, the prettiest person he'd ever laid eyes on.

Captain Izuru Kamukura, the King of Pirates, the murderous, bloodthirsty, plundering, beautiful pirate.
And he was standing right in front of him.
How much did he want to say that?
God, Komaeda wanted to yell it above the storm and crashing waves.
He was in love. For the first time in his life, he was really in love!
It was so unfair to feel such feelings, but he couldn't kill Kamukura. Even if he risked his own life to do it, killing him would be...
Impossible.
"Yet you still doomed me to death."

The voice echoed from somewhere unknown, the storm freezing around him as though Komaeda was trapped within a photo.
It sounded like Izuru yet... Nothing like him at the same time.
"I tried to warn you,"
A woman's voice melted over the Pirate King's, one he'd heard before.

"You can only kill a vampire when you melt away the shield around his heart. By pursuing him, you forced him to expose his heart."
Izuru's red eyes flashed a soft blue, and simply with blinking, Nagito was standing before a mysterious woman, one of which he had never seen before.
She lowered the sword, grinning gleefully.
"What a horrible time for a fleet to be coming for you. You've doomed the Pirate King, you've doomed your precious love because you were too selfish. You could have stabbed him that night, said he was dead, and leave him be. He would have survived."

"No," Nagito turned away, but his feet wouldn't move. "I didn't know that wouldn't kill him back then. I just couldn't-!"
"You couldn't bear tossing away your selfish feelings, you had to take him for your own, and in doing so, you created a whole mess," She sighed, raising her gaze to the sky. The raindrops were frozen in place, and yet it still looked like they were rolling down her face like tears. "He'll die, and everyone he saved will be doomed. Every pirate will be eliminated, the end of pirates will come with his death, and you caused it."
"That's not..." That's not true, that couldn't be true! "Who are you, why are you telling me this, why are you...?"

"Aw honey," She looked back to meet his eyes, keeping her smile, although it was more menacing than gentle. "You already met me, just not... The real me. So I'm talking to you here, where the real you is hiding away. If things go as predicted, you'll see me again."
Without warning, she charged forward, plunging the sword into his gut.
But Komaeda didn't have the chance to cry out, or even feel pain as he jolted up, some bath water splashing out of the tub.

His heart thrummed so fast, he couldn't even breathe normally.
Why did such dreams start coming to him? When did he even fall asleep?
The pirate looked around the bath, then quickly rose his wooden hand out of the water. He didn't want that to start rotting. Shaking some droplets off it, Komaeda rest the fake hand on the side of the tub and relaxed back into it.

When was the last time he actually had a bath?
Most thought it useless and unnecessary so bathing was a rarity, but he had to admit, it felt good getting the grime off himself. What didn't feel good was knowing he was sitting in his own body filth and suds from having washed his hair.
That would be enough of that then.
He stood up and stepped out of the tub, grabbing one of the towels the maid had left for him.

As he dried and dressed, Nagito's thoughts kept returning to his worries.
Killing Kamukura... Did he really force him to expose his weakness?
What was going on with him today?
He decided to let his chain sit above his clothes and brushed a comb through his hair, still dripping with some water and suds, but he didn't really care about that part.