My Sweet Servant // Ayato x Thoma

40: Him

(I just scribbled everything in the pic. It's really messy cuz these bitches have such complex designs, so I hope you can still see what's happening. If not I'll tell you.)

-Fighting

-Also I got sick again, so.. it took me a little longer to get this chapter out. It seems that my body likes to get sick all the time 😭😭

"Made it." The person blew the hair out of their face.

"..." If Ayato didn't blink, he felt his eyes would dry out. "..You came back..?"

He looked different. His dry, blonde hair was being blown in the wind. His brown-red eyes.. glared down at his son, maddened to see him in pain. The father of that who is his servant, the one who was working to find the murderer of his wife..

Tom was here..

"Is he hurt?" He said.

Ayato blinked. "Hm?" Hearing that low voice made him snap back to reality.

"Is he hurt?" Tom repeated.

"No. He's just worn out." Ayato held Thoma close to him.

Tom took a few steps forward and crouched down in front of the two. "My son.. I was hoping to show him some techniques. But it doesn't seem like he has a lot of physical strength."

The blonde was close to passing out. He used all the strength he had to keep a strong barrier, and that caused his body to overheat. He was having a burnout, again, but not the migraine burnout, back in that one chapter. Thoma didn't even realize that his own father is crouching down right before him.

"..He didn't want to deactivate his ability. That's why he's like this." Ayato said. "..You finally decided to join the fight?"

"I wasn't even in this area when the fight started." Tom sighed. "This interrupted my duel with.. him."

He looked across the way. He stood up straight, staring at what seemed to be another guy with dark hair, a tight headband, and dark clothes that were Fontaine designed.

The others were too busy to notice the random guy there.

"Is that why you're all scratched up? Who is he?" Ayato would question.

"Vladd. The one I've been looking for, who killed Thoma's mother." Tom said. He got serious all of a sudden.

Ayato got up onto his feet, he picked Thoma off the ground. "It took you this long to begin your duel?"

"He wanted to hang out. He wanted to catch up, before the battle that lasted for hours." Tom said.

Ayato got a weird feeling. "How long have you know him?"

"Forever. He's my brother." Tom said.

"..." Ayato was stunned. The man who killed Thoma's mother turns out to be.. his uncle? If Thoma finds out, he'd be even more broken.

Their history.. Tom's history with his brother isn't great. Thoma doesn't even know that he has an uncle from his dad's side of the family. He grew up thinking that Tom was an only child. When they were young, Vladd was cursed out from the family, so he ran off when he was almost 5 years old. He ended up meeting another family in Fontaine, and grew up there. He felt so angry.. angry that Tom had the life that he was supposed to have. Out of rage, he did the unthinkable, and put poison in the well.

In the end.. the person who died was the one person he didn't have an intention to kill. He was out of his mind.. is what he said.

"Tom-"