❝ Impress me, empress.❞
The words had been said.
A demand?
Or simply, a request?
One treasured love
and thought of it as a strength.
The other loathed love
and thought of it as a weakness.
Then later, he knew.
But he just smiled
as a part of him die...
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And to his surprise, he did not want more after witnessing such a scene.
His ruby eyes captured it all perfectly. Even the emperor eye couldn't predict what would happen next. And the future seemed... distant. Nearly unseen.
At that very moment, he could only stand there as the heavy rain of cherry blossoms started to pour to welcome their first ever encounter.
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Then, Akashi finally met 'them'.
Right under the cherry blossom petals, they concealed themselves. Right under the cherry blossom petals, they were blooming. Right under the cherry blossom petals, he felt something like no other.
Something he had not imagined, something he had never seen. Ever.
He saw a blooming sunflower under the clear blue sky.
His eyes could not blink. And the next time he got to see them again, they changed.
He saw a blooming sunflower, living inside a crystal clear sea.
Most parts inside him questioned his own judge, one thing that had not happened for almost six years-since his mother's death.
A blooming sunflower under the clear blue sky... A blooming sunflower, living inside a crystal clear sea...
Akashi felt a strong urge to curse himself out.
Something new like that, that kind of entity, with no glimpse of the future?
