.:~Pandora's Box Vortex~:.

“Really? That’s worth being stuck with me for the rest of your life?”

“I’m already stuck with you for the rest of my life,” Javier said.

“… I mean --”

“I said it before,” Javier said, folding a hand over his heart in a salute. “I’m a knight of the Frontera estate, and always will be. I’ll be by your side until the day I die. You already knew that.”

That was. True.

Lloyd did already know that. By nature of being a knight bound to protect his ward at any cost, Javier must go through every single day, prepared to die for Lloyd’s sake. Lloyd had cheerfully accounted for that in every single, ridiculously overreached thing he had ever done. ‘If I go, then so do you’.

Javier really wasn’t getting paid enough for this. There were better opportunities he could have taken, and he had turned them all down, for the sake of the Fronteras.

It was fun, saying something like, You’ll be trapped working for me forever. Who didn’t want an employee who would do anything for you, even if they looked at you like they wanted to kill you? Especially if they wanted to kill you! Wasn’t it nice, seeing a face that wanted to be anywhere but with you, but still diligently working anyway?

It was a little different, having Javier acknowledge it like this. Zero hint of unwillingness or discontent. A pure and serious desire to... be with him for the rest of his life.

“… Why does it have to be a marriage, though?”

“In any case, Master Lloyd--”

Javier smiled brilliantly. It was a smile worthy of launching a thousand ships. The beauty of his expression cast a halo about him, like his entire body was bathed in light. With this angelic appearance, he said:

“I’m the only one who can tolerate your face in the bedroom.”

My sister called me gay multiple times while i making this one

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