weakest paladin

“Come! Play! With! Me!”

Astolfo was pouting, tugging at Kotarou’s sleeve with one hand - attempting to tug him down to play on a Nintendo Switch with him. The Rider puffed his cheeks out softly, holding up the device before dropping it carefully into his lap, holding up a bag of chocolate candies.

“I wanna play a game with you!”

Holding up the chocolate again, he pulled one out and handed it to Kotarou.

Romani just blinked at the Rider with an awkward smile, confusion clearly showing on his face as he listened and watched Astolfo. What was the problem? He seemed absolutely fine, he saw no injuries or bruises on him, except… Oh.

“Uhm… Have you tried removing it with something wet?” He asked, already searching some wet wipes in his pocket. They were disinfectant wipes, but wet, so they should be good. “Try this, it should help.”

“Uwaa! I didn’t, I didn’t!”

Fingers delicately took Romani’s offered disinfectant wipe, tearing open the little foil package with his teeth and shaking out the wipe itself. With a hum, the Rider began wiping his knee, gasping like a child being given a lollipop for the first time.

“Ah! It worked! Thank you, thank yooooo~u!”

Giggling, Astolfo re-folded the wipe and tried to slide the used wipe back into the foil pack before he could toss it out, humming.

“Wahaha! Wa ha ha ha ha!”

Why’s he laughing like that? Astolfo pointed up at the other Rider, grinning from ear to ear as usual.

“I challenge you! You ‘n’ me! Mario Kart!”

The challenge was set, now it was just a question of whether or not Yi would take the offer. Astolfo just wanted to have some fun with a fellow Rider, and unfortunately ( or maybe fortunately? ) for Yi, he’d come across him first. And Mario Kart seemed like a good idea!

“Uwaaaaaaa! Terrible, it’s terrible, terriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~ble, doctor!”

The paladin bounced on his heel, his other leg staying rather still despite his body moving in tandem with the small bounces. It was like he wasn’t moving it on purpose, and after a moment the answer became clear. His hands pointed at the knee in question, a pout forming on his lips.

“I got flour on my knee and it won’t come off!”

“You move that... Then you move that... Aha! Ehehe, Master, Master! I got iiiiiiiiiiiii~t!”

Astolfo was getting used to playing Tetris, moving the blocks around before letting them drop down into the proper places. It was an interesting game that took him some getting used to, but it seemed he was starting to get the hang of it. Waving his hand around, he unfortunately didn’t notice a certain block line going up... And up... And up... Until...

- GAME OVER. -

“I wonder if there’s any cake... Only one way to find out !!”

And with that! Astolfo wastes no time humming, practically skipping down the hallways of Chaldea. It wasn’t strange to see him roam about like such, his liking to stay active and not bored the main reason. Though this time, it seemed he wanted cake!

“Ah - Madame Alter Ego! Hello hello~!”

Spotting the other Servant, the Rider wastes no time in offering her a grin, his head tilting slightly to one side.

so i stole this picrew from @sillydoctor. owo i felt like makin a cute astolfo with it.