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Swan in the Curse Part Nine

“I know what you are,” the Gray Beast says when they are alone. “You are one of the eudemon that Ryouta lives with now. I can smell him all over you.”

It is a strange thing to say because Kasamatsu can’t see how that could possibly be true. Kasamatsu has not seen Kise in… far too long. And surely, the fifteen minutes a night when he does see Kise is not enough for his scent to be on his skin.

“Why haven’t you talked?” Haizaki asks. “You haven’t made a single sound since we found you.”

Kasamatsu can only stare at the man. His whole body still hums, ready for action, ready to fight or to flee at a moment’s notice.

“There is magic about you,” Haizaki says, conversationally. “I can smell that, too. Not enchantment, you’re not under a spell. That must mean that you are the one enchanting.” Haizaki continues to look at him, with intrigued and hungry gleam that Kasamatsu doesn’t like at all.

“Eudemons do not have the same kind of power as Beasts,” Haizaki says out of nowhere, and Kasamatsu doesn’t like the fact that the man is so willing to carry-on a one-sided conversation. “But there is power to them. People love them, and there’s magic there, too. Just think how much power there could be if they hated you.”

He leaves Kasamatsu locked in a palace room, after that. And Kasamatsu has the distinct feeling that he is in a lot of trouble.

“Brother, brother.”

He wakes to the sound of his brothers’ cries, he wakes to find himself in Kise’s arms.

“We have heard everything, brother,” Moriyama says. Kasamatsu looks at him over Kise’s shoulder, who is holding him so tightly as he weeps into Kasamatsu’s shoulder that Kasamatsu can’t fully breathe. He doesn’t want to pull away though. He finds that he likes being in Kise’s hold. “Kise has told us what the King used to be. The rumor about the village is that the king plans to marry you.”

“Run, Kasamatsu,” Kobori urges. “We will help you escape.”

Kasamatsu looks pointedly at the window in his room—it is small enough for swans to slip through, but not large enough for a man.

“Not now,” Kobori amends, “But we will find a way.”

“You can’t marry him,” Hayakawa says, in his standard garbled fashion. “Surely, he must plan to kill you.”

What the King used to be. That’s what Moriyama said. And only now does it occur to Kasamatsu that perhaps the Gray Beast is not disguised as a human—perhaps he is human.

All of the sudden, Kasamatsu begins to understand what Haizaki has planned.

“Brother,” Kise says, speaking for the first time, his lips brushing against Kasamatsu’s ear. “Captain. Yukio. You should have never brought me into your home. I have caused you nothing but pain.”

Kasamatsu lifts his arms to encircle Kise, to pat him on the back of his head as he cries. He wishes he could say, It’s not your fault, but he knows that wouldn’t provide much consolation. Kise would never accept that.

What he would say, if he were able, is You’re worth it.

So perhaps it is best he cannot speak, for surely it would be too embarrassing to say that out loud.

A/N: Ahaha, OK, clearly I was way off with my original estimate regarding how much of this story I have left. I’m pretty sure NOW I have three more parts left until conclusion, but dang this one is getting long. Thanks to everyone who is still reading!! Also realizing that I totally misnumbered the last one because I can’t count or something. 😓😅 Parts One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight

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