[Legend of Sun Knight] fic: A Rose for Your Hair Part 4
Title: A Rose for Your Hair Part 4
Fandom: The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 1,356
Summary: In which Judgment's hair gains super powers and the events of v5 still play out, but with super hair involved. Set after v5c6.
Notes: The super hair fic continues. XD (Psst, if you haven't seen it yet, kiyutsuna drew a short comic about hair being the best wingman.)
Previous part
Part 4
Sun's vice-captain was the one who unlocked the door for me. By the time the door opened, I was already in front of it, ready to leave, but the sight of Adair halted me in my steps. At once, his strangled words that had reached me even in my sleep surfaced once more.
What did Captain lose this time? What did he lose?!
In my sleep, I had apologized over and over, but now that I was face-to-face with Adair and his worry-filled face, I knew that no apology could ever make up for what I had done.
Sun's brilliant blond hair that he had always been proud of was no more. He'd never thought himself to be much of a holy knight, but he had always felt assured that at least he looked the part of the Sun Knight. Now, he no longer had that particular reassurance, the same one he had always believed was the reason why his teacher had chosen him.
Although Sun could have lost a far graver part of himself, that didn't mean that losing the color of his hair was a small matter. He had always taken it to be proof that he was the Sun Knight. To him, being the Sun Knight meant having clear blue eyes and dazzling golden hair.
It was like I had taken Sun's identity from him.
In addition, selfish as it was, I could not help but wonder if my folly had caused Sun to lose something else as well -- his trust in me. I could not help but worry that even if he never spoke of it, he would no longer feel as if he could come to me with his troubles. He already kept us in the dark more often than not. I did not want Sun to close himself off even more, to keep me out of the loop, to do everything by himself. But could he keep on trusting me after my foolishness?
Lesus, you are being too small-minded, I chided myself. Since when has Grisia been so unforgiving of his brothers?
Grisia held grudges like no other, yes, but he had always been too lenient with us. I knew it. I'd always known it. I did not deserve it.
No apology could ever make up for my mistake. I could only move forward.
Adair stepped to the side and reported, "The other knight-captains are already on their way to the eastern city gate."
I gave him a nod and made myself walk past him. I had not walked very far when he called out, "Knight-Captain Judgment."
I stopped and turned. However, my hair didn't turn with me. Instead, it drifted stiffly in midair, half blocking my view of Adair. Despite how Adair probably could not see my face, my emotions were on full display with the way my hair was acting. It was true that I wanted to be out there already, to be certain that she wouldn't tell Sun anything, but this really wouldn't do.
Adair gazed at my hair, his expression unreadable. Then, he extended his hand out. I brushed my uncooperative hair out of the way before I could see what he was holding.
It was a rose barrette. A bright red one.
"This might help," he said. When I didn't take it, he gave an unhelpful explanation. "My mother gave this to me when I last visited."
And by that, he meant the time I had forced him to take a vacation by knocking him unconscious. His mother was probably hoping he would gift it to a lover. Maybe she was even hoping for him to settle down and give her grandchildren. I was very certain she never thought her son would gift the barrette to the Judgment Knight.
Even Sun would have made more sense. Maybe Adair had actually planned on giving it to Sun.
It would make no sense for me to take it, especially since I was the one who had endangered his captain.
However, before I could turn him down, a strand of hair inched out. The dark lock of hair curled around the barrette and wouldn't let go. It even inched around Adair's hand in the process, reacting much better to Adair than how it had initially reacted to Metal.
"...Thanks," I ended up saying to Adair without much other choice. Then, my hair happily lifted the barrette, bringing it towards the base of my neck, and...fastened itself. After that, the ends came to rest against my back neatly.
Why do I have the feeling that my hair really likes the barrette?
A strange smile came across Adair's face. "No problem. I'm glad your hair likes it."
So Adair thinks the same?
I patted the barrette. I hadn't thought my hair would become so obedient, but maybe it really liked the barrette a whole lot. Now, other than the length, it might even pass for normal hair.
"Good luck, Knight-Captain Judgment," said Adair. Please look after my captain.
I nodded.
I would not permit myself to make any more mistakes.
After parting from Adair, who left to round up other holy knights, I met Leaf on my way over to the eastern city gate. Metal and Blaze had gone on ahead of us. It was the first time I'd gotten to speak with Leaf since I had woken up.
"Your hair..." Leaf said. Like I had expected, having hair long enough to rival Sun's would not be something easy to overlook, even if it was currently being obedient.
As I cut down a ghoul, I answered, "A gift courtesy of Resurrection."
Right after I spoke, Leaf raised his bow high and shot down multiple undead creatures that were at least three blocks away.
Leaf's marksmanship has improved once again.
And now I had no doubt that his eyesight had improved greatly too, which must have contributed to his improved marksmanship. The undead creatures that Leaf had slain were so far away that I could not even tell what kinds of undead creatures they were.
Leaf gestured at his eyes, smiled a pained smile, and said, "A gift courtesy of Resurrection."
Leaf was truly a good guy through and through. He had no need of reassuring me that I was not alone in this. He couldn't have known the price of being revived, so it wasn't the same, but... Leaf was truly a good guy.
"How much has your eyesight improved?" I asked and slammed my sword into the approaching ghouls. We were coming across more and more undead creatures as we approached the location indicated by Sun.
"I can clearly see the dirt particles on the bones of those skeleton warriors around forty meters away from us," Leaf answered. He notched another arrow and shot it, falling yet another undead creature that I could not even identify because of how far away it was. "And I can identify enemies more than a hundred meters away with no problem."
"Just how much more than a hundred meters?" I questioned, unable to help myself from detecting Leaf's attempt to gloss over the actual range of his new sight.
Leaf notched another arrow. With some effort, he released it and brought down an undead creature that looked no different from a splotch of ink to me. "...A thousand meters might be more accurate," he finally said and glanced at me sheepishly.
A thousand meters?!
"That was impressive," I said. Even if he could see that far, that didn't guarantee he could accurately shoot that far. It was true that Leaf had amazing marksmanship, but shooting a moving enemy that was a thousand meters away? The strength and accuracy that would require was no joke. The Leaf Knight had always been rumored to be able to shoot down a butterfly more than a thousand meters away, but that had only ever been an exaggerated rumor!
"I've been practicing..." Leaf admitted. He gestured at my hair. "Did anything change other than the length?"
To answer Leaf, who had so kindly demonstrated the change in his sight, I unfastened the rose barrette. The moment I did so, my hair unfurled in a whirlwind of black and lashed out at the undead creatures that surrounded us. The entire time, it skillfully danced around Leaf.
With the corpses of undead creatures littering the ground by our feet and my hair drifting about, I answered, "Yes."
to be continued
Here's the reason behind the title. :'D; I first started writing this fic for the No True Pair prompt, "Judgment & Adair, a rose in your hair" and thought it would be perfect for writing super hair. But why would Judgment have a rose in his hair?! Well, I thought it might be something to help him keep the hair at bay... But now that I've seen aoi_nezumi's drawing of Lesus's hair giving Grisia a rose, that has got to happen somehow too. XD;
Fandom: The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 1,356
Summary: In which Judgment's hair gains super powers and the events of v5 still play out, but with super hair involved. Set after v5c6.
Notes: The super hair fic continues. XD (Psst, if you haven't seen it yet, kiyutsuna drew a short comic about hair being the best wingman.)
Previous part
Part 4
Sun's vice-captain was the one who unlocked the door for me. By the time the door opened, I was already in front of it, ready to leave, but the sight of Adair halted me in my steps. At once, his strangled words that had reached me even in my sleep surfaced once more.
What did Captain lose this time? What did he lose?!
In my sleep, I had apologized over and over, but now that I was face-to-face with Adair and his worry-filled face, I knew that no apology could ever make up for what I had done.
Sun's brilliant blond hair that he had always been proud of was no more. He'd never thought himself to be much of a holy knight, but he had always felt assured that at least he looked the part of the Sun Knight. Now, he no longer had that particular reassurance, the same one he had always believed was the reason why his teacher had chosen him.
Although Sun could have lost a far graver part of himself, that didn't mean that losing the color of his hair was a small matter. He had always taken it to be proof that he was the Sun Knight. To him, being the Sun Knight meant having clear blue eyes and dazzling golden hair.
It was like I had taken Sun's identity from him.
In addition, selfish as it was, I could not help but wonder if my folly had caused Sun to lose something else as well -- his trust in me. I could not help but worry that even if he never spoke of it, he would no longer feel as if he could come to me with his troubles. He already kept us in the dark more often than not. I did not want Sun to close himself off even more, to keep me out of the loop, to do everything by himself. But could he keep on trusting me after my foolishness?
Lesus, you are being too small-minded, I chided myself. Since when has Grisia been so unforgiving of his brothers?
Grisia held grudges like no other, yes, but he had always been too lenient with us. I knew it. I'd always known it. I did not deserve it.
No apology could ever make up for my mistake. I could only move forward.
Adair stepped to the side and reported, "The other knight-captains are already on their way to the eastern city gate."
I gave him a nod and made myself walk past him. I had not walked very far when he called out, "Knight-Captain Judgment."
I stopped and turned. However, my hair didn't turn with me. Instead, it drifted stiffly in midair, half blocking my view of Adair. Despite how Adair probably could not see my face, my emotions were on full display with the way my hair was acting. It was true that I wanted to be out there already, to be certain that she wouldn't tell Sun anything, but this really wouldn't do.
Adair gazed at my hair, his expression unreadable. Then, he extended his hand out. I brushed my uncooperative hair out of the way before I could see what he was holding.
It was a rose barrette. A bright red one.
"This might help," he said. When I didn't take it, he gave an unhelpful explanation. "My mother gave this to me when I last visited."
And by that, he meant the time I had forced him to take a vacation by knocking him unconscious. His mother was probably hoping he would gift it to a lover. Maybe she was even hoping for him to settle down and give her grandchildren. I was very certain she never thought her son would gift the barrette to the Judgment Knight.
Even Sun would have made more sense. Maybe Adair had actually planned on giving it to Sun.
It would make no sense for me to take it, especially since I was the one who had endangered his captain.
However, before I could turn him down, a strand of hair inched out. The dark lock of hair curled around the barrette and wouldn't let go. It even inched around Adair's hand in the process, reacting much better to Adair than how it had initially reacted to Metal.
"...Thanks," I ended up saying to Adair without much other choice. Then, my hair happily lifted the barrette, bringing it towards the base of my neck, and...fastened itself. After that, the ends came to rest against my back neatly.
Why do I have the feeling that my hair really likes the barrette?
A strange smile came across Adair's face. "No problem. I'm glad your hair likes it."
So Adair thinks the same?
I patted the barrette. I hadn't thought my hair would become so obedient, but maybe it really liked the barrette a whole lot. Now, other than the length, it might even pass for normal hair.
"Good luck, Knight-Captain Judgment," said Adair. Please look after my captain.
I nodded.
I would not permit myself to make any more mistakes.
After parting from Adair, who left to round up other holy knights, I met Leaf on my way over to the eastern city gate. Metal and Blaze had gone on ahead of us. It was the first time I'd gotten to speak with Leaf since I had woken up.
"Your hair..." Leaf said. Like I had expected, having hair long enough to rival Sun's would not be something easy to overlook, even if it was currently being obedient.
As I cut down a ghoul, I answered, "A gift courtesy of Resurrection."
Right after I spoke, Leaf raised his bow high and shot down multiple undead creatures that were at least three blocks away.
Leaf's marksmanship has improved once again.
And now I had no doubt that his eyesight had improved greatly too, which must have contributed to his improved marksmanship. The undead creatures that Leaf had slain were so far away that I could not even tell what kinds of undead creatures they were.
Leaf gestured at his eyes, smiled a pained smile, and said, "A gift courtesy of Resurrection."
Leaf was truly a good guy through and through. He had no need of reassuring me that I was not alone in this. He couldn't have known the price of being revived, so it wasn't the same, but... Leaf was truly a good guy.
"How much has your eyesight improved?" I asked and slammed my sword into the approaching ghouls. We were coming across more and more undead creatures as we approached the location indicated by Sun.
"I can clearly see the dirt particles on the bones of those skeleton warriors around forty meters away from us," Leaf answered. He notched another arrow and shot it, falling yet another undead creature that I could not even identify because of how far away it was. "And I can identify enemies more than a hundred meters away with no problem."
"Just how much more than a hundred meters?" I questioned, unable to help myself from detecting Leaf's attempt to gloss over the actual range of his new sight.
Leaf notched another arrow. With some effort, he released it and brought down an undead creature that looked no different from a splotch of ink to me. "...A thousand meters might be more accurate," he finally said and glanced at me sheepishly.
A thousand meters?!
"That was impressive," I said. Even if he could see that far, that didn't guarantee he could accurately shoot that far. It was true that Leaf had amazing marksmanship, but shooting a moving enemy that was a thousand meters away? The strength and accuracy that would require was no joke. The Leaf Knight had always been rumored to be able to shoot down a butterfly more than a thousand meters away, but that had only ever been an exaggerated rumor!
"I've been practicing..." Leaf admitted. He gestured at my hair. "Did anything change other than the length?"
To answer Leaf, who had so kindly demonstrated the change in his sight, I unfastened the rose barrette. The moment I did so, my hair unfurled in a whirlwind of black and lashed out at the undead creatures that surrounded us. The entire time, it skillfully danced around Leaf.
With the corpses of undead creatures littering the ground by our feet and my hair drifting about, I answered, "Yes."
to be continued
Here's the reason behind the title. :'D; I first started writing this fic for the No True Pair prompt, "Judgment & Adair, a rose in your hair" and thought it would be perfect for writing super hair. But why would Judgment have a rose in his hair?! Well, I thought it might be something to help him keep the hair at bay... But now that I've seen aoi_nezumi's drawing of Lesus's hair giving Grisia a rose, that has got to happen somehow too. XD;