Chapter 163: This Special Kind of Love
[KAWAI]
Tamiko wanted to fight his father’s embrace, and he wanted to say that this wasn’t right or even that this wasn’t the time for this. He wanted to tell his father that he was late and that all of this wouldn’t ever mean anything; oh, he wanted to, so desperately.
However, the way that his father was holding onto him gently, embracing him like a father would a son, Tamiko felt the fight leave him. He felt like he really belonged here with his father and that all would be alright.
He wanted to refute the king’s words and make him understand that this was not the time for him to be acting all high and mighty, but then he didn’t take it in him for that. So, he let his father hold him and whispered promises that he was so sure King Zaffuto would keep.
One thing that Tamiko had already learned was that the mad king never played when it came to him. The king was always true to his words when it came to his son and there wasn’t a thing that anyone would tell him that would change his mind, not even his dear son himself.
"Papa is here, my little angel," King Zaffut0o reassured and Tamiko felt the embrace warming him, so he returned the god that his father had on him, carefully and calculatedly keeping his hands closer.
He was scared of what this would mean, but he trusted his father to make it all make sense. So, for the first time, the young prince let go, he didn’t fight, he didn’t say anything that would cause a fight again, he didn’t do shit that would have his father worry for him.
He just leaned on his father’s shoulders, imagining that he was rougher and he had his father carry him like fathers did with their kids.
"You don’t have the right to protect yourself, my boy. Everyone in Kawaii owes you their lives and they will lay their lives for you without question. No one is ever going to make you cry again, my Kaito.