[Fanfic] Tower of God - Collection for KhunBaam week 2022: Day 2

Seguimos con el reto de la KhunBaam week de este año, y no creo que vaya a estar al día más allá de este día XD Hoy volví al trabajo, y volvió bien bélico D: Así que no tengo energía para mucho más que para releer esto que ya tenía escrito y publicarlo u.u

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Collection for KhunBaam week 2022
by RPMizu
 
Day 2: Smile / Royal

At first, Khun simply acted on a whim. Apparently, fate had decided he would meet a boy with huge, innocent eyes, who was alone in the middle of an open field plagued with murderous intent. His trembling yet brave tiny figure was a very interesting sight. The boy looked so out of place. Why would someone like him enter the Tower and become a Regular? He is not fit to be here, Khun had thought back then. If no one protected him, he would die a premature and meaningless death.

And since Khun had nothing better to do, he approached this strange little creature. Even though for Khun everything was mostly dull and meaningless until then, this boy had managed to awaken his curiosity. He needed to know who this boy was, why he was here.

Baam… It was a fitting name on one hand, since the boy seemed to be sweet like a chestnut dessert. 

But on the other hand, who could ever think about night when looking at him? After all, Baam had a smile that could light up the whole room he was in, like some sort of miniature sun. Innocent. Genuinely filled with curiosity and love for others.

Protect. That was the word that started haunting Khun’s brain ever since he saw that face. He had to protect that precious smile, the only pure and beautiful thing in this hell they call the Tower.

However, Baam was like a magnet for other people, for those who loved him… and for those who hated him. For Khun, it was outrageous to think someone could ever hate someone as pure as Baam. But there were people who envied him… and people who wanted to use him. Because his sweet and caring personality, so out of place inside the Tower, was not the only thing that made Baam special. He was literally out of place. An Irregular.

And those people… those people destroyed Baam’s bright smile. The very thing Khun wanted to protect the most, with all his might… they shattered it into pieces.

When they met again, six years had gone by. The Baam he once knew was gone. Now, he went by the name Viole. His hair had grown past his thighs, and long bangs covered his once sparkling golden eyes. Baam was not the innocent, sunny boy he was when he entered the Tower. Not anymore. He was not weak and defenseless anymore either. Those people, FUG, had wanted to transform him into a killing machine. A God, capable of slaying the King of this Tower.

And Baam had grown strong, he indeed has. But at what cost? Khun would not care less about overthrowing Jahad and the Ten Families if that meant Baam could smile happily. But the world apparently did not want that. The world did not want Baam to be free, to live peacefully with his friends, as he has always wished for. Because the world was never at peace, and there were few people with power great enough to put an end to this eternal war. And of course, even though Baam was broken by those very same people and is just starting to himself back together, he is still the caring and infinitely pure boy he was when he entered the Tower. Of course he could not stand by and watch as other people suffered before him.

In Khun’s opinion, the world can go fuck itself if he can have Baam smiling every day. He can kill anyone for that smile. But Baam has a pure heart, which cannot not be truly happy as long as the people in the Tower are suffering. What can Khun do against that, if it was Baam’s pure heart what made him fall in love with him in the first place? Those bastards say Baam is a God that will slay the false King, and at first, Baam despised the idea. Of course he would not agree; Baam does not want to use his power to enslave or kill anyone.

But then again, at the Name Hunt station, Baam says in a whisper he does want to become a God, but for other purpose. A warm and cozy feeling takes hold of Khun’s chest when he hears exactly why Baam wants to be a God now. Baam wants it so that he can fulfill everyone’s wishes, so he can be someone who can make everyone safe and happy. In the end, Baam is more ambitious than anyone else in this Tower, but the nature of his ambitious was simply different. And that wish alone, even if Khun knows it will never become true, made Baam a God in Khun’s eyes.

So, if Baam wishes so, Khun will become his lighthouse, to guide him through the path of glory. He will become his soldier, who slays each and every enemy that dares to cross Baam’s way. He will be the one by Baam’s side when he ascends to new heights. And he will be the one to put the crown on Baam’s head. Because no one is more fit to be King than the one who wants to be the God that makes everyone’s wishes come true. Baam will be the star that shines even through the darkness of the night. And then, that smile will not only heal Khun’s heart. It will bright up the entire world. Right now, that is Khun’s dream.

-END of Day 2-