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"Have you heard of a Lunar Tear, Naib?"
Naib looked at S3 with a confused look, sure he had heard of that kind of flower but only from the people in the Resistance Camp.
"I have, why?" Asked the brown haired android, looking from under his hood to the YoRHa scout unit beside him.
Ever since the unit had come down from their base near the moon he had done nothing but tag along him, Naib, who kept to himself even in Camp.
He still remembers the first time he approached him, a brand new YoRHa scout with brown hair instead of their usual white, blindfold with an inverted triangle inside a snake biting its own tail and lines that made the symbol look like it has wings, asking a lot of questions related to the human world
that he also is curious about.
Like right now, he and Naib are seated on the top deck of a metal structure, feeling the wind and watching the wildlife below them go on their merry way.
"Nothing, I just heard it from some of my colleagues back in base! They said if you find one your wish will come true!" Hummed S3, swinging his legs from where they sat.
"You know for a YoRHa unit you're sure peppy, S3," said Naib, derailing the topic.
The scout let out a chuckle at that, his companion support unit flying over to him with a tilt. S3's support unit has always been silent, now that Naib had thought about it, most if not all of the support units he had seen are chatty and mission oriented, S3's is just silent and will do whatever their owner wishes.
It's an adorable sight.
"Not all androids are the same! And I told you, you can call me Eli! Brooke here already loves her name, don't you Brooke?" The said support unit gave a satisfied noise, making S3, or Eli, laugh.
"You're a YoRHa unit, so S3 stays."
"But Naib you were once a YoRHa unit too right?"
"Who says? I'm not part of any group."
"Hm, but once, you're a YoRHa soldier, where else could you have been if not there? The humans are all in the moon and none here to have an illegal reproduction of androids!"
Naib scoffed as Eli laughed, this always happen in their daily conversation, just this, just them in a random place talking with each other (or honestly a one-sided conversation) and then they'll be on their merry way like the animals below them.
"If that's all I'll be on my wa—" "wait!"
The brunette looked at the blindfolded android with confusion, what else is there to talk about?
"If you see a Lunar Tear, can you contact me? I want to see them with my own eyes."
"Why? Can't you look one on your own?"
"I have my own duties, after this you'll just travel around right?"
It always surprise the android that the scout model is sometimes so accurate with what he'll do even without saying so, heck he hasn't said a lot in their conversation!
He's too focused listening to S3's voice.
"How do you know what I'll do, really," scoffed Naib, slumping slightly in his place.
S3 let out a small laugh,
it sounded like wind chimes he has in his base-of-sorts
, standing up from his place and walk at the ladder down before turning to him, a finger over his lips.
"That's my own secret."
With that the S3 and his support unit slid down, going to where they were supposed to be in while Naib watched from above.
Strange unit.
Very strange and human like unit.
"You want to see it, huh…" mumbled Naib, the skies darkening
An incoming rain, the grass turning darker rather than its lush.
"I found one already."
Naib stood in the City Ruins, on the grassy fields, devoid of any other forms, life nor machine. The brunette pulled out a glowing white lily, the famed Lunar Tear he had found in the desert, a unique desert rose unlike any other he has seen.
"It looks beautiful…"
Under him laid S3, bleeding out artificial blood and in ruins, the rain washing off the blood and dirt off his body and his support unit, damaged but still can repair, by Naib’s side, clinging by his shoulder. Naib's hands is coated in blood, his blood, which stained the Lunar Tear's stem slightly.
"I'm… sorry S3…" the android huffed out, laying the lunar tear on the other's chest.
S3 smiled, even though it looked pained and sorrowful.
"I knew this would happen, I'm too human after all," the YoRHa android gasped out, still smiling,
like an ethereal angel
, "you're an E type YoRHa unit after all."
Naib winced at that. That cursed unit he doesn't want to be with, the one that had isolated him to the others.
Yet the S3 had approached him.
"How long…?" The brunette kneeled down to Eli, looking at the deep blues of the other's eyes, blindfold long gone.
"Ever since we met." The way S3 said that was so soft, with no regrets, it stabs Naib through his metal heart.
"Then why did you befriend me?!"
S3, Eli, looked at him, soft blues in cold green, the same smile still in his face, it just hurts Naib unlike the ease he knows the other was planning to give.
“You looked lonely, I want to be your friend.”
He should've lived, Naib knows he'll come back, there's more than one body of his in the bunker after all, but knowing the bunker they would surely reformat him, so his memories… all the knowledge and experience he and his support unit had made, will be gone.
The brunette let out a sob, he shouldn’t really be able to feel emotions like this, he’s an android, a being with no true heart and just synthesized codings. Yet why does he feel sad, cold under the rain.
“H-Hey Naib,” the YoRHa unit called, making Naib snap back to face him and his
peaceful, angelic, soft
smile, “now that I found a Lunar Tear, I know what to wish for…”
Humoring the dying android, Naib asked what his wish is, earning a laugh (even when he’s dying he’s so calm) from S3.
Both of them knows these words spoken will be the last Naib will hear from him, from this version of the scout unit.
It made the executioner unit’s heart freeze and crack.
“I wish I could have spent more time with you, and that you’d call me Eli.”
With one final smile, S3 ceased moving, the Lunar Tear seemingly losing its glow as well.
S3…
Naib picked up the corpse of S3, carrying it off to a place he knows the other liked.
S3…
The support unit beeped, as if understanding what the android was going to do.
Eli…
They’re in the Forest Kingdom, in one of the hidden coves that both of them found one time when the scout unit decided to follow him, filled with lush green grass and wildflowers, the rain from the City Ruins not affecting the area at all so the place looked like a safe haven.
Just for him and Eli.
Naib dug a hole in the center of the cove, in the center of the sunlight that shines through, and buried him there, the Lunar Tear he had given the other on top of the makeshift headstone the brunette had made, Brooke cooing sadly.
"I'll see you soon, Eli."
"Naib!"
The android turned around and smiled. Running towards him is S3, Eli, waving his hand to catch the other's attention, beside him is his support unit, Brooke.
"Eli," greeted Naib, letting the brunette catch up to him.
"There's so many Lunar Tears! It's so beautiful!"
"Of course, they're all for you ."