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“I’d rather die than do this,” Cale snarled, glaring daggers at Alberu despite outwardly looking stoic. Alberu’s eyebrow twitched in annoyance. He straightened out his dress, feeling mildly scared of Beacrox who keeps on staring at the wrinkles like he’s about to snap the blonde into two.
“Well, dongsaeng,” Alberu spat the words, “I feel the same.”
“Why do we have to do this?” Cale grimaced, questioning his life choices that lead to this very moment.
“C’mon human! Let’s beat this challenge and go fuck up the god of death!” Raon beamed, already motioning punches with his mighty dragon paws. His siblings agreed, rubbing their cheeks on Cale’s dress and meowing.
“Don’t worry Cale nya~”
“You look pretty nya~”
Alberu giggled like some sort of teenage girl to further irritate his sworn brother, “pfft- yeah dongsaeng you’re pretty.”
Cale frowned and looked at his hyung who was laughing at his expression. He then smirked, “Oh my humble emperor, you shine so brightly on this pleasant day that I may have mistaken you as the sun. This humble young master greets you. His majesty looks dashing in his dress as well.”
Alberu’s expression turned sour, “Stop it.”
“Cale-nim, your majesty, we’re ready,” Choi Han called out to the bickering sworn siblings.
The two sighed, walking towards their respective places. They glared at each other for a bit before settling on something more neutral as the music started playing.
“Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh.”
A burst of muffled laughter from the onlookers was heard.
Cale was going to die of embarrassment. He was so going to get back at the god of death for this.
“If I'm the sun then you're the moon~” Alberu sang, his voice wavering a bit as he tries not to trip while walking towards Cale in his mighty blue dress. “If you're the words then I'm the tune yeah.”
Tasha was laughing while wiping a tear, a video recording device in hand as she watched her nephew embarrass himself. This was going to be her new #1 blackmail material.
“If you're the heart then I'm the beat.
Somehow together we're complete yeah~” Alberu continued, almost tripping as Cale took his hand.
“There are times my world is crumbling and the rain is crashing down. But everywhere you are the sun comes out!” Cale sang.
No one could make fun of him. Alberu cursed Cale for being such a good singer while Tasha was never going to let this go down.
“Even when you're gone
I feel you close.
You'll always be the one
I love the most.”
Physically, they were dancing with the brightest (fake) smiles in the world. Mentally, they were crying.
“You're in my heart, on my mind
You are underneath my skin.
And anywhere, anytime, that you need anything
Count me in.”
Oh, Cale does count him in alright. He needs someone to clean up after him and his mess after all.
“Oh oh oh oh oh oh~ Count me in yeah, yeah”
“I don't need to say a word, no.
'Cause you know when I'm happy and when I'm hurt,” Cale sang as he circled around Alberu.
“We're close as pages in a book.
'Cause you make me feel better with just one golden plaque look” Yes, Alberu makes him feel better especially when his hyung gives him money. Because money is life.
“There are times my world is crumbling and the rain is crashing down.
But everywhere you are the sun comes out~!”
Alberu struggled to sing the high note. Damn it, how did Cale pull it off so effortlessly earlier? Never mind that, his dongsaeng will always find a new way to surprise him.
“Even when you're gone
I feel you close.
You'll always be the one
I love the most.”
Cale gritted his teeth as he took Alberu’s hand, and they link their arms before saying the ‘I love the most’ lyric while hugging each other. At this point, everyone around them were simply too busy laughing at their suffering to even care about the fact that all this happened because of a certain god.
“You're in my heart, on my mind
You are underneath my skin.
And anywhere, anytime, that you need anything
Count me in.”
‘Please don’t’, Alberu thought as he looked at his sworn brother’s smile. ‘My treasury keeps getting emptier every time you do.’
“Oh oh oh oh oh oh.
Count me in yeah, yeah.”
Cale shot him a triggered look, ‘then don’t count me in too. I just want my rich slacker life.’
“'Cause we're two halves of the same new heart that beats to our own drum,” singing that part reminded Alberu why he originally disliked Cale. He didn’t like associating himself with people like him. “You're the headache shadow always by my side”
“One that sometimes knows me better than I know myself
And I wish that you were here with me tonight~!”
Alberu simply cursed Cale’s talent in singing again. Why does Tasha laugh when he sings and look starstruck when Cale does it?!
“Even when you're gone
I feel you close.
You'll always be the one
I love the most.”
Actually, he did. He mentally smacked himself when he found himself staring in awe as his dongsaeng sang.
Man, he loved his sworn younger brother who’s also a sacrificial bastard and as much as the redhead was the personification of a headache, he doesn’t want to let go of him. Ever.
He chuckled to himself and continued the next part.
“You're in my heart, on my mind
You are underneath my skin.
And anywhere, anytime, that you need anything
Count me in.”
“Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Count me in yeah, yeah.”
“Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Count me in
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Count me in…”
Cale took off his heels, threw them away towards Bud who was down on the floor. The blue-haired mercenary rolled around and slapped the floor in amusement. The heels hit him in the head but the mercenary king could care less about that and continued to laugh.
He huffed and holds his dress up, starting to march away as his ears continue to redden. Raon thought his human was cute.
‘His ears look like cherries…’ Rosalyn kept the thought to herself.
“I’m going to change,” Cale turned his back, looking like a cute princess as he stomped his way to the cabin. Choi Han, his kids, and Ron followed, worrying about him being barefooted and wanting to assist him out of the pink dress.
Alberu could only let out a laugh of amusement before terror dawned upon him when Tasha popped in front of him with a big teasing smile on her face.
“Haaah.”
He sighed.
His suffering wasn’t done yet, it seems.