Chapter Text
“Hey Kamekichi, d’you think the Dragon Palace has fireworks? Maybe they can somehow explode underwater一 Kamekichi?!”
Urashima looked away from the fireworks display. Kamekichi sat on his lap but had retreated to his shell, trembling with each crackle from the sky. After a particularly huge red firework boomed, the shell rattled.
“Kamekichi! You’re scared, aren’t you?” Urashima picked up the shell and held it in both hands. “Let’s go somewhere quiet, okay?”
He scrambled off the hill where he was sitting and carried Kamekichi back to the citadel quarters. In his room, he piled on pillows and his futon to muffle the noise, and laid the shell atop the pile.
“That’s better?”
Kamekichi poked his head out, sighed, and melted into the pile. Urashima sighed too and gazed out the window at the distant display, its colors still bright.
“Maybe the fireworks at the Dragon Palace are nice and quiet..."