"YAY!"
Iulia cheered loudly, pumping her arms in the air, completely lacking the proper decorum of a Third Legion Space Marine.
Eidolon looked at her and couldn't help but think to himself.
He now understood why he had a strange sense of déjà vu when he looked at the Primarch.
Iulia's personality seemed to be very similar to Fulgrim's.
Both were extremely boisterous.
But a long-awaited break...
He didn't dislike it.
"Members of the Third Legion, please follow me."
A very young, handsome youth walked out from beside Fulgrim and smiled at the crowd.
"Look, look! It's him!"
Iulia, following behind him, suddenly came forward and slapped him on the shoulder. "It's him! Our Primarch's husband!"
"I think... I think his name was Kasjia!"
So young?
At his age, he could have undergone genetic modification to become a Space Marine, and he's Fulgrim's husband?
And Fulgrim even argued with the Emperor for him?
But the good news was that he was still alive.
It meant that although there had been an argument, in the end, the merciful Emperor hadn't really done anything to him.
And looking at their height difference...
Thinking of this, Eidolon's expression couldn't help but turn a little strange.
The Third Legion were all children of the Primarch. Since the Primarch was married, should they call him...
...Father?
Of course, they couldn't actually call him that.
Silently following Kasjia onto a special low-altitude transport craft, Eidolon sat in the cabin and looked out the window at the bustling scene.
Lush greenery adorned the bustling steel city of Kalliston, and traffic flowed endlessly. The steel-supported buildings each had their own unique characteristics, yet they did not disrupt the overall harmony.
Chemos was truly a beautiful and prosperous planet.
As a former member of the Emperor's honor guard, he had traveled with the Emperor to several beautiful human pocket empires.
But it was rare to see one as peaceful and harmonious as Chemos.
Especially considering that this planet was a barren wasteland just thirty years ago.
Not long after getting off the craft, Fulgrim disappeared.
It was Kasjia who led them to a magnificent theater hall.
The marble columns and walls were intricately and beautifully carved, and countless famous paintings hung high on the walls. The lighting facilities were all in place.
It seemed they had even booked the whole place just for them.
"This... this was a program that Fulgrim specifically requested..."
Kasjia said this through gritted teeth.
"Next, please take your seats and enjoy a solo performance by her:"
"Thirty Years on Chemos with the Sagittarius Golden Ring"
"...Fulgrim!"
"You! Will always↑, be↓ my—Cen↓taur↑!"
"Wherever you may ride in the future, I will be by your side!!"
[The End]
Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap.
After the performance, Eidolon stood up and applauded.
The play was very well done, showing the thirty years of emotional experience between the Primarch and Kasjia on Chemos.
The performance was exquisite, the script was well-written, and the production was magnificent.
The actress also performed with great passion.
Uh.
It was more like the actress was a bit too passionate.
On the stage, Fulgrim, all by herself, managed to convey the momentum of a thousand-strong army.
She was just short of crawling all over the ground while shouting.
Such a heartfelt performance made Eidolon feel the urge for his toes to curl so hard they could pierce his ceramite boots.
It was only when he saw Kasjia beside him, with his head in his hands, not daring to look up, that he felt some relief.
Brother, I feel you.
"Waaaah..."
"That was! That was so moving!"
"A masterpiece! This is a masterpiece!"
Then, as he stood up, Eidolon saw Iulia beside him, sobbing uncontrollably inside her helmet.
What kind of reaction is this?
As a warrior of the Third Legion, a multiply-augmented Space Marine, how can she be bogged down by such trivial matters of love?
"What's wrong with it!?"
"Eidolon! Is there no one you love!?"
"...No."
Nope.
Not at all.
After being edified by a personal performance from the Primarch, the members of the Third Legion were quickly led away from the theater by Kasjia, who couldn't wait another moment, with his head down.
Although it was indeed a bit ridiculous, Eidolon still felt a long-lost joy.
As if he had squeezed a little bit of fun out of his previously meaningless, mechanical life.
It had been a long time since he had been this happy.
Especially after he could no longer even perform his duties in the honor guard.
Eidolon remembered it happened after the last batch of gene-seed was burned.
Not long after that, he fell ill.
Many in the Third Legion fell ill.
Especially the survivors of the battle against the Luna Gene-Cult.
The investigation found that a gene-weapon virus used by the enemy could corrupt the genetic sequence of a Space Marine.
Similar to a progressive cancer, the patient's organs would gradually fail and become covered in tumors, until their whole body withered and rotted away.
Even the gene-seed that the patients had come into contact with would be infected and mutate.
The Blight, the Apothecaries called it.
And it became the nightmare of their Third Legion.
Even the legion's genius Apothecary was helpless against this virus rooted at the genetic level.
Although a series of preventive measures were later taken to successfully curb the spread of the virus, for those who already had the Blight, there was currently no effective treatment.
In other words, the only thing they could do was watch as they withered and died, bit by bit.
"Are we... going to die?"
"...Melusine?"
The spider-like Apothecary turned her head, and for the first time, Eidolon saw a hint of pity in her cold eyes.
"No. It will be worse."
"We will... suffer a fate worse than death."
They toured many places on Chemos.
The bustling city streets of Kalliston, the street performances by talented individuals, the local specialty food street.
They tried them all.
They were experiencing Chemos, and the people of Chemos were also experiencing them.
The locals were exceptionally warm and curious about these purple tin cans from beyond the stars, asking them about interesting things from beyond the sky.
There were even some bold children who dared to come forward and touch their ceramite armor.
Eidolon felt a little out of place.
Usually, the civilians they, Space Marines, encountered would always flee quickly with fear and unease.
Even with the strict military discipline of the Third Legion, it was the same.
Eidolon was not surprised by this.
They were the symbol of war, the sign of conflict, and the vanguard of the Emperor.
They were never beings that brought joy.
However, if someone was willing to get close to him, Eidolon was not averse to it.
But that would have to wait until he could shed his identity as a war machine.
Perhaps on the day the Great Crusade truly ended.
Perhaps, at that time, he would come to this lively and peaceful city and live out the rest of his life in peace—
"Pfft, what am I fantasizing about."
Eidolon laughed at himself.
"Here is the place of Chemos's heroes."
The path was paved with clean, white marble tiles, and the mountains were covered with neatly planted trees.
A quiet and harmonious manor.
Eidolon had seen many such green spaces before, but they usually belonged to the nobles of various planets.
But here, in front of every tree, stood a quiet marble tombstone.
Originally, this place was just a barren mountain in the desert.
Now, the ownership of this beautiful place was not in the hands of any noble, but in the hands of every hero who had dedicated themselves to Chemos and turned the barren land into a paradise.
Countless heroes who had sacrificed for the beautiful tomorrow of Chemos were buried here.
"Chemos belongs to the people of Chemos."
The reason they could achieve such brilliant success was due to the joint efforts of every person on Chemos, not the work of the Primarch alone.
This was what Fulgrim had said, standing at the entrance.
And as heroes, they would naturally enjoy the most peaceful tranquility on Chemos.
Until forever.
The birds chirped melodiously. A name was engraved in front of every tree; every growth ring recorded a story.
A long-lost peace filled Eidolon's heart.
"I like it here."
"And you, Eidolon?"
Iulia stood on a small hill, looking down at the endless green mountains below.
She said, with her head held high.
"I..."
Eidolon looked around, as if he was looking at his own home.
"I think it's very fitting, too."
A fulfilling day.
In the new city of Chemos, the Third Legion enjoyed a wonderful day off for the first time in a long while.
But the sky never changed.
The light of Chemos came from two very distant stars.
Even though it was late, the eternal twilight still enveloped the land, unchanging.
But people eventually have to rest.
At this moment, most of the people of Kalliston had returned home, and some had begun their new "night" life.
The prosperity of Kalliston remained, but their day of touring Chemos was also coming to an end.
There was only one last attraction waiting for them.
It was the sea.
The sea of Chemos.
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