What Does That Evil Dragon Live For?

“My mother died when I was 7 years old. I heard that she was originally healthy, but she got very weak after giving birth to me.”

Elaine muttered as she approached the old bedside.

‘My mother, who was said to have no particular illness, but she became weak.’

Elaine couldn’t help but feel bitter that she couldn’t be of any help to her mother. 

“That’s why my uncle hates me. My mother died because of me.”

Elaine smiled sadly, but Rabes burst into anger.

[Ridiculous, there is no beast I know who blames the child for the death of its mother. After all, humans are bad people.]

“But if I hadn’t been born—”

[If you hadn’t been born, your mother would have died sooner. She would have killed herself. She endured because you were there.] 

Rabes said confidently, groping somewhere in the air with his blue shining eyes. 

He was the only one who tell her that she was not to blame for her mother’s death. 

Elaine looked like she was going to cry, but she cleared her throat and held it back.

“Uhmm, by the way, when my mother died, that was the first time I knew my uncle was someone who could cry like that.”

[If you didn’t want your sister to die like that, you shouldn’t have locked her up like this in the first place!!] 

“I think that’s the only way my uncle knows. Even though he is a person who claimed to know so much… ” 

Rubaine was such a person. he is very selfish and even his family was his property. How insignificant Mariel and Elaine must have seemed to him. 

Rabes shook his head at Elaine’s explanation.

[I don’t understand humans, they can be so selfless that I wonder why they would go to such lengths for an entity that has nothing to do with them, and then be so selfish to the one they love the most]

Elaine became ashamed as if she had become a human representative. 

‘But I also couldn’t understand everyone.’

Of course, one thing was certain.

“Not everyone is bad. However, my uncle was a coward and a mean person. A really bad person…”

‘I didn’t think deeply about this until I came back to life. It was heartbreaking and painful just to think about my mother.’

However, Elaine, who decided to live a proper life this time, decided to face her past directly.

‘I thought that if I don’t want to repeat my unhappy past, I have to know what my wounds and fears are and overcome them.’

Her first attempt was to sort out her feelings for L’Arch, and the second was to visit her old room today.

[Are you okay?] 

Rabes asked, noticing that Elaine clenched her fists and stared at the bed where her mother died.

‘It was an unfamiliar feeling. It felt good that someone cared about how I felt, but I was also a bit ashamed of myself for feeling good about it.’

‘No. Let me not suppress myself.’ 

Elaine, who tried to wave her hands habitually and said ‘I am okay’, changed her mind.

Even after enduring it, all she would get was a futile death.

In her past life, she overlooked the fact that she was living a life where she could not know when she would die.

‘If you don’t know when you’re going to die, you shouldn’t waste the good things in life…’ 

as if to remind herself, Elaine pondered over that thought several times before smiling at Rabes. 

“Actually, I still hurt when I think of my mother. But I’ll get better. Thank you for your concern, Lord Rabes.”

[You don’t have to thank me for everything I did. It’s annoying.] 

Elaine was comforted once more by Rabes, who looked somewhat shy. 

‘They say he’s a bad dragon, but in fact, wasn’t he originally a good dragon?’ 

He said he was betrayed by humans. It was only because of the bad memories of being caught and used by a certain evil person and finally betrayed, that he took revenge on all humans. 

‘Before meeting humans, Rabes might have been a good dragon. If it wasn’t for that, there was no way he would stay by my side like this, even if he only showed up to make my wish come true.’

‘If we get along, maybe I can complete my mission…?’ 

Elaine was just about to have that hope. 

[Someone is coming!] 

Rabes warned in a low voice.

“Uh, what? If they found out that I came here, I would get scolded…!”

[So kill them all and let me—! ha… No, never mind, I’ll hide you with my power.] 

Rabes whirled around Elaine, who thumped her feet, and Elaine’s body became invisible.

“Whoa…!”

[Quiet. I didn’t use magic to hide your voice.] 

Elaine hurriedly covered her mouth with both hands and crouched in the corner. And it wasn’t long before the door opened again with a squeaking sound.

But after the squeaking sound of the old hinges, there was no sound for a long time, and no one entered the room.

Just as Elaine was about to get up to leave, someone behind the door let out a long sigh.

Thud, thud, thud

The main character from A sigh, slowly entered the room and looked around with regretful eyes. 

‘Uncle?’ 

The main character was Rubaine Newt.

The cowardly and cruel man who, not only tormented Mariel, but he blamed Elaine for Mariel’s death.

“I should clean up this place, too..”

Rubaine let out another big sigh and walked slowly to the closet next to the bed. Come to think of it, the closet had a bit cleaner than the other furniture.

He hesitated a moment in front of him, then opened the closet and took out a beige linen nightgown from it.

‘That’s the clothes my mother used to wear!’ I didn’t know it was still in that closet. After my mother died I thought he burned it all…’

“Mariel…”

Rubaine slowly called Mariel’s name and took her linen nightgown into his arms.

Elaine looked at Rabes with a strange expression on her face, as she was surprised and felt like she was going to be upset for some reason.

Rabes’ expression was also strangely distorted.

“No matter how much you rebel, I should have gotten rid of that girl…That bitch, She should have died, not you…”

Elaine closed her eyes at Rubaine’s muttering.

‘I knew all too well who the ‘girl’ was. It was a word I always heard without falling into the swear words my uncle spewed at me.’

‘I knew… My uncle really wanted me dead.’ 

She remembered the last time she saw him in her previous life.

The voice that said, ‘Show the pride of the Newt family’, and his face, which was filled with anger and on the other hand, looked relieved.

‘Yeah, I knew that my uncle hated me so much that he wanted to kill me, but he couldn’t do it.’

‘The reason he couldn’t kill me was probably because of the traces of my mother that could be found in my appearance. ‘

“If you promised to stay by my side…if you promised to remain mine…” 

Rubaine muttered in a resentful voice. 

Elaine was angry at the sound.

‘He was pitying himself as if my mother had died because she had made a foolish decision and as if he had been full of good intentions.’

At that time, Rabes whispered next to Elaine.

[Shall I kill him?] 

‘I didn’t know that Rabes’ habit of saying ‘let’s kill him’ often would sound so enticing.’

But Elaine gritted her teeth and shook her head.

Killing her uncle wouldn’t bring her mother back, and it wouldn’t make her feel any better.

‘No, to be honest, I couldn’t forgive all of my uncle’s sins by simply killing him by borrowing Rabes’s power.’

The revenge Elaine was dreaming of was not like that.

[Why are you pretending to be so kind? Killing these guys would be more helpful to the human world.] 

Still, because Elaine did not budge, Rabes flew quietly and circled around Rubaine. Still, Rubaine was immersed in self-pity, not feeling anything.

[Hmm…I don’t think a dead person would want this.] 

Muttering strange things, Rabes’ blue eyes suddenly twinkled. At the same time, the linen nightgown Rubaine was holding began to crumble, as if it had been completely cut.

“Huh…!”

Rubaine was scrambling to pick up even the remaining pieces of the nightgown that hard suddenly crumbled, but each time his hand touched it, the nightgown lost shape.

When the linen nightgown completely crumbled, Rubaine looked down at it in dismay, then opened the closet door again.

There were several pieces of clothes Mariel was wearing hanging there.

He carefully removed them from the hangers as if he were trying to get them out, but both the tight cotton dress and the velvet dress collapsed into dust in his hands.

“What the hell is going on… !”

It was an unnatural thing for anyone, but to Rubaine, who couldn’t see Rabes or Elaine, it was a mystery.

He just stood there blankly in the dust of various colors flying.

Elaine was exhilarated inside.

As Rabes said, her mother would hate being held in Rubaine’s arms, even if it was the clothes she was wearing.

“Mariel….”

Rubaine wandered around the room while calling Mariel’s name in dismay, and eventually went outside shouting with a furrowed brow.

“Is anyone there? How the hell did you manage this room!” 

Even the sound of footsteps stepping down the stairs seemed to be very angry.

* * *