What Does That Evil Dragon Live For?

‘Cute little girl, and very clever.’ 

Rabes snorted as he looked over at Elaine, who was sweating profusely and scrubbing the stairs.

The girl who had so cutely caught Rabes off guard on their first meeting had named herself Lancers Aquinal, and from then on she would do things to make a name for herself.

Filling wells in drought-stricken villages, hunting down bandits who were making life miserable for people, putting out forest fires that wouldn’t go out for three days and three nights…

After her name became known, she collected a considerable amount of commission money and secretly killed people who didn’t like her.

Having built such a reputation, Lancer finally accepted the emperor’s earnest request and was appointed an imperial wizard. 

Everything around her was so much fun that Rabes was afraid of Lancers making his last wish.

Until he was stabbed in the back.

‘But anyway, she was much more flexible and fun than this woman now.’ 

Rabes still can’t forget the look in her eyes that begged him to kill all the villagers in addition to saving her life as soon as they first met.

‘A delightful thing to do.’

However, Elaine, the reincarnation of the Lancers Aquinal, refused to take revenge on the humans who had sent her to her death, even after overcoming the same death crisis as Lancers.

Is it the influence of the temple or something?’ 

Only then did Elaine raise her head as Rabes snorted. 

“Are you bored? sorry.”

[If you know, finish it quickly.] 

“Almost done.”

Elaine soothed Rabes and wiped the last steps. 

And then it was.

“Whoaaaa!”

“Ahahaha!”

A rumble was heard, and Martin, Damon, and Ellie came stomping up the stairs from below.

Perhaps they had stepped on the muddy ground, and their footprints were scattered on the steps that had just been cleaned.

“ah…!”

Martin and Damon laughed cheerfully as Elaine sighed.

“We’ll have a guest coming soon, what are you doing, Elaine?”

“That’s right! The stairs are so dirty! Have you been lazy all this time?” 

“Lazy Elaine!”

“Elaine is useless!”

They teased Elaine as if they were singing each other’s songs.

[It’s these guys again. Shall I push them down the stairs?]

Rabes, frowning, wagging his tail as if he were going to use magic at any moment, while Elaine’s cousins circled around her.

“I will tell my mother everything. You didn’t clean the stairs properly.” 

“begging us that you were wrong. Well, maybe we’ll cut you some slack?” 

“Elaine. You want to cry, don’t you? Cry.”

They were looking down at Elaine, expecting something.

‘If I had been in my previous life, I would have held back tears and gone back to wash the mop.’

However, to Elaine, who returned after living until the age of twenty-six, the threats and teasing of these bad guys were just funny.

‘I didn’t know before, but they’re playing childishly compared to their age. Is it because you grew up?’

‘Martin, in particular, now I wonder if he has a little bit of a problem with his intelligence.’

Sighing heavily, Elaine asked pathetically.

“I’m asking just in case, did you wait until I was almost done with my work to do this? While spying on me?”

“What?”

Stabbed to the point, Martin furrowed his eyebrows.

In fact, they had been eager to do this since the moment they heard that Elaine was going to mop the stairs.

But what they were expecting was a crying Elaine, not such a calm Elaine. 

“I could feel that you were staring at me from the other side. A guest will be coming soon, but it seems that you were more concerned about me than that, right?”

“What are you talking about?”

“I’m just saying, you guys.…haven’t even changed your clothes yet.” 

Only then did their eyes turn to the clothes they were wearing.

The maids had been looking for them to change their clothes for a while, but Martin and his younger siblings, distracted by the idea of teasing Elaine, were hiding in the corner watching Elaine.

“I think I’ll get scolded, but you guys will get scolded too.” 

“That…!that…!”

Martin, who couldn’t answer and let out an angry voice, impulsively pushed Elaine’s shoulder with his foot.

“Kyaaak!”

Elaine screamed as she fell backward, but She rolled down only a couple of steps before stopping as if someone had braced her back, which seemed unnatural even to the children.

Martin, who had failed to injure Elaine again since the day he threw the stone, approached again red-faced to push Elaine away, but at that moment the maids ran from the other side.

“Young master! Lady! Where the hell have you been hiding? You need to change your clothes quickly!” 

“The Countess will find you soon! Come here quickly!”

The maids paid no attention to Elaine, who was obviously being bullied, but Martin, who couldn’t push Elaine in front of others, made a fuss.

“You! You must be lucky!”

“That’s right! you’re lucky.”

Ellie, following Martin’s words, pulled Elaine’s hair, and Damon hid Ellie behind him.

‘They’re really close.’

Anyway, the hair Ellie pulled didn’t hurt.

And as the three siblings left again, Elaine, who was left, slightly touched Rabes, who was staring at the children with scary eyes.

“Thank you for helping me earlier. I almost rolled over.”.” 

[I really don’t understand.] 

“What?”

[What? I mean you, you!] 

The blue eyes were staring terrifyingly at Elaine this time.

However, Elaine, who had dealt with a lot of people in the poor kitchen, recognized that there was no real anger in Rabes’s eyes.

“What did I do?”

[Why don’t you kill them, why? Are they going to change their mind soon? so they’ll be nice to you?] 

“Uhm…no.”

[So, they’re going to die without you touching them, or they’re going to get sick, or they’re going to have an accident or something?] 

“Not even that.”

[Then why the hell!] 

Rabes Shouted out loud in frustration, but Elaine said it as if it were obvious.

“They are still kids.”

The answer made Rabes’s expression even more bewildered.

[What does that mean? If it’s kids, so what?] 

“Because they are young, they don’t even know what they are doing right now. They believe they’re perfectly justified in bullying me. It’s not their fault, it’s their parents’ fault.” 

[The tallest one is a year older than you. Isn’t that the age where he knows everything?]

‘I wasn’t going to live with it as I did in my previous life, but to my twenty-six-year-old mind, my seventeen, fifteen, and fourteen-year-old cousins were just children.’

It’s annoying, but isn’t it impossible for an adult to hurt children because they are doing something childish like this.

However, Rabes, who was not aware of Elaine’s intention, had no choice but to pound his chest with his small front paws.

[Oh, I’m so frustrated! It’s frustrating!]

‘I’d never understood what it meant for humans to punch their chest with their fists, but now I know exactly what it meant.’

And while Rabes was pounding his chest with his small front paws.

Elaine climbed back up the stairs, grabbed a rag from the bucket, and began scrubbing the stairs where the children had left their footprints.

“This is nothing, there will be worse things in the future. So I have to be strong!”

It sounded like she was saying, “You better brace yourself, too,” which made Rabes even angrier.

Gritting his teeth, he wagged his tail, obliterating all footprints on the stairs.

“Lord Rabes!”

Thinking she was blaming him for using magic when she hadn’t even asked for it, Rabes clenched his jaw as hard as he could.

[Don’t you dare tell me what to do!]

“It’s not that…Thank you.”

Elaine smiled back. For Rabes, even that appearance was frustrating.

‘What a seriously deficient fellow. What the hell happened to you to be born as such a deficient individual?’ 

Rabes hurriedly removed the bruise on Elaine’s knee and healed the chafing.

He was a dragon who had a lot of work to do.

* * * 

“Welcome, Lady Dardil, Lady Veron. Long time no see Lady Langston.” 

“It’s been a while, Countess Newt.”

“Oh, did you change the decorations in the house? You have a great eye!” 

Middle-aged women exchanged greetings and exchanged laughter.

Rabes, who was watching the scene from a corner railing on the third floor, where the attic was located, asked Elaine next to her.

[Who are they?] 

“They are noble ladies close to my aunt. They take turns visiting each other’s house every month.” 

[What do they do when they visit?]

“Well, drink tea and talk and…” 

[What does that mean?] 

“Mmm…Humans build friendships that way. The more time we spend together, the closer we become.”

[Really…?] 

Rabes, who seemed to ask something more, just looked at the ladies without saying anything.

But Elaine, who was looking down at them together, involuntarily let out a sigh. 

‘Lorina was here.’ 

Elaine’s gaze was on the girl standing next to a woman called Lady Dardil. 

Lorina Dardil.

The person who proposed offering Elaine as a human sacrifice before returning, and the person who hated and tried to harm Elaine even before entering the temple.

And the daughter of the count, who became L’Arch’s wife. 

‘Why did he hate me so much?’

‘I understood that the Newt family’s siblings hated me. But I couldn’t figure out why the hell Lorina hated me.’

‘Even if you say that you followed the Newt siblings only when you were young, that was no excuse for you to continue to hate me as an adult.’

While Elaine was pondering this, Count Newt and L’Arch entered the room behind the ladies, apparently having been out somewhere.

“I am a little late!”

“Oh, Count Newt! we just arrived too. Oh my God, L’Arch has become even more handsome in the meantime!” 

“It’s been a while, Countess Dardil.”

Unlike Count Newt and Countess Dardil, who were full of smiles for hospitality, Lark only smiled lightly and did not change much in his expression.

However, when Lorina saw L’Arch, a bright smile appeared on her face that she couldn’t hide. Of course, her cheeks and the tips of her ears turned red.

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