‘Well… It looks better than before…right?’
‘As for the appearance of the same dragon or reptile, I was able to give a very detailed taste, but I couldn’t judge well about the beauty of the human appearance.’
Even 500 years ago, there was a human who brought things like the best beauty in the human world before him. It was probably an official who had been ordered by the emperor at the time.
Anyway, even then he couldn’t understand why the women he was offering were being so praised. Because in Rabes’s eyes, they all looked the same.
‘All humans except Lancers look alike, so I should be able to recognize who is who.….’
‘So, I tried to classify them into individual human auras, but in fact, the human aura was not very impressive to a dragon armed with tremendous magic power and a huge aura.’
That’s why he couldn’t remember people other than Lancers well, and he didn’t want to get close to them that much.
He remembers Lancer’s appearance clearly even now.
‘No, she is still lying in front of me.’
There were slight differences in hair, eye color, and other small things, but overall, Elaine resembled Lancer.
Since it is a body with the same soul, Rabes wondered if they might have grown more and more similar even though they were born in a different form in the first place.
‘Lancers had black hair similar to mine, but this girl’s color is too bright.’
Rabes thought as he played with Elaine’s wheat-colored hair.
‘I didn’t really like it because it was a color more like L’Arch than mine, but when Elaine’s hair glistened in the sunlight, it looked pretty, just like pale gold.
‘This one suits her better with peridot-colored eyes.’
Her pale green eyes seemed to have been studded with high-quality peridot.
TL: Peridot’s color ranges from pure green to yellowish green to greenish yellow.
Rather than the black eyes of Lancers, which sometimes made it impossible to read anything in them, the light green eyes that were always sparkling and harbored a certain emotion seemed more lively.
‘It’s not that I didn’t like Lancer, though.’
Lancer’s black eyes were like shiny obsidian. There were times when he felt like he was being sucked in when he looked into those eyes.
Rabes, who also recalled the image of Lancers in Elaine’s sleeping face, slowly raised her hand and stroked the top of Elaine’s head.
It was a careful touch, fearing that Elaine would wake up, but he wanted Elaine to feel as good as he felt, even in her dreams.
‘But Elaine’s behavior to make me feel better somehow made me feel better…’
‘Is this why Elaine is stroking me?… How much better would it feel if we kissed each other?’
Even though he was a dragon, he at least knew that the act of kissing was a more intimate act than stroking or hugging. Even among dragons, licking each other with their tongues was a more intimate act than twisting their tails or rubbing their heads.
Of course, there was no reason for dragons to do such an act unless it was between parents and children, between siblings when they were young, or between companions.
The word ‘companions’ came to mind and made him feel a little embarrassed, but Rabes hesitantly approached Elaine and lightly pressed his lips to her forehead as if he were experimenting. ‘I feel strange.’ It was a really strange feeling.
If Elaine kissed me, it tickled my stomach and I couldn’t help but feel my tail wagging from side to side, and now….for some reason, I want to lick this girl.’
But it was a very, very intimate and blatant act.
The human contractor was neither a sibling nor a companion, so he shouldn’t do such a thing. If a dragon like him saw it, he would be shocked.
‘I have to get revenge on this human.…’
There wasn’t a day that he didn’t think of Lancer while being sealed for 500 years.
He thought many times that if the seal was broken, he would brutally take revenge on Lancers, who would be brought before him by the curse he had cast.
Thoughts about the method of revenge changed from time to time, but the thought of wanting to make Lancer shed tears and beg for forgiveness remained the same.
And even when he first met Elaine, he planned to take revenge by painfully pulling out his magic core from Elaine’s body.
‘But, despite my thoughts, she seemed to keep trying to talk me out of it.’
‘It’s all because she’s cute! I don’t know if she’s pretty, but I know she’s cute, and she’s been cute since she was a Lancer.’
No matter how hateful you may be, you can’t be cruel when such a cute being wanders around in front of your eyes. I can tell by seeing that no one is rude to a cat, even if a cat makes a mess of the whole house.
‘I’ve got to keep my mind straight. Cute is cute, revenge is revenge. I can’t be ridiculed forever as a dragon swayed by humans.’
Rabes made a sharp face and nodded solemnly. Even so, he didn’t stop stroking Elaine’s hair.
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[What can I do about this, elder?]
[Hahaha, what are you so worried about, Piquero.]
A low, warm laugh resounded in the wide cave following the question full of concern.
However, neither the questioner, nor the laughter, nor the worried faces that filled the cavern with them, were human.
[Elder. This can never be left unattended.]
[Of course. He had turned back time! if god is angry, the first punishment will surely be directed at us dragons.]
The dragon, who had left the earthly world and was living in the middle world, was suffering from a major incident that had taken place a while ago.
It wasn’t enough that the troublemaker Black Dragon, who was sealed 500 years ago, was awakened, but the foolish creature had done the unthinkable: turned back time.
Turning back time was not something that even a dragon at the great of magical power could do so easily.
However, the fact that this happened meant that Rabes had stronger magical power than the dragon had thought and that he had forcibly amplified his own magical power by staining it with ether.
[Touching the ether, does this make sense?]
[Can’t you see that time has been turned back? He is crazy.]
[At that time, I should have retrieved the egg that had fallen to the human world…I shouldn’t have ignored Ratel’s power.]
Following the other dragons who were angry at what Rabes had done, the dragon called Piquero sighed again, thinking of Ratel, the mother of the black dragon Rabes.
Ratel was a rare dragon with strong magic, but she fell in love with the dragon Katan, who was far weaker than her, but wise and friendly.
They were a happy couple. Even among the dragons, they were known for their loyalty.
But when Katan was sent on an expedition to the Middle-world, he never returned to Ratel. He was mortally wounded in the battle against the etheric monster that had taken over the Middle-world.
Ratel loved Katan so much that she never got another companion. She then gathered the remaining Katan power within her and tried to conceive her egg alone.
[Don’t be stupid, Ratel! You can’t lay an egg with the amount of magical energy that is given to couples when they marry! Katan wouldn’t want you to do this either.]
[I want to leave behind proof that Katan ever existed in this world!]
Ratel howled, and no one among the dragon could stop her.
Ratel created an egg by fusing all of her magic with Katan’s magic, which she had acquired when she and Katan were married.
She could only try this once because there was not much of Katan’s magic left inside her, but Ratel managed to lay a small egg.
However, to lay the egg, Ratel used up all her magic power, and in the end, shortly after laying the egg, she also disappeared along with her partner.
Even the eggs she laid down at the cost of her own life were deformed, perhaps because of the abnormal conception process.
That’s why the dragons also thought it couldn’t hatch properly.
[There’s no way that all of Ratel’s magic was poured into it, but it was nothing.…]
As soon as the vice elder’s face showed deep regret, the dragons nearby comforted him.
[Anyone would have thought that at the time. It is extremely rare for deformed eggs to hatch.]
[That’s right. It’s no one’s fault.]
[And now is the time to think about the future rather than regretting the past.]
However, unlike the worried faces of the elders and other dragons, the elder who had lived the longest just smiled.
[Elder! Please tell us what we need to do!]
The dragons had a vision, and they asked the elder who had lived the longest for help, but he just shook his head.
[When Ratel’s egg tumbled into the human world, I knew it would hatch.]
[Did you know that he would cause trouble in the human world and turn back time after breaking the seal like this?]
[I didn’t know all of that, but I knew it was going to cause a lot of trouble]
[Then why the hell did you ask to leave that egg behind? And why didn’t you object to sealing him?]
The elder answered the question with a smile without showing any displeasure.
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