Elaine regained her sense of time after fumbling through the distant past with her fingers.
‘Today is my 16th birthday, and I will enter the temple in March next year… It’s a good thing I have less than half a year to live in this house.’
If I had returned to the days when my mother was alive, I could have prayed for her life, but it was a pity.
Living at Newt’s without her mother, alone, having to face the malice of people, was more bitter and painful than the breeze blowing now.
Elaine vaguely remembered what had happened in the mansion on the day she was hit with a stone, no, an egg on her head.
‘You didn’t even give me dinner because I came in bleeding and surprised Ellie. But It was Martin who hurt me.’
It happens every day, but her uncle and aunt didn’t even care about Elaine getting hurt.
Rather, they blamed Elaine for covering up those who provided the wound.
At that time, she felt unfair, but she didn’t dare to complain about unfairness in the face of everyone staring at her.
If she had spoken up, she would have been punished for her impudence.
When Elaine reached the front of the mansion, she stood there because unable to enter easily, Rabes examined her face.
[Why are you not going in?]
“Oh, that…I think I need to wipe off the blood before going in.”
[Is that so? Okay, done. Let’s go in now.]
“What? What is it?”
Elaine, who had been looking at Rabes for some reason, raised her hand and examined it, feeling something strange.
“uh?”
His hands, which were dirty with blood and dirt, were as clean as if they had been washed.
‘I groped my forehead, but the stone, no, the wound from the egg had completely disappeared, and I couldn’t feel any trace of blood.’
“Did Rabes do it?”
[Are you surprised by that? I think You need to learn what it means to be a dragon contractor.]
Rabes spoke arrogantly, and Elaine burst out laughing because she was a little dumbfounded.
* * *
In the first place, Rabes’ plan was very simple.
‘When I’m released from the seal, I’ll take back the mana core that was separated and erase this damn empire from the map!’
He did everything they were asked, and in the end, he gnashed his teeth just thinking about the humans who had stabbed him in the back.
‘Even if I couldn’t wipe out the entire human race, I would have burned all the people of Calais who had messed with me.’
However, the plan, which had been mulling over for 500 years, faced problems as soon as it was released from the seal.
He couldn’t find the missing mana core, and he couldn’t wield as much magic as before due to the aftereffects of the long seal.
However, Rabes, who was not too obsessed with the ‘future’, found a simple solution.
‘If I stained my mana with ether, it will be amplified enough.’
He didn’t know that Rabes himself would turn into a demon when he was stained with ether, but since he was called a bad dragon anyway, he thought it wouldn’t be bad to become a real bad dragon.
Searching for the source of ether, staining mana with ether, and amplifying His mana power, took 10 years, but from the point of view of the eternal dragon, it was not a very long time.
And it was not long ago that he warned of the fall of the Calais Empire after he became stronger than before by borrowing the power of evil.
Rabes gave them a three-day reprieve because he wanted to see the humans panic and self-destruct. But then the humans had a brilliant idea.
‘What’s this? No way, a sacrifice?’
Inside the cave, where pieces of white and red cloth fluttered, there was a woman and jewelry.
‘They decide to try Human sacrifices that did not exist 500 years ago? It is a trend, or has their civilization gone backward, tsk tsk.’
Rabes sat down in a crudely decorated cave and laughed at the humans.
It is true that dragons like jewels, but there is no way that a dragon determined to destroy the world would be swayed by just this amount of jewels or a single individual of the race he is trying to destroy.
However, the moment he saw the human face who was firmly bound to the stone, or more precisely, her forehead, he changed his mind.
[Ha, really. I have lived long, and I’m going to see such a thing happen.]
He couldn’t help but spit out those words.
‘This bastard Lancer who broke my seal has become my contractor again …!’
Lancers Aquinal.
He was a legendary figure who was revered by humans as a great wizard, but for Rabes, he was just a human who betrayed his trust and affection.
Lancer, known as a man, was actually a female Wizard who was being persecuted. She accidentally became a contractor for Rabes shortly before her death.
Rabes saved her from being burned at the stake and even gave her some of his magic core so that she could live as the wizard Lancers Aquinal.
Despite his generosity, she took advantage of him and unleashed the Seal Curse on him.
Of course, Rabes wasn’t just sitting still.
[When I am released from this seal, you will meet me again!]
Rabes succeeded in putting a “reincarnation curse” through the gap of the sealing magic that had been tightening his body.
However, he never imagined that the reincarnation of that Lancers Aquinal would become his contractor again and that he would meet that contractor as a human sacrifice.
But it wasn’t a bad situation.
‘Because the most important thing is to retrieve the mana core I gave her.’
Rabeth playfully asked, hoping that Lancer’s reincarnation would recognize him and be astonished.
[We’ve met before, right?]
However, Lancer’s reaction was a bit strange.
“What…?”
At first, Rabes thought she was deliberately pretending not to know. Because If she met him again, she wouldn’t have anything to say.
[You’re not trying to pretend you don’t know me, are you?]
“That…, I know you Lord Rabes. I learned it from history books.”
[History book?]
It was an absurd answer.
So Rabes tried to revive her memory by telling her the conditions for releasing the seal, but Lancer just shuddered, as if she really didn’t have any memories.
She didn’t even know what the dragon’s contractor was, and she didn’t even know there was a mark on her forehead.
Strangely, Lancer did not remember him, but Rabes changed his mind.
‘No. It’s rather good. because if this sneaky bastard remembers his former life, there’s no telling how much trouble he’ll cause me with his contractor status.’
Although he was an enemy, she was the contractor who released his seal, and Rabes was obliged to grant the contractor’s three wishes.
If Lancers were aware of that fact, she could have sealed Rabes again and used his magic as if it were her own.
However, the reincarnated Lancers did not remember her previous lives, and the wishes of the contractor, who were no different from ordinary humans, were obvious.
Acquiring wealth and power, If it’s a little unique, she is asking for a partner of her taste to be her companion.
‘After granting her last wish, I have to forcefully wake up this human’s memory. And I will take revenge by retrieving the mana core most painfully.’
‘So when Elaine’s first wish was, “Please don’t destroy the Empire,” I wasn’t upset. In fact, I was glad.’
‘If I go back in time to before being stained by ether, my mana will be clean again, and if I’m low on power, I’ll make up for it by retrieving my mana core from that human, hmm… Not bad!’
Finishing the calculations in his mind, Rabes pretended not to notice Elaine’s eyes widened at the words ‘back to the beginning’, and he rewound time to the day he and her first met.
It took a lot of mana power, but it didn’t matter.
His body would disappear anyway, so he uses up all the mana contaminated with ether.
It was a little annoying to break the egg once again, but Rabes broke the eggshell, refreshed by the newness of his new life.
Then, when he looked up, a girl with an injured forehead and tears hanging down her face was staring at him with a surprised face.
She didn’t look good in any way.
The reason why the egg was stained with blood and tears was that this human was attacked by hostile forces. Just like when Lancers first became his contractor.
‘she will make a second wish soon. It’s going to be easy.’
Rabes guessed Elaine’s second wish with a voice of no doubt.
[By the way, shall I guess your second wish? You want me to kill all those humans, right?]
It was no big deal to kill a few humans, small ones or bigger ones.
However, Elaine shook her head.
“No, no! Don’t kill anyone!”
[why?]
At first, Rabes wondered if it was because she knew that wishing for this as a wish was a waste, but even when he said that he would kill them without counting it as a wish, she said no.
She even plans to raise himself as a good dragon to prevent the destruction of this world which didn’t seem like a very good idea.
‘Why? The humans of this world are the ones who sacrificed her, so why don’t you just kill them?’
It was completely incomprehensible to Rabes. Rabes, who was thinking hard. came to the conclusion.
‘Is it a side effect of the reincarnation curse? I think she was born a little lacking. If I leave her alone, I think she will be weeded out of human society before she can even make her wish…’
It was clear that there was a problem with the reincarnation curse just because she couldn’t remember her previous life.
Could it be that the problem was that Rabes only cursed that he would meet Lancers again when he was released from the seal.
It was inevitable that the occasional underdeveloped individual would be born, whether human or animal, but it was troubling that it was his contractor.
If Rabes just sat back and watched, she might be killed by another human before she could finish her wish.
* * *
That’s a fun start ❤️❤️❤️