63 – How the Master Lives (4)
Early morning.
Lucia had woken up early.
She was sweating as she wielded her sword alone in the gymnasium behind her dormitory.
Every time Lucia swung her sword, the sharp wind blew away the sword blade with intense momentum.
[Huh-.]
After swinging her sword for a long time, she finally stopped when the sun rose in the sky.
Drops of sweat dripped like dew down her fine chin.
Lucia looked up at the bright sunlight beating down on her, and she murmured briefly.
[Shall we stop soon?]
This was enough for a simple exercise in the morning.
I’ll start training again later in the afternoon anyway, so I thought this was enough for now.
Being too immersed in training was also counterproductive to growth. Rather, it is important to take a proper rest period so that the body does not become fatigued.
Because of this, she always kept the line.
Then, suddenly, she turned her head to the guardian dragon, Han.
She looked at his figure and smiled as she cooked.
[Whoops.]
[Kiii-…]
Han the Guardian Dragon.
He was dozing off in his chair.
To see him dozing with his mouth wide open like a person.
That is also the guardian dragon.
It was a very rare sight.
Seeing that even the whites of her eyes are showing, it seems that she has been dozing off for a long time.
Perhaps this is the only thing on the continent that only she, the guardian dragon’s contractor, can see.
[Sorry…]
Lucia muttered lowly to herself while laughing.
[At times like this, it would be nice if there was a La Tale sunbaenim like the last time I had an interview… Let’s take a picture…]
A photo of the guardian dragon, one of the most important aspects of protecting the continent, sleeping.
It was obvious that there would be a lot of people who wanted it, even if you measured the entire continent.
Even Lucia herself was one of them.
[Huh?]
It was then.
Shake. Shake.
Something long was rustling and swaying under the sleeping guardian dragon’s seat.
Seeing that, Lucia widened her eyes.
[Uh… What is that?]
It was a long object, like a tail.
What was that?
She carefully lowered her head and checked her underside, before she opened her mouth.
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[And.]
The underside of the chair where Guardian Dragon Han was sitting.
There was a group of cats huddled together.
[Miaooong-.]
Cats cried when Lucia met her eyes. Some even tried to lie down, showing their bellies.
She opened her eyes wide in surprise at the sight.
It was a completely unexpected situation.
She didn’t even know she was in her blind spot.
‘…Um?’
And it wasn’t until that time that the sleeping guardian dragon, Han, also opened his eyes.
[Goyang-.]
‘What, what is it? Lucia?’
She was prostrated in front of herself.
Han flinched at the sight of Lucia like that.
She didn’t look at herself at all, but rather looked under the chair.
‘What’s down there? Why?’
He also poked her head under her sneakily, revealing her bewilderment.
Because the guys hiding below were familiar guys.
‘These are those cats!’
[Kiik!]
He pulled up his tail all at once and stood up on his feet.
* * * *
‘Go quickly! Everyone go away!’
[Meowong-.]
‘I don’t need it, so go!’
The cats looked back at the guardian dragon Han with a look of pity, but he was not at all sad.
On the contrary, he glared at those guys who looked back several times and glared at them.
It was intense pressure in the sense of leaving quickly.
In the end, they waggled their tails and disappeared toward the dormitory building.
Perhaps they return to their owners, or go up to the roof of the building.
Lucia sighed at the sight of the group of cats moving away.
[Haa… That’s a pity.]
[Kiii.]
Han, the guardian dragon, clung to her side.
Of course, even so, his penetrating gaze was still directed in the direction of the distant cat pack.
I was watching to see if they didn’t come back.
As long as he was short and only reached Lucia’s knees.
He clung to her side, sniffing her body odor as if monopolizing it, and smacked her mouth in displeasure.
‘Lucia belongs only to me.’
Lucia. And Lucrezia.
They were both completely their own contractors. There was not even room for anyone else’s access.
If there was room for that, as long as he was a guardian dragon, he would step in and block it.
It was a huge greed that was proportionate to Han’s terrifying care for his gold coins.
Pounding. Pounding.
Maybe it’s because Lucia’s gaze has been on those guys for a while.
For a moment, the heart of the guardian dragon, Han, was beating rather fast.
[That, by the way, Guardian Dragon?]
[Key?]
A sudden call.
Guardian Dragon Han raised his head and met Lucia’s gaze.
For some reason, her cheeks looking down at him are slightly red.
[Go, it’s tickling… Please stop touching my legs.]
Oh, dear.
It seems that he was stroking her body without realizing it, due to an excessive desire for exclusivity that suddenly soared.
Han hurried away from her.
Like this, the dragon’s intrinsic greed is higher than any other living thing in the world…
* * * *
Today was a day off.
Because of this, the guardian dragon Han, Lucia, and Yone were walking in the plaza together.
[Look over there. With that snow-white hair, that’s unbelievable…]
[My God. I can’t imagine being able to face the successor of the Northern Grand Duke and the Guardian Dragon with these eyes while alive, oh…!]
People’s eyes naturally gathered at their appearance.
The appearance of northerners with snow-white hair like that was the kind of thing that couldn’t help but draw attention at a glance.
It was because the color was so different from the others.
The capital of this empire where all kinds of people gather.
And even in the middle of such a street, they were the only ones with such a mysterious color.
[Ugh, ugh… Everyone is looking at us…]
At that appearance, Yone was clearly taken aback for some reason.
Of course, just the color of the hair wasn’t all that drew their attention.
The existence of the guardian dragons Han and Lucia had long since spread widely.
A fair amount of cadets already knew about it.
Thanks to the weekly newspaper (publisher: La Tale) that began to be published on campus in earnest, they were already the same topic that everyone from the academy was paying attention to.
[Oh, Guardian Dragon…]
[Blessings of protection and rest…]
Thanks to this, some of the cadets sat down on the spot and even prayed with their hands together.
Most of them were commoners.
Of course, it was not different just because they were nobles.
In the end, they also regarded the existence of the guardian dragon and its contractor, the saint, as sacred.
However, it was obviously a positional problem for nobles to sit down recklessly, so they raised only their hands together and offered a brief prayer…
Thanks.
A rare scene was created where the cadets who recognized them put their hands together and prayed at every corner of the street they went.
[What is it, those guys?]
[Why are you praying out of nowhere? Where there are many people?]
However, the campus newspaper was intended for cadets after all, so it was a campus newspaper.
It was impossible for ordinary citizens to read the newspaper.
Naturally, the citizens looked like crazy people watching the cadets kneeling down and praying.
In the eyes of the citizens, Lucia and Han, the guardian dragon, were just one of many, many students.
Because they didn’t even know the most basic fact that the guardian dragon had joined the academy.
[They must be crazy. Oh my, oh my.]
[Ugh…]
So, soon after, the cadets who were praying would blush and quickly get up and disappear.
And the repetition of such situations did not cease.
[It continues like this wherever I go.]
[Ha ha ha…]
Lucia and Yone laughed awkwardly and just let it go.
This was inevitable.
This will continue to happen as long as I live in the capital of the empire, so it was better to adapt quickly.
Han the Guardian Dragon.
He opened his eyes and looked around the line.
Anytime, anywhere, his contractor, Lucia, was a law he had to abide by.
At the same time, Han thought.
‘Anyway, when will Rachel arrive?’
Why?
These days, whenever Guardian Dragon Han faces Princess Rachel, his heart tickles just like when he faces Lucia or Lucrezia.
I don’t know why, but it feels a bit odd.
Out of the blue, my mood was good, and my expression would suddenly straighten out.