57 – Trapped in the Dragon’s Embrace (1)
Non-stop rain.
Soldiers wearing raincoats began to surround the main gate of the academy.
They were moving around busily, occasionally lighting their armor with the lanterns they carried.
“Are you from the Knights Templar?”
“It seems like you’re doing something in vain.”
My relationship with my mom… Seemed to have changed quite a bit since that day.
There was no longer any hesitation in his actions, and even his eyes were no longer kind.
Just as I said, my mom loved me in a different way.
“Is it because it’s raining? It’s a little too cold.”
“…”
My mother silently stretched out her hand and pushed me into her arms.
Then she immediately lowered her head, took a deep breath, and-
“hehehe.”
He has added more face to me.
…As expected, I wasn’t used to it.
When he touched Mr. Luterrier’s body, his heart pounded.
Rather than being trembling, my body was constantly shaking.
“Oh, I’m sorry.
I need to learn how to control my emotions a little… In front of you.
If only you were by my side, would my heart always feel like this?”
Even if it wasn’t told, it was something I knew from before.
From the chest that heats up the back,
Even the heartbeat that can be felt beyond the skin touched.
Mom loved me.
…Similar to the strange feeling I felt from Mr. Luterrier, no,
Even worse than that…
“There is no need to look there.
Would you please pay a little more attention to me?”
The chin was slightly grabbed and lifted up.
The sight of my lips constantly getting wet unfolded before my eyes.
Despite the fact that my cheeks and forehead have already been wet several times.
Once again, Mom brought warmth.
I knew very well that it was not a bad intention.
But for me now, it was just a lot of suffering.
Until yesterday, I still wanted to call my mom, mom.
Now that is no longer possible.
Even though I didn’t want to do it, the fact that my mother was in such pain that she died because of my refusal,
– Side, side…
I made him quietly accept that expression of affection.
My mother grabbed me tightly, threatening to tear off my clothes.
He blocked my path with one leg, and then caressed my cheek with his hand, trying to leave a mark –
“Huh, huh…”
My mother pressed her face against me, puffing out her breath.
As she scanned me with her half-open yellow eyes.
Just like the day she hit me with her tail…
Mom was gradually losing her senses.
“…Gulp.”
I closed my eyes.
Letting the tears leak out and run down my cheeks.
I swallowed my saliva.
Be prepared for what will happen in the future.
You keep pushing things on me that I don’t know about.
She felt her mother’s embrace becoming tighter and tighter.
“Don’t worry. I know it’s not time yet.”
Her right shoulder was held tightly in her hand.
My left waist was exposed to the intense heat and I began to sweat.
And then, a tingling sensation that made tears flow came from my ears.
“Huh?!”
“But I also know very well that it won’t be long before you understand.
Yeonggeul is already giving off a scent and preparing to accept me.
You really…”
There was nothing I could understand during the sleepover.
He was clearly saying something to me, but he was losing strength as his warm breath kept making my ears tingle.
“H-ah…?”
“There will be a lot of time in the future.
Let’s take our time and learn together calmly.
You and me… hehehe.”
He gently catches the shaking leg with his tail,
He turned me, who was about to flow down, and pushed me into his arms.
When you start to whet your appetite –
– Ting.
I heard the sound of something hitting and falling behind me.
At the same time, the window closed immediately, and I was left in the embrace.
Just as I held her mother, her mother held me in that same position.
“…It looks like the knights are starting to shoot arrows.
I’d better get out of here as quickly as possible.”
As soon as I entered the hallway, what I saw were wizards who started to move around busily.
The students were forming a line and moving somewhere hastily –
“Agatha! What are you doing? Come quickly!”
I saw the ears of a rabbit passing by at high speed.
I was surprised and tried to turn my head, but there was my mother’s soft… Skin?
“I know you’re anxious, but you’ll be able to leave here soon.
It’s okay not to be too anxious.”
As I said that, the place I reached was the middle of a hallway with a wide open window.
The principal of this academy was standing there with wizards with their faces covered.
Were they the ones who dragged the person who entered the room, dragged him away, and then locked the door?
“Hurry up. Right now we only have arrows, but if they start coming in – “
“Don’t worry. They’re after me, not you.
…This is the wage you asked for.”
– Well done.
Her mother handed her a bag that sounded strange and sounded like money.
When he opened it slightly and checked it,
And in that gap, there was a red light.
It was my mother’s scales.
“Confirmed.”
“I know you won’t be safe on the day you use your tongue the wrong way.
I prepared a lot for that purpose.”
To him who looked at me intently and smiled,
She purred to the point where I wondered if my mother was too sensitive.
That person must be a man.
Is it because I got too jealous, or…
“Of course.”
Is there something to that meaningful smile?
It was an unknown matter.
“Now, get off carefully.”
As she said that, my mother gently helped me stand on the ground.
And immediately, she stretched out both her hands and grabbed me tightly.
“Well, now that it’s grown a lot… I can’t guarantee that it’s completely safe just because I caught it like before.
Won’t you hold me tight too?”
Gently bumping our foreheads together,
And then he held me until my back slightly bent.
Mom spread her huge wings wide.
…It felt a little different from when I caught Mr. Luterrier.
Is it because I feel a scent that is just familiar, in a very familiar embrace?
It was a feeling closer to comfort than excitement,
Comfort was slowly disappearing as the fingers caressed my back.
“The rain will come as soon as I leave, so you know what to do.”
“Yes. I will disturb you so that you cannot pursue me.”
Recovering the rain, does this mean that this heavy rain did not fall naturally?
But my mom said she wasn’t good at magic other than fire, and she definitely told me that when I was younger… I think she said that.
“Then. I hope we never meet again.”
“…I will always look forward to your visit.
You are a proud graduate of our academy.”
But before I could be swallowed up by that thought, I immediately felt cold water droplets wet my back –
– Rumbling.
I could see my mother flying up with the sound of lightning flashing.
Is it because I also held on to her mother?
I felt much more stable than when I was young –
“H-huh?”
A black shadow was rising ominously next to the averted eye.
The shape that appeared under the dark clouds was reminiscent of a dragon.
It slowly leaned to the right and walked away from us.
Meanwhile, I felt a cloud passing by my head.
Because I was so wet, every time I took a breath, it felt like I was in a bathhouse.
“How does it feel to go back home, Russell?”
Has he completely distanced himself from the Knights?
Like that, my mom leisurely asked me a question.
The sound of the wind passing by suddenly disappeared.
“…I don’t know.
It feels like something is missing – ah?!”
Now that she thought about it, the thought that she had not even been able to say goodbye to Mr. Luterrier suddenly passed through her head.
Shuddering at the coldness that seemed to pierce my body, I could not help but sigh.
However, my mother looked at me like that and gently raised the corners of her mouth,
“If you’re talking about Luterrier, she abandoned you and ran away.”
I furrowed my eyebrows slightly and pursed my lips.
The sound of teeth chattering was heard.
That alone was enough for me to understand the situation.
That’s why I didn’t want to say any more than that.
“Russell,
If it were me, if I were in the same situation…
I would have willingly bared my teeth to get you.”
My mother whispered to me as she buried me deeper into her chest.
I could feel the wind passing by, but it didn’t make my body feel cold.
“That’s what love is like.
Even if it means sacrificing your life, you can at least be determined not to let go.
And, if I ever lose sight of you…
No, something like that won’t happen in the future.”
I began to think that it would be nice if they held me a little more loosely.
The feeling of being unable to breathe every time you hug me… Isn’t it time to get used to it?
“…When we get home, let’s take a bath together for the first time in a while.
Your body seems very stiff.”
The mother said that and slowly flapped her wings,
She waded through the wet leaves and landed safely in front of a cave.
It was the entrance to a different cave, but it was obvious that the same scenery would lie in the cave.
“Welcome back, Russell.
And now… Never again…”
I was forced to end this short adventure.
Even when she left, it was from her mother’s arms,
Even when it ends like this, in my mother’s arms.
As expected, was it something I couldn’t escape?