101 – Dark Dragon and Fire Dragon – 2
I was the first to finish assessing the situation and stood up. The chairman hurriedly cupped his chest with his hands and crossed his thighs to cover his private parts. Even so, his palm could barely cover the areola and nipple.
“Hey, get out for now! “I’ll call you when I’m done!”
Next, Brünnhild and Aria came to their senses and pushed me out. She went out obediently. If you don’t go out for no reason, the situation will only get worse.
“You can come in now.”
It didn’t take long before Brünnhild opened the door, stuck his head out, and called me. When I returned to the room, I saw the chairman wearing a suit that was slightly different from what he usually wore.
The top seemed to be a vest-type dress shirt, but the back and part of the side chest were clearly exposed. The button on the front was also a bit odd in size, and it was an added bonus that it was tight and almost bursting.
Aria and Brunhild were looking blankly next to them. Arya looked down at her lost self and muttered something to herself, while Brünnhild absentmindedly groped her chest.
“Why?”
“Uh, no…… That is… ….”
After hesitating for a while, Brunhild whispered into my ear.
“I saw it right in front of me while I was helping her get dressed, and one side was bigger than the two of our heads combined… ….”
There was no subject, but it was clear what it meant. From my perspective, I wondered if it was something worth being so shocked by, but since I couldn’t understand a woman’s feelings, I just ignored it.
“I’m sorry. I was not in my right mind, so I had a momentary illusion. And thank you. He healed me when I was dying. “I will definitely repay this favor in the name of Erestica.”
The chairman, who was sitting with a very red face, stammered an apology and a thank you note. His shoulders slumped.
“The wish I mentioned last time has not yet been granted…… “I don’t know how I can repay this favor by having to owe my life again.”
“If that’s the case, you can use both here. “I’m going to tell you who you mistook me for and called me baby, where you were and what you did to get hurt so badly.”
Last time, it was closer to giving me something I wanted rather than a right to wish, but I don’t want anything right now anyway.
“Well, that is…” ….”
The chairman was unable to answer easily and hesitated. Even at first glance, it seemed like something was up. I quickly took a step back.
“If you have trouble answering, that’s okay. I’ll think of something else. “It’s okay if you don’t force yourself to say it.”
“Oh, no. Didn’t he do that not once, but twice? I guess I should tell you now. However, it is a process that requires mental preparation…… And there is no need to make this a wish. I heard about it while getting dressed. “It’s natural to be curious because you left the academy at the most important time.”
Both hands, unable to find a place to go, clasped each other in front of the lower abdomen. The intertwined fingers dug deep into the joints. The chairman, who had been slightly hesitant, rarely opened his mouth.
“The baby I told you about is…” … “Literally, it was a title for my child.”
“Yes?”
“Chairman, you have a child…… ?”
Brunhild and Aria widened her eyes in surprise. I was quite surprised too. I never would have guessed that the chairman was a married woman. I’m not sure if the opponent is a dragon or a human.
“I didn’t give birth to this child myself.”
The chairman shook his head.
“It was a human child.”
Meligor, who was called the dark dragon at the time, was not a dragon that particularly hated humans or thought they were evil.
Sometimes, when the Demon King gives the order to burn down the human world, he just sits around, barely reaching the edge of the border and returning.
I take the side of the demons simply because Rare was in the demon world. That was Meligor’s entire principle of action. Meligor was too unmotivated to actively move or hate something.
Following the logic of power to serve the stronger, Meligor’s life was to stay in his lair all day, sleeping or lounging around, not listening to anyone’s orders unless the Demon King called him.
Meligor thought that such days would last forever.
ㅡaaah! Ugh!
ㅡ…… Is it a human child?
Until I accidentally discovered a human child caught in a fire.
That day too, after receiving the Demon King’s order, we were about to burn only the edge of the border and then return to Lair. The dragon’s unique transcendent vision and hearing caught a crying child from afar.
Next to the child, there was a woman who had been cut in half and was dying, as if she had been attacked by a monster that had sensed the presence of a dragon and was running away. Even as the woman lay dying, she tried to comfort her child without regard for her own life.
However, because the wound was so serious, the child stopped breathing soon after, and the child was left alone and cried alone without even knowing it.
ㅡ… ….
Meligor, who had been watching the whole thing from beginning to end, somehow took the child, who was left alone, to his lair.
I didn’t even know the reason. It could have been because he got bored of the days spent just lounging around, or it could have been because of the sense that humans are picking up abandoned animals.
But one thing was clear: Meligor was determined to raise the child.
After Meligor returned to Rare with a human child who was not even the size of the smallest claw compared to herself, the first thing she did was combine the appearance from her memories and polymorph into the body of a human woman.
Although she didn’t know much about humans, she knew that she couldn’t raise humans in the form of a dragon.
“Tell me how humans raise their children.”
“…… “Why are you asking me that?”
“You are the demons that are most involved with humans. So, does that mean you don’t want to teach it?”
“Ah, okay! Got it! Hey! “Don’t breathe in the castle!”
Next, she semi-threatening Astaroth gave her information on how to raise a human child, and raised her by putting the tip of her finger in her mouth to magically synthesize milk and feed it to her.
“Mom!”
“… ….”
When her baby called her mother for the first time, a mere moment by dragon standards, Meligor felt a very strange feeling in the back of her mind.
It was then that the curiosity that remained in the back of her mind disappeared and she resolved to truly raise this human child.
“Mom! Look at this! “It’s a flower!”
“It’s very pretty. “She looks exactly like a baby.”
“hehehe, you look just like your mom! Ruler! “I’ll give you this!”
“Are you sure? “Thank you.”
From Meligor’s point of view, several moments of time passed by. The human child grew up well.
If she were in the human world, she would definitely have an appearance that would make many men cry, but neither Meligor the dragon nor the child raised by Meligor paid much attention to her appearance.
The only thing that mattered was that the current relationship was continuing.
“My name is Eres! Mom’s name is…… Hmm…… Let’s call it Erestica, which means Eres’ mother!”
“Oh my. Does that word have the meaning of mother in human language?”
“No! “I just made that up!”
Meligor left Lair at some point. This was because he spent more time in human form than in dragon form. Rare was too big to survive at human size.
Instead, he built a house that was human-sized and lived there. The longer she left Rare alone, the more Meligor became accustomed to its human appearance. To the extent that she even tries to think of time in a human-like way.
When 20 years had passed, which was very short for a dragon but enough time for a human to grow, Meligor received a very special gift.
“…… “What is this, baby?”
“It’s a gift to my mom. We said we should celebrate the day we met as her birthday. “Thank you for raising me, Mom.”
“Baby… ….”
It was a gray hair tie that I made by myself, stitch by stitch, out of materials I collected while wandering the mountains and fields alone. Meligor smiled and hugged her daughter tightly.
Even though Eres said that her breasts were suffocating her, she giggled.
“The devil’s order has come. “I’ll be back soon, so just stay calm.”
“Yes. Mom. Bye.”
Not long after receiving her hair tie, the Demon King’s order came. As always, it was an order to bring the human world with it. Only after Meligor surrounded her home with all her protective words did she fly towards the human world.
When Meligor returned to her house, having carried out her orders so sloppily that she burned and ate only a few trees on the border, she found that her protective seal had been broken.
“…… Baby?”
The dragon’s transcendental senses detected a fishy scent of blood. It felt ominous.
“Baby! Are you okay? “My baby!”
What Meligor found after tearing open the door was a house covered in blood and Eres being eaten in the middle of it.
“You came back sooner than I expected.”
A human who ate Eres. No, the dragon polymorphed into a human slowly turned its head.
It was the bombing dragon, Mahbat.
Makhbat calmly ate Eres’ corpse even as Meligor, who could not understand the situation in front of him, was shaking. A clanking sound rang out.
“Hmm. “Isn’t there anything special about it?”
Then he threw away what he was eating. Pow! The human head that hit the wall exploded. It was a very brief moment, but Meligor clearly saw the painful expression on his face.
“Now…… This…… What… ….”
“I tried eating a human raised by a dragon to see what it would taste like. It wasn’t a big deal. “Tsk, I just wasted time.”
Makhbat, who had finished his meal and was about to return to his original state, looked at Meligor’s expression and shot him a pitiful look.
“Why are your eyes like that, Meligor? It would have been a human being picked up anyway. Grow a new one. “If that’s too much of a hassle, I’ll catch one for you.”
That was the limit. Meligor, who exploded with anger, returned to his true form and fought Mahbat for seven days and nights, and was barely subdued only after the Demon King himself stepped forward after hearing the news.
But the power gap was clear. Even while Meligor was half dead, Machbat only had a few wounds. If the Demon King had not appeared, it would have been Meligor who would have died.
“You weak thing, if you feel wronged, wouldn’t it be okay to fight against it and win?”
After hearing all the circumstances, the Demon King laughed coldly at Meligor and opened her mouth.
“If you had not appeared, you would have definitely been killed by Mahbat. What kind of injustice are you complaining about when you can’t even avenge what you raised with your own hands? As they say, just grow a new one calmly.”
The Demon King left after leaving only those words, and the other corps commanders followed suit, mocking Meligor for his dazed look. In particular, the ridicule from Astaroth, where there was a lot of money, was the most severe.
Makhbat did not kill Meligor even though he had virtually the power to choose between life and death. The reason was that she wasn’t even worth killing.
Meligor, who had been kneeling there for a full month, escaped the demon world that day and headed to the human world. The Demon King knew that Meligor had crossed over to the human world, but he did not stop him for the same reason as always.
“I will request a transaction. “Emperor of Man.”
The first thing Meligor visited after crossing into the human world was the being whom humans called the Emperor. The emperor was surprised when he heard that the woman in front of him was a dragon, but he calmly agreed to the deal.
It was the day when Bellium Academy was to be established.
“…… Why was this academy built with the assumption of fighting demons? “It is because the understanding of humans and I coincided.”
Brünnhilde was astonished by the shocking past, and Arya covered her mouth and let her tears flow. I too was thinking about Mahbat with quiet eyes.
Because there was someone I couldn’t protect too.