Episode 68 [Why did you meet me](6)
‘Tell Olivia… To go back…?’
Ha…?
That’s what I mean now.
I barely endured the swearing that was about to come out.
At the completely unexpected and absurd answer, Dante looked at Ophelia with her legs crossed with bewildered eyes, who still had a haughty smile on her lips.
The golden pupils were trembling desperately.
Dante chuckled and lowered her head.
….Rectangular wood.
I needed a very large and solid wooden plank to knock out this chaotic head in one shot.
Looking at how bitter it was to get hurt, it seemed that stress-induced stomach cramps had recurred.
If this is the case, I’d rather eat something and come out.
‘My stomach hurts…..’
Dante, who was holding her stomach with both hands, frowned her face so much that wrinkles formed between her eyebrows.
A cold sweat ran down his spine, which had goose bumps.
The god of the heavens came to help, and at best he came up with a plan, what?
Return to your master on your own feet before being discovered by other dragons?
Is that the only way to live? The simplest and easiest way?
Compared to the cost of life, isn’t it cheap?
Dante gritted his teeth as he tried to calm down his nervous feelings.
To the point of grinding your teeth.
‘──Don’t be funny.’
I have no idea what kind of feeling or resolution I had to run away from there.
This means that you should not carelessly say that it is someone else’s business.
Looking almost half-forcedly at the white and clean floor under the table without a single blemish, barely calming down the inside that was on the verge of being overturned.
Because there is nothing more stupid than losing one’s reason by being swayed by emotions.
Ku-wook, pressing down on his thigh with his fingernails, Dante asked in a calm tone.
“…Was the future in which I would die four hours later, the future that I would face if I chose to run away without meeting the Dragon God?”
“[Yes.]”
Close your chin, Ophelia nodded her head.
“Then… If I choose to run away again without going back to Lady Olivia now that I met Dragon God, does that future still face death?”
“[It’s very likely.]”
I haven’t seen it myself, but I’m almost 99% sure.
Gathering her nails neatly and peering through her red irises, Ophelia replied in a questioning tone.
“[Wait a minute. What, are you still going to run away after I said this?]”
Hey kid, are you going to die if you keep going like this?
“[If you calmly return to the child’s arms, everything will be solved, why are you willing to risk your life in a dangerous gamble?]”
She said with an incomprehensible expression.
“[In the first place, little boy, why don’t you like Olivia? What do you not like about her? Oh, she’s not scolding, she’s just asking out of curiosity! Don’t be afraid to answer honestly.]”
While asking this question, Ofelia at the same time muttered inwardly.
I understand that you are afraid of her coercive and ferocious side, but aren’t the other elements likable…?
She couldn’t fathom why Dante was so fed up with Olivia that he risked her life to stage her getaway.
That’s why, why not say that she is affectionate enough to hate.
With the exception of his bad personality, his appearance goes without saying, he is devoted to the people he loves, he has a lot of status and wealth, and even power.
Am I really not greedy at all? Who is this kid?
The strongest undefeated black dragon, capable of destroying the world single-handedly, begs you to love him, saying he will give you his liver and gallbladder.
With just one word, I gained the mighty power to get everything in this world.
If the price is simply to love a beautiful dragon, who would refuse?
Dante replied calmly, raising his eyebrows.
“──Character.”
There are so many emotions in that single death sentence.
“[Ah.]”
Ophelia, having attained enlightenment, gave a small sigh.
That’s right.
Other pluses that could give you a good impression, one downside was eating up all of them…!
Maybe it would be better for our fire-attribute daughter who gave away all the things like dynamics control.
Ophelia suppressed her wry smile as she brushed her forehead.
“[Yeah…Personality, yes. It’s important…It’s very important…]”
Looking at it, this kid seems to have a very delicate and vulnerable style, but my daughter is just a nopaku and an independent child, so is there any other contradiction like this?
So now this sh*t has happened. She’s getting nervous for no reason, so why make her go round by ripping off her to get out?
After thinking about opening and closing her fists, Ophelia finally decided to respect Dante’s choice.
Thinking that this would also be the will of God (himself).
She pushed Dante’s forehead with her finger.
“[Are you sure you won’t regret that choice?]”
“Yes. I will try my best.”
Believe in the 1% possibility.
I will decide my future with my own hands.
“If it fails… Then I’ll go there and think about it.”
It’s not the present me who suffers anyway, it’s the future me.
The body is already in a quandary.
[──Family Ability, Brave.]
Dante shrugged her shoulders.
At that sly figure, Ophelia shed a sneer.
“[Okay. Then try to struggle as hard as you can.]”
You’re a kid with a lot of guts.
Just right!
Ophelia snapped her fingers.
Crunchy!
The pure white space collapses in an instant, and Dante’s body begins to change into white particles one by one.
──It was a farewell time.
“[You should be able to leave the island now. I wish you the protection of the Dragon God.]”
Dante politely bowed her back.
“…Thank you in many ways.”
“[It’s okay. I did it because I wanted to. What?]”
“I’m serious.”
“[……. Hmm.]”
Her method was a bit sloppy, but if it weren’t for her, she would have been captured by the dragons that Olivia mobilized and dragged helplessly away without knowing herself, and for this she is truly grateful. I had no choice but to do it.
When Dante’s body finally turned completely into faint particles,
“[…..Yes, that’s right. He’s Dante’s kid!]”
Strike!
Ophelia shouted as she threw a small box to Dante that she didn’t know what was in it.
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He said he couldn’t interfere with the underworld any longer, so he would leave a piece of advice instead of giving proper help.
“[If you’re going to run away, you’d better go west! The habitat of the thunder tiger that the kid takes with you!]”
Because dragons can’t go in there carelessly!
“…!? I said that a long time ago——”
Down!!
Dante was thrown out of the altar with the flash of light.
In the distorted space, I hope the dragon god left alone muttered shyly.
“[…But it can’t be helped.]”
I just remembered, tell me what to do.
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“Oops!!”
Fluffy!
Dante fell straight down through an open portal in the air and landed on his butt on a bush.
“Anyway, beggars…These lizards…”
Dante stood up from his seat rubbing his sore back and looked around.
In the eerie forest I saw for the first time, it was the same place that I was hovering over.
“Let’s see, I’ll have to find Nagi…”
According to the dragon god, this forest is where he set up a barrier, so dragons won’t be able to find it. In other words, Son, it meant that it was safe while he was here, and that the moment he left this place and went out, the chase with Olivia would begin.
…I want to stay here forever, but unfortunately there is no food or water here, so I can only see my fate of starving to death.
Since the Dragon God left, it is unknown how long this place will remain, so I had to make a plan to leave as soon as possible and run away with Nagi.
For now, that was the most realistic way.
Crush, rustle.
“Nagiya, Nagiya, where are you?”
Dante made up his mind as he carefully made his way through the grass to find his cat, who would be left alone, away from him.
f*ck it, even if I die, my feet won’t go back to that demon dragon.
Asmodians have pride.
Ah, I only went out because Ji told me to leave, so why are you back now? Nope really
Is that ridiculous? I mean do it carelessly. Things like don’t climb up, don’t make people feel bad.
No. Why do you do something you’ll regret in the first place?
“Cee…..”
Tears welled up for no reason. Dante bit his lip gently.
Crush! Hooked!
“Evil…!”
In the wind of my emotions, I accidentally cut my hand with a sharp leaf when I accidentally broke through the bush.
“Ah… Write…!”
It was a while after he roughly grabbed the back of his bloody hand and moved his steps here and there. Dante squeezed his body through the trees, turning yellow fur visible through the long branches.
“I found it! Nagiya, you’re here… Whoa.”
It was only for a moment that I let out a sigh of relief as I looked at the shiny golden hair.
“[…..Ah. Ong.]”
——Stunned by the small, thin cry that almost seemed to be dying, Dante hurriedly lowered his stance.
“I, Nagiya. Are you okay?! Where are you hurt?”
I carefully turned my back with the palm of my hand and touched the sitting tiger’s ear, only then did he turn around and look this way.
“…….!”
The moment he finally met his emerald eyes, Dante closed his mouth.
“[…Ah. Ong.]”
Drops of water dripping down her round cheeks to the floor.
A quivering beard and a drooping tail.
──Nagi was crying endlessly.