Chapter 105
He, completely covered in dust, approached closer.
Asil stared blankly up at Edenber for a moment, then smiled brightly with a “Ppyaha” just like she had practiced in front of the mirror.
If she stayed still, tears would trickle out, so she deliberately opened her mouth wider and grinned.
“Ppyayass. Ppyayaa!” (Asil is going. Take care!)
Edenber said nothing.
Then, he bent his knees to meet Asil’s eyes and tightly hugged his own baby divine beast.
He bit his lips firmly. Then, finally, he confessed the words he had buried in his chest.
“Don’t go.”
“Ppi?!”
“Don’t go.”
He sobbed quietly.
He knew he shouldn’t do this, and that’s why he had avoided seeing Asil for days, but he couldn’t stop.
No matter how much he pretended to be mature, Edenber was still a child. Not even ten years old yet.
Edenber, who had always suppressed his emotions, expressed his true feelings for the first time.
“Don’t go and stay by my side. Okay? You’re my divine beast……. My only friend…….”
“Ppya…….”
Asil, who had been frozen for a moment, tapped his chest with her front paw.
He had been avoiding her so much that she even thought, ‘Doesn’t he miss Asil?’, but her husband was also sad about parting with Asil.
The tears she had been holding back began to trickle down. Asil secretly rubbed her eyes with her front paw away from Edenber’s view.
While trying hard to pretend she wasn’t crying, she made her voice as bright as possible.
“Ppyatppi ppyaya. Ppiiya ppii, ppyayaa.” (Even without Asil, you’ll make lots of new friends. Father is there, and there’s the fox friend too.)
“No, you’re my only friend. Don’t go and let’s stay here together forever. Or I’ll go to where you are. No matter what, I’ll go there…….”
It was around the time Ikart frowned at those words.
Rain’s piercing scream was heard.
“Kyaaaang!”
Everyone reflexively turned toward that direction.
Rain, who had been blocking Fier’s beak with his front paws, was being flung into the air.
Behind him, Fier was rising with his two eyes gleaming menacingly.
“Tch.”
Ikart clicked his tongue.
“It’s that flower. It’s good in many ways, but it goes berserk for about 5 minutes before returning to normal.”
That meant the same thing had happened when he fed Rain the silver helmet flower.
Edenber, who had hurriedly wiped away his tears, picked up his sword.
Asil, who had jumped down from his arms, also prepared to fight.
However, Ikart stopped them.
“Daughter-in-law, just go now. Edenber and I will handle this.”
“……What did you say?”
The shocked Edenber glared at him.
“Why are you-!”
“What are you to Father.”
“Houuuuuk!”
At that moment, Fier, who had lost his reason, launched a tail attack.
After lightly dodging it, Icart gripped his sword again and frowned.
“We have to fight, so go quickly.”
“No, Asil. I haven’t finished talking yet!”
“Tch.”
As if annoyed, he clicked his tongue and struck Edenber’s solar plexus.
With a “keuk” sound of breath being cut off, Edenber glared at him as if to kill.
“You…… bastard……!”
However, he soon lost consciousness and collapsed.
After tending to his fainted son, he urged Asil again.
“I told you to go quickly.”
“Ppi…….”
Asil was still a young dragon, but she seemed to understand why Father was acting like that.
He knew that if her husband kept holding on, she wouldn’t be able to leave, so he was doing this on purpose.
Asil also wanted to stay longer in the human world.
She hoped to stay here longer for her precious one-and-only human friend.
But she couldn’t.
A divine beast that doesn’t listen to Mom and Dad is a very bad divine beast.
Asil wiped away the trickling tears with her front paw.
“Ppyatppi, ppyaya.” (Asil is going, Father.)
Soon, Asil moved her feet toward the carriage.
“Farewell.”
It seemed like Father’s small goodbye was heard from behind.
* * *
At first, the tears that had been trickling out welled up more and more like a spring in the forest.
By the time she reached the carriage, her vision was so blurred that she couldn’t see properly.
Asil arrived at the carriage with her eyes swollen.
Arcian was holding a baby rabbit and waiting for Asil.
Even though he must have seen everything from the air after fighting fiercely with Fier, he said nothing.
Instead, he took out a handkerchief and wiped Asil’s face, which was a mess with soot and tears.
Asil hugged his neck tightly and sobbed with “ppigeuk ppigeuk.”
“Ppyayappi……. Ppyatppi ppyaya, ppiiya? Ppyayaa?” (Daddyy……. If Asil grows up, she can really come to the human world again, right? Right?)
“Yeah, of course. You can come back anytime.”
Arcian patted the butt of the sobbing Asil.
Then, after transforming Asil into human form, he used warp magic to move directly to the port.
“Normally, the mana in the air in the human world is sparse, so this distance is impossible-”
Thanks to Fier going berserk and destroying the warp gate, mana had spread sufficiently in the atmosphere, allowing them to reach the port in one go.
“The warp gate…… is broken.”
Hearing Arcian’s explanation, Asil became greatly disappointed.
Then her husband wouldn’t be able to follow Asil at all even after things are settled.
Her face, tired from crying too much, turned sullen.
However, that feeling vanished like melting snow the moment she saw the one waiting for her at the port.
“My daughter!”
“……Mom?!”
The queen of the divine beasts, Briana, was visible, dressed in a floral sun hat and floral dress as if on a sightseeing trip.
Briana was an extremely pretty divine beast with sparkling silver hair and amber eyes.
She had a delicate appearance that seemed like it would fly away if blown on, but all divine beast tribes knew.
That behind that angelic appearance hid a filthy temper.
However, to the innocent baby dragon Asil, she was just a loving mom.
Asil forgot she was crying and opened her eyes wide. How is Mom here?!
“I can’t let my Asil board the ship alone.”
Briana smiled brightly.
“But what happened? Why is there so much soot? And your face, why is it like this, did you cry? Arcian, you, perhaps-”
“It’s not because of me. Something else happened.”
Arcian, tired from escaping the messed-up capital, raised both hands.
He briefly explained what had happened so far.
“By the way, I really didn’t expect you to come out.”
“She’s my daughter, of course I have to come.”
“The elders didn’t say anything? There must have been a lot of talk about the queen moving directly.”
“In front of fists, everyone shuts their mouths.”
“……So you beat them all down and came out. They’re alive, right?”
“Of course. Their lives are intact.”
At the nonchalant answer, Arcian was at a loss for words.
He was strong too, but he couldn’t smile like that against the elders while only leaving their lives intact.
‘Anyway, insanely strong.’
He thought Asil’s monstrous strength unsuitable for her age came from resembling her mom.
He looked at Briana, who was pretending to be elegant and laughing “hohoho,” with cloudy eyes.
Then, spotting the sparkling diamond ring on her ring finger, he clicked his tongue “tch.”
“Why are you wearing that again? Must have picked it up from the trash.”
“……Oh my. Looks like something crawled out of the trash. Since when were you here?”
Briana, naturally pretending not to know, removed the ring and pointed at Arcian’s left ring finger.
“And you? You must have picked yours from the trash too?”
“I just kept it to recycle. I should stop by a jewelry store and sell it on the way.”
“I’ll sell mine as soon as I return to the forest.”
“Mom and Dad get along super well.”
Asil grinned widely.
They wear the exact same rings, and remove them together too.
As expected, my Mom and Dad have the best relationship in the divine beasts’ forest!
At this, Briana forced a smile.
“Oh dear, our Asil is under a huge misunderstanding?”
“Ahem, it’s not that we get along well, it’s that Dad handles Mom well.”
“What?!”
“Don’t glare and go quickly. It’s almost time for the ship to depart.”
As Arcian said, it was true.
Buuuuuuu-
The huge ship was calling the passengers who hadn’t boarded yet with pure white steam.
“Hmph.”
Briana, who snorted, was about to walk while holding Asil but paused as if remembering something.
Then, turning half her body toward Arcian, she asked.
“When are you coming back?”
☆▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎☆
