54 – Heavy Warning (1)
When I opened my eyes, I was on a gray bed.
No, is it white?
When I looked outside, it was raining.
Water droplets hitting the window were sliding down, making marks.
There was white fog on the glass.
“Are you finally awake?”
– Tup.
The heavy book was closed, and someone’s hand pressed my forehead once.
It wasn’t Mom’s or Mr. Luterrier’s.
“The body temperature is normal. The eyes… Are responding well now.
Now, would you like to follow the tip of your finger?”
Feeling the extremely heavy pain in my body, I could barely roll my eyes.
I closed my eyes tightly, feeling as if the room was shaking,
“Still, it seems a lot better than that day. I’m glad.”
When it popped up again, a cup was sticking out.
With a few small pills.
“Don’t chew, swallow.
It will help your body produce the blood it lacks.”
I felt a foreign body touching my throat along with the water.
My dry throat and mouth sucked in water and felt moist again.
“Kek, kek…”
I tapped my chest, which felt like it was clogged, a few times, and then filled the cup again with water.
I felt my empty stomach being filled with flowing water, and I gently caressed the thing that was beginning to stir.
“Do you remember?
What happened before I lost my mind?”
It feels so vivid, as if something had just happened.
How could I forget that?
As soon as I entered the door, he motioned for me to be quiet,
Point straight to the door and make it transparent.
My mom, the one who showed me what she was doing, was asking me that.
The answer to that was simple.
Nodding your head without saying a word.
That one was enough.
“You seem heartbroken.
What is the reason for that?
It is truly a blessing to be loved by a beautiful dragon, a transcendent being who rules the world.”
My eyes suddenly frowned at those words.
The principal smiled and covered me with more blankets, as if he was jealous of me.
The smile he showed was truly unpleasant.
“…Without knowing anything.”
“Of course, I don’t know everything.
In the first place, none of us will know everything even if we spend our whole lives.
However, at least there is one conclusion that can be drawn with certainty from everything we have seen.
You are a being loved by a dragon who has come to hate humans, and loved in a truly terrible way.”
The dark sides that were not shown to me.
The stories you might understand why it was called the evil dragon.
The reason I told them to Mr. Luterrier,
The reason why I lost my senses due to the words that came out,
Everything is me.
It was because of me.
“Even so, how can I make that feeling – “
“You have to accept it.
If you really don’t want others to get hurt,
You have to accept it.”
I wanted to say no to that.
She has been my mother for seven years, so how can she suddenly change?
I tried to say I just wanted her family, but-
“Things that happened in Ruzek Village.
And then, an uproar occurred in the presence of the parents of Agatha An, a student at our academy.
Did you know that the story about the dragon flying through the sky is spreading in so many places?”
My fingers snapped once.
It showed a familiar face wrapped in bandages, shivering in an uncomfortable position on the bed.
People wearing armor were comforting him, but he only snuggled deeper into the blanket.
The fingers snapped again.
There were people repairing deeply dug walls and broken roads.
There were also guards controlling the messed up road, scratching their heads.
“Of course, something happened at our academy, but he also did things to this extent outside.
Thanks to this, a name that was once forgotten is now on people’s lips.”
“Kala… Mar…”
“Of course, it was something the public and the knights put in place maliciously…
The principals of my previous university. In particular, my ancestor, who founded this academy, saw the red dragon make a name for himself.
The being who devoured everything I taught him also smiles with great satisfaction.”
The principal wiped his forehead and lifted the blue dust from his hands.
As soon as they touched my forehead, they turned red and made my hair feel refreshed.
“What are you doing…?”
“Mana is flowing into the pattern engraved on your head.
It will help your body recover, so just accept it comfortably.”
Energy was clearly flowing into my helpless body little by little.
Enough so that you can see his wrinkled face.
“So – have you thought about it?”
“Which… Thing?”
He laughed as if he was coughing at my question.
The sight of him shaking with his mouth closed was by no means something to be welcomed.
“They say it was my innocence that made me fall in love with him, but it wasn’t because I was this ignorant.
I have the courage to act rather than say I have no sense.
But it’s hard to call him stupid because he has a lot of knowledge for his age.
Then perhaps that stubbornness might be the problem…”
Do all wizards talk like riddles like that?
Continue to laugh quietly while mixing words that are difficult to understand –
“It seems like you still have no idea what that person can do.
If you continue to refuse, what will happen to that person?”
“But, I…!”
“It’s not a matter of whether you want it or not.”
The wrinkled hand held mine tightly.
He held it tightly with both hands and stared at me with dark blue eyes.
It was completely different from Mr. Luterrier’s eyes.
“I risked my own life just by not being around.
I ended my seclusion for the sole reason of looking for you.
Thanks to this, the Knights of Ormr are consolidating the troops they had scattered all over the place.
If they face the red dragon again, somewhere else they will burn and fall.
Don’t you still know that I care about you enough not to even care about that?”
He spoke with such force that his tightly held hands naturally trembled.
Like I want you to know that.
“You seem to want to remain a son, but he has already made up his mind.
No matter how much you deny it and how much you want to run away.
You will be chased forever.
Have you not already seen what happened to Mr. Luterrier?
Haven’t you already experienced driving away many women who approached you?”
The principal pulls out the facts I already know one by one from my mind and puts them in front of my eyes.
As if the fact that I tried to run away several times was tied to my leg,
The facts written on the paper seem to be nailed to my heart…
He gave strength to every word he said.
…But that doesn’t mean I would accept it.
It didn’t seem like he was someone who wouldn’t notice that.
With a deep sigh, the cover of the book he took out depicted a dragon with a gentle but solemn face.
“Could you please read the third item of the fourth chapter?”
He moved his hands and rolled his eyes.
What you see beyond the pages of paper is the table of contents,
And –
“Dragon’s… Companion?”
“Please flip and read.”
Not a very thick book.
It was the fourth chapter that was particularly thick, with most of it being pictures and descriptions of the dragon’s body rather than simple text.
Dragon life, personality, and… Breeding?
“Dragons truly live for a very long time, beyond what we can imagine.
Some dogs can truly be called gods, and some of them mix with us knowingly or unknowingly.
Although they are precious beings, they have always appeared frequently throughout history.
Among them, the one who has been by the side of humans for the longest time is Dracea Rosaria.”
The third item was written about the breeding or marriage of dragons.
In a picture that appears to have been copied, a dragon is stroking a tree,
Guarding the mountain,
Flying with the same dragon,
There was an appearance holding hands with a human.
And where he pointed with his finger, there was an image of a dragon snatching a man by his feet and flying away.
“Dragons are very possessive.
Whether it is a treasure or your own territory –
Be sure to get what you want, and if it is taken from you, you will do whatever it takes to get it back.”
“But,”
“But, but, but.”
Are you still thinking of making an excuse to get out?”
“Mom, my mom!”
To him who only criticizes me,
I ended up screaming at the old man who was only pushing me.
While breathing heavily and holding my pounding head –
“I grew up as a son by her mother’s side for seven years.
Even if I were suddenly asked to get married now, I would have never even thought about it!”
“Then shouldn’t we do it now?”
“Yes?”
– Wow.
He approached me with the intention of pressing our foreheads together and held my hand even stronger.
“The more you run, the more destruction there will be.
Every time you ask someone, rely on someone, or mix up words –
The person requested dies,
He who has become a will will neither live nor die,
Those who mix words will have their tongues and ears ripped out.
The longer the period goes on, the more terrible the feeling becomes.
You might draw the eyes of everyone who sees you.
Maybe it could even take your life.”
“Where is such a law – “
– Soybeans.
Foreheads collided.
Blue eyes completely covered my vision.
“The dragon’s words soon become magic,
The dragon’s will will soon become reality.
You don’t know how absurd their existence itself is.”
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You block my words,
It blocks my eyes,
He told me that.
“I’m so relieved that I’ve finally got you back, but I’ll end up causing a lot of fear to the woman named Luther…
If you try to leave his side one more time,
If she rejects her and pushes her away.
It may harm everyone who thought they made it that way.”
I whispered.
I glanced towards the door.
I swallowed.
Spit and fear.
“Please do not take this warning lightly, Russell.
Even what is written here is written assuming an ordinary dragon.
Rosaria… Has been persecuted for too long,
It is difficult for me to guess how much I felt for you who took care of it.
I would say that it is best to accept it.
If you want to save more people and be allowed a little bit of freedom.”
Where is such a law?
I wanted to shout out why I had to make this choice.
But it couldn’t be done.
Because I knew the reason.
I was just pretending not to know.
