Chapter 503 – Episode 500 Commemorative Gaiden – Arus Went to the Academy! (Complete)
The lunchtime bell rang. The students all walked slowly to the cafeteria. This class, which Matilda belongs to, enjoyed the privilege of being the first to use the cafeteria during lunchtime because the princess belonged to it. She thought that Matilda, who was in her prime eating age, was also very good at this privilege.
“Sister! What is your favorite food?”
I’m going to ask you what you like about the food here. The academy had a high quality of education, so the food was also very good. She told Matilda that if she had to pick one thing she liked about coming to the academy, she would pick up the food. Matilda said she without hesitation.
“The mushroom pasta is so delicious.”
“Mushroom Pasta? What is your sister’s pasta?”
When asked what pasta is, the other students started crying again. Matilda looked at her surroundings and said.
“Pasta is a food made by boiling wheat flour noodles.”
Even though Artie personally makes pasta, she has rarely made pasta for Arus. Before Polymorph, Arus’ oral structure was very unfavorable for eating noodles, and it was because he had to feed a lot of meat to a growing dragon.
Thanks to that, Arus had eaten various parts of meat, but he had hardly ever eaten pasta.
“Oh, that’s pasta! My mom did it sometimes only when my dad came.”
A household that only eats pasta when the king comes. The children started to weep again. Matilda had no idea how to explain this. She felt like a bad sister who did n’t take care of her younger sister when she said that she ate well and lived well in her own way, but she could n’t even say that her mother her was a dragon.
It was because I had seen Artie and Lucius warn Arus about this before coming here. When it was revealed that Arus was a half-dragon, it became a nuisance in many ways.
Said one of the children walking towards the restaurant.
“Then what did you eat often?”
Arus replied with a bright smile.
“Meat!”
The eyes of the children came and went as if they were a little surprised at the word meat. Matilda let out a sigh of relief here. She really did, because if she was a child who was confined and abused in a cave, she wouldn’t eat meat often. As Matilda relaxed her tension, Arus said.
“It’s so delicious to eat grilled offal!”
The tearful mother’s mother who had to feed the intestines as meat. The children’s complexions darkened again. The word meat, of course, made them feel ashamed to think of the steak or grill they ate. They were thinking of mother and daughter Arus eating leftover meat scraps and intestines in a shady cave. Of course, Arus only liked her guts for her personal taste of her.
If not too long ago, I was immersed in the oily taste of soft lean meat, these days I am in the middle of falling in love with the chewy texture of well-cooked intestines and the taste of seasoning. Lucius was the creator of the well-cooked and baked recipe.
Wanting to eat the giblets he ate in his previous life, he put Evangeline and her heads her together to make sauce, and Lucius gave the recipe to Artie, who was able to trim the giblets without touching them. Artie roasted and ate the giblets with Arus as a test, and Arus, immersed in the taste of the giblets, begged Artie to cook her intestines from time to time.
“Sometimes I was scolded by my mother for eating raw.”
“Oh…”
Children with a bad stomach vomited imagining Arus eating raw meat, and Matilda shook her head.
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“Eat this too.”
“Try this too.”
“This is the most delicious thing here, so please eat this too.”
“Wow!”
Arus looked down at the mountain and sea delicacies set in front of her table, her eyes twinkling. Arus awkwardly sliced the meat in front of her with a knife, then dipped it with her fork and put it in her mouth. She then stamped her feet and cried out.
“Tasty! Tasty! Sister! This is so delicious!”
“Right? Are you really good at cooking here?”
“Yes! I want my mom to try cooking here too! Because this is so delicious!”
Once again, the inside of the restaurant became a sea of tears. Some students wiped away tears with her handkerchief, while others looked at Arus with pity. Matilda thought she would have to clarify here, to be sure. In her mind her, she began simulating what she was going to say.
‘Hey, you seem to have a bit of a misunderstanding about our Arus, but Arus doesn’t live in a strange place. She lives in a mansion like that in a cave, and she’s a better place than a palace. It now has a huge iron door, a teleport device and various magic tools. There are so many toys in Arus’s room her, and she is happily living with her mother her. And her mother is a dragon. She’s a half dragon. The reason she looks like a human now is because she uses a magic called polymorph.’
“Well. I don’t even believe me.”
Matilda, who had thought of an excuse up to this point, decided to give up her explanation neatly. She decided to be satisfied with just stroking Arus’ head with her pitiful gaze of her and giving him a hug.
A satisfying lunch break has passed. Unlike Matilda, who could n’t tell whether she ate her food her with her mouth or her nose, Arus was patting her belly with great satisfaction.
“Ah, it’s a little quieter now.”
“Right. Sister. My sister’s friends are a bit strange. Are you going to cry when you see me?”
“Everyone thinks Arus is too cute.”
“Is it? Do you think I’m cute?”
“Yeah, it’s cute, it’s cute.”
Matilda nodded her head. Every time she nodded her head, Arus laughed happily and ran around her. It was so cute to tee off her favorite her, so Matilda hugged her tight.
There were no other children around. It was because when Arus asked to go for a walk with her sister her, she all moved away from her. The two stood leaning against the window overlooking the flower bed. Arrus was admiring her beautiful flowers her, and Matilda was describing her flower beds her with such pride as if her own garden her had been praised. A wind blows through the window. Arus looked at the window and said.
“Too bad. Tomorrow we will go to the cave again.”
“I know.”
“Sister. I want to go to the academy here too.”
“Well, can’t it be a little bit bigger?”
“Then, will Dad take me?”
“Of course. Dad will definitely send a good and pretty kid like Arus to the academy.”
“Then can I go to the academy with you?”
Matilda nodded her head. There were only two people in the hallway. But she said there were people going up and down the stairs leading to the hallway. Some of them happened to overhear the conversation between Matilda and Arus. One child, who was Matilda’s classmate, spread the story she heard to her classmates.
“Really, uh, what do you do? What will happen to Princess Arus if she is taken to such a place again?”
“Poor. I feel so sorry.”
“But, His Majesty Lucius is too… That… Wow, he’s a scary person…”
“There are rumors that even monsters can be manipulated, and we might easily erase them…”
“Are you going to just send it like this?”
“That…”
The children put their heads together while Matilda and Arus went for a walk. They glanced down the hallway and prepared their own little presents.
When Matilda and Arus returned to the classroom, they could see the children facing them with tears in their eyes. The children gathered around Arus as if they were about to start a gang fight. As if a little startled, Arus opened her eyes wide and blinked.
“Princess Arus! Are you sure you’re going back to the cave?”
“Are you going back to that cave?”
“It must be hard to go there!”
“Yes! Come back.”
Arus was a little taken aback, but quickly smiled again and nodded his head. Her children were even more weepy, she said, as she returned to life. Matilda was looking at the distant mountains with a heart that told her to be what she was. This too shall pass. This too shall pass.
As soon as Arus answered, letters flew in from all directions. Small gifts and sweets also flew in.
“Th-we can no longer stand against His Majesty Lucius, the king of the kingdom, but please keep this letter at least.”
“This is a flower crown made by the academy flower garden.”
“This is a biscuit that can be stored for a long time.”
“Everyone wrote a letter for Princess Arus. Please accept this letter as well.”
Arus opened her eyes wide when she saw various gifts including a letter that had suddenly flown to him. Matilda stroked Arus’ head and said.
“Our Arus will be fine. You get a present like this.”
“Yes! I love it! I love you and all of your friends!”
At the cry of Arus, a child burst into tears. It was because they were so pitiful for their powerlessness and felt sorry for Arus. Crying became a catalyst and gradually spread to the entire class.
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Lucius was riding in the carriage to return. As soon as Arus saw Lucius get off the carriage, he jumped up and down, boasting of the presents in his hands.
“Dad! Dad! Look at this! My sister’s friends gave me this gift!”
“Okay? Hey, it seems our Arus is loved.”
Lucius hugged Arus tightly and looked at the gate of the academy. For some reason, there was a group of female students who looked at him with hostile eyes. He just shrugged her shoulders thinking that Arus was so cute that she was jealous of him hugging Arus and got into her carriage.
Said Matilda in the carriage.
“Me, Dad.”
“Why?”
“That… I think there has been some misunderstanding.”
“Misunderstanding?”
“Arus is that… Misconception that I can’t live well? Something like that…””
“It’s okay. Are you okay. Who says our Arus can’t live? Yes?”
Lucius hugged her tightly, and Arus moved her body her while tickling her. Lucius laughed off Matilda’s concerned remarks her.
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After some time had passed, Lucius looked at Eve who had come to the office. Eve was holding a pile of letters with a slightly embarrassed face. Lucius asked.
“What is that?”
“Groom. Did you secretly make a girl for us?”
“No?”
“No, I have no intention of saying anything about increasing my wife now, so tell me honestly. You really didn’t make it?”
“What is it?”
“I heard rumors that the groom captured beautiful women somewhere in the kingdom and built a female kennel?”
“Yes?”
Lucius was taken back by the words and opened the letter.
[Please let go of poor Arus. Make me happy. And release the captured women.]
“What the fuck.”
