Seeker of First Light - Chapter 24
Chapter 24
During that time, she also understood why Lord and the other dragons kept asking her if he had a relationship with anyone. In the meantime, she hadn’t really given it much thought, so she didn’t answer, as she didn’t know that there would be such a situation like this.
When this happened, Twilight’s life was truly threatened.
And it was fortunate that the accident that day was covered. Whichever of the three it was, the dragons would not have left them alone.
No, they might try to kill all three of them.
‘Still, did he have such a wide chest…’
She thought he had been strong from a long time ago, although she thought this looked new.
Naskan gently put Chrys down on the bed inside the Lair.
Chrys had more to say, but she couldn’t get the words out. As soon as the soft bed touched her, drowsiness came rapidly. She gave Naskan a weary eye, and he just nodded his head, looking like he understood everything.
‘No, I think you’re still misunderstanding something.’
Chryselua couldn’t correct it. It was because she was really feeling a little sick.
The next day, Chryselua had to swallow her screams as soon as she woke up. It was because Naskan was staring at her from the bed. Besides, there was puffiness under his eyes, as if he hadn’t slept a sigh all night.
“You, you… how do you prepare for the ceremony and doing this here?”
“Is that important now?”
“Important? It is important!”
Naskan sighed and then rested.
“Chrys, I’ve made my decision.”
“…What, what?”
“That, I’ll do it on my own.”
Chryselua still hadn’t gotten rid of her sleep and gently closed her eyes and touched her forehead. While she went to sleep without being able to properly resolve the misunderstanding, Naskan seemed to have gone a long way.
“That child. I will take responsibility.”
No, he was just deciding things on his own. Regardless of what Chrys was thinking, Naskan bowed his upper body to her with a serious face.
“Chrys, do you remember?”
Then, he began to say something rather out of the blue for her to take immediately.
“When we were young, when we first met…”
“What?”
And no matter what he did, this man who went out for a long time started to reminisce about the past.
“…When you were young, you were too weak, so Lord, who was worried about that, assigned me to protect you.”
“You… what are you talking about.”
As he did say, when she was young, Chrys often passed the risk of dying.
It wasn’t just because she was Twilight, and it wasn’t just because her body was weak. If her fragile body was an internal cause, then there was also an external cause.
Originally, the dragons of the divine realm, the fairies of the spirit world, and the devilkins of the underworld have not been on good terms since time immemorial. Cracks began to form in the world, the three united, and even after the creation of Sedition, they did not maintain a very good relationship.
Still, they were able to form a moderate balance and live.
At some point, until the devilkins suddenly changed.
They unilaterally revealed this to the divine realm and the spirit realm. They didn’t even try to negotiate. It became an opportunity for the dragons and fairies, who had previously regarded each other as thorns, to unite and the underworld was erased from the map after the war.
Now, even that was a thing of the past, but Naskan especially hated the devilkins. It must have been because Chryselua passed the risk of being killed by the devilkins several times during the war.
Since Naskan was Chrys’ escort, he must have had a hard time.
Anyway, in the meantime, she had known Naskan as a dragon with a good and hot temper at the same time. She was scared at first because of Naskan’s habit of showing his teeth and threatening others like an irrational beast or even confronting a fight that would normally go unnoticed.
At least these days, his personality has become very harmful.
At that time, his sharp personality must have been because he was overly immersed in the Lord’s mission to protect Chrys. Even so, as expected, Naskan still had the strange appearance of losing the flexibility he had at that time.
“When I first saw you, who was obviously my age but who was much smaller than me, I felt like you would die in pain if I touched you carelessly. I thought then I would protect you so that no one would hurt you.”
“What’s wrong with you since the morning…”
“And then I really… lived only for that mission.”
“Naskan.”
“I lived just for you.”
“…Dawn, are you listening to me?”
“It still feels like a dream to me.”
“Hey!”
Naskan, who woke up Chrys, who had been drowsy, talked softly about what he had to say, then suddenly lost his words again. He, not paying attention to what she said, grabbed her hands. Before she knew it, her little hand was completely buried in her childhood friend’s big hand.
“I don’t think this time is different. I will take responsibility, and I just have to live for you in the future.”
It was strange.
Holding his hands like this was enough for her to realize how small she was. She also thought that she didn’t realize when he grew up like this.
So, Chryselua averted her gaze for no reason.
“…What are you going to do?”
“I will take responsibility for your health first.”
Saying that, Naskan looked at Chrys deeply. Perhaps it was because she only remembered his fierce eyes, the wet eyes were quite awkward.
“Health?”
“Yes. Health…”
His hands seemed to be sweaty.
“Twilight, isn’t it hard because your magic is getting weaker? You know, I’m confident that I’ve always been good at that.”
Chryselua stopped, her face flushed.
She understood at once what she was saying.
Yes. He was good, though.
That stupidly large object and that pushed in recklessly. Chryselua seemed to have cried Sol Noctis, trying to run away from Naskan and begging him to stop.
“I’ve been thinking about it all night, and I know what you’re thinking.”
Thinking? What was he thinking?
Chryselua stiffened her shoulders, wondering if he had caught on to that day. Meanwhile, Naskan nodded as if he understood everything.
“Like other dragons, you’re trying to select someone to share the dragon seed with.”
All wrong, of course.
It was very dark under his eyes because he couldn’t sleep.
A tense expression. Naskan’s attitude was extremely serious. Unlike her, who slept soundly all night, it seems that he suffered severely. He seemed to have had a delusion alone about the situation Chrys was in now.
Dragons usually make children alone. This was because ordinary dragons often make their child by so-called ‘picking and eating’ other races, and as their hands were precious, they did not want to share them with others.
So, dragons have only mothers and no fathers.
Of course, there were exceptions, but they were only a very few that had mutually acknowledged each other.
The reason why Naskan asked whom she had the child with was probably because it was difficult for Twilight to make a child alone. Her life would be at risk.
Then, what? Imagine a situation where she would be abandoned because she had a child while dating someone who did not know the circumstances of the dragon race. She obviously didn’t know who the father was.
Even the father does not come into existence after the child has already been created. It was clear that his friend had done something wrong.
“And, I am confident that I will be chosen.”
At times like this, this guy just looked like Lord. He was treating her as if she didn’t know anything about all the bad things in the world.
“…Did you forget that you made a fuss about not wanting to escort me?”
Chrys tried to avoid his gaze and slipped her hand away from Naskan.
“And now, why would you come and say that you’re in charge? You have no interest in the divine realm and go out to play.”
“Is that a problem?”
“Of, of course. How worried I was thinking about when you’ll come to your senses? You’re supposed to take care of the ceremony this time, but why are you staying here?”
“Twilight. Is that… really a problem?”
She didn’t know why Naskan would ask such a question and why he looked surprised when he asked that.
‘…Isn’t that obvious?’
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