Seeker of First Light - Chapter 25
Chapter 25
When Chryselua looked unable to comprehend the situation, Naskan covered his mouth with one hand.
Soon, he laughed. It was a laugh that somehow seemed to break down the stuffy wall.
“That doesn’t matter to me at all.”
“What do you mean? I didn’t even say a thing or two…”
She didn’t want to talk directly to Naskan about the pregnancy. The outline of the talk went a little off the point. In any case, that meant that he was not in a position to speak of ‘responsibility.’
“Everything. No problem.”
Naskan lowered his stance, making his face appear larger. Under the coolly exposed forehead and hard browbones, there was a very deep golden eye.
Chrys had a very familiar and mysterious feeling.
It was a look she hadn’t seen in a long time. It seemed that the figure she thought she had forgotten only grew in size and appeared in front of his eyes. The first time she met him while being introduced as her escort, the first time their eyes met.
Backed by his enormous talent, that confident smile that seemed like nothing in the world would be a problem.
The golden eyes were more serious than ever.
“I’ll help you forget about that kind of garbage you don’t even know. If it’s okay with you, I’ll live thinking of it as my child.”
She was going to keep this incident a secret and just go over it roughly, but at this point, she has to say that things have gotten bigger. Chrys was at a loss as to what to say to Naskan, who was being so earnest. She just remembered one of the words Naskan said in embarrassment yesterday.
“…Wouldn’t it be better to get rid of it? It’s still only showing signs, and if my life is really in danger.”
“Do you want to get rid of it?”
Devilkin, like Axen Arc, seemed to care a lot about who made the child though the dragons had a completely different way of thinking.
Having a child was an incredibly great honor for dragons. This was why female dragons usually hold higher powers and why they didn’t choose who to be the child’s father. In unusual cases, it is said that they choose a companion by doing something called ‘selection,’ but that was really rare.
What Naskan said was an action of common sense that a dragon would take.
From now on, she could go around and take everyone with the right magic power—find a partner with the best conditions—this is normal for dragons. However, the result from the test that she had taken was just a possibility.
On closer inspection, it was much more likely that it wasn’t true. Chryselua, lost in thought for a moment, shook her head hesitantly.
“I don’t want to get rid of it.”
If there really was.
“Then, what about selection?”
“…I’ll think more about it.”
“Yes. I should just finish the ceremony well, right?”
Did it mean that he would complete her request properly because she was not feeling well? Did it mean that if he finished the ceremony well, he would get a higher score in the ‘selection’?
As he asked quickly, she had no choice but to answer that way.
“Uh… ung.”
Seeing Naskan’s complexion noticeably brighten, Chryselua was unable to correct the situation, which he had strangely misunderstood. She couldn’t even say that the probability that the child wasn’t made was higher.
‘Is this right?’
While she thought she had a good friend, she felt really strange. She didn’t know that the Dawn Dragon, whom Lord even marked as his successor, would have the desire to take on another female dragon as a companion.
In the divine realm, that wasn’t romantic at all. If there were dragons with such a desire, it was because they wanted more powers.
There were a lot of male dragons who approached the lord with such a desire and tried to please Chrys, who had no special abilities. Of course, those guys were beaten and kicked out by Naskan before the Lord even needed to step forward.
“Then, I’ll go and prepare for the ceremony meticulously as you wish. What do you want to eat? I’ll get you when I come.”
“Ah… wait, dawn.”
“Huh? Why? Twilight.”
She almost forgot because it was a conversation that came out of the blue, about if the child formed inside the body, who was the one who made it.
In fact, there was something she wanted to ask when she saw Naskan.
It was because she had a strange dream that she was reluctant to let go of. A dream in which Skylte’s bodyguard brutally kills Axen Arc. It was too vivid and terrifying to pass it off as a nonsense dream. Even after waking up, she felt sick to her stomach.
The Skylte trainees she saw once in the break room had become full-fledged special guards in Chryselua’s dream. If she hadn’t seen the fight scene in the break room, she wouldn’t have recognized them.
Chryselua was also convinced that the blond hair at the head of the pursuit team was familiar, so she was sure it was them. It was true that the fairies and the devilkins were not on good terms with each other. It was a relationship that everyone would take for granted, even if they went to war against each other again.
So, what she saw in her dream was like something that would be possible to happen in the future someday.
Wasn’t that kind of precognitive dream the specialty of dawn dragons?
In addition, on that day, Chryselua received plenty of magic from dawn, enough to make a child. It wasn’t a very far-fetched guess since she started to have strange dreams from then on.
“If I get your magical power. Can I use the power of dawn like you, even for a moment?”
“Why? If needed, I can do it right away.”
“No, why can I use the power of dawn so simply?”
“It’s your request, what else can I not do?”
“Ugh…”
Naskan placed his finger on his chin and let out a short murmur.
“…It is not impossible.”
“Really?”
“Though if you use magic that doesn’t suit your body, you’ll be in big trouble. You will make a prophecy and die. If that happens, just tell me.”
“Ah, yes… I suppose so?”
There was such a thing as the correct flow of magic power.
If one tried to forcefully use magic that didn’t suit their body, their whole body would crack like it was breaking and they’d get a fatal disease. It was a fact she knew, and she didn’t actually need to ask about it to use the power of dawn.
His words only reaffirmed what she knew.
‘Anyway, it’s not impossible.’
Chryselua, who was contemplating alone, raised her head and was startled. Naskan, who she had thought would leave after hearing the answer, still stood there. It seemed like she kept seeing a new look of this friend every day.
Naskan was a friend who always laughed without hesitation. Even when he was in a bad mood or threatened, he showed his teeth and smiled.
Still, it was the first time she had ever seen such a bright smile. His already tall face looked more handsome because of his bright smile.
“I will be back.”
‘Did he bother waiting just to say goodbye when he could just leave?’
He seemed to be waiting for an answer, so she said, “Uh, have a safe trip.”
Naskan went out of the lair, humming a song in his good mood. Only Chryselua, who was left alone in the empty lair, became serious with her own worries.
‘Could that really be the future I saw by briefly borrowing the power of the dawn?’
Even after sending him out, she couldn’t get out of bed for a while. Her troubles increased by one more. If that was true, it was really difficult.
Because the future, once seen by the dawn, could never be changed.
The time passed frighteningly fast, and she couldn’t come up with anything to say about the lord’s fruit. The day of the festival has arrived. Chryselua, who had not slept well for several days, came out to the central square of Sedition with a pale face.
The altar was already perfectly set in the plaza.
The altar was so high that she had to bend her head and look up, boasting of its majesty with three pillars stretching high. On the top of the pillar, patterns represent the dragons of the divine world, the parent tree of the spirit world, the fairies following it, and the devilkin burned with magical flames.
Strangely, there were quite a few rift missions this year, so fewer people participated in the festival than last year. Still, the plaza was crowded, everyone’s expressions were bright, and the atmosphere was lively.
After the ceremony, the first event of the Sedition Festival, the party began in earnest. Everyone was excited about the official holiday that had come after a long time.
Meanwhile, Chryselua was also very tired as she had been carrying only troubles that could not be easily resolved.
It was a time when she was looking for something delicious, thinking that she would take a rest for the day…
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