Chapter 12
I came back after my walk.
Somehow, I was glad my relationship with Roziel wasn’t as awkward as I thought.
“Ah!”
That surprised me.
A familiar silhouette stood in the dark.
“Oh, you didn’t sleep?”
Leniana was looking out the window.
“I’ve been waiting for you, my lady.”
For me?
I couldn’t believe a pretty and strong girl like her waited for me. It was nice, but somehow scary at the same time.
Because-
“Miss Yuria.”
Because the circumstances in which she called my name were fixed. Especially at night.
I hurried and explained myself.
“Well, I was just about to wash up?”
“Alright, good job.”
She even clapped her hand as if she was genuinely impressed.
Then she widened her eyes as if she noticed something.
“Grass on your clothes…”
She pointed to my clothes.
I brushed off traces of the forest on my clothes.
Leniana’s expression wasn’t good as I was already caught.
“Hehe.”
“…Well, forget it. I don’t think you would go into that forest. It’s too reckless.”
She shook her head in resignation and approached me.
I was stabbed in the conscience that I thought had already disappeared.
“But where have you been at this hour, young lady? You usually fall asleep right after dinner.”
…How did you know about my bedtime?
“I thought you were the representative of being insincere. So I thought it was weird you didn’t come back till late at night.”
“Oh, my… are you worried about me?”
“Yes.”
“Oh, why?”
“It’s because we are colleagues and roommates.”
“Ahem.”
I was so moved that I covered my mouth with my hands.
“Of course I don’t think you are a ‘Knight’ colleague… oh, it could be that way soon.”
I didn’t hear the last word because she was too quiet. But she seemed to have a wide range of tolerance as she is knowledgeable.
You put me in the category ‘Colleagues’ that I hate so much. I didn’t think you thought of me that much.
“So, where have you been?”
Her eyes were staring at me gently.
“Ah… well that is.”
But apart from being touched, I couldn’t tell her about my work. There are many circumstances that I couldn’t explain.
“Is it a secret?”
She asked as if she knew I was hiding something.
“No, it’s not really a secret.”
Leniana tilted her head.
She seemed to want to hear about my story.
She became interested in me.
“Just…that’s why.”
If I say I met Roziel Evelian, won’t that inflame the rumor even more?
“Oh, if you want to hide your strength, don’t worry…”
I lost track of what she said while I was thinking.
“I’ve been working hard…to save the world.”
I calmly erased my embarrassment and said.
“…”
“Do you know the butterfly effect? It’s a theory that every little action you take has a bigger result later.”
“…Yes.”
“I’m working hard because of the butterfly effect.”
“…Is that so?”
“Yes.”
I smiled with pride.
I didn’t have any intention of becoming a knight, but I had the spirit of a knight more than anyone else right now.
I wanted someone like Leniana to know that.
But instead of complimenting me, her expression looked at me like I was a strange child.
“By the way, Yuria.”
“Yes.”
“Saving the world is only possible with the premise that the world would be destroyed, right?”
Hmph.
I stopped breathing right then.
“Does Lady Yuria think the world will be destroyed?”
“Ah…no.”
“But then what do you mean by saving the world?”
“That means that I want to make the world a better place! It means I want the trees to grow taller and flowers to bloom more. Hahaha.”
To anyone, it was an awkward excuse.
“Yuria.”
Leniana approached me with a serious look.
She hesitated for a moment and touched my shoulder.
It was obviously a gesture of consolation.
“Stop reading novels.”
“…”
“This is reality.”
The slight trembling of her eyelids shocked me.
What does she think of me?
“…Alright.”
I replied half-heartedly.
* * *
Woahhhhh-
Blended with the wind, the trees in the forest danced in the sky.
In the bosom of nature, a huge body rose up, creating a dark shadow.
Kung.
Something with a huge body shook the tree for a moment, then calmed down and disappeared.
And instead, something was sitting in the form of a male adult.
“Ha.”
He naturally melted into space as if he had become night itself.
His distinct golden eyes glistened like a beast.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve been in a human body.”
His name was Aildean Atera Lou Scaliger.
He was a creature that had lived on this earth for a long time.
His golden eyes looked at the sky. The moon, which sprinkled light like fairy dust, was adorning the night sky.
His pupils became small.
The moon was like a natural enemy to him.
He carefully hid under the shadow.
“Huh, you’re sleeping well today. You always whined that you couldn’t sleep.”
He bit his lips and said.
A low and seductive voice spoke through the forest, the wind blew and brushed the trees in the forest.
“Roziel, you can’t sleep?”
He muttered, looking towards Roziel’s sleeping quarters.
The person who needed to answer was already asleep.
“For giving me such humiliation.”
If it were someone else who gave him such shame, he would not have hesitated to burn them to death.
However, his opponent was Roziel Evelian.
“…Because you’re cute, I’ll cut you some slack.”
His loveliness couldn’t be bought even for a million dollars. So Aildean let his anger out with a huff.
He recalled Roziel Evelian being delighted.
“Pretty bastard.”
The more he looked at his face, the more beautiful he was.
Roziel Evelian was one of the few who could satisfy his high standards.
He liked beautiful things.
Whether it was a human, an animal, or a thing.
In particular, he liked pure things.
When Aildean found something like that, he must have it no matter what. It was an inevitable instinct.
“But how did you…”
Hah, he sighed lightly.
While praising Roziel’s beauty and living happily, impurities intervened.
It was also the reason why he was alone at night, in this forest.
A round face came into Aildean’s view.
“You’re ugly…”
As Roziel Evelian was a human, I thought I could contact other humans.
He was willing to allow any reasonable exchange.
“But I didn’t say it was okay to have contact with females.”
His face was subtly distorted.
He felt very uncomfortable.
Well, the biggest cause of depravity of human beings, even males, was females.
A pair of horns rose from his head before disappearing again.
Aildean Atera Lou Scaliger.
“That brat, how dare she touch my precious treasure.”
He was a 2400 years old dragon. The world called him “Black Dragon” based on his appearance.
Khuang-
He reached out and there was a huge hole in the opposite tree.
“Her name is….Yuria Zeos?”
Even her name was unpleasant.
He muttered quietly.
He wanted to stay by Roziel Evelian, as he had the best smile he had ever seen.
But he was shaken by one girl.
“No, I can’t.”
Aildean couldn’t do anything about his rising anger, he was anxious.
Even with an unripe heart, the boy had enough innocence to inflate him.
‘Roziel, this idiot is being misled.’
Even Roziel thought that ugly girl liked him.
Today, he was very nervous.
He purposely interrupted their conversation by making a horse cry, but it was clear that this would happen again next time.
“It’s cute how your hair is white but… you have to be clever around females.”
If you kiss him on the lips, you won’t be able to stay around him.
“You look like a potato and you’re uselessly brave.”
Usually, women found it hard to reach out to Roziel.
But she tried to stay next to Roziel, treating him like a child.
“Haah.”
He breathed out to calm himself.
But, he became angrier.
Today, the worst thing that he never expected happened.
It was so bad that it could be compared to Roziel’s contacts with females.
“…How dare you…”
It was a product of the great nature, the strongest living being in the world.
“I can’t forgive you for this.”
He lived a long life and received tokens from precious treasures.
There were vouchers, material gifts, and a heart.
And the most precious of them was ‘the name’.
A nickname. The best gift you could ever give someone with a precious heart.
His nicknames varied for 2400 years.
Seth, Liede, Kailor, Chichi, Pierre and so on.
It was a small name, but the thoughts put into it were beautiful and it added a little joy in Aildean’s heart.
What nickname would Roziel Evelian give him?
He had been waiting in excitement for a year.
But an ugly girl stepped in and tore his heart into pieces.
It was the worst name ever compared to the other nicknames.
Sparkles.
“Dammit.”
Note: that dragon guy creepy af