Chapter 36 - The Daughter of the Wind is Thinking Back (1/2)

After Kunpei-san fell asleep, I pretended to fall asleep.

Nana started to cry because of Jaja, I rocked the two to sleep.

Today, one of the two was crying every two hours, so we were exhausted.

It didn’t even take a second, for Kunpei-san, who was tried out from the turmoil at lunch and the matter between me and Mikuma-san, to fall asleep after making sure that Nana was finally asleep.

I put my hand on Nana’s stomach, and she turned her peaceful face towards me.

It was a calm face.

It was a lovely face.

Her stiff hair spread out facing the sky, and her always open eyes were only closed gently now.

After a short while, Kunpei-san started to breathe rhythmically.

I was next to the window, then there was Jaja, Nana, and subsequently Kunpei-san.

We were separated apart, but it didn’t feel far.

The distance between me and Kunpei-san felt just right.

I came in between Jaja and Nana, and moved closer to Kunpei-san.

The person who hatched my beloved twins.

And for that reason, the person who was tied up.

Because there was no reason for me to stay by Kunpei-san, other than that.

A person who is kind, clumsy, serious and stubborn, and also annoyingly honest.

That is the current impression I held of the man, Kazamachi Kunpei.

I reached out my left hand and caressed Kunpei-san’s cheeks.

You healed my loneliness.

You taught me love.

You granted me treasures.

My fingertips got hot.

It was impossible not to thank you.

It seems I fell deeply in love.

I am a dragon.

A proud dragon that rules over the skies.

The blue light that showed the way to the heavens.

The mother I loved always raised me saying that.

A kind mother with a sharp tongue.

A kind mother, so she was always strict.

I still want to meet you.

I wished I could stay with my mother until the end of the world.

That was an impossible dream.

Dragons were mediators.

The responsibility of my mother, the current generation Dragon King of the Sky was so heavy that the young me was unable to understand.

That’s why mother had the duty to see to the ground and the sky that was stretched because of the world collision.

My selfishness kept her back 10 years, I couldn’t hold my mother back anymore.

It was lonely…

It was painful…

Full of anxiety and grief, I spent 40 years like that.

I was cowardly, I couldn’t mix in and live with those dragon-like beastmen.

I also easily succumbed to loneliness, I couldn’t completely cast them away and seclude myself in a far away place.