Chapter 40 - And Then Visitation Trial (1) (1/2)

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“Come here my precious gem!”

“Mother!”

Aoi vigorously leapt into her mother’s chest from the top of the stairs.

Tears were overflowing from her eyes and she was bursting with delight.

“Mother! I wanted to see you!”

“I’ve also wanted to see you! You’ve gotten big!”

Aoi’s mom had such a rich expression that she didn’t even seem like the person who disinterestedly knocked me down earlier.

Her smile was also beautiful, it was like she was expressing her delight with her whole body.

As for me, I couldn’t keep up with the sudden emotional parent and child reunion after that tense situation earlier.

After all, my entire body hurts!

“How come!? Why all of a sudden!?”

Aoi who was exhausted from crying looked up and questioned her mother.

Was it almost forty years since they last met?

“I was finishing up minor business in a place called the Grand Canyon in America, but I came because I was worried about the flurried flow of wind and the delighted spirits flying here.”

Aoi’s mother wiped her tears with her finger while speaking with a gentle expression.

That’s right.

When I think about who she’s similar to, isn’t she just like Aoi.

An Aoi that had various sizes increased.

“I actually wanted to come a little earlier but I had a lot of troublesome things to take care of. Sorry.”

“I’m just glad that you came!”

“Aaah! My daughter is so cute! The cutest in the world!”

Aoi nuzzled up against a chest that was the same size as hers.

That gesture was indeed lovely.

Aoi’s mother was knocked out by that gesture and she hugged Aoi even more tightly and rubbed their cheeks together.

“Well, well, Yule is the same as ever.”

“Woah!”

Before anyone realized, a fluffy robed rat was standing on my right shoulder.

Alba Germain.

A dubious rat that was the doctor for dragons.

“She used to be a tomboy with a sharp tongue, but she’s been like this ever since giving birth to Aoi. We were all astonished.”

“I can hear you, old man!”

Aoi’s mother scowled at Alba Germain while she hugged Aoi.

That force was intense, I was overpowered and took a few steps back.

“Um, Yule?”

“Yes! My Mother, Yuriel Dragoline! Night Sky’s Yule! Dragon King of the Sky!”

Aoi proudly introduced her to me while still in her chest.

“If you call me that familiarly, I’ll kill you.”

“Eh”

Only the way she was looking at me hasn’t changed at all.

“By the way, Aoi?”

“Yes?”

Aoi continued to behave like a spoiled child as she had her head caressed.

It was my first time seeing Aoi being so unreserved.

“I heard from old man Alba? It seems like your spawning season already came?”

“Un”

“Was it tough? The first one must have hurt, right? When I had you it also hurt a lot. You did well.”

“Un… Hic… un!”

Aoi sobbed as she was overcome with emotion,

Yule-san affectionately caressed her head.

“I never thought it would come so soon… it’s my bad. I wasn’t next to you at such an important time.”