Chapter 42 - And Then Visitation Trial (3) (1/2)
A chill ran down my spine.
I had goosebumps all over my body and my knees wouldn’t stop trembling.
My molars clattered and the jaws that I put strength into to stop it started to squeak.
“The peak of the four dragon species, don’t make light of Dragon Kings, human.”
Yule-san intimidated me while smiling like she was enjoying it.
It felt like time has stopped around us.
The air tangled around my arms and I couldn’t move.
It was difficult to breathe.
The intimidating air rained down like rattling beads, and just standing here depleted my strength.
“M-mother, stop it!”
“Fue, yaaaaaaaa!”
“Hic, Fueeeeeeeee!”
Jaja and Nana couldn’t endure that atmosphere and burst into tears.
“Oops, my bad. Sorry, did grandma scare you?”
At that moment, everything was released.
I regained control over my body and took large gulps.
Sweat was pouring out.
My heart was pulsating.
If I lost focus, I might even collapse into the bed.
“Aaaaaa! Fuyaaaaa!”
Jaja was strongly gripping onto my clothes.
I spontaneously firmly embraced her.
I needed that warmness and softness more than anything right now.
“Gyaaaaaa!”
“Nana, come here.”
When Aoi extended her arms, Nana immediately left Yule-san and stretched out both hands towards Aoi.
“Oh, as expected Aoi is the best?”
Of course, ya monster.
You would want to be embraced by a kind mother rather than someone who gives a premonition of death just by being there.
“Fuyaaa… aaa…”
After burying my face in Jaja for a while, it seems like she stopped crying ad started pulling my hair.
“… Thank you, Jaja.”
I feel like I was protected by Jaja.
I really wanted to inform her of my gratitude, so I quietly muttered.
“Aa.”
You’re welcome, she replied.
In my imagination.
“Mother… why are you like that towards humans”
Aoi questioned Yule-san in a sorrowful voice.
“Hm, that’ right. It’s such a cruel story that I never told you before.”
“What story…?”
While comforting Nana who was still unsettled, Aoi put herself on guard.
“Alissa’s story.”
“Alissa?”
Aoi tilted her head.
It seems like it was an unfamiliar name.
“The wyvern, Sati’s daughter, Aoi.”
“Uncle.”
When I realized, a fluffy rat was sitting on the bed.
He was gnawing on a rice cracker that he got from who knows where while waving his staff around.
“You… where were you?”
“I was getting lunch in the kitchen. Since your younger brother isn’t here, there wasn’t anything satisfactory.”
This bastard, was he just doing as he pleases?
“Who’s Sati-san?”
“A dragon that was older than me, in the same generation as my mother. The daughter, Alissa, was twenty years younger than me.”
A lot of past tenses…
“What happened to Auntie Alissa?”
“She was snatched.”
“Eh?”
Aoi froze in place.
The arms she was hugging Nana with increased in strength.
“A story when I was still a child, around 2000 years ago. Before the worlds collided.”
“At that time, the sky dragon tribe, led by the Sky Dragon at the time, lived in a huge valley near the fort city where the tiger tribe lived.”
The fluffy rat, Alba Germain, suddenly began to add.
Somewhat proudly, and a little lonely.
“How nostalgic. It was a peaceful area of our tribe, protected by a strong wind wall that would even knock down a huge tree. Though the place was destroyed and everyone scattered…”
Yule-san continued to speak while gazing at the sky outside the window and remembering.
“Alissa was still young. Wyverns were a dragon species that boasted of their flying speed, I mean that was the only thing she could do, but Alissa was too small to do anything else. There were also times when she pulled me along for a walk.”
“Well, wyverns are still dragons, and wouldn’t lose to beastmen when grown.”
“One day when Sati left to hunt for food, Alissa had enough time to get out of the valley. She was a very curious child. She always whined that she wanted to fly outside the valley, and was always scolded by everyone.”