Chapter 57 - Howl (8) (1/2)

I used both hands to repeatedly check the hard and smooth things that sprouted out on both sides of my head.

“Horns…”

It’s horns.

“Why…?”

Question marks fill my thoughts.

“There’s also wings growing in the middle…”

“You’re kidding!?”

I turned my neck around to the limits of its range of motion.

A white object appeared at the edge of my field of view.

Pure white wings, different from Aoi, Jaja and Nana.

A thin skin stretched over a skeleton covered with scales, exactly like wings.

It grew slightly upward from the back and was considerably smaller than Aoi’s wings.

“When I twisted my body because it was hard to see, it moved in response to my will.”

Seriously?

“There’s also a tail…”

I lowered my line of sight because of Aoi ’s words.

Just like she said, I have a tail.

A tail covered with white scales that continues on from the bottom of my back.

I tried moving it.

The tail moved as I wanted it to.

“Hah? Haaaaaa?”

Wait a minute!

Calm down, Kunpei!

If I remember correctly, I didn’t think I could manage Yule’s thunderball, so I ate Jaja and Nana’s egg shells like Alba Germain told me to.

I remember up until the part where I was suddenly attacked by an intense headache.

I can’t remember anything after that.

It feels like I heard a very nostalgic voice.

“That’s definitely a dragon’s tail, wings and horns…”

Aoi, who was dumbfounded, reached her hand towards my head and ouched my right horn.

“What’s going on…”

“I-I don’t know.”

Even if I asked Aoi, she had no idea whatsoever.

“Uaaaaaaaaaah!!”

“!? Mother!!”

Yule’s sorrowful scream brought us back to reality.

It was already too late, the thunderball has already swelled to an impossibly large size, it was expanding and shrinking vertically and horizontally, you could tell it had reached the limits just by looking at it.

“Kunpei-san, get behind me for the time being!”

Aoi stood up and transformed into a dragon with a flash of light.

A beautiful deep blue body.

Aoi was about three times my height in dragon form.

I noticed more strange things while looking up at her.

“W-what are those.”

It was a band of light like the aurora.

Small particles of light flowed around Yule while drawing irregular rays of light.

A sight that I have never seen was projected in my field of view.

When I carefully observed the particles of light, it looks like a butterfly that was repeatedly flapping its wings to the limit on each flap.

“Maybe… these are spirits…?”

Hundreds, thousands, no, possibly even hundreds of millions of light butterflies gathered towards Yule in distorted rows.

The light clinging to Yule’s body turns into a single luminous body, distorting as if it was trying to escape.

The light mass that could not escape was connected from Yule’s head to the thunderball in the sky, the butterflies collided with each other and filled the sky with splashes of each others’ remains.

“Gaaaaaah!!”

Aoi’s roar shook the ground.

“Uwaaaaaaaaaah!”

Yule stopped screaming, lowered her head and looked down at us, no me, and swung her arms downward.

At the same time, the thunderball started to move.

It wasn’t fast.

It fell straight towards us at a speed that was about how quick the average human walks.

However, the thunderball was destroying an area even larger than itself.

The rock at Yule’s feet was scorched.

Tusk Crag was trembling.

A violent storm collided with us, rocking our bodies.

“Gwaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Aoi roared.

A thin black cloud was produced, swirling around and gathering in front of Aoi.

No matter how you look at it, the amount was less than the black cloud from earlier.

Tiny butterflies flapped for their dear life around that cloud but was blown away one after another by the aftermath of the thunderball.

Is that how it is?

By manipulating those butterflies, Aoi and Yule are creating wind and lightning.

Yule who was rampaging, was overwhelmingly collecting butterflies, is that why Aoi isn’t able to make clouds?

“Aoi!”

I clung to that large foot and wanted to support her body, even if just a little.

“Eh?”

There I noticed.

There were a little bit of butterflies that followed me as I moved.

“… Perhaps”

I remembered.

When Aoi and Yule manipulated lightning, their horns reacted by emitting light.

I tried to concentrate on the horns that grew out.

It was an amazing feeling.

It was like moving your fingers, when you are aware that you want to bend your fingers, they’re already bent.

The butterflies flew to the black cloud that Aoi manipulated according to my will.

I felt the gently flowing wind.

A gentle wind that rustles the trees but still has a presence.

“More… more… please! Gather more!”

Did those words that unconsciously come out of my mouth reach those butterflies? The amount heading towards the black cloud increased just a bit.

However, it’s not enough.

Not enough at all.

The thunderball mercilessly arrived before our eyes.

Aoi’s black cloud came into contact with the thunderball that was under Yule’s control.

We were enveloped in a dazzling light.

“Gaaaaaah!!”

Pain ran throughout my entire body.

It was hot to the point where it felt like my blood was boiling.

My skin was charred and even the flesh was burnt.

Aoi’s roar tore through the air and reverberated in my head.

That instant was hell.

An instant of torture.

The fear of death is what prevented my consciousness from leaving my body.