Chapter 82 (1/2)

DB – Chapter 82 - Healing

Pressing her face into her pillow after jumping into bed, s.h.i.+zuna cried.

What was making her sad?

It was certain. Carla made a child.

Carla suited Ria well. It was vexing, but she had to agree with that. There was no other human that Ria could entrust her back to than to Carla.

That’s exactly why she wasn’t able to endure the thought of Carla being with another man.

“s.h.i.+zuna, it’s me. May I come in?”

It was the voice that she wanted to hear the least. She didn’t even want to talk.

“I think there’s been a misunderstand, so we should talk.”

What misunderstanding could there be? She believed there was nothing to talk about.

However, Carla was obstinate, gently calling s.h.i.+zuna many times, as well as lightly knocking on her door.

Finally, s.h.i.+zuna yielded and opened the door.

s.h.i.+zuna had already taken off her dress and was standing in what was pretty much just her underwear. She didn’t appear to mind someone seeing her.

“May I enter?”

“Go for it.”

As-is, s.h.i.+zuna sat on her bed. Carla, who thought that she was going to use the sofa, sat next to her.

“s.h.i.+zuna, you have misunderstood something.”

“Misunderstood? You shook your hips with some man and got pregnant, what’s there to misunderstand?”

Her manner of speech was intense, but Carla didn’t appear to be hurt by it.

“It’s a misunderstanding. I will also tell you about the living beings known as dragons.”

s.h.i.+zuna looked her straight in the eyes, not breaking away from Carla’s gaze and enduring it.

Carla’s eyes were like they would breathe her in. As if there were no ill feelings between them, they were fixed on s.h.i.+zuna.

“To begin with, the cause is the mine and Ria’s dragon ancestry.”

That the dragons were originally living creatures that were all female and would change into males to leave a descendant if necessary.

That Ria and Carla who inherited the blood of dragons also appeared to have this characteristic.

That after Carla fought against a demon and was dangerously close to dying, their feelings for each other rose.

As a result of all of that, Carla, who shouldn’t have been able to birth a child, was able to have one.

Thanks to repeating this explanation many times over in her head, she was able to smoothly tell s.h.i.+zuna everything.

However, s.h.i.+zuna was dissatisfied.

“You know, I… before you met Ria, I slept with her.”

It was her sole superiority complex.

Even so, Carla’s expression remained unchanged.

“It didn’t happen with you, though.

In other words, Ria at that time did not seriously desire s.h.i.+zuna.

When s.h.i.+zuna thought about that, she almost cried.

Carla gently held s.h.i.+zuna’s shoulders.

“There are several reasons I have thought of, but only one that can easily be proven.”

“Eh?”

Just as s.h.i.+zuna blinked from the surprise, Carla spontaneously stole a kiss.

“… Eh?”

Carla pushed the stunned s.h.i.+zuna down onto the bed.

“Uuuuuuh—um, Carla, I-I don’t have this kind of hobby!”

“It doesn’t matter either way.”

“Eeeeh—!?”

Carla’s hand stripped s.h.i.+zuna of her clothing in a refined movement. s.h.i.+zuna started to call for someone… when she realized that it was incredibly complicated and hard to do.

“Aaah, umm, why!?”

“I’ve been watching you, thinking the whole time.”

Carla stared at s.h.i.+zuna motionlessly.

“I want you—”

Ria’s eyes were eyes that dominated everything. Contrasting that, Carla’s eyes were eyes that absorbed everything.

Hostility, malice, even hatred.