Chapter 99 - Man’s Disguise (2/2)

“Yes, I’m coming.”

The elevator guide, who was in charge of the only lift on the ferry, smiled faintly after not showing up all day. His figure soon disappeared below deck.

*

“Open your mouth, Mu. What the hell did you eat, and you’re getting metal scraps out of your mouth.”

“Ehhh.”

Noah forced open Muell’s mouth, scanning every corner inside.  Sharp bits of metal was lodged in between his teeth, which were smaller than an infant’s nail.

She placed a cup before Muell’s mouth. “You can’t pick up anything and eat it. Now, water.”

The child filled his cheeks with water, blinking his eyes innocently, and swallowed. Of course, Noah freaked out. “Hey! You shouldn’t have swallowed it! Spit it back! Yuck!”

“Wag?” The little boy mumbled incomprehensibly.

Noah sighed and ended up having to show a demonstration of gargling water. “See? Like this.”

“Arrr…”

In the midst of a gargling episode, the door burst open. “What are you two doing?” Kyle asked, who had just witnessed Noah and Muell on the bed with their mouths brimming with water.

Naturally, both were surprised and had accidentally swallowed the water at the same time. Noah coughed, her face contorting in disgust. “Ew… Don’t you know how to knock, sir?”

“I did. You didn’t hear me.” Kyle looked as if he had never seen anything more pathetic. He approached the bed and patted Noah’s back, who was still coughing. “You’ve been dozing off in the mast, and now you’re full of energy,” he said.

“You! Yes…” Noah was agitated at his tone, but there wasn’t much she could retort. Even though she was running all night, fatigue didn’t take over her body. But, she was feeling exhausted, still.

Complete resonance with Meull no longer had Noah’s mana drawn from her, nor her body was forced under pressure that made her feel nauseous.

Her current condition was at its peak for the twenty-five years of Park Noah’s unbelievably dull life, and the additional three years of possessing the body of Eleonora.

However, it was only her body that was at its best. Her mental state couldn’t be any more battered. Noah pulled another fragment of metal from Muell’s tiny front teeth and sent the child back to the sea. “Go and relax, Mu. Okay?”

He should be exhausted by the time they arrive at the port. It was a cunning idea to do as the guardian of the child, but Noah couldn’t help it. She couldn’t control the dragon’s mana, and hence she would just have to wait until Muell was tired.