420 Meeting the Dragon Race Again (1/2)
Although Yale felt that Lina had been far too bold with her words, when thinking that she was doing so much for Ange's sake, Yale was unable to argue.
Lina was still hugging him, so Yale decided to return the hug, which made Lina blush more, but given their position Yale couldn't see her face. Of course, he could have looked at her face with his Divine Sense, but it was strange using it for such purpose, so Yale hadn't even thought about it.
Yale didn't know when to stop, so he was waiting for Lina to stop the hug first since she seemed far better than him at acting. However, Lina was enjoying the situation so much that she forgot completely about the time.
Thus, they remained in a state of hugging each other in the sky for more than two hours until Lina finally realized that they had been hugging each other for too long.
Lina reluctantly let Yale go, but she was happy because Yale hadn't tried to stop the hug until she did it.
”About this...”
Lina was about to justify that long hug when her words were interrupted.
Moreover, for her surprise, Yale had kissed her, and he was very good at kissing.
Lina was a complete newbie when she kissed Yale before, but Yale had children in his past life due to his circumstances, so even though it was without involving love, he had experience with women.
Yale was a newbie in love, and due to his understanding of Lina, he didn't notice her feelings, but since Lina said that they should act more realistic, Yale treated her like he did with Lar, Zhana, and Kurka in his past life when creating the divine bloodlines.
Yale had done that to make them happy as a way to reward them for their efforts in helping him, but he never felt any romantic feeling for them, and they knew it very well, but they were happy enough with how Yale treated them.
However, he did it quite forced in those cases, and he felt quite weird while kissing them, but when Lina kissed him, he didn't feel in the same way, so he decided to kiss her after the hug ended and he felt that the sensation was far too different than when he did it in his past life.
In fact, Yale mostly wanted revenge for Lina's sudden kiss from before and testing how it felt was secondary, but he didn't expect that their kiss would last far longer than before, and Lina also seemed very proactive when she received the kiss.
Yale believed that the different sensation was because he wasn't doing it as a reward for a big favor, but for his daughter's sake.
However, the main problem was that Yale had got rid of his curse and was unable to identify his feelings correctly.
At some moment, Yale started to like Lina more than just a friend or a family member, but since it was his first time feeling something like that, he failed in noticing it.
”He kissed me so passionately... Maybe he also loves me? No, I shouldn't think that. This is probably just the revenge for my previous kiss. I shouldn't have too many expectations right now.”
Lina though that after the kiss ended because she was like Yale and also had the impression that the other party couldn't have any romantic feelings towards her.
The only difference was that Lina was already conscious that she loved Yale, while Yale didn't notice that he loved Lina.
”Lina, we should be going now. It won't be polite if we reach Ronragruk's place too late at night.”
Yale patted Lina's head and grabbed her hand before starting to fly in the direction to the place where Ronragruk and the Dragon Race were living.
Lina was happy with Yale's actions, so she just followed Yale without releasing Yale's hand from her grip.
Yale only intended to grab Lina's hand to make her start to move, but after sensing that Lina didn't plan to lessen her grip, Yale just continued flying while holding hands with her.
Traveling like that wasn't the most optimal method, but neither of them complained about it. Usually, they would have teleported to an area nearby to Ronragruk's place and then advanced from there, but that time both of them flew the whole way while holding hands without even mentioning the use of teleportation.
Even though they weren't slow under those conditions, they were still far slower than using the fastest method, so they reached Ronragruk's place at night.
Fortunately, it wasn't too late, and everyone was awake, so Ronragruk rushed to welcome them at the moment he noticed that Yale was there.
”Yale, my friend! I knew that you would come sooner or later.”
Ronragruk was in his dragon form when he appeared in front of them, but he had reduced his size a lot, so he wasn't too big.