Chapter 19 (1/2)
Chapter 19
Chapter 19 – A belated fairy tale gift
Synopsis: Fairy tales are all lies — but I want to write a fairy tale
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Ever since Fruys appeared, I felt restless and muddle-headed. I acquiescently allowed them to manipulate me through the motions of the ceremony, but all I could think about was how I could get to him. How could I attract his attention?
I couldn’t even make a single sound with my voice.
When the ceremony finished, I helplessly watched Fruys rise from his seat and make his bid of farewell to the chief of the gold dragon clan. Everyone present once again stood up to salute his departure, while the gold dragons prepared to escort me away to the so-called “bridal chamber”.
I stood there steadfastly, motionlessly, like my feet had grown roots into the ground, and blankly stared at Fruys’s rippling cape as he turned around to leave. Memories from everything that we experienced together flashed before my eyes — how an impoverished, bullied little lord encountered a dragon who was so haughty he refused to speak a word by the sea one day; how that same dragon abruptly dropped out of the sky in the midst of a desperate clash between armies; how he presumptuously took all the spoils of war and holed up in his own little treasury for three days; how he always charged forward at the very front during every single battle; how he foolishly carried the little lord who was crying from reading poems up into the sky; how he threw himself in front of the snow witch’s curse to protect the little lord…
That little lord gradually became the most powerful in the entire continent of Finanse, but then that dragon flapped his wings and flew back over the Sea of Death.
After that happened, everything in the world lost its color. Despite possessing an immense size of territory, I still felt as if I was living every day inside of a cage. I drifted in the turbulent and endless Sea of Death in a small boat after Andy’s betrayal and then dedicated all of my energy to learn any news I could when I joined the Adventurer’s Guild. I fell into King Andel’s plot, and was currently trapped by the gold dragon clan in a mess… but none of that was important. I had endured all of this until now solely because I wanted to meet a certain dragon again one day. I wanted to hug that dragon’s neck and tell him I missed him.
You see, being a lord is actually really boring. My brother already grew up, and the people of Finanse already live a happy life now… After saying so much, mhm, actually I wanted to ask…If it’s okay, this time, can I stay by your side?
In the dead of the night, I had rehea.r.s.ed these lines countless times. However, I never expected that one day I might be too late to say it. I had gotten so close to him, but I didn’t have the opportunity to open my mouth.
I felt as if a fireball was burning my insides, while a frigid feeling slowly enveloped my entire heart. The nearby gold dragons exclaimed in surprise: “This human, how come he doesn’t move to the commands?”
As they reached out to forcefully drag me away, I closed my eyes and gently grasped my chest with my hands, then silently whispered a certain name.
Fruu.
After having gone through so much, there was no way I was willing to give up now.
A frigid feeling that ordinary people would not be able to bear slowly flooded my entire body until my teeth involuntarily began to chatter. The gold dragon clansmen who had grabbed me released their hold abruptly after feeling the sharp
icy chill, and I continued to keep my teeth clenched — finally, the cold became so intense that a perfectly exquisite and stunningly armored ice dragon exploded out from my chest, roaring.
All the dragons present were stunned as they watched this absurdity. They were even more astonished by the ice dragon that appeared, and they began whispering amongst each other.
They said, that dragon looks just like the original form of His Majesty the Ice Emperor.
They said, it’s just a human, how is this possible?
The nearby dragons started to work together in an attempt to subdue me, but the ice dragon that had been materialized by the strength of Fruys’s dragon pearl stubbornly blocked the way in front of me and defended against one attack after another.