Chapter 4

“Do you usually only eat special foods, that you don’t even know how to eat trivial foods like bread which are eaten by normal people? Huh?”

Jayna blinked her clear eyes when he stared at her. Is he interested in what dragons eat?

“Are you going to keep looking at me? Aren’t you going to buy a meal too?”

“Ugh.”

Michael’s face flushed as Jayna spoke softly. He coughed awkwardly and answered.

“Hmm, hmm. Does it bother you that I’m looking at you? Why?”

“You can keep watching if you want to.”

She answered imprudently, but she didn’t expect that Michael’s face would be flushed. Especially, the tip of his ears looked like a ripe apple.

“I didn’t look at you because I cared about you, but rather at the restaurant on the tower, I was trying to tell you that you shouldn’t leave food behind!”

It would have been a laughable sight for others, but Michael’s sleek appearance looks unaffected.

“But since you’ve brought a lot of bread in ignorance, you’ll have no choice but to leave it. I’m sure I clearly warned you. You can’t leave anything behind. You idiot.”

‘If other people usually bother you, you hate it very much.’ (Jayna)

Michael, the disciple and nephew of the Tower Lord, invincibly hated the attention of others. Jayna didn’t understand well that he showed interest in her.

‘Having said this, even if it’s uncomfortable, I won’t interfere anymore.’

In fact, it wasn’t only because of Michael that Jayna asked, ‘Are you going to keep looking at me?’

She was saying this on purpose because all the people sitting around were glancing at her, but Michael was just blushing and gibbering, failing to notice it.

Anyway, not all of those sticky eyes fell off, but Jayna decided to focus on the food in front of her.

‘The freshly baked white bread,…. is hot.’

Jayna split the white bread with her small hand. It was surprising that it was torn to apart even without much effort.

“Um.”

Jayna’s soft cheeks, mumbling, turned red.

‘It’s delicious.’

The thin bread’s skin broke crisply, on the other hand, the inside was sticky and soft. As she moved her mouth, the bread was chewed gently in her mouth.

Bread was not a unfamiliar food to Jayna. It’s good to eat cheap meals because she used to eat it a lot in her previous life. But it was her first time eating freshly baked bread.

The only bread she had eaten were those old, crumbly breads that were usually sold in stores, tied up for stocking, or sold with only new stickers attached.

But this bread was different. It’s so chewy and soft.

‘How can other people eat bread like this and not be impressed?’

Jayna, this time dipped a piece of bread into the jam then took it in a her small mouth.

‘Wow.’

Jayna’s eyes glistened brightly.

‘The taste of bread is different depending on the jam.’

The jam served was very tasty. She had eaten grape jam in her previous life, but the jam here was different.

‘Delicious. Is there other ingredients used in this?’

Jayna pondered and was able to realize that the taste of the jam was different depending on the fruit content.

‘It’s really delicious…..’

Jayna ate the breads without break, mixed with admiration, and as a result, what Michael had expected did not happen. Jayna ate all that breads alone.

Jayna, who had been eating bread for a long time, stopped moving and raised her head.

“……?”

There was embarrassment in Michael’s face, looking down at Jayna.

“Hey….. kid, are you crying now?”

“No.”

“What?”

Her eyes were red and her voice was hoarse.

After realizing it belatedly, Jayna shut her mouth.

“Hey. What happened?”

Michael was dumbfounded. She was the kid who didn’t shake at all even though she was denied by the tower lord and was treated harshly.

But suddenly she cried while eating bread…

“You’ve got it wrong.” (Jayna)

Yes, it wasn’t exactly the tears that were flowing down, it was stagnant and then disappeared immediately.

Jayna calmed down and looked again.

But at the tip of her little nose, there was still a redness. Michael didn’t miss it.

‘That’s the evidence of crying.’

Did she hear anything harsh in the restaurant? However, if she was crying because of that, his pride would be hurt.

He couldn’t believe that someone else made this kid shed tears while he, couldn’t even make her cry. Michael couldn’t admit this fact.

‘Yes, that’s right. Except for Tower Lord, no one was more eccentric and weirder than him.’

Obviously, there must be another reason. Such as being physically attacked…

Yes, that’s it. Michael’s eyes shone extraordinarily.

“Is there anything spicy in the bread?”

“Ah.”

Michael took the white bread that Jayna was holding and chewed it nervously.

But it was just white bread.

Bread from the restaurant all the time, nothing more or less. His eyebrows furrowed.

Michael turned his gaze this time and looked at the jam.

‘Is it the jam, not the bread?’

But it was the same with jam. There was nothing different than usual. Michael tilted his head.

“What- bread and jam are fine.”

Michael, who was chewing bread with an uninspiring face, was surprised to see Jayna.

“……”

It was because Jayna’s face, who had been robbed of bread and jam by him, looked very depressed. That serene expression was suddenly crumbling as if she just lost the world.

Yes, would it be right to say that she looked like she lost the world?

Michael stilled with his mouth wide open while her short arms outstretched to him though it would never reach him.

“…..”

Jayna, who had been wiggling her hands with trembling eyes for a while, returned to her expressionless face and spoke calmly.

“Can you bring those bread again?.”

The amount of food that could be eaten in a restaurant was not fixed.

In response to a question that somehow could not be ignored, Michael nodded in confusion.

*****

“Am I seeing things right now?”

Michael opened his mouth as he watched Jayna eating without stopping. He couldn’t get his eyes off Jayna’s plump cheeks until the end.

“How on earth do you eat all of it? Are you still a human? Right you are….”

Michael, who continued to speak, groaned and flicked his finger.

Jayna could see that he used soundproofing magic to keep them from being heard by others.

“F*ck it, there’s so many people, I almost made a slip of tongue.”

But it was really surprising to the viewer, as it wasn’t common for a 10-year-old kid to eat twenty-five chunks of fist-sized bread in a row.

Jayna said, casually plucking the bread.

“I didn’t expect you to ask me if I was human.”

“What? does it matter if your mother is a dragon? You look a couple of years younger than me, even if you’re half-breed.”

“I am human now, but I’m originally a dragon. I’m hundreds of kilos before transforming. I don’t know my exact weight because I haven’t measured it.”

Even to Michael, a disciple of the Tower Lord, the information about the Balaur was hidden in secret to the extent that it was impossible to know the details.

Jayna, who felt quite happy after eating delicious bread, decided to explain kindly.

“Now I am in a human form, so I have reduced the weight, but considering my original size, I have to eat this much every day.”

However, Jayna couldn’t eat such a quality meal when she was in the Balaur village.

It was because her relatives intentionally didn’t just take care of Jayna’s food or gave her poor quality food.

She had to eat a lot, but it was really troubling when it was disgustingly bad food.

‘I hate being cheated with food more than I hate other people talking about me.’

Jayna glanced around at the wizards gazing at the empty bowl piled up in a corner.

In fact, thanks to the magical power, eating a little was enough to sustain life, but Jayna didn’t want to.

The reason why she came to the tower and didn’t say anything to Diamide was not to live, but to enjoy the small luxury for the rest of her life.

‘Well, I didn’t use magic, and didn’t reveal my true identity, so it wouldn’t be a big problem.’

She never had such a delicious bread.

And it was the moment Jayna cut a new bread.

“…..?”

Suddenly, Jayna felt a grim gaze towards her and turned her head.

“Huh?”

“What are you doing all of a sudden instead of eating your bread?” (Michael)

It was different from people staring at her with curiosity.

‘What should I say? I think it was a serious gaze….’

Jayna looked back at the place where she felt her gaze for a while, then looked back at the front.

“No, I think I’m mistaken.”

The sensitive sense peculiar to the dragon tribe was good, but sometimes it was too sensitive that she could be mistaken.

Michael pointed to one place with his chin.

“That old lady is staring at you because she was disappointed while waiting for you to leave your food.”

On the side of Michael’s point, a woman was leaning against the wall with arms folded.

As the two stared, she disappeared into the kitchen. Michael giggled at the scene.

Jayna knew why Michael was so serious that she shouldn’t leave food.

This was because the chef and alchemist of Tower here, ‘Noguimi Hilvenzia’, never forgave anyone who left her food.

‘But… It seems that the gaze she felt is subtly different.’

Jayna looked away and turned her head again.